― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 24 November 2003 05:32 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 05:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 06:44 (twenty years ago) link
i absolutely cannot watch the latest episodes as i've said before - i don't think a show like this is meant to go on as long as this one has and the attempts to do something fresh always come off 'half-cock' to me. old jokes cynically rehashed mutter mutter, characters lost all charm yadda yadda, saw a clip of the new one where they visit England - Tony Blair is there to greet them at the airport, Homer gives him a dollar...sigh...
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 10:01 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 24 November 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
Do we really need that kind of dismissive benhaviour?
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
Mission Hill is not.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:43 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
"Dum dum dum dum dum!"
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:50 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:14 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 November 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 24 November 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:30 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Thursday, 18 March 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link
― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 19 March 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 March 2004 10:31 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― bernard snowy, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogman Henry, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
like there was another episode where a car is peeling out in front of Marge and she throws a pair of socks at it out of anger, which manages to hit the back window and shatter it, and MOST IMPORTANTLY there isn't a moment where she goes "I didn't think THAT would happen!", it just cuts to the next scene. I guess I gotta admit as bad as the show has gotten there's still always like one or two good jokes per episode
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:20 (five months ago) link
still the stupidest gag of misdirection that makes my brother and I laugh is Itchy and Scratchy Land, where Homer is driving and falling asleep and then they show a car careen off the road and wreck and then it pans to Bart in the hotel going "whoa, glad that wasn't us"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:28 (five months ago) link
a serious flanders wasn't bad but it felt a bit flat in the same way a full two episode arc of chief wiggum PI probably would - there were a lot of things I liked about it
the best thing I've seen from them in years was the halloween episode from a couple of years ago with the anime style death note parody - most of the credit should go to the studio that made it because they did an amazing job with the designs - the whole thing was probably the first halloween episode in decades where all the segments landed (assuming there aren't many hidden gems I've missed from the 20s seasons)
third segment really freaked me out on first viewing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNBAUpjT0VM
― Left, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:53 (five months ago) link
as for misdirects that's literally every joke in season 5 it's quite incredible
― Left, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:56 (five months ago) link
"I can't solve this case....can...YOU?"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:59 (five months ago) link
my brother made a shitty Julius Caesar movie for English class and he tried to do that same POV misdirection joke and it came out so badly
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 18:00 (five months ago) link
Do they throw the old SimpsonsWorld bodies in a Tesla truck in the above clip?
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:03 (five months ago) link
I've heard from a couple of friends that even as the show's declined the Treehouse of Horror episodes are apparently still very good. guessing it's because it allows them to do a lot of weird/format-busting stuff rather than "Chief Wiggum runs into his old high school crush, voiced by Anne Hathaway" type shit. the Serious Flanders episode was like that too, in fact that struck me as one of the few modern episodes where they actually seemed to enjoy making it
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:09 (five months ago) link