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The past few seasons I haven't liked it as much to the point that if I miss an episode, I don't care at all. The show has lost its heart and the humor just is nowhere near as brilliant as it used to be. King of the Hill is better these days.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 23 November 2003 18:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

Wait wait, hold up. No Futurama, no Family Guy, but they still make King of the Hill?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 23 November 2003 22:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

Wait wait, hold up. No Futurama, no Family Guy, but they still make King of the Hill?

Yeah, I know!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 23 November 2003 22:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

This season is the WORST EVER!!
When I'm listening to the radio and a Simpson's promo comes on, the soundbytes that they have from the show sound so fucking stupid. Like the one for the Halloween special where Homer goes "There's a reason it's America's number one participant sport!" or something; SO STUPID.

― Dan I., Sunday, 23 November 2003 23:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Homer goes "There's a reason it's America's number one participant sport!" or something; SO STUPID.

I'm not so sure that this season is the worst, but when they had that on the radio, I didn't quite get it.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 23 November 2003 23:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

King of the Hill is a terrific show! Why should they stop? (Not that Futurama or Family Guy should have been cancelled, obv.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 November 2003 23:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

As an actual "sit com", King of the Hill is superior to both The Simpsons and Futurama.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 23 November 2003 23:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yes, a friend of mine thinks that - probably because the characters are far more realistic.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 November 2003 23:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yes, anyone could have a friend as stupid as Dale.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 23 November 2003 23:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

Wait wait wait, NO ONE liked the Eva Peron spoofing episode from last week?!?!?! What's wrong with you people?!?!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 24 November 2003 02:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

Tonight's episode was typical "Simpsons do wacky things in another country; aforementioned country's customs and foibles get predictably needled; stupid slapstick occurs" nonsense, but the rerun that followed had me dying with laughter. (Then again, I am the type of person who is easily amused by Homer attempting to rap along to Chaka Khan's "I Feel For You".)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 24 November 2003 02:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

some of the newer episodes seem to suck on first viewing but improve on subsequent viewings. the Angry Dad episode made me nearly piss my pants when i saw it again recently

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 24 November 2003 03:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, but tonight's episode had a Ryan Giggs reference in it!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 04:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

THe wife just bought Simpsons Road Rage for PS2. Really fun for 3 hours. No replay value.

Whereas Simpsons: Hit & Run is more fun than a tank of nitrous and a sack of monkeys. Infinite replay value. Hell, you can spend hours just exploring the town.

I loved the Prisoner reference in the Movementarian episode.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 24 November 2003 05:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

Tonight's England episode was absolutely the dregs (not sure, tho, whether I liked it or not when Pygmalion became an excuse for a gay British make-out session), but I for one think the season's been going at a pretty good clip.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 24 November 2003 05:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

I don't really think of The Simpsons in "seasons". Doesn't it all just spill continuously out of some global Sunday evening funny pipe?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 05:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

"funny"

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 06:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

In the Uk new episodes trickle thru most weeks but are served up with repeat episodes which could be anything from the 13 (or 14?) previous seasons...which can be cool as you never know when you might luck out with Mr Plow, Marge vs the Monorail, 'Dental Plan' etc.

i absolutely cannot watch the latest episodes as i've said before - i don't think a show like this is meant to go on as long as this one has and the attempts to do something fresh always come off 'half-cock' to me. old jokes cynically rehashed mutter mutter, characters lost all charm yadda yadda, saw a clip of the new one where they visit England - Tony Blair is there to greet them at the airport, Homer gives him a dollar...sigh...

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 10:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

That doesn't sound good at all (in the way that the funniest moment will be if some knobjockey complains, a la the Brazil episode). I am intrigued by the Ryan Giggs reference however. What does it say?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

the Brazil one didn't sound funny either tho i haven't seen it. i look back at the Australia one and i still find it deeply hilarious but also quite bizarre and i never really understood why it seemed to be so inertly brutal in just totally taking the piss out of them (tho Groening confessed he had no real idea what Australia was like at the time which i actually find a bit sad)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

The Eva Peron episode last week was the requisite one funny episode of the season, there's no point watching again until next year.

King of the Hill kicks all y'alls asses. I've said this before, but I think it's weird when people trash the Simpsons because they say it doesn't have "heart" anymore, but then they don't watch KOTH, which has more "heart" than the Simpsons ever had, and plus, it's now funnier than the Simpsons. Peggy fucking rulz.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 24 November 2003 13:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

Scroto-bond

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 24 November 2003 13:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

i love KOTH and it's re-assuring because i feel they're never going to go too surreal and lose touch with reality - which The Simpsons benfitted from superbly initially but i've found far less so in recent years (same true of Family Guy i think).

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 13:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Tracer Hand: "Do we really need this thread?"

Do we really need that kind of dismissive benhaviour?

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

yes!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

KOTH, Family Guy and Futurama are all HILARIOUS.

Mission Hill is not.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

woah i haven't seen an episode of South Park for months

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

SOUTH PARK IS KING OF ALL

"Dum dum dum dum dum!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

the brazil episode had the orphan boy being tormented by the killer monkeys and the sleazy dance teacher working on his new dance-"the penedtrado-it makes sex look like church"
therefore its classic

― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

but classy?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

i do agree that there has been a huge drop in quality though,but some of the new episodes still have some incredible moments
the one where bart divorces marge and homer for being crap parents is the lamest plot idea ever,but it does have that moment where they go to visit bart in his downtown loft,and marge gives a bum five dollars and tells him to go buy a suit and he snatches it and goes "oh i'll buy a suit alright,a SUIT OF DRUGS!!",just screaming in her face,its so funny

― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Ryan Giggs reference: Homer says "Can you believe that Giggs got a yellow card in the box?", then confesses that he has no idea what that actually means. haha...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:56 (9 years ago) Permalink

what was the context of that quote Adam?? was it at all plot-related?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

Ummm, not really. I think he overheard some "hooligans" on the street outside Harrods...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

oh so this was THAT episode then

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

that was a cross-post
not classy,perhaps,but worth it for the odd moment of genius
i always try and describe bits from the simpsons on threads like this and they don't sound funny at all

― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

(you probably had to be there)

― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

it's more my problem in that i seem to WANT to hate it now anyway so don't find anything that funny about it anymore. however i do notice that your references are based on 'creating humour out of cruelty' which is something i generally do not really go for anyway (unless it's balanced with some absurd or surreal visual spectacle and is somehow the victim's fault)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

The Eva Peron episode AND the Angry Dad episode are the only ones I've caught so far this season, but I seriously thought they had hella laughs!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

no,the point of it wasn't humour out of cruelty at all,i probably explained it badly
its the look on the guys face as he's shouting,the way its timed,etc
i suppose the "now the monkeys will never get me" bit from the brazil episode could be seen as cruel,but its more absurd
(although now that i think about it is a bit of a rip off of the kids news episode with the crazy woman throwing cats at lisa)

― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

although to be fair i do sometimes like humour based on cruelty,such as brasseye...
i think maybe its just that i want to like the episodes so if theres the odd good joke its worth me watching it
plus i've never had sky so i've only seen the episodes on rte and bbc,(and sky episodes in other people's houses,obviously) so i amn't as sick of it as everyone else

― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

i'm really sick of the seemingly pointless celebrity cameos as well, even tho some have been funny (Stan Lee, The Who - ummm, that's it) - wasn't impressed with R.E.M's or Blinke 182 & Tony Hawk's, or indeed Mr Blair's from what i've seen of it thus far.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

There was a new series of South Park started on C4 at the weekend! No fanfare, starting after midnight - I almost didn't notice it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

The rock and roll fantasy camp was pretty much the nadir of the celebrity cameos-for-their-own-sake thing, but it had one great shining moment -- the one where Homer calls Elvis Costello "Nerdlinger" and stomps on his glasses. Elvis' anguished response: "My image!!"

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 24 November 2003 19:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

Do we really need this thread?

This thread is great! I'm sure to be raking in the royalty money soon! *waits patiently @ paypal*

― Leee Majors, Vicar of Groening (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

Though it would have been a lot worse if I hadn't been carrying this Bible in my crotch

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

hehe suit of drugs

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

something a bit weird happened. i was watching the one where Bart meets the bum who created Itchy & Scratchy and they take Roger Myers Jr to court yadda yadda, for the 50th time probably - BUT for the first time ever i saw the ENTIRE scene where Chester plays his original Itchy film to Bart and Milhouse - after 'falling afoul of the Irishman' and putting him thru the rollers Itchy then meets Teddy Roosevelt and chops his head off with an axe. I'm sure I could google this and find out why it had been edited out of the episode every single time I'd seen it prior to tonight...but why was it put back in now? Or have American viewers been getting that scene all along? Anyone see it before?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

When I've watched reruns that part has never been cut out, so I don't know.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

it makes it a little different because it explains why Bart and Milhouse are hollering and laughing as much as they are when the film ends - previously it had been edited so as the Irishman gets rollered that's what's making them laugh so much, not Roosevelt's decapitation.

this annoys me and i now shudder to think what else UK viewers may have missed.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

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do the bratman

― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Just take it! Takeittakeittakeittakeit! Take it!"

"How's that game gonna help your putting, son?"

― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge is still the funniest shit ever

"You have selected Powerblast"

― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

"You have chosen . . . driver. Are you sure you don't want to use your putte . . . driver. Ball is in . . . parking lot."

― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Marge, is Lisa at Camp Granada?"

― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

My contribution to this thread: I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT THIS SO I'M PUTTING IT HERE

― EDB, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's also the episode with

WELCOME
THRILLHO

― frogbs, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's a top to bottom classic. Bart holding up the voice balloon in the family picture, Homer commenting, "I don't remember saying that."

― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

Or when the photographer tries to do the goofy voice for Maggie by inhaling the balloon and is just like "Hiiii, I'm...oh it's just filled with air"

Even the Bonestorm commercial was great, pretty much a picture-perfect send-up of the Macho Man Slim Jim commercials plus a pretty obvious Mortal Kombat reference

Hell it even had a nice emotional ending and all, no way modern Simpsons can pull that off

― frogbs, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Heh heh heh...GET 'IM, MAW."

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

"I though Krusty was Jewish?"

"Christmas is the time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ."

― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

"catfiche?"

(I'm always saying that)

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 25 May 2012 05:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

Homer drawing the robot grilling the hot dog

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 25 May 2012 10:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

BUY BONESTORM OR GO TO HELLLLL

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 25 May 2012 10:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

"I will now close the cash register as you are apparently unfamiliar with sarcasm."

This and the one where Bart accidentally burns down the Christmas tree are the unsung heroes of TV Xmas episodes.

― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Friday, 25 May 2012 12:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

i think doing a tribute to something as under-the-radar and recent as logorama is less an "homage" and more "an excuse to steal an idea" tbh

― DJ Admiral Crackbar - IT'S THE TRAP!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 November 2012 04:47 (6 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Well this eats

http://www.examiner.com/article/sam-simon-has-metastasized-cancer

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:46 (3 months ago) Permalink

sad sad news

by a lot of accounts he, more than groening, was the guy who really came up with the signature tone and style of the show in its classic days

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:35 (3 months ago) Permalink

v sad, he seems like a nice interesting guy. also when he was asked if they could refer to him in the 138th episode spectacular (at that point he had long departed the everyday running of the show after disagreements with groening and brooks, mostly the former it seems), he went one better than just give them permission and instead drew them this image himself

― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 02:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

i've been finding the best scoring avclub reviews of the past couple of years and watching just those episodes. some of them are not bad at all, even with a couple of quite touching and well executed moments. nowhere near the heyday obv.

― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 4 May 2013 09:23 (1 month ago) Permalink

was the season finale (last week, yes?) any good? Oldtime NatLamp / SNL / SCTV guy Brian McConnachie wrote it, apparently.

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:51 (1 month ago) Permalink

It was meh, but one or two jokes were surprisingly funny.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:52 (1 month ago) Permalink

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