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Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
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TalkingBasically posted:

that people go about their lives when lisa has balls drives me up the wall

...what?

# ? Aug 28, 2018 08:54

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 20:09

TalkingBasically: Aug 19, 2018

lisa's voiced by a guy you literally cannot continue past this point without knowing that for every time you watch simpsons and register a girl talking, that's a man's voice. On TV.

I don't watch FOX TV

but i think it should bother you that you think a girl sounds like a man basically

TalkingBasically fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Aug 28, 2018

# ? Aug 28, 2018 08:57

SirSamVimes: Jul 21, 2008; ~* Challenge *~

TalkingBasically posted:

lisa's voiced by a guy you literally cannot continue past this point without knowing that for every time you watch simpsons and register a girl talking, that's a man's voice. On TV.

I don't watch FOX TV

but i think it should bother you that you think a girl sounds like a man basically

# ? Aug 28, 2018 09:03

TalkingBasically: Aug 19, 2018

SirSamVimes posted:

the idiot i am

# ? Aug 28, 2018 09:10

fatal oopsie-daisy: Jul 30, 2007; by R. Guyovich

BART is voiced by a woman btw!!!

# ? Aug 28, 2018 09:13

TalkingBasically: Aug 19, 2018

fatal oopsie-daisy posted:

BART is voiced by a woman btw!!!

true and intruiging

# ? Aug 28, 2018 09:15

THE BAR: Oct 20, 2011; You know what might look better on your nose?

FilthyImp posted:

Mobile?
Ehhh. Mostly.

Yeah, the network change (went from ABC to Fox, right?) caused a bunch of changes, including softening Jay's animation model, adding Alice to be a constant girlfriend and doing away with all of Jay's weird gross single guy stuff.
Guess i didn't notice any of that as a kid. I really loved the movie parodies, though.

I love Alice, so that's fine.

I think it was the father-son relationship they wanted to be less dysfunctional. Think we got out of that merger acceptably unscathed.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 09:15

PancakeTransmission: May 27, 2007; You gotta improvise, Lisa: cloves, Tom Collins mix, frozen pie crust...; Plaster Town Cop

crazy cloud posted:

lmao

I was barely out of my teens when this (S14E18) first aired. To see the show I grew up with, just shoot itself in the head... Dark times man.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 09:15

TalkingBasically: Aug 19, 2018

homer spends all night eating"64 Slices of American Cheese"
the number 64 is a reference to kamasutra
American Cheese is birth control
assassin television
highly subversive

TalkingBasically fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Aug 28, 2018

# ? Aug 28, 2018 09:20

bitterandtwisted: Sep 4, 2006

defaultluser posted:

The entirety of Season Six sucks compete and total rear end.

Nuclear take

# ? Aug 28, 2018 09:40

Mr.Tophat: Apr 7, 2007; You clearly don't understand joke development

Tree Goat posted:

there's lots of scenarios where they cancel the simpsons, it's very easy to envision:

1) one of the few tribes scrounging for food in the last few arable pieces of land in the american wastelands is insufficiently vigilant in purifying their water, and the elders succumb to cholera. they did not specify a lore-keeper before this calamity and so the long oral tradition of the tribal simpsons-speaker, an unbroken chain of voice actors dating back to before the cataclysm, is forever severed.

2) a flaw in the central machine of the self-aware disney entertainment system causes an unstable feedback loop in the neural circuitry that imprisons the cast and crew in their statis pods. while its system of thought is entirely alien to ours, this malfunction creates a pattern of behavior that is somewhat analogous to the human notion of mercy. in the brief seconds before the error-correction and redundancy systems restore the status quo, the DES permits the cast the ultimate freedom: the freedom to die.

3) the last gasp of a super-massive dying star releases a gamma ray burst that bathes our planet in purifying radiation and we, the simpsons included, are snuffed out like a match on a windy day.

Wisdom

# ? Aug 28, 2018 10:05

hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

TalkingBasically posted:

lisa's voiced by a guy you literally cannot continue past this point without knowing that for every time you watch simpsons and register a girl talking, that's a man's voice. On TV.

I don't watch FOX TV

but i think it should bother you that you think a girl sounds like a man basically

what the gently caress is wrong with your head son. why would you make a post like this

# ? Aug 28, 2018 10:24

TalkingBasically: Aug 19, 2018

hackbunny posted:

what the gently caress is wrong with your head son. why would you make a post like this

bad cartilage

# ? Aug 28, 2018 10:29

Mr.Tophat: Apr 7, 2007; You clearly don't understand joke development

TalkingBasically posted:

but i think it should bother you that you think a girl sounds like a man basically

I think it should bother you that you sound like a blithering idiot who consumes paint chips and remarks upon it being red as it curdles in your moron belly

# ? Aug 28, 2018 10:42

Plant MONSTER.: Mar 16, 2018; I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop

TalkingBasically posted:

lisa's voiced by a guy you literally cannot continue past this point without knowing that for every time you watch simpsons and register a girl talking, that's a man's voice. On TV.

I don't watch FOX TV

but i think it should bother you that you think a girl sounds like a man basically

I know you already got sufficiently dunked on but

# ? Aug 28, 2018 13:41

Punk da Bundo: Dec 29, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

the simpsons has poo poo out what, 20 years of poo poo at this point

i like that matt and trey realize when an episode or season was poo poo, and just push the show in a completely different direction

i feel like the show became all about Randy at one point in time, for years

# ? Aug 28, 2018 13:48

The Croc: Dec 19, 2004; A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird!

OH YEAH!

Peter Daou Bundy posted:

i feel like the show became all about Randy at one point in time, for years

They've probably been the best episodes of late era south park too so its a good well to keep drawing from.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 13:57

Halser: Aug 24, 2016

TalkingBasically posted:

lisa's voiced by a guy you literally cannot continue past this point without knowing that for every time you watch simpsons and register a girl talking, that's a man's voice. On TV.

I don't watch FOX TV

but i think it should bother you that you think a girl sounds like a man basically

a normal person would just say "huh, interesting I guess"

# ? Aug 28, 2018 14:02

WeaponX: Jul 28, 2008

TalkingBasically posted:

lisa's voiced by a guy you literally cannot continue past this point without knowing that for every time you watch simpsons and register a girl talking, that's a man's voice. On TV.

I don't watch FOX TV

but i think it should bother you that you think a girl sounds like a man basically

�what was the lowest point of this thread?�

# ? Aug 28, 2018 14:08

snack eater: Aug 25, 2018; by FactsAreUseless

Plant MONSTER. posted:

I know you already got sufficiently dunked on but

did you know Apu isn't actually voiced by an Indian man?

# ? Aug 28, 2018 14:12

Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

The plots in the critic were fine, they were just always very silly.

Duke was the best supporting cast member of all time, and I use Duketastic for all sorts of things in my day to day and did something horrible but kinda funny happens I always refer to it as a Duketastrophe.

If you don�t think Jay Sherman playing the trumpet with his belly is funny, you should by a plane ticket to the SUN

# ? Aug 28, 2018 14:28

Zulily Zoetrope: Jun 1, 2011; Muldoon

I am very skeptical at the notion of people suggesting South Park ever had good episodes, but don't care enough to actually watch more South Park.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 14:28

snack eater: Aug 25, 2018; by FactsAreUseless

Matt and Trey hate the early South Park seasons now but I like them because they did weird crazy poo poo without every episode having to be a political lecture

# ? Aug 28, 2018 14:36

bitterandtwisted: Sep 4, 2006

The only newish south parks I've seen were about occulus rift and internet memes. They were ok. At least as good as I remember southpark ever being.
I laughed at a cat saying "oh long johnson"

I think south park has more built-in longevity than the Simpsons because the Simpsons golden age relied on characters we cared about, but South Park's were always just props to hang jokes on.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 14:48

fish and chips and dip: Feb 17, 2010

I stopped watching South Park right after season 16, should I catch up on S17-S21? Y/N.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 15:06

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
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fish and chips and dip posted:

I stopped watching South Park right after season 16, should I catch up on S17-S21? Y/N.

Some of it is OK.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 15:35

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

I don't think I've watched an episode of South Park since 2010

# ? Aug 28, 2018 15:40

pooch516: Mar 10, 2010

Atlas Hugged posted:

Some of it is OK.

There's definitely some that would hold up, but a lot of them are so flavor-of-the-week that they would seem really dated if you were trying to force yourself to get back in to it.

You could probably skip the seasons that were more serialized (I think that's like 19-21) and the most recent season.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 16:05

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

So many of the early SP episodes were unbelievably funny at the time just because of how transgressive the comedy was. An episode dunking on environmentalists and saying we have to stop the rain forest before it destroys us all! Lol!!

Then the real world kind of .. interfered

All the stuff SP trashed ironically because nobody could "seriously" trash it, the world's shitheads found a way to do it for real.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 16:13

Razorwired: Dec 7, 2008; It's about to start!

The last "episode" I watched was The Stick of Truth because someone told me it was a solid turn based RPG.

I skipped Fractured But Whole.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 16:26

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Razorwired posted:

The last "episode" I watched was The Stick of Truth because someone told me it was a solid turn based RPG.

I skipped Fractured But Whole.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 16:28

Phlegmish: Jul 2, 2011

I happen to be rewatching the early seasons right now, there's some good episodes there (including the aforementioned American Civil War one). On the other, and even though I'm no delicate flower, the casual/extreme violence is kind of unsettling. I've always wondered how many parents unwittingly traumatized their children letting them watch South Park, thinking it's a kids' show.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 17:02

Plant MONSTER.: Mar 16, 2018; I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop

Phlegmish posted:

I happen to be rewatching the early seasons right now, there's some good episodes there (including the aforementioned American Civil War one). On the other, and even though I'm no delicate flower, the casual/extreme violence is kind of unsettling. I've always wondered how many parents unwittingly traumatized their children letting them watch South Park, thinking it's a kids' show.

I was definitely a flower growing up, I found gore upsetting. I was somehow allowed to watch South Park with the caveat that I don't repeat what I hear (lol) but even at its goriest, I just found it funny. I didn't like it when they showed live action (real or fake) images of gory footage, like they did in the one where you see footage of what Cartman sees when he closes his eyes.

But South Park's gore was always just funny and silly to me. I even had a friend who would black out at the sight or descriptuous mentions of blood and was okay seeing people's kneecap/testicles explode in a bloody mess and was fine with it.

My problem is with the people who form their world or political views via South Park but that's a derail.

snack eater posted:

did you know Apu isn't actually voiced by an Indian man?

Hank Azaria became hindu to continue voicing Apu, though.

Plant MONSTER. fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Aug 28, 2018

# ? Aug 28, 2018 17:22

serious norman: Dec 13, 2007; im pickle rick!!!!

Apu

# ? Aug 28, 2018 17:22

Punk da Bundo: Dec 29, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

there are tons of awful southpark episodes, but it's been on the air for over 20 years, it's going to happen.

2 guys in a hot tub, the civil war, scott tenorman, great ones

# ? Aug 28, 2018 17:40

pooch516: Mar 10, 2010

Phlegmish posted:

I've always wondered how many parents unwittingly traumatized their children letting them watch South Park, thinking it's a kids' show.

My parents used to watch it with me and my brothers (we were probably aged 5-10 at the time) and I'll never understand why they thought that was ok. They were never really strict with us (the only thing we weren't supposed to watch was R rated movies).

Like any good Christian family, sexual themes were the only thing that they ever really freaked out over, but South Park had that stuff too.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 17:56

Justin Godscock: Oct 12, 2004; Listen here, funnyman!

fish and chips and dip posted:

I stopped watching South Park right after season 16, should I catch up on S17-S21? Y/N.

It has its moments like when PC Principal was introduced but, yeah, just tune out when they go political.

Justin Godscock fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Aug 28, 2018

# ? Aug 28, 2018 19:51

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

Would I (as another hasn't-kept-up-with-SP-lately) be wrong in assuming PC Principal is a tiresome pink-haired horn-rimmed fussbudget who talks about snowflakes and safe spaces with all the subtlety of the principal in Cobra Kai?

# ? Aug 28, 2018 20:07

Plan Z: May 6, 2012

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Community (yes yes I know) did an excellent mockery of clipshow episodes by airing one entirely comprised of clips from non-existent episodes.

Clerks: The Animated Series' second episode is a clip show of the characters reminiscing about the first episode and a bunch of stuff that didn't happen. It was a neat idea, but since the show was like ABC's only ever attempt at adult animation and they did something like aired the fourth episode as the first episode during the super bowl, then followed the next week with the clip show episode so it made even less sense. ABC canceled it after that second episode.

# ? Aug 28, 2018 20:27

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 20:09

Sockser: Jun 28, 2007; This world only remembers the results!

Data Graham posted:

Would I (as another hasn't-kept-up-with-SP-lately) be wrong in assuming PC Principal is a tiresome pink-haired horn-rimmed fussbudget who talks about snowflakes and safe spaces with all the subtlety of the principal in Cobra Kai?

You would indeed be wrong but I�m not really sure how to correct you on it

PC principal is pretty great

# ? Aug 28, 2018 20:35

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