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As I mentioned before Mission Hill's source of comedy was pretty much mocking hipsters (even in 1999). Every big city has their "hipster section" regardless of what coast they are on hence the shared experiences for people who live in one.
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Bust Rodd posted:John K and Justin Roiland are both great examples of some genius needing to be bridled and restrained so that we only get the gems and not an endless cascade of pedophilia Whoawhoawhoa whoa hey heeey HEY. Can you substantiate this at all? Yeah John K is a piece of poo poo that needs a good flaying, we should all know this. But Justin Roiland? You can find him annoying but is he really a known creep? Although as I was typing this out post, I suddenly remembered the short cartoon that Rick and Morty was based on. Now I'm not so sure if I want to go up to bat for him. I'd just be really upset if Roiland was any flavor of pedophile. Plant MONSTER. fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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Maybe it's the difference between creep and Creep with a capital C
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Plant MONSTER. posted:Whoawhoawhoa whoa hey heeey HEY. Can you substantiate this at all? Yeah John K is a piece of poo poo that needs a good flaying, we should all know this. But Justin Roiland? You can find him annoying but is he really a known creep? I was even't even referencing his personal life anyway. If you just look at Roiland's body of work, basically every time he's in charge of a project without oversight, there's a kid getting hosed.
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gently caress. I had no idea. Thank you for that. It's better knowing. I liked some of his projects and guestwork outside of his cartoon as well. It's all loving trash now.
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That's an earnest thank you, by the way. I would not have known anything about this had you not made that one post about John K and Justin earlier.
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It's pretty funny that the youtube back to the future parody cartoon where Rick is a pedophile turned into a popular tv show where Rick is a perfect rational being.
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It sure puts into perspective the scene in the early episodes where they go into Mortys teachers mind and there's the sexual part which is filled with absolutely every perversion you can think of, including incestuous 17 year old Summer and it's sort of implied that everyone has a part of their brain like that and it's just normal. Edit : Also explains his continued willingness to work with Dan "I'm going to coerce and threaten my female employees into sleeping with me" Harmon Punkinhead fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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I'm still pissed off and perturbed about these revelations. Lol. : ') loving predators. Plant MONSTER. fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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I mean Dan apologized publicly and his victim was so moved by it that she publicly tweeted out how this was a good example of a real apology and forgave him and that’s the last word anyone had on that, and Justin hasn’t hosed a kid, it’s just very clear that he chooses to work through personal childhood traumas by making jokes about them. It’s not the same thing but Cancer killed my dad and destroyed my family and my childhood, so I make jokes about cancer and think terminal illness is funny. I can respect someone doing that with having been molested or whatever. I’ll reserve judgment until I hear from a real victim. A 23-24 year old hitting on a 17 year old is gross, for sure, but it’s not even illegal in some states, or anything like what the Ren & Stimpy guy absolutely did. But yes it’s always better to know. Don’t google Jerry Seinfeld, David Bowie, or Prince and the word “Teen” Also you’re correct, turning a pedophile/incest sketch from YouTube into the biggest cartoon property of the decade is crazy, Dan Schneider would be proud.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRZqC1tr9KE just randomly came across this compilation of lionel hutz clips, and one of them was something i haven't seen in like probably a decade which was one of my favorite all time moments: Judge: The Foreman will pass the verdict to the bailff. *hutz secretly switches verdicts to the the judge* judge: this verdict is written on a cocktail napkin. And it STILL says guilty! And guilty is spelled wrong! always died at this joke
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I like the bit where Lionel tries to stump Apu on the stand by asking "what kind of tie am I wearing?" The animation, the vocal delivery... a solid nugget of comedy. Still makes me smile just thinking about it.
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quote:Azaria indicated there was no resistance to phasing him out as the voice. One wonders why the show couldn’t just share that news earlier. This is really weird to read after the weird passive aggressive clip of Marge and Lisa defending the role/voice.
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Scuttlebutt is that Azaria is responding to fans and Indian actors directly reaching out to him as opposed to people complaining to FOX or Disney. Apu can’t happen unless Azaria agrees to it, if he doesn’t agree to it then it’s done. Him refusing to appear in the Apu documentary really hurt his cred and there was disappointed pushback amongst his large POC fan base.
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In 2020 its hard to give a poo poo about any news on the show since everyone who liked it wrote it off after the first eight, good, seasons or they just moved on in general.
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I’m glad racism has finally ended in the year 2029
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The time the camera panned down through the earth to Vishu at the centre operating it was the geologically lowest point
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The time the camera panned down through the earth to Vishu at the centre operating it was the geologically lowest point After 285 pages we finally have our answer. I'm proud to have posted in this thread and I wish you all the best.
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Bust Rodd posted:Scuttlebutt is that Azaria is responding to fans and Indian actors directly reaching out to him as opposed to people complaining to FOX or Disney. Apu can’t happen unless Azaria agrees to it, if he doesn’t agree to it then it’s done. Yeah the Simpsons team is muddying the waters on this and has been for years, but my read on it is that Azaria wasn't prepared to make a decision when the documentary was being shot, but he did internalize all its arguments and felt bad and decided to stop voicing Apu like 4 years ago. Apu hasn't been on the show since then basically.
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Asimov posted:I like the bit where Lionel tries to stump Apu on the stand by asking "what kind of tie am I wearing?" The animation, the vocal delivery... a solid nugget of comedy. Still makes me smile just thinking about it. The insanely fat jury was such a smart move I'd be surprised if Hutz didn't do it on accident
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Crossposting into the proper threadMunchE posted:The evidence is clear, it's lesser but still good on seasons 9-12 then really declines 13 and on: Daikloktos posted:4.9 S23E22 - Lisa Goes Gaga (Episode spent fawning over Lady Gaga) Daikloktos posted:5.9 S23E12 - Moe Goes From Rags To Riches (The history of Moe's sentient bar rag, from its origins as a magic tapestry in medieval France to Moe's yeti father presenting it to him on Mt Everest) Daikloktos posted:6.3 S17E12 - My Fair Laddy (My Fair Lady with Willie and yes, they sing)
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Communist Walrus posted:After 285 pages we finally have our answer. I'm proud to have posted in this thread and I wish you all the best. I think this has been posted several times and this last one didn't even include the image of Vishu pushing the buttons and poo poo, so why stop digging now?
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 This is fascinating, self-posting to refer back to as I continue my very slow rewatch. Bart the General (8.2) is an obvious highlight from early S1 but it's amazing that the others are much of a muchness ratings-wise. Bart the Genius (7.5) is good, There's No Disgrace Like Home (7.5) is OK and Homer's Odyssey (7.4) is a stinker.
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WeaponX posted:You know none of this Apu stuff would matter if this show ended ten seasons ago like it should have It's not 2010 anymore, chief.
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Walton Simons posted:
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I know that 9.11 is of course The Principal and the Pauper but I'm not going to watch beyond season 9 to see what the other stinkers are.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I know that 9.11 is of course The Principal and the Pauper but I'm not going to watch beyond season 9 to see what the other stinkers are.
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linoleum floors posted:Spider pig that scene would have been simply mediocre if the overadvertisement hadn't taken aaaaaaaaaaaaaasall the wind out of its sails
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I know that 9.11 is of course The Principal and the Pauper but I'm not going to watch beyond season 9 to see what the other stinkers are. It's not, though
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P&tP is a great episode. Most of the major outliers are recap episodes, except for Lisa Goes Gaga in season 23.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I know that 9.11 is of course The Principal and the Pauper but I'm not going to watch beyond season 9 to see what the other stinkers are. As was said before, 9.11 is a clip show.
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ah yes, the IMDB score. the grand arbiter of quality, especially for TV show episodes where IMDB users and TV show fans intersect , truly a meeting of the minds
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we must square our conception of the goodness or badness of an episode with kant's conception of "the good will." an episode in, say, season 6, might be laudable or comedic, but in the environment in which it is placed (phil hartman available, various funny people in the writers' room, voice actors who had not given up), can we say if it is "good?" it might be nearly unavoidable to be funny under such circumstances. might not an episode in, say, 2022 or something, when everybody who cares has left and the voice actors are either dead or sound as though they beg for death, that nonetheless manages to produce a wry chuckle in the audience, motivated only by a sense of moral duty to entertain, have completed the greater feat?
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