The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Your Weird Fetish said:
I don't think they conjugated that verb right. Shouldn't it be "Burns verkauft der Kraftwerk"? Any krauts confirm or is my German just shit?


I think he's just stuck there because Burns keeps forgetting to actually take his final revenge since he only ever remembers Homer exists for a maximum of seven days at a time.
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Took German for three years. It should be Burns verkauft das Kraftwerk I believe. The article for Kraftwerk wasn't correct either.
 
Trombonista said:
So this show is still on due to its revenue stream, but what exactly is bringing in the revenue?
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Merchandising and nostalgia for the classic seasons. There's a reason why Disney went out of its way to get The Simpsons IP when they bought out 20th Century Fox, even though a lot of other Fox shows aren't part of the deal. The Simpsons is a show that was truly groundbreaking, despite its current unwatchable zombie state. They also got Family Guy since that is also fairly popular despite having decayed worse than The Simpsons.

Family Guy may be a shallow rip-off of The Simpsons right down to jumping the shark in a similar manner, but it's also the most successful of these rip-offs. If The Simpsons is like The Beatles, then Family Guy is like The Monkees.

Plus it makes for good rerun filler. Syndicated reruns of Seinfeld are still popular for this reason. Hell, they still air reruns of The Andy Griffith Show and M*A*S*H as daytime filler on a lot of stations all over the country. The Simpsons has sort of entered that "syndicated classic" phase but only on Fox affiliates and CW affiliates that share a station with Fox.

The question now is what will Disney do with The Simpsons? I'm honestly kind of worried given what they've done with Star Wars, to say nothing of the snarky cape-clad cancer that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Given the situation with the voice cast (Julie Kavner in particular), I'm hoping that Disney will finally put an end to it and the inevitable reboot will happen a few years down the line, but I'm not holding my breath.

We've got two seasons left before Disney fully takes over. If they are smart about it, Disney will let it end with Season 32 and maybe a second movie the following summer.

But if Disney were smart, there wouldn't be a fourth phase of the MCU and they wouldn't have greenlit the scripts for the newer Star Wars films....
 
Syaoran Li said:
Merchandising and nostalgia for the classic seasons. There's a reason why Disney went out of its way to get The Simpsons IP when they bought out 20th Century Fox, even though a lot of other Fox shows aren't part of the deal. The Simpsons is a show that was truly groundbreaking, despite its current unwatchable zombie state. They also got Family Guy since that is also fairly popular despite having decayed worse than The Simpsons.

Family Guy may be a shallow rip-off of The Simpsons right down to jumping the shark in a similar manner, but it's also the most successful of these rip-offs. If The Simpsons is like The Beatles, then Family Guy is like The Monkees.

Plus it makes for good rerun filler. Syndicated reruns of Seinfeld are still popular for this reason. Hell, they still air reruns of The Andy Griffith Show and M*A*S*H as daytime filler on a lot of stations all over the country. The Simpsons has sort of entered that "syndicated classic" phase but only on Fox affiliates and CW affiliates that share a station with Fox.

The question now is what will Disney do with The Simpsons? I'm honestly kind of worried given what they've done with Star Wars, to say nothing of the snarky cape-clad cancer that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Given the situation with the voice cast (Julie Kavner in particular), I'm hoping that Disney will finally put an end to it and the inevitable reboot will happen a few years down the line, but I'm not holding my breath.

We've got two seasons left before Disney fully takes over. If they are smart about it, Disney will let it end with Season 32 and maybe a second movie the following summer.

But if Disney were smart, there wouldn't be a fourth phase of the MCU and they wouldn't have greenlit the scripts for the newer Star Wars films....
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Im sticking to my prediction of "they will just hire non-union voice actors to replace everybody expensive" and from there im guessing the show will be whored out in a way that makes the Lady Gaga episode look like Last Exit to Springfield, with a maggie centred rugrats wannabe spinoff, an "adult targeted" spinoff thats totally not a ripoff of family guy featuring Moe and his Tavern, and best of all a spinoff featuring a new Disney-Simpsons OC who is a [INSERT FACTORY BLEND OF TRANS ETHNIC DEMOGRAPHICS] with attitude. She's edgy, she's "in your face." You've heard the expression "let's get busy"? Well, this is a gal who gets "biz-zay!" Consistently and thoroughly.
*video unrelated*
 
New episode today. It kinda sucked...but it definitely wasn't as bad as the premiere, which means it's better, but it's still boring and bland. Basically, Homer ends up demoted after somehow taking advantage of Burns while he's on his med for $5 (more on this below), so now he has to mentor the interns. He gets laughed at, but then defended by some weird guy named Mike (voiced by TDS victim Michael Rapaport), who sees him as an idol because he saved the Plant from meltdown (a "holy shit, what the fuck" reference from Homer Defined, a SEASON 3 episode). His whole gig is speaking fast-paced quips in an Italian accent in sort of a 90's sort of way as well as having a stereotypical slutty Italian girlfriend. His other whole gig is defending anyone who makes fun of Homer Simpson by roasting them out, which he does so to Bart (later Mr. Burns), which gets Marge mad, Homer worried, but still hanging on when Mike proposes a pizza business idea where he only sells slices and not the full pizza...which he pitches to Burns, gets rejected, and then he loans a food truck from Fat Tony and Fat Tony does his mafia shtick when Mike can't pay him back until Fat Tony realizes he can use the food truck as way to sell bets as well as pizza slices...and weed for some reason. Weird shit.

Highlights:

  1. I like the opening plot with Lenny's birthday with Burns ruining the surprise and the card by writing his big-ass signature all over the card and how it really fucks with Homer to the point of having a fantasy where Marge gets stabbed by Burns' signature. Harkens back to the better days of Who Shot Mr. Burns when Homer was really pissed with Burns forgetting his name. Of course, it's not superior to that, and it never will be, but it got a few laughs out of me.
  2. I do think the way they kickstarted the plot was kind of dumb. So Mr. Burns is kind enough to give Homer five bucks for this fund to pay Lenny for his birthday and for some reason Smithers gets mad because Burns is on meds and is usually nice on his meds or shit....I dunno. Weak plot transition.
    1. One thing I have noticed about the recent seasons, via Seasons 23/4 and on, is that more plots take place at the Plant rather than have Homer stay home all the time. At least that means they are trying to bring consistency and some form of logic back into the show, if very little. You don't really see a "Homer Gets A Job" that commonly anymore and they actually bother to make excuse jokes for why Homer isn't at work.
  3. THIS WEEKS HELLO FELLOW KIDS LINE OF THE WEEK IS: "Listen up, millennials. I'm Homer J. Simpson, your new supervisor. So stop snapchatting, fortniting, and swiping right on your Uber Venmo." (implying that Millenials play Fortnite)
  4. The story is well-structured...until the end where we switch to this whole idea of Mike having a pizza slice business...which is where the story loses its base of Homer being a mentor to this guy instead turns into two shmucks escaping the mafia. So meh.
  5. The animation is better than usual because Matthew Faughan is directing it, and that guy is literally David Silverman's assistant for the TOH segments from the Middle Age Simpsons Seasons, so....the animation is better. The character designs don't look well with the animation though. Something about the character designs feels artificial and a bit unfinished and sometimes rough-looking, but I like fluid animation. Particularly on Mike whenever he does hand-movements. Unique.
  6. Fat Tony sounds like shit in this episode. I know Joe Mantegna is 71, but fucking hell man. The raspiness kinda sticks out.
  7. Mike's roasts of Bart and Mr. Burns are the best shit in the episode. Literally just a barrage of insults the writers wrote out. Fucking golden shit, particularly Bart's where Lisa is just cracking up right after Mike is done. Pretty well-timed. Otherwise, Mike is an okay character to watch, but he's kind of boring. They didn't really develop him enough beyond the fact that's he's a loser who needed to get some kind of a job...with anger issues when someone insults a person he looks up to. That's really it. The anger issues could've been a focus of the episode with us, the audience, finding Mike's source of anger, which could possibly make us feel and develop this one-shot character into something finna bigger. But instead, we needed a climax with Mike getting money from Fat Tony and not being able to pay that loan, thus getting Homer and Mike swept up in wacky easygoing mafia shenanigans. They went the low road instead of the high road.
  8. Also, Mike's apparently 35 and looks up to Homer as a mentor...when I believe Homer is canonically 36. Also, it's fucking weird for Homer to be mentoring Millenials when he himself is one now apparently? I dunno.

I'd give this episode a 4/10. It definitely didn't suck as bad as one would think. There are some good moments in here, but it still has the vices of modern Simpsons with it being utterly boring and not that funny.

AV Club gave it a C+ for some reason: https://tv.avclub.com/homer-finds-a-fan-and-winds-up-mentoring-a-real-jerk-on-1838831032, of course Dennis Perkins didn't like the Bart roast, because he's a wimp.
And Me Blog Write Good gave it a negative review, as well, also hated the Bart scene, but loved the scene right afterward where Lisa is cracking up: https://meblogwritegood.wordpress.com/2019/10/06/664-go-big-or-go-homer/

Also, lol this article. I think it's legit, but it sounds and feels so sarcastic: https://ventsmagazine.com/2019/10/06/the-simpsons-is-still-pretty-good-and-thats-incredible/
 
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Syaoran Li said:
Family Guy may be a shallow rip-off of The Simpsons right down to jumping the shark in a similar manner, but it's also the most successful of these rip-offs. If The Simpsons is like The Beatles, then Family Guy is like The Monkees.
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I felt like the arrival of Family Guy worsen The Simpsons, as the latter uped the wackiness to match the former. But that might just have been a coincidence.
The Pink Panther said:
And Me Blog Write Good gave it a negative review, as well, also hated the Bart scene, but loved the scene right afterward where Lisa is cracking up: https://meblogwritegood.wordpress.com/2019/10/06/664-go-big-or-go-homer/
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He raises and interesting point here:
Homer begins his talk to the new plant interns blending a bunch of millennial stereotypes together, but thanks to this show’s floating timeline, the 38-year-old Homer would now have been born in 1981, making him… a millennial!
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What interesting is how he doesn't "feel" like a millennial to the writers and most likely to the fans as well, despite the math behind it. Which is connected to biggest problem of the show, that it is too distant from its sources of inspiration, the culture of mid-to-late-20th century America. Which is why it feels so disconnecting and ackward trying to comment on the problems of early 21st century America. It's also a problem that nobody, not even the funniest writers, producers and voice actors, could fix.

Father Time, that who did in The Simpsons.
 
"Well, sure, the FRINKIAC-7 looks impressive -- don't touch it -- but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings in Europe will own them."
 
The Pink Panther said:
New episode today. It kinda sucked...but it definitely wasn't as bad as the premiere, which means it's better, but it's still boring and bland. Basically, Homer ends up demoted after somehow taking advantage of Burns while he's on his med for $5 (more on this below), so now he has to mentor the interns. He gets laughed at, but then defended by some weird guy named Mike (voiced by TDS victim Michael Rapaport), who sees him as an idol because he saved the Plant from meltdown (a "holy shit, what the fuck" reference from Homer Defined, a SEASON 3 episode). His whole gig is speaking fast-paced quips in an Italian accent in sort of a 90's sort of way as well as having a stereotypical slutty Italian girlfriend. His other whole gig is defending anyone who makes fun of Homer Simpson by roasting them out, which he does so to Bart (later Mr. Burns), which gets Marge mad, Homer worried, but still hanging on when Mike proposes a pizza business idea where he only sells slices and not the full pizza...which he pitches to Burns, gets rejected, and then he loans a food truck from Fat Tony and Fat Tony does his mafia shtick when Mike can't pay him back until Fat Tony realizes he can use the food truck as way to sell bets as well as pizza slices...and weed for some reason. Weird shit.

Highlights:

  1. I like the opening plot with Lenny's birthday with Burns ruining the surprise and the card by writing his big-ass signature all over the card and how it really fucks with Homer to the point of having a fantasy where Marge gets stabbed by Burns' signature. Harkens back to the better days of Who Shot Mr. Burns when Homer was really pissed with Burns forgetting his name. Of course, it's not superior to that, and it never will be, but it got a few laughs out of me.
  2. I do think the way they kickstarted the plot was kind of dumb. So Mr. Burns is kind enough to give Homer five bucks for this fund to pay Lenny for his birthday and for some reason Smithers gets mad because Burns is on meds and is usually nice on his meds or shit....I dunno. Weak plot transition.
    1. One thing I have noticed about the recent seasons, via Seasons 23/4 and on, is that more plots take place at the Plant rather than have Homer stay home all the time. At least that means they are trying to bring consistency and some form of logic back into the show, if very little. You don't really see a "Homer Gets A Job" that commonly anymore and they actually bother to make excuse jokes for why Homer isn't at work.
  3. THIS WEEKS HELLO FELLOW KIDS LINE OF THE WEEK IS: "Listen up, millennials. I'm Homer J. Simpson, your new supervisor. So stop snapchatting, fortniting, and swiping right on your Uber Venmo." (implying that Millenials play Fortnite)
  4. The story is well-structured...until the end where we switch to this whole idea of Mike having a pizza slice business...which is where the story loses its base of Homer being a mentor to this guy instead turns into two shmucks escaping the mafia. So meh.
  5. The animation is better than usual because Matthew Faughan is directing it, and that guy is literally David Silverman's assistant for the TOH segments from the Middle Age Simpsons Seasons, so....the animation is better. The character designs don't look well with the animation though. Something about the character designs feels artificial and a bit unfinished and sometimes rough-looking, but I like fluid animation. Particularly on Mike whenever he does hand-movements. Unique.
  6. Fat Tony sounds like shit in this episode. I know Joe Mantegna is 71, but fucking hell man. The raspiness kinda sticks out.
  7. Mike's roasts of Bart and Mr. Burns are the best shit in the episode. Literally just a barrage of insults the writers wrote out. Fucking golden shit, particularly Bart's where Lisa is just cracking up right after Mike is done. Pretty well-timed. Otherwise, Mike is an okay character to watch, but he's kind of boring. They didn't really develop him enough beyond the fact that's he's a loser who needed to get some kind of a job...with anger issues when someone insults a person he looks up to. That's really it. The anger issues could've been a focus of the episode with us, the audience, finding Mike's source of anger, which could possibly make us feel and develop this one-shot character into something finna bigger. But instead, we needed a climax with Mike getting money from Fat Tony and not being able to pay that loan, thus getting Homer and Mike swept up in wacky easygoing mafia shenanigans. They went the low road instead of the high road.
  8. Also, Mike's apparently 35 and looks up to Homer as a mentor...when I believe Homer is canonically 36. Also, it's fucking weird for Homer to be mentoring Millenials when he himself is one now apparently? I dunno.

I'd give this episode a 4/10. It definitely didn't suck as bad as one would think. There are some good moments in here, but it still has the vices of modern Simpsons with it being utterly boring and not that funny.

AV Club gave it a C+ for some reason: https://tv.avclub.com/homer-finds-a-fan-and-winds-up-mentoring-a-real-jerk-on-1838831032, of course Dennis Perkins didn't like the Bart roast, because he's a wimp.
And Me Blog Write Good gave it a negative review, as well, also hated the Bart scene, but loved the scene right afterward where Lisa is cracking up: https://meblogwritegood.wordpress.com/2019/10/06/664-go-big-or-go-homer/

Also, lol this article. I think it's legit, but it sounds and feels so sarcastic: https://ventsmagazine.com/2019/10/06/the-simpsons-is-still-pretty-good-and-thats-incredible/
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It's bad when a Simpsons episode that doesn't make me miserable is what i consider okay
 
That's some outfit, Scoei. It makes you look like a homosexual.

BOOOOO!

Maybe you're all homosexuals!
 
Judge Holden said:
Im sticking to my prediction of "they will just hire non-union voice actors to replace everybody expensive" and from there im guessing the show will be whored out in a way that makes the Lady Gaga episode look like Last Exit to Springfield, with a maggie centred rugrats wannabe spinoff, an "adult targeted" spinoff thats totally not a ripoff of family guy featuring Moe and his Tavern, and best of all a spinoff featuring a new Disney-Simpsons OC who is a [INSERT FACTORY BLEND OF TRANS ETHNIC DEMOGRAPHICS] with attitude. She's edgy, she's "in your face." You've heard the expression "let's get busy"? Well, this is a gal who gets "biz-zay!" Consistently and thoroughly.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xlf2G0O_VY0:45*video unrelated*
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In my language the dub makes it even more unwatchable. A lot of the original actors are dead of just left the show, like Liù Bosisio, who voiced Marge until the network that airs the Simpsons cut her payment. I believe her statement was: "I'm 76, I won't move my ass for the 4 cents you give me". The only one who is still there is Monica Ward, Lisa's voice. And since here we react to change of voice actors with rage and blood, the Simpsons ratings crumbled, then the poor storylines did the rest.
 
The Pink Panther said:
He gets laughed at, but then defended by some weird guy named Mike (voiced by TDS victim Michael Rapaport), who sees him as an idol because he saved the Plant from meltdown (a "holy shit, what the fuck" reference from Homer Defined, a SEASON 3 episode).
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To see a reference to earlier seasons of the Simpsons, I wonder if it might be a desesperate sign? I won't be surprised if they do more earlier seasons references even the ill-fated episodes and moments like "Homer vs Dignity", Maude Flanders' death and Skinner being Armin Tamzarian.
 
Because its October, I've started rewatching old Halloween specials and such, which of course includes the classic Treehouse of Horror episodes.

I think Treehouse of Horror V is my favorite of the bunch. "The Shinning" is my personal favorite of the short stories that they did, and "Time and Punishment" is probably my second favorite. When "Nightmare Cafeteria", a really solid entry in its own right, is the weakest of the three, you have a pretty strong Halloween special. Using the Willie gag to connect the three stories was also a very nice touch.
 
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