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NO! Just candy! Ninety dollars!
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In my experience, a rotten old jerk who just complains all the time is exactly the kind of person that did have an extravagant and strange life. For my entire life, my grandpa existed merely to watch TV and complain about what his family was doing. I literally never saw him leave his chair unless to go to the bathroom or sleep until the day he died, and I hated visiting him because he literally never had anything nice or fun to say about anyone or anything. Not even a book full of cakes from magazines, like Agnes. The other week I learned he was a trick pony rider in Chicago before WW2, and was actually considered one of the flashier and more talented riders. He woo'd my grandma by performing a particularly dangerous stunt while holding a flower for her in his teeth. I only knew him as a 400lb terminal "gameshow watcher".
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Mar 19, 2020 18:36
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Data Graham posted:NO! Just candy! Ninety dollars!
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Mar 19, 2020 18:41
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Aw crap, really? poo poo how could this happen
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Mar 19, 2020 18:46
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Not Agnes, but the same energy. I love the old lady selling her candy dish at the community yard sale. I went to an antique shop last week and kept pulling up small cheap poo poo and saying "NINETY DOLLARS!" Edit: Holy crap those posts happened as I wrote mine.
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Mar 20, 2020 01:18
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Detective No. 27 posted:Not Agnes, but the same energy. I love the old lady selling her candy dish at the community yard sale. I went to an antique shop last week and kept pulling up small cheap poo poo and saying "NINETY DOLLARS!" it took you 7 hours to write that post?
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Mar 20, 2020 05:19
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Junk posted:it took you 7 hours to write that post? Don't expect a timely reply
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Mar 20, 2020 05:44
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Detective No. 27 posted:Not Agnes, but the same energy. I love the old lady selling her candy dish at the community yard sale. I went to an antique shop last week and kept pulling up small cheap poo poo and saying "NINETY DOLLARS!" Since there will likely be no better time to link it, here's one of my favorite sequences from the first few seasons, which features Ms. Glick: "He was killed in the Great War... held a grenade too long." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JZOESJ0BLk JfishPirate fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Mar 20, 2020 05:54
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Junk posted:it took you 7 hours to write that post? For some reason, my app didn't some of those previous posts before I made mine.
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Mar 20, 2020 14:39
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its cool man im just joshing
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Mar 20, 2020 14:49
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JfishPirate posted:Since there will likely be no better time to link it, here's one of my favorite sequences from the first few seasons, which features Ms. Glick: Her eye at 1:05... (shudder)
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Mar 20, 2020 17:12
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I guess they're doing another weed episode? https://twitter.com/mattselman/status/1241819606680928257?s=21
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Mar 23, 2020 00:17
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So pumped!
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Mar 23, 2020 03:48
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https://mobile.twitter.com/BenHugh26422354/status/1241874514289573893
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Mar 23, 2020 03:56
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(GET IT?) should just be emblazoned across the screen for the duration of every modern day simpsons episode
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Mar 23, 2020 15:25
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https://twitter.com/thatguy3002/status/1242118919206338563?s=21 They finished the character design in February, so it looks like it takes just over a month to animate an episode these days?
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Mar 23, 2020 17:23
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I remember the DVD of the Clerks series had a mini-doc on how they were figuring out the art, and there were some really cool, dark, dingy-looking designs that they scrapped for it. I would pause the DVD and try to copy the art styles as much as I could.
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Mar 23, 2020 17:30
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I’m marathoning the Simpsons in English and it’s really obvious these voice actors don’t have a lot of range and Harry Shearer is roughly 75% of the cast
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Mar 24, 2020 03:12
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Calaveron posted:I’m marathoning the Simpsons in English and it’s really obvious these voice actors don’t have a lot of range and Harry Shearer is roughly 75% of the cast They're no German Simpsons voice actors, that's for sure, but we Americans have grown fond of them over the years
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Mar 24, 2020 03:29
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In the new one, Marge puts Maggie in a day care for no apparent reason. Finding herself unable to fill her day after hating spin class, pottery class, and surprising Homer at work, she goes into a "wellness clinic" and gets a job because the owners think she puts off major mom vibes. She can't figure out how all the candy and sodas are selling for so much money until she finds out it's a weed store. She's leaving, but Drederick Tatum comes out and begs her to stay because they need to put a square face on the store. Agnes and Skinner comes in and he's been keeping her high because she's a lot nicer when she's high. Otto comes in and acts like it's an actual drug deal; Otto sounds really really really loving bad now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w256-i2pHc Otto misses the sleaziness and him, Homer and Moe put together a fake sleazebag drug dealer apartment so old school stoners can get a dirtbag experience. Marge's job tells her they're gonna fire her if her husband keeps giving pot a bad name. They set up a sting with the county health department because the operation at Moe's isn't licensed to sell food (edibles). There's a sight gag here that I think is worthy of Classic Simpsons.  The health department sends Marge in with a huge bottle of cheese balls to set a trap where if one of his customers eats one, they can bust him. Tatum opens a swank pot resort and Homer confronts her in front of all the celebrities there that she's selling weed but has never tried it. She does some liquid stuff (the show weirdly cuts away from this so I guess they can't show anyone doing weed). Homer tries to light a vape pen and it explodes and burns down the resort. Celebrity cameos: Billy Porter (who?), Chelsea Pereti, Kevin Smith This one was actually OK by nuSimpsons standards
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Mar 24, 2020 04:05
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My name Harry my vocal cords are scarry
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Mar 24, 2020 14:05
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Did disney+ restore the 4:3 aspect ratio in the end? Contemplating getting it now it's finally in the UK
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Mar 24, 2020 14:40
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gently caress the aspect ratio, where are the hundreds of eps worth of commentary they took down from Simpsons world?
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Mar 24, 2020 15:05
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spaceblancmange posted:My name Harry my vocal cords are scarry Disco Elysium spoilers much?? now I'm picturing a crossover
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Mar 24, 2020 15:12
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Every character is overly animated in a really unpleasant fashion
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Mar 24, 2020 17:02
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bitterandtwisted posted:Did disney+ restore the 4:3 aspect ratio in the end? Contemplating getting it now it's finally in the UK Not yet
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Mar 24, 2020 18:34
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The burlesque house came up before as a premise that was kind of anachronistic even at the time (I think kinda given away by the lady's outfit being more Victorian looking) but does make me wonder how many other key parts of the show are time capsules. Kids still reading comic books, for starters. And the Krusty the Clown Show is something that had its last gasp in the 90s as a variety show for kids with cartoons between skits, though kinda funny that Classic Krusty has the show change significantly over the decades. (How it went from a talk show to a kids show is another story altogether)
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Mar 26, 2020 15:19
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They had to go anachronistic with the “burlesque house” for the censors That’s why grandpa and jasper have to clarify amongst themselves they are NOT talking about the bordello. The other way to read it is they are 100% talking about the same thing, just confused as to what a “burlesque” house actually is
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Mar 26, 2020 15:23
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Kids still reading comic books, for starters. I.. think kids still read comics. at least they seem to at the library, back when those were still open
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Mar 26, 2020 15:28
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This might seem a little backwards but kids in far out rural areas still read comic books at basically the same rate as they did 10-20 years ago. I mean I can remember 10-12 years ago kids at my school were just as likely to read comic books as they were to play any type of video games.
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Mar 26, 2020 15:33
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Last Chance posted:I.. think kids still read comics. at least they seem to at the library, back when those were still open They're called graphic novels now.
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Mar 26, 2020 15:44
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Who What Now posted:They're called manga now.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The burlesque house came up before as a premise that was kind of anachronistic even at the time (I think kinda given away by the lady's outfit being more Victorian looking) but does make me wonder how many other key parts of the show are time capsules. Kids still reading comic books, for starters. And the Krusty the Clown Show is something that had its last gasp in the 90s as a variety show for kids with cartoons between skits, though kinda funny that Classic Krusty has the show change significantly over the decades. (How it went from a talk show to a kids show is another story altogether) The idea that Homer and Marge are now Millennials or very near to it weirds me out with how anachronistic that now feels
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Mar 26, 2020 18:37
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I haven't been to any burlesque houses, but I've been going to my local twice-yearly burlesque show ever since I heard about it because that group kicks major rear end
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vegetables posted:The idea that Homer and Marge are now Millennials or very near to it weirds me out with how anachronistic that now feels It's why I felt the best solution to the Apu problem would be to cancel the show outright. Nearly all the characters are anachronistic in one way or another. I accept that it'll never go away with Disney owning it. Cancel it now. Wait five years, reboot it as a 90s period show. Keep Julie Kavner away for her health.
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Mar 27, 2020 05:44
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King of the Hill had the good sense of ending when it got to the point where it wouldn't make sense for a Vietnam War draft eligible aged man could have a middle school aged son with his high school sweetheart.
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Mar 27, 2020 05:49
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Detective No. 27 posted:I accept that it'll never go away with Disney owning it. Cancel it now. Wait five years, reboot it as a 90s period show. Keep Julie Kavner away for her health. I think Disney is actually more likely to pull the plug. They're actively damaging the brand with the new seasons, and you can try a reboot in like 5-10 years, but you gotta make it go away to start the clock. New episodes have been actively losing money for years, but Fox made it work because the licensing deals recouped the losses. Their very old syndication deals (from the 90s) say they can't syndicate it as long as Fox is making new Simpsons. Disney actually stands to make a ton by canceling it, getting rid of those deals, and striking new ones.
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Mar 27, 2020 05:53
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I assume they're going to Star Wars it
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PostNouveau posted:New episodes have been actively losing money for years, but Fox made it work because the licensing deals recouped the losses. Their very old syndication deals (from the 90s) say they can't syndicate it as long as Fox is making new Simpsons. Disney actually stands to make a ton by canceling it, getting rid of those deals, and striking new ones. Uh, The Simpsons was in syndication for a long rear end time. I couldn't tell you if anyone still carries it because there isn't a local station carrying reruns, but for a while here in Cincinnati, it was on at around 1:30 in the morning. Back in Kansas they had a 6:00pm block while I lived there, and when I lived in Seattle, in the 90's, there were two back to back epsides at 6:00pm. I don't think that it's not that it can't be syndicated, it's that no one wants to anymore. Back when I lived in Seattle, that's how I watched most of the episodes, and to us, the worst thing that could have happened was getting a season 1 episode. Now, there's so many bad episodes, it's just going to be ratings poison for any time of day. EDIT: Doing the math, at 673 episodes, running a single episode each week night, would take 2 years, 2 months, 1 week, and 2 days to cycle through all the seasons, with only 9 months and two weeks worth of episodes that anyone really wants to watch (seasons 2-9) Iron Crowned fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Mar 27, 2020 |
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The Simpsons is one of the few shows that actually managed to outlive the period of people watching it based on sheer inertia.
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