The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Became a little nostalgic and watched Grade School Confidential.

Forgot how good the show used to be.
 
https://www.avclub.com/hank-azaria-says-the-simpsons-is-thinking-about-makin-1820985588

Hank Azaria says The Simpsons is "thinking about" making changes to Apu

Lately, The Simpsons has been getting called out over Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the Indian convenience-store employee voiced by white guy Hank Azaria. The strength of this backlash is mostly due to writer/comedian Hari Kondabolu, who recently turned a fiery (and funny) monologue about Apu into a 50-minute TruTV documentary called The Problem With Apu that explores how the character fits into America’s history of minstrelsy. The film, which was directed by Michael Melamedoff, failed to land an interview with Azaria himself, but perhaps that’s because Melamedoff and Kondabolu didn’t just ambush him at an airport and yell questions at him like TMZ did for this clip in which Azaria talks about the Apu controversy:


To his credit, he seems to recognize that Apu is a problem that the show needs to solve in order to do right by the people it has offended, but the best he can offer is that he and the people who work on the show have heard the criticism and that they’re “thinking about” changes they could make to Apu.

Kondabolu has responded to this with a few specific suggestions for what the show could do, mainly requesting that the writers don’t take the “lazy” route and just kill him off:
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The show's entire founding gag is making fun of the low-brow idiot white guy. Everyone has come under its lens at some point.

If they're gonna "fix" Apu then they also need to fix Krusty, Barney, Chief Wiggum, Smithers, Abe, Cletus, and Homer himself.
 
Now Apu will be the same mouth-breathing dim bulb that the rest of the town is instead of being one of the only non-Lisa characters with a glimmer of intelligence.
 
CWCissey said:
Here is the death knell. Kowtowing to SJWs is always a sign of the end.
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Good. It's about time the Simpsons goes away instead of shambling along in its zombified state, having sucked everything remotely funny out of its premise decades ago.
 
Vault Boy said:
Changing a beloved side character over the whims of people that live in a perpetual state of outrage.

Yes, that will certainly end well for the show's reputation, I can't see how that this will possibly backfire.
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The state of the Krusty Burglar is what “The Simpsons” reputation is now.
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