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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)

i havent seen any koala bears here yet

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

incredible is in new levels of garbage, right?
xpost

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

*as in

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

american dad is 0% funny.

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

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

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

Wing. ha.

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

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

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

american dad is really bad

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

"getting"

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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