PostNouveau posted:

Treehouse of Horror was disappointing. If you're gonna do a Coraline tribute, the CGI needs to be a lot better than it was. The segment where Homer starts eating himself was pretttttttty hosed up though.

Fried Watermelon posted:

How do they do a sequel? Do they have like a "previously on The Simpsons" start?

Big Beef City posted:

The worst part of sampsins is when Brat dead and he mom sad.
Even litle Magpie cry.
very low for pouplar children cartoon show

Iron Crowned posted:

To be fair, kids these days probably don't know what an antenna is

Sid Vicious posted:

Painfully unfunny, at this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely inside your posts

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

They should drop the talking fish entirely.

Tree Goat posted:

there's lots of scenarios where they cancel the simpsons, it's very easy to envision:

1) one of the few tribes scrounging for food in the last few arable pieces of land in the american wastelands is insufficiently vigilant in purifying their water, and the elders succumb to cholera. they did not specify a lore-keeper before this calamity and so the long oral tradition of the tribal simpsons-speaker, an unbroken chain of voice actors dating back to before the cataclysm, is forever severed.

2) a flaw in the central machine of the self-aware disney entertainment system causes an unstable feedback loop in the neural circuitry that imprisons the cast and crew in their statis pods. while its system of thought is entirely alien to ours, this malfunction creates a pattern of behavior that is somewhat analogous to the human notion of mercy. in the brief seconds before the error-correction and redundancy systems restore the status quo, the DES permits the cast the ultimate freedom: the freedom to die.

3) the last gasp of a super-massive dying star releases a gamma ray burst that bathes our planet in purifying radiation and we, the simpsons included, are snuffed out like a match on a windy day.

fatal oopsie-daisy posted:

i just saw this on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-v1d-DjQqs

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Community (yes yes I know)

SeANMcBAY posted:

Why the gently caress do studios do this now. It reminds me of the early dvd era with lovely “fullscreen” ones everywhere.

Data Graham posted:

Who-all remembers those weird cranks who tried for years to petition the TV industry and Hollywood to ban letterboxing (which they called "letterschlocking") and widescreen-formatted movies because they considered it a form of censorship

They would come into Usenet groups and rabble-rouse and get into arguments that I think they thrived on. Twenty years later and I still don't know whether it was a genuine mental illness at work or someone doing "jokes on them I was only pretending" for like years on end



E: Either way I'm still thinking about this long after he probably died, so I guess he wins

snack eater posted:

no, they still expect people to sign up for their exclusive service

snack eater posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HG_nSyLpvc

emgeejay posted:

more like Pokémon Annoyed Grunt

Frog Act posted:

Why is everyone reacting to that clip so strongly? It's probably the first one posted in ages that is actually a decentish joke, if overdeveloped

Dimebags Brain posted:

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at a single joke in Futurama... Wait no, I chuckled at Zapp’s “send the dominoes crashing down like a house of cards” line. So once I guess.

Mak0rz posted:

Mr Interweb posted:

Can I just say that I find the trajectory of the Simpsons absolutely fascinating? And no, I'm not talking about how it got worse over time. Yes, it's unfortunate, and even tragic, but also, not surprising at all. This is a problem that nearly every long running T.V. show in existence faced. It happened to Sons of Anarchy, Dexter, Suits, Weeds, Oz, Hercules/Xena, the list goes on and on. This phenomenon is not special or unique at all. However, looking at how the Simpsons started, and then seeing what it became, is a helluva lot more of an interesting story.

Go back to season one, and tell me you're not stunned at what kind of a show The Simpsons used to be. This may piss off a lot of people, but I thought it was an ugly, unfunny mess. The animation was absolutely wretched in pretty much every way you can imagine. Even as a 5 year old who would eat up pretty much anything that resembled a cartoon, I remember thinking it looked like poo poo. And then there was the writing. There were "jokes" in there sure, but it can't even really be considered a comedy show. It was more like an animated version of something like Seventh Heaven, being overly mawkish and sentimental. I legitimately don't know who this was supposed to be targeted to. It was too boring for kids, but also too childish (looking) for adults.

The second season was a noticeable improvement, but it was still very rough. I don't think the show found its voice until season 3. I find it staggering that we go from something Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire to Homer the Vigilante and Cape Feare. We go from some of the most wretched content ever put to paper, to some of the greatest, wittiest television to ever exist.

Flannelette posted:

This transition is from the 2nd season

Try finding something like that in the new animation style episodes.

Atlas Hugged posted:

If you took only the gold from 9-11

Iron Crowned posted:

Who hasn't thought of robbing the Kwik-E-Mart, or bank, or whatever at some point?