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

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.

― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, December 1, 2008 4:05 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.

― J.D., Monday, December 1, 2008 9:21 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.

― J.D., Monday, December 1, 2008 9:21 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

― dat dude delmar (and what), Tuesday, December 2, 2008 2:22 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.