The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Nikes_JustDoIt said:
I cant tell genuinely if this is real or its a fan edit because it looks so shit. But its real
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GMKTDw6tWOs750th Episode Opening Credits ｜ Couch Gag ｜ The Simpsons [GMKTDw6tWOs].mp4
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I was not ready for Homer's voice at the end. Like, holy shit, just stop.

This makes me wonder: if you counted all the characters in this intro, how would it compare to actual IRL settlements? Would it be a village? A town? I don't think there are enough people there for a city.

ETA: I just watched again and noticed the blackboard explicitly said 750 characters. Oops.
 
Homer J. Fong said:
Personally I think the modern day Shitsons is not woke enough. Lisa linked up with Lady Gaga and this Billy Idolish (is she Billy Idol's daughter?), both thin white cisgendered women.

I think it'd be far more interesting to have Lisa team up with Lizzo with her planetary sized ass bringing Homer's fat body to shame. And Lizzo plays the flute which compliments the sax.
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They did Homer dirty. Lizzo is for sure bigger fatass than him and they still animated her thinner :(
 
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SatanicBudgie said:
They did Homer dirty. Lizzo is for sure bigger fatass than him and they still animated her thinner :(
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$10 says you were thinking of this as you read the above:
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ToroidalBoat said:
this has been said to be an analogy of Zombie Simpsons:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YAMHpiVDEXY"itchy & scratchy & poochie show"
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The weirdest part in all of this was how that particular episode was done as a satire of long-running shows in general. Most of the more weird meta episodes in Season 8 and the Scully seasons were done with the mindset that they show would end pretty soon. This was back in the late 90's and very early 2000's. Everyone thought it'd be a miracle to make it past ten seasons back then.

In all honesty, I unironically like a lot of the more meta episodes from Seasons 8-12 and not just the acclaimed ones like "Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie" or "Behind The Laughter", but even the more infamous ones like "The Principal and The Pauper" or "Saddlesore Galactica"
 
They Saved Lisa's Brain
The one with Stephen Hawking
onlines say they actually had Hawking at a studio and put a mic in front of his speaker, and he really typed all his shit out for real
that's neat
 
IMHO golden age starts at season 2 and peaks at season 7. Seasons 8-12 are still decent/good/great then it just falls off the Springfield Gorge starting with season 13. With seasons 18-19 or 20 (I forget) being pretty good/decent then everything after that is garbage. There is nothing redeemable past season 20.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
IMHO golden age starts at season 2 and peaks at season 7. Seasons 8-12 are still decent/good/great then it just falls off the Springfield Gorge starting with season 13. With seasons 18-19 or 20 (I forget) being pretty good/decent then everything after that is garbage. There is nothing redeemable past season 20.
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Well I think he does make a good point that maybe the Simpsons only feels so bad because the 90s was SO good nothing can really live up to it. That the Simpsons simply is dogged by its legacy growing up and can’t recapture it’s former glory.

Yeah the old episodes are still the best but doesn’t exclude good episodes in the modern era, it would be basically impossible to have 34 golden seasons of a show, the writers can’t be on permanent ‘crunch time’ to deliver the absolute best version of what the fans believe it to be, which is honestly a fair point.
 
Pretty much everyone says something like 3-8, with a season's leeway either side.
I agree season 1 shouldn't be considered golden age, but I think it's actually quite underrated these days. It suffers a bit from the seinfeld effect; there have been so many successful adult animated shows since that you don't really get what the fuss was about if you watch it now. What was edgy in 1989 is just so tame and commonplace now for the most part. Obviously you can also talk about the crude animation, some of the characters not quite acting or sounding like themselves yet, incredibly weird and ugly looking background characters. etc etc
The comedy doesn't have the rapid pace or layers of the later years (I consider season 7 the later years), but episodes like the telltale head, bart the general, crepes of wrath and life in the fast lane to name a few are still really solidly written, enjoyable stories to me.
 
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thegooddoctor said:
Yeah the old episodes are still the best but doesn’t exclude good episodes in the modern era, it would be basically impossible to have 34 golden seasons of a show, the writers can’t be on permanent ‘crunch time’ to deliver the absolute best version of what the fans believe it to be, which is honestly a fair point.
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Perhaps, just maybe, this could be taken as a sign that it's not a good idea for a show to go on for 34+ years?
 
Jacques Strap said:
Pretty much everyone says something like 3-8, with a season's leeway either side.
I agree season 1 shouldn't be considered golden age, but I think it's actually quite underrated these days. It suffers a bit from the seinfeld effect; there have been so many successful adult animated shows since that you don't really get what the fuss was about if you watch it now. What was edgy in 1989 is just so tame and commonplace now for the most part. Obviously you can also talk about the crude animation, some of the characters not quite acting or sounding like themselves yet, incredibly weird and ugly looking background characters. etc etc
The comedy doesn't have the rapid pace or layers of the later years (I consider season 7 the later years), but episodes like the telltale head, bart the general, crepes of wrath and life in the fast lane to name a few are still really solidly written, enjoyable stories to me.
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I agree fully with you on this all, so much I struggle to think of what else to say on that besides, well, I agree.

What struck at me that I think is worth commenting on was "Pretty much everyone says something like 3-8, with a season's leeway either side." I watched the Simpsons since the OG Christmas special as a kid, and even I remember, specifically, that Season 8 felt like a "wacky" season when they were running out of ideas compared to the grounded reality before... and yet I see the occasional comment that some people consider Season 7 so, like you do. It reminds me of the fact the "original team" working on the show from Season 1 left at the debut of Season 5 and eagle-eyed viewers notice Springfield and its town backgrounds went from looking beat up to fairly decent-looking from 5 onwards, no doubt one can claim the prosperity of the 90s as partly but it's a good eye that things were shaking up for the feel of the show even then. I wonder if Season 4 would've been good as a natural endpoint...
 
Quijibo69 said:
The farthest season I kinda liked is season 11. Season 12 is pushing it.
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For me its the movie, a lot of people generally agree that would have been a good ending spot. The show hadn't completely turned to crap and had a fairly good ratio of good to bad episodes by that point to still have been respectable and have not been a zombiefied husk of itself by then.
 
I was just thinking about the movie and overall I'd give it a 7/10. It can be broken down like this:

1st act is the strongest (despite the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon not being very funny). This feels like all of the oldschool writers were on board for this part.

2nd act is the weakest. It felt like modern writers worked on it. A lot of jokes fall flat. 2nd act begins when the family escapes Springfield and the dome is lowered. Some very bizarre WTF scenes like President Schwarzenegger and the villain just having no motive at all for why he's doing this.

3rd act is pretty good. This begins when the family is recaptured and Homer has to save the town. Most of the jokes work and it feels like the oldschool writers collaborated with some of the newer writers. The 3rd act is overall satisfying but there's some clunkiness.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I was just thinking about the movie and overall I'd give it a 7/10. It can be broken down like this:

1st act is the strongest (despite the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon not being very funny). This feels like all of the oldschool writers were on board for this part.

2nd act is the weakest. It felt like modern writers worked on it. A lot of jokes fall flat. 2nd act begins when the family escapes Springfield and the dome is lowered. Some very bizarre WTF scenes like President Schwarzenegger and the villain just having no motive at all for why he's doing this.

3rd act is pretty good. This begins when the family is recaptured and Homer has to save the town. Most of the jokes work and it feels like the oldschool writers collaborated with some of the newer writers. The 3rd act is overall satisfying but there's some clunkiness.
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The escape to Alaska ark is very commonly cited as having a severe drop in quality compared to the rest of the film. Not sure why.
 
Sniperwoof said:
The escape to Alaska ark is very commonly cited as having a severe drop in quality compared to the rest of the film. Not sure why.
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I honestly believe the (at the time) newer writers worked on that. Aside from the gag where Bart doodles on the wanted poster all of the jokes feel like they're from the later seasons.

It probably would have been better if the movie was structured more like 3 interconnected longer episodes.
 
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