The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Holy crap.

I've been sort of half-assedly defending Simpsons for a few years. I honestly thought that, even amidst shit like sending Apu to the cornfield, there were a few signs the show was improving.

I just watched this seasons episodes.

What the hell happened to everyone's voice? Nobody sounds the same anymore. Like... I get the actors are getting old. But it's like just, someone flipped a switch and everyone sounds terrible now. Mr. Burns is the worst offender... Seriously, I think they might have an AI doing his voice, it's lifeless and flat and slow and doesn't sound anything like Burns. But most of the other characters sound worse to one degree or another.
 
MembersSchoolPizza said:
What the hell happened to everyone's voice? Nobody sounds the same anymore. Like... I get the actors are getting old. But it's like just, someone flipped a switch and everyone sounds terrible now. Mr. Burns is the worst offender... Seriously, I think they might have an AI doing his voice, it's lifeless and flat and slow and doesn't sound anything like Burns. But most of the other characters sound worse to one degree or another.
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It's not just Simpsons voice too. I think most of the the Voice Actors in cartoons need to retire at this point.
 
MembersSchoolPizza said:
Holy crap.

I've been sort of half-assedly defending Simpsons for a few years. I honestly thought that, even amidst shit like sending Apu to the cornfield, there were a few signs the show was improving.

I just watched this seasons episodes.

What the hell happened to everyone's voice? Nobody sounds the same anymore. Like... I get the actors are getting old. But it's like just, someone flipped a switch and everyone sounds terrible now. Mr. Burns is the worst offender... Seriously, I think they might have an AI doing his voice, it's lifeless and flat and slow and doesn't sound anything like Burns. But most of the other characters sound worse to one degree or another.
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Still doing my watch through and I'm up to season 22 and Bart suddenly sounds really weird. Like Nancy's barely hiding the fact it's a chick doing the voice anymore.

The latest episode I watched was the one where they bring back Angry Dad which eventually gets nominated for an Oscar. They did parodies of Wallace and Grommit and Pixar and I sat there stone faced throughout. They must have spent so much on those parodies and they were just not funny. Like at all.
 
Simpsons 2023: (Marge, sounding like she has Val Kilmer's throat cancer) HOMER YOU'VE LOST YOUR RIZZ

19-year-old video essay Youtuber: This is great, this is just like Season 7!
 
Commander X said:
Simpsons 2023: (Marge, sounding like she has Val Kilmer's throat cancer) HOMER YOU'VE LOST YOUR RIZZ

19-year-old video essay Youtuber: This is great, this is just like Season 7!
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I'm trying to start 2024 on a better foot so I'm still going to grief but I'm going to remember the good times. Concerning Julie Kavner the lady is 73 YEARS OLD. And Harry Shearer is 79! They sound horrible because they're just old.

But anyway I never thought much of Kavner's voice of Marge, but you know I loved her performance when singing "Those Were The Days" aka the All In The Family theme song.
Her voice breaks and is just as shrill as Edith's in the original. It's great. It perfectly matches the beats of the actual song. Also love Homer having a cigar. And Marge and Homer here are nostalgic for the 70s. We could use a man like Sheriff Lobo again.
 
At home on the couch, Homer continues devouring the expired ham, but his
stomach begins to rebel.

[eats ham, but his stomach groans]
Stomach...churning!
[eats some more]
Bowels...clenching! Not much time...must...finish...[eats some more]
-- Homer battles the expired ham, "Homer and Apu"

The ambulance rushes him to the hospital.​

- [1F10] Homer and Apu
 
I was thinking of the infamous creepypasta "Dead Bart", which was stupid and actually only creepy if you were under 16 years old, but:

1- There is actually a missing Season 1 episode, this was the finale they made in case the show was cancelled as a 'fuck you' to everyone due to how troubled the production was. This involved Marge being a giant rabbit (hence the hair, it's covering the big ears) from space or some shit like this. In some old videogames you can actually see her ears, which was a WTF moment for many an old millenial.

2- 'Dead Bart' failed to predict the Apocalypse, but the visuals of an emaciated, psychotically despaired Homer whispering '"If only we all were that lucky" upon contemplating the mangled, gory corpse of Bart laid bare over a gravestone, surrounded by a decrepit, dilapidated Springfield and dead celebrities while a so-depressed-it's-barely-there Marge and Lisa stand still like Ingmar Bergman characters somehow is an accurate description of Current Year Simpsons.
 
Ewan McGregor said:
1- There is actually a missing Season 1 episode, this was the finale they made in case the show was cancelled as a 'fuck you' to everyone due to how troubled the production was. This involved Marge being a giant rabbit (hence the hair, it's covering the big ears) from space or some shit like this. In some old videogames you can actually see her ears, which was a WTF moment for many an old millenial.
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I've heard of the Marge being a rabbit thing from the arcade game, but not of this missing episode itself. Got any links to read more?
 
Mayor Cody Travers said:
I've heard of the Marge being a rabbit thing from the arcade game, but not of this missing episode itself. Got any links to read more?
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Been trying the source when I read it originally, but lost it.

Also, there are strangely conflicting accounts over the production of the first season in no small part because all parts involved are pants on fire liars for whatever reason.

- Was Smithers black at first and then turned yellow (read: white) because there was a miscommunication with the Korean animation studio about the color codes that was clarified later or was it because (As TVTropes argues) they felt a black man in a servile attitude to a white man was racist?

- Is the esoteric coding of the episodes and its weird production order a result of scrapped episodes and last minute whole-season rewritings that created a lot of bad blood between Groening, Simon and Brooks as Fox was starting to threaten to pull the plug on the project or the production order was just planned like that?

- Did they manage to do the episodes that would wrap the series should it not get a second season, in which Marge was a giant bunny and Homer was actually Krusty the Clown, or were they all dismissed and never actually done? If so, was Groening really brutally ridiculed over these ideas?

- Did they fire Klasky Csupo over Film Roman in bad terms or not? Note that David Silverman would continue to work on both The Simpsons and Klasky Csupo, so did Tress MacNeille and Nancy Cartwright.
 
In The Simpsons Season Four DVD commentary for Selma's Choice, Matt Groening states that the original idea behind Marge's hair was to conceal large rabbit ears. The gag was intended to be revealed in the final episode of the series but was scrapped early on due to inconsistencies.

Aha, is this what you were thinking of?

Matt Groening came up with the idea for The Simpsons, but that doesn’t mean all his ideas are winners. Like, for instance, Marge Simpson being an anthropomorphic rabbit disguised as a human.

*record scratch* Say wha–?!? Here’s Daria Paris, who was the assistant to former executive producer Sam Simon, as quoted in John Ortved’s The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History:

There were times in the room when Matt would come up with the stupidest ideas. And he had this one: we were going to do an episode where Marge finally lets her hair down, and Matt’s idea was that once she let it down the audience finds out she has rabbit ears, which was ridiculous. And Sam said no.
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And here’s what Groening had to say about it on the audio commentary for Selma’s Choice, when writer David M. Stern brings it up and puts him on the spot:

That was the original – back in the – my plan, back in the very beginning, that she was actually a Life in Hell rabbit from my comic strip… but then it just seemed like a… I just said “oh, forget it, there’s no ears under there.”
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Tootsie Bear said:
Segment 2.: Ei8ht. Adult Lisa is on the hunt for a sadistic killer. By far this was the goriest segment. You'd expect it to be good but I felt it was more forced than true horror. Like someone from Bloody Disgusting who rants about PG.13 horror not being scary enough because it's not rated R. If you predicted Lisa herself was the killer to get revenge on Sideshow Bob you'd be right. Next!
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Late to the party, but I just found out about this segment. One thing @Tootsie Bear didn't mention is that Ei8ht opens with a recreation of the end of Cape Feare, but presented as a flashback from 30 years ago (TOH XXXIV aired just over 30 years after Cape Feare). Seeing a shot-for-shot recreation of an episode but acting as though time passed in real time is so surreal to me.

On a similar note:
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The Front, April 15, 1993
 
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