The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Gladys the Groovy Mule!

I liked how they had him voice Tom the Big Brother volunteer when Tom Crusie backed out of that episode (apparently he thought they were making fun of him by having the character ride motorcyles and was a fighter pilot) because it was really funny to see him play a straight character for a change. That and the way he says "The drunken gambler...?!?!" when he finally meets Homer and fights him because of the lies Bart fed him about Homer.
 
Maxliam said:
That episode also had one of the best lines from Nelson's friends.

"You kissed a girl!"
"That is soooo gay!"
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I think that's also the one where Lisa went over to Nelson's house and noticed he had a guitar for which he tried to amuse her with his rendition of "Joy To The World".

That and if it has Ian Maxtone-Graham in the opening credits. If that name is present, you can change the channel. You won't be missing anything of value. Barring the first season or so of him joining the team. He didn't have much sway then to fuck the show up too much.
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This is certainly important.
 
This is going to be a rather unpopular opinion but I sort of liked the Mike Scully-era episodes from the late 90's and early 2000's, essentially Seasons 10-13 (I know 13 was technically Al Jean's first season, but still) even if everyone else says that's where the show jumped the shark.

I've been watching The Simpsons since I was a little kid, catching reruns on my local Fox affiliate every evening back when they still aired said reruns (this was years before FXX, obviously) and every Sunday night at my house, we'd all watch The Simpsons as a family come hell or high water.

Maybe it's because I was a kid when those episodes were airing, but I liked those seasons even though they were nowhere near as good as the "Golden Age" episodes of Seasons 1-8. Yeah, a lot of episodes like "Saddlesore Galactica" and "Kill The Alligator And Run" weren't that great and were over-the-top but I still think that those seasons get too much hate. Especially when compared to the unfunny material from the Al Jean seasons of today.

Seasons 1-8 were the best years of the show, no argument there. But Seasons 9-13 were alright though not as good as the classics, and the Al Jean years were far worse. Especially any of the seasons made after the movie. I can casually watch Seasons 14-17 if there's nothing else on, but anything after the movie is a no-go for me.

I think if The Simpsons would've stopped at the movie, that would've been alright.

They would not have ended in their prime, but it would be far preferable to the unfunny corpse of a show we have now.
 
Syaoran Li said:
This is going to be a rather unpopular opinion but I sort of liked the Mike Scully-era episodes from the late 90's and early 2000's, essentially Seasons 10-13 (I know 13 was technically Al Jean's first season, but still) even if everyone else says that's where the show jumped the shark.

I've been watching The Simpsons since I was a little kid, catching reruns on my local Fox affiliate every evening back when they still aired said reruns (this was years before FXX, obviously) and every Sunday night at my house, we'd all watch The Simpsons as a family come hell or high water.

Maybe it's because I was a kid when those episodes were airing, but I liked those seasons even though they were nowhere near as good as the "Golden Age" episodes of Seasons 1-8. Yeah, a lot of episodes like "Saddlesore Galactica" and "Kill The Alligator And Run" weren't that great and were over-the-top but I still think that those seasons get too much hate. Especially when compared to the unfunny material from the Al Jean seasons of today.

Seasons 1-8 were the best years of the show, no argument there. But Seasons 9-13 were alright though not as good as the classics, and the Al Jean years were far worse. Especially any of the seasons made after the movie. I can casually watch Seasons 14-17 if there's nothing else on, but anything after the movie is a no-go for me.

I think if The Simpsons would've stopped at the movie, that would've been alright.

They would not have ended in their prime, but it would be far preferable to the unfunny corpse of a show we have now.
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I do have a soft spot for seasons 10 and 12 in particular. Those were the seasons I got after I gave up on modern Simpsons. At the time I thought that they were considered to be part of the "old" Simpsons. Season 10 has some of my favorite episodes too; I loved Maximum Homerdrive and Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo.

As time went on I found out that people considered season 10 to be when The Simpsons started sucking, which to me said a lot about the series as a whole since I genuinely considered it to be some of the funniest television I ever watched at the time. Watching some of the older episodes, I can see why someone would dislike season 10 because it did stray away from the series' roots, but it wasn't flavorless mush like Simpsons of today is. Season 10 still had some bite to it.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
I do have a soft spot for seasons 10 and 12 in particular. Those were the seasons I got after I gave up on modern Simpsons. At the time I thought that they were considered to be part of the "old" Simpsons. Season 10 has some of my favorite episodes too; I loved Maximum Homerdrive and Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo.

As time went on I found out that people considered season 10 to be when The Simpsons started sucking, which to me said a lot about the series as a whole since I genuinely considered it to be some of the funniest television I ever watched at the time. Watching some of the older episodes, I can see why someone would dislike season 10 because it did stray away from the series' roots, but it wasn't flavorless mush like Simpsons of today is. Season 10 still had some bite to it.
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I suppose for someone like me, it's hard to really get into the later seasons as I had started watching the show from the very beginning while I was halfway through the 6th grade. I would be in the camp for the first 8 seasons since those were the ones I watched entirely.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Not to mention, doesn't Henry Shearer do that too nowadays?

Was technology that terrible back then as to not do a phone recording?
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You mean doing it at a remote studio with professional recording equipment and not literally doing it on the phone, I hope?

Isn't using a remote studio for recording audio for animation still kind of a pain as you need a similarly-sized room with identical acoustics and all the same equipment with all the same settings as the main recording studio, otherwise there will be a discrepancy in how the remotely-recorded voice sounds that has to be fixed in post-processing?
 
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I think the last truly great Simpsons episode was Homer Vs The City Of New York. Shame they had to act as Boston's tourism board for the latest 'travel' episode. I always loved the mockery of the places the family went.
 
CWCissey said:
I think the last truly great Simpsons episode was Homer Vs The City Of New York. Shame they had to act as Boston's tourism board for the latest 'travel' episode. I always loved the mockery of the places the family went.
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It's just like how they went from mocking celebrities to spending a half hour kissing their ass. Especially the Lisa / Lady Gaga episode. She seems like absolutely the last person Lisa would like.
 
Trilby said:
It's sad. Lisa was far better than that.
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Lisa's probably the one character that's been ruined on The Simpsons. You can argue that nobody resembles what they were when the show started, but Lisa's the one who got so goddamn irritating. At least Ned got a few chuckles here and there.

I remember watching some old episodes and there were moments where she straight up joined Bart in his pranks, and it's like I couldn't even imagine her doing that now.

Lisa was funnier when her activism was the joke and not something the show agreed with.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
Lisa's probably the one character that's been ruined on The Simpsons. You can argue that nobody resembles what they were when the show started, but Lisa's the one who got so goddamn irritating. At least Ned got a few chuckles here and there.

I remember watching some old episodes and there were moments where she straight up joined Bart in his pranks, and it's like I couldn't even imagine her doing that now.

Lisa was funnier when her activism was the joke and not something the show agreed with.
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I remember one where Skinner and Willy interrogated her about where Bart went. They kept flubbing their good cop/bad cop routine and she just giggled at them like a little girl would. I figure today she'd just smugly lecture them.
 
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Replicant Sasquatch said:
I remember one where Skinner and Willy interrogated her about where Bart went. They kept flubbing their good cop/bad cop routine and dhe just giggled at them like a little girl would. I figure today she'd just smugly lecture them.
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I certainly do miss the Lisa that was like that.
 
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