The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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So yeah, there's no doubt that the Simpsons should have done one of the following:
A. Kept the show as a period piece for the 90s. This would help let episodes like the one where Homer becomes morbidly obese at 300 pounds not become outdated.
B. Aged up the cast if they're going to do acts like have Bart get a pregnancy scare or otherwise write the kids as more like teenagers than prepubescents (among other attempts to make it look like time passes like having one of Marge's sisters get a baby).
 
The Estatist said:
So yeah, there's no doubt that the Simpsons should have done one of the following:
A. Kept the show as a period piece for the 90s. This would help let episodes like the one where Homer becomes morbidly obese at 300 pounds not become outdated.
B. Aged up the cast if they're going to do acts like have Bart get a pregnancy scare or otherwise write the kids as more like teenagers than prepubescents (among other attempts to make it look like time passes like having one of Marge's sisters get a baby).
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Glad I'm not alone on this sentiment.

I think one little nick that eventually snowballed into a gaping hole was how The Simpsons didn't catch on to parodying and lampooning other sitcom conventions as the decade went on. I'm sure that you know that The Simpsons was born out of being parallel to sappy melodrama 80's sitcoms like The Cosby Show, Full House, and Growing Pains, so if they went on to take on shows like Friends, Dawson's Creek, hell even Seinfeld and Roseanne, that would have been a natural progression. Maybe. You never know with keeping up with the times; it could have played out like "radicalizing" old shows or deconstructing everything to hell to be "edgy" like most crap in the 90's. But then I could have given them the benefit of how they tried.

Character development wise, I think it's poison that they keep giving the reoccuring cast forced drama by keeping them as flat caricatures. People aren't perfect and they'll repeat some flaws of theirs, but it's hard to garner an audience when they keep repeating the same shit they did ages ago without a form of realistic human development. Case in point, I hate how they turned Barney back into a bumbling drunkard post the episode when he got clean and decided to rebuild his life, or how they keep making Moe this "ugly human" when we've seen other beer cans in the city worse than him around.

Also, I'm getting really sick of Bart being shipped in with other girls of his age. Let the boy be a damn kid instead of playing pedo child husbandry, for fuck's sake. Let him grow up and bang Laura Powers later, yeesh.

I also think that if they had let 22 Short Films of Springfield actually grow into the "Springfield" spinoff show, that would have been a saving grace.
 
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friedshrimp said:
I feel this is the start, since now Disney owns Fox, they're gonna start deleting and eliminating a lot of old classic Simpsons episodes since they're not as progressive as the woke crowd of 2019 would accept, and the rat, desperate to appeal to SJWs and soulless Christian house moms, they'll do anything to delete that and promote the lame new episodes that have a "diversity is our strength" message or the like.

When you appeal to Lisa Simpson or Helen Lovejoy, you end up losing.
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I'm calling it. Homer Badman is fucking next.

Pro- Illegal Immigration Nuts will go after Much Apu About Nothing. And then Anti-Gun Nuts will go after The Cartridge Family.
 
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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Abe was the president of the gay and lesbian alliance for some reason.

It sucks when shows ruin characters and their own backstories to shoehorn some garbage current year talking point. The Simpsons seem to do it the most as it's long running and has been helmed by hacks for the majority of that time.
 
I Love Beef said:
Glad I'm not alone on this sentiment.

I think one little nick that eventually snowballed into a gaping hole was how The Simpsons didn't catch on to parodying and lampooning other sitcom conventions as the decade went on. I'm sure that you know that The Simpsons was born out of being parallel to sappy melodrama 80's sitcoms like The Cosby Show, Full House, and Growing Pains, so if they went on to take on shows like Friends, Dawson's Creek, hell even Seinfeld and Roseanne, that would have been a natural progression. Maybe. You never know with keeping up with the times; it could have played out like "radicalizing" old shows or deconstructing everything to hell to be "edgy" like most crap in the 90's. But then I could have given them the benefit of how they tried.

Character development wise, I think it's poison that they keep giving the reoccuring cast forced drama by keeping them as flat caricatures. People aren't perfect and they'll repeat some flaws of theirs, but it's hard to garner an audience when they keep repeating the same shit they did ages ago without a form of realistic human development. Case in point, I hate how they turned Barney back into a bumbling drunkard post the episode when he got clean and decided to rebuild his life, or how they keep making Moe this "ugly human" when we've seen other beer cans in the city worse than him around.

Also, I'm getting really sick of Bart being shipped in with other girls of his age. Let the boy be a damn kid instead of playing pedo child husbandry, for fuck's sake. Let him grow up and bang Laura Powers later, yeesh.

I also think that if they had let 22 Short Films of Springfield actually grow into the "Springfield" spinoff show, that would have been a saving grace.
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Like I said, they should have just aged up the cast just a bit (so that Bart would be about 15/16 and Lisa 14/13) if they were going to take the characters in the direction they did. Especially Lisa as a mouthpiece for whatever politics they shill today.

The Pink Panther said:
I'm calling it. Homer Badman is fucking next.

Pro- Illegal Immigration Nuts will go after Much Apu About Nothing. And then Anti-Gun Nuts will go after The Cartridge Family.
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But the episode is pro-immigrant if anything. It starts over a trivial annoyance that roots in the natives' problems and snowballs into a war on immigration. Apu himself has been shown as capable for awhile (what with him graduating with honors from a high-end college).
 
The Estatist said:
But the episode is pro-immigrant if anything. It starts over a trivial annoyance that roots in the natives' problems and snowballs into a war on immigration. Apu himself has been shown as capable for awhile (what with him graduating with honors from a high-end college).
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I say it's next since the episode perpetuates the message that you must go through the procedure in order to not get deported due to illegal immigration, and you know those guys don't like that. No one is illegal, after all.
 
The Estatist said:
Like I said, they should have just aged up the cast just a bit (so that Bart would be about 15/16 and Lisa 14/13) if they were going to take the characters in the direction they did. Especially Lisa as a mouthpiece for whatever politics they shill today.
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And aging Maggie up will mean they'll have a whole new main character to develop and make plots for.
 
admiral said:
So how many Irish people got offended and demanded that this episode go off the air?
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The Irish are white and are therefore acceptable targets.

On a more serious note, I do remember an episode having a St. Paddy's parade several years ago and Bart says something like, "Where's the IRA when you need them?" That apparently caused a bit of heat.
 
Oh yeah, another episode that can get kicked off the air: Homer's Phobia.

That episode is definitely one that can't be made today.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
The Irish are white and are therefore acceptable targets.

On a more serious note, I do remember an episode having a St. Paddy's parade several years ago and Bart says something like, "Where's the IRA when you need them?" That apparently caused a bit of heat.
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I'm sure that was the same episode as Drunk Bart, but a shop that looks a bit like Harrod's had a bomb go off outside of it during the parade to cheering crowds.

The BBC would cut that out while The Simpsons was playing on BBC2.
 
The Pink Panther said:
Oh yeah, another episode that can get kicked off the air: Homer's Phobia.

That episode is definitely one that can't be made today.
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Piga Dgrifm said:
"I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals FLAMING."
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It's sad that that episode will probably get memory-holed, because that's one of the best lines from the series.
 
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