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That opening was loving terrifying and I'm 25. I feel bad for any kids watching (assuming children still watch The Simpsons.)
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I'm always surprised every few years when I'm reminded that John K. still exists. He used to rail against shows like The Simpsons but I guess the guy has to eat.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:03
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J-Spot posted:I'm always surprised every few years when I'm reminded that John K. still exists. He used to rail against shows like The Simpsons but I guess the guy has to eat. Animation has a way of uniquely embittering the people who pursue it.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:06
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Nice touch having the Emmy in the cabinet.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:10
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That one was kind of a mess.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:23
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muscles like this? posted:That one was kind of a mess. Does seem like it would have been much more relevant at some point between 1998 and 2014.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:27
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And that one just sorta went nowhere. Welp, they forgot to allocate time to anything. Good luck next year.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:30
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Welp, at least they gave us one good Halloween episode this year.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:31
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The Godzilla bit felt it could have been better if its Hollywood franchise bashing had more teeth. Third one just was. If not for the second act, I kind of wish this one made fun of those "found footage teens get superpowers" genre that's emerging from Hollywood. I did like Skinner correcting the spelling.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:36
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They didn't show the "Treehouse of Horror" title card.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:36
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Sideshow Bob finally killing Bart and having to deal with everything that entails would be such a great premise, but instead we got whatever the hell that was. Homerzilla makes a great comparison piece to King Homer from season 4 to really drive home what's happened to this show over the years. I don't even know what was going on with that third one. Was is a parody of something? It was just kind of stuff happening and it was handheld style for some reason?
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Oct 26, 2015 01:44
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robot roll call posted:Sideshow Bob finally killing Bart and having to deal with everything that entails would be such a great premise, but instead we got whatever the hell that was. Homerzilla makes a great comparison piece to King Homer from season 4 to really drive home what's happened to this show over the years. I don't even know what was going on with that third one. Was is a parody of something? It was just kind of stuff happening and it was handheld style for some reason? It's a spoof of Chronicle, which is actually a pretty good movie, but it came out three years ago and was a mild sleeper hit so I'm not sure why they decided that was gonna be their target.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:46
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J-Spot posted:I'm always surprised every few years when I'm reminded that John K. still exists. He used to rail against shows like The Simpsons but I guess the guy has to eat. John K will do anything for money nowadays. Last year he did animation bits for Miley Cyrus's tour, of all things.
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Oct 26, 2015 02:56
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I didn't see this as a particularly great episode, but my god did I love the line "Twenty-Four years of trying to kill a ten year old child finally pays off!"
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Oct 26, 2015 04:40
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Adder Moray posted:I didn't see this as a particularly great episode, but my god did I love the line "Twenty-Four years of trying to kill a ten year old child finally pays off!" Also the line about being in a bad New Yorker comic hit me in just the right way somehow.
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Oct 26, 2015 04:49
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The Sideshow Bob one was decent, the other two were hot garbage. I miss when they were 8 to 10 minute stories or parodies.
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Oct 26, 2015 04:50
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Yea, first one was amusing, second started off okay, but it really fell flat. I'd rather not think about the 3rd. Well, it was still better than farting Spider-Man.
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Oct 26, 2015 04:58
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 "Some stuff happens, and then the show ends." Best description I can give for this instantaneously forgettable THOH.
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Oct 26, 2015 05:04
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It still astounds me that people still get excited for the THOH episodes, like they haven't been quickly thrown together, "let's get this out of the way" crap for the last 10-15 seasons. This was, as expected, no exception. Also as expected, they couldn't even follow through on their highly promoted gimmick of Sideshow Bob killing Bart. Why not just have him stay dead since its non-canon?? And of course Bob just stabs him without any buildup or fanfare. The other two segments were no different from any other non THOH trilogy episode they've done and fizzled out without any sort of conclusion. Last week's episode, however, was surprisingly good. At this point I don't care if an episode is playing it safe and sticking to rehashed stories as long as it utilizes the characters well, tells a proper story with a beginning, middle, and end, and is funny. We also got the Adult Halloween song which was pretty good.
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Oct 26, 2015 05:38
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Adder Moray posted:I didn't see this as a particularly great episode, but my god did I love the line "Twenty-Four years of trying to kill a ten year old child finally pays off!" Yeah this line was fun
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Oct 26, 2015 06:58
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My favorite visual from the first one was Bob using barts guts to turn him into a backpack.
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Oct 26, 2015 08:01
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The first one was good, it had some nice visual gags with the many deaths of Bart and Sideshow Bob made some good jokes. The second one started good and had some funny lines (I still refuse to admit the old man was right!), but then fell apart halfway through. They should have just stuck to parodying the original Godzilla instead of trying to make lame jokes about reboots. The third one was bad and pointless.
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Oct 26, 2015 08:14
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The only thing I liked about the first segment was Bob being a snobby college professor, because the best thing about his character has always been his pretentiousness. Godzilla parodies are so so SO tired, maybe it would have been less so 20 years ago? A joke about voice dubbing! A joke about Godzilla being a guy in a suit! - written by professional comedy writers in TYOOL 2015 The third segment was such a wasted opportunity. They haven't yet parodied the found footage genre as far as I know, and the POV shots were cool. Unfortunately they chose Chronicle of all things, and did nothing with it, and just as they've done for THOH segments for probably a decade now, the segment just kind of ends with no conclusion or anything resembling a proper story. You know what would have been awesome? Present the whole episode as a parody of the VHS films, with all three segments being found footage or mockumentary. But that would require even the slightest bit of ambition.
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Oct 26, 2015 21:25
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My favorite joke was Homer, after finding his dead son, attacking Bob and shouting "That's for trying to frame Krusty!"
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Oct 26, 2015 23:37
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High Tension Wires! Never Been Snapped By Monsters Was Agnes supposed to be Yubaba from Spirited Away? And she's flying around in the background of a Godzilla parody because Godzilla and Spirited Away are both Japanese, I guess?
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Oct 27, 2015 02:47
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Adder Moray posted:I didn't see this as a particularly great episode, but my god did I love the line "Twenty-Four years of trying to kill a ten year old child finally pays off!" This line was great but otherwise that segment felt really off to me. There's still not much joy to be had in watching a grown man literally play with a child's corpse for 10 minutes.
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Oct 30, 2015 16:52
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I liked the 3rd bit just because the theme of "Maggie secretly is super powerful / intelligent" has existed since the Tracey Ullman show. What was that first thing she built? A Christmas Tree?
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Oct 30, 2015 18:18
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First part was legitimately gross and full of good callbacks which is always nice. Probably about the best we could have got out of the idea. Agree that the second one could have just stuck to parodying the original Godzilla (bad dubbing jokes and all). And the only good thing about the last one was Maggie, as mentioned :3 . At least this year they stuck to macabre/supernatural/scifi and left out all the garbage movie parodies (I still cannot believe the Smith parody exists). Oh, and they did do a found footage thing with the Paranormal Activity one a few years ago.
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Oct 30, 2015 23:59
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PowerBuilder3 posted:What was that first thing she built? A Christmas Tree? I think it was a stacking rings toy 
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Friend With Benefit Lisa befriends a super-rich new kid at school and Homer happens to hit it off with the child's father, but the kid turns out to be a bully and Lisa attempts to end the friendship, which doesn't sit well with Homer, who's become accustomed to enjoying the good
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Nov 7, 2015 19:42
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I want to go to Dessert Island.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:25
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This one was pretty solid, abrupt ending and all. (I get that their actual time is shorter than it's ever been but it's been years since the networks made that choice, they should be used to the pace by now.)
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Nov 9, 2015 02:27
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This episode perfectly embodies every forgettable episode we've had for the past few years. There's no red flag that I could single out as bad, but the whole thing has some numbing effect even though it lacks anything particularly offensive. Did like the YVAN EHT NIOJ reference.
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Nov 9, 2015 02:29
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I am kind of upset the couch gag did not involve the family on the couch. Was that a first for a normal episode?
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Lisa With an "S" Broadway legend Laney Fontaine beats Homer for $5,000 at poker, and to square the bet, Homer must loan Lisa to Laney for a month. When Laney turns Lisa into a show-biz star, Marge and Homer feel they may have been too hasty in letting her go, and head to the Big Apple to bring her home.
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Nov 22, 2015 19:49
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Meh. I liked Amish Flanders.
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Nov 23, 2015 02:26
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I like that they're basically admitting the tag is a waste of time. It would be better if it weren't, but you take what you can get.
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Nov 23, 2015 02:29
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I can't help but that part was written for Elaine Stritch, even though she died a few years ago. That was a pretty serviceable episode.
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Nov 23, 2015 04:26
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Paths of Glory Lisa sets out to restore the tarnished reputation of Springfield's first female inventor.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Paths of Glory uugh, State of the Union address instead.
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