The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Last night's Simpsons episode was a low-tier Homer-Marge marriage crisis where they both get injured and Marge makes an effort to heal, Homer doesn't, and is convinced by Wallace Shawn as his spiritual figure to be lazy.

It's an episode that even AVClub didn't like.

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Homer and Marge's marriage is in trouble again in one of the most inessential Simpsons of all time

First, a story.
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But look at this line of stupid:

The whole sneering “Is this show still on?” chorus is something I reject, utterly, as the laziest and most contemptible element of Simpsons fandom, but I am, once more, asking what there is to like about this particular episode of The Simpsons.
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Is this what they call DENIAL?
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4X8fuFV01O0
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I recently re-watched Seasons 1-9 of The Simpsons and it really does highlight the major shift that took place.

The humor now is very obvious and very cartoony with very little care for character. But clips like the Coconut Cake vid above really show just how layered every scene of the classic episodes were. Any one scene was soaked with attention to detail and executed with near perfection.

In just 37 seconds, we have the absurdity of Mrs. Skinner's Cake picture collecting hobby and Bart's desperation to make the experience less painful are on full display and they explore every possible way to make it funny while also keeping it grounded with some sense of believability. Its surprisingly brilliant and the type of scene I would have taken for granted 25 years ago.
 
Homer and Marge should've gotten divorced twenty years ago. Marge leaving Homer for Flanders was such an obvious way to actually provide fresh material for the show that even with years of oppurtunity to carry out that plotline, they still haven't explored it.

Better yet, they could have Homer find out right as he's come around to liking Flanders again.

Better yet again, Lisa might finally make a friend who isn't a blood relative, and be allowed to keep the friendship longer than one episode!

There are so many ways to make this dessicated, unaging nightmare of a show interesting. Yet they turn Grampa gay and give Selma a Chinese baby, whom presumably she renamed "Charlotte Cunningham Bouvier" because we haven't seen the damn thing in a longer number of seasons that most shows that had mostly good seasons lasted.

Charles Schulz may've also cooled his hotstreak later in life; but he did that after decades of excellence, working on his own, actually admitting where he went wrong in his strips, course correcting his wrongs, finishing strong, and never coming close to sinking as low as the average double-digit Simpson season.
 
Truthspeaker said:
Homer and Marge should've gotten divorced twenty years ago. Marge leaving Homer for Flanders was such an obvious way to actually provide fresh material for the show that even with years of oppurtunity to carry out that plotline, they still haven't explored it.

Better yet, they could have Homer find out right as he's come around to liking Flanders again.

Better yet again, Lisa might finally make a friend who isn't a blood relative, and be allowed to keep the friendship longer than one episode!

There are so many ways to make this dessicated, unaging nightmare of a show interesting. Yet they turn Grampa gay and give Selma a Chinese baby, whom presumably she renamed "Charlotte Cunningham Bouvier" because we haven't seen the damn thing in a longer number of seasons that most shows that had mostly good seasons lasted.

Charles Schulz may've also cooled his hotstreak later in life; but he did that after decades of excellence, working on his own, actually admitting where he went wrong in his strips, course correcting his wrongs, finishing strong, and never coming close to sinking as low as the average double-digit Simpson season.
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As interesting as it may be, the writers are adverse to changing the status quo for whatever braindead reason outside of Comic Book Guy getting married; Abe becoming gay; Selma's baby who somehow ages despite the rest of Springfield being the same age for decades; Krusty's dad dying, or the changes to the timeline. I mean, think of all the potential they could be having with older children or finally making one of their "OUR MARRIAGE IS ON THE ROCKS!" plots be a permanent divorce.
 
Megaroad said:
Grandpa Simpson is gay now?
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Yep which makes absolutely no sense whatso fucking ever because he has two sons (three if you believe Guy Incognito is a Simpson bastard) and has at least ten female love interests during the golden age episodes.
 
Megaroad said:
Grandpa Simpson is gay now?
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Mad About The Toy has him regretting an incident where a male photographer kissed him back when he was a model. He was pissed, but he actually liked it. The ending has him rekindling with the guy and them canoodling a little.


The sad part is...it was the funniest episode of the current season of Current Year Simpsons.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
As interesting as it may be, the writers are adverse to changing the status quo for whatever braindead reason outside of Comic Book Guy getting married; Abe becoming gay; Selma's baby who somehow ages despite the rest of Springfield being the same age for decades; Krusty's dad dying, or the changes to the timeline. I mean, think of all the potential they could be having with older children or finally making one of their "OUR MARRIAGE IS ON THE ROCKS!" plots be a permanent divorce.
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The changes they have made always tend to be motivated by real life (Marcia and Phil) or involve matters thst're ultimately inconsequential to the central dynamics of the show.

South Parkers, like Springfieldians, also don't age. But Stone and Parker took more measures to counter stagnation by season five than any Simpsons' showrunner ever pushed.

The Pink Panther said:
Mad About The Toy has him regretting an incident where a male photographer kissed him back when he was a model. He was pissed, but he actually liked it. The ending has him rekindling with the guy and them canoodling a little.


The sad part is...it was the funniest episode of the current season of Current Year Simpsons.
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That's both more and less depressing than I was expecting.
 
Ruin said:
Yep which makes absolutely no sense whatso fucking ever because he has two sons (three if you believe Guy Incognito is a Simpson bastard) and has at least ten female love interests during the golden age episodes.
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If they wanted the woke points so bad, they could have made him bi. At least it would make more sense.
 
sperginity said:
Do you think they'll delete the episode where we find out that troy mcclure is a zoophile? How the fuck did that get past censors in the first place? Its one of my favorite episodes for sure, but christ is it a fucked up subject for network television.
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Once the show was making money, they let 'em do ANYTHANG THEY WANTED.
 
The Pink Panther said:
Wait that's kind of dumb. Isn't he technically bi anyway?
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Don't know, haven't seen the episode. I was just going off what everyone else was saying. It sounds like they've made him gay in canon, which makes no sense as in previous episodes he was shown to have numerous female love interests.

sperginity said:
Do you think they'll delete the episode where we find out that troy mcclure is a zoophile? How the fuck did that get past censors in the first place? Its one of my favorite episodes for sure, but christ is it a fucked up subject for network television.
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I must have missed that one, which episode was that?
 
Piga Dgrifm said:
Don't know, haven't seen the episode. I was just going off what everyone else was saying. It sounds like they've made him gay in canon, which makes no sense as in previous episodes he was shown to have numerous female love interests.
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So he's bi.

Piga Dgrifm said:
I must have missed that one, which episode was that?
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A Fish Called Selma












From SEASON 7.
 
sperginity said:
Do you think they'll delete the episode where we find out that troy mcclure is a zoophile? How the fuck did that get past censors in the first place? Its one of my favorite episodes for sure, but christ is it a fucked up subject for network television.
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From what I've read, even the censors thought that was one of the funniest moments in the entire show
 
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