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That Treehouse Horror that ends with the mist the rip their skins off, that was some hardcore poo poo. Did they get any flak for that?
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Samuringa posted:That Treehouse Horror that ends with the mist the rip their skins off, that was some hardcore poo poo. Did they get any flak for that? It's a fog that turns people inside-out. 
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Feb 17, 2018 21:22
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Samuringa posted:That Treehouse Horror that ends with the mist the rip their skins off, that was some hardcore poo poo. Did they get any flak for that? I don’t think it was any worse than Itchy and Scratchy and that’s pretty gruesome at times. The nightmare on elm street parody properly scared me as a kid.
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Feb 17, 2018 21:52
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SEX BURRITO posted:I don’t think it was any worse than Itchy and Scratchy and that’s pretty gruesome at times. I seem to remember that they deliberately made that as a protest against the network demanding they tone I&S down a bit.
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Feb 17, 2018 23:12
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I mean the first treehouse of horror parodies a movie that at the time was almost a decade old, a comic that was 20 years old, and a poem that was 150 years old so them parodying Avatar like three years after it came out wasn’t a big deal The problem also was that Avatar’s plot doesn’t have any lasting cultural relevance and the parody was probably awfully written, while EC Comics has influenced so much media, Poltergeist is a cultural touchstone, and the raven is the granddaddy of spooky poem writing
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Feb 17, 2018 23:24
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I like The Raven because it's basically about a guy who becomes so obsessed with the occult after losing his wife that he sees dark omens everywhere, even in a raven getting into his house. Just shoo the bird out mate, it's lost. It's a pest, not a prophet.
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Feb 17, 2018 23:32
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BioEnchanted posted:I like The Raven because it's basically about a guy who becomes so obsessed with the occult after losing his wife that he sees dark omens everywhere, even in a raven getting into his house. Just shoo the bird out mate, it's lost. It's a pest, not a prophet. How dare you! That raven could become his bird pal and ease his loneliness!
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Feb 17, 2018 23:38
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Loosely speaking of which, I saw Citizen Kane for the first time like six years ago and I loved it, but all the way through I kept thinking of The Simpsons. They must have recreated basically every scene in that movie over the course of their first ten seasons. Its weirdly impressive.
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Feb 17, 2018 23:40
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Considering his mindset the Raven was lucky the guy didn't develop an obsession with ravens and become a raven-themed Superhero.
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Feb 17, 2018 23:41
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BioEnchanted posted:Considering his mindset the Raven was lucky the guy didn't develop an obsession with ravens and become a raven-themed Superhero. You're forgetting The Crow.
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Feb 17, 2018 23:44
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The inside-out fog hit came right after Nighmare Cafeteria, which was also pretty gruesome despite not showing anything. The previous two segments parodied The Shining and Sound of Thunder. The one other part of Treehouse of Horror that actually freaked me out somehow was the end of the Y2K segment. Bart and Homer eject themselves into space after accidentally boarding a rocket to the sun filled with the world's most annoying celebrities. Their sighing in relief while swelling like balloons and the offscreen "pops" and then the final silence was really disconcerting.
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Feb 17, 2018 23:45
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Calaveron posted:I mean the first treehouse of horror parodies a movie that at the time was almost a decade old, a comic that was 20 years old, and a poem that was 150 years old so them parodying Avatar like three years after it came out wasn’t a big deal Minor nitpick, but Hungry are the Damned used To Serve Man as a reference, which was originally a short story from 1950 and most famously the basis of a classic Twilight Zone episode.
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Feb 17, 2018 23:49
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Minor nitpick, but Hungry are the Damned used To Serve Man as a reference, which was originally a short story from 1950 and most famously the basis of a classic Twilight Zone episode. There's a scene from Married... With Children where I want to say there's a sale at the shoe store, Al's getting swamped with customers, and he yells that catch-phrase, "To Serve Man.. it's a cookbook!!"
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Feb 17, 2018 23:53
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There's a scene from Married... With Children where I want to say there's a sale at the shoe store, Al's getting swamped with customers, and he yells that catch-phrase, "To Serve Man.. it's a cookbook!!" I checked and it was the episode where Al & Peggy went to Wanker County for Peggy's family reunion.
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Feb 18, 2018 00:28
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Mister Kingdom posted:I checked and it was the episode where Al & Peggy went to Wanker County for Peggy's family reunion. Huh. At least I truly remembered that he quoted it.
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Feb 18, 2018 00:31
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Thinking about it (And after rewatching a couple classic segments), I think the core issue is that classic difference between making a reference and actually telling a joke. I mean, take this loving phenomenal gag from "The Shinning" segment of Treehouse of Horror V: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eiWtwL_TrE Most TV writers, if asked to do a parody of the Shining, would simply leave it at "Here's Johnny!", because that's the reference that everyone gets. But the writers of the classic Simpsons episodes were good enough to know that a reference isn't usually funny in and of itself-it's just a reference. Instead, they often used references and parodies as springboards for more jokes, which were further improved by the fluid animation and excellent VA. It's this kind of writing that made classic Simpsons episodes still funny and relevant two decades after they initially aired, as opposed to making bland and forgettable references to bland and forgettable recent movies.
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Feb 18, 2018 00:57
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There's a scene from Married... With Children where I want to say there's a sale at the shoe store, Al's getting swamped with customers, and he yells that catch-phrase, "To Serve Man.. it's a cookbook!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inubkn_TmUs
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Feb 18, 2018 01:01
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BioEnchanted posted:I like The Raven because it's basically about a guy who becomes so obsessed with the occult after losing his wife that he sees dark omens everywhere, even in a raven getting into his house. Just shoo the bird out mate, it's lost. It's a pest, not a prophet. When I was an edgy preteen in junior high The Raven popped up in our reading book and I tried to get away with saying he got the bird as a pet after Lenore died and it was a poem about how he was hoping his pet would never leave him like she did. I did not get a good grade on thst despite having backed my interpretation up with lines from the poem 
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Feb 18, 2018 04:58
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Len posted:When I was an edgy preteen in junior high The Raven popped up in our reading book and I tried to get away with saying he got the bird as a pet after Lenore died and it was a poem about how he was hoping his pet would never leave him like she did. Aww! It gets an A+ from me! 
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Feb 18, 2018 04:59
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Len posted:When I was an edgy preteen in junior high The Raven popped up in our reading book and I tried to get away with saying he got the bird as a pet after Lenore died and it was a poem about how he was hoping his pet would never leave him like she did. Should done my strategy when I picked to read Dune, only to not want to actually read Dune, so I somehow made a essay using the text on the back and the appendix. Think I got a B or C from it.
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Feb 18, 2018 05:03
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e: awkward, that was literally the first thing I posted in this thread.
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Feb 18, 2018 05:04
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Rirse posted:Should done my strategy when I picked to read Dune, only to not want to actually read Dune, so I somehow made a essay using the text on the back and the appendix. Think I got a B or C from it. If you picked to read it I'm fairly sure your teacher also did not want to read Dune.
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Feb 18, 2018 05:53
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But Dune is good.
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Feb 18, 2018 06:03
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Can't wait for the new Dune movie. Denis Villeneuve hasn't let me down yet.
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Feb 18, 2018 06:15
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Mu Zeta posted:Can't wait for the new Dune movie. Denis Villeneuve hasn't let me down yet. I don't know, I tried watching Enemy, and despite loving Jake Gyllenhaal, I just couldn't make it through the first few minutes.
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Feb 18, 2018 06:19
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Absurd Alhazred posted:But Dune is good. Sir my only comment was on whether or not a public school teacher had the time or energy to read a 412 page novel to double-check one kid's grade.
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Feb 18, 2018 06:32
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Sir my only comment was on whether or not a public school teacher had the time or energy to read a 412 page novel to double-check one kid's grade. That teacher should have read it before that kid was born. At least twice.
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Feb 18, 2018 06:33
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:If you picked to read it I'm fairly sure your teacher also did not want to read Dune. I doubt she did. If I remember right she was a teacher in who was in her thirties who loved books about lawyers, so I doubt Dune would fit her profile.
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Feb 18, 2018 06:50
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BioEnchanted posted:Considering his mindset the Raven was lucky the guy didn't develop an obsession with ravens and become a raven-themed Superhero. Already taken.
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Feb 18, 2018 07:01
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Absurd Alhazred posted:You're forgetting The Crow. As it should be.
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Feb 18, 2018 10:07
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It's a shame about the occult associations because blackbirds of any kind are cute, outside of Crows trashing crops and ravens eating carrion, but eh.. Everything does that if given the chance. Not either of those famous breeds but at work one summer I saw a blackbird chilling on the lawn with it's wings spread sunbathing. It was cute, I didn't know birds even did that. I tend to like any animal doing things you don't normally associate with that animal though, like a large insect that I saw at work also that I didn't recognise at all, but later saw preening (in the same way birds do, cleaning under it's wings and stuff) on the windowsill. I'd never seen an insect preen like that before, it was also kind of cute.
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Feb 18, 2018 10:18
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Not Operator posted:Loosely speaking of which, I saw Citizen Kane for the first time like six years ago and I loved it, but all the way through I kept thinking of The Simpsons. They must have recreated basically every scene in that movie over the course of their first ten seasons. Its weirdly impressive. So did everyone else. Citizen Kane is a bad movie, but it's a bad movie in the same way the dictionary is a bad novel. Both are essential for learning the language.
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Feb 18, 2018 11:22
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BioEnchanted posted:It's a shame about the occult associations because blackbirds of any kind are cute, outside of Crows trashing crops and ravens eating carrion, but eh.. Everything does that if given the chance. Not either of those famous breeds but at work one summer I saw a blackbird chilling on the lawn with it's wings spread sunbathing. It was cute, I didn't know birds even did that. I tend to like any animal doing things you don't normally associate with that animal though, like a large insect that I saw at work also that I didn't recognise at all, but later saw preening (in the same way birds do, cleaning under it's wings and stuff) on the windowsill. I'd never seen an insect preen like that before, it was also kind of cute. https://youtu.be/sQOQdBLHrLk?t=1m6s
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Feb 18, 2018 12:03
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It's just something that you come to understand eventually - everything does everything, it's just some things are rarer than others. Every animal eats meat, every animal eats plants but Carnivores only eat certain plants (like catgrass and catnip for felines) to aid digestion while herbivores aren't made to hunt other animals and so go after carrion or smaller injured prey.
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Feb 18, 2018 12:08
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Rirse posted:Should done my strategy when I picked to read Dune, only to not want to actually read Dune, so I somehow made a essay using the text on the back and the appendix. Think I got a B or C from it. Same, but with the Hobbit. However like Tolkien I spent a huge amount of time on that drat green door, so I kept with the spirit of the book. poo poo, I think I even ended it with, "if you want to know more you'll have to read it yourself." My teacher must have just handed out grades without reading any of the book reports.
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Feb 18, 2018 13:12
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Not Operator posted:Loosely speaking of which, I saw Citizen Kane for the first time like six years ago and I loved it, but all the way through I kept thinking of The Simpsons. They must have recreated basically every scene in that movie over the course of their first ten seasons. Its weirdly impressive. In one of the episode commentaries, season...4 I think, they actually say that you could probably reproduce the entirety of the movie using Simpsons parodies.
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Feb 18, 2018 13:17
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BioEnchanted posted:It's a shame about the occult associations because blackbirds of any kind are cute, outside of Crows trashing crops and ravens eating carrion, but eh.. Everything does that if given the chance. Not either of those famous breeds but at work one summer I saw a blackbird chilling on the lawn with it's wings spread sunbathing. It was cute, I didn't know birds even did that. I tend to like any animal doing things you don't normally associate with that animal though, like a large insect that I saw at work also that I didn't recognise at all, but later saw preening (in the same way birds do, cleaning under it's wings and stuff) on the windowsill. I'd never seen an insect preen like that before, it was also kind of cute. All animals are cute
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Feb 18, 2018 13:17
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RagnarokAngel posted:In one of the episode commentaries, season...4 I think, they actually say that you could probably reproduce the entirety of the movie using Simpsons parodies. The fact that some enterprising nerd hasn’t done it yet 20 odd years later makes me think that no, you couldn’t actually
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Feb 18, 2018 15:20
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Calaveron posted:The fact that some enterprising nerd hasn’t done it yet 20 odd years later makes me think that no, you couldn’t actually Not even close, still... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ogS9t0YkQ
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Mister Kingdom posted:Not even close, still... Meanwhile, people keep doing these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55vvnnOBXfA
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