Yeah we caught the show too, my sis and I, and you're right at just how quick the show could be at its best, packing in so many things at light speed.
But I've missed something, that wasn't him singing? Even the a capella "Billie Jean" part?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 July 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
FYI
They got a MJ impersonator to do the singing because there's a whole clusterfuck of TV sync rights when an artist sings on a tv show.
― bENBBag (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 6 July 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
The official line was that MJ wanted to play a prank on his brothers.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 6 July 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Why oh why is my cat dead? Couldn't that Chrysler hit me instead?
I had a hamster named Snuffy, he died...
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Monday, 6 July 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lisa on ignorital is the most i've laughed at the simpsons in a decade or more
― more posts that will never be released (electricsound), Thursday, 23 July 2009 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
the ke$ha intro 0_0
― Nhex, Monday, 3 May 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that was kinda... um....
― i never promised you a whinegarten (forksclovetofu), Monday, 3 May 2010 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I have no idea what that was about, but like most reworked Simpsons intros the level of detail is fun. Is the Love Tester machine always in Moe's background scenes? Also liked that Snake has the statue of Jebediah Springfield in the back of his car.
― I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 May 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i've always managed to find something to like about the recent simpsons episodes, but the one from last night (s22e01) was unspeakably bad. don't know if the flight on the conchords guys were to blame (haven't seen much of their stuff and have no desire to now) or if the writers have just given up. whole thing felt like some crappy kids tv show, with the odd 'adult' joke crowbarred in, like that weak hash joke at the end. first time i can recall a show i like actually making me feel miserable by the end, due to how bad it was.
― NI, Monday, 27 September 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, but you also realize that that's pretty much the last 10 years in a nutshell.
― EDB, Monday, 27 September 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like they missed an opportunity to revisit uter and martin at fatcamp, and maybe they could have had the music teacher expel lisa from the room and she does a very morose sax riff in comparison to the opening credits gag, but other than that i don't feel i could do better with the premise.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 27 September 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it was shit
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Monday, 27 September 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
the quality of simpsons episodes is fairly random (probably less so if you know which are the good writers)
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Monday, 27 September 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
they let those Flight Of The Conchords dipshits on network TV?
― Gaspar NoAgé (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 September 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm usually all for statistical rigor but they should go ahead and fire the bad ones.
― what a flock of lame (Kerm), Monday, 27 September 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
In that unauthorized simpsons book, the author claims it's the showrunners? (i'm not sure of the term) that shape the show more than any given writer, and divides the eras up by them.
there's sufficient barriers to entry that whoever ends up a simpsons writer has got to be a bright dude, right?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 27 September 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen a few bright dudes contribute to a clusterfuck or two.
― what a flock of lame (Kerm), Monday, 27 September 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It's shortsighted and incorrect to assume that the decline of the show is the cause of them not having good writers that are capable of coming up with something half good. This is the new mandate of the show; they've abandoned what they were to essentially start anew as a kids show, hence the easy and less esoteric jokes, and more emphasis on something that a 6 year old would find funny (this is the way, no less, to secure an emerging audience, rather than trying to keep your original audience, now in their mid-lives, and without watching TV as a priority).
Moreover, the Simpsons are suffering from their own success in a way, insofar as they largely set the scene for subsequent cartoons of the sort, most of which are hugely indebted to the Simpsons in one way or another (one of the writers in a commentary once expressed his annoyance at how shows like Family Guy have co-opted Simpsons style comedy making the Simpsons theretofore unable to do their own thing). Its especially hard with shows like Family Guy et al. making base, unfunny, and immature humour the popular norm; it seems like a piece of A+ satire like Homer Bad Man (i.e. the hard copy episode) wouldn't be as well received by contemporary audiences.
― EDB, Monday, 27 September 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Its especially hard with shows like Family Guy et al. making base, unfunny, and immature humour the popular norm
this is bullshit. simpsons has been shit since around the turn of the century. family guy debuted 1999. Nu-simpsons is as unfunny as anything on televsion.
― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Monday, 27 September 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh? I agree with you on those points, and I don't see how I'm implying the Simpsons haven't been shit for the last 10 years.
I mean to say that the general standards for cartoon comedy shows seems to have lowered in the last 10 years thanks to the popularity of unfunny, family guy type stuff; hence, the Simpsons have if anything lowered their standards, perhaps because there's more of a market for it.
― EDB, Monday, 27 September 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
this is becoming like outgrowing Mad magazine where all the references are turning into things that people much younger than me like. I would have no idea what the fuck was going on in this ep if I didn't see the ads boasting that the cast of glee was in it.
― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
saw the season 18 parody of michael apted's Up series of documentaries the other day and enjoyed it.
― beef lamp (stevie), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― Gaspar NoAgé (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, September 27, 2010 2:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
that carefully-curated garden of sophisticated, quality humour?
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
either sophisticated or artsy, but I liked it
― I'm a Grizzily Bear Now (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
how much better would that have been with Tenacious D?
― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 September 2010 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Quite an intro bit by Bansky:
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― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 October 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Dammit.
All you have to do is paste the url.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 October 2010 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/v/DX1iplQQJTo
whut? Why didn't that work?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 October 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 October 2010 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Hah, thanks.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 October 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
The something of something is never the anything of anything.
― Sterling-Kinney (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 October 2010 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
they really wanted us to make sure that it was banksy huh
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Monday, 11 October 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
also an important political statement
that's capital "I" important, Jordan.
― Cunga, Monday, 11 October 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i seriously need to avoid the internet whenever banksy does anything
― little puppy (jeff), Monday, 11 October 2010 07:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought that was pretty neat but I wasn't aware of its existence until three minutes ago so I can't make prissy claims to have been put off by everyone talking about it, maybe others will enjoy that luxury
― ROLLINS: MY DEMISE (DJ Mencap), Monday, 11 October 2010 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been hating banksy for a long time but this is funnie imo
― rmde @ the romo dumplings (history mayne), Monday, 11 October 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i objected to my rss feeds posting this video as if it were BREAKING NEWS but mostly it was the wooster collective quote that pushed me over the edge, calling this "one of the most closely guarded secrets in TV history"
― little puppy (jeff), Monday, 11 October 2010 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif"one of the most closely guarded secrets in TV history"http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif
That was a good intro but wtf did it have to do with Banksy apart from BANKSY written a few places and the "I will not write all over the walls"?
Oooh, Rough Draft use Korean slave labour.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 11 October 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Banksy storyboarded it, apparently. Not a fan of the Cult of Banksy myself either, but this is pretty good (except for the BANKSY BANKSY tags everywhere)
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Monday, 11 October 2010 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
^
― iatee, Monday, 11 October 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
now we just need a picture of korean animators drawing themselves drawing themselves drawing themselves....x100 on the Simpsons
― dayo, Monday, 11 October 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
this comment was news to me: http://www.metafilter.com/96526/I-Must-Not-Write-All-Over-The-Walls#3320604
― caek, Monday, 11 October 2010 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I knew that Simpsons had most of its animation work done somewhere in Asia ahead of time and that was partially why it such a funny intro last night. Specifically the intro got really good when they introduced the dolphin head and the unicorn - self-admitted absurdity. I don't know who Banksy is and I don't care.
― popular music is destroying our youth (CaptainLorax), Monday, 11 October 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought it was a boring attempt to reacquaint themselves with the audience they've lost.
― funky house skeptic (polyphonic), Monday, 11 October 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
koreans?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 October 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
too subtle imo
― Chilean Miner Threat (King Boy Pato), Monday, 11 October 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link