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This thread has the boorish manners of a Yalie.
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Jan 26, 2024 12:41
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Hedgehog Pie posted:This thread has the boorish manners of a Yalie. Here's a witty rejoinder for ya! 
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Jan 26, 2024 12:57
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Hasturtium posted:I gave up on The Simpsons not long after the Skinner-wasn’t-Skinner-all-along episode, because I was a senior in high school and I had In retrospect, "who knows what kind of adventures they'll have, from now until the show is no longer profitable!" in the 138th episode spectacular (which aired... 28 years ago) was more of a monkey paw curse than a joke.
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Jan 28, 2024 15:56
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https://i.imgur.com/NMK6wMC.mp4
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Feb 21, 2024 03:39
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I didn't know you'd linked a video at first, and thought you'd just uploaded a screengrab of Homer looking pensive and disappointed. That would have been appropriate by itself... and then I unmuted and played the video. It's striking to see something so far removed from its original cultural context that it no longer has anything to riff off of but itself and the jokes it used to make. It's become the old guy at a party everybody's sick of, but the host doesn't have the heart to throw him out.
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Feb 21, 2024 04:45
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Pretty sure that was just an ad embedded in the dialogue
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Feb 21, 2024 19:15
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"I can barely remember which cannabis dispensaries used to be internet cafes" is a pretty good joke imo. Even "Crypto dot com boulevard" is a pretty good line if you, like me, get mildly irritated at all the naming rights for things going to corporations. They have all the stadiums, it's only a matter of time before they start taking streets.
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Feb 21, 2024 21:46
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Marge, famously, has never had any interest in bowling
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Feb 21, 2024 22:11
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No Dignity posted:Marge, famously, has never had any interest in bowling Half the people writing the show today weren't born when Life in the Fast Lane aired. The other half don't watch TV.
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Feb 21, 2024 23:42
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Wait, but they're not actually wrong. Marge only reluctantly went bowling to use Homer's bowling ball "gift". She only kept going to the bowling alley because of her almost affair with Jacques.
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Feb 22, 2024 02:10
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There was a Marge bowling sequel episode last season
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Feb 22, 2024 04:15
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Diet Poison posted:"I can barely remember which cannabis dispensaries used to be internet cafes" is a pretty good joke imo. Even "Crypto dot com boulevard" is a pretty good line if you, like me, get mildly irritated at all the naming rights for things going to corporations. They have all the stadiums, it's only a matter of time before they start taking streets. it is a okay joke, the show did similar in its golden years. the problem is the simpsons making observational jokes about a time they shouldn't exist in. and the voice actors being 80
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Feb 22, 2024 06:13
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iamsosmrt posted:There was a Marge bowling sequel episode last season Oh, well in that case, the current writers weren't born yet
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Feb 22, 2024 06:15
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Yeah, at this point even if they're decent jokes they're in the wrong show said by the wrong characters.
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Feb 22, 2024 07:20
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I enjoyed that joke in its "We've checked up and down these docks. From Pier 1 to that Pier 1 by Pier 17" guise but iterating on it does not make it better.
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Feb 22, 2024 11:27
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I built Homer’s hosed up spice rack   
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Feb 23, 2024 07:24
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That's really cool
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Feb 23, 2024 10:45
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Do the BBQ pit next
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Feb 23, 2024 10:48
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build the clown bed
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Feb 23, 2024 10:50
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i'm seeing double here, 0 spices
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Feb 23, 2024 10:56
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Fill it with nothing but oreGAHno
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Feb 23, 2024 11:26
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Build the dog house without an entrance. If you’re fully committed, step on a nail and calmly say, “Fiddle-dee-dee. That will require a tetanus shot.” Really though, the spice rack is cool.
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Feb 23, 2024 13:28
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Make the BBQ
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Feb 23, 2024 13:29
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Flood your home town.
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Feb 23, 2024 14:54
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Diet Poison posted:"I can barely remember which cannabis dispensaries used to be internet cafes" is a pretty good joke imo. Even "Crypto dot com boulevard" is a pretty good line if you, like me, get mildly irritated at all the naming rights for things going to corporations. They have all the stadiums, it's only a matter of time before they start taking streets. My issue is not the joke. The joke is good. But the delivery is bad and ruins it. It's delivered whiney when it should be delivered wistfully. Even if he's in the middle of a whiney rant. Whining is rarely funny. It's hard to listen to.
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Feb 23, 2024 20:45
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I don't know about low point but I began to check out during Season 10 with the Alec Baldwin & Kim Basinger episode and didn't last much longer after that. Something about that episode that I can't quite put my finger on rubbed me the wrong way and it just never got better. Every couple of years I try to watch new episodes and I just can't get through them
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Feb 23, 2024 20:54
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I can’t remember when they started but episodes about Frink and Gill definitely correlated with a downturn in overall quality
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Feb 24, 2024 12:35
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Drink was there during the peak years. Agree on Gil.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:14
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Gil is still a funny good character at least. Can’t say the same for any other reoccurring characters they’ve tried after him.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:40
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SeANMcBAY posted:Gil is still a funny good character at least. i would agree if he had only appeared one time
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Feb 24, 2024 19:45
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Yeah I'm not sure how I feel about characters who are created as a nod/homage to an existing character from some other work, and then kindasorta take on a life of their own to the point where the link to what they were parodying disappears into obscurity and everyone thinks the Simpsons a) invented him and then b) ran him into the ground. Like I can only assume it's only a matter of time before they turn the "YeeeEEEEEEESSS? guy" into a character with a whole backstory and multiple episodes dedicated to him to say nothing of Bumblebee Man et al
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Feb 24, 2024 20:01
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Junk posted:i would agree if he had only appeared one time Yeah, or more sparingly. Sea Captain is funny running an all you can eat restaurant or trying to sell a raft that sinks instantly, like how Sideshow Mel is great figuring out why Smithers didn’t shoot Burns or being swarmed by a monkey orchestra. Don’t need to show up every ep.
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Feb 24, 2024 20:33
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Realty Bites is when Gil first appeared, and it of course should have been his one and only appearance, but you know how that goes. It's such a forgettable episode, too: Marge becomes a real estate agent and Homer buys Snake's muscle car. That's about almost all I remember of it. It does have one great joke, though: Lumber King. "Lumber. We need lumber." *pupils dance to Lumber King's gyrating rear end*
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Feb 24, 2024 21:09
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It’s not a top tier ep but darn solid especially for season 9 and also has Lenny not wanting anyone to know how he lives, the truth and “the truth,” and one of the last great Phil Hartman big roles.
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Feb 24, 2024 21:14
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Hyrax Attack! posted:also has Lenny not wanting anyone to know how he lives Okay, this one is good, and I also remember, "She needs premium, dude! PREMIUUM! DUUDE!"
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Feb 24, 2024 21:19
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It also introduced Cookie Kwan, voiced by master of accents Tress MacNeille 
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Feb 24, 2024 21:21
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I kind of hate Tress MacNeille, her work is so “generic animation voice acting” that I feel she brings down most work she is in. Naturally there’s a huge increase in her usage during the Scully seasons which were also the “steep decline” seasons.
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Feb 24, 2024 21:45
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You Are A Werewolf posted:Okay, this one is good, and I also remember, "She needs premium, dude! PREMIUUM! DUUDE!" lol after abusing the honor system by escaping, despite Kearney’s concerns he is ruining it for everyone.
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Feb 24, 2024 21:55
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I always say “Whoa, this is so dangerous” like Snake in that episode.
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Feb 24, 2024 22:34
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Flinger posted:It also introduced Cookie Kwan, voiced by master of accents Tress MacNeille Wonder if they recast her or just don’t use her at all anymore like Apu. SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I kind of hate Tress MacNeille, her work is so “generic animation voice acting” that I feel she brings down most work she is in. Naturally there’s a huge increase in her usage during the Scully seasons which were also the “steep decline” seasons. She’s fine but it is annoying how Lindsey Naegle is seemingly in every other episode of the early teen seasons. SeANMcBAY fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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