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sweet geek swag posted:Homer's Enemy pretty clearly has Homer being a jerk for reasons other than being laz or stupid. The people on the commentary even note that it's the episode where the Simpsons loses it's moral center. The people laughing at the funeral was funny, but it felt more like South Park or Family Guy.
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I think he's expressing surprise at a GBS thread being so on-topic
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Kierkegaard and Niels Bohr, dude. For shame e: who the hell is Sandi Toksvig
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bitterandtwisted posted:I was thinking more of living people for the celebrity cameos that Simpsons go to X episodes are based around Then it's just Peter Madsen, I guess if they do another submarine-themed episode
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That's my excuse too
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I'll have to check out Bob's Burgers. Goons got me to watch Archer and that was pretty good. I'd never even heard of Bojack Horseman.
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Bust Rodd posted:Bojack Horseman is my favorite show of all time but it’s 100% sadguy wank material for existentialist nerds who cannot get their poo poo together. You're saying it's perfect for me
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Oct 17, 2018 18:15
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Johnny Aztec posted:*Actually having the time of my goddamn life traveling and doing poo poo without having the burden of money over my head and having to kill myself to profit some CEO Hmm yes lottery winners are known for being happy
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Sure we do, Incas with funny little hats, there you go
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:So uh, somewhere in this thread we were discussing the relative quality of South Park, right? It just so happens I'm watching through South Park right now, after not having seen it in a long time. I would say about season 7 is when they hit their peak. Cartman tries all sorts of bizarre and hilarious schemes which often antagonize Stan and Kyle, but only through circumstances. He's racist, but in a casual, believable kind of way. In season 8, where I'm at right now, he's suddenly a literal nazi who often serves as the primary antagonist even when it makes no sense. I don't know, it just changes the whole dynamic. Still not bad so far though, I'm going to keep watching for the time being.
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:Randy at the Best Buy fake dying with his WoW avatar is top-tier South Park, but it also went up it’s own rear end after Go God Go XII or so and instead of the creators being lazy and cashing in like The Simpsons they became CHUDs who think that trolling people is comedy and being aggressively annoying or rude to people who are different is good and right. They've always been like that, remember the smoking episode
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Nov 2, 2018 13:28
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That and the episode where Lisa is afraid of going to hell for stealing cable were really uncomfortable and weird to European audiences. I assume that even in America tons of people at the time were going 'what is this Third World theocratic bullshit'
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Nov 9, 2018 00:34
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DropsySufferer posted:I was raised like like Lisa to worry about going to hell and the episode was normal to me. I got the impression that it was finally changing, half a century after the rest of the developed world turned secular? Even today's alt-right types are more likely to be smug atheists than conservative Christians. Of course, I know the US mostly through the lens of the Internet, and I realize that's not representative.
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Nov 9, 2018 16:45
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I didn't think much of it and I doubt most people here did, but I definitely remember my dad being all 'what is this poo poo' He didn't try to keep me from watching The Simpsons to protect me from dangerous fundamentalist influences, though.
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Nov 9, 2018 17:01
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It's interesting that Friends came up, because my dad (yeah again I know, he just loves to go ohhh Americans  ) likes to use it as proof that American culture is really weird and puritan, 'even in New York'. Especially that one episode where everyone is losing their poo poo because they saw each other naked in the shower or something. I always have to explain that even though Friends is set in Manhattan, it doesn't necessarily accurately reflect the attitudes (or the demographics for that matter) of the inhabitants of NYC.
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Nov 9, 2018 19:44
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Don't you guys have a registration system for porn now lol
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Nov 13, 2018 11:38
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OK. Sure. Why not. All of these episodes read like they were made up on the spot by Awesom-O
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She died in a tragic accident and wasn't completely awful, I guess. And British tabloids will get outraged about anything so I don't know if that's a reference
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His friend is now the number one wig maker in the world
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Nov 15, 2018 20:22
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Plan Z posted:The guy here posting episode descriptions had me curious and looking through the different seasons to see when those descriptions really start getting lovely, then noticed that the Simpsons, along with South Park and King of the Hill (order of air date went Hill then Simpsons then South Park) all had episodes where characters were fraudulently diagnosed with ADD in a way that made ADD itself seem like a scam. The lesson usually just boiled down to "Kids are just energetic and you're turning them into zombie mind slaves." I remember a bunch of other shows doing basically the same plot, making the "brainless zombie follower" jabs a bit ironic. South Park has a ton of these, just watched the alcoholism episode a couple of days ago. 'just stop drinking lol' I actually like South Park but the creators are insufferable douchebags
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Nov 18, 2018 10:58
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Bust Rodd posted:Also yes Alcoholism is real, the joke wasn’t that alcoholism isn’t real, it’s that “just really liking beer” isn’t being an alcoholic and is a different problem. Like seriously imagine having reading comprehension that bad and just never getting glib satire. I watched that episode just a few days ago. What you're describing is Randy's arc specifically, but 'alcoholism isn't real' is something they come close to saying literally, multiple times. There really is no other way to interpret it. Also that Alcoholics Anonymous is basically a cult which, who knows, might even be true. They have stupid opinions and that's fine, I'll still watch it. It's not a bad show regardless. It's bizarre to be so hell-bent on defending their honor.
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This some glib-rear end satire
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It makes more sense if you remember that Marge isn't employed. So between the mortgage on a huge house and the stupid poo poo Homer canonically tends to waste his disposable income on, I guess I can see it.
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Nov 22, 2018 18:29
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Plan Z posted:What's everyone's vote for worst early season episode? Overall, I think my vote has to be the belly dancer one. Recently watched that one and it's pretty bad, yeah. He's just dancing at a stag party, chill the gently caress out Marge
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Nov 25, 2018 11:55
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I recognize one of those names, could be worse
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Nov 26, 2018 18:41
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ulex minor posted:In the last episode of the Simpsons Marge signs up for one of those HelloFresh/Blue Apron services thinking it will give her some much needed downtime. When it turns out that Homer starts saying it's the best tasting food he's ever had it causes a minor mental breakdown for her and she starts slowly adulterating the food, however Homer keeps on enjoying it even when her additions have grown to toxic proportions. Guess Marge finally snapped after all those years
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Nov 28, 2018 20:32
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brugroffil posted:Looking back I can't believe that there were only 140 episodes of Futurama I don't think that's a fair comparison, the Simpsons will still be around billions of years from now when Earth is briefly engulfed by the dying Sun, extinguishing all life
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Nov 29, 2018 12:32
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PostNouveau posted:They'd announced that they wouldn't release them on DVD anymore. I guess technically a single fan might have demanded it. Maybe one of the writers's mother
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Maybe Archer? It's a pretty good-looking series.
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pooch516 posted:This... Doesn't sound terrible? Congrats? Are they at loving season 30 now Please just stop
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Jan 29, 2019 23:14
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I'm sure there's been a rape scene in one of the 30 seasons
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Jan 31, 2019 18:44
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They're usually not laugh-out-loud funny, but they are really clever and I'm often impressed with the way references are endlessly recombined. You can say that's lazy and that's fair, but it's pretty much the definition of a meme
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Feb 8, 2019 15:23
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Fancy five string bass motherfucker
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Strudel Man posted:I'll actually "agree" with the season 20 thing to the extent that, when I started going through my unwatched seasons recently, the 10-20 span was tolerable. No comparison to the golden age, but I could watch them and occasionally chuckle at something. After 20 is where it got truly dire, to the extent that I found it difficult to even keep watching. Uh, he actually said the opposite I do wonder how much the Simpsons currently suffers from unfavorable comparisons to the golden age, and whether people would tolerate it more if it were an unrelated series. On the other hand, it probably would have been canceled almost immediately
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:Krusty releases an all-female reboot of "Itchy and Scratchy," so Bart and his crew of all-male friends decide to boycott the show. After Bart's friends turn on him for laughing at the reboot, Bart joins a woke group of sixth-grade girls who commit crimes against patriarchy in the all-new "Bart Vs. Itchy & Scratchy" episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, March 24 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-3010) (TV-14 L, S, V)  Stop...please, just stop...
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I see it's been five years since the height of the MOBA hype, time to make an episode
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Cubone posted:milhouse's parents getting divorced and staying divorced at the end of the episode was hilarious exactly because by sitcom logic it shouldn't have happened You know, now that I'm older the 'X days without a suicide' joke is kind of messed up
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Lets Pickle posted:Yes, she also must have done 23&Me at some point. Guess that sucks but they have nothing in common except a lovely cheating dad so makes sense
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Bust Rodd posted:I’ve celebrated a fortunate turn of events with “Everything’s coming up Millhouse!” for decades at this point. I actually said "everything's coming up [my name]" during a game of cards last night
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DorkusMalorkus posted:Like a decade ago when I met my future brother-in-law, we were able to bond a little over Simpsons quotes, but eventually he told me he prefers later seasons, he called it the "silver age" and he meant past like season 10. I should have warned my sister not to marry him right then. Especially since later I found out he liked to leave Futurama episodes on a constant repeat in the background while he was doing stuff at home, so much and so often that my sister basically can't stand to ever hear those voices again. I thought there was going to be more to this story, like he turned out to be a serial adulterer or wife beater e: though yeah that's bad enough
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