The Simpsons

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the fact that the worthless fucksticks Tim & Eric were in a Simpsons episode

OK wahhht!? It was bad (good?) enough when fotc were on the simpsons, geez. At least Futurama dont pull this shit.

(ok yes heads in jars that doesnt count somehow)

Simpsons seasons 2-8 vs. 8-now = John Lennon dying, so they replaced his Beatles role with one of the Fat Boys.

which is an immeasurable improvement?

Pappa, I love you to death, but people who leave out season 1 when talking about the series' golden years are literally worse than Jerry Sandusky

season 1 is horrible

ugly animation, ugly voices, ugly ugly ugly

oh hey i just googled jerry sandusky

http://i.imgur.com/7WOj5.gif

homer looks really disappointed there

http://board.muse.mu/picture.php?albumid=745&pictureid=7277

http://omgface.com/verysad/sad%20homer8.jpg

why so sad

as great as the simpsons are i really can't imagine being a fan on the pappawheelie level of auteurism where if someone turned on a perfectly good season 9 episode you'd be like "ARGH FUCKING MIKE SCULLY ERA TURN IT OFF"

yeah but the question is how do you know it's a good season 9 episode

great season 1 eps

bart the genius
there's no disgrace like home
bart the general
telltale head
life on the fast lane
crepes of wrath
krusty gets busted
some enchanted evening

That New York episode at the start of Season 9 was last episode I ever saw

is that the one where they say 'malparkage'?

Maybe? I remember Homer got a clamp put on his car + it was the first episode I'd seen that had computer generated visuals

But I vividly remember, the next day, talking about it at school, and consensus opinion was one of disillusionment with the series.

you didn't like kal kalash?

Simpsons seasons 2-8 vs. 8-now = John Lennon dying, so they replaced his Beatles role with one of the Fat Boys.

― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, November 19, 2011 10:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

More like if one of the Fat Boys died and was replaced with Paul McCartney

ringo was on season 2, george was on season 5, paul was on season 7. OMG GUYS THEY GOT BAD WHEN THEY RAN OUT OF BEATLES, DAMN YOU MARK DAVID CHAPMAN

^ that s5 episode, the barbershop quartet one, is class.

yeah one of my all-time favorites

reat season 1 eps

bart the genius
there's no disgrace like home
bart the general
telltale head
life on the fast lane
crepes of wrath
krusty gets busted
some enchanted evening

― tracy mcgr8080 (dayo), Sunday, 20 November 2011 04:36 (10 hours ago)

So otm! I think people underestimate s1 simply due to the voice actors still finding their groove and the Klusky-Czupo (sp?) animations. Who cares though? "Life on the Fast Lane" was great, and there are some BRILLIANT vocal outtakes on the DVD of Al Brooks mugging it up for his role as Jaques, just throwing out loads of cheesy pickup lines one after another with all the crew giggling in the background.

And Krusty gets Busted is an essential episode! Without it, the entire Bart/Krusty nemesis plot doesn't have its basis.

(I in fact always forget thats even a season 1 ep, it seems like it is from sometime later)

the story that homer was a crappy dad but will be an awesome grandfather is kind of the best moment the show's has in like a decade

So otm! I think people underestimate s1 simply due to the voice actors still finding their groove and the Klusky-Czupo (sp?) animations. Who cares though? "Life on the Fast Lane" was great, and there are some BRILLIANT vocal outtakes on the DVD of Al Brooks mugging it up for his role as Jaques, just throwing out loads of cheesy pickup lines one after another with all the crew giggling in the background

yeah they're starting to show these on TV and I'm very impressed with how different the show was back then. not as many jokes but the great moments really are earned. plus there were some pretty serious themes - IIRC two of the episodes dealt with adultery which is a far cry from the wackier "oh that Homer" episodes of the last 15 years. but maybe I'm biased since they kinda stopped showing the real early eps when I was watching the show a bunch so watching them now brings a ton of nostalgia...

Whiney OTM. I'd go so far as to say it's the best episode since at least season 9.

"District 10" was the hardest I'ver laughed at anything in a while

as great as the simpsons are i really can't imagine being a fan on the pappawheelie level of auteurism where if someone turned on a perfectly good season 9 episode you'd be like "ARGH FUCKING MIKE SCULLY ERA TURN IT OFF"

― some dude, Saturday, November 19, 2011 12:17 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I agree with this. I do own 9&10 boxes, for a couple episodes.

BTW, Scully was a hell of a script writer -- just a terrible show runner. He didn't know when to say when. And he also lost a slew of the good writers before he took over.

listening to the commentaries it sounds to me that he just didn't really care as much as the previous show runners did, or in the same way. Where the others all seemed to have very strong ideas about what they wanted from the show and tortured themselves and everyone else to get it perfect, he seemed happy to occasionally have bits that didn't really make sense or to have lazy jokes here and there, and with a process as long and complicated as making any single Simpsons episode, that seems like a recipe for rapid decay.

Anyone else catch that after this Sunday's ep, number 500 (!), the show is up there with Gunsmoke and Lassie as the longest running TV series.

but of course Lassie maintained the quality all the way through its run

kinda surprised any shows have been on longer than the Simpsons tbh

I don't think that's necessarily something they should be proud of.

the story that homer was a crappy dad but will be an awesome grandfather is kind of the best moment the show's has in like a decade

This was on tv here the other night - I missed the start and thus the premise tho, why were we seeing the future (yet again!)?

But yeah, I v rarely see current-Simpsons now, and I actually quite liked this one, it had some heart to it. Lisa and Bart drunk up in the treehouse was suprisingly jarring and realistic!

And for once everyone's futures made *sense*, rather tha have Lisa-as-president or Bart as a rock star or some crap, they were just normal struggling adults.

well maggie's didn't :/

but yeah, bart and lisa's seemed to make sense

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/feb/16/the-simpsons-top-10-episodes

"surprisingly"

Anyone else catch that after this Sunday's ep, number 500 (!), the show is up there with Gunsmoke and Lassie as the longest running TV series.

you might want to add about a dozen qualifiers there

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/071106/071106_mtplist_hmed_12p.standard.jpg

500th show ended with this:

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/505730/SIMPSONS-500-EPISODES.jpg

using the phrase 'logging on the internet' is half the problem imo

haha before i saw your comment i kept rereading that logging on the internet part and wondering why my head couldn't accept it.

Internet should be capitalized too.

I gave up capitalising that a while ago.