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An episode came on recently and I sat to watch it. It was about somebody prepping Willie for high-society for some reason, and it hit me, "Oh man.... this epsiode is titled "My Fair Laddy". And I looked at the guide, and I was right. I watched the episode because I forgot how much the show bothers me, but realizing that they threw out that title in a brainstorming session, and just decided for force an episode out of it gave me that old, bad taste in my mouth. I can only vaguely remember, but I remember thinking that guest stars were a bad thing for the first time when Homer hung out with Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger for no real reason, and every cameo since has been a huge drag. Also, that loving Homer Votes sketch is 100% Dan Castellaneta. If they didn't text those lines for him to poo poo out in his basement studio on Saturday afternoon, I'll eat my hat.
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GoutPatrol posted:My favorite episode is Homer Badman, and could you imagine the thinkpieces that would create in YOOL 2017
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Also, the show seems to have nothing positive to say about religion anymore and it's kind of ugly the way that anytime Christianity is brought up in the show, it's to tap the well of "haha, look at this superstitious, pious boob."
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Feb 10, 2017 23:45
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happyhippy posted:If that scene was made today, he would hit the tree, and out would pop Kanye from the tree complaining that you disturbed his recording session. That would be an interesting (and painful) thread. Rewrite classic funny scenes from the Simpsons for the lovely new seasons. Marge immediately drives to North Haverbrook, which Lanley mentioned was a previous purchaser of one of his monorails. She discovers that the town is in ruins. While exploring, Marge meets Richard Branson, who funded Lanley's North Haverbrook monorail to go to his space station.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI2oOgSXKYk Back when they were able to take Homer in the cartoonish direction without everything falling apart.
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Cobweb Heart posted:Danny Devito/Homer's brother apparently hated his time on the Simpsons for some reason I can't find anything about this, do you have a link or know why he didn't enjoy it?
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PallasAthene posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI2oOgSXKYk 
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhsmtWrjEI Series 9. This scene always felt so out of place for the Simpsons, like too gruesome for a non-thoh episode. I also feel that the newer episodes have some issues with how black people are portrayed, like there's an episode where the family are watching WNBA and Bart shouts out "you go girl" to Lisa Leslie. She then responds by correcting his grammar.Maybe I'm reading too much into it but it seemed like they thought the idea of a black person correcting a white persons grammar was funny in itself.
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Feb 11, 2017 01:56
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Every so often at inappropriate times I remember this and I start laughing out loud and can't make myself stop
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the most hosed up thing about the movie is they have al brooks as the villain but he's not hank scorpio (also why the gently caress is the president arnold and not rainer woftcastle). one of the very first things i ever tracked down when i got the internet was this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUQWamRNiY it's in a ton of old episodes (to the point i consider it the secondary theme song) and i was so pumped when i finally found out what it was.
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Feb 11, 2017 02:03
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Are there any episodes from the past ~10 years worth watching? Even the worst Futurama or South Park seasons have a couple
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Benny Harvey posted:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhsmtWrjEI i remember hearing about this and not remembering seeing it, turns out it was one of the little throwaway gags they cut out for syndication sometimes as for non thoh violence that seemed really put of place, see also homer's stomach getting torn open by a badger and that football episode where the guy gets his leg run over and then kicks it over the goalposts
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Feb 11, 2017 02:17
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Maya Fey posted:Are there any episodes from the past ~10 years worth watching? Even the worst Futurama or South Park seasons have a couple There are, people have given some answers on the last few pages. There's usually a small number of decent episodes per season. Usually they're just very bland and forgettable rather than offensively bad.
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Randarkman posted:Just watch it. I know this is from several pages back, but I agree. I don't think the comedy in Airplane! (It was called Flying High here in Australia) has aged very well either.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the most hosed up thing about the movie is they have al brooks as the villain but he's not hank scorpio Supposedly in an earlier draft of the script it was Hank Scorpio as the head of the EPA and President Wolfcastle but they got an insane mandate to not have any references to jokes from the show's past.
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muscles like this! posted:Supposedly in an earlier draft of the script it was Hank Scorpio as the head of the EPA and President Wolfcastle but they got an insane mandate to not have any references to jokes from the show's past. 
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Feb 11, 2017 04:49
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yeah wouldn't wanna make a call back to one of the most popular episodes of all time.
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muscles like this! posted:Supposedly in an earlier draft of the script it was Hank Scorpio as the head of the EPA and President Wolfcastle but they got an insane mandate to not have any references to jokes from the show's past. How dumb do they think the general audience is? Like, they couldn't figure out on their own that Wolfcastle is an Arnie analog and Scorpio is just some bad dude? They wouldn't have even had to change a line except Scorpio's name.
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Feb 11, 2017 05:45
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i mean if he was head of the epa that's dumb it shoulda just been a crazy hank scorpio plot since it makes more sense.
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Holy poo poo that first clip is atrocious. I'm a season 1- 7 purist and I've gone out of my way to avoid the new stuff. The new stuff looks so lovely and the jokes are hamfisted and awful.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i mean if he was head of the epa that's dumb it shoulda just been a crazy hank scorpio plot since it makes more sense. A corporate supervillain appointed by a clueless president to head an agency he doesn't have any background with? Maybe that wouldn't have resonated in 2007, but...
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drowningidiot posted:Holy poo poo that first clip is atrocious. I'm a season 1- 7 purist and I've gone out of my way to avoid the new stuff. The new stuff looks so lovely and the jokes are hamfisted and awful. It really is. The audience needs to be told that Homer is stupid by him telling himself he is stupid/explaining the joke so we get it. The new Homer is not the fool, the viewer is.
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Maya Fey posted:Are there any episodes from the past ~10 years worth watching? Even the worst Futurama or South Park seasons have a couple That's a clip from S18. It's nothing earth shattering, but the idea and UPS being A.S.S are pretty solid. The rest of the episode is homer making a rec room in a basement and kicking the kids out which is how they get into that situation. If all the later season episodes were like that one I'd call anyone complaining cranky old nerds. Like the people who hate on south park. A show can't be hitting it out of the park for decades. It will have to slide into some mediocrity groove at some point. Unfortunately, that's probably one of the best later episodes I've seen. Most new simpsons is not mediocrity just really, really bland. 
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Maya Fey posted:Are there any episodes from the past ~10 years worth watching? Even the worst Futurama or South Park seasons have a couple The Lego one, "Barthood," "Halloween of Horror," "Holidays of Future Passed," "The Great Phatsby," and "There Will Be Buds" (somebody else recommended this one. I don't remember it at all. Apparently it's about lacrosse.)
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People always list Marge getting breast implants for some reason and I actually thought that one was pretty funny. She doesn't get them on purpose it's a chart mix-up with the Mayor's secretary or something. Episode is called Large Marge. Maybe I just think big boobs are funny?
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Doctor Discomfort posted:People always list Marge getting breast implants for some reason and I actually thought that one was pretty funny. She doesn't get them on purpose it's a chart mix-up with the Mayor's secretary or something. Episode is called Large Marge. Haha ah... umm.. user name
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Doctor Discomfort posted:People always list Marge getting breast implants for some reason and I actually thought that one was pretty funny. She doesn't get them on purpose it's a chart mix-up with the Mayor's secretary or something. Episode is called Large Marge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOzTqkLdGvw
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It's weird that I don't remember that part but I do remember the part in the same episode where they had a baby-oriented parody called Who Left the Milk Out (yuck yuck yuck)
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Doctor Discomfort posted:It's weird that I don't remember that part but I do remember the part in the same episode where they had a baby-oriented parody called Who Left the Milk Out (yuck yuck yuck) Please tell me this is actually a joke
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Feb 11, 2017 13:08
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Aesop Poprock posted:Please tell me this is actually a joke It's legit
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Feb 11, 2017 13:13
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Aesop Poprock posted:Please tell me this is actually a joke It's not a joke but in the context of the episode it's treated as being a dumb and horrible parody of an already annoying song.
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Feb 11, 2017 13:15
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"Who Let The Dogs Out?" is one of mankind's greatest accomlishments
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And the best thing is it's not even an original song, it's a cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27fagObxaM
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:And the best thing is it's not even an original song, it's a cover Okay there's been a lot of crazy poo poo revealed in this thread but this right here is beyond reason.
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PallasAthene posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI2oOgSXKYk 
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When I saw the movie in theaters there were a bunch of obviously middle school/freshman year kids sitting in front of us and this one kid was like "they show barts weiner. Here comes barts weiner! They actually show barts weiner!!" And they showed it and he was laughing like crazy and I remember being like drat that kid is really into barts weiner
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Aesop Poprock posted:When I saw the movie in theaters there were a bunch of obviously middle school/freshman year kids sitting in front of us and this one kid was like "they show barts weiner. Here comes barts weiner! They actually show barts weiner!!" And they showed it and he was laughing like crazy and I remember being like drat that kid is really into barts weiner That guy was me.
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