The Simpsons: Classic Or Dud?

gambling for pennies
grown men thinking they're invincible against going to juvie
motorcycle gang with only 1 1/2 motorcycles
printing up frisbess and pogs for your gang

Not Funny:
Fencing with motorcycles
running "resume" joke
any other "we don't know better" joke
john goodman's overall reading

http://www.abcarcade.com/the-simpsons-maker.html

and it's the same joke as the south park movie teaser

But who doesn't want to eat at The Zesty Fork?

I do not understand why we need a film of this.

I think he was referring to the fact that the whole wrecking-ball sequence was done using cell-shaded 3d graphics (like Futurama).

I love the Simpsons, but in all honesty I could care less about the movie.

What I am looking forwards to is the new Futurama movie/short series, where Bender is abducted by the (robot?) mafia and used by them for evil deeds.

it would've made more sense if they had come to their senses and cancelled the show, then made the movie.

Sadly, my fantasy world rarely meets up with reality, which is why y'all aren't busy building a massive statue of me right now.

last night fox BLEEPED OUT homer saying "masturbate"

and then i watch 2 minutes of the Cleveland Show and a 12 year old said "Dad, when do I get hair on my prick"

WTF?!

out-of-this-world moon waffles

Is it my imagination, or was tonight's episode closer to the series' peak (seasons 2-7) than any episode since...well, since seasons 2-7?

does anyone have any idea why the tracey ullman shorts have never been released on dvd? are there rights issues, or does matt groening just hate them that much?

You can find quite a few of them on youtube. Really nothing special, to be honest.

And some of them are on that 138th episode spectacular, bits of, anyway.

based on the handful i've seen i'd rather sit through an entire disc of them than any season since 1998.

Marge was having trouble to sleep. Late at night, she woke up. It was 4 AM. She was extremely uneasy, now. She knew she wouldn't be able to hold it for too long. She sat up, and glanced at Homer. He was absolutely silent.

She patted on his shoulder, quietly calling his name. He didn't answer. He didn't move. In fact, he wasn't even breathing. She pushed him, turning upside down, only to see that his body was completely slashed and cut.

She belted out a scream, and jumped from the bed, looking at that scene, in absolute terror. Without thinking, she left the room, supporting herself at the wall and breathing heavily, almost crying. She looked at the door to Bart's room, and walked in. Bart was lying away from him, and Marge knew that he could be dead, too. And he was. As she turned him to face her, she saw that his face was transformed into a red goo.

Marge ran out of the room, crying in despair... Lisa... She entered Lisa's room, sobbing violently. She saw Lisa, lying peacefully on her bed. Should I check her? She knew she was dead, but she was too curious. She slowly approached her, and looked at her. She was absolutely normal. Dead. There was nothing wrong with her. Marge cried, and that's when she was something at the corner of the room, something glittering - a pair of eyeballs.

All of a sudden, Marge felt all of her energies evaporating, as she realised there was nothing left for her, that she had nothing... nothing but fear. That night was only giving her more and more horrible surprises, and she felt completely helpless, unable to change the situation. And what was worse, it was all her fault. She left that happen, she caused it all. She stumbled across the corridor and stopped by Maggie's room. She slowly walked in, and looked at the crib... There was Maggie, completely motionless. She just didn't have the courage to go there. No, absolutely not. Marge ran outside the house, and looked around. She saw the Flanderses' house, and ran to their front door. She banged on the door, screaming for help.

There was no response. No matter how she tried, they just wouldn't respond.

In terror, she ran around the streets, looking for help. She saw a taxi cab parked on a corner, and rushed to it and cried for help to the driver. Only to find out he was dead.

Suddenly, Marge began to think that the entire situation was just pathetic, ridiculous. But that didn't help. Her family was what mattered, even if the entire town was, indeed, dead. And she knew who was the only one she could look for.

this show is getting pretty dark, god damn

Is it Flanderses' or Flanders' ? or Flanders's ?

flandereses.

stupid flanderses

I think officially it's "stupid sexy Flanderses."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtJ28qOEG1g

This is amazing. Stories about the monorail episode, Michael Jackson, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, etc.

Matt Groening's first season idea on how to end the show is pretty awesome

It's the Bart would find out that Homer is actually Krusty the Clown and that Marge would take off her blue hair helmet to reveal that she's really a giant rabbit.

I watched through a bunch of the Treehouse of Horrors the other night, which were often the highlights of the seasons. Eventually i got to an episode where Bart and Lisa end up on the Regis & Kathy Lee Show, and then in the next skit everyone ends up on the Jerry Springer Show. Both segments were not very funny, and sort of nailed this bizarre cartoon down in the real world. I think if JSS had been featured on an earlier show it would have been a quick cutaway gag that satirized dumb TV, rather than something that was entirely willing to sell itself out to the lowest common denominator.

http://i.imgur.com/ChxAWhv.jpg

sad news! poor matt.

i just rewatched seasons 9, 10, and 11. 9 and 10 are actually both much much better than i remembered, with a couple of all-time classics in each. homer buying a gun, homer adopting a lobster, homer and lisa bonding at the museum -- all terrific stuff.

but 11 is borderline unwatchable, just episode after episode with lame jokes, aimless stories, and stupid pop-culture references that somehow seem way more dated and embarrassing than anything in the early seasons. the one where maude flanders dies, which i'd somehow missed seeing until now, is almost appallingly callous and stupid. hard to believe it's the same show that made a genuine tear-jerker out of homer eating the poisoned blowfish.

You might agree with this guy: http://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/

I also agree with that guy, mostly.

I wasn't sure if there was a thread for this already but Simpsons marathon starts today :D

Hooray!
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lscpik1bvY1qg0rnuo1_1280.jpg

except I can't watch anything til my lunch hour

:(

this marathon is, um, on what?