The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Season 30 is upon us and they begin with a 'Heaven Is For Real' parody.

Marge's character got destroyed, she's not doing it for love, she's sticking with the family out of blind faith and booze
Gal Gadot's guest role felt extremely forced, Emily Deschanel got away with it for doing Marge better than Julie Kavner
Stupid Family Guy when crap skits
It did make me laugh once, when Bart asks the Christian movie producers if the money they make goes back to the Church and they hum and ha.
 
I wonder if the Marge auditions scene is foreshadowing Julie Kavner having to retire at some point in the not-too-distant future due to overexerting her vocal chords?

I didn't mind Gal Gadot since she was just a recurring cameo within the episode; despite featuring heavy in the promos, I don't think she had more than maybe a minute and a half of screen time. I was afraid it would be one of those terrible "celebrities playing themselves" episodes where it's not just a brief cameo as full episodes of celebrities poking fun at their public personas are less amusing than Simpsons' writers would have us believe, but at least the Gadot scenes were kind of justified as they were making a movie, unlike those episodes where celebrities just suddenly decide to hang out with the Simpsons for no good reason.
 
CWCissey said:
Season 30 is upon us and they begin with a 'Heaven Is For Real' parody.

Marge's character got destroyed, she's not doing it for love, she's sticking with the family out of blind faith and booze
Gal Gadot's guest role felt extremely forced, Emily Deschanel got away with it for doing Marge better than Julie Kavner
Stupid Family Guy when crap skits
It did make me laugh once, when Bart asks the Christian movie producers if the money they make goes back to the Church and they hum and ha.
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Final season maybe? Finally?

:optimistic:

I never understand autists that ree "If it ever goes away I'll be sad!" So you'd rather it just go on forever and continue to be unfunny?
 
BrunoMattei said:
I never understand autists that ree "If it ever goes away I'll be sad!" So you'd rather it just go on forever and continue to be unfunny?
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Probably because The Simpsons has remained a constant staple of television for 30 years now. And when it finally ends, that staple will basically be gone.

At this point though, it's a lot sadder that the show is still running. It hasn't been funny in actual decades now, and cancelling it now would be more of a kindness.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
At this point though, it's a lot sadder that the show is still running. It hasn't been funny in actual decades now, and cancelling it now would be more of a kindness.
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It's like seeing a loved one survive a horrifying accident and they become a spastic vegetable that's slowly dying.
 
It's more sad that only like 10 seasons of The Simpsons are good, which is very generous because plenty of fans would dismiss everything starting from 9 because of Principal and the Pauper alone.
 
CWCissey said:
Season 30 is upon us and they begin with a 'Heaven Is For Real' parody.

Marge's character got destroyed, she's not doing it for love, she's sticking with the family out of blind faith and booze
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It sounds like the Simpsons are trying to stay relevant by going down the dark n edgy route that shows like Rick and Morty, and bojack horseman are doing. It really is just time for them to pack it in and focus on disenchanted.
 
vertexwindi said:
It's more sad that only like 10 seasons of The Simpsons are good, which is very generous because plenty of fans would dismiss everything starting from 9 because of Principal and the Pauper alone.
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I've said it before, but now only 1/3 of the show's run is considered good, and that's even less if you don't like seasons 9 or 10. Hell some people, like Harry Shearer, think it hasn't been funny since season 4.

The number of bad Simpsons episodes vastly outweighs the good at this point.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I never understand autists that ree "If it ever goes away I'll be sad!" So you'd rather it just go on forever and continue to be unfunny?
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See the Simpsons don't make sense until you consider that the television show is more or less advertising for the simpsons brand which Fox considers to be the cornerstone of the larger Fox brand.
Right now famous intellectual properties are worth a ton even when it's fucking stupid, the major media players are gobbling each other up trying to end up with the biggest library of characters.
The Simpsons won't be finished until money gets tight and these companies all start downsizing.
 
Regardless of the current quality of the show, it’s going to feel very weird for it to just end.

Like... the show’s been around longer than when a good portion of us have been alive. I never knew a world before and without The Simpsons.

Kinda makes me wonder how many people who stopped keeping up with the show years ago will watch the final episode when it airs.
 
I read somewhere supposedly Matt said if the series ever ended he wanted Marge to just leave and take the kids, no jokes, no goodbyes just leave. I don't remember if it was ever confirmed or just a rumor though.
 
Behind the Laughter also felt very much like a series finale. Homer even says at the end that "this'll be the last season."
 
vertexwindi said:
Homer even says at the end that "this'll be the last season."
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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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