The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Tonight's episode is not really notable. It was bad, but it was pretty boring. It was a basic "incompetent police chief has to prove that town crook was framed for a crime with fear of being taken over by a more competent police chief" plot. Nothing too special.

A few highlights:

  1. The plot starts at an Italian festival before the lead-in to the crime that was framed on Fat Tony. There was a celeb guest appearance joke from that guy who played Aquaman and the joke is...he's the guy that played Aquaman and he's at an Italian festival.
  2. The Simpsons weren't really in this episode. I'd say for about 15/16 out of the 21 minutes or so, the focus was mostly on Chief Wiggum trying to prove Fat Tony to be innocent. That's unique, except when they have to shoehorn Marge to give "you can do it" advice to Wiggum and Homer just walking in the climax (at an Italian restaurant) to get some sauce, because CONVENIENTLY the Simpsons are eating at an Italian restaurant at the time Fat Tony is trying to bust a member of his troupe who betrayed him within the Italian restaurant.
  3. I can't remember a single joke in this episode other than Fat Tony revealing a secret that he likes singing alone in his room with a bolted piano that he can bring down like a housemade iron, and then him sliding off the piano while singing. The visual quirk got a brief chuckle out of me, but it wasn't much.

3/10. Competently paced story (aside from first act), but everything else was boring and shit. Probably will forget about it by the end of the season. Next is Treehouse of Horror or episode 666.

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Old pros have a decent day, as Fat Tony and Chief Wiggum are gifted a Simpsons from Bill Odenkirk

The Simpsons is plagued by its longevity as much as it’s enriched by it. For all the ready-to-go talent in every aspect of the production team and voice talent, there’s also an old guard of gatekeepers whose sensibilities have calcified as the show’s creaked forward. From tone-deaf defensiveness...
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Once again, the fools at AV Club gave it a B-. It seems like they rate every episode a B-, but yet they always like to put lowkey jabs about how the show is not "woke" or rather up-to-date enough:

The Simpsons is plagued by its longevity as much as it’s enriched by it. For all the ready-to-go talent in every aspect of the production team and voice talent, there’s also an old guard of gatekeepers whose sensibilities have calcified as the show’s creaked forward. From tone-deaf defensiveness in response to any criticism of said mildewing old-school notions of, say, racial stereotyping, to—perhaps more damaging to the show’s yellowing reputation—a cantankerous refusal to admit new voices into the show without filtering them through the same narrow lenses, The Simpsons trudges on in a still-lucrative, spongy irrelevance the old show would have had a field day mocking.
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"the old show would have had a field day mocking"

I'd like to think that if you were to bring up people like Greg Daniels, George Meyer, or especially John Swartzwelder, they would've had a field day mocking new-age sensationalist TV critics like you, Perkins.
 
I keep forgetting that new episodes are currently premiering on Sundays.

Not that I actually want to watch any of it. I've got plenty of better things to do than waste 30 minutes every Sunday evening watching an offensively dull show, anyway.
 
Brit Crust said:
I keep forgetting that new episodes are currently premiering on Sundays.

Not that I actually want to watch any of it. I've got plenty of better things to do than waste 30 minutes every Sunday evening watching an offensively dull show, anyway.
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Don't worry! You didn't miss anything revolutionary yet.

However, the Treehouse of Horror special is next weekend I believe.
 
I tend to think of Classic Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons as two different shows. Sunday's episode didn't make me want to put my fist through the TV in rage. So I'd classify it as "good" by Zombie Simpsons standards.
I think focusing on Wiggum and Fat Tony was a good choice. They're still somewhat funny characters. The Simpson family are, sadly, played out. There's nothing more that can be done with them that hasn't been done already.
 
Travoltron said:
I tend to think of Classic Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons as two different shows. Sunday's episode didn't make me want to put my fist through the TV in rage. So I'd classify it as "good" by Zombie Simpsons standards.
I think focusing on Wiggum and Fat Tony was a good choice. They're still somewhat funny characters. The Simpson family are, sadly, played out. There's nothing more that can be done with them that hasn't been done already.
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To think that a Simpsons spin-off centered on Springfield citizens was considered at one point (inspired by the fan-favorite episode "22 Short Films About Springfield," no less.) While this idea has never come to fruition, I've heard that the showrunners haven't completely given up on it. I'm not sure whether the spin-off series, were it to be actually greenlit and produced today, would be any good, especially considering that the main show has already peaked a long, long time ago. At the very least, episodes and shorts focusing on side characters and not the core Simpson family or any of its members would be somewhat interesting.
 
Brit Crust said:
To think that a Simpsons spin-off centered on Springfield citizens was considered at one point (inspired by the fan-favorite episode "22 Short Films About Springfield," no less.) While this idea has never come to fruition, I've heard that the showrunners haven't completely given up on it. I'm not sure whether the spin-off series, were it to be actually greenlit and produced today, would be any good, especially considering that the main show has already peaked a long, long time ago. At the very least, episodes and shorts focusing on side characters and not the core Simpson family or any of its members would be somewhat interesting.
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That would have perfect for the early days of the internet when the Simpsons were still popular. But I can imagine that Fox would online green light it if it could do well for ratings and to make the advertisers happy.
 
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