the simpsons was really good tonight

i also love the fassbinder joke from that one episode of the critic

it's amazing how i'd pretty much ditched this show what with the increasingly poor plots and writing of late but i still can't stop mentioning the funny bits in each episode when i do catch them.

We're a few months behind in our Simpsons. I think the last new one I saw was the one with Fiddy and all that whatnot where Bart did the lameass rapping on stage.

I still love the simpsons and watch it every day, but yeah some of the new eps have made me go "wtf geez". Like "Midnight Rx".

"yo! hey what's happenin' dude? i'm a guy with a rep for being rude, terrorising people wherever i go, it's not intentional just keeping the flow"

The FEMac!
Antonio Fargas!
"What does 'gay' mean?"

I dunno there are funny gags, but its so erratic...

i thought it was a good effort, overall. i liked the heaven sequence.

xpost: http://animatedtv.about.com/od/maggieroswell/a/roswellreturn.htm the Maggie Roswell controversy.

Why do people do this? I hate it when they cut the credits off when there's actually something special about them, like different music or something. Surely it's not just to save an extra megabyte or so.

a) when krusty comes out with his own dummy and asks it a questions, the dummy's mouth falls off, the kids scream, krusty says "don't worry kids, it's not even alive, it's DEAD" then smashes it's forhead, the kids scream some more, Krusty kicks dead dummy into audience, the kids flee.

b) Itchy and Scratchy is replaced by Worker and Proletariat

we get around 8 or 9 episodes a week at the moment..

I want Foxtel so I can watch the weekend Simpsons marathons, I'm such a nerdlinger.

there were some real actual lol moments in tonight's episode: "mr. weiner; we call him mr. whiner" and "the one true moe"

there were some real actual lol moments in tonight's episode: "mr. weiner; we call him mr. whiner"

gonna have to take your word for it

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/nogood.gif

BARELY REGAL:

Prince Olaf of Norway

I forget what ep it was but last weeks "new" one here involved a story where Bart and Lisa cooked up a scheme to get a whole load of flatpacked moving boxes from a courier company and they built a fort with it, and there was this sequence where they fought off DHL-type guys using cardboard tubes and arrows... it was actually really good!

Latest one to be shown in the UK involved Bart swapping places with a rich lookalike. First new Simpsons I've seen for ages, and it wasn't actively terrible and had a few chuckles here and there (talk about faint praise).

Last night's episode was weird...it was kinda like they were trying to do a "Homer meets a Muslim" episode in the same mold as the "Homer meets a homo" episode w/ John Waters, but it came out really uncomfortable and unfunny at times.

Have they done an Obama episode yet?

i watched this shit and it was 99% wack but the itchy and scratchy cartoon was classic and i laffed like 15 times in a minute

but srsly jokes about ipods and islamophobia??? is it 2004?

I mean usually I would counter with "it takes them like a year to make an episode, go watch some cheaply produced hack crap like family guy n00b," but they could have def done this ep like five years ago.

fwiw, i laughed a lot. this season ain't so bad.

i basically quit watching the show around season 10 so when i went back and watched a bunch on watchthesimpsonsonline.com i was surprised how much i lolled at seasons where i hadnt seen a single one of the episodes - the one where bart + milhouse turn the treehouse in a 60s bachelors pad had me fuckin dying

yeah, i mean, I know this is the definition of serving up a challopy joe, but in 427 episodes there's literally been like five bad ones total. i'd like to serve the internet up a big "no shit sherlock" about this show not being as good as seasons 1-9 or whatev, but warmed over 18th season 21-minute episode Simpsons is still funnier than like 99% of TV.

Bart: The Playdude advisor says this music will get a stewardess to give you a layover...
Milhouse: I hope it's in Omaha. My grammy lives there!

lol xp "even though its not as good as season 7 its still funnier than 99% of tv" is the most played-out 'llop there is!!!!

i can't watch this show now without wincing

well it's hard to say anything about the simpsons on the internet without looking like a huge dumbass.

xp

Watching The Simpsons after a break is like hooking up with that old girlfriend from years ago, it's just not that great of an idea and no matter how great it is, it's never going to really be satisfying

i watched this shit and it was 99% wack but the itchy and scratchy cartoon was classic and i laffed like 15 times in a minute

yup

I did like the trucks driving straight off the just-exploded-by-Homer's-incompetence bridge, but that's basically an Itchy & Scratchy joke too

a really well-curated DVD of the best episodes from the later seasons would be awesome. I'm just tired of playing roulette with the rotation of mostly mediocre episodes in syndication.

I think the "99% of TV" 'llop mainly comes from people who never stopped watching it for whatever reason. Just like the "OMG what's up with season ONE LOL" retardedness usually comes from people who started watching in season 4 or something.

yeah i hear a lot of hating on season 1 that makes me wanna stab a motherfucker

I did like the trucks driving straight off the just-exploded-by-Homer's-incompetence bridge, but that's basically an Itchy & Scratchy joke too

it hasn't been shown here yet, but that's surely just a redo of:

"With the bridge gone and the airport unfortunately on the other side of the bridge, a number of citizens are attempting to jump the gorge with their cars. It's a silent testament to the never-give-up and never-think-things-out spirit of our citizens."

?

I'm pretty much agreed with chap's faint praise of yesterday's Sky 1 episode. My biggest reason for still (occasionally) watching is the hope that my basic knowledge of recent episodes plus encyclopaedic knowledge of the first nine seasons will pull me through in that inevitable Simpsons special edition of the pub quiz.

too british; didn't read

theyre biting a lot of jokes lately

i hate when they do sub-Mad Magazine horseshittery like Steve MOBBS from MAPPLE, when they used to just make characters like Arthur Fortune who anyone who's not 8 knows is supposed to be Richard Branson.

even though their names don't rhyme

yeah i was saying this to my friend i watched it with last night, the only way to go is either actually call it steve jobs from apple or make up your own variation on it - same problem with having harry shearer play president schwarzenegger in the movie instead of making ranier wolfcastle president. if you're going to talk about fucking "mipods" you might as well make barts new friends family devotees of mislam and the prophet myhammed

the fact they kept saying it over & over & over like it was really clever!!! "mybook, mypod, mycube" etc etc

they could have probably got steve jobs to do the voice, they didn't clown him that hard.

also, there were two mac ads during the show, so it's like come on.

weirdly the show also seems to forget they have then own alternate version of products - last season bart wanted to mix "mentos and diet pepsi" and i was like what the fuck, where's buzz cola????

I guess what's happened that over the past seven to ten years, the term "underground" has changed. It's changed so much from when it used to mean Boot Camp and DITC. The records some of these kids are doing isn't even rap. It seems like it's problematic because you have all these different types of people under one umbrella. There's a lot of shit that they're putting out that I don't even want to be associated with. I think that's where the problem comes in. Certain people don't want to be associated with stereotypes in music. A lot of shit that's put under the underground umbrella isn't even rap music. It's about kids talking about how they love their girlfriends, pick flowers, and eat granola bars. That's homo shit to me.

haaa rong thread

I guess what's happened that over the past seven to ten years, the term "animation" has changed. It's changed so much from when it used to mean The Simpsons and Ren And Stimpy. The shows some of these networks are doing isn't even cartoons. It seems like it's problematic because you have all these different types of people under one umbrella. There's a lot of shit that they're putting out that I don't even want to be associated with. I think that's where the problem comes in. Certain people don't want to be associated with stereotypes in animation. A lot of shit that's put under the animation umbrella isn't even cartoons. It's about milkshake drawings with their lips moving, a bunch of non-sequitur movie references and dick jokes. That's homo shit to me.

they could have probably got steve jobs to do the voice, they didn't clown him that hard.

bill gates came into homer's office and smashed the place up many seasons ago. so yeah, wtf.

"itchy and scratchy" lulled me into thinking "hey, maybe this show's funny again" last night. but then i saw the rest of the episode.

diepod slaylist

the volume bar loooooooooool

For some reason, the octopus asking "why?" was the funniest part of this ep.

It may be time to kill off Lisa Maud Flanders-style.

bill gates came into homer's office and smashed the place up many seasons ago. so yeah, wtf.

That wasn't Gates voice though, unless he wasn't credited.

same problem with having harry shearer play president schwarzenegger in the movie instead of making ranier wolfcastle president.

Has a reason for this ever been given?

idiots going to the simpsons movie dont know who the fuck ranier wolfcastle is??

i think i remember something along the lines of "it would be funnier if it was schwarzenegger" from the interviews i read with the writers when the movie came out

i think the movie did a lot of dumb shit like that. Moe's Tavern was called Moe's Bar or something.

I wonder what they're gonna do when this show is on season 38 and one of the actors dies. Billy West isn't gonna be a suitable Homer subsititute.

one thing i always notice whenever i catch a nu-simpsons: marge is always pissed off! i can't remember a single joke from the last one i saw, just marge rolling her eyes and sounding irritated in like every scene.

marge is the new lisa

I wonder what they're gonna do when this show is on season 38 and one of the actors dies. Billy West isn't gonna be a suitable Homer subsititute.

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fuck you for even implying that dan castellaneta will ever die

another thing i notice is that mr burns is still funny, and never seems to act out of character. it's kinda sad, like they fired and replaced all the original characters except him and smithers.

Billy West isn't gonna be a suitable Homer subsititute.

Do you have a Dan Castellaneta dead pool or something? Billy West is like five years older than him

another thing i notice is that mr burns is still funny, and never seems to act out of character. it's kinda sad, like they fired and replaced all the original characters except him and smithers.

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i actually feel this way about krusty. even the shittiest new episodes still have A+++ would lol again krusty jokes

You know they'll just edit and loop old dialogue for any posthumous shows.

thinking specifically of that wack unfunny sideshow-bob-in-italy one that still had krusty butchering pagliacci

Lisa: You have to help us! Sideshow Bob has sworn a vendetta against us!
Krusty: Vendetta? What's that, an Italian vending machine? (the Simpsons stare at him for a few seconds before Krusty bursts into tears) Aw! That's my opening joke! And my closer, and my saver, and my topper!

For some reason, the octopus asking "why?" was the funniest part of this ep.

^^^^^^

another thing i notice is that mr burns is still funny, and never seems to act out of character. it's kinda sad, like they fired and replaced all the original characters except him and smithers.

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i actually feel this way about krusty. even the shittiest new episodes still have A+++ would lol again krusty jokes

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the thing is, acc. to the dvd commentary tracks, the writers really love writing for burns and krusty. i think it shows.

[can't believe i just admitted to listening to simpsons dvd commentaries...]

I think Burns has been pretty much the best character in the show since season 6 or something.

Most nights I sleep to Simpsons DVD commentary tracks. They're like my comfort blanket...

They let you see that, based on what he doesn't like in those episodes (notable one: coming out of character for the sake of a joke), Matt Groening must be talking big shit when he says that the show's as good as ever.

currently watching this ipod episode and it is terrible

you mean MYpod

Most nights I sleep to Simpsons DVD commentary tracks. They're like my comfort blanket...

this is my hangover treatment

and i'm often hungover

I just do this with Simpsons dvds in general. Its kind of like non-thinky entertainment at this point seeing as Ive watched them so much.

you don't have to laugh more than once an episode to still enjoy the simpsons.
i saw the episode where lisa became a crossword puzzle whiz, good stuff. or the one where bart ruins lenny's super expensive party, or the one where everyone thinks martin died...

(last updated 5 years ago)

what the fuck was that?

Show kicked right after the couch gag, presumably to fit in more commercials. There's so little time in that half hour that's actually TV SHOW that they just had to burst through this new character, barely plotted out any personality for her, didn't give us ANY insight into why she might be nuts, and then just threw her away at the end. In and out in 20 minutes.

also, "Ladies And Gentlemen, Fall Out Boy!"

I lolled. Also a few wtfs.

damn man i need to see this shit nigga

A chronicles of narnia thing

i thought the plot was basically a str8 jack of heavenly creatures which i guess when the talk about production delays making it hard to put together timely pop culture references they aren't kidding

Yeah, 16 years too late and no matricide!

I kept expecting Lisa to kiss her new best friend. Solid new age Simpson episode. (my personal favorite was when Martin died)

"How the Test Was Won"

I liked the teachers giving answer patterns in preparation for NCLB tests, and Skinner using the law of conservation of momentum to save Ralph. Otherwise a wash.

The Slurp My Snot bit was used in Parker Lewis Can't Lose when Kubiak got a perfect score after writing "EAT NOW" on his scan-tron

I actually found myself laughing at more of the physical humor (Homer's pain montage, the kids' "Let's act stupid!") than I usually would. Favorite line, though: "A rewarding day of pencil sharpening and eyes-on-your-own-paper-keeping."

after I watched it, I swore to never watch the Simpsons again unless an episode is specifically recommended. this is the cutoff.

heh, was that updated opening-credits sequence just for tonight?

nice to see this show hasn't change in the 5 years since i watched it last

"no i kinda like that. now we can say, 'well, there's nothing we can do about it'."

it seems to still be good; TV doesn't stay great for 20 years except for The Joe Franklin Show.

"Congregationalist? is dat even a ting?"

Tintin cameo

also, Hathaway sings better than Audrey Hepburn.

yeah the last few seasons have been really good. last week's episode was all about grampa's wacky stories

I saw they did a Heavenly Creatures riff but took out all the sex & violence & added James Blunt. It was baffling.

Liked the writer on the Spurlock-made special who said if the show didn't exist he would probably have a much uglier wife.

"if the simpsons didn't exist, the world would be like a cormac mccarthy novel. scorched earth. nothing."

-sting, reader of one book per author

the recent bart brother episode was great, but the lisa-making-friends-with-teenage-witches one was awful. always has some great moments though

Yeah, there hasn't been a solidly funny ep for quite a while, but this sign made me lol:

"Capital City Nuclear: The Cleanest Energy There Is Except Once In A While, But Then, Look Out"

Whose with me? The special PAINFULLY omitted the contributions of one Phil Hartman. What a downer - I thought the whole Spurlock special was cobbled together and mostly lame ...

duh - 'Who's' with me...

Spurlock's work is always cobbled together and mostly lame.