The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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ToroidalBoat said:
I think Garfield is another work that should've "stayed in the 20th century". And Family Circus is still running?!
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Trilby said:
Not to mention Blondie, Hi & Lois, and Johnny Hart's strips (Wizard of Id, B.C.). There's always a family member who keeps those going.
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It’s what’s known as a “zombie strip”. They have been continued after the original creators died or retired. A lot of younger cartoonists don’t agree with the practice for obvious reasons.
 
at Thanksgiving my niece showed me a lemon from the tree in the yard and then showed how it's too sour to eat by biting into it and making that face
if she ever mentioned other Simpsons stuff I'd assume she was flexing on the meme, but thinking about it probably too much I can't think of anything Simpsons she's ever talked about
 
Man I am thinking about it and gosh one of the worst modern episodes come to think of it aside from the Gaga and Musk ones, is definitely the Democrat Propaganda Doomer one about Hugh Jackman as a janitor. Not only for having god awful singing, but it feels like a smug rub in about how the future sucks with the only idea the episode offers is just the vague idea of "burn da system down" when they really mean "VOTE DEMOCRAT"

This shit is so vague and while some of the talking points are true, it just is a doomer masturbation session trying hard to be edgy when this is all socially acceptable to say.

But really the thing that gets me is that it aligns with those "future" episodes since its another episode putting it down that Bart will have a bad future while Lisa will be guaranteed for success, especially with how she's portrayed as a hip truth teller in the doomer episode.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
Man I am thinking about it and gosh one of the worst modern episodes come to think of it aside from the Gaga and Musk ones, is definitely the Democrat Propaganda Doomer one about Hugh Jackman as a janitor. Not only for having god awful singing, but it feels like a smug rub in about how the future sucks with the only idea the episode offers is just the vague idea of "burn da system down" when they really mean "VOTE DEMOCRAT"

This shit is so vague and while some of the talking points are true, it just is a doomer masturbation session trying hard to be edgy when this is all socially acceptable to say.

But really the thing that gets me is that it aligns with those "future" episodes since its another episode putting it down that Bart will have a bad future while Lisa will be guaranteed for success, especially with how she's portrayed as a hip truth teller in the doomer episode.
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I've never gotten the appeal of musical eps where none of the cast can sing well or at all
 
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Now does anyone have an upload of that video someone posted on youtube recently of the beta cutscenes to the Simpsons game? It was interesting because originally they were all going to be 3D cutscenes until Fox told them to reanimate them in the Show's style

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Found it, i wanted to point this out because of two reasons: some of these cutscenes did get used in the final game, but most importantly i was watching the Simpsons Game's Land of Chocolate reanimation in the final game and it is FINE, but really soulless. I remember as a kid finding the gag really imaginative and knew because of that it couldnt have been made for the game, but anyway while for a new fan you can still appreciate the gag even in a shiitier rendition the original is just so much better at selling the utter joy Homer feels at being in this world. I say this because the prototype includes a 3D version which while not great actually has more attention spent to recreating the details of the original than the actual 2D recreation
Doctor of Autism said:
Man I am thinking about it and gosh one of the worst modern episodes come to think of it aside from the Gaga and Musk ones, is definitely the Democrat Propaganda Doomer one about Hugh Jackman as a janitor. Not only for having god awful singing, but it feels like a smug rub in about how the future sucks with the only idea the episode offers is just the vague idea of "burn da system down" when they really mean "VOTE DEMOCRAT"

This shit is so vague and while some of the talking points are true, it just is a doomer masturbation session trying hard to be edgy when this is all socially acceptable to say.

But really the thing that gets me is that it aligns with those "future" episodes since its another episode putting it down that Bart will have a bad future while Lisa will be guaranteed for success, especially with how she's portrayed as a hip truth teller in the doomer episode.
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The Musk one is so funny because Simpsons and Rick & Morty sucked his dick so hard that I wish he kept up his reddit humor persona so that we couldve seen the Harley Quinn cartoon say he's as cool as a Wicked musical with Beyonce and Kam Kam in it!!

And yea I dont get this shit at all. Groening was a former actual progressive, but now leftism is used by center left at best shows to play propaganda for the DNC. I call it the AOC effect, get all the leftists riled up, gain power and govern like Nancy Pelosi then lecture them on how revolution is bad because brunch is next week
 
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Ok I got a question here. Next simpsons episode's description is as follows

Famed British mentalist, Derren Brown, comes to Springfield and uses psychological tricks and showmanship to raise the town’s Christmas spirit. When Homer gets hypnotized and mistakenly believes he is Santa Claus, it sets off a cheery chain-reaction and causes everyone to question what they believe and to explore the meaning of “miracle.”
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What struck me aside from how fucking insipid this sounds was the alleged "guest celebrity" of this episode, in this case Derren Brown who is apparently such a celebrity he stars as himself.

Now I memba him being old news and barely even qualifying as a celebrity back in Bongland during the freakin Bush Administration near 20 years ago, and a quick search of google news and le'reddit reveals fuck all hype or fame as of late beyond being featured in one of seventeen thousand Kate Middleton conspiracy theories

So my question is thus: are hasbeen/never-were famous people with sufficient money actively paying for appearances in the simpsons so as to boost their careers and brand? Or is has he had some John Oliver style "fucking nobody in Bongland but randomly became big in Burgerland" career boost and thus would legitimately be someone they reached out to appear on the show
 
Judge Holden said:
Ok I got a question here. Next simpsons episode's description is as follows



What struck me aside from how fucking insipid this sounds was the alleged "guest celebrity" of this episode, in this case Derren Brown who is apparently such a celebrity he stars as himself.

Now I memba him being old news and barely even qualifying as a celebrity back in Bongland during the freakin Bush Administration near 20 years ago, and a quick search of google news and le'reddit reveals fuck all hype or fame as of late beyond being featured in one of seventeen thousand Kate Middleton conspiracy theories

So my question is thus: are hasbeen/never-were famous people with sufficient money actively paying for appearances in the simpsons so as to boost their careers and brand? Or is has he had some John Oliver style "fucking nobody in Bongland but randomly became big in Burgerland" career boost and thus would legitimately be someone they reached out to appear on the show
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Derren Brown is basically known mostly for cool stunts, but his hype was just for how shocking some of his stuff was. Some people thought, despite him being a celebrity atheist, that he was an actual magician. Bit like Dynamo or David Blaine, he was popular among midwits. Idk why he's being featured now, most likely Disney got the rights to some project he's doing
 
Judge Holden said:
So my question is thus: are hasbeen/never-were famous people with sufficient money actively paying for appearances in the simpsons so as to boost their careers and brand? Or is has he had some John Oliver style "fucking nobody in Bongland but randomly became big in Burgerland" career boost and thus would legitimately be someone they reached out to appear on the show
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Derren Brown can predict winning lottery numbers so I suppose he can buy whatever he wants.
 
Mayor Cody Travers said:
I'm old enough to remember when Season 8 was considered getting wacky....
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My scorching hot take is that the end of season four was the beginning of the end. Sam Simon was an insane control freak and an asshole’s asshole but he kept the show on point. After he and a bunch of writers left, there was two more classic seasons and two great ones after that but it kept getting wackier and wackier. The show just lost all grounding.
 
The Hardest R said:
My scorching hot take is that the end of season four was the beginning of the end. Sam Simon was an insane control freak and an asshole’s asshole but he kept the show on point. After he and a bunch of writers left, there was two more classic seasons and two great ones after that but it kept getting wackier and wackier. The show just lost all grounding.
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I seem to remember the show getting kind of stupid when Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein became the show runners. I just remember most of the episodes with their names listed being kind of ridiculous. It was when Al Jean fully took over that I stopped watching the show completely. I dunno how much influence the show runners had but even as a kid I noticed the difference in tone and quality depending on who's name showed up as executive producer or whatever they're credited as.
 
The Hardest R said:
My scorching hot take is that the end of season four was the beginning of the end. Sam Simon was an insane control freak and an asshole’s asshole but he kept the show on point. After he and a bunch of writers left, there was two more classic seasons and two great ones after that but it kept getting wackier and wackier. The show just lost all grounding.
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I certainly saw that change in Season 4, mainly after they switched from Klasky Csupo to Film Roman.
 
My favorite seasons are 5&6, I've always felt that 7&8 have this weird end of series stink about them. The first six seasons felt pleasant, then a lot of eps from those seasons have kinda mean plots. Mysterious Voyage of Homer, Homer's Enemy, My Sister My Sitter, Sherry Bobbins, it all felt very deconstructiony. Homer's Enemy is the only one of those episodes I actually like. So I will grant that it's an amazing episode and so's Milhouse Divided so the tone change did pay off, but it felt both wackier and edgier
 
Jace on ice said:
When did jerk ass Homer start being a thing?
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Between mid-Scully and early Jean 2. Whenever they started making cross-armed, angry Homer merch:

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