The Simpsons

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

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

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?

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

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

EW! I'll have the crab juice!

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

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"Welcome to Texas: The Fuck-You State"

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

challops alert

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

Then I return to doing things so much more important and productive than watching shows that aren't as funny as they used to be, like homeless outreach or (as mentioned) posting to the internet about how I don't think certain shows are funny enough to waste my time on anymore

Then maybe I'll have some pasta

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.

I saw this for the first time only recently (a first time rerun - I havent been watching Tv for a couple years now so ive missed a lot of the last 2 seasons). I actually quite enjoyed that episode, even though all the way through I was all "well obviously Martin isnt dead, I wonder how they'll swing this plot".

There's usually a handful of actually good, funny episodes per season. The butterfly one was good, and the one with Jarmusch wasn't too bad, either. Of course all the other episodes are atrocious, but it seems like only the few good ones make it into syndication anyway.

Xpost: Well, for one, you could spend the time you dedicate to watching post season 10 Simpsons watching Season 1-10 Simpsons. Then at least you'll get the opportunity to watch something that's even worth watching, not drivel that's been brought down so many pegs that it's actually tragic.

Is this really a question of productivity? Did the 15 seconds I spent voicing an extremely mild, insignificant criticism (and on ILX? As if!) become such an offence that it turned into a deep moral predicament? Suddenly you can voice your opinion because you do homeless work, and now complaining on the internet about my on the internet is not only productive, but also a valid criticism?

I've watched new episodes of the simpsons, and I can't make it past more than 5 minutes. I don't know how anyone else does it, really. . .

I think I see the Watchmen Babies as Peanuts trick-or-treaters briefly in the commercial for tonight's episode.

OMG, I think Lisa was an incorrect pedant last night: Homer called himself a "xylophobe" and she said that would involve being afraid of xylophones, when in fact I'm pretty sure it would involve being afraid of wood

i feel like it taking u this long to realise that is kind of a simpsons joke irl

like im sitting here laughing really hard at the image of u watching the show then going abt yr daily routine getting ready for work, sitting in a meeting, teaching a class, eating lunch, going back to work and then *lightbulb*

I'm sorry, was I supposed to rush and post this to ILX in the middle of watching the show? Cause I just remarked on it to my gf, although at that point I was thinking "xylo" = "bone"

it means 'boner' or 'woody.'

Lisa has already posted a retraction and an apology in her blog

It does remain however the instrument heard whenever skeletons dance.

I'm sorry, was I supposed to rush and post this to ILX in the middle of watching the show? Cause I just remarked on it to my gf, although at that point I was thinking "xylo" = "bone"

haha no obv not bro it just struck me as funny - the img i had - im sure u were on that shit instantaneously

tbh honest I haven't even watched the show yet; I totally picked up on this before watching it on DVR tomorrow morning

WOW THAT WHO IS GONNA BUILD THE WALL JOKE WAS SO FUNNY WHEN FOUR SEPARATE COMICS TOLD IT

add the simpsons to that highlight reel of hackery

i saw the last ten minutes of the simpsons last night. pretty deadening show now, huh

so lame:

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle has inspired cartoon slacker Homer Simpson to audition for a talent show in a new episode of The Simpsons.
Ms Boyle, 48, from West Lothian, became a worldwide sensation after appearing on Britain's Got Talent last month.
In the new episode, Homer appears before judge Simon Cowell, saying "My name is Homer Simpson, I'm 39 years old and, well, I've never been kissed."
He adds: "My dream is to be a great singer like Susan Boyle."
Ms Boyle's rendition of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables on the ITV1 show turned her into a global phenomenon after being posted on YouTube.
She was previously mentioned in cult US cartoon show South Park.
Last week, she appeared on a special episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Her appearance in The Simpsons episode, Springfield's Got Talent, is part of the show's 20th-anniversary season.