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Season 1 debuted about 2 months after Mrs. Genesplicer and I were married. We watched it fairly faithfully for the first 10 seasons or so. Then gave up. The only show we watched without fail was "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Practically a religious experience for us.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 22:56 |
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Jasus Christ posted:I really don't want to look this up and find out it's real I don't recall it actually being all that bad.* Of course, when it comes to post-2001 Simpsons, YMMV big time on "not that bad." I quit watching for years and resumed a season or two ago and it wasn't painful so maybe the current writers and producers are a better batch than the ones from the 00s? *the "actual quote from a modern Ivy League student!!!" caption was just as jarring as when they did it regarding some Justin Bieber gag in whatever legit-awful episode that one was.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 23:04 |
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i still sing the monorail song, op. have fun with that ep.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 23:08 |
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I watched it abit but didnt really fancy it
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 23:18 |
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Budget Dracula posted:Bad episodes start to trickle in around season 8, I'd quit after Behind the Laughter in season 11 OP.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 03:33 |
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Tom Gorman posted:S14+ is when I can genuinely say I do not recall seeing a single one of the episodes.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 04:41 |
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Colonel Cancer posted:It's dangerously close to anime, my advice is not to watch it.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 07:49 |
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StrangersInTheNight posted:i still sing the monorail song, op. have fun with that ep. I call the big one Bitey
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 08:04 |
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gary oldmans diary posted:looking at those descriptions i can tell i bailed cleanly before that and its a good thing i did. being able to abandon your once-favorite thing when you see how bad its gotten is important *looks with pity at people into star wars 40 years after it was good* One Sunday 8pm rolled around and I didn't sit down to watch the new Simpsons and I never did again.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 08:52 |
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freakin sweet lois!
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 10:19 |
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The_Franz posted:Season 1 isn't horrible, but a lot of the episodes are depressing and it leans pretty heavily on the whole "we're the anti-Cosby show!" thing. Season 2 shouldn't completely be skipped though: Bart the Daredevil (the famous scene of Homer falling into the ravine), Itchy & Scratchy & Marge, The Way we Was, and Three Men and a Comic Book are all-time classics. I don't really get why the "The Principal and the Pauper" episode gets so much hate; the plot is stupid, yeah, but it's still a funny episode and it pokes fun at itself. Personally, I've never really felt like the plots of the episodes caused the decline in quality (there were always "Simpsons meet a celebrity" and "Simpsons go to X" episodes). My issues with the quality of the episodes simply came down to the jokes. I remember an episode in season 12 or 13 where Bart keeps flushing the toilet to make the temperature change in Homer's shower and Homer keeps screaming in different octaves and it sounds like a song and I just went "ugh" and couldn't watch the rest of the episode. The show went from letting the viewer be smart enough to decipher a joke, to just dumb in-your-face "humor". I remember seeing a good earlier-season episode where Homer is reading the bible and he says "talk about a preachy book. Everyone's a sinner. Except this guy". He points to somewhere in the book, but you don't see where. He's obviously pointing to Jesus. Them not showing you what he's pointing at is what makes it funny. If that joke were on a newer episode, it would have zoomed in on the page and showed the name "Jesus". The other things that made the show so special were the little things you couldn't even put your finger on that just made sense. I always think of the Whacking Day episode, in the really short scene where the kids are singing "O Whacking Day" to the theme of "O Tannenbaum/O Christmas Tree" and how much I always die laughing when the kid with the high-pitched voice comes in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef10KbypviU (@ 10 seconds) It's so brilliant because I thought for sure there was a version of "O Tannenbaum/O Christmas Tree" that it was specifically mimicking, with the high-pitched section and everything, and I searched on Youtube for an hour and couldn't find it. I thought it was maybe from Charlie Brown, but found nothing. That's what's so great about the Simpsons. A joke like that "makes sense", even though it's pulling that memory from seemingly nowhere. There's a ton of examples like this during the golden years of the show but it's the main one I could think of this early in the morning off the top of my head. (An angry bear holding a baking sheet of homemade candies while wearing a propeller beanie and roller skates in Springfield's Russian District sort of goes along with this as well.) Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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What do you think they'll come up with for this year's traditional Homer Votes video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK_Ahtg5CxE
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 12:41 |
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The secret to watching The Simpsons is to avoid discussing it online at all because any mention of The Simpsons will inevitably be drowned out by people showing up to enter their third decade of endlessly relitigating the exact moment the show went from sublime to irredeemable and being utterly shocked and amazed that a long-running show that has had major changes in its writers and showrunners is different now than it was a lifetime ago.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 12:49 |
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Sleeveless posted:The secret to watching The Simpsons is to avoid discussing it online at all because any mention of The Simpsons will inevitably be drowned out by people showing up to enter their third decade of endlessly relitigating the exact moment the show went from sublime to irredeemable and being utterly shocked and amazed that a long-running show that has had major changes in its writers and showrunners is different now than it was a lifetime ago. The cool thing about The Simpsons fans I think is that everyone pretty much everyone universally agrees it was at its peak seasons 3-7, was great 8-9, decent 10-11, and unwatchable 12 onward? It's like, the one thing ever the entire collective internet agrees on I thought.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 12:53 |
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honestly just don't watch the simpsons
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 13:20 |
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i havent watched the show in probably 10 years but there's a ton of phrases from the first 10 seasons that are part of my regular vocabulary
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 13:57 |
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for example this caused me to say "yeah, but what are you gonna do?" whenever someone is pointing out im doing something stupid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBlkw1FhyP8
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 13:59 |
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:for example this caused me to say "yeah, but what are you gonna do?" whenever someone is pointing out im doing something stupid yeah, but should you say that?
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:09 |
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the simpsons is one of those shows I know people like to watch and watch religiously but I just haven't been able to do that. I watched it a bit when I was a kid and we didn't have cable, Fox was one of the only stations we got. Maybe a little in college. It's a good, creative, show that's sometimes funny but maybe it gets a bit too much credit on occasion
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:29 |
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yikes! posted:yeah, but should you say that? "should i" and "do i" never really have intersected in my life.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:52 |
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cda posted:I call the big one Bitey greatest line in the history of television best episode is the union one tho
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:55 |
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Quotey posted:honestly just don't watch the simpsons Yeah you gotta listen to it while falling asleep, like learning a new language, just implant it in the brain
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:56 |
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:"should i" and "do i" never really have intersected in my life. it was a setup! you were supposed to say the thing
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 18:28 |
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Tom Gorman posted:S14+ is when I can genuinely say I do not recall seeing a single one of the episodes. I think a good premise for a sitcom episode is for a show in its prime to have a one-off episode set 5-7 years in the future that envisions the bad, played-out version of the show. So it's like a game where the writers speculate how they (or their replacements) will become lazy and hacky in the near future.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 18:40 |
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you gotta watch the one where bart uses voodoo to get his teacher pregnant and then fat tony forces bart to do the same thing to get his prize-winning horse to mate but the horse is gay.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 19:08 |
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thanks alot assbag posted:you gotta watch the one where bart uses voodoo to get his teacher pregnant and then fat tony forces bart to do the same thing to get his prize-winning horse to mate but the horse is gay. These episode descriptions all sound incredible; I don't know how they always turns out to be so boring.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 19:18 |
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1-2 is ok, 3-8 is the best, 9-11 is really funny, and seasons 9 to 11 have some good stuff here and there
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:42 |
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Maya Fey posted:9-11 is really funny
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 23:35 |
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Maya Fey posted:1-2 is ok, 3-8 is the best, 9-11 is really funny, and seasons 9 to 11 have some good stuff here and there lmfao
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 23:44 |
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Well that video with the Benny Hill theme was pretty good
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 00:13 |
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Bart the Martyr Jihad Homer
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 00:22 |
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Ad by Khad posted:What do you think they'll come up with for this year's traditional Homer Votes video? This was real bad. gently caress
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 05:27 |
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You Only Move Twice is the best episode
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 07:32 |
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PostNouveau posted:You Only Move Twice is the best episode I think it's the Summer of 4'2" but that's a close second
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 14:41 |
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PostNouveau posted:You Only Move Twice is the best episode i think about marge and the wine glass any time i find myself truly idle and bored
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 15:48 |
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I think it's the Summer of 4'2" but that's a close second maybe homer at bat i submit to you this post from the thread about this guy Hell Stink posted:Mattingly, I thought I told you to trim those sideburns!
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 16:30 |
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seasons 3-8, some of 9
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 16:46 |
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While we're all pinpointing the moment we stopped watching the show, for me it was the pie man episode. couldn't even finish it. turned off the tv when lisa found out homer was pie man and never intentionally put on a new episode of the simpsons again
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 17:32 |
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episode 19 of season 15? you were like that stranded japanese soldier still trying to fight world war 2 years after it had ended
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 17:35 |
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That Season 12 has good episodes is my hill to die on. Then 9/11 happened and ruined everything. Every so often nu Simpsons will have a good moment and it's like watching a demented relative have a moment of lucidity: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e8_tiks1l1o
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