If I didn't already know what an ass Canseco was I'd think he was quite an ass right now.
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ken Griffey, Jr. did not understand his line "there's a party in my mouth and everyone's invited" and got quite frustrated when he was recording it
― Number None, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
What's great is that it's a funny, well written episode with solid jokes even without the ballplayers, but with them, it just goes to the next level. (Even today, when watching a boring baseball game, either my wife or I will bust out, "… and the next man wants to hit the ball, too. And he does, and everyone is happy.")
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
See I didnt get any of the jokes relevamt to the players themselves. I didnt even know they were specific refs, til the SNPP entry I just read (stuff like the 'get a haircut!' rant for eg). It all worked regardless, I figured there was another layer I was mising tho.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
i read somewhere that the 'get a haircut!' line / incident was actually an odd coincidence - the real life version of it actually came after the voice recordings for the episode.
― shart practice (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually actually.
― shart practice (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Homer Simpson: Hey Clemens, did I make the team? Roger Clemens: You sure did. Homer Simpson: Woo-hoo! In your face, Strawberry! Roger Clemens: Wait a minute. Are you Ken Griffey Jr.? Homer Simpson: No. Roger Clemens: Sorry. Didn't mean to get your hopes up.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love that Ozzie Smith really got into it. I always thought there was something more considered about his delivery than that of the other players.
Also:Marge: Children, tell me when your father stops scratching himself.[long pause] Marge: Kids?Bart: We'll tell you, Mom.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.lasertimepodcast.com/2012/02/21/laser-time-simpsons-sing-the-blehs/
On a related note, going thru the tracks of "Sing the Blues" and "The Yellow Album"
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 04:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
i listened to a solid minute of that and have no idea what it is
― CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE (dave cool), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 04:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
'not once, not twice, but thrice!'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 05:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 13:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like the intro this week
― Mordy, Monday, 5 March 2012 01:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^ Rest of the show was abominable, tho.
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Monday, 5 March 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
what did you think of the rabbit?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I decided, out of I dunno, masochistic curiosity, to watch the latest episode, about everyone at the nuclear plant being replaced by robots. Christ it was bad. The storyline hopped from one nonsensical point to another with reckless abandon, and not even in the usual bad Simpsons way of nothing connecting acts together and so on, but in simple terms of NOTHING MAKING SENSE, either across the entire narrative or at any individual point. So many bad jokes, non-jokes, unfunny interminable repetitions. So much Homer being an utter irredeemable dick. No one's really a character any more, they all just seem to float around while stuff happens for some reason. GOD. Who still watches this??
― Boo-Yaa Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire (Merdeyeux), Friday, 6 April 2012 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't, makes me very sad. I also don't understand the love for new South Parks, new Office. Too many shows lose sight.
― Evan, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I respect the voice actors always fighting for money, because they're the only reason this show has survived, but holy shit do they sit on piles of money when recording their lines to remind themselves of why they bother?
― da croupier, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Some of the actors have been vocal about how crappy the episodes have been, particularly Harry Shearer. And Dan Castellenata has written a couple, but nothing to think about writing home about.
But thinking about how Groening refused to put his name on the film festival episode (because he hated the Critic crossover) and yet still tacitly endorses the last 13-14 years of crapulence, it's hard to imagine too many people involved in the day-to-day of the show even notice the colossal downturn in quality.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 April 2012 04:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
when is the last season? is there any definitive answer?
― del griffith, Friday, 6 April 2012 04:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just saw the Lady Gaga episode, the first new episode I've seen in years (lol UK) and I am very unimpressed and saddened by it.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 10:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
No one ever bumps this thread with joy.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
"I rebuke thee, lady gaga" is a little bit of brilliance. up there with "baboon" as far as righteous lisa quotes will go.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
Every time I've watched in recent years (usually because someone I like is participating in some way), it's been a very sad affair. Like visiting a senile relative who no longer remembers anyone's name.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
i think my grampa peaked in season 7 but everyone else says season 5.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Jeff, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:50 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The Bill Plympton couch gag a few weeks ago was beautiful
― ʕ•̫͡ʕ•̫͡ʕ•̫͡ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
You know, without a trace of zing, I was going to mention that WGW bumps this thread regularly with news that this show doesn't suck 100% of the time.
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
That's true though - bits and pieces of the newer eps have made me laugh, and it's at least on par with most of the other garbage that FOX runs. Then again being on par with Seth MacFarlane sets the bar pretty low.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
Fucking hell, first time I've seen that 500th show end-card (lol UK redux); pure, dripping contempt for your (perceived) audience is truly nagl.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
There's a very nu-Simpsons vibe to referring to "logging onto the internet" in 2012
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
There was a gag two weeks ago with Rod (or Todd) Flanders riding a tricycle with training wheels that was funny. Other than that I'd really have to think.
Bob's Burger's, OTOH, has been constant lolz for me.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
>There's a very nu-Simpsons vibe to referring to "logging onto the internet" in 2012
srsly, I don't ask for much; Santa's Little Helper saying "chewy" is enough to raise a smile when I just think about it many years later, but to imply that the reason they're not funny any more is because it's your fault you don't get it, perhaps you might want to take a look at your own worthless lives? is some nth level shittiness.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
there was one where Marge gets angry and throws a pair of socks at a car, which wind up shattering the back window, that was really funny
it's crazy how we've gone from "Futurama is good, but it's nowhere near the Simpsons" to "the only time the Simpsons are good anymore is when they do jokes on par with what Futurama does"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
9xpost) They were kinda doing that way back in "Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie" with Comic Book Guy and the internet pundits, except that show was (imo) funny and 500th episode wasn't.
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
i feel like they should stop doing the show and just do couch bits and movies
― phooey and nuts and phooey (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
The movie wasn't even that good, but there's a thread for that.
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
'itchy and scratchy and poochie' was directed at a fair target, since at the time while most of the newsgroup coverage was positive (contrary to how they pose it now, where it's suggested that the internet's hated it since virtually the beginning) there was that hardcore group of people determined to pinpoint the shark jump and complain about everything. but i think that episode was also pretty self-reflective, insofar as they felt that they were a good show that was coming close to the end of its run and it made sense that people were tiring of it or not getting what they hoped for. except now it's run for another 15 years, and i don't imagine the current staff are capable of that kind of reflection, or of empathy for the viewpoints of dissenting fans.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
exactly - I'd look to the South Park "You're Getting Old" episode for a good example of this done right
(plus, the Towelie episode was a lot like the Poochie one)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
they felt that they were a good show that was coming close to the end of its run and it made sense that people were tiring of it or not getting what they hoped for
unless there's a quote from someone involved w/ the show out there somewhere that suggests this it seems like hueg projection
that ep was like 1996/7 wasn't it? the idea that such an astronomically small % of the audience as online newsgroups would have been seen to represent the viewers at large seems really off
― cissémanwhore (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
the poochie was supposedly based on actual network notes to add characters like poochie to the show, and seemed to me more directed against FOX than newsgroup haters.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
ya sorry, i can't remember what they said exactly but that's the kind of attitude oakley & weinstein were projecting in the dvd commentary - i mean, it had been running for eight years at that point, it probably felt safe to assume that it was past peak popularity (which it was, obviously) and only had a couple of years (lol) of slightly declining popularity/critical favour (lol) to go.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
xp
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 04:39 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 04:42 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
brought to mind a writers' room full of old men who tuck their casual vertical-striped shirts into their jeans and don't trim their wayward eyebrows
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
ian maxtone graham has a secret desk full of new socks and underwear.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 23:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's crazy how we've gone from "Futurama is good, but it's nowhere near the Simpsons"
LOL WTF, I've always thought Fututama was in a completely different league to the Simpsons.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
how old are you exactly?
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
who was that aimed at?
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
I like Futurama a lot but to suggest it was at any point better than peak period Simpsons is crazy
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
I dont agree! Not entirely.
I didnt say Futurama was better than all Simpsons. I said it's in a different league. Apples n oranges. When Futurama appeared it was a breath of fresh air compared to Simpsons - not talking down to its damn audience as much, imo.
The veneration for S2-8 of the Simpsons has always been deeply weird, to me. Its good, but theres plenty good later on, there's plenty good in season one, and I cant help but wonder if people who lament it sharkjumping that early on are people who like, havent actually *watched* it much since it orginally aired and are leaning on memories.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 00:37 (11 months ago) Permalink