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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)

Or at least I had a personal threshold that it recently crossed the line of. There's been movement, is the point, even if it was beyond your threshold to begin with.

― nabisco, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

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

this didn't bother me so much, i was just happy they finally brought a musical sequence up to par. it was actually kind of good jazz! they still have Lisa's "jazzman" song from 10 years ago to live down, god i can still hear that shit in my head. I think Lisa was better written in this episode than she has been in years, without being funny at all really.

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

i mean i've not only lowered expectations, but it's gotten to the point where you can tell within the first minute if it's gonna be a shit episode so you just do other things and cherry pick for a good joke here and there. it's a ritual.

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

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.

whaaaaaa...? that episode sucked. krusty naming a bunch of jazz dudes was the only thing i laughed at; the 'drumkit gag' is just ripped from a white stripes video. laziest bullshit they've done since the inexplicable three minute homer the ice cream man/ali g opening ripoff.

nabisco right about the family guy. last night was really painful.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

it's quite funny hearing about things that happened in recent episodes but not having a clue about them/the context etc.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

basically you should exploit me and make up all kinds of crap. 'omg did you see that episode where Bart gets a pet dinosaur and Homer gets a job as the Secretary Of Defense?'

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.daelnet.co.uk/images/news/david_miliband.jpg http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the_simpsons/Images/bart-simpson-3.jpg

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

i was just happy they finally brought a musical sequence up to par. it was actually kind of good jazz!

If you're refering to the kids jam (maybe the only bit I haven't blocked out from the initial viewing when it was new)-Well, duh:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Tm8ieGvtL._SS500_.jpg

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't watched a new simpsons in 23 seasons I think.

― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

the 'drumkit gag' is just ripped from a white stripes video.

Okay I was not aware of this.

I thought it was pretty incredible on Bart's part to be able to hold down "Take Five" so early in his drumming career, that is not an easy piece to drum on.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I will say, regarding the otherwise terrible White Stripes cameo, that I liked that they made Meg all mean and shouty.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Can someone explain to me a line from last Sunday's episode? It's when Bart and Lisa find a tape with Martin's voice on it. He's speaking to recently metamorphosized butterflies: "Now if I may mimic your mother's feeding call..." And then he goes into this FUCKING HILARIOUS old granny voice sing-songing something like "Lawdy lawdy clickety clawdy." Even though I have been laughing to tears since I first heard it and have been repeating it ad nauseum, I have no clue what the hell it means. Does it mean anything in particular? Or is it just funny on the surface, i.e. as an impossible approximation of a butterfly momma's feeding call (does a butterfly momma even have a feeding call?)? Help?

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

the new york episode was on again sometime in the last six months

― electricsound, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 02:54 (eighteen years ago)

But never again will it have the "They put the idiots in Tower 1!" joke.

― JTS, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

EW! I'll have the crab juice!

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

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, April 30, 2007 12:24 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.serems.org/docs/ChildAbuseHotline.gif

― and what, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

"Welcome to Texas: The Fuck-You State"

― dell, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.hulu.com/watch/12140/the-simpsons-dial-n-for-nerder

― Eric H., Thursday, 13 March 2008 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

^^ definitely one of the best episodes i've seen the last few seasons, the Nelson private eye stuff cracked me up.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 13 March 2008 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

never give up on the simpsons. even if you watch an episode for only 5 jokes/hilarious quotes or to see Martin fall off a cliff.

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 13 March 2008 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

But never again will it have the "They put the idiots in Tower 1!" joke.

Wait, that gets cut now? Do they also cut the bit with ppl leaning out thw windows in each tower yelling at each other? I was thinking Ive seen that recently but then I remembered its on my DVD.

― Trayce, Thursday, 13 March 2008 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

last time i saw that episode that stuff was intact, i'm pretty sure. WTXF are such a bunch of fuck-ups that they'd probably show the wrong ones, though, so it may have been in error.

they haven't shown a good simpsons episode in about a year now. just the last 5 seasons or something.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 13 March 2008 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

"These are not tears, we are vomiting from our eyes!"

― Neil S, Monday, 22 September 2008 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

Why does anyone even bother to still watch new (last 8 years) episodes, anyways?

― Cars That Go Boom (mehlt), Monday, 22 September 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, clearly it's a more productive use of one's time to spend that time posting to the internet about how the Simpsons fell off a while back

― nabisco, Monday, 22 September 2008 23:35 (seventeen years ago)

challops alert

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 September 2008 23:36 (seventeen years ago)

I mean normally I'm too busy doing homeless outreach to even think about such things, but sometimes I'll do so much homeless outreach that I have to be hospitalized for exhaustion, so that's usually when I'll kick back and get a few chuckles out of a new Simpsons while the IV rehydrates me

― nabisco, Monday, 22 September 2008 23:37 (seventeen years ago)

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