The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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The funniest part to me is that Apu's accent is surprisingly dead on for someone from the Indian subcontinent who learned English as a second language.
 
Lackadaisy said:
Even then, only the death of one of the big 4 would really kill it. My money's on Kavener. She sounds like a ghoul.
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I wouldn't doubt this at all, Dan, Julie, Yeardley and Nancy are the blood of this series. No one could really do what they had accomplished in their 30 years of experience.

BubbleButt said:
The funniest part to me is that Apu's accent is surprisingly dead on for someone from the Indian subcontinent who learned English as a second language.
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Which makes the argument irrelevant to me. People who are immigrants are going to have an accent in their handling of another language whether we hate it or not. If it's not Indians, it's the Chinese, Japanese, Germans, French or any other foriegner on the planet.

CWCissey said:
From pornos no less.
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Well India was once a British colony, so they had a head start there.
 
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It's worth pointing out the crux of the anti-Apu crowd's argument is he's voiced by a white guy. Which is fair, I can see why people might find that offensive. But at the same time it's not like he's some smelly street-shitter caricature
 
[the Lawrence of Arabia theme plays as Apu and Homer ride across the desert on donkeys]

[the camera pans to show Springfield Airport]

Apu: I'm sorry we couldn't take a cab, but I spent my last dollar on the plane tickets.
 
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James Woods: now I'm sorry I have to leave. I have to battle aliens in a far off galaxy.

Marge: that sounds like a good movie!

James Woods: yes...A movie...
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Do the current makers of the show realize there's the widespread view that the show sucks now?

If they do they probably don't care.
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If the commentaries before they stopped doing them are any indication, they don't.

And I don't think it's any different these days. As long as it pays well, it's all that matters.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
If the commentaries before they stopped doing them are any indication, they don't.

And I don't think it's any different these days. As long as it pays well, it's all that matters.
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Sometimes it just kinda happens when what started out as a fresh, new idea suddenly goes stale.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Do the current makers of the show realize there's the widespread view that the show sucks now?

If they do they probably don't care.
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I think one of them made a comment that if your standards are low enough then the show will last forever or something backhanded towards the show like that. Can't really remember who said that though, it was one of the producers.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
I think one of them made a comment that if your standards are low enough then the show will last forever or something backhanded towards the show like that. Can't really remember who said that though, it was one of the producers.
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That was show runner Al Jean.

They've acknowledged it in some ways. I remember reading about how at cons when there's a Q&A with fans they awarded people who didn't say the show sucks now. I assume that they just didn't acknowledge people who told them like it is.

Also, I think it was the 1000th episode (it's the one where the town of Springfield evicts the Simpsons and then - for no reason at all - the town misses the Simpsons and moves with them to a new town) there was a very quick message at the end asking us not to rage online about the episode. Edit: it was the episode where Julian Assange guest stars.

Harry Shearer has been the most and I think only outspoken cast member about the declining quality of the show.
 
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vertexwindi said:
At this point the only two forces that can stop the show is Death and Rupert Murdoch, and Rupert has very little reason to do so when The Simpsons is still quite a profitable franchise.
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To be fair, Groening himself could stop it whenever he feels like it, and the VAs, if they all quit at once, could too. Thing is, both of those groups, as well as all the other ones, like money.
 
Lou Wrong said:
To be fair, Groening himself could stop it whenever he feels like it, and the VAs, if they all quit at once, could too. Thing is, both of those groups, as well as all the other ones, like money.
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I'm a 100% sure Fox would find a way to keep the money train going.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Twist: when the Disney acquisition goes through, Disney will hire back the original writers and hype up a final season to finally end the show on a high note because they value quality.
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>disney
>valuing quality

Nah mate I saw what they did to Star Wars.
 
vertexwindi said:
>disney
>valuing quality

Nah mate I saw what they did to Star Wars.
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There's been rumblings that the public is suffering from Star Wars fatigue and Disney will put the brakes on the SW train for a while after the 3rd movie and Solo are out. We'll see but I wouldn't put it past Disney to euthanize the show.
 
BrunoMattei said:
There's been rumblings that the public is suffering from Star Wars fatigue and Disney will put the brakes on the SW train for a while after the 3rd movie and Solo are out. We'll see but I wouldn't put it past Disney to euthanize the show.
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We've had a huge amount of superhero movies going on for like ten years now and the public is still lining up to see those. They need to get their head out of their ass and fire Kennedy already, that's all you need to do to prevent fatigue.
 
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