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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)

regional syndication cuts happen even on fox. I'm in NY and saw a re-run that edited out a comment(hullabalooza episode, when someone says about Frampton 'hey, his guitar's talking' and otto says something like "my shoes are talking") which is an odd cut, usually they cut violence and especially references to plane crashes, ESPECIALLy when there's just been a high-profile plane crash. Anyway, I mentioned that to a friend who is VERY high up at FOX in LA and she told the people in charge of syndication and they were going to watch for it. Apparently there shouldn't be any cuts at all...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, definitely within the last 12-18 months

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

three 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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

I know Australians who are still boycotting The Simpsons.

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

b/c of the frogs?

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

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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 month 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 month ago)

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

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