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Because I love Stargate I watched the (S17E17) episode "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore". And loved it, I laughed.
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Jul 14, 2023 14:52
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The Stargate episode is in season 17, and I laughed.
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Jul 21, 2023 05:16
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I legit randomly chuckle thinking about The Simpsons clip show. HI! I'm Troy McClure!
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Jul 21, 2023 06:50
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porfiria posted:I've always thought it was weird Murphy Brown doesn't seem to have the same ongoing cultural cachet a lot of other long running shows airing around that time have. Like, people will still bring up Married with Children or Cheers or even fuckin' Wings. I wonder why that is? Them taking the piss out of Dan Quayle rings some bells.
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Jul 22, 2023 13:06
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Cosmik Debris posted:Americans need to be pandered to unlike smarty-pants UK people. I'll argue Monty Python did go mainstream and John G Workerguy may have watched on PBS in the 70's.
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Aug 5, 2023 17:26
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Cosmik Debris posted:Americans know Monty python because of their many movies and not because of the flying circus, or any of the shows that they spawned. I watched Monty Python with my dad in the early 80's. No idea how he found it.
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Aug 5, 2023 17:38
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Cosmik Debris posted:Look apparently I had the worst take ever but "my dad liked Monty python in the 80s" is kinda my point - holy Grail was like 1974 or something and the flying circus was from the 60s. Americans weren't aware of Monty python until long after their heydey. The Mr bean show only had one season, for crying out loud, and it was popular because there were like no topical references at all. He was silent. Mr bean was super popular the world over precisely because it was pure physical comedy and kinda fits my point exactly - Americans no like British references the way British people apparently don't mind American references, and are in general far more aware of American pop culture than we are of British pop culture. I hear you brother. I haven't seen a new Simpsons episode in like 20 years.
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Aug 5, 2023 20:01
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You Are A Elf posted:Go back and revisit ANY comedy sketch show from any time period and you’ll find that each and every one is 10% memorable comedy gold and 90% stupid time filler and badly dated references. They all suck when you revisit them. I CRUSH! your head!!
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Aug 5, 2023 22:57
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I hold myself accountable to Alfred E Neuman, at all times.
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Aug 6, 2023 00:21
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vegetables posted:Being a UK viewer is maybe a bit different because my experience at least has been to just accept American shows will be full of baffling references to things that I don’t understand— expecting to understand all the references is alien to me, even now. Do you even have maple syrup in the United Kingdom???
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Aug 6, 2023 00:48
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laserghost posted:It's true but mostly because everyone comes through "lol so random!" phase, which then works itself into pop culture omniparody of everything. Add some "they couldn't do it now, because of political correctness!", completely forgetting that those shows were done during bleak conservative cold war times, and nowadays we are worrying about fascism infection on every cultural front and bad actord trolling the public consciousness into indifference towards violence directed at minorites, thus the comedy itswlf had to change from "guys in costumes acting pompous" school of elite UK universities made sketches Batman is a scientist
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Aug 6, 2023 09:56
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laserghost posted:In what brand of science he works? I know it probably depends on which universes' Batman we are talking about Material Science
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Aug 6, 2023 10:02
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I always assumed Krusty was a riff on Bozo the Clown.
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Aug 7, 2023 09:49
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Disco Pope posted:Yeah, and as a British kid who never had a clown show, it wasn't hard to go "oh, okay, Bart is into this Clown Guy" when I was 7 and the show was first airing or whatever. Obviously, a lot of the more specific references came later, but that's true of a lot of The Simpsons. And correct me if I am wrong, Gil was a "Glengarry Glen Ross" reference.
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Aug 7, 2023 15:25
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Poochy was a Cousin Oliver reference.
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Aug 7, 2023 15:34
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Halisnacks posted:My English teacher told me Gil was based on Willy Loman. I’ve been living under that illusion until today. Could be both!
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Aug 7, 2023 17:13
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Now lets talk about Itchy and Scratchy
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Aug 7, 2023 18:09
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Disco Pope posted:I'd be interested to know where the goofy, pally clown archetype comes from, because any circus clown I've seen has been closer to a mime. Ronald McDonald and parodies/homages to Bozo probably kept it going. The Bozo show was the Krusty show. Live studio audience, got a clown onstage.
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Aug 7, 2023 18:34
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The Simpsons are going to Italy!
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Aug 7, 2023 19:32
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Data Graham posted:Still a thing at any national park visitor center with a theatre playing a video on a loop. PIllage what I pillage! Flay what I flay!
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Aug 8, 2023 00:55
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dr_rat posted:Yeah watching Citizen Kane for the first time was a lot of, Ohhhh right that make sense now. ".....Rosebud"
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Aug 8, 2023 05:03
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It's more of a Shelbyville idea really...
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Aug 8, 2023 07:54
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Halisnacks posted:Reminiscing about the golden era is way less depressing than trying to pinpoint the lowest point. It's easy to forget how groundbreaking the Simpsons were when it first came out. It was appointment viewing in college, the shared TV room would be packed for the new episode.
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Nov 6, 2023 12:56
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What was the East European knock off version of Itchy and Scratchy?
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Nov 7, 2023 14:36
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Data Graham posted:Empires have fallen on smaller schisms Lord Palmerston!
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Dec 23, 2023 20:47
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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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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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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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Jan 2, 2024 06:59
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It's funny, Homerpalooza felt tired at the time (IMO!), but I bet if I watched it now I'd love it.
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Jan 2, 2024 21:11
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Last Chance posted:One of my fave deliveries in old simpsons is in Lemon of Troy where Abe is telling the group of kids about that the lemon tree had been there since frontier times, the kids uncharacteristically oooh and ahhh and he yells “shut uuup!!” at them Wow, topical, the couch gag bit for that episode is a Steamboat Willie reference
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Jan 2, 2024 22:29
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Good old Shelbyville Manhattan, the cousin marrier.
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lol the Nelson and Martin in Shelbyville teamup
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lol "A car impound lot! The impenetrable fortress of Suburbia!"
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It's a great Milhouse episode. Camo Milhouse. Meeting Shelbyville Milhouse.
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Cocaine Bear posted:I expect your letter of resignation on my desk. You have a desk? I mean the hood of my car. "I'm eating my lunch here Director"
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You Are A Werewolf posted:"So this is what it feels like... when doves cry lol Shelbyville Milhouse had him dead to rights too.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:He also says that they originally split from the Catholic Church over the right to attend church while wearing wet hair. And then adds that the church has since rescinded that right. Have you actually read this thing? Technically, we're not allowed to go to the bathroom. - Lovejoy
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Simpsons peaked as a short sketch on the Tracey Ullman Show. Fun fact: The first time I saw the Simpsons was at a movie theater, going to see "The War of the Roses". It was short sketch they played before the movie, featuring Bart at the psychiatrist with family, and he's eating all the candy and loving it. I laughed hard. War of the Roses? Not as funny.
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ishikabibble posted:On the topic of weird Simpsons inclusions, I've always wondered how dated/realistic Homer's barfly tendencies really were. Growing up I don't think I ever knew anyone who's dad who'd just disappear to bars to 'hang out with the guys'. But I also grew up both in the late 90s/early 00s and on the west coast so I have no idea how common an experience that was. Felt like more of an Abe Simpson thing. Anecdote: I identified with Bart a lot because as a child, my Grandmother would drive down to the bar to pick up Gramps, and send me in to get him. When in this dank bar, all the old men would gather and make me sing and dance till he could leave. I dreaded it, but also looked forward to it.
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