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When Lisa called people who eat meat, dairy or eggs fools was the first time I felt like a cartoon show was talking down to me. Looks like I was 8, so that must've been awfully ham-fisted. (lol)
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Das Boo posted:When Lisa called people who eat meat, dairy or eggs fools was the first time I felt like a cartoon show was talking down to me. Looks like I was 8, so that must've been awfully ham-fisted. (lol) The one where she went vegan was better than the modern ones because it's not played as her having the moral high ground. It's played as her being a an annoying as poo poo self important wet blanket. But yeah, that was one of the turning point episodes of making her into a liberal sound board.
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Nov 21, 2014 01:38
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The screaming caterpillar episode was so, so, bad.
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Nov 21, 2014 02:04
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When Homer got raped by a panda. How is there even an argument about this.
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Nov 21, 2014 02:12
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273423-X posted:When Homer got raped by a panda. How is there even an argument about this. that was a family guy episode dude
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Nov 21, 2014 02:17
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The Monkey Man posted:Also, both Matt Groening and Harry Shearer have gone on the record that they despise The Principal and the Pauper. Groening also hates a star is burns so his likes/dislikes have hardly been a litmus test for quality
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Nov 21, 2014 02:29
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Setzer Gabbiani posted:Groening also hates a star is burns so his likes/dislikes have hardly been a litmus test for quality But that is probably the best episode in that season. "Listen, Spielbergo, Schindler and I are like peas in a pod: We're both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis, but mine worked, dammit! Now go out there and win me that festival!" How could anyone hate it?
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Nov 21, 2014 03:03
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The one where Smithers gives Mr. Burns a hand job and Mr. Burns tells him to stop and acts all confused but Smithers doesn't pull away. The close up on smither's face as the sweat drops onto the wrinkly thighs of Mr. Burns just never sat right with me.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:06
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Kung Food posted:The one where Homer and friends join the navy. That's the first one I can remember watching and thinking, "That wasn't very good." This is on right now. Its not very good.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:17
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Frostwerks posted:agreed, curb was a good show until they jumped the shark.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:20
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FogHelmut posted:This is on right now. Its not very good. The Soviet stuff is another example of something I would've found hilarious in a THOH episode that just made me go WTF in a normal episode.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:35
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It seems that the consensus ITT is that it didn't really have a definite single moment where it jumped the shark, but that it was a slow decline. So why don't we discuss what the worst thing is about the newer episodes? "Mapple" comes to mind.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:37
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I hated nearly every single thing about the YVAN episode, but I do have to at least give it credit for a single brief moment - the (probably Schzardwelder-written) dramatic reveal of the name plate changing from LT SMASH to LT. SMASH
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Nov 21, 2014 04:04
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it was kind of funny that smithers was in love with mr. burns but now there are 3 characters where their singular characteristic is 'im gay'.
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Nov 21, 2014 04:18
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"Itchy struck the same vertebrae two consecutive times creating two clearly distinct sounds. What is this, a (heh...heh..)'magic xylophone'?"
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Nov 21, 2014 04:31
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When Swartzelder and Bill Oakley/Josh Weinstein stopped doing episodes. That's the real answer.
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Nov 21, 2014 04:31
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The Simpsons was my favorite TV show when I was a kid up through middle school, but pretty much every show that came after it (South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad) did the formula better. The first two seasons of the Simpsons are unwatchable, and even the golden age isn't as funny as, say, the first three seasons of Family Guy (which the later seasons of Simpsons started aping heavily.) I will say that the Simpsons movie was watchable, but in my opinion, the Simpsons stopped being funny in 1997, and it's 2014 now. What the gently caress.
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Nov 21, 2014 04:40
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nomadologique posted:that was a family guy episode dude no it wasn't
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Nov 21, 2014 04:41
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the newer episodes suck because a) they try to be topical all the time and b) nothing that happens or that any of the characters do follows any form of logic. also the jokes are bad.
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Nov 21, 2014 04:49
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Augmented Dickey posted:But...that's the entire point of his character. It's sort of implied that he's constantly switching careers because he's too sleazy and inept to stick with anything permanently. Not even remotely. He was often shown into side business stuff like "babysitting" and trying to resell Orange Julius, but his prominence as a lawyer was always his grounding trait. It was really weird to see him as a realtor in one episode. Not, like horrific or anything, just a troubling sign of things to come (along with poo poo characters like Cookie Kwan and Gil). Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:even the golden age isn't as funny as, say, the first three seasons of Family Guy This is so wrong. The golden age stands up remarkably well compared to classic Family Guy (and I have watched both within the last six months, this isn't nostalgia talking). Classic Family Guy used to seem transgressive but after it came back from cancellation it kept pushing the formula that the classic episodes now just seem like a transition from its Simpsons (and especially The Critic) roots to what Family Guy eventually became. Meanwhile Classic Simpsons, even the "hey it's pop culture thing" jokes, tend to hold up because they're rooted in things like strong timing and aside from The Critic and very arguably Duckman (which wasn't bad, just a different beast) there wasn't anything remotely as on-point as The Simpsons was in the early to mid-90s so they function as an excellent time capsule the same way you can point to say, Cheers or The Cosby Show or Three's Company or All in the Family. mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Nov 21, 2014 |
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Nov 21, 2014 04:54
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HugoDigletts posted:How could anyone hate it? Because it showed the world that other animated sitcoms exist that aren't the simpsons
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Nov 21, 2014 05:03
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the first few seasons of family guy are okay and all, as are the first few of south park, but taken as an overall thing the simpsons is still a superior show even with like ten years of crap weighing it down. south park is smug and family guy died for me with the first five minute chicken fight
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Nov 21, 2014 05:06
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nah i dunno, south park is by far the most consistently funny, despite stone and parker's smug obnoxiousness. dudes are just good at comedy, and i'd rather cringe at their lovely opinions than at the simpsons bad jokes.
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Nov 21, 2014 05:23
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Jumped the shark with the Hank Scorpio episode IMO Great episode but it was a harbinger of how bad the show would become & exhibited all the worst excesses of later Simpsons
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Nov 21, 2014 05:29
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The Simpsons/Critic episode is the only good crossover I have ever seen.
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Nov 21, 2014 05:46
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Maud's death.
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Nov 21, 2014 05:48
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Pocket Billiards posted:When they went to New York. This is definitely it for me.
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Nov 21, 2014 05:50
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my personal fuckthisshitforever moment: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Tik_Tok
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Nov 21, 2014 05:56
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I thought it was one year after the New York episode, when Homer becomes an inventor, and invents a sort whore-gun for applying make up with a shotgun blast.
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Nov 21, 2014 05:57
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Rambling Robot posted:my personal fuckthisshitforever moment: Yeah, that was when I realized we were through the looking glass. Like yeah the early 90s had poo poo like "Do the Bartman" and "Deep Trouble" but at least those were original tunes composed by Michael Jackson.
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Phyzzle posted:I thought it was one year after the New York episode, when Homer becomes an inventor, and invents a sort whore-gun for applying make up with a shotgun blast. I thought that was kinda funny actually. I downloaded seasons 1-15 about 10 years ago and I've never seen anything outside of that. Even from S12 onwards it was like a chore watching them. I'd prefer not to tarnish the memories of the first 10 seasons then look for a diamond in the rough past s15.
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Berk Berkly posted:Protip: The Simpson were never good. Yeah guys, just go read those Simpsons comic books.
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Nov 21, 2014 06:09
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So why's book guy reading an internet forum about a cartoon show he hates instead of a book?
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Nov 21, 2014 06:15
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Because GBS is wacky and ironically detached and makes fun of everything (there are no sacred cows in GBS you know) especially stuff people like because angry nerds say funny things in response
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Nov 21, 2014 06:23
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Spiderpig is the last universally recognizable Simpson's reference. Spiderpig is also not funny.
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Nov 21, 2014 06:27
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that one where skinner turns out to be fake must be it. i distinctly remember that episode and remember hating it. i watched the simpsons regularly for the first batch of seasons but stopped at some point. looking over the episode guide now i don't remember anything but a few episodes here and there after that one. that's exactly the same time futurama came out so not really a surprise. futurama only had 4 good seasons or so itself.
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i've seen a couple of new futurama episodes and they're kind of flat and lifeless, i don't know why. can someone do an effort post on why new futurama is also garbage
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ThePutty posted:i've seen a couple of new futurama episodes and they're kind of flat and lifeless, i don't know why. can someone do an effort post on why new futurama is also garbage The short of it that I've heard and been able to infer is that the writer's room got shrunk drastically after the show came back, and on top of that most nerds lose their edge as they get older, especially when they know they've got a "cult favorite" show that the internet loves almost unconditionally so they can start phoning it in.
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este posted:it was that one episode that starts out about horse racing and then turns into some poo poo about elves Comic book guy called it the "worst episode ever" right in the episode
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every good show cancelled at 3 seasons should thank their lucky stars and just stay loving cancelled ahem ahem futurama and arrested development ahem
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