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Yep, pretty much. The thing is that they used to be mostly funny, quirky and pretty low-list celebrities who made gag appearances and were throwaway jokes used for a few lines. Adam West, The Ramones, etc. I remember when the Mel Gibson episode happened and how weird it felt for Homer to team up with a real person, since literally everyone else, including their local celebs like Krusty or Kent Brockman, were all imaginary. Hell, Michael Jackson didn’t even play himself. Imagine how different it would be if the Michael Jackson episode had been done in the modern Simpsons era. But this is a discussion that should probably continue in the Simpsons lowest point thread.
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Michael Jackson did play himself, he just used a pseudonym. e: durr, he voice acted, but didn't play himself. hurrr
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Their use of Micheal Jackson was certainly very clever, but he did actually voice the character in the episode he just didn't do the singing for reasons I can't recall.
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He did it literally to confuse the audience, something that 2018 Simpsons would never dare do
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at my parents place this weekend w/their old timey cable package. watching a 4 hour block of nu Simpsons on much music
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I feel like S10E8 is specifically where this happened, the guest stars were the plot and not there to service the plot. When You Dish Upon a Star https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Dish_Upon_a_Star
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SirPablo posted:I feel like S10E8 is specifically where this happened, the guest stars were the plot and not there to service the plot. This is the one. If "Last Exit to Springfield" is the defining episode of classic Simpsons, this one defines the the beginning of the "half assed celebrity self praise" era.
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you did it. the mad man did it
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:The thing is that they used to be mostly funny, quirky and pretty low-list celebrities who made gag appearances and were throwaway jokes used for a few lines. Adam West, The Ramones, etc. I remember when the Mel Gibson episode happened and how weird it felt for Homer to team up with a real person, since literally everyone else, including their local celebs like Krusty or Kent Brockman, were all imaginary. 
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SirPablo posted:I feel like S10E8 is specifically where this happened, the guest stars were the plot and not there to service the plot. Yeah this is when it became really obvious to me and I couldn't unsee it. The episode where Homer crashed thru that skylight I always remembered it being David duchovny lol not Baldwin
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bring back old gbs posted:Yeah this is when it became really obvious to me and I couldn't unsee it. The episode where Homer crashed thru that skylight Nah, Duchovny was two seasons before that shitbag episode, and was great. 
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Cacator posted:People have been saying this for at least 20 years I know. I guess I didn’t notice it when I was still watching it on TV up until like 2004. It helps that they were always jumbled together and I never really followed the new episodes, I just saw it whenever it was on. It was harder to see a trend when they were never in order of appearance, when there were more good seasons than bad at that point, and I was a kid and it didn’t matter anyway haha.
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bring back old gbs posted:Yeah this is when it became really obvious to me and I couldn't unsee it. The episode where Homer crashed thru that skylight That's the other thing, they didn't even go out with a bang and get good celebrities when they shat that episode out.
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I feel like Mel gibson shooting an assault rifle and doing the curly spin is the last time I laughed at a new episode of the simpsons because this made me laugh really hard
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khwarezm posted:Their use of Micheal Jackson was certainly very clever, but he did actually voice the character in the episode he just didn't do the singing for reasons I can't recall. Contract issues, I think. Music labels being basically a mafia and all that.
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The Tik Tok opening was the one that got me off nu-Simpsons, and I held that position for like two or three years. I'd watched every episode week by week since I was a grubling in 1990. After I got over that I watched all the new ones up until the most recent one that "addressed" the Apu controversy. Now I'm done.
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Why did you even bother to catch up? Like I can understand watching out of inertia or habit. But I can't understand, knowing how mediocre the series can be, that you would willingly spend time trying to catch up something that bland and revoltingly inoffensive.
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I don't know if everyone's reading that Brock Lesnar thread but there have been a notable number of Simpsons meme contributions there (admittedly due to a couple of us being repeat offenders there)Peanut President posted:idea stolen from the simpsons meme thread
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umalt posted:Why did you even bother to catch up? It really did get better after the mid-2000's nadir.
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I gave a up a little around season 15-16, came back around season 20, gave up again a couple years ago.
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"Ritual" is probably the most appropriate word. I used to watch weekly for waaay too long. I gave up on the jockey episode when I noticed I wasn't laughing, but gave it another shot later on. I knew I wasn't really getting anything out of it, but the Moe saves Maggie episode is the one that re-broke the camel's back and made me abandon all hope for new ones
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Moe saves Maggie? Sure, why not. In today's episode, [character] [verb] [character]
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A lot of this conversation would be better served in my popular, long-running thread “What was the lowest point of The Simpsons” https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3808768
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Wizard Master posted:A lot of this conversation would be better served in my popular, long-running thread “What was the lowest point of The Simpsons” It was never popular!
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Phlegmish posted:Moe saves Maggie? Sure, why not. https://youtu.be/TiffTI2WRLs This song is 16 years old. They were making jokes about running out of stories more than half of the show's run ago.
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SpacePig posted:https://youtu.be/TiffTI2WRLs And did someone say long lost triplets?
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ay caramba!
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I found the mega-hams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLeyITbK5AU also re-posting this from page 9 because it's still one of my favorites:
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Steamed Hams is such a good meme that I can just read a title and burst into tears from hilarity
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Komojo posted:I found the mega-hams: I never realized that "You call hamburgers steamed hams  " happens exactly halfway through the clip.
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Komojo posted:I found the mega-hams: This is like a religious experience or something.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXKoiJrEUtI
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Komojo posted:I found the mega-hams: turn on the captions for this
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Phantasium posted:turn on the captions for this 
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Big old plates of meat there
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I laughed. It's good, but this really needs to be re-shopped for the lemon face.
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Komojo posted:I found the mega-hams: Also, I like how the fire truck eats up all the panels at the end like a red, fire-truck shaped Pac-Man. 
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