TwoStepBoog posted:

lol I picked a random later episode to read the plot of and it involves Comic Book Guy getting married to a young Japanese girl writing a manga with the help of Homer and Stan Lee.

Scudworth posted:

Jeremy Irons was the voice of the rag.


Oh, you think I'm making this up.

Thin Privilege posted:

The new ones from this are awful. Before it was kind of but not 100% sure that he was gay, it was more of a *wink*wink* thing, if that makes any sense. The new ones were literally "I'm flaming! *burns stares into the camera* and Bart saying "I thought you were..." "not if I use this 10 times a day! *Smithers injects himself with something* "I love boobies!"

They're also missing the scene where Smithers turns on his computer and the startup window is naked burns saying "hello.smithers. You.are.quite.good.at.turning.me.on" "uh...you probably should ignore that"

E:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YzSHIYxdRs

Ein cooler Typ posted:

I don't get it. Is Bort a common name in America?

sout posted:

Yeah I like Das Bus.
Is "They were saved by... oh let's say, Moe" subversive humour or some kind of turning point signifying the death of the Simpsons? Because I just thought it was funny.

JediTalentAgent posted:

Why would the TV be moved, though? If you look at the house diagram, the TV screen is directly in front of the window while in the episode it is at a 90-degree angle. Why would Homer move the TV? If it's to avoid the distraction of the outdoors, why not just close the curtains? Do you notice how many times "11" shows up in this shot?

Kubrick's only Simpsons episode is way underrated.

cool new Polack jokes posted:

You loving triggered me with that poo poo man. That is a baaaad show.

cool new Polack jokes posted:

Simpsons was originally a great time capsule of the 70s because that's when all the original writers were kids, the level of tech was not cutting edge even for 1991

But for some reason even with younger newer staff the movement forward into the future is slow and dated but in an embarrassing rather than funny anachronistic way

And when they are current it dates the show to the point where future people won't know or care about [x contemporaneous celebrity that is no longer famous] or [x product or service that annoyed Old Man Al Jean 3 years ago]

Drink-Mix Man posted:

I still hope it was an April Fool's joke and RIck is still in brain-prison. The real resolution will happen next episode.

Mozi posted:

whereas now it would be a James Taylor/Taylor Swift crossover episode

Spatial posted:

facebook jihad posted:

Is Gil a poor man's replacement of the Phil Hartman characters? I don't remember him being a big deal in early episodes but he seems to be all over the place now.

Johnny Aztec posted:

Flipping around on TV and Homer Vs NYC was on. I really dislike this episode. The whole thing was "here I am being insane and violent for no reason whatsoever"

VJeff posted:

Ron Howard making the jump and then immediately falling is a highlight to me.

I think the series stays pretty watchable up to season 11 right up to Behind the Laughter, which is genuinely great. Then it starts getting bad.

I do love this bit from one of the stupider episodes though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QSdLDGt7I

Milo and POTUS posted:

I do not remember this at all and I'm sure you overdosed on marijuana again but then again.... not likely.

PostNouveau posted:

Yes, they thought it would make vegetarianism look like a fad if it was dropped at the end of the episode.

I wonder if Richard Gere demanded she remain Buddhist.

Police Automaton posted:

did they ever make an episode where the entire family breaks the fourth wall and pleads with the audience to let them die

Bust Rodd posted:

Yeah basically Hank Azaria has gotten away with his massive racist stereotype character for years and people like the guy from Harold & Kumar and Aziz Ansari grew up wanting to be actors and were like “what the gently caress and this guy isn’t even Indian!?”.

Imagine if, during seasons 2-9, Carl was always depicted with an afro, eating fried chicken and talking about Soul Train. We’ve basically let Apu go on way too long

Hmm I just realized the Simpsons have no Asian character that I can discern, or they certainly didn’t during the Golden Years

PostNouveau posted:

I caught up on the last two weeks. Not only was last week's the sequel to the Pin Pals episode, the plot of the episode the week before that was driven by goddamn "Marge vs. the Monorail." Marge becomes mayor because they turn the old monorail track into a pedestrian skyway, but then it turns out they never took the monorail off the system, and the system gets electrified, and the monorail starts up and runs over a bunch of pedestrians (including the crazy-haired scientist guy from the original episode). They're doing so many callbacks these days it's like the writers think it's the final season but I'm pretty sure they're signed on for several more.

Tree Goat posted:

there is a brief reshot scene iirc, but it's very short.

lisa is traumatized about their experiences at camp krusty, so marge makes her and bart go to therapy (although bart is just faking to skip school + get things). during therapy, they recover memories of seeing a kid die, but, when they return to the camp, it turns out the kid was just a midget and is still alive.

the b plot is that marge and homer had a lot of sex while the kids are gone, but now that the kids are back they aren't having sex. homer discovers that if he is volcel, then he becomes very smart and good at his job. marge initially likes the new homer but becomes sexually frustrated and they end up going back to kamp krusty (which has reopened as a spa/swingers club) where she finally convinces him to have sex, making him stupid again.

fin.

Aesop Poprock posted:

Reminds me of the contest to win the Simpsons house replica they built or a cash reward for guessing who killed Mr Burns and in all the shots it was completely furnished but in reality all the furniture was removed and it was probably barely livable so of course the person who won took the cash

WampaLord posted:

FOX is network TV, it's literally free if you have an antenna.

LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:

i work with a grown man who really dislikes marge and i can't imagine being watching the simpsons and being so humorless...never mind.

Backweb posted:

I think Hank Hill was originally 35 years old too.

The backstory is that the Simpsons were basically scraping by with their lifestyle, few savings, and the house was bought for them or something like that. Regardless, the closer I push to these characters in age the more I realize how much average life in America has fundamentally changed in the past 20+ years. I feel like Homer ought to be pushing 50. I have some friends with houses, cars, and babies, but I honestly can't fathom it because of how skewed the system is these days.