― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 24 November 2003 02:55 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 24 November 2003 03:50 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 November 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
Whereas Simpsons: Hit & Run is more fun than a tank of nitrous and a sack of monkeys. Infinite replay value. Hell, you can spend hours just exploring the town.
I loved the Prisoner reference in the Movementarian episode.
― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 24 November 2003 05:01 (twenty years ago) link
― 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 (sixteen years ago) link
― bernard snowy, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I've seen some decent newer episodes:
"Pixelated and Afraid" -- Great Marge/Homer episode in the "neoclassical" styleA Serious Flanders" (Parts 1 & 2)" -- out-of-continuity episode, I guess it's pastiche of Fargo but I've never seen Fargo"Lisa the Boy Scout" -- meta, gags-only episode where the show gets hacked by Anon types"Carl Carlson Rides Again" -- fun Carl story, I didn't think The Simpsons was capable of writing low-key, non-mean episodes like this anymore
Not exactly classic, I guess, but nothing embarrassing -- and the gags were consistently funnier and less cringey than any episode I can remember from the 2000s or 2010s
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:00 (four months ago) link
for me it was the episode where Bart adopts a baby bird. must've been Season 10 I think, idk if anything was particularly wrong with the episode, it just wasn't funny at all. in fact I remember being a little worried that maybe I'd "outgrown" the show (at the age of 12, lol) but the next week I watched some re-runs and nah, the old ones were still good.
at the time I remember people speculating that Phil Hartman's death caused the show to go downhill, which obviously doesn't really make sense, though I do think having the show's best guest voice actor die might've changed the vibes a little
going through the S10/S11 episodes on Wikipedia, I remember thinking some of them were pretty good, other ones I remember being annoyed at the guest voices. like I didn't really know who Mel Gibson was but his character didn't really feel like a Simpsons character. killing off Maude was I think where I jumped off, just felt way too gimmicky, especially since they teased the hell out of that episode like "some Simpsons character WILL DIE!" as though it was gonna be some big dramatic episode centered around some character, and instead it's just Maude randomly dying for basically no reason, and of course it's 100% Homer's fault, which felt pretty cruel even for this show
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:06 (four months ago) link
the x-ray with grandpa's exploded kidneys struck me at the time as gross and mean in a way the show usually veered short of
― intheblanks, Monday, 4 December 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Totally stopped after season 9 or so and whenever I read about some of the later EPs I just literally can't believe it's the same show
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:09 (four months ago) link
oh yeah I've watched the Serious Flanders episode, if nothing else I applaud them for doing something new. I assume it makes a lot more sense if you've seen Fargo. wasn't really digging how violent and gross it got at the end, it started to feel like those particularly mean-spirited episodes of Family Guy or South Park where it just made you look at something digusting for a full minute. but the parking lot standoff scene actually *did* capture the brilliant absurdity of peak Simpsons in a way that actually did make me laugh so I guess they do, in very limited doses, still got it
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:16 (four months 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four months ago) link
"I can't solve this case....can...YOU?"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:59 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four months ago) link