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Son of Rodney posted:One thing this thread has taught me is that I'm propably the only person who enjoyed the Futurama movies. All of them. Repeatedly. Same
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khwarezm posted:I dunno, I never really liked Rick and Morty as much as Futurama on the whole. It kind of annoys me how Rick doesn't get much comeuppance through most of the show and it can be really reliant on 'So Randumb!' humor (I hate most of the inter dimensional TV stuff). Iirc there were at least a couple of writers with mathematics backgrounds for Futurama, and the one where they're swapping bodies actually resulted in a published proof of the minimum number of people required to do that or something. E: eh close enough http://gizmodo.com/5618502/futurama-writer-invented-a-new-math-theorem-just-to-use-in-the-show
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Iron Crowned posted:Old Simpsons did a great job at making jokes that people would miss at different stages in life, and not explaining them. Explaining jokes is for people who can't actually make a joke. poo poo there are still some jokes, mostly visual background gags, I notice for the first time watching seasons 2-9 or so.
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get that OUT of my face posted:cool, another rip-off of an older episode (this time the one where homer gets a therapy monkey in season 9) pray for mojo
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I'm trying to remember what episode has a scene where Homer is trying to rock/sing Maggie to sleep late at night, starts getting sleepy himself, and when he looks down Maggie's eyes are still wide open. I may just be imagining that this exists, but maybe this thread can help me!
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Killswitch posted:Eight spices?!?!? Some of these must be duplicates... There's a season one or two episode where she's using a bunch of different spices in the kitchen and it's retroactively jarring to watch it.
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Aesop Poprock posted:aside from people in this thread I don't think I know a single person who watches the Simpsons regularly anymore. I honestly can't even imagine what that demographic would consist of. Left on in rooms of coma patients maybe? My wife teaches 7th grade, has for 6 or 7 years. None of her students have ever given a poo poo about the Simpsons, new or old.
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porking a pork bun posted:The absolute peak of the show is Season 4-7, you can pick any episode from that era and be guaranteed a good time. Some standout episodes off the top of my head are: I know that one gets a lot of hype as "best episode ever" but seriously drat near every line start to finish is a well-crafted joke that sticks the landing
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SEX BURRITO posted:It was the early 90s, so the house could have been super cheap. It was often shown to be rat infested and falling to pieces, so maybe he got a bargain. And they were always in debt and living way beyond their means. Homer got help from his dad to buy their place, and the show revealed that Marge was super thrifty, feeding the family on $15 a week or something stupid like that. the actual house used for exterior shots was for sale a few years back for $129k https://news.avclub.com/own-the-house-from-roseanne-for-a-mere-129-000-1798235936 lets say they bought the house in '85, that'd have been a $60k house at the time. e: I think Roseanne was supposed to be based on the Aurora-ish area, somewhere in the far, far west Chicago exurbs anyway. You can still buy cheap as poo poo houses out that way. brugroffil fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Nov 17, 2017 |
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Tree Goat posted:there is a brief reshot scene iirc, but it's very short. that's just a blatant rip-off of a Seinfeld plot from 20+ years ago
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Justin Godscock posted:It’s because people look at the crappy animation and Black Smithers and fail to see the show was really sweet and charming it was at times. Bleeding Gums Murphy, Homer having true faults and not “SMRT” absurdness and even the Christmas episode holds up. I mean, nothing beats mid 90s Simpsons but you see a foundation there. James l Brooks had a heavy and good influence early on creating a show with a heart
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snack eater posted:is this tweet true? That animation looks a whole lot newer than when that episode would have originally been illustrated E: checked on frinkiac, Homer finds out at the front door when he comes home during the baby shower. There are two flashbacks to when Marge tells Homer she's pregnant with Bart and Lisa and it's on that same couch. That has other continuity errors but that tweet is bullshit. e2: actually it is from that episode! Just later when they're discussing the pregnancy after Homer gets his job at the plant back. brugroffil fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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I think the problem is more that the writing just sucks. Even in the peak golden era, the Simpsons would do references or even whole plots that were callbacks to movies from 5-10 years ago. Marge on the Lam was a Selma and Louise parody several years after the movie came out, but it was still good. The one about Marge being afraid of flying was a lot of Prince of Tides four years after that came out. Homer Loves Ned has tons of references to T2, which had been out for years by that point. But they were still good episodes with lots of jokes because the writing wasn't lazy "hey remember this movie/show/thing??" references.
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Iron Crowned posted:Exactly, both parody scenes are funny even if you don't know what they're parodying. Like most classic Simpsons jokes they're funny on more than a superficial level, and the knowledge of the parody just makes it more entertaining. Yeah, that's the difference. It's still good even if you don't know the reference.
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The best thing he ever did was the home Depot commercial with Nick Offerman
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DropsySufferer posted:I've seen one episode of bob's burgers. Where the rival Italian place opens up and takes the customers. I didn't really care for the show. Does it get any better than that? R&M is entertaining but pretty superficial Bojack can be extremely bleak at times but it's a better show. My favorite parts are when anthropomorphic animals are still doing animal things in the background
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The Simpsons used stereotypes of the Irish so really it's reverse racism that's the problem Makes you 
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Some early Simpsons episodes were a joke every line. Last Exit is nonstop jokes.
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Due to an alleged typo on a DMV form, Apu is stripped of his citizenship and deported
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:Old Simpsons was made to make the writers themselves laugh instead of the home audience. They could care less if you knew who Joey Bishop was, it was funny to them. The new writers also have no idea what comedy beats are because likely none of them were ever stand-up comedians. The timing of jokes in new Simpsons is incredibly laggy and the setups are too obvious and take too long before the jokes hit. Someone once said that new Simpsons seems like it should have a laugh track while the old episodes fired off so quickly with such careless joy that you would miss too much of it if there was a laugh track. New Simpsons are forced to bring in popular contemporary Hollywood stars for ratings and it forces the episode to be softened and dull instead of sharp and witty like it once was. Also, they just plain ran out of things to talk about a plain American family doing after like 200 episodes. There just isn’t that much the Simpsons can teach us anymore because they covered all the big points so many times already. The original writers were all Harvard nerds not stand up guys.
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David Silverman is a very good animator. He'd personally do a lot of the more emotive Homer animations.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Also, I'm not sure I buy into the notion that "jerk-rear end Homer" came later. I think people just misremember because they like the old episodes. Homer is a huge shithead in just about every episode I've watched. He started becoming a real jerk in the Merkin years (s5 and 6), got less jerk under Oakley and Weinstein for the most part, then it was a steep decline after that
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I've had more than a few people tell me that they were banned from watching The Simpsons after Bart said (paraphrasing) "Dear God, we paid for this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing" while saying grace before dinner. My dad was not a fan of the blasphemy early on so it was dicey for a few years
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Elderbean posted:Lmao yeah it's weird to think of Bart being controversial but I definitely remember my grandparents making comments about what a poor role model he was. President George HW Bush complained about it lol
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spaceblancmange posted:There were definitely some bits edited out in Australia. The one where Krusty fakes his death, the bit where they auction off his boxes of porno was definitely cut. Also there were a few random eps in season 6 we missed for no apparent reason in its original airing. The clip show, A star is burns and the one with bleeding gums. We got them eventually but might have had their first showing on pay TV. Could just be a syndication cut. Lots of times they'll cut little bits for reruns to squeeze in extra commercials.
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Data Graham posted:This is also the same show that did "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", which ended with what I can't read in any other way than a defense of prayer in public school. Keep in mind that the show was (is?) largely written by areligious Jews and liberals from fancy schools like Harvard. Jokes like that shouldn't be taken straight at all. It was all still very, very irreverent for early 90's American TV.
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QwertySanchez posted:And what the gently caress was even that nature documentary episode? I liked the nature documentary one, but I love everything David Attenborough has done so maybe that's why.
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bad day posted:One of my favorite aspects of early Simpsons is how every episode could have happened in one day and nothing ever impacted any other episode (outside of maybe Sideshow Bob) and nobody ever aged or changed their clothes. I thought it was brilliant to keep this rule because every episode could be independent and shown out of order or picked up by a casual viewer without losing any entertainment value. They’d even poke jokes about this like at the end of the hated Skinner episode. They started changing some characters a bit earlier than that, like Neds backstory, because everyone assumed the show would be dead in a few years.
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I have a shameful confession to make: I actually kinda liked the Futurama movies! Not as much as the original run but more than the latter part of the final run.
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TheMostFrench posted:This thread is the first time I've ever heard there were Futurama movies. There are FOUR? Yeah in the years between being cancelled on Fox and their revival on comedy central
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Nov 29, 2018 03:17
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sweet geek swag posted:Actually each movie was designed to be split into four episodes, so they collectively form the fifth season. I agree that the second movie was really really bad. It had exactly one good joke, the joke with Bender's son. Yeah they'd frequently be shown that way on TV in later years
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Looking back I can't believe that there were only 140 episodes of Futurama At 138, Simpsons still had many good episodes to come
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YeahTubaMike posted:the only things i remember about the futurama movies are the "trinity's going to war" song which occasionally gets stuck in my head, and all that weird Amy & Leela centaur stuff that mostly seemed like geek fetish fanservice The Amy and Leela fan service stuff got so bad in the reboot at times
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Quote-Unquote posted:Yeah the episode where they become roided-out gladiators in butterfly costumes and continually molest Fry is awful. I don't remember what episode it is, but there were multiple scenes in one of them wrestling in leotards and ripping each other's clothing and I'm 90% sure it's not the gladiator one
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a twitterer that once a week goes through as-aired and as-scripted differences and also changes within scripts https://twitter.com/ThatGuy3002/status/1068564778786988039 e: here's a tweet thread with his previous work all linked! https://twitter.com/ThatGuy3002/status/1068579186368004096 brugroffil fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Nov 30, 2018 |
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Data Graham posted:They had to research a LOT of weird science/math and wordplay gags for that episode. Really wall-to-wall with cerebral stuff people were not at all ready for (even if some of it was kinda cringey) eh they were a bunch of Harvard nerds, I'm sure plenty of the writers knew basic calculus by the time we get to futurama several of the writers are PhD math dorks packing math jokes into the background constantly, sometimes even centering entire plots on them
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Mr Interweb posted:
Possibly they subbed in shorter ones to squeeze in more commercial time? e; f, b I've been listening to talking Simpsons, and it's interesting when they point out that when you can tell plots were thin because they used extended openings, long segments of TV watching, etc. The show's made me appreciate seasons 5-6 and especially 7-8 more than 3-4. brugroffil fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Jan 11, 2019 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:Like how specific jokes get cut from the syndication run to fit more ads Since I watched the show so many times in syndication, those were the versions I always remembered. When I got seasons 1-10 back in 2010 or so, it was like getting all sorts of deleted scenes and jokes!
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