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Disenchantment was OK at best, middling most of the time, and absolute garbage too often. It falls into so many of the bad comedy series traps, like not being confident enough to let a subtle joke be. For instance, in one of the first episodes Elfo and the princess escape into a magical forest, and there's a "Beware the racist unicorn" sign briefly shown at the forest entrance. That would've been a funny background joke, and I got a good chuckle out of imagining what a racist unicorn would be like. Then I spent the next 5 or so minutes going "please don't show the racist unicorn and ruin the joke, PLEASE". But of course they do: a unicorn turns up to see Elfo and the princess sleeping next to each other and goes 'an ELF and a HUMAN? That's just WRONG".
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Paul Revere 3000 posted:I know. You can't pump a double barrel shotgun! Maybe you can't.
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Stooge posted:When Hank Scorpio chucks his moccasins away and asks Homer "you ever see a guy say goodbye to a shoe before" and Homer says "haha, yeah once", do you think Homer is referring to 5 seconds ago when he saw Hank chucking his shoes away? No. The guys who do the Talkin' Simpsons podcast asked one of the writers of that episode, and it was confirmed that Homer is talking about some other time he saw a guy say goodbye to a shoe.
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Iron Crowned posted:The synopses read like a "I fed 10,000 hours of Simpsons Episodes into an AI and this is what was vomited out" posts. See I like this because you can read the AI two ways: Capital A capital I as in Artificial Intelligence Or Capital A lower case l as in Al Jean. And it works both ways.
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So it's official now, Simpsons have gone to Disney. https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/1108134895799267329 I'm sure this will improve quality immensely...
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NiceGuy posted:What happened? Lightning hit the transmitter? See, that what I thought at first, but then... HEY, SHUT UP! God, old school Krusty was amazing.
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emgeejay posted:yehhhuurrrughh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH8tLx3vIWs
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Missionary Positron posted:The best one though is when Homer crashes his clown car into a tree and flies out of the car after a slight pause: Yeah that's one of my favourite moments in the Simpsons as well. It makes absolutely no sense and always makes me laugh so hard.
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May 8, 2019 16:11
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, it's like the entire concept of humor distilled into a few perfect seconds.
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Bust Rodd posted:But you don’t like Weird Al either so your brain is definitely broken and you should just move to Tibet and stop bothering people. Did.. did I finally find the other person who liked Dirty Work? Also Weird Al owns, American Dad owns. New Simpsons sucks.
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May 30, 2019 13:45
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Bust Rodd posted:LoL yeah I was quoting Dirty Work, it’s literally the funniest comedy of the 90’s and I’ve easily seen it over 50+ times. It’s my default “feeling kind of funky/bored” movie and I’ve shown it to countless people who go from “Norm who?” to quoting it casually months later. Yeah that'll happen. My brother and I randomly saw it on some movie channel ages ago and instantly fell in love with it, and Norm MacDonald. I wonder how much of that scene Don Rickles just adlibbed? Probably a lot!
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May 30, 2019 13:59
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Plan Z posted:Haven't thought about that, but that is probably super helpful for Roger to just be a different character so you don't run into the Simpsons/Family Guy thing of just having too many characters around that you have to flesh out. If you just need this type of character to do an episode, you don't need to bring in a character, name them, then either write them into the universe or just awkwardly dump them at the end of an episode. Plus, they've started getting weird with the Roger personas. Like in some episode one of his personas will have a human twin brother, and their mother will also be Roger in a different costume. And of course, because American Dad is meta as hell, everyone else realizes how weird this is as well. It's just such a well written, self-aware and amazingly fresh show that constantly keeps surprising me, and making me laugh harder than any other show.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVyY53emmo Principal Lewis owns.
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My big problem with Disenchantment is, in a nutshell, this: In the first episode they go into a forest and there's a sign by the entrance saying something like "WELCOME TO THE ENCHANTED FOREST". And below is another, smaller sign with "Beware the racist unicorn" written on it. That was a funny joke. A racist unicorn? What's that even like? It's a great idea, and I loved that he was such a big problem they had to make a sign about it. But then later in the episode Bean and Elfo are sleeping in the forest, and they pan over to a unicorn saying in a redneck voice "A HUMAN LADY AND AN ELF? THAT AIN'T RIGHT!" Like just loving let the joke be. You don't have to explain everything, you don't have to underline every joke twice. That's why Futurama and Good Simpsons were so amazing: they let the one percenters and the background jokes go, and when you got them they were amazing.
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WeaponX posted:You know none of this Apu stuff would matter if this show ended ten seasons ago like it should have It's not 2010 anymore, chief.
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Marble. The Marble Cinematic Universe. Just ... gently caress.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Admittedly I haven't really watched American Dad much since it left FOX, and yes there are some brilliant episodes, but they constantly re-used the same conflicts and same basic premises, almost always involving Roger pulling a bait-and-switch against the family. Kinda, but they've decided to own it several years ago, and are intentionally going into weirder and more surreal places with it. I know that doesn't potentially sound amazing because we've all played games or seen shows where they intentionally do something bad or irritating and think it's OK because they're telling you they know it's bad and irritating at the same time (see: "ironic" escort missions in games), but American Dad nails it.
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Muk Dumpster posted:Let me ask *you* a question. Why would a grown man whose shirt says "Genius at Work" spend all of his time watching a children's cartoon show? Because I'm working from home and turns out my actual job doesn't take that much time to do.
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:The problem was that it was part of an increasing trend of veering out of their lane. The Simpsons was initially grounded in reality and had plausible scenarios that a real family might deal with, with occasional cartoonish lapses (i.e. Homer falling down the cliff repeatedly, the monorail episode). Speaking of this, kind of at least a bit, the whole "so you kids want to see everyday problems and far out magical things" brain scratcher in the Itchy & Scratchy & Poochy episode that's supposed to be impossible to fulfill. It's always bugged me because "fantasy creatures / mages / scifi elves dealing with everyday problems" has been a staple of comics and books since there's been comics and books. poo poo, Adventure Time and a bunch of other shows that are a lot more popular than the Simpsons were built on that exact premise.
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Muk Dumpster posted:Best American dad is when he gets hooked on crack That Get Down, Get Down  still plays in my head regularly.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Taht's loving jungle boogie you degenerate Yeah I know but it's Jungle Boogie sung in a Roger voice and that specific version is the one I keep hearing. ... or did the original singer just sound insanely like Roger. Was Roger the original singer?! 
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Endless Trash posted:No I rewatched it recently with a friend who hadn’t seen it (“dude you gotta see this it’s so funny I was cracking up as a kid!”) and yeah it’s just not very good unfortunately It had some cute bits and jokes, like the ”Hey Abbot!” guy, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles or the other classic Mel Brooks movies.
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brugroffil posted:deep deep simpsons cut Another one of those where after reading this it's easy to say "I can see why this got cut". Maybe it could've been good with actual performances and some rewrites, but as written this just doesn't feel nearly as good or tight as the rest of the episode.
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Ror posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLFpTLEnrqU If I could twist Al Jean's arm and make him answer a question, I'd ask him to explain to me what the joke here is. I get what is happening here, but what is the joke? "Imagine a guy eating a lot of food" isn't a joke. What's the joke here, Al? To contrast with a classic episode, the first thing that popped into my head: in "Lisa the Simpson" Jasper is frozen in the freezer at the Quik-e-mart. OK, "old guy has accidentally managed to mess up his grocery shopping so badly he's frozen solid in a freezer" is actually a joke. That's funny! But then it turns out that he hasn't in fact accidentally frozen himself, but rather did it intentionally because he wanted to see the future. That's another layer, and it's funny! And the shop's owner, rather than helping the guy, decides to cash in on this event and charge people to see "Frostillicus". Another layer! And then after he's thawed he doesn't realize he's been frozen for like an hour and is impressed by everyday things as insanely futuristic. Yet another layer! Or... you know. A guy eats a lot of food at famous New Orleans restaurants and his family doesn't approve. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 11:55 on May 6, 2021 |
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Outpost22 posted:Has there been anything else comparable to the decline of the Simpsons? The Third Reich.
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Whizzing Wizard posted:Now, let's spend the next couple of pages of this thread discussing Paradise PD I've never seen it but I hear Paradise PD fans only eat marmite every day.
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We saw the Simpsons Movie in theaters when it was new, and although I was long checked out on the show by then, I remember that for the first 20-30 minutes of the movie we laughed so hard my face hurt. Maybe it was just being in a theater with friends, but I also remember that some of those jokes were genuinely funny. Then it kinda fell off a cliff.
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Hrist posted:Homer Simpson: Oh my god! It's Moe's famous Magic Talking Bar Rag! I thought you were busy on the set of the new Avengers Film! What are you doing here in Springfield?! Uhh I believe you mean the MAVENGERS Film from Darvel Studios and Dalt Wisney. Geez it's like you don't know anything about satire and jokes!
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Empty Sandwich posted:to be fair, Disenchantment also sucks in almost exactly the same way as the Simpsons Yeah. In one of the first episodes, or maybe the first, there's an establishing shot of a magic forest the characters are in, and there's a sign outside. "MAGIC FOREST -- Beware the Racist Unicorn", or something to that effect. And it was a fun joke. What even is a racist unicorn? What is it racist against? What is it doing to make people beware it? And they couldn't leave it there. Later there's a scene where the characters are sleeping in the forest and we cut to the unicorn going "human women with elves? Now that just ain't right" and ruining the entire joke. E: it was a racist antelope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSm4HHgMPA Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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"A crummy world of plot holes and spelling errors" is a sentence I used to think about a lot when I tried my hand at writing fiction a decade or two ago.
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You Are A Elf posted:Both of these are top tier Roger moments. Also, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoeBAHk8Qm4 This is missing the immediate aftermath, where Stan and Roger are sitting on the curb talking, and Roger asks if the guy is OK. Stan just looks at him for a while and then says "NO". End of episode.
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I literally can't believe anyone lists Take My Wife, Sleaze as a good episode. It featured poo poo like this: A swordfight... BUT WITH MOTORCYCLES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1qvOQOXG4&t=96s This hilarious dancing competition! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1QJACBcE-I Dire poo poo.
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Mantis42 posted:Jesus, they even added a cute kid character to Married... With Children, the absolute maniacs. quote:Seven was the child of Zemus and Ida Mae Wanker, the cousin of Peg Bundy, who appeared in 12 episodes of the seventh season of Married with Children, having been informally adopted by the Bundys. "Seven". "Ida Mae Wanker".
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WeaponX posted:This would be an ok idea if it wasn’t for Marge’s voice. That thing is a war crime. I watched my first episode of the Simpsons since ~Lisa Goes Gaga last week, for the Cinema Discusso October Horror Movie Marathon, and jesus loving CHRIST she sounds awful. All the voices sound off compared to how they used to be (ie. should be), but hers is just utterly awful. Did she get like a throat injury or something, or just stop caring and instead just do a bad Marge impression because who cares at this point?
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The Simpsons used to be so loving good. This line read by Dan Castellaneta is pure gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-PPTwTc1bw
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Boblox. Someone sure spent 5 seconds thinking about that clever and hilarious joke.
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KKK? That's not good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryOmqxJcK5w Kinda hate thinking about how a joke like this would've been mangled in later seasons of The Simpsons. For one they definitely would not have trusted the audience to understand the significance of the Apollo Theater and would've shown a black audience. And they probably would've called it the Napollo Theater.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Modern Simpsons wouldn’t trust the audience to even know what “KKK” means and why it’s bad. Then probably add in Lisa going "why did they air the special when Krusty got knocked out 5 seconds into it?" with Bart adding "it sure is unfortunate he didn't read the sign before going on stage", and Marge sounding like a broken lawn mower and going "Mmm."
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spaceblancmange posted:it kinda veers into 'very special episode' territory But even then there are good jokes, like "there'll be no Cajun Sausage for little Homer".
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Mr Interweb posted:good god...his voice has degraded almost as bad as marge's For comparsion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrC1aMdfa14 It really has.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Is this still making money No, this thread is a non-profit.
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