The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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sasazuka said:
One of my all-time fave clips.

Apparently, The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album, a book from the early years I remember flipping through at W.H. Smith (when they still had those bookstores in Canada) but never bought specifies on a family tree that Uncle Arthur (Bouvier) is Marge's uncle, not Bart's (to whom he'd be a "great uncle"), otherwise he'd be the weird brother to Marge, Patty, and Selma who would otherwise never have been mentioned.
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I remember buying that book at a local book shop in town when it came out, I loved every page from it.
 
That book also has Homer's Family Tree.

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Please note that a handful of names in the middle are partially cut off because of where the page split was.

What's interesting is that this Family Tree has been used as canon in a handful of episodes, most notably the one where Lisa pretends she has some native American ancestors from the (in-universe fictional) Hitachi tribe for a school project only to find out later on that Homer actually does have some "Indian" ancestry.

The family tree also shows that Mr. Burns is a distant relative of Homer. But weirdly Herschel Krustofski a.k.a. Krusty the Clown isn't a relative despite being a Homer lookalike.
 
GentlemanFaggot said:
The best part about the Zinc one is that the real filmstrip it was inspired from is even crazier, which featured on MST3K:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=le2eB2xtvBQ
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Odd people call these 'Filmstrips", when we simply called them "Films" anyway. Filmstrips were those short rolls with different pictures for each frame. It used to be a thing where students took turns to flip the filmstrip projector to the beeps from a record or tape player that the audio would be heard through. The device looked like this.
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When a film was played, they would use this...
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Of course, if it was on a video-tape or being aired on a public TV station at the time, they would use these...
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EDIT: Seemed like all the schools I went to in the 80's barely got into VHS at all until I was in junior high.
 
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Alan Pardew said:
Actually watched the new episode and even though there are some bad executions like the modern Simpsons episodes, the jabs at the political correctness are pretty spot on and seeing the guy making the documentary REEEEEEEEEEEEing is hilarious.

Still, some parts could've needed some polish.
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I don't really agree. And not because I think the indian guy has right to complain. I disagree because the episode in itself was still just dull and the jokes at political correctness were not clever and just cartoony.
The A plot with Homer and Bart was kind of boring (though I give Bart in the beginning some points for creativity) and the one with Lisa and Marge somehow felt like it goes really not anywhere in the end, as it tries to make fun of "political correctness" but also the people who try to defend the mindsets of past writers and how it "is not racist, but subversive". The punchline with Apu was also really just petty rather than smart.

EDIT: Also, one of my favorite parts in Simpsons
 
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Noticed "TheRealJims" is still at it with his Simpson videos. Here's a history on Hans Moleman...
 
Saney said:
What's the plot?
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Lisa's sad because Mr. Largo tells her that life sucks, Marge tries to make her feel better, they end up in New Orleans, Bleeding Gums Murphy's nephew rekindles Lisa's love for music I drink lots of beer and thank God that Family Guy did something interesting this week and that Westworld is back.
 
Saney said:
What's the plot?
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Well for starters, it's a "milestone" episode, so there's a Tracey Ullman short at the beginning.

After that, it devovles into a Lisa episode and a "Simpsons go to" episode jumbled together into a mess that has, in no particular order- Lisa talking to a statue of Louis Armstrong, a 3+ minute montage of Homer listing off New Orleans dishes as he eats them, Bart performing voodoo on Jimbo and his gang and a mention of Bleeding Gums Murphy. All topped off with a mention of surpassing Gunsmoke's episode count with next week's episode just before the credits.
 
Weren't most of the restaurants in that New Orleans food segment real-world restaurants? That segment was bordering on being a New Orleans board of tourism travelogue commercial.

I know it's a big deal that the Simpsons is about to pass Gunsmoke in numbers of episodes produced (radio episodes of Gunsmoke excluded, as was noted at the end of the episode), but I'm still annoyed that they didn't specify that the Simpsons is only going to pass the most number of scrpited prime time television episodes mark for American television only. Japan's Sazae-san, which had a 20-year head start on The Simpsons and which airs a little over twice the number of new episodes per year, is still roughly 2000 episodes ahead.
 
sasazuka said:
Weren't most of the restaurants in that New Orleans food segment real-world restaurants? That segment was bordering on being a New Orleans board of tourism travelogue commercial.

I know it's a big deal that the Simpsons is about to pass Gunsmoke in numbers of episodes produced (radio episodes of Gunsmoke excluded, as was noted at the end of the episode), but I'm still annoyed that they didn't specify that the Simpsons is only going to pass the most number of scrpited prime time television episodes mark for American television only. Japan's Sazae-san, which had a 20-year head start on The Simpsons and which airs a little over twice the number of new episodes per year, is still roughly 2000 episodes ahead.
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Be quite interesting to see how long Sazae-san can hold out!
 
Even if Sazae-san were to be canceled this week, I think The Simpsons would have to be on television until at least its 100th anniversary late in this century to be able to catch up with Sazae-san's current episode count. (I can't find an exact number for Sazae-san, but Wikipedia gives over 2,500 episodes with over 7,500 segments.)
 
sasazuka said:
Even if Sazae-san were to be canceled this week, I think The Simpsons would have to be on television until at least its 100th anniversary late in this century to be able to catch up with Sazae-san's current episode count. (I can't find an exact number for Sazae-san, but Wikipedia gives over 2,500 episodes with over 7,500 segments.)
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An average half hour episode is three segments each, just so you know. But yeah, that is quite an achievement for such a simple, family series.
 
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