The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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BetterFuckChuck said:
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
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I generally agree with this. The cracks started really showing around the seventh season. One episode in particular was Marge Be Not Proud which had a couple of great jokes but the episode was just odd in general and not in a good way. Doesn’t mean the show was crap at the time but the decline was noticeable, even to me as a kid who watched every Sunday. Another episode that stood out to me in a bad way was Bart on the Road, another seventh season episode. Conversely I never felt that way about any season six episode.
 
How many times has Gil Gunderson tried to off himself in the show over how craptacular his life has been -- or at least it was going?

And doesn't he become a villain in later episodes?
 
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BetterFuckChuck said:
Between mid-Scully and early Jean 2. Whenever they started making cross-armed, angry Homer merch:

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that reminds me, I wonder if there's some way to corellate the (as I remember) respawing of merch around the action figures of the 00s as when things went downhill?
I seem to recall there was a HUGE merch push around season 1 or so, then a lot of nothing for a long time.
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
that reminds me, I wonder if there's some way to corellate the (as I remember) respawing of merch around the action figures of the 00s as when things went downhill?
I seem to recall there was a HUGE merch push around season 1 or so, then a lot of nothing for a long time.
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Oh yeah, that's how I discovered the show was through a toy commercial. It was this one:


I had a Bartman toy but the rest of the toys were hard to find. Burger King also released dolls of the family. I had a Homer doll.


The full set is probably worth a small fortune to nerds.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Oh yeah, that's how I discovered the show was through a toy commercial. It was this one:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WZcep4lLZSo
I had a Bartman toy but the rest of the toys were hard to find. Burger King also released dolls of the family. I had a Homer doll.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZXl-oWKUbEQ
The full set is probably worth a small fortune to nerds.
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yeah the early toys had those word balloons, then the later ones had sound chips like the Ep 1 toys iirc
I had the Androids Dungeon set, got it as a gift. I think it came with Comic Book Guy? I don't remember, didn't bother with the line. Nice enough spot for random action figures to hang out in when they weren't being menaced in the (totally fucking great) Aliens hive playset
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One thing I’m glad they did was keep the Bartman shit out of the episodes of the show. It was really popular for like the first three seasons and you never would know it was a thing if you watched those seasons today.
 
The Hardest R said:
One thing I’m glad they did was keep the Bartman shit out of the episodes of the show. It was really popular for like the first three seasons and you never would know it was a thing if you watched those seasons today.
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Have to admit theirs some damn good animation done for a novelty song. Could have just easily ridden on clips interspersed with popular singer at the time.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Oh yeah, that's how I discovered the show was through a toy commercial. It was this one:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WZcep4lLZSo
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I was either 10 or 11 when I saw this one Sunday night in '87 or '88.

BrunoMattei said:
I had a Bartman toy but the rest of the toys were hard to find. Burger King also released dolls of the family. I had a Homer doll.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZXl-oWKUbEQ
The full set is probably worth a small fortune to nerds.
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I bet. Reminded of this right now with the kids in a bowling alley. If that isn't tone deaf, I don't know what is!
 
There's a new Christmas special that probably sucks. I'm going to watch it on Christmas Eve and other stuff for shits and giggles.
 
Season 4 as wikipedia states was the last season by "the original team" and fits with what @The Hardest R said - in fact, on 4chan in an actually good discussion once, someone notes in the first four seasons of the show Springfield in background shots tends to look run down but not anymore in S5 onward. That, I think, is the kind of detail that really established how the show was originally. A normal family trying to make it through the best of times, the worst of times, all that jazz.

I readily admit I could see the thoughts of Season 7 becoming wackier in and of itself, but also readily agree seasons 5 and 6 are just as good as the first four. Wasn't there talk on the show potentially ending by or around season 8? I'll have to look into that.
 
AfghanBlue said:
My biggest revelation recently was that in a way, the first season was the best.

No one ever agrees with this though.
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The first season gets shit on a lot for whatever reason. I can certainly watch through every episode with no issue unlike season nine or even seasons seven and eight for that matter. Season four is still my favorite though.
 
Probably not a popular opinion, but on my last attempt at a rewatch I thought the one where Homer joins the naval reserve ("Simpson Tide" in season 9) was the first one that is just not funny at all. Is that the first episode where Homer directly kills somebody? Probably not, but still. (he fires a guy out of a torpedo tube)

I kinda thought of Duffman as a "classic Simpsons" character and associate Gil with "nu-Simpsons" but ackshually they both debuted in season 9.
 
Calandrino said:
Probably not a popular opinion, but on my last attempt at a rewatch I thought the one where Homer joins the naval reserve ("Simpson Tide" in season 9) was the first one that is just not funny at all. Is that the first episode where Homer directly kills somebody? Probably not, but still. (he fires a guy out of a torpedo tube)

I kinda thought of Duffman as a "classic Simpsons" character and associate Gil with "nu-Simpsons" but ackshually they both debuted in season 9.
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I kinda like that one :(
 
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