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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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 23 November 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

"funny"

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

Scroto-bond

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 24 November 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

yes!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

KOTH, Family Guy and Futurama are all HILARIOUS.

Mission Hill is not.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

SOUTH PARK IS KING OF ALL

"Dum dum dum dum dum!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

but classy?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

oh so this was THAT episode then

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

(you probably had to be there)

― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

hehe suit of drugs

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

three 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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

Syndication cuts, I'd imagine, which US viewers are subjected to as well when it's not broadcast on FOX. I think sometimes cut scenes get put back in once in a while.

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Thursday, 18 March 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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the x-ray with grandpa's exploded kidneys struck me at the time as gross and mean in a way the show usually veered short of

― intheblanks, Monday, 4 December 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Totally stopped after season 9 or so and whenever I read about some of the later EPs I just literally can't believe it's the same show

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:09 (two years ago)

oh yeah I've watched the Serious Flanders episode, if nothing else I applaud them for doing something new. I assume it makes a lot more sense if you've seen Fargo. wasn't really digging how violent and gross it got at the end, it started to feel like those particularly mean-spirited episodes of Family Guy or South Park where it just made you look at something digusting for a full minute. but the parking lot standoff scene actually *did* capture the brilliant absurdity of peak Simpsons in a way that actually did make me laugh so I guess they do, in very limited doses, still got it

― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:16 (two years ago)

like there was another episode where a car is peeling out in front of Marge and she throws a pair of socks at it out of anger, which manages to hit the back window and shatter it, and MOST IMPORTANTLY there isn't a moment where she goes "I didn't think THAT would happen!", it just cuts to the next scene. I guess I gotta admit as bad as the show has gotten there's still always like one or two good jokes per episode

― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:20 (two years ago)

still the stupidest gag of misdirection that makes my brother and I laugh is Itchy and Scratchy Land, where Homer is driving and falling asleep and then they show a car careen off the road and wreck and then it pans to Bart in the hotel going "whoa, glad that wasn't us"

― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:28 (two years ago)

a serious flanders wasn't bad but it felt a bit flat in the same way a full two episode arc of chief wiggum PI probably would - there were a lot of things I liked about it

the best thing I've seen from them in years was the halloween episode from a couple of years ago with the anime style death note parody - most of the credit should go to the studio that made it because they did an amazing job with the designs - the whole thing was probably the first halloween episode in decades where all the segments landed (assuming there aren't many hidden gems I've missed from the 20s seasons)

third segment really freaked me out on first viewing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNBAUpjT0VM

― Left, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:53 (two years ago)

as for misdirects that's literally every joke in season 5 it's quite incredible

― Left, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:56 (two years ago)

"I can't solve this case....can...YOU?"

― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:59 (two years ago)

my brother made a shitty Julius Caesar movie for English class and he tried to do that same POV misdirection joke and it came out so badly

― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 18:00 (two years ago)

Do they throw the old SimpsonsWorld bodies in a Tesla truck in the above clip?

― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:03 (two years ago)

I've heard from a couple of friends that even as the show's declined the Treehouse of Horror episodes are apparently still very good. guessing it's because it allows them to do a lot of weird/format-busting stuff rather than "Chief Wiggum runs into his old high school crush, voiced by Anne Hathaway" type shit. the Serious Flanders episode was like that too, in fact that struck me as one of the few modern episodes where they actually seemed to enjoy making it

― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:09 (two years ago)

seven months pass...

Reading the phrase “couch jokes” everywhere for the past week and every time it just makes me think of the Simpsons

Is there a “Simpsons predicted it” of the jd Vance thing? I could see them having moe hump the couch in like season 57

― keep kamala and khive on (wins), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 16:59 (one year ago)

They predicted Vance and the dolphin thing with Troy McClure.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 July 2024 17:01 (one year ago)

vance likes a different kind of "couch gag"

― ivy., Wednesday, 31 July 2024 17:03 (one year ago)

Couch, gagged.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 July 2024 17:29 (one year ago)

three months pass...

forgot how great the voice acting on this show could be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4dahqXNUvY

― frogbs, Friday, 22 November 2024 15:31 (one year ago)

absolutely... one of my favorites here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwB3tcs1L8A

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 22 November 2024 16:36 (one year ago)

lol i just shared that w/ my bro an hour ago. we occasionally share old Simpsons clips w each other

― her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 November 2024 16:45 (one year ago)

two months pass...

I think my favorite joke in the entire series is when Flanders saves Homer from the burning building by throwing him out of the 2nd story window onto a mattress, which he bounces off of and back *into* the flaming house, to which Flanders makes a mildly annoyed expression and jumps out himself and does a double reverse backflip into the same hole in the window

― frogbs, Sunday, 26 January 2025 05:32 (one year ago)

one year passes...

Former Simpsons writer (who predicted a Trump presidency in "Bart to the Future") launches 2028 campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Cu17jaynE

― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Wednesday, 27 May 2026 16:22 (one week ago)

I recently saw someone wearing a Middlebury shirt in public and broke out laughing.

Also, every time I see a musical act whose name doesn’t start with “the”, I now always think “I hope The (x)s don’t play too loud”

― ed.b, Wednesday, 27 May 2026 19:47 (one week ago)

lmao this guy is a self-described "progressive republican"

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 28 May 2026 15:17 (one week ago)

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