The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Vault Boy said:
The same episode that retconned Homer as a teenager in the 90s and acted as a fluff piece for JJ Abrams.

Oh, and Sideshow Mel bought an animatronic fox to use as a sex robot. I'm not even fucking kidding.
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It also retconned Gil into being a drug smuggler who lost it all instead of a guy consistently and constantly down on his luck.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
It also retconned Gil into being a drug smuggler who lost it all instead of a guy consistently and constantly down on his luck.
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Gil as a drug smuggler? I don't even know what to say about that.

It's like something out of an edgy fanfiction.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Gil as a drug smuggler? I don't even know what to say about that.

It's like something out of an edgy fanfiction.
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Yeah I really feel for ole Gil.


"Please you gotta help ole Gil what's it gonna take to keep you on the phone? Dance for you? But you wouldn't even see it...alright! Ima dancin!"
 
Seventh Star said:
You probably know this, but the reason so many of these references are being made years or months later than they should, is because they did write them at that moment, but the animation and production takes a long time to complete, or so I've heard from the creators themselves.
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Gee it's almost like animation is a genre you SHOULDN'T try to make topical heat of the moment jokes with or something like that.

Also those sonic fans are highly inaccurate, where's the red and blue striped clown shirts? The can of pink mace?
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
What is it about offering goodwill towards your audience that makes Current Year writers so mad anyway?
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Note that the haters are "trolls". They're not disagreeable cranks or nerds with bad opinions, they are actually out to ruin your day and hurt poor JJ Abrams's feelings, for no reason other than pure spite.

Not sure if my attachment is working but this bit of strawmanning from a slightly older episode stumbled ass-backwards into BASED AND REDPILLED

 
Calandrino said:
Note that the haters are "trolls". They're not disagreeable cranks or nerds with bad opinions, they are actually out to ruin your day and hurt poor JJ Abrams's feelings, for no reason other than pure spite.

Not sure if my attachment is working but this bit of strawmanning from a slightly older episode stumbled ass-backwards into BASED AND REDPILLED

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the point is certainly valid, but that doesn't strike me as how Homer would articulate his thoughts, like, at all
that sounds more like Krusty dialog or something
 
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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
I said this in the Sonic Movie thread, but the joke absolutely doesn't work because Sonic was really successful at the box office. As in one of the top grossing movies of 2020 successful, which suggests that the people who bitched about the design put their money where their mouth was and saw it. Had the movie bombed even after changing Sonic's design, the joke would have had a leg to stand on, but it doesn't.
What is it about offering goodwill towards your audience that makes Current Year writers so mad anyway?
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"You WILL like the terrible Sonic design! Fall in line or be accosted by our loyal and dedicated fanbase who will defend our every move (with or without monetary compensation)."

In my opinion, fans holding some power in the writers' creative decisions probably pisses them off when they just want to make whatever they want without suffering from the consequences and it comes during a time where the culture of the above scenario can't be any more true.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
Today I learned that at some point, Corpse Simpsons tried to make fun of Sonic fans being mad about the original movie design.
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EDIT: oh my god, this episode is only a month old, are they seriously that petty?!
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The episode was a given for a couple of reasons:

1. Disney owns the Simpsons
2. Kathleen Kennedy is still raping Star Wars at Disney
3. KK and JJ Abrams are BFFs and are still EXTREMELY butt-hurt that SW fans dared to oppose JJ and KK over their rape of the SW franchise
4. JJ ended up being made to leave Disney in disgrace for Warner Brothers, which pissed Kennedy and Abrams off
5. They actually got JJ Abrams to do a guest spot where he forced Homer to bend the knee to him raping old franchises
 
I noticed that Ralph was Flanderized pretty hard by season 6. He was kind of dumb up until this point, but everything Ralph has to say for a full episode revolves around his cat, regardless of context. He has now metamorphized into a full on smooth brain. This obviously isn't zombie territory yet, but there are notable omens/symptoms of it early on.

This is an interesting case study of where exactly the show starts its decline. The Principal and the Pauper is the one everyone points to as the turning point, but I'm of the opinion that decline begins in bits and pieces rather than as a whole, since if something performs good overall you're not likely to notice the small things beginning to slip.
 
Has "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" been pulled from syndication yet? (TW: hate speech) Back in season 17 the show had already been bad about as long as it had been good. Now it's at roughly the midpoint of The Simpsons' run thus far. It's like looking into another dimension. 2006 really is a very very long time ago, isn't it?


Jewelsmakerguy said:
It also retconned Gil into being a drug smuggler who lost it all instead of a guy consistently and constantly down on his luck.
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Is Gil the last recurring character that even counts? If they tried to throw in any more during the last 20 years or so, I don't think they stuck.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I noticed that Ralph was Flanderized pretty hard by season 6. He was kind of dumb up until this point, but everything Ralph has to say for a full episode revolves around his cat, regardless of context. He has now metamorphized into a full on smooth brain. This obviously isn't zombie territory yet, but there are notable omens/symptoms of it early on.

This is an interesting case study of where exactly the show starts its decline. The Principal and the Pauper is the one everyone points to as the turning point, but I'm of the opinion that decline begins in bits and pieces rather than as a whole, since if something performs good overall you're not likely to notice the small things beginning to slip.
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There's some proto jerkass Homer as early as season 5. He doesn't start outright acting like a dumb sociopath until season 10 or so but it's there enough to be noticeable.
 
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