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All of Lisa's preachy bullshit made me stop watching.
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the muscle marge do and the tennis ep
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Feb 4, 2017 22:51
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I think I'm going to be sick; I knew it was bad since s10 or whatever but they're raping the bullet riddled horse carcass at this point
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Feb 4, 2017 23:07
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I was going to say "that episode where Homer got raped" but that has actually happened in more than one episode.
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Feb 4, 2017 23:27
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I'm not watching any of those goddamned clips and you can't make me
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Feb 4, 2017 23:35
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Helsing posted:I was going to say "that episode where Homer got raped" but that has actually happened in more than one episode. Has it really? Lol at "here they go, back to the 'Homer gets raped' well again  " being a thing people can say about the Simpsons
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Feb 4, 2017 23:41
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When did they repeat falling down the gorge but as a zany throwaway with none of the consequences that they originally made a big deal about? About ten years before that.
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Feb 4, 2017 23:44
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Whenever someone talks about The Simpsons not getting good until season 3/4 I remind them of Bart the Daredevil.
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Feb 4, 2017 23:48
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I'm a weirdo who legit likes the monstrous first season of this show.
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Feb 4, 2017 23:50
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The first season wasn't too bad, just really mundane. The people writing it were just making a very straightforward family sitcom and hadn't yet realized that having it be animated basically gave them free reign to do whatever they want.
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Feb 4, 2017 23:58
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Came in to vote for Armin Tamzarian, but all of those videos make that look like a classic episode. This was like catching up with a high school friend, only to find out that he's strung up on heroin now. So thanks for putting all of those videos into one terrible experience, I guess.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:00
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Lumpy the Cook posted:Whenever someone talks about The Simpsons not getting good until season 3/4 I remind them of Bart the Daredevil. 
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Feb 5, 2017 00:01
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Lowest point was finding out how much of the voice cast is infected with Scientology.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:09
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Season 12 is when I stopped giving a gently caress about The Simpsons because some truly wretched episodes were happening. Like the panda rape episode that ended with Mr Burns tossing fish guts onto a parade crowd. I just really don't care anymore; the show is going to make it to Season 30 and once a voice actor dies or finally quits for reals this time Fox will end it.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:21
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The one where they hosed with Skinner's backstory. And yes, I am one of those people who refuses to watch past a certain season.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:23
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it didn't get bad as early as nerds say but man when it got bad it fell off a loving cliff.forward pass posted:The season after the Who Shot Mr. Burns? cliffhanger was when I tuned out. see like this. that's only the eighth season lmao. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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Feb 5, 2017 00:22
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The season after the Who Shot Mr. Burns? cliffhanger was when I tuned out. Every episode seemed to revolve around an unfunny celebrity guest and I just didn't care anymore. Phil Hartman dying didn't help, either.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:23
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Justin Godscock posted:I just really don't care anymore; the show is going to make it to Season 30 and once a voice actor dies or finally quits for reals this time Fox will end it. considering that one of the times the voice actors tried to strike for a better contract fox openly cast for sound-alikes, I don't think just one death or even all of them decades from now would stop it
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Feb 5, 2017 00:27
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forward pass posted:The season after the Who Shot Mr. Burns? cliffhanger was when I tuned out. Every episode seemed to revolve around an unfunny celebrity guest and I just didn't care anymore. Phil Hartman dying didn't help, either. This. Armin Tamzarian and any Lisa episodes are bad, sure. But celebrity guests appearing as themselves are what turned the Simpsons into irredeemable garbage. Mel Gibson was the first I can remember.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:30
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the mel gibson episode was very funny tho.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:35
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Why did Mr Smith kill everybody. Mel Gibson being himself was perfect in that episode.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:40
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Nonviolent J posted:I was gonna post and say wow noone mentioned principal and the pauper but ding ding there it is Principal and the Pauper is a good piss take on long running sitcoms pulling stuff out of their asses in later seasons, but it does mark the point where Simpsons stopped being creative and began regressing.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:41
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p. nice Wolf Parade ref posted:Why did Mr Smith kill everybody. lol that's one of the all time great quotes.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:42
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The people who mentioned the Homer and Marge S&M episode missed the most important detail: Homer accidentally sits on a dildo and has to be rushed to the hospitalquote:Homer goes to the local sex shop where he purchases an array of different sex devices. When he shows Marge all that he has bought she is confused and unimpressed. Homer sits down on one of the machines by mistake and is injured by it. He is taken to the hospital and while he is being treated they reconcile.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:47
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Groovelord Neato posted:the mel gibson episode was very funny tho. Compared to the Lady Gaga one I guess. There were probably a few decent writers still on staff, the Mel Gibson episode just always stood out to me as the glaring example of when the focus of the show shifted.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:46
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I stopped watching the simpsons so long ago that I could have raised a child from birth to adulthood in that time period.
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Feb 5, 2017 00:59
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Wizard Master posted:Was it: These are all terrible
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Feb 5, 2017 01:01
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I just watched that Homer Votes clip after not having watched simpsons since like 2009 and jesus christ is that a real clip that they actually aired?
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Feb 5, 2017 01:02
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Dogmeat posted:Compared to the Lady Gaga one I guess. There were probably a few decent writers still on staff, the Mel Gibson episode just always stood out to me as the glaring example of when the focus of the show shifted. nah it's very funny. not just in comparison to gaga.
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Feb 5, 2017 01:05
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Groovelord Neato posted:nah it's very funny. not just in comparison to gaga. I'm not just comparing it to gaga, I'm also comparing it to the episode with Hank Scorpio. And Mel Gibson is no Hank Scorpio. I might be extra hard on it, but I distinctly remember feeling after I watched it that the family had changed from the Simpsons into The Simpsons™
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Feb 5, 2017 01:16
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armin tamzarian had "up yours children" in it
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Feb 5, 2017 01:19
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The principal and the pauper isn't bad, much like Homer's enemy is a pretty good ep as well, but neither episode tries to actually wrap up in a satisfactory way, and they are early examples of the laziness that would soon become the norm for the Simpsons. Pauper is especially bad because the premise is so flat out dumb, but it still has a bunch of great jokes and one-liners so it doesn't feel like the bottom has fallen out yet.
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Feb 5, 2017 01:49
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I saw this for the first time around '99 or so. I think I was 9 and that was the hardest I'd ever laughed up until that point
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Feb 5, 2017 01:54
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There have been some good celebrity cameos on the Simpsons, Aerosmith in the Flaming Moe's episode comes to mind. I haven't watched more than a random episode here or there since 1999-2000ish, so pulling from that era only: Maybe the Twin Towers/NYC one? I remember that being pretty flat. Or the 'chew through the ball sack' one where they were trying to be edgy? That 3D gimmick episode? Though probably not the worst on account of Erotic Cakes darth_pizza posted:Simpsons Sing The Blues / Do The Bartman Yeah I had this on cassette right when it came out and I was the right age. Pretty much the whole album is cringeworthy but 3rd grade me thought it was cool.
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Feb 5, 2017 01:56
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Dogmeat posted:This. Armin Tamzarian and any Lisa episodes are bad, sure. But celebrity guests appearing as themselves are what turned the Simpsons into irredeemable garbage. Mel Gibson was the first I can remember. I think it started with that episode with Alec Baldwin and Ron Howard. They had celebrities playing themselves up until that point- James Woods, Aerosmith etc- but they were mostly relegated to C plots or quick cameos. That was the first time an episode actually focused on celebrities (unless you count the "Michael Jackson" episode, which is pretty dubious. I don't think he even got credited)
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RE: Armin Tanzarian - I'm not sure I ever quite understood the out-and-out hate for that episode until I read this summary, which sorta spells out the downfall of the Simpsons entirely: http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/simpsons-classic-principal-and-pauper-221473 AV Club posted:That, in the end, is the true betrayal of “The Principal And The Pauper.” It’s not that it’s a terrible episode of The Simpsons, or that it forces you to have this element of the character in your mind every time another Principal Skinner storyline comes up. No, what damns this episode in the history of The Simpsons is that it’s where it became clear for the first time that the people making the show didn’t hold Springfield and its citizens in the same light as so many of its fans. The message sent was that preserving its carefully constructed universe was secondary to the goal of producing an episode, and this world could be taken apart and put it back together as necessary. And the act of disassembly and reassembly, performed with ever more frequency from season nine on, is what spelled the end of The Simpsons Golden Age.
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Feb 5, 2017 02:07
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I think Jackson and Hoffman didn't want to be credited early on and after them they made a rule you had to be credited or something like that. Early cameos were great cause they had goofy ones, like Ernest Borgnine, or Adam West talking about the good ol days then the camera goes Dutch angle and he starts doing the Batusi.
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Feb 5, 2017 02:09
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i dont know the actual lowest point because i stopped watching it a long, long time ago.
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Feb 5, 2017 02:19
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It's simple; when the show started, people were writing original comedy and a parody of the American family that was actually really pushing the envelope at the time. Bart being a bad boy wasn't just some tongue-in-cheek thing, he was seen as a seriously horrible role model and people tried to get the show banned. Around 6-10 years later, new writers joined the team that literally grew up watching the show. They weren't writing original jokes any more, they were writing what they thought Simpsons jokes were. It's the same thing as copying the voice of a cartoon character - you don't try to copy the voice directly. You find out what the original voice actor was imitating, then you also imitate that same thing. Also, the real heart of the show is 100% Swartzwelder
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I'm gonna say the math episode with Fermat's last equation floating around over the YZ plane just to piss off the dorks and the nerds!!
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