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patty and selma adopted a chinese baby but the baby doesnt do anything and is now older than maggie
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mfw i am reading the simpsons wiki page for ling bouvier
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Jan 1, 2024 16:24
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Season 9 sucks the funniest parts are the songs from earlier seasons in the musical clip show
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Greg12 posted:Season 9 sucks It’s the Armin Tamzarian episode that really cements how much it went off the rails, and season 8 was already getting shaky. I say seasons 1-7 are variably golden and 8’s when it should have packed it in.
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Jan 1, 2024 19:04
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Season 8 is my favorite. 9 is mostly good too imo.
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Hasturtium posted:It’s the Armin Tamzarian episode that really cements how much it went off the rails, and season 8 was already getting shaky. I say seasons 1-7 are variably golden and 8’s when it should have packed it in. Scrolling through season 8 eps and the Mary Poppins ep was weak but other than that rock solid. I think season 9’s “All Singing, All Dancing” was one of the first I watched during the original airing & got annoyed by the dip in quality.
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I don’t really care for the Helen Hunt and Jay Leno episodes either but even those have their moments, like Krusty bombing with outdated racist comedy.
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SeANMcBAY posted:I don’t really care for the Helen Hunt and Jay Leno episodes either but even those have their moments, like Krusty bombing with outdated racist comedy. I mean that episode has the loving Canyonero. Quality dips, sure, but it's still a far cry from modern Simpsons. Maybe call it a silver age?
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Season 8 is great and season 9 is very good
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Ror posted:mfw i am reading the simpsons wiki page for ling bouvier God drat, that is miserable. “Look, we’ve created a character whose sole purpose is to be driven into the ground by the misanthropic evil of her adoptive mothers, so laugh,” gently caress outta here
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Nobody ever talks about that Season 6 episode where Marge is a cop, and sometimes I have to double check it really happened
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vegetables posted:Nobody ever talks about that Season 6 episode where Marge is a cop, and sometimes I have to double check it really happened That's the episode that carhole comes from.
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Well Marge quits the force because the cops are a bunch of corrupt pigs, which is the correct takeaway, thus a good episode
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vegetables posted:Nobody ever talks about that Season 6 episode where Marge is a cop, and sometimes I have to double check it really happened Look, Lisa, it’s McGriff the crime dog. I always think that episode is from season 8 or 9 for some reason.
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It's as early as season 4 that the plot descriptions start to sound like nonsense bullshit like they do today. The key difference is that they're really funny and have heart and soul.
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vegetables posted:Nobody ever talks about that Season 6 episode where Marge is a cop, and sometimes I have to double check it really happened   
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Jan 1, 2024 22:28
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Y- yes. They knew what they were doing. It was The Simpsons.
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LOL I remember being a bit miffed at the Conan O'Brien era at times, because the show became so absurd compared to the more "serious" early seasons. I was wrong.
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redshirt posted:LOL I remember being a bit miffed at the Conan O'Brien era at times, because the show became so absurd compared to the more "serious" early seasons. let's look at marge vs. the monorail: somewhat arbitrary and absurd premise musical number thrown in celebrity guest star playing himself (who even lampshades that he contributes very little to the plot!) all features that contribute to some of the worst episodes of the modern era. but the simpsons still had the mandate of heaven then, and so shrugs off such criticism
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Tree Goat posted:let's look at marge vs. the monorail: Indeed. But it's also fantastically funny. So there's that....
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According to my calculations, monorail episode is bad simpsons
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You jest, but graphing audience ratings and distilling them down to "good episode trait" vs "bad episode trait" checklists is extremely executive accurate. Why Marvels fail? Is it woman?
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So The Simpsons "went woke" sometime around season 10? Finally things are starting to make sense.
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The Moon Monster posted:So The Simpsons "went woke" sometime around season 10? Finally things are starting to make sense. sounds like somebody needs to watch S28E19 “The Caper Chase” where Mr Burns, the POV character who we all are meant to empathize with, goes to Yale and is disgusted to learn that the students there are all “entitled wusses” and later Homer destroys a bunch of woke robots through the power of micro aggressions
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Tree Goat posted:let's look at marge vs. the monorail: its because that episode was funny as hell and had writers who knew how to make those elements work
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I rewatched the monorail episode, and I looked for some details about the scientist guy Marge found in North Haverbrook, only to find out that they brought him back and killed him (presumed I guess) in 2017, in an episode called The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be. Weird episode. it starts out where the town built a park on top of the disused monorail track (like NYC did for an old decommissioned elevated railtrack), whereupon the old train activates and destroys everything, culminating in the train dropping on top of a statue commemorating Leonard Nimoy. At the press conference afterward, Mayor Quimby mocks Marge misogynistically, leading to Marge deciding to run for Mayor, in a sequence where the VA may not be too old yet, but Marge trying to sing her jingle sounds really awful. After becoming mayor, she is immediately unable to fulfill her one and only campaign promise of putting out the tire fire because of a man who runs a souvenir stand for the tire fire standing in the way of the bulldozers and firetrucks. Marge eventually falls back on making fun of Homer to maintain public support, ruining their marriage. She goes to get advice from the retired Quimby, only to find him happy with his retirement, newly faithful to his wife. He says that the Mayor job is naturally bad for marriages. Marge goes to her next appointment to christen a manhole, and shocks the crowd by declaring her love for Homer. It's a whole big thing where I guess they wrote a whole episode about their expectations for Hillary Clinton to get elected and fail on some early promises, and then they kept making the episode after the election. (This came out in November, they had plenty of time to scrap it). The one funny bit was when Homer got hit with a harpoon and flopped about like a whale.
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I thought it was easily the Furious D episode with the elf jockeys
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By the way, has anyone tried to stomach the Elon Musk vanity episode since he showed his entire rear end in a top hat and grundle to the universe?
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I am working on a critical review of "Homer goes to Space", also will tie it to a moon project grant pitch.
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Tree Goat posted:sounds like somebody needs to watch S28E19 “The Caper Chase” where Mr Burns, the POV character who we all are meant to empathize with, goes to Yale and is disgusted to learn that the students there are all “entitled wusses” and later Homer destroys a bunch of woke robots through the power of micro aggressions The bougie-ness of modern Simpsons is maybe the single worst thing about it. I guess it's the only way their bigass house really makes sense.
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The secret is that most people don't care about your entertainment product's politics as long as it is also, you know, actually entertaining. Marvel's not going broke because they went woke, it's just that they've released almost nothing but garbage for years now. And similarly, modern Simpsons could easily get away with its half-hearted 'anti-woke' message if it was still good. But it's not, and the intended message becomes just another thing for people to pick apart. What I'm saying is make good movies and shows, not bad ones. I have much more excellent advice where that came from, hire me if you need a consultant
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 happy 50th anniversary on marge and homer's high school graduation
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great username posted:I thought it was easily the Furious D episode with the elf jockeys This is only something you can say if that was the last episode you watched.
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Family sat through the Jockey episode but called it quits with the Tony Hawk episode. A lot of people stopped there I think
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I just want to say that the town sign "Sprynge-Fielde: First Toil, Then the Grave" in the puritan parody halloween episode is up there with "I call the big one bitey" as one of the best lines in the whole show
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something can have every Hallmark of modern simpsons and still be funny. Meanwhile the first two seasons were (more) grounded and realistic with strong characters and had heart but just weren't that funny compared to seasons 3-9. I think the delivery is a big one. Line delivery and timing in those seasons was impeccable. Modern simpsons (and modern comedy in general, imo) has lovely delivery and timing. I mean look at these. They're perfect. https://youtu.be/S_DtkbHfTcM?si=l92GVUPRORxhCdnT https://youtu.be/uAf_tMxc2RA?si=gaUdhzwLDgrKpyvR Writers stopped caring about that, and the actors are getting old and can't do the same readings they used to. I'm imagining those scenes in modern simpsons and all other things being equal, they'd be much, much worse. Cosmik Debris fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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the jockey episode is the first episode i remember thinking was bad i kept watching for a few more seasons
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The first two seasons, they didn't let any of the jokes breathe, because apparently Bart going "don't have a cow, man" was so revolutionary that you didn't need to actually have comedic beats
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I think I laughed hardest when marge walked away without saying anything the second the bees arrived, modern simpsons can't reach one tenth that level of restraint
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