The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Sniperwoof said:
Homer is canonically 32 making his birthdate 1991/1992 in the show's current timeline. He would have been in elementary school during 911.

That's how fucking long this goddamn show has been on the air.
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According to this article (not researching further, sorry) Homer's age has changed from mid 30s to late 30s). I kinda had mid-30s in my head when I wrote that. But yeah, it's only a matter of time before they do a "Homer and Marge as late millennials/early zoomers" episode.
 
Ewan McGregor said:
And as much as I like 90s Simpsons, I think they did a great harm. They set a trend of dysfunctional behaviour showcased on TV that has only gotten worse and worse.

Much to my chagrin, and as much as I think Bart's antics at the height of the backlash were exceptionally tame, especially considering he was conceived by somebody who thought Dennis the Menace was really tame and harmless and wanted to write an actual problematic child, the moral guardians of the 90s were right about everything and the Helen Lovejoys of the world should have been listened to.
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Let's be completely honest here; there were already plenty of subversive elements within entertainment media, simply because of the fact that the field drew in the type of people who felt it was their duty to take on the status quo--and there's nothing wrong with that, as long as it's the "holding up a mirror to society" type of activity that has the potential to cause people to open their eyes to issues they might otherwise ignore.

On the other hand, you have those in the industry who are revolutionaries, whose only viewpoint on anything is through the lens of "critical theory", an inherently poisonous viewpoint that seeks to paint everything and everyone as intrinsically linked to a power dynamic, and which can only be overthrown through the destruction of the current establishment with the expectation that when everything is brought to zero, a new humanity will emerge from the wreckage.

One has the potential to be constructive; one does not.
 
BetterFuckChuck said:
interesting to see all these articles that are now only available in archives. the guy's passionate and correct but man is he fucking gay
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The only issue with your analyses is that seasons 9 to 11 are late 90's with just the later half of season 11 being 2000's.

XYZpdq Jr. said:
just caught Marge vs The Monorail
onlines say Nimoy wasn't their first pick. They figured he wouldn't be game so they first tried Takei since he had already been on, but lolTakei kept demanding changes because MUH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION so they dumped him and it turned out Nimoy was totally cool with it
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A similar thing happened with Lisa the Vegetarian where Paul Mccarthy refuseed to be on if Lisa didn't remain a vegertarian at the end. Makes you wonder if Lisa's self rightousness was based on the writers experience with these self righteous celebrity guests.
Ewan McGregor said:
And as much as I like 90s Simpsons, I think they did a great harm. They set a trend of dysfunctional behaviour showcased on TV that has only gotten worse and worse.

Much to my chagrin, and as much as I think Bart's antics at the height of the backlash were exceptionally tame, especially considering he was conceived by somebody who thought Dennis the Menace was really tame and harmless and wanted to write an actual problematic child, the moral guardians of the 90s were right about everything and the Helen Lovejoys of the world should have been listened to.
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Shows like The Simpsons and later family guy would create this image that dysfuctional families are the only type of families out there and any good healthy ones is just are just idealistic myths. When proggressive and liberal ideologues say that family sitcoms weere bland what they really mean is that there isnt enough degeneracy. Along with that most of the people who made fun of the so called "moral guardians" are themselves rootless cosmopalitans.
At the same time however, the 80's reaganite sitcoms much like the rest of them 80's was made to create a fake sense of wholesomeness that would ignore America's slow moral and societal decay as it was happening.
The Simpsons would act as a false opposition by presenting America's problems from a feminist proggresisve point of view and creating this dichotomy where either you were a money loving conservative with no true opposition to the proggressives or you are this tradition and nation hating proggreessive who hates money.
Irrational Exuberance said:
Let's be completely honest here; there were already plenty of subversive elements within entertainment media, simply because of the fact that the field drew in the type of people who felt it was their duty to take on the status quo--and there's nothing wrong with that, as long as it's the "holding up a mirror to society" type of activity that has the potential to cause people to open their eyes to issues they might otherwise ignore.

On the other hand, you have those in the industry who are revolutionaries, whose only viewpoint on anything is through the lens of "critical theory", an inherently poisonous viewpoint that seeks to paint everything and everyone as intrinsically linked to a power dynamic, and which can only be overthrown through the destruction of the current establishment with the expectation that when everything is brought to zero, a new humanity will emerge from the wreckage.

One has the potential to be constructive; one does not.
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True but it's also the perspective as well. For decades th media has been dominated with a proggresisve post 60's point of view. There has never really been a show that exposed societal issues from a right wing conservative perspective in the same way that liberal media has and instead so called "conservative" showss would basically be about ignoring eveything instead.
Ewan McGregor said:
SEW is so scared to say the wrong thing and offend somebody or getting the slightest heat on social media that a Republican Senator being blackmailed with pictures of himself smoking crack as he gets his cock sucked by an underage twink while drinking vodka with Vladimir Putin and George Soros while browsing the Kiwi Farms would appear a sensible, calm, collected and in-control individual by comparison.
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The main issue with his take in the later half of his video is that it can basically be summed up as "forget about what made the early seasons good and never compare" viewin g the later seasons as its unquee different thing which just becomes a stupid aknoledgement that the show will never really be good again but he wants an excuse to say its good again and having thinsg change basically defeats the purpose of it being the same show in the first place.
Ewan McGregor said:
Considering the Simpsons style of comedy, they wanted to make Lisa simp (no pun intended) for any accomplished woman, even if that would be the first woman in a military with a record of destroying not only harmless buildings, but also sacred buildings. I think that was the joke and there was no political statement to it. This is the sort of thing that made The Simpsons great. They would never do this in this day and age.
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A recurring theme throughout many episodes, however, is that often she is very irrational as her ideology overides any logic such as not undertstanding the logic of survival in a wild west situation and sometimes one aspect of her ideology ends up alsop conflicting with anotheer like how in a recent episode she was dissapointed that a greedy pollutionn causing corperation was run by women.
 
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Just a random note, this is from the "Max Power" episode, and which cartoonist put that symbol, that looks like the Zodiac Killer symbol in this shot.

"MARGE, AM I A SLAVE IN THE AFTERLIFE?!?"
 
Friendly Primarina said:
I wonder if they'll do an episode where Marge and Homer meet at high school post-9/11?
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Sniperwoof said:
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Friendly Primarina said:
According to this article (not researching further, sorry) Homer's age has changed from mid 30s to late 30s).
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Homer and Marge have gone from being "Boomers", to being "Millennials".

Also the children have gone from "Generation X", to "Generation Alpha".

https://screenrant.com/simpsons-show-homer-age-how-old/ said:
In season 4, there was a quick look at his driver’s license, which has his birthdate listed as May 12, 1956, meaning that by the time the series began, Homer was 33, but during season 4 (which ran from 1992 to 1993), he was 37 years old.
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BrunoMattei said:
Homer is a rough 33.
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And yet Homer was "38.1" in that Thomas Edison episode, first aired in '98.

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% At the KBBL radio station, the disc jockeys do moronic news jokes
 accompanied by bad sound effects.

Bill:       Hey, Springfield, if you're driving, you may want to sit
            down!
Marty:      Uh, oh!  Because it's time for Bill and Marty's Five
            O'clock News Flush!  [toilet flushing sound plays]
Bill:       Our topless story:  President Clinton has launched a new
            website!
Marty:      Uh, oh!  Wait, let me guess ... www.[wolf-
            whistle].[boing!]!
Homer:      [listening in his car, laughing] Website.
Bill:       Okay, here's another News Flush!  [toilet flush sound]
            Doctors say the life expectancy of the average man is now
            seventy-six point two years!
Homer:      [gasps and spins his car out across the highway ]  Seventy-
            six point two?  But I'm already thirty-eight point one!
            I've wasted half my life!  [exits car, walks across
            highway]  Half my life gone, and I'm only guaranteed thirty
            eight more years!
            [Homer walks over to a highway phone after nearly being
            struck by several passing cars, and picks up the receiver]
            Marge, I've wasted half my life!
Operator:   Sir, do you need a tow truck?
Homer:      What are you talking about, Marge?  I don't need a ...
            [behind him, another car collides with the one he left on
            the highway]
            Okay, send the truck.
-- "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
(http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/5F21.txt)
 
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Friendly Primarina said:
According to this article (not researching further, sorry) Homer's age has changed from mid 30s to late 30s). I kinda had mid-30s in my head when I wrote that. But yeah, it's only a matter of time before they do a "Homer and Marge as late millennials/early zoomers" episode.
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TheRealJims made a video on thiis topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45EAIfmGjCk&pp=ygUWaG9tZXIgaXMgYSBtb2lsbGVlbmlhbA==
The main issue is how the show was made to make fun of Boomer parenting wiith Homer and Marge making thee show looke even more outdateed. deadhioimersociety themseelves hacve disussed this:https://deadhomersociety.wordpress....mpsons-4-cosmetic-consistency-has-its-limits/
By the way, I do wonder why deadhomersociety have become inactive. even its founder, Charliie sweatpants's peersonal Twitter hasn't been updated in years.
 
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Lisa: Bart, I'm really sorry I've been ignoring you lately.  I got
      carried away with being popular.  But, now that I'm unpopular
      again, I want you to know I'm here for you.
Bart: You can start making it up to me right now.  Flanders is leaving
      the house.  I want you to sneak in there and bring me back some
      evidence.  And something sweet for later.
Lisa: Bart, I'm here for you, but I'm not going to break into somebody's
      house.
Bart: All right, you're right, you're right, let's, let's just forget
      about that.  Here: let me read to you from my play.  Ahem.
       [cockney] "`Kippers for breakfast, Aunt Helga?  Is it St.
      Swithin's Day already?'
      `'Tis,' replied Aunt Helga" --
Lisa: I'm going, I'm going!
-- Incentive enough for anyone, "Bart of Darkness"
- [1F22] Bart of Darkness
 
So the long-running gag of Homer strangling Bart is seemingly being retired from the show, at least according to this recent episode (Season 35, Episode 3) with Homer stating he doesn't do that anymore and that 'times have changed'. Presumably this is a subtle way of saying that now Disney's running things, it wouldn't look good for their family-friendly image to have a main character strangling their son on the regular.



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TopCat said:
So the long-running gag of Homer strangling Bart is seemingly being retired from the show, at least according to this recent episode (Season 35, Episode 3) with Homer stating he doesn't do that anymore and that 'times have changed'. Presumably this is a subtle way of saying that now Disney's running things, it wouldn't look good for their family-friendly image to have a main character strangling their son on the regular.

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You know Zombie Simpsons is really a thing when the famous trope of Homer strangling Bart is being retired because of the “changing times”. What’s next, is Nelson not going to do his famous mocking laugh anymore?
 
I’m reminded of the Itchy and Scratchy movie episode from season 4 where Lisa is gushing to Bart about all the celebrity cameos in the movie “Dustin Hoffman! Michael Jackson! They used fake names but you could tell it was them!”

Obviously a play on the early days of The Simpsons where famous celebrities would do cameo voices, not just playing themselves but as other characters, and they weren’t the sole focus of the episode just there to have their asses kissed for 30 minutes being told how amazing and wonderful they are.

*sigh* those were the days
 
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