The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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The Gangster Computer said:
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Nancy and Ron Reagan for the Republicans and Walter Mondale (history's other greatest monster) for the Democrats.

I remember reading that writer John Swartzwelder was the main conservative who added balance. After he left in the 2000s they started hiring writers who grew up watching The Simpsons and from then on it's been zombifed.
 
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Regarding the Don Hertzfeld and banksy couch gags, (this one)
why do the show execs keep bringing in underground artists who WILL mock the show when given an opportunity like that?
 
horrorfan89 said:
Regarding the Don Hertzfeld and banksy couch gags, (this one)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_efUSTqtFM0 why do the show execs keep bringing in underground artists who WILL mock the show when given an opportunity like that?
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>Banksy
>underground
lol no. Banksy is loved by all the upper middle-class lefties that all the current crop of Simpsons writers mingle with. He's just another product, an anarchy-lite image that they can grab on to and circle jerk about how they're in touch with such a rogue vagabond, man. If he actually had real convictions about the Simpsons and FOX using slave labor he would have just told them to shove it, and then make some oversized, heavy-handed stencil attacking them on the side of a business that gave him permission like he usually does. They had him do the couch gag because it gave them a feeling of political legitimacy and edginess; the fact that called them out (with such an obvious, cliched angle I'd add) is supposed to make him seem like even more of a rogue and makes them feel even more legitimate for associating with him.

Hertzfeld's gag, on the other hand, was fantastic regardless if you agree with the message or not. Compare his imaginative style, the surreal execution and his ability to still make it all emotional to Banksy's scrawling his name everywhere LIKE THE DANGEROUS REBEL HE IS and the flat procession of BAD THINGS THAT ARE BAD that we've all seen a million times before and you can tell who is the actual, real artist and who is the tryhard poser.
 
Banksy's spiel about Western entertainment properties utilising Third World sweatshops has been done extensively by The Simpsons themselves.
 

Halloween Hulk Hogan said:
>Banksy
>underground
lol no. Banksy is loved by all the upper middle-class lefties that all the current crop of Simpsons writers mingle with. He's just another product, an anarchy-lite image that they can grab on to and circle jerk about how they're in touch with such a rogue vagabond, man. If he actually had real convictions about the Simpsons and FOX using slave labor he would have just told them to shove it, and then make some oversized, heavy-handed stencil attacking them on the side of a business that gave him permission like he usually does. They had him do the couch gag because it gave them a feeling of political legitimacy and edginess; the fact that called them out (with such an obvious, cliched angle I'd add) is supposed to make him seem like even more of a rogue and makes them feel even more legitimate for associating with him.

Hertzfeld's gag, on the other hand, was fantastic regardless if you agree with the message or not. Compare his imaginative style, the surreal execution and his ability to still make it all emotional to Banksy's scrawling his name everywhere LIKE THE DANGEROUS REBEL HE IS and the flat procession of BAD THINGS THAT ARE BAD that we've all seen a million times before and you can tell who is the actual, real artist and who is the tryhard poser.
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Guess I'm more out of touch than i thought, eh still my point of bringing on people who know the show is shit and will mock it for that stands. To compare the writer of the comic Flintstones beyond outright HATED the Flintstones and only took the job to roast the franchise to no end.

but I'm going off topic so....Random quote time:


"Hello I'm George Cauldron is Susanne ready yet?"

"Almost just give her another 20 minutes"

*turns up the oven to high*

"But the concert's at 8"
 
From The Uncanny Valley said:
I think everyone working on the show silently hates it, with the possible exception of AL Jean
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That would explain a lot. I think everyone but Jean just view the show as just a job for them since the voice actors only seem to really still be involved for the money, which I can't blame them since I'd do the same if I was in their positions. Al Jean just seems really full of himself.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
That would explain a lot. I think everyone but Jean just view the show as just a job for them since the voice actors only seem to really still be involved for the money, which I can't blame them since I'd do the same if I was in their positions. Al Jean just seems really full of himself.
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He's still assmad at people who trashed the show on fucking usenet
 
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