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I think the one thing that made me give up on Simpson's was when they somehow managed to make a rater pedophilic joke about Christopher Walken back in the late 90s.
Here is what I mean: Anyone remember that episode about Krusty's daugter he had with a soldier during the Golf War?
The episode started off with this book fair thing and they made a joke about Christopher Walken reading Good Night Moon to kids, because that was around the time the famous Walken segment on tv came out where he read the three little piggies, which was considered hilarious. They managed to take the basic of the joke and turn it creepy, by adding a rather pedophilic smile and what I would almost consider a panty shot on a little girl in a scene, making Walken come off as a child molester. I didn't even know who Walken was back then, but something about the presentation of a pedo joke like that felt so wrong for me, I just thought WTF Simpsons and started to realize how bad the writing got.
 
UglyOldJafar said:
I think the one thing that made me give up on Simpson's was when they somehow managed to make a rater pedophilic joke about Christopher Walken back in the late 90s.
Here is what I mean: Anyone remember that episode about Krusty's daugter he had with a soldier during the Golf War?
The episode started off with this book fair thing and they made a joke about Christopher Walken reading Good Night Moon to kids, because that was around the time the famous Walken segment on tv came out where he read the three little piggies, which was considered hilarious. They managed to take the basic of the joke and turn it creepy, by adding a rather pedophilic smile and what I would almost consider a panty shot on a little girl in a scene, making Walken come off as a child molester. I didn't even know who Walken was back then, but something about the presentation of a pedo joke like that felt so wrong for me, I just thought WTF Simpsons and started to realize how bad the writing got.
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Pretty sure that Walken reading the Three Little Pigs happened way before that episode and that the joke was that Christopher Walken is scary, not that he's a paedophile.
 
UglyOldJafar said:
I think the one thing that made me give up on Simpson's was when they somehow managed to make a rater pedophilic joke about Christopher Walken back in the late 90s.
Here is what I mean: Anyone remember that episode about Krusty's daugter he had with a soldier during the Golf War?
The episode started off with this book fair thing and they made a joke about Christopher Walken reading Good Night Moon to kids, because that was around the time the famous Walken segment on tv came out where he read the three little piggies, which was considered hilarious. They managed to take the basic of the joke and turn it creepy, by adding a rather pedophilic smile and what I would almost consider a panty shot on a little girl in a scene, making Walken come off as a child molester. I didn't even know who Walken was back then, but something about the presentation of a pedo joke like that felt so wrong for me, I just thought WTF Simpsons and started to realize how bad the writing got.
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I think it's enough to say the writers of the Simpsons are resentful burnouts, accusing any one of them of pedophilia is a bit much.

In fact did any one of them torture your cat?
 
NumberingYourState said:
I think it's enough to say the writers of the Simpsons are resentful burnouts, accusing any one of them of pedophilia is a bit much.

In fact did any one of them torture your cat?
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I am not saying they are pedophiles. I am saying the joke just came off more pedophilic than the intentioned creepy. And it just felt so off I was all off sudden put out of the mood for Simpsons.
Also, the episode about Bart ruining christmas for everyone and the stupid orphan kids. That joke was just dumb.
 
So Matt is going to spend the extra money on a new show. I suggested the Simpsons being dead weight, which is fact, and you can guess how people resented my opinion. Money talks so it really doesn't matter what I think.
 
NumberingYourState said:
So Matt is going to spend the extra money on a new show. I suggested the Simpsons being dead weight, which is fact, and you can guess how people resented my opinion. Money talks so it really doesn't matter what I think.
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I'm surprised by this. Futurama was his baby and look how that got treated. I wouldn't hold it against Groening if he was bitter with media executives.
 
One of the last episodes I remember watching was one about pro-film piracy

It was so bad and whiny I think I'm against torrenting now

(sorry for necroing)
 
Uncanny Valley said:
One of the last episodes I remember watching was one about pro-film piracy

It was so bad and whiny I think I'm against torrenting now

(sorry for necroing)
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I know which episode you mean. But frankly, I thought that episode was against and for it. Somehow.
First the entire episode just made unnecessary fun of how modern day movies suck because of certain trends (which the show itself embraces), then it does this piss poor job at portraying film piracy as something bad with Marge of course being nitpicky and a sour thumb and then Homer got chased by the CIA or something for downloading Episode 7 of a star wars knock off before Disney bought it off?
 
For whatever reason, I've generally found most of the latter-day seasons to have at least 2-3 good episodes. Doesn't justify the 20+ bad ones that go along with them, though.
 
Hellsperger said:
For whatever reason, I've generally found most of the latter-day seasons to have at least 2-3 good episodes. Doesn't justify the 20+ bad ones that go along with them, though.
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And that's on a "good" season. Several of the recent seasons don't even have one good episode.
 
I'm probably gonna get tons of optimistic ratings, but I'm betting that when the eventual finale happens, it'll actually end up being really good.

I think that the problem now is that the writers don't have much of a reason to actually try. It's been shown before that they can still deliver when it's a bigger stage. The movie, for example, was pretty well-received.

When the time finally comes to take the dog behind the barn, the writers will probably go all-out and deliver a worthy finale.
 
Darwin Watterson said:
I'm probably gonna get tons of optimistic ratings, but I'm betting that when the eventual finale happens, it'll actually end up being really good.

I think that the problem now is that the writers don't have much of a reason to actually try. It's been shown before that they can still deliver when it's a bigger stage. The movie, for example, was pretty well-received.

When the time finally comes to take the dog behind the barn, the writers will probably go all-out and deliver a worthy finale.
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Get John Schwartzwelder involved too. He wrote some of the best episodes and kept his politics within reason. He's conservative but was responsible for the episode about gun ownership which was fair and reasonable.
 
Darwin Watterson said:
I'm probably gonna get tons of optimistic ratings, but I'm betting that when the eventual finale happens, it'll actually end up being really good.

I think that the problem now is that the writers don't have much of a reason to actually try. It's been shown before that they can still deliver when it's a bigger stage. The movie, for example, was pretty well-received.

When the time finally comes to take the dog behind the barn, the writers will probably go all-out and deliver a worthy finale.
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Holidays of Future Past was meant to be the finale episode apparently. No idea why they released it when they did.
 
CWCissey said:
Holidays of Future Past was meant to be the finale episode apparently. No idea why they released it when they did.
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That episode was from the twenty third season - the one which aired right after the show barely escaped cancellation so I understand why it was written as a potential series finale. Critics said the episode "The Great Wife Hope" could have ended the show which is a bad sign cos that episode was a complete piece of shit.
 
TheImportantFart said:
That episode was from the twenty third season - the one which aired right after the show barely escaped cancellation so I understand why it was written as a potential series finale. Critics said the episode "The Great Wife Hope" could have ended the show which is a bad sign cos that episode was a complete piece of shit.
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Was that the one where Marge joined UFC?
 
Right, Smithers officially came out this week, and what could have been a great episode about Mr. Burns getting over his old fashioned views or something was just an excuse for Hank Azaria to do his fucking stupid gay Latino voice again. George Takei was also horribly wasted.
 
CWCissey said:
Right, Smithers officially came out this week, and what could have been a great episode about Mr. Burns getting over his old fashioned views or something was just an excuse for Hank Azaria to do his fucking stupid gay Latino voice again. George Takei was also horribly wasted.
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Sad really. This episode really didn't need to happen, or should've happened a lot earlier.
 
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