The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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vertexwindi said:
Eh, I wouldn't say it's about the dosage as much as it is about context.

Homer at the Bat is one of my favourite episodes even though I'm not American and know next to nothing about baseball or baseball players, but the guest stars are funny and given funny things to do. Darryl crying over some hooting? Wade getting punched in the face over an argument about England's greatest prime minister? Clemens clucking like a chicken? Hilarious. Gushing over celebrities ("PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR!", "JK ROWLING, YOU TAUGHT AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF KIDS HOW TO READ", "YOU KNOW TONY HAWK??") is not funny.
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See, you understand!
 
Super Eyepatch Wolf just put out a video on the decline in quality of The Simpsons. He mostly just pads for time with aimless rambling over clips and then takes things that other people have written and drones over it, but whatever:

 
BlueSpark said:
Super Eyepatch Wolf just put out a video on the decline in quality of The Simpsons. He mostly just pads for time with aimless rambling over clips and then takes things that other people have written and drones over it, but whatever:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
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I already brought this up almost two weeks ago.

CWCissey said:
35 piece orchestras ain't cheap.
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Sad really. Makes me wonder what it's gonna sound like now. It's like another piece of the show is being chipped further.
 
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UglyOldJafar said:
I think the one thing that made me give up on Simpson's was when they somehow managed to make a rater pedophilic joke about Christopher Walken back in the late 90s.
Here is what I mean: Anyone remember that episode about Krusty's daugter he had with a soldier during the Golf War?
The episode started off with this book fair thing and they made a joke about Christopher Walken reading Good Night Moon to kids, because that was around the time the famous Walken segment on tv came out where he read the three little piggies, which was considered hilarious. They managed to take the basic of the joke and turn it creepy, by adding a rather pedophilic smile and what I would almost consider a panty shot on a little girl in a scene, making Walken come off as a child molester. I didn't even know who Walken was back then, but something about the presentation of a pedo joke like that felt so wrong for me, I just thought WTF Simpsons and started to realize how bad the writing got.
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I didn't pick up on any pedo undertones. I thought that whole part was making fun of the fact that Christopher Walken is so creepy and insane (or at least plays characters who are creepy and insane) that he'd be a bad choice to read to children. And fun fact: the voice of Walken was provided by Jay Mohr, a semi-known SNL cast member from the 1990s known for his Christopher Walken impression.

Ruin said:
Which was ridiculous anyway considering Dunham is a dyke who's preferred age range is 7-10.
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So it should have focused on Lisa, then?
 
friedshrimp said:
I dunno what was cringier, that or the Lady Gaga masturbation episode.
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Probably the Lady Gaga episode. The Ke$ha opener wasn't episode-length, and it was only done as part of some FOX gimmick where every episode of a show had to have a musical part (and it aired around the time that Family Guy aired that infamous episode where Stewie and Brian get locked in a bank vault and have to survive there for the weekend [basically Seth MacFarlane talking to himself for a good 22 minutes]. The episode proper didn't have a musical part, but there was a clip show of FG's musical moments shortly after cobbled together as an episode).
 
Trilby said:
I already brought this up almost two weeks ago.


Sad really. Makes me wonder what it's gonna sound like now. It's like another piece of the show is being chipped further.
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Either they hire someone else, or they do it cheaper and just recycle the old music tracks and never bother with hiring a new composer.

I mean Alf provided 28 years worth of music, and with Fox being as corner cutting-happy they are. They might just simply cop out and recycle it wholesale.
 
Asa_Spades60 said:
Probably the Lady Gaga episode. The Ke$ha opener wasn't episode-length, and it was only done as part of some FOX gimmick where every episode of a show had to have a musical part (and it aired around the time that Family Guy aired that infamous episode where Stewie and Brian get locked in a bank vault and have to survive there for the weekend [basically Seth MacFarlane talking to himself for a good 22 minutes].
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I'm sure he loved that!

Jewelsmakerguy said:
Either they hire someone else, or they do it cheaper and just recycle the old music tracks and never bother with hiring a new composer.

I mean Alf provided 28 years worth of music, and with Fox being as corner cutting-happy they are. They might just simply cop out and recycle it wholesale.
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I thought that's what they'll probably do, they got enough years out of him that could be easy to just insert wherever. From this point on it could be a challenge for hardcore Simpson fans to figure out which cue originated from which episode!
 
Goddamn.
I miss the golden age Simpsons so much :(
They really should have ended at season 10, that was the last great season IMO. It's been in a downward spiral ever since. About the only good things that came out post golden age were the film (not as good as golden age but much better than the crap that's Simpsons now) the Hit and Run game and the 2007 game.
 
Trilby said:
I thought that's what they'll probably do, they got enough years out of him that could be easy to just insert wherever. From this point on it could be a challenge for hardcore Simpson fans to figure out which cue originated from which episode!
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Yeah, I was kind of surprised when they said it done on a weekly basis.

I mean, I get it for the one off stings. But the stock music I fully expected them to keep reusing once they were recorded.
 
RIP_SANITY said:
Goddamn.
I miss the golden age Simpsons so much :(
They really should have ended at season 10, that was the last great season IMO. It's been in a downward spiral ever since. About the only good things that came out post golden age were the film (not as good as golden age but much better than the crap that's Simpsons now) the Hit and Run game and the 2007 game.
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I suppose in some way, had the series ended at Season 10 and was simply in returns since, it might've garndered a different response we have today for it, even with the post-golden age reminders like the movie or the video games. Those would've been nostalgic reminders for those like us and less the newer generations that may discover The Simpsons anyway.

Jewelsmakerguy said:
Yeah, I was kind of surprised when they said it done on a weekly basis.

I mean, I get it for the one off stings. But the stock music I fully expected them to keep reusing once they were recorded.
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TV certainly has consitioned us to accept the use of stock cues as a standard procedure when it comes to creating any 'music' for a half-hour show. I suppose what set The Simpsons apart was it's use of having to create newer scores all the time as opposed to having the music done at one go and that's what they'll use. I remember Matt or someone else on the show once said they thought the music should play the emotions instead of comedy
 
Trilby said:
Someone tackles what made The Simpsons different after the first 8 seasons...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
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I think a big part of what happened to the Simpsons was societal change.

The original seasons were counter-culture for the era they were made in, a glorious response to the wholesome family values that the media was pushing. It was willing to tackle the things most sitcoms wouldn't touch, and it worked. It challenged people, and if I had to sum up that era it was the battle for America's soul between Bart Simpson and the Carebears. A satirical version of reality vs. bubble-wrapped niceness.

The problem is the show changed the way TV was made. As time went on not only were more shows emulating The Simpsons, and they were willing to take it further. The show lost it's main draw and became in essence became culture. It lost it's place on TV, so it scrambled to not be left further behind. After all, it was still making money. Episodes become more topical whereas classic Simpsons transcended it's era. Fads and guest stars take center stage in an obvious attempt to stay relevant. The characters further degrade themselves to compete with the likes of Family Guy, leading to the likes of Jerkass Homer.

I remember being on a job and talking to my coworker about how we both agreed the show has gone downhill and should be axed. The sad part was this was about 10 years ago.
 
Kamen Rider Black RX said:
The original seasons were counter-culture for the era they were made in, a glorious response to the wholesome family values that the media was pushing. It was willing to tackle the things most sitcoms wouldn't touch, and it worked.
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For fuck's sake, Homer wrote a suicide note in the third episode of the series
 
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