The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Hey, that looks like Princess Di!

(Moves car out of the way and Homer lands on pavement)

Oh wait it's just a pile of rags.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
First one is basically going to be another one of those "How do ya do, fellow kids?" episodes you see from these terminally unfunny comedy shows written by boomers who understand jack and shit about the Internet and these newfangled "viral videos."

Second one's really weird when Mike's a 35 year old millennial and Homer's supposed to be his mentor when Homer himself is canonically 36.
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I thought Homer was 39.
 
MagneticTowels said:
I thought he was in his 40s
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Y'know I remember a long-ass time ago (like 12ish years) there was an issue in the comic where Mr. Burns was offering some sort of benefits to workers over 40, and Homer wasn't 40 so he wasn't allowed to receive them. I know the comics are kinda dubious to begin with, but the same issue mentioned that Ned was 60 so it got at least some canon right.
 
Ladies and Germs, it begins tonight.


And fucking christ, is Marge sounding as scratchy as ever. I'll do the usual line of favors. Watch the episode, give you a recap, and we'll discuss if the Simpsons further plunges into the depths of hell through pandering to their "audience" and other shit.
 
Alright. Watched the episode. It sucked.

The summary of the plot is Homer tries to make his own internet livestream show, Bart intrudes, and Homer and Bart fight on camera and somehow a livestream that I bet nobody would know about, gets views and goes viral. Some hipster guy voiced by John "Cuck"laney tries to guide Homer and Bart to further viral video-dom where they make monetized videos off of fighting. They are successful until a video goes around of Homer and Bart hugging each other. Meanwhile, Lisa gets detention for inadvertently starting a food fight and she goes to detention...only it's outsourced and privatized to be like a business now, so of course, Lisa hates it.

Some points I'd like to make about the absurdity and laziness of the episode, so that you don't have to watch it.

  1. Last season, we had Bart flossing. This season, Homer and Bart are flossing, this time with a subtitle under it that says "Don't Sue Us, Backpack Kid". r/fellowkids.
  2. The hipster guy John Mulaney plays is a one-dimensional stereotype that only exists to be the guy that brings Bart and Homer to success. Pretty fucking boring guest spot.
  3. The Lisa subplot is a cliche "STAND UP TO THE EVIL CORPORATION" plot with no nuance. So you have jokes in there about "ha ha, aren't corporations evil?" with the detention kids eventually protesting for some reason or another (Lisa literally just says WE MUST FIGHT BECAUSE DETENTION SHOULD NOT BE OUTSOURCED BY A CORPORATION and that's the only reason) and it ending on the news as this BIG DEAL when it's really just 9 kids and Lisa juvenilely surrounding the school. It doesn't really even last that long, and it ends abruptly at the beginning of the third act with the detention being non-privatized and the teachers making license plates through manual labor as a substitute for some reason. It's really empty and thoroughly unfunny throughout.
    1. I really don't understand why Skinner and Chalmers appear together in almost every episode they appear in just to be the school authority. Isn't Chalmers supposed to be the superintendent of the entire district? He only showed up like once in a while from Seasons 4-19. The HD seasons, every school episode always has to feature Chalmers for some reason, when older seasons would sometimes have him only make background appearances with only one or two major roles for him a season.
  4. Youtube is name-dropped by Moe in the episode as well as some other hipster within, yet the Youtube expy is still named MyTube.
  5. This episode feels out-of-touch. The age of the viral video has passed, I'd say. Popular videos nowadays are mostly music videos or whatever. The common people era of YouTube is closing. This episode came out way too late to be of any sort of consideration.
  6. There was only laugh to be had, and that was at Homer changing Moe's into Homer's when Moe gives him beer for free and says "he'll give Homer anything".
  7. The episode really gives Marge the shaft. She's only in the second scene of the first act and the scene right before the John Mulaney hipster comes in So you never really see her input in Homer and Bart's internet fame. In fact, they don't really even touch on the idea of having internet fame that much other than a few Springfield locals (usually the people Homer and Bart hang out with anyway) recognizing their social media fame instead of the whole town or whatnot. I guess they MIGHT be starting to give her less screentime because her voice is fucking trash, but I dunno. They still are giving Marge episodes. An upcoming episode is Marge The Lumberjill, so who knows.

So, yeah. 0/10. Waste of time.

Edit: Backpack kid joke was "Don't sue us" not "Don't cue us". Fuck me for not noticing.
 
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The Pink Panther said:
This episode feels out-of-touch. The age of the viral video has passed, I'd say. Popular videos nowadays are mostly music videos or whatever. The common people era of YouTube is closing. This episode came out way too late to be of any sort of consideration.
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This is a trend that's been haunting The Simpsons for a while now. I remember some time ago there was an episode about YOLO roughly 6 months after it stopped being relevant. But at least there it was six months late and you can chalk that up to the long production time of the average Simpsons episode. This is just sad because The Simpsons used to have a finger firmly on the pulse of pop culture, but shitty writing and shows with shorter production schedules (like South Park) have basically doomed it into becoming a perennial "how do you do, fellow kids?" kind of show.
 
The Pink Panther said:
Alright. Watched the episode. It sucked.

The summary of the plot is Homer tries to make his own internet livestream show, Bart intrudes, and Homer and Bart fight on camera and somehow a livestream that I bet nobody would know about, gets views and goes viral. Some hipster guy voiced by John "Cuck"laney tries to guide Homer and Bart to further viral video-dom where they make monetized videos off of fighting. They are successful until a video goes around of Homer and Bart hugging each other. Meanwhile, Lisa gets detention for inadvertently starting a food fight and she goes to detention...only it's outsourced and privatized to be like a business now, so of course, Lisa hates it.

Some points I'd like to make about the absurdity and laziness of the episode, so that you don't have to watch it.

  1. Last season, we had Bart flossing. This season, Homer and Bart are flossing, this time with a subtitle under it that says "Don't Cue Us, Backpack Kid". r/fellowkids.
  2. The hipster guy John Mulaney plays is a one-dimensional stereotype that only exists to be the guy that brings Bart and Homer to success. Pretty fucking boring guest spot.
  3. The Lisa subplot is a cliche "STAND UP TO THE EVIL CORPORATION" plot with no nuance. So you have jokes in there about "ha ha, aren't corporations evil?" with the detention kids eventually protesting for some reason or another (Lisa literally just says WE MUST FIGHT BECAUSE DETENTION SHOULD NOT BE OUTSOURCED BY A CORPORATION and that's the only reason) and it ending on the news as this BIG DEAL when it's really just 9 kids and Lisa juvenilely surrounding the school. It doesn't really even last that long, and it ends abruptly at the beginning of the third act with the detention being non-privatized and the teachers making license plates through manual labor as a substitute for some reason. It's really empty and thoroughly unfunny throughout.
    1. I really don't understand why Skinner and Chalmers appear together in almost every episode they appear in just to be the school authority. Isn't Chalmers supposed to be the superintendent of the entire district? He only showed up like once in a while from Seasons 4-19. The HD seasons, every school episode always has to feature Chalmers for some reason, when older seasons would sometimes have him only make background appearances with only one or two major roles for him a season.
  4. Youtube is name-dropped by Moe in the episode as well as some other hipster within, yet the Youtube expy is still named MyTube.
  5. This episode feels out-of-touch. The age of the viral video has passed, I'd say. Popular videos nowadays are mostly music videos or whatever. The common people era of YouTube is closing. This episode came out way too late to be of any sort of consideration.
  6. There was only laugh to be had, and that was at Homer changing Moe's into Homer's when Moe gives him beer for free and says "he'll give Homer anything".
  7. The episode really gives Marge the shaft. She's only in the second scene of the first act and the scene right before the John Mulaney hipster comes in So you never really see her input in Homer and Bart's internet fame. In fact, they don't really even touch on the idea of having internet fame that much other than a few Springfield locals (usually the people Homer and Bart hang out with anyway) recognizing their social media fame instead of the whole town or whatnot. I guess they MIGHT be starting to give her less screentime because her voice is fucking trash, but I dunno. They still are giving Marge episodes. An upcoming episode is Marge The Lumberjill, so who knows.

So, yeah. 0/10. Waste of time.
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Maybe not having Marge appear much this episode was a mercy decision, Julie sounds like she's on her death throes here. And the Lisa subplot was the very definition of "Unnecessary subplot for the sake of it" and them trying to shoehorn Lisa into every episode because they either need to, or because Yeardley demands it or something.

Few other points upon seeing the episode:
- Does the show really need to have Kevin Michael Richardson as every black character that isn't Hibbert, Carl or a guest star these days? Is it that hard to find other actors?
- I'll give the animators this, the fights between Homer and Bart are decently animated at least.
- So who the fuck was filming Homer and Bart hugging near the end of Act 2? Was it CBG? Or a complete stranger?
- Couch gag was simple and kind of decent, but nothing special.
- Back to the "Lisa in detention" subplot, one thing that bothered me is that Ned is nowhere to be seen in the shots of the teachers doing the slave labor. Was he also opposed to this like Lisa and the other students? Or is this just a slip of the writing staff?

Something tells me Disney's Simpsons won't be any different than when Fox was producing them either solo or with Film Roman post HD move.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Something tells me Disney's Simpsons won't be any different than when Fox was producing them either solo or with Film Roman post HD move.
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We havent seen Disney Simpsons yet. The ZABF production line hasn't started yet. We're still at the leftovers from last season.

ZABF01 appears to be another Sideshow Bob episode, so that's gonna be shit.
 
AVClub somehow gives this shit a B-, even though most of the review was spent saying how forgettable it was and how there was a lack of joke continuity. This is what passes for an average episode:

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The Simpsons returns for its 31st season with John Mulaney, so that's something

“They might have no opinion! I cant live with that!”
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As usually happens when The Simpsons decides to take on those darn kids today, there’s a certain crotchety remove to the jokes at the expense of the influencers, tastemakers, un-boxers, and thinly disguised white supremacist skin care gurus Parker consults for Homer and Bart’s comeback. (The last of those, a Tomi Lahren-looking blonde, tells her followers they have to choose between “brown” and “skin color” when it comes to a base, easily the harshest joke of the episode.)
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What the fuck? White supremacist? I thought the skin care jokes were just sellouts doing ads. Wasn't that the joke
Where does the white supremacy shit come into play?
 
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