The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Remember that time Abe Simpson had the hots for Marge’s Mom and Marge didn’t see a problem with it but Homer did?

Even back as a kid that just weirded me out.
 
Traditional Tet said:
Sigh, so vague. I guess I'll just google the latest ep review then.
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It was one of those anthology episodes with three thematically-connected segments: Ned Flanders as a young salesman selling trampolines he later found out generated dangerous amounts of static electricity, Marge's atheist French grandmother fighting Nazis at a brasserie run by her husband (who looks exactly like Moe), and Lisa as a gender-flipped version of Siddhartha Gautama, deciding to leave her riches and sit under the Bodhi tree for enlightenment.

I didn't mind the episode but they really should've picked either God and St. Paul or the Springfield kids in Sunday school as the anthology framing device rather than trying to cram two sets of framing devices between the individual stories.
 
sasazuka said:
It was one of those anthology episodes with three thematically-connected segments: Ned Flanders as a young salesman selling trampolines he later found out generated dangerous amounts of static electricity, Marge's atheist French grandmother fighting Nazis at a brasserie run by her husband (who looks exactly like Moe), and Lisa as a gender-flipped version of Siddhartha Gautama, deciding to leave her riches and sit under the Bodhi tree for enlightenment.

I didn't mind the episode but they really should've picked either God and St. Paul or the Springfield kids in Sunday school as the anthology framing device rather than trying to cram two sets of framing devices between the individual stories.
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Of course they had to stick fighting literal Nazis in there somewhere.
 
One minor thing about that episode: The Simpsons has now been on television so long that Marge can have a grandmother who was a young woman in World War II, though this necessitates retconning Marge's mother into a Baby Boomer when she was easily of the World War II generation during the classic 1990s Simpsons seasons. I think Marge's grandmother seen in this episode was supposed to be the mother of Marge's father, even though she looks like Marge's mother and Marge herself.

Abraham Simpson is still a World War II vet even in the post-retcon Simpsons timeline.
 
sasazuka said:
One minor thing about that episode: The Simpsons has now been on television so long that Marge can have a grandmother who was a young woman in World War II, though this necessitates retconning Marge's mother into a Baby Boomer when she was easily of the World War II generation during the classic 1990s Simpsons seasons. I think Marge's grandmother seen in this episode was supposed to be the mother of Marge's father, even though she looks like Marge's mother and Marge herself.

Abraham Simpson is still a World War II vet even in the post-retcon Simpsons timeline.
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And Skinner still was in Nam.
 
sasazuka said:
One minor thing about that episode: The Simpsons has now been on television so long that Marge can have a grandmother who was a young woman in World War II, though this necessitates retconning Marge's mother into a Baby Boomer when she was easily of the World War II generation during the classic 1990s Simpsons seasons. I think Marge's grandmother seen in this episode was supposed to be the mother of Marge's father, even though she looks like Marge's mother and Marge herself.

Abraham Simpson is still a World War II vet even in the post-retcon Simpsons timeline.
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I mentioned it before but I was blown away where in a recent episode the family acts amazed at finding an old VCR. I'm like "Really nigga? You made a Beta joke during the good seasons!"

 
I haven't watched the Simpsons in years, caught the credits of tonight's episode in front of Bob's Burgers. It was a Treehouse of Horror episode so the names were changed or added spooky elements like "Bat Groening". A few choice ones were stuff like "Scarier than Kavanaugh" and "The Electoral College". My eyes nearly fell out my head I rolled them so hard. Not surprising but still, TDS strikes again.
 
BobsSpergers said:
I haven't watched the Simpsons in years, caught the credits of tonight's episode in front of Bob's Burgers. It was a Treehouse of Horror episode so the names were changed or added spooky elements like "Bat Groening". A few choice ones were stuff like "Scarier than Kavanaugh" and "The Electoral College". My eyes nearly fell out my head I rolled them so hard. Not surprising but still, TDS strikes again.
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Looks like The Simpsons turned into what they made fun of:


 
Baldur's Gait said:
The whole joke is very interesting. The bit is set up with the family declaring they're going to Delaware, and Bart mentions that he wants to see a screen-door factory. Then Homer informs the audience that when they do this joke, that will be the last season.

Come the season 12 finale, and they repeat that joke almost verbatim, without the "this'll be the last season" part.
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After a show airs for seven seasons, it should be canceled automatically, no matter how popular it is
 
Cyborg Scars said:
I say 12

Enough time for it to become pointless to keep around as everything has already been done.

Edit: @MagneticTowels are you really saying you'd rather live in a world without 'You Only Move Twice'?
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Listening to the season 9 Christmas episode "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" commentary track a long time ago I remember them saying they wanted the show to basically end there where all their stuff was taken except for a washcloth and that just panning out was to be the last scene of the series. I'm not sure if they were just kidding or not but it seemed like they were legit saying they wanted it to basically end on that.

I think after season 9 it was just getting worse and worse. They even mention in the Kamp Krusty commentary they meant to make that episode into a movie and admitted South Park did it right by making the movie right after season 2 when it had gained a strong following and the movie helped get it more exposure and fans.

Yeah I know I'm autistic for listening to the commentary tracks but the Simpsons do it for every episode so it's enjoyable to watch. The stories and comments they share on it are actually interesting. It gives an insight to what they were thinking, planning, and what they based things off of.

One thing I found interesting was that they actually used native speakers for foreign languages and that what you're hearing is apparently the actual language. Those little touches are kinda neat. They even mentioned in one episode with Chinese deep sea fishermen they originally had them speaking Mandarin but the two guys they hired said that Chinese fishermen would invariably speak Cantonese.
 
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