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Um, I think cuts like that are made for time, not content. I see those kinds of cuts all the time on my FOX in DC, and they're one reason why I kinda want to buy the DVDs.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

Not really. The cuts to the opening sequence should fix the time. According to my friend at fox, any other cuts, made for time or content, should not happen and are being done without the knowledge of the people at Fox LA who are in charge of syndication. But again, all the cuts I've seen are clearly about content, they are obviously targeted(jokes about plain crashes, drugs etc)

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

Your friend must be off her rocker. Almost all shows in syndication are cut - The Simpsons, Buffy, Law & Order, etc. It's a very common practice to squeeze in more commercials. Here's a page listing all of the cuts in Simpsons episodes : http://www.snpp.com/episodes/scg.html

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 19 March 2004 08:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

has anyone seen the New York episode in the last year or two?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

yes, definitely within the last 12-18 months

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yep, me too. I thought it was weird since they were supposedly removing it from syndication.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

There are so freakin many Simpsons threads!

Last night's new ep was actually pretty good. It had this great psychedelic drumkit gag ft The White Stripes, jazzmen (juzz), and even the rare-since-season-6-or-so touching Bart/Lisa moments.

― nickalicious, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

that was a rerun, from last season I think. but yeah, it was a pretty good one

― bernard snowy, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

Things have definitely picked up in the last season or so.

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

I haven't watched a new simpsons in 2 or 3 seasons I think.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

The upcoming one with Ronaldo in, supposedly as a sop to Brazilians who are still pissed off w/ the programme, looks an abject embarrassment. There was a pic of him on the programme in the Metro's sports pages and I thought it was Kearney

― DJ Mencap, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Wait, there was one last night, and the Ronaldo one was last week's, unless the torrent kidz are more magical than I thought.

The Ronaldo one suuuucked, which is a shame because some of the recent ones have been pretty good. I haven't watched last night's yet.

― Casuistry, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

thoughts on the upcoming movie? seems like a tall order after this many years.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

I dunno about the movie. Scuttlebutt right now doesn't sound promising.

― kingfish, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

I seem to remember Ronaldo being kind of funny but I don't remember how or why

Brazilian people are still upset about the Brazil episode? I guess I can understand why, but still, that was a pretty good one!

― bernard snowy, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

I know Australians who are still boycotting The Simpsons.

― sunny successor, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

b/c of the frogs?

― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

i havent seen any koala bears here yet

― sunny successor, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

That drumming-Bart one is like one of my least favorite episodes over the past few years. The fact that like half of its running time is dedicated to musical sequences would seem to suggest the writers couldn't find the funny in it, either. But full credit to "Poopsy Crouton" and the ghost-dog-scratching-door bit.

The Simpsons needs to get more watchable again if Fox wants anyone (read: me) watching Sunday night, cause the Seth Macfarlane shows are getting really dumb, lowbrow, and actively offensive, like they've been turned over to new writers with nothing but ethnic jokes. Possibly they need to cancel Family Guy again and give him another break to work up decent material.

― nabisco, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm not sure if that's what happened after their 1st break.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Actually yeah, the best stuff was right before the cancellation, and the comeback was ... not as good. Haha thus: just threaten cancellation, so they stop coasting on total sub-South-Park bullshit.

― nabisco, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

I thought family guy was totally rubbish until I saw american dad. actually, that didn't change my opinion of family guy at all but american dad is just...incredible

haven't seen any simpsons from the last four or five years

― RJG, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm just about done with "The Simpsons". I mean, fuck. I've been watching that show from fifteen to thirty-three. I bet some folks got tired of "Gunsmoke" after awhile.

But watching last week's Wizard of Warcraft episode, six months after watching "South Park" covering the same ground in a much funnier way, I've decided that I've got better things to do with my time.

I fed the baby while watching last night's "Family Guy", and even with jokes like "Welcome to Texas: The Fuck-You State", I couldn't laugh.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

incredible is in new levels of garbage, right?
xpost

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

*as in

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

All the Family Guy jokes are giant broad stereotype or gross-out gags at this point -- despite most of what's ever been really funny about it revolving around weird conversational tics. I can't imagine them doing anything at this point like, I dunno, Brian pretending to like his friend's one-man show ("what a journey," etc.). Though they did have kind of a score recently with Peter not liking the Godfather because "it insists on itself."

Sorry, this is a Simpsons thread, isn't it.

― nabisco, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

i still can't believe they took Arrested Development off and American Dad is still going.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

american dad is 0% funny.

― stevie, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

its like somebody animated all the cartoons in the Right Wang Cartoonists thread.

― stevie, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

Wing. ha.

― stevie, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Thank God It's Doomsday" in season 16 (so the net tells me) is brilliant.

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

american dad is really bad

― RJG, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

I kind of hate to admit I have watched more than one episode but every one I have seen has been appalling and dismal EXCEPT the ones that Patrick Stewart are on, which are somehow pretty great.

― nickalicious, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

hate to admit I have watched more than one episode...of American Dad, I should say.

― nickalicious, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

I laughed at something in American Dad. I think it was the Mom being in bed with Dexy's Midnight Runners.

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

it was weird that BBC bought both Family Guy and American Dad to show around 11.30pm on a Sunday recently.

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

Seth Macfarlane shows are getting really dumb, lowbrow, and actively offensive

"getting"

― félix pié, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QlTraZNJ9to

― félix pié, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

Haha yeah that part that hurts about saying that is knowing there'll be this "told you so" reactin from people who thought that all along -- I guarantee you, though, Family Guy used to be WAY sharper than this, with dumbness / lowbrowness / offensiveness being like a two-joke-per-episode annoyance. Now it's like a depressing half-the-show issue.

― nabisco, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

Or at least I had a personal threshold that it recently crossed the line of. There's been movement, is the point, even if it was beyond your threshold to begin with.

― nabisco, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

The fact that like half of its running time is dedicated to musical sequences would seem to suggest the writers couldn't find the funny in it, either

this didn't bother me so much, i was just happy they finally brought a musical sequence up to par. it was actually kind of good jazz! they still have Lisa's "jazzman" song from 10 years ago to live down, god i can still hear that shit in my head. I think Lisa was better written in this episode than she has been in years, without being funny at all really.

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

i mean i've not only lowered expectations, but it's gotten to the point where you can tell within the first minute if it's gonna be a shit episode so you just do other things and cherry pick for a good joke here and there. it's a ritual.

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

It had this great psychedelic drumkit gag ft The White Stripes, jazzmen (juzz), and even the rare-since-season-6-or-so touching Bart/Lisa moments.

whaaaaaa...? that episode sucked. krusty naming a bunch of jazz dudes was the only thing i laughed at; the 'drumkit gag' is just ripped from a white stripes video. laziest bullshit they've done since the inexplicable three minute homer the ice cream man/ali g opening ripoff.

nabisco right about the family guy. last night was really painful.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

it's quite funny hearing about things that happened in recent episodes but not having a clue about them/the context etc.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

basically you should exploit me and make up all kinds of crap. 'omg did you see that episode where Bart gets a pet dinosaur and Homer gets a job as the Secretary Of Defense?'

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

i was just happy they finally brought a musical sequence up to par. it was actually kind of good jazz!

If you're refering to the kids jam (maybe the only bit I haven't blocked out from the initial viewing when it was new)-Well, duh:

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

I haven't watched a new simpsons in 23 seasons I think.

― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

the 'drumkit gag' is just ripped from a white stripes video.

Okay I was not aware of this.

I thought it was pretty incredible on Bart's part to be able to hold down "Take Five" so early in his drumming career, that is not an easy piece to drum on.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

I will say, regarding the otherwise terrible White Stripes cameo, that I liked that they made Meg all mean and shouty.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

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