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Riptor posted:Sounds fuckin dope imo It was until my apartment manager caught me and sealed up the holes in the fence
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Oct 9, 2019 23:13
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GPTribefan posted:GY Simpsons does that stand for "Graveyard Simpsons" (seasons 1-2 to ~10) as opposed to "Zombie Simpsons" (seasons ~10 and beyond)? heh
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Oct 9, 2019 23:31
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I feel it should be acknowledged that between Golden Years and Zombie Simpsons there is the Jerkass Homer phase, which does have a few good episodes in it, but is definitely its own tone from the other two eras. Neither era would have Homer get raped by a panda. (No I don’t like that episode)
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Oct 9, 2019 23:37
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People always say the golden age is 3-10, but I disagree. 8 is mediocre and 9 and 10 are just BAD. Seasons 1 and 2 are FAR better than 8 - 10.
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Oct 9, 2019 23:43
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Master Twig posted:People always say the golden age is 3-10, but I disagree. 8 is mediocre and 9 and 10 are just BAD. Seasons 1 and 2 are FAR better than 8 - 10. Dancin Homer sucked more than the average season 20 shlock
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Oct 10, 2019 00:00
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ikanreed posted:Dancin Homer sucked more than the average season 20 shlock No
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Oct 10, 2019 00:23
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ikanreed posted:Dancin Homer sucked more than the average season 20 shlock Have you watched a Season 2X episode?
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Oct 10, 2019 00:30
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Season 2 is loving excellent
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Oct 10, 2019 00:40
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Sometimes "jerkass" Homer is good too. He's one in a lot of good episodes from the classic seasons.
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Oct 10, 2019 01:03
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Yeah homer is a huge rear end in a top hat early on in some episodes. I don't mean kinda sorta either
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Oct 10, 2019 01:04
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Homer being a jerk and jerkass Homer aren't the same thing
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Oct 10, 2019 02:22
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:I literally can't remember anything about the Simpsons movie except Spider-Pig. I didn't even dislike the movie. I wasn't even on drugs, it wasn't bad enough to piss me off or good enough to remember. i remembered that and bart's dick, sadly. i kind of want to watch it again, out of sheer curiosity, but i worry that it will be a waste of time whether it's on the good or bad side of neutral. Iron Crowned posted:Spider-Pig was never funny, but it was probably the funniest part of the movie. that's pathetic, but it makes sense if it's true ikanreed posted:Dancin Homer sucked more than the average season 20 shlock though i have not seen a single season 20 episode, i find this highly unlikely
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Oct 10, 2019 02:32
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Master Twig posted:People always say the golden age is 3-10, but I disagree. 8 is mediocre and 9 and 10 are just BAD. Seasons 1 and 2 are FAR better than 8 - 10. Counterpoint: Season 8 is the best season and You Only Move Twice is the best episode. Season 9 has such highlights as Homer vs New York and Simpson Tide. Season 10 has Max Power and the Japan episode. Meanwhile, while I'd never call it bad, Season 1 episodes are incredibly dull watching them today E: Oh yeah and Homer's Night Out IS worst than a lot of zombie Simpsons episodes. Its just awful. Mantis42 fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Oct 10, 2019 |
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Oct 10, 2019 02:47
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Imagine thinking the season with You Only Move Twice, The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie show, Hurricane Neddy, El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer, A Milhouse Divided, and loving HOMER'S ENEMY is a bad season.
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Oct 10, 2019 03:05
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7 and 8 are my favorite seasons with 8 slightly taking it. Josh Weinstein and Bill Oakley were the best showrunners the show had.
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Oct 10, 2019 04:19
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wait...they actually showed bart's wiener in the movie?  granted, it's been over a decade since i saw it, but i don't remember that (thankfully)
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Oct 10, 2019 05:52
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Bart's Weiner was a funny gag. Dicks are funny, and they didn't overexploit it by having a character pop up be like OH WOW IT'S BARTHOLOMEW SIMPSON'S DING DONG! like they would have now. Simpsons Movie 2: The Last Stonecutter is gonna have to up the ante and show Homer dong.
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Oct 10, 2019 05:54
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The Skully era saw a major dip in quality but it's noticeably better than what came after it. I can still reasonably enjoy episodes from seasons 11 and 12 whereas I can't even bare to sit through five minutes of post movie, maybe that's just my late millennial nostalgia creeping in.
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Oct 10, 2019 06:27
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Master Twig posted:People always say the golden age is 3-10, but I disagree. 8 is mediocre and 9 and 10 are just BAD. Seasons 1 and 2 are FAR better than 8 - 10. every sentence in this post is a hotter take than the last. especially the last one. i've made my complaints about S1 and 2 known earlier on in the thread, but i legit can't understand how anyone who is a fan of the simpsons would look fondly on those seasons. i don't even mean this in like elitist snob terms or anything either. put it this way. if you ask someone why they like the simpsons, they'll more than likely say that it's cause it's a series with good writing and humor, both of which are absent in S1 and 2. when people talk about their favorite episodes, you can expect to Homer Badman, you only move twice, Lisa the Vegetarian, Marge vs The Monorail and so on. these episodes are anywhere between seasons 3 and 10. what episodes in S1/2 do people even remember fondly? MAYBE 'bart gets and F'? and even then, it's not because it's a particularly 'funny' episode. the seasons are so vastly different that they might as well be completely different shows. S1/2 are interesting to look back on and compare how the show started to what it eventually turned into. and that evolution actually makes the series even more fascinating to me, but aside from the novelty of an adult animated series in prime time, there's very little meat to those bones, imo.
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Oct 10, 2019 06:32
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2 is loving excellent and I'm sorry if you think otherwise. Your opinion is poo poo
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Oct 10, 2019 06:37
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I agree that season 2 is awesome. It's different from what the show would become but it's amazing what a leap the show took from the extremely simple episodes of season 1. The tone of the show in season 2 is a bit darker and uh... existential? It's definitely deeper and more real than everything after.
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Oct 10, 2019 07:33
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2 is indeed excellent. Season 1 is also better than most people give it credit for.
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Oct 10, 2019 07:43
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literally getting mad about a 30 year old cartoon.
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Oct 10, 2019 09:28
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I feel like I'm going to explode here
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Oct 10, 2019 09:40
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There is a point where the show clearly stops giving a gently caress about the characters they had created. Most say it's the principal and the pauper episode, they might be right but I remember thinking when I originally watched it it was the episode where Bart takes ritalin I just remember it feeling way out of character for everyone and it had a really mean tone to it.
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Oct 10, 2019 09:51
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SeANMcBAY posted:2 is indeed excellent. Season 1 is also better than most people give it credit for. Season 2 is a better slice of life drama than the majority of proper ones that have graced network tv.
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Oct 10, 2019 10:46
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2 looks great too.
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Oct 10, 2019 10:55
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Mr Interweb posted:...you can expect to Homer Badman, you only move twice, Lisa the Vegetarian, Marge vs The Monorail and so on... CodfishCartographer posted:Imagine thinking the season with You Only Move Twice, The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie show, Hurricane Neddy, El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer, A Milhouse Divided, and loving HOMER'S ENEMY is a bad season. My other hot take. You Only Move Twice is good, not great, and wouldn't even make my top 20 episodes. Homers Enemy and El Viage Misterioso are also pretty good, but also not all time classics. The rest listed there are perfectly fine episodes, but nothing special. The rest of season 8 is full of weird plots that feel like they're starting to dig deeper in the barrel for ideas, but not QUITE at the bottom yet. Season 8 is where the characters start to not feel like the same characters we had grown to love. There's a distinct shift in the tone of the show that's hard to put into words, and it began that year. 2 is definitely better than 8. I may concede that 1 is then at least equal to 8.
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Oct 10, 2019 11:26
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Season 8 had some episodes, where Homer randomly picks up a new skill and it becomes his new job. I hate that. There is the boxing episode " "The Homer They Fall" and the Poochie episodes, which are fun, but are bad in later seasons. And the Lisa and Marge episodes are forgettable at best (remember "Lisa's Date with Density"?). Some are terrible: "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" (musical with Mary Poppins), "My Sister, My Sitter" and ""The Old Man and the Lisa". I forgot about ""In Marge We Trust", which I remember being bad. The pretzel episode had some good scenes, at least. And the episode with Laddie sucked, too. The rest are classics. Randomly checking episodes of Season 11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_(season_11) Oh man, is there even one good episode? I think this is when I stopped caring. AstroWhale fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Oct 10, 2019 |
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Oct 10, 2019 11:56
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Master Twig posted:My other hot take. You Only Move Twice is good, not great, and wouldn't even make my top 20 episodes. Homers Enemy and El Viage Misterioso are also pretty good, but also not all time classics. The rest listed there are perfectly fine episodes, but nothing special. The rest of season 8 is full of weird plots that feel like they're starting to dig deeper in the barrel for ideas, but not QUITE at the bottom yet. Excuse me? Beer baron is one of the top 10 episodes of all time. Looking through the episode list, there are a bunch of absolute classics in that season.
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Oct 10, 2019 12:00
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General Bullshit › What was the lowest point of the Simpsons this week?
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Oct 10, 2019 12:20
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abigserve posted:There is a point where the show clearly stops giving a gently caress about the characters they had created. Most say it's the principal and the pauper episode, they might be right but I remember thinking when I originally watched it it was the episode where Bart takes ritalin For me, the one where Maude dies. For as horrible as Homer had been in some episodes before, he's utterly irredeemable in that one, and even when they try to do sad moments, all I can think about is how Homer basically killed Ned's wife and why isn't Ned doing anything about it?
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Oct 10, 2019 12:39
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AstroWhale posted:"Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" (musical with Mary Poppins) It's Sherry Bobbins  Min_sora posted:For me, the one where Maude dies. For as horrible as Homer had been in some episodes before, he's utterly irredeemable in that one, and even when they try to do sad moments, all I can think about is how Homer basically killed Ned's wife and why isn't Ned doing anything about it? This has always been my mark of where the Simpsons jumped the shark.
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Oct 10, 2019 12:44
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AstroWhale posted:And the episode with Laddie sucked, too.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I935pBuwbXQ
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Oct 10, 2019 14:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAv75JPw-QQ
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Oct 10, 2019 14:42
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Okay, I remember those scenes now and they are funny.  I still wouldn't watch the whole episode.
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Oct 10, 2019 16:03
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AstroWhale posted:Season 8 had some episodes, where Homer randomly picks up a new skill and it becomes his new job. I hate that. There is the boxing episode " "The Homer They Fall" and the Poochie episodes, which are fun, but are bad in later seasons This is not a real complaint. You like the episodes because they're funny and have sharp writing and the later season ones are dull and mindless. That shows that the premise of Homer going through a wacky experience is not inherently bad.
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Oct 10, 2019 16:22
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They were also expecting the show to end any year at that point and were willing to explore and expand on the characters.
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I hate how Homer gets a new job in every episode, something that only happens in the new seasons. Like this "Dancin' Homer" episode ...
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