The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Top of the morning to ye on this gray, grizzly afternoon. Kent
O'Brockman live on Main Street, where today everyone is a little bit
Irish, except, of course, for the gays and the Italians.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Top of the morning to ye on this gray, grizzly afternoon. Kent
O'Brockman live on Main Street, where today everyone is a little bit
Irish, except, of course, for the gays and the Italians.
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Look at me! I'm the Prime Minister of Ireland!

How did Homer know Ireland has a Prime Minister anyway?
 
You're out there somewhere Beer Baron and I'll find you.

sasazuka said:
The "Right Wing Podcast House" segment with unnamed Joe Rogan trying to welcome Homer (after he was shunned everywhere else) only for Homer to decide that it's too low, even for him, was literally about 5 seconds. I'm struggling to remember any other meaningful social commentary from the episode beyond "website on smartphone say Homer Simpson bad so everyone hate Homer now" The final act of the episode was the "cancelled" Suicide Squad trying to infiltrate a complex on an island housing servers to upload a virus that'll erase every video of them from the Internet only for most of the Suicide Squad to get distracted by clickbait and only Homer manages to get to the server. He starts to upload the virus but realizes that it's a ploy by rich and powerful assholes to get anything negative about them also erased from the Internet so he pulls the virus USB stick out before the upload is finished and insteads reads a public apology written by Lisa that everyone watches and it resolves everything, but you don't actually hear the apology, you just hear a Morgan Freeman impersonator narrator telling you that it resolves everything.

Yeah, it was a mostly terrible episode, and I'm someone who actually quite liked the previous episode so I'm not all negative about [Current Year] Simpsons.
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That sounds awful. No meaningful social commentary about how an angry mob can destroy a mans life without a thought or any real humor on Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is the pot smoking ex-Fear Factor host who became one of the most influential voices of the late 2010s and early 2020s while attracting a cult of followers and a legion of haters. There are so many different angles you could make fun of this situation but they just stick with the low effort "Rogan man bad" like Twitter told them to think. Also what the hell is with the second act twist? It reads like a bot cobbled this episode together out of what was trending on Twitter at the time.
 
Strange Wilderness said:
You're out there somewhere Beer Baron and I'll find you.
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Wait! I have discovered more lines on the parchment. It says that the prohibition law which was passed here 200 years ago... was repealed 199 years ago.

(I like how the episode starts with St. Patrick's Day and then it's about the prohibition thing.)
 
One thing I sort of mentioned but didn't specifically spell out is that "Suicide Squad" isn't just my term for the team of Homer and the other members of the "cancelled on social media" team, they called themselves the "Suicide Squad" a couple of times in the episode, the first time was in case you didn't get the quite obvious reference and then, later on, in case you forgot what they were referencing.
 
Strange Wilderness said:
That sounds awful. No meaningful social commentary about how an angry mob can destroy a mans life without a thought or any real humor on Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is the pot smoking ex-Fear Factor host who became one of the most influential voices of the late 2010s and early 2020s while attracting a cult of followers and a legion of haters. There are so many different angles you could make fun of this situation but they just stick with the low effort "Rogan man bad" like Twitter told them to think. Also what the hell is with the second act twist? It reads like a bot cobbled this episode together out of what was trending on Twitter at the time.
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The magic of early Simpsons was the clever writing, not the art, hence why Homer Badman perfectly satirized sensationalized media and could even be argued that it successfully predicted cancel culture. The new Rogan episode is just another dated attempt to bash Rogan for muh horse paste, like SNL did last fall when they were already months late with the joke. The only people who enjoy this shit nowadays are smug libtard wine moms. The fact that some stoner's podcast can rustle up so many jimmies among elites, Redditards, Twitter faggots, shitty TV shows, and ''''''''''medical experts'''''''''' baffles me.

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sasazuka said:
One thing I sort of mentioned but didn't specifically spell out is that "Suicide Squad" isn't just my term for the team of Homer and the other members of the "cancelled on social media" team, they called themselves the "Suicide Squad" a couple of times in the episode, the first time was in case you didn't get the quite obvious reference and then, later on, in case you forgot what they were referencing.
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I remember when they didn't have to explicitly spell out their references to the audience. For the longest time I would watch older movies and remark "I saw this on the Simpsons", or see an older actor in a film and go "hey that guy was on the Simpsons", or joke with my parents that I had first heard of their dinosaur bands on the Simpsons. I think it has been said that you could recreate "The Godfather", "Citizen Kane", and "2001" based off Simpsons clips alone based on how much they threw in quick references to those movies. Now they just blindly chase pop-culture references and are always six months behind a trends relevancy.

Preferred Penne said:
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Yes. I. Will.

Michael Jacks0n said:
The magic of early Simpsons was the clever writing, not the art, hence why Homer Badman perfectly satirized sensationalized media and could even be argued that it successfully predicted cancel culture. The new Rogan episode is just another dated attempt to bash Rogan for muh horse paste, like SNL did last fall when they were already months late with the joke. The only people who enjoy this shit nowadays are smug libtard wine moms. The fact that some stoner's podcast can rustle up so many jimmies among elites, Redditards, Twitter faggots, shitty TV shows, and ''''''''''medical experts'''''''''' baffles me.

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With Homer Badman you can tell the writers had actually watched what they were satirizing. You knew they had seen trash tabloid shows, media circuses, poorly edited interviews, ripped from the headlines made for TV movies, ridiculous talk-shows and stale late-night jokes based on current events to make fun of them in the perfect way. With this new episode it sounds like they just threw in a Joe Rogan reference only because when they wrote the episode he was trending at the time, social media told them Joe Rogan was bad and you should hate him, and they have never actually listened to an episode of Joe Rogans podcast.

Old Simpsons writers had actual passion for what they wrote about. With the new episodes it feels like a bunch of consoomers squealing about the latest trends on social media with none of the passion or contempt for society the old writers had.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
Man remember a time when guest stars on the Simpsons actually felt special rather than one appearing every single week.
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And when they did appear it could be not as themselves. Like Takei as that Japanese game show host.

And the show wasn't like "HEY LOOK FAMOUS CELEBRITY" with a soy face.
 
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retartedconspiratard said:
Thoughts on the people who have been saying season 33 as well as seasons 31 and 32 are good or an improement from previous? The links I posted are just a few examples.
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There are a handful of episodes I rather liked, such as "Boyz N the Highlands" the other week, but I wouldn't go so far as to say seasons 32 and 33 on the whole are improvements over previous seasons unless we're talking very, very short term and not going all of the way back to season 11 like that one guy in link 3 said.
 
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