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Irradiation posted:The only funny part in this was the shot at Bob's Burgers/Cleveland Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DckGotoquLw
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The critic owns and I've been meaning to watch it again its all on YouTube I think or was years ago when I watched it at work Full of country goodness and green peaness
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juniperjones posted:Such a good point. Look at the color palettes, how active Marge's hair animation is in the old one, and the weird wonkiness of the ceiling. I really prefer the old one. It looks cool as gently caress. HD ruins almost everything.
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Bro Dad posted:because now most animation is done with computers by korean sweatshop artists to save money The new opening sequence was when I finally decided enough was enough and it was worth just considering Simpsons over and dead and gone. And christ that must have been like 5 years ago at this point, and the show's still loving running. The most recent episode I watched uhhhh Lisa gets an iPod touch and downloads too many apps and has to work at Apple. I wasn't even sure if I was supposed to think it was funny. It just kind of... was.
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I grew up in a household where we had family dinners together every night, but if dinner somehow got delayed or went long, it was okay to go watch the Simpsons reruns which started at 6:30 pm. I saw every new episode live every week starting in Season 2 when I was 5 or 6 years old till my late teens/early 20's where sometimes I didn't have cable. I have continued to watch the new ones on Hulu all the way to the most recent ones. However, even I couldn't stand that loving Kesha opening. Couldn't loving stand that they did that poo poo. That's when I decided I was allowed to skip an episode once in a while. Everyone has their own breaking point.
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Mash posted:Even though new episodes are awful, as a fan of Family Guy and The Simpsons I'm actually looking forward to the hour long crossover. Lol did you see that super long and violent and elaborate fight scene? I mean rofl! And they cant say the state name?! ROTFLOL
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A few years ago I started DVRing it during football season and the next day I'd look at the description in the menu and say "nope" and just delete it
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cheerfullydrab posted:I grew up in a household where we had family dinners together every night, but if dinner somehow got delayed or went long, it was okay to go watch the Simpsons reruns which started at 6:30 pm. I saw every new episode live every week starting in Season 2 when I was 5 or 6 years old till my late teens/early 20's where sometimes I didn't have cable. I have continued to watch the new ones on Hulu all the way to the most recent ones.
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Sashimi posted:Back in the 90s Simpsons reruns were on at least twice a day including right when my family sat down to have dinner. We all watched it together most nights. My dad loved it just about as much as I did, and my mom while not a huge fan was probably just happy I wasn't watching trash. Even now we'll sometimes happen to catch an episode during dinner time and still enjoy it if its an episode from the 90s or early 2000s.
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Evenings with the Simpsons were also a tradition of my house, and every so often my wife and I watch an episode now and I am all like "I remember when this first aired oh gently caress I'm old"
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now that im older and seeing these episodes again with a new perspective, they were so bad. why did i keep watching for so long? like seasons 2-6 were loving hilarious and then past that it was haha that was funny haha sometimes but most of the time its just a blank stare.
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I'm honestly shocked that apparently I was watching it on a mostly-regular basis until Season 14. It was the Frank Grimes Jr. episode that made me realize "holy poo poo this show has gotten unfunny". The few episodes I've seen since then were completely laugh-free.
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lets be clear here though, seasons 2-8 are almost unanimously agreed to be the golden/classic era. If you say 2-6 or something you're short changing two whole seasons of quality. Not that it matters all that much when these episodes make up less than 1/3rd of the total episodes. Watching season 12 during this marathon was weird for me, I remember watching these episodes when they aired and clinging to a glimmer of hope that the show would return to close to it's original quality. Back then it was still jarring to have gone from "some of the best comedy ever made" to mediocre crap in just 2 seasons. Its staggering to think that I thought the show was nearing its end then, but fourteen years later its still on and still being renewed. I gave up following the show somewhere around season 15. SweetMercifulCrap! fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Seasons 1 - 7 aRE THe only ones that exist.
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I think it's like season 11 but the Tomacco episode and the one where bart and homer are carnies are legit good
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opus111 posted:Seasons 1 - 7 aRE THe only ones that exist. this would mean there is no Scorpio No Scorpio! NO SCORPIO! 
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yeah like 3-6 are absolute gold, but all the others up to 9 are still pretty good. even 10 has its moments.
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Season 11 has, "Valencia? These are juicing oranges!"
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Mash posted:Even though new episodes are awful, as a fan of Family Guy and The Simpsons I'm actually looking forward to the hour long crossover. That was funny but only like the first part and only because of family guy jokes. Then it was just all simpson references [gorge, aliens, blah blah].
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Spanish Manlove posted:which season had the chili cookoff? That one was a good one Season 8. The episode I distinctly remember hating and realizing the show was on the downward slide was Bart The Mother, when he accidentally raises those lizards in the eggs from the nest of a bird he killed. Man, I hated that episode so much. My brother still likes to remind me at how angry I got when the episode was finally over. That was in season 10, right?
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KoRMaK posted:That was funny but only like the first part and only because of family guy jokes. Then it was just all simpson references [gorge, aliens, blah blah]. Lol yeah that rape joke was hilarious and not at all out of place
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Mash posted:Even though new episodes are awful, as a fan of Family Guy and The Simpsons I'm actually looking forward to the hour long crossover. I like how Homer doesn't know how to set up a Family Guy joke, so Peter has to do it for him. Also, is Frank Grimes generally considered to be a low-quality episode? In my little bubble I always thought it was a classic.
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KoRMaK posted:That was funny but only like the first part and only because of family guy jokes. Then it was just all simpson references [gorge, aliens, blah blah]. Family Guy is garbage.
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They outsourced animation to Korea from the very start (like everyone else). Some Enchanted Evening is notorious for being the one at the beginning that got redone because it came out so lovely, but I didn't find actual frames of the original version until I looked again just now, courtesy of some blog with annoying text. Daaaamn. But there are also the frames from later episodes posted before with Bart's mouth on the other side of his head. Smear animation is pretty common,  Not just in The Simpsons but in most cartoons. Apparently part of the original Some Enchanted Evening is a Season 1 DVD extra, but I don't have that, so maybe everyone else has seen it and I'm just a loser  (I saw someone say "what happened to the animation?" "now everything is outsourced to Korea" so that made me think of this)
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HereComesEverybody posted:I like how Homer doesn't know how to set up a Family Guy joke, so Peter has to do it for him. The problem with the Frank Grimes episode is that it was the real start of idiot Homer if not rear end in a top hat/jerkass Homer. Homer has always been a little dimwitted but had a lot of heart, having him drinking acid and being otherwise cluelessly obnoxious was never really his actual character. In order to show how amazing all his experiences are they went overboard in showing why he didnt deserve any of them compared to Frank Grimes and it never sat right with me. Its still a good episode but as one of the big early signs of Homer's change into being a prick.
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Hey guys. Remember this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_6Kp7q5tbA Remember??? Actually, it's kinda retained more entertainment value than the most recent episode. I watched it on Hulu the other day.
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I had originally been a reliable viewer of The Simpsons since the pilot. At some point, I realized the show had been going so extraordinarily downhill for so long that I couldn't be bothered to watch new episodes live anymore, the plan being that I would let a bunch go by then catch up with some binge viewing. A few months ago I had some free time and decided it was time to catch up, so I started looking up episodes to figure out exactly where it was I left off. All I remembered was Bart fleeing something and ending up on a ranch with some old timey wild west type guy, and it was a total poo poo episode. I kept going back year by year, much farther than I expected, until I finally found it, s13e12 February 24, 2002, "The Lastest Gun in the West". Realizing I had 12 years and 260 episodes to catch-up on, I came to the only possible rational decision, "gently caress that." Having enjoyed The Simpsons so much, and having been a regular viewer for so long, it's kind of weird to realize I'm right at the threshold of never having seen even a single frame of half of the show's episodes, and not caring.
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That Zombie Simpsons article really opened my eyes. I imagine I've seen at least 95% of all simpsons episodes and it's obvious there has been a decline, but seeing the reasons laid out so clearly, as well as showing what made the early episodes so great in contrast has made me wonder why I've stuck with it. Being born in 1987, the Simpsons is just something that has always been there. I think I keep watching it through some emotional attachment really, as sad as that sounds. It makes up as many of my early memories as family members do. The article mentions that the simpsons has gotten like an elderly relative with the options to either go really dull or wild and crazy, and I can relate to it in those terms. Like the simpsons keep visiting Grampa so that he feels somewhat loved and they can leave, I keep checking in just because I would be sad to see it gone completely. It's comforting to know that Springfield is still keeping on, although I can also see another opinion that in its current form I could keep it as equally alive for myself by writing my own daily fan fiction and then burning it.
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Nutsngum posted:The problem with the Frank Grimes episode is that it was the real start of idiot Homer if not rear end in a top hat/jerkass Homer. I'm peeing on the seat! Give me a raise!
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lil mortimer posted:Family Guy is garbage.
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I didn't like the Frank Grimes episode when I saw it new as a kid but I love it now as an adult, because lazy and undeserving people really DO get rewarded with things they don't deserve, and it was daring for the show to take Homer out of the context of the show and use him as a real example of that.you were warned posted:Apparently part of the original Some Enchanted Evening is a Season 1 DVD extra, but I don't have that, so maybe everyone else has seen it and I'm just a loser SweetMercifulCrap! fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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the frank grimes episode is great in a vacuum. if that particular version of homer had disappeared the very next episode and the show went back to what it had been doing so successfully for 8 years, no one would care about it at all. i think the fact that it's so often associated with the downturn of the series as a whole is why it seems to be polarizing, but the episode itself is goddamn hilarious
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I think the first Simpsons episode I remember being really bad was the one where jockeys turned out to be goblins or whatever
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I think it's kinda funny that the Frank Grimes episode ends with Homer sleep-shouting, "Change the channel, Marge!", followed by "That's our Homer!" Pretty appropriate in retrospect.
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KoRMaK posted:That was funny but only like the first part and only because of family guy jokes. Then it was just all simpson references [gorge, aliens, blah blah]. I think that the whole special is just going to be Family Guy jokes + Simpsons references and that it wouldn't work the other way around. NiceGuy posted:Lol yeah that rape joke was hilarious and not at all out of place Yeah that was the only joke that I didn't find funny. "hurp durp rape" lil mortimer posted:Family Guy is garbage. IMO Family Guy has only gone up in quality since they came back on the air and for every joke that falls flat, there's enough to carry the rest of each episode. But then again
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Help Im Alive posted:I think the first Simpsons episode I remember being really bad was the one where jockeys turned out to be goblins or whatever for me it was the one where bart takes care of a bunch of birds eggs and they turn out to be lizards??? also I was probably like 11 years old and that was how I found out about phil hartman's death, by the post-episode memorial in the first lovely simpsons episode I had seen to date. thanks simpsons
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I just watched a bunch of season 1, it's still really good. I forgot that Lisa was actually a really funny character. A creepily self-aware 8 year old is a hell of a lot more interesting than an obnoxious proto-tumblrite or whatever she is in the later seasons.
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