The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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sasazuka said:
I'm surprised that there's a spike for the movie, I only thought it was so-so. I liked the bit in Alaska but not much else. I wish the movie had been about anything other than "characters from popular TV show save the main locale of the TV show in their first theatrical film", which is much too generic a TV-show-turned-movie plot.
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I feel kinda mixed about the movie now. If nothing else, the movie was basically my entry point into the show at large. I wasn't alive for most of the golden years, so my earliest memories of the show would have been the period when people stopped caring in the early 2000s. When the movie came out, it did seem to get everyone talking (at least that I was aware of).

The Simpsons Movie is basically the reason I began watching Simpsons at all. I watched the show for a few years, completely unaware that what I was seeing was nowhere near the series peak but was entertained nonetheless. When I gave up watching the show after that one fuck-awful Treehouse of Horror episode with the Avatar parody, I began watching the older episodes.

I haven't seen the movie in an awfully long time. Part of me wants to see if it still holds up, but the other part doesn't want to because I know now that it came out well after the show went downhill.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
When I gave up watching the show after that one fuck-awful Treehouse of Horror episode with the Avatar parody, I began watching the older episodes.
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Oh, XII was the nadir of "Treehouse of Horrors" episodes where only one of the segments was based on anything that could remotely be called a horror story.

IMHO most "Treehouse of Horrors" episodes made since XII (2011) are significantly better; I like how they've done a few horror-themed segments like "School Is Hell", "BFF: RIP", and "MMM... Homer", that aren't specific parodies of anything and I actually did like the Coraline parody from XXVIII (2017), which had great production values for a Simpsons THoH segment.
 
sasazuka said:
Oh, XII was the nadir of "Treehouse of Horrors" episodes where only one of the segments was based on anything that could remotely be called a horror story.

IMHO most "Treehouse of Horrors" episodes made since XII (2011) are significantly better; I like how they've done a few horror-themed segments like "School Is Hell", "BFF: RIP", and "MMM... Homer", that aren't specific parodies of anything and I actually did like the Coraline parody from XXVIII (2017), which had great production values for a Simpsons THoH segment.
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The episode was pretty good for a chuckle. And to be fair to the "less horror" complaint, King Kong wasn't exactly a horror either (that doesn't excuse the Avatar parody being weak).
 
friedshrimp said:
I liked that video. It made Maude seem more interesting than she actually was.
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True, of course I keep thinking Maude reminded me of someone I knew who was like her most of the time.

Uncanny Valley said:
Maude was one of my least favourite characters, but the way she was killed off was fucked up.
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Certainly.
 
Uncanny Valley said:
Maude was one of my least favourite characters, but the way she was killed off was fucked up.
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The worst thing about that was how Homer was completely "meh" and totally unaffected by the whole thing.

Especially after he immediately admits he's basically to blame for her death. Ducking so she got hit, and parking so paramedics couldn't get to her.
 
TheGreatCitracett said:
The worst thing about that was how Homer was completely "meh" and totally unaffected by the whole thing.

Especially after he immediately admits he's basically to blame for her death. Ducking so she got hit, and parking so paramedics couldn't get to her.
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My biggest problem with Maude's death was it was just a waste. The only reason to do that is to have a more serious episode where Flanders loses his good faith in people. Which we already got with Hurricane Neddy.
 
You know what would be hilarious? If they brought back Maude for an entire season and pretend that she didn't die. Just think of all the spergs making theory videos.
 
John Titor said:
You know what would be hilarious? If they brought back Maude for an entire season and pretend that she didn't die. Just think of all the spergs making theory videos.
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I actually think doing a season where it felt like everything up to now hadn't happened at all, as if the series was suddenly given a reset way, way back to the beginning so the world is small again, yet the episodes become very personal again in regards to the family and their town. It's far-fetched, but I like to think that would be an interesting stunt to pull.
 
Trilby said:
I actually think doing a season where it felt like everything up to now hadn't happened at all, as if the series was suddenly given a reset way, way back to the beginning so the world is small again, yet the episodes become very personal again in regards to the family and their town. It's far-fetched, but I like to think that would be an interesting stunt to pull.
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Much as I would love to see it, unfortunately it would mean that none of Phil Hartman's characters would show up, and Hartman contributed a lot to the show in its early years. Same thing with Marcia Wallace, who voiced Edna Krabappel. They could recast them, sure, Billy West did a reasonable Phil Hartman impression when he voiced Zap Brannigan, but the voices are the heart and soul of The Simpsons, and there's no replacing Hartman or Wallace.
 
Uncanny Valley said:
Maude was one of my least favourite characters, but the way she was killed off was fucked up.
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What made it worse for me was the fact that they’d already done a much better death episode for Bleeding Gums Murphy, who was a very minor character who only really impacted on Lisa. By comparison, Maude’s death felt more like something out of Family Guy.

I just think there are so many better ways they could have written the character out. Or hell, don’t write her out at all, just have her in the background and rarely speaking - she was never a hugely prominent character.
 
They killed her off mostly because her voice actress was leaving the show over a pay dispute.

Then about two years later she came back and is still there today. It was all for nothing.
 
TheGreatCitracett said:
They killed her off mostly because her voice actress was leaving the show over a pay dispute.

Then about two years later she came back and is still there today. It was all for nothing.
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What gets me is that they didn't just kill off all of her characters and just Maude. Not like they had any prominence either.
 
EDIT: By the record I don't really think the movie is that good. It has all the stuff later episode Simpsons are accused of doing: Simpsons traveling, Homer being an ass, Lisa getting some bland boyfriend...[/QUOTE]
Hold up, I thought the boyfriend thing was over...I stopped after Ed Sheeran was her latest boy toy.
 
Hold up, I thought the boyfriend thing was over...I stopped after Ed Sheeran was her latest boy toy.
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Lisa gets a boyfriend almost every episode. And they're all the same music loving hipster fop.
 
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