The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Trilby said:
I'm impressed you could animate Play-doh like that, generally that stuff does harden after a while, I suppose they'd have to do these pretty quickly.
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Or he gives it a spritz now and then to keep it pliable.
 
I just remembered the first time that The Simpsons negatively impacted me. It didn't shock me but it surprised me that it had sunk so low. I'm sure a lot of people will argue that the show had worse moments before this, an episode from 2012.



It's not that it's a bad joke but it's so un-Simpsons.
 
CWCissey said:
we got another re-do on the Marge and Homer lore too.
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For some reason when I watched the latest episode I noticed there was some continuity error but I forgot what it was especially it’s been a while since I watched the classics. What has been changed?
 
Alan Pardew said:
For some reason when I watched the latest episode I noticed there was some continuity error but I forgot what it was especially it’s been a while since I watched the classics. What has been changed?
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Homer and Marge had a period of being DINKs rather than having parenthood foisted upon them.
 
New episode, twas shit but did elicit a laugh out of me with an OK GO bitchslap.

'Oh no! Now people will have to judge us on the merits of our music!'
'We're doomed!'
 
Does The Simpsons Stand Up To The Test Of Time?
4 days ago

There's been a lot of talk of late about television shows not, well, really standing the test of time.

Millennial television viewers have been tweeting in their droves about the perceived sexism, transphobia, homophobia and fat-shaming in Friends.

New Statesmen writer Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin criticised Chandler's character for 'dehumanising contempt' for his father and argued that the 'of its time' argument 'only makes it more sinister'.

Recently, Netflix viewers have claimed that Only Fools and Horses episodes show signs of racism, and in recent times The Simpsons has been criticised for similar reasons.

Perhaps the most obvious example from the US animated series is the characterisation (and importantly voicing) of Apu, the Indian Kwik-e-Mart employee.

In a New Yorker article last year, professor and writer Hua Hsu noted Apu's 'theatrically thick' accent and, while not calling The Simpsons racist, per se, argued that Apu's voicing was an example of 'soft racism', comparing his character to others in American culture such as Uncle Tom or Charlie Chan, characters 'invented to thwart stereotypes only to end up advancing different, softer, no less racist stereotypes in their stead'.

In the wake of a documentary arguing that Apu represented a racial stereotype, Hank Azaria, who voices the character (among others) told TMZ: "I think the documentary made some really interesting points and gave us a lot to think about and we really are thinking about it... Definitely anybody that was hurt or offended by it, or by any character or vocal performance, it's really upsetting that it was offensive or hurtful to anybody."

However, Apu's characterisation isn't the only issue some viewers have taken when watching back old episodes of the series.

Some have also labelled the show xenophobic in episodes set in foreign countries, such as Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo and Bart vs. Australia, which played on Japanese and Australian stereotypes respectively. Depending on how you see it, such episodes could be seen as perpetuating tiresome stereotypes without nuance, or were simply a lighthearted nod to (and dig at) generally held perceptions about both countries.

The series has also in the past been criticised for perpetuating stereotypes about men impersonating women and impersonating being a lesbian, leading it to being labelled as transphobic.

Conversely, the show has also been praised for casting a light on inherent societal sexism, while one of its most famous episodes, Homer's Phobia (from 1997) essentially told father's to get over it if their sons turned out to be gay.

Given that I'm a white, heterosexual man, I'm not the person to make a call as to whether The Simpsons has been homo/transphobic, sexist or racist over the years as I'm lucky not to have to face the issues therein.

As is always the case, you'll just have to watch - and decide - for yourselves.

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www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film-and-tv-does-the-simpsons-stand-up-to-the-test-of-time-20180324
 
Noticed someone recently discussed the somewhat unpopular nature of thes how in Japan, where it currently airs on a specific Fox cable/satellite channel in a Japanese subbed version, though for years it was seen in a dubbed edition that ran afoul when they tried replacing the dub cast for The Simpsons Movie at one point.
 
Right, what happened in the new Simpsons?

Minecraft parodies a few years too late
Bart indirectly killed Nelson.
Marge realised her favourite childhood book is horribly racist.
Some actually kind of funny slams against political correctness in regards to judging old properties (even directly referencing the Apu 'controversy')
Thinkpiece writers even got a couple of slaps.

First half was utter shit, second half (well, the Marge sub-plot) had some salient points.
 
CWCissey said:
Right, what happened in the new Simpsons?

Minecraft parodies a few years too late
Bart indirectly killed Nelson.
Marge realised her favourite childhood book is horribly racist.
Some actually kind of funny slams against political correctness in regards to judging old properties (even directly referencing the Apu 'controversy')
Thinkpiece writers even got a couple of slaps.

First half was utter shit, second half (well, the Marge sub-plot) had some salient points.
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Nelson’s dead?
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Nelson’s dead?
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He came back (charred like a fucking Looney Toons character) at the end bit, but Bart used Sun Tzu's The Art Of War to knock down Nelson's guard enough to push him into a basket of laundry Willie was pushing through the canteen. Willie then tipped the contents into a furnace, and put an MP3 Player on, drowning out Nelson's screams to let him out.
 
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