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Thin Privilege posted:Why isn't Putin riding in on a bear? This is like, excessively lazy. Russia=bear, not horse. Ah, but this way it is also a reference to the infamous photo of Putin riding shirtless on a horse - many Humor Points! Your way involves creatively combining references so it loses points.
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it's not been said enough: the animation is awful now. The Simpsons animation first drastically, and then subtly changes throughout the series (and if someone knows a writeup spergily detailing the changes, I would be on that poo poo like white on rice), and as I've gotten older I've gained an appreciation for how it looks every season except, you know, the Bad Zone. I don't know why in the gently caress they try to make it all hyper polished slick-looking - I hadn't seen that Homer Votes clip until now and oh, it's just atrocious. My stars! I couldn't watch that stuff.
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Feb 6, 2017 14:24
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My favorite shockingly brutal Simpsons joke is the one in the Treehouse of Horror where Homer accidentally full on murders the president and his opponent by asphyxiation, on screen, naked in the silence of space. It's so gruesome lmao and the little "...oh, no." when he sees it never fails to crack me up.
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Feb 8, 2017 09:09
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:Speaking of killing off characters, anyone remember a few years ago when they made a huge publicity stunt that "a citizen of Springfield is going to die!!" As the season premiere? Danny Devito/Homer's brother apparently hated his time on the Simpsons for some reason, hence why we don't see much of Herb. They haven't killed him off because, you know, everyone loves Herb so much.
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Feb 10, 2017 20:31
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Junk posted:I can't find anything about this, do you have a link or know why he didn't enjoy it? gently caress, now I can't find it either. Wherever it was, it didn't provide a reason, just some fan claiming he didn't like the experience and that was why Herb only ever returned as a one-line "I'm poor again" thing. It seemed to make sense at the time. Although in looking for it I found out that, thanks to an Arnold Schwarzenegger-based joke in the Simpsons Movie, Danny DeVito does simultaneously exist as a person in the Simpsons universe. God drat it
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Feb 11, 2017 22:32
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I always thought the Louis Lane thing was a hilarious idea. You can even see one or two buildups to it in the show - like when Otto suggests Superman come save the town from giant ads and Comic Book Guy's all "oh, please". Now that that idea is unmade that joke doesn't really make sense anymore beyond "seeing cbg be stuck-up about worthless things is funny". I don't mind the joke that instead CBG's name is totally uninteresting, but it would've been better to make it interesting. edit: Baby Gerald never ever should have been used outside of that "Even Maggie's got an enemy" scene. Cobweb Heart fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Feb 15, 2017 04:21
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Drink-Mix Man posted:It was kind of funny the second time we see him, when Mayor Quimby was at the rally honoring Bart's dog for saving him from a fire he started off camera (or something like that.) "Baby Gerald, we can't help but wonder what mischief you'll get into next." It was funny because it had nothing to do with him being Maggie's nemesis, but that he was a cute lil' evil arsonist. drat, that is funny and I don't even remember that one! Other characters they DIDN'T gently caress up: Lester and Eliza have never been seen again, except beforehand as generic kid designs.
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Feb 15, 2017 05:44
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Scudworth posted:It also has no comedy potential, at least not in the hands of the s9 writers, as shown by the episode itself. Das Bus has some good bits. "Go banana", "tastes like burning", and Otto's pitiful rescue attempt were already posted. When I was a kid, and wasn't all grown-up and sick of non-endings yet, I thought the "oh, let's say...... Moe" bit was hilarious. "One thing they export is corn... or as the Indians call it, maize" was funny. "I can't go on, you two go ahead... and carry me with you!" was also funny. ....Not funny enough for me to remember them without looking it up, though.
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Feb 23, 2017 08:32
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Squashing Machine posted:Bart's sounding real husky. 28 years smoking reds does that to a 10 year old He's putting on a voice lol. Marge was sounding kinda weird in some clip in here though Scudworth posted:Yeah and all but 2 of those things are outside the Lord of the Flies plot. I shouldn't have quoted your post because I wasn't really responding to it. If you think Lord of the Flies has no comedy potential you've obviously forgotten about the rear end-mar edit: SUCKS to your rear end-mar, scudworth
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Feb 23, 2017 08:53
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I love Futurama, but in retrospect I wish they had been more consistent with the Fry/Leela soap opera bullshit. I don't think they made Fry's swings from retard-tier childish bachelor to thoughtful caring lover very natural. Man, is that show dorky!YeahTubaMike posted:the third-worst cartoon I've ever seen, after Tom Goes To The Mayor gently caress outta here dude quote:It still bugs the poo poo out of me that the boil episode ends with Leela apologizing to Fry after he humiliates her, and her ignoring that he reeks of goat vomit to hug him. Fry and Leela should have been a terrible couple born of Leela's abysmal self-esteem at best, not anything the audience was meant to root for. This is a good point.
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Feb 27, 2017 20:20
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*computers display cgi readouts of a retarded nerd's brain - heuristics resolve half remembered flickers of old Simpsons and Futurama eps* Yeah Rick and Morty is great. I love that show with the dick who never gets comeuppance, and the kid and there was that guy who belches all the time, and... and there was lame rear end science jokes and... dimensional travel *doctors shake heads; nothing to be done*
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Mar 4, 2017 18:47
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Good line from the Armin one: My dreams all involve combing my hair.
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Mar 5, 2017 07:18
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Man, I've been noticing you guys keep disagreeing... calling each other retards. I guess that kinda makes you the retards, huh? Anyway... I'm out. No, I don't have anything to add.
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Mar 5, 2017 22:40
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The way the Cecil one ends with Bob just getting arbitrarily re-imprisoned so they can still pull him out later is so loving lame.
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Mar 6, 2017 20:12
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No, it's a hella funny episode, but Bob really turned a new leaf, at least for the moment, and he shouldn't have had to immediately go back to jail. Even though the scene of him and Cecil in the cell is great.
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Mar 7, 2017 05:48
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the worm went in my mouth / why does it talk like a lamb? were phenomenal dissection jokes, two home-runs in a row about an obscure and unfunny subject. I never would have thought they would make another dissection joke, twenty years later, but here we are.
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Mar 23, 2017 13:45
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Jiminy Christmas! every paragraph of the synopsis of that episode ends in imagery the show's already done, and done better!! edit: Oh wait lmao I was wrong this one's 3 years old! the frog HERE is merely a device to have Bart shunned for eating a frog. This show got really dang stupidquote:When a visiting reverend from another country pleads Springfield churchgoers for a donation to help the sick children, Bart sympathizes with a boy his own age. Bart has a difficult time asking his parents for a donation, but Homer eventually relents, lending Bart $20. However, Homer almost instantly starts to pester Bart for repayment. Feeling the pressure of Homer's badgering, Bart confides in Milhouse at the playground before a costumed devil makes Bart an offer: if he eats anything for the money, he will be able to get the $20. Bart asks his classmates to help him out of his bind, offering to eat anything except money.  quote:Soon enough, Bart receives offers to eat used chewing gum, orthodontic wax, cinnamon, St. John's wort, and a preserved frog prepared for dissection, even though Lisa warns her brother to not consume the animal. After eating the frog Bart ends up in the hospital. Bart pays his father back the $20 (which Homer had forgotten about), but the hospital bill is $4000. The next day Bart's friends and schoolmates, including Milhouse, shun him for eating the frog. Just when the school bullies are about to attack Bart, a new transfer student named Diggs saves the day with his falcon, Freedom. He reveals to Bart the hidden Falconry Club headquarters behind the school. As Bart spends more and more time with Diggs, he learns about falconry and conducts some mischief around town by teaching Freedom to snatch Springfielders' belongings. The last time Bart had anything to do with falconry, it failed to solve his problem. quote:One day, Diggs dives from a high tree branch, resulting in his injury and emergency hospitalization. Bart questions what prompted his new friend to act as he did. Diggs explains he just wanted to fly, alarming Bart with his idea that maybe all people can fly and don't know this because they don't try it anymore. Bart is told to leave the room by an uncharacteristically stern Dr. Hibbert and an unidentified doctor and overhears that Diggs will transfer over to a mental hospital. Homer and Marge recognize what this means, and Marge clues in a visibly horrified Bart that this means Diggs has serious problems and that the mental hospital is "not the kind of a place a little boy should ever visit." Homer suggests that Bart merely resume his friendship with Milhouse. Lisa is very sympathetic to Bart and he is appreciative of the comfort. Bart already hung out with a messed-up, nonstandard friend in a mental hospital. quote:Bart goes back to school and leaves the bullies stunned and silent when he responds to their taunting by angrily saying how much it sucks that his friend is mentally ill. When Bart enters the falconry club, Diggs is there climbing through a window, claiming to have gotten a day pass to participate in a falconry contest. At the contest, Diggs unveils to Bart a plan to free all the falcons. Bart helps Diggs enact the plan, and the falcons fly away in a flock. Bart already released a bunch of birds. quote:Diggs thanks Bart for his friendship and rides his bike back to the mental hospital, noting he's unlikely to get any freedom for a long time but glad they had the time together they did. Immediately afterwards, Milhouse arrives to apologize to Bart for avoiding him earlier and the two reconcile. This is how almost every simpsons episode ends. Also, the crazy kid is Harry Potter. Cobweb Heart fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 23, 2017 14:00
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Japan, okay. Not liking the New York one is a symptom of bad brain. ...And that's when the CHUDs came at me 
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Apr 4, 2017 18:54
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Having deliberate eras of the show with different flavors would have been an incredible idea (I'd still only watch the first couple but whatever). There's a British show that did that, Blackadder, right? It actually would have fixed every continuity problem and gave them a stupid but not insulting route for Homer to invent grunge and meet and fall in love with Marge eighty different times. And in fact, it would work forever, get everyone used to spinoffs and alternate shows with the Simpsons name, and even let them keep making episodes at reduced popularity if a major voice actor quits or dies. Almost seems like Ivy League writers should have been able to conceptualize and float it. Too late now lol
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Apr 5, 2017 20:13
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Exactly! a season of wiggum pi would have cleaned the clock of any given season of zombie simpsons. I liked how that episode made the spinoffs increasingly dumb and senseless instead of finishing on the strong one.
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Apr 5, 2017 20:37
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Did they? (Really, I didn't watch it)
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Apr 5, 2017 21:02
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James Rolfe: Hi Homer, I'm James Rolfe, the Angry Video Game Nerd. Comic Book Guy: EXCUSE me! James Rolfe: D'oh!
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Apr 6, 2017 00:14
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For those who have seen the newer seasons, when did Marge's voice start sounding off? I've seen it in a few clips recently. Eventually we'll figure out precisely when it started and that can be the starting point of the "Physical Decline Era", which will end when all the voice actors are dead.
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Apr 30, 2017 20:49
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All of those episodes have funny bits (except I don't remember any from the Maude one). At some point the funny bits stop entirely. Hard to say where this is, but it definitely happens and it's almost certainly around 12-14. I liked the weed episode and I think that one came in a bit late, so I'm willing to watch further than some. edit: Brother's Little Helper is actually really good, the bizarre alternate take on Bart's character is fun and the whole MLB thing is especially funny to cap it off. And come to think of it, many seasons later, when Homer starts taking "Nappiien" there is one decent joke where Lisa accidentally calls it Ambien and corrects herself edit: I can remember as far as like season 16 having episodes that are mostly fun to watch. I like The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star despite its stupid title. "The Romans have been separate from us since the schism of Lords in 1573 and that was about our Holy Right to COME TO CHURCH WITH WET HAIR! which... we've since... abolished." Cobweb Heart fucked around with this message at 00:03 on May 1, 2017 |
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My favorite Lenny gag is that everyone speaks about him like he's super wealthy, but whenever his living situation is actually depicted or discussed he lives like poo poo, alone, in dilapidated homes. And then one episode we find out he lies about things like having a wife and suddenly the inconsistency seems more like an elaborate character trait
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May 22, 2017 18:04
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Mustached5thGrader posted:That's post season 9..., it was a funny episode though. It's only two seasons afterward, in a season that concluded with "behind the laughter". my first and for some time only exposure to the show was a book my brother left lying around that provided quotes and synopses for each episode of like seasons 9 and 10, so i'm willing to keep going after 9. only in the years since that we've passed its creamy middle and reached the terrible lows.
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May 25, 2017 05:57
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Aesop Poprock posted:That's like the saddest version of finding your dad's old porn mags possible Don't jerk off to the simpsons creep
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May 25, 2017 19:03
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My Linux Rig posted:Blah You won't believe how pissed off this goon got about Simpsons-related posts in the Simpsons thread! CLICK HERE to read full article
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The best part of Lisa the Vegetarian is when she finds out Apu is a vegan. Ooh! Cheese!
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khwarezm posted:Pop quiz, name all of the characters Albert Brooks played between seasons 1-8. wikipedia knows which is the most important quote:His voice acting credits include Marlin in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016), and recurring guest voices for The Simpsons, including Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie (2007). but he also did another appearance as hank scorpio for a cameo in the classic Simpsons episode, 500 Keys, where the family find a mysterious pile of 500 keys quote:After sorting out all the keys, Marge and Maggie find a key for a wind-up toy train called "The Pooter Toot Express", which Marge figures must be her anniversary present, which makes farting noises when it moves. The toy gets away from them and they must chase it throughout the city.
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Backweb posted:Serious question. "Zombie Simpsons" explanation aside, does anybody know what the production background of the Gil episodes were? Did millennial Harvard graduate writers decide to pay an homage to Lionel Hutz/Phil Hartman? Or was this one of those random grabs of an established ancillary character? Not having seen the episodes it feels exactly like a Lionel Hutz plot. According to wikipedia, Marge lets him in. We've already seen them take in Otto out of pity and kick him out, but this time is different because Homer is too busy dealing with the Grinch for an entire year to do anything. Marge, the ex-cop who easily befriended murderers in jail and doomed three nerds to homelessness rather than put up with them in the house, is unable to assert herself over the complete pushover character. That doesn't make any sense but when you've got a couple million guys like this, why bother making a show good? I mean, what would you have to gain? codo27 posted:
SEX BURRITO posted:Bart spends time with Principal Skinner's mother, Agnes. Meanwhile, Homer and Lisa get addicted to Peekimon Get. edit: Lol quote:The scene of Bart saying "taking the piss" repeatedly was originally supposed to be Bart just saying "piss" repeatedly. However, censors told the producers that Bart had to say the full line "taking the piss" instead.[3] Bart: Hory poo poo! Pissss. Cobweb Heart fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jul 26, 2017 |
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Gil discussion is over, but learning that they actually made him their lawyer really stings given how good he was when he had Hutz to play off. That's enough, Gil.  Don't drag her down with you.
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Jul 28, 2017 23:13
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I'm ashamed for you. Last Chance posted:Terrible No. It's funny as gently caress to hear Ralph casually demand silence because his character is rightfully innocent and free of viciousness, but Milhouse's lameness transcends cause and effect to put him at the bottom in any relationship. Lame Milhouse jokes have never steered us wrong; Milhouse is gold. The later seasons hide lots of bits that pass as C-grade jokes from classic episodes. Is the first Arsonist Ralph joke before or after the kid with Ralph's voice from the Hank Scorpio episode? You know, I START FIRES! Eventually Ralph just became that character. I never liked that they made him into a full-on voice-hearing dangerous retard.
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I really like stupid, cruel gross-out humor and ugly animation and all the other things that Ren and Stimpy stands for, but I never saw it when I was a kid so it just seems like boring tryhard garbage to me. The takes are loving weak and wimpy yet dragged out and it boggles my mind that John K is always going on about how much he admires old cartoons with insanely twisty, satisfying split-second reactions from its characters, because when he does it it looks like he's drawing squished spiders one-handed. It's not that I FUCKIN HATE!!!!!!!!!!! ren and stimpy but even if you enjoy weird and gross poo poo it gets real stupid and annoying.
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Aug 13, 2017 21:51
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Cyril Sneer posted:the characters-deal-with-real-teen-issues plague. Is that really a big problem now though? Cartoons used to tackle SERIOUS ISSUES all the time before Doug and it was even more silly and exhausting when it's like Winnie the Pooh vs. drug dealers. Doug just whines about his crush and bullies and stuff right? Seems hard to blame for anything. I never watched Doug but I like that they gave the characters just random skin colors, like blue. I wish more shows did that, and not just the one that everyone rags on for being lame!
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The plans Homer saw when he hacked into their computer really were plans to blow up the mall.quote:Later that evening, while going to their home to apologize, Homer catches a glimpse of Bashir's father working with TNT in his garage; due to a nightmare featuring the Genie of Aladdin in which he transforms Homer's "decadent, Western society" into a stereotypical Islamic republic, he decides to eavesdrop on Bashir's parents talking about Bashir's father's job in building demolition, but misses part of the conversation and thinks that Bashir's father is a suicide bomber. As soon as the father departs for work, Homer convinces Bashir's mother to invite him in for a proper pardoning of his dinner prejudice. In reality, he hacks into the family's laptop and discovers a diagram of demolition plans for the Springfield Mall. Homer runs into the mall and gets everyone out, then tosses the dynamite onto a nearby bridge. It turns out the mall was supposed to be demolished and he ruined everything. He throws a party to apologize to Bashir's family. From the classic episode, MyPods and Boomsticks, about ten years ago. Muslim organizations praised the inclusion of a professional Muslim family but unfortunately they would never again have a plot-relevant role. Nah I'm just loving with you, I made that poo poo up 
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Wizard Master posted:Homer wasn't raped by a panda, he was wearing a panda suit and there was probably no way for the male panda's penis to penetrate the suit Exactly, he was only getting his padded rear end rammed and humiliated. The suggestive rapey jokes make everyone remember it as full-on rape. They should have just not gone in that direction. The Mighty Boosh did the "panda costume scenario gets out of hand" joke much better, when Howard leaves just too late to let Vince out of the enclosure. Vince gets tackled from behind and dragged out of view. Later it turns out he ended up wining and dining the panda out of pity
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54 40 or gently caress posted:Also I'm wondering what people thought was the first unfunny treehouse episode? Not coincidentally, it's season 9 for me. *nudging next poster, whispering* He's crazy. No, you're right though, it's definitely a lot less good than the last one. You're also right about the ending to Lisa the Vegetarian. Apu singing and the McCartneys bopping along would probably make a great looping avatar. edit: Well not an avatar, but it's such a cute bit of animation. 
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Junk posted:I just remembered that stupid episode where Bart has to go back to 3rd grade and Lisa gets skipped ahead to 3rd grade, and they wind up on a field trip to the governor's office and bart changed the design for their state flag to be about farting and the governor started wailing out loud, but I geuss they didn't record enough of Tress MacNeille doing the scream beacuse they repeated the same scream clip quite noticeably a few times in a row and it was super obvious and hokey. They did it on purpose, like when Skinner says "FIRST PRIZE!" with the exact same cadence as in Bart's dream, and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvvE3vdOo9A And you're wrong it's the only funny part of that entire episode 
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Simspons Safari is a great one-off you joyless fuckers. It's just not as good as the hit tv show, The Simpsons.
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