The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
Guess I'm an outlier then because the season I quit on was before I was even in high school.
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Maybe you just can't tolerate horrible fucking 'Family Guy-lite' television

edit: also the main difference between family guy and post-golden age simpsons is that no matter how shitty family guy is, there's always at least one really good joke in family guy episodes
 
Autumnal Equinox said:
"Smithers, I'm beginning to think that Homer Simpson was not the brilliant tactician I thought he was."
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"Why is Mr. Burns being so nice to me?"

"...and if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours!"

"Wait a minute, is he coming onto me?"

"I mean, if I should slip something into your pocket, what's the harm?"

"Oh my God, he is coming onto me."

"After all, negotiations make strange bedfellows! Heh heh heh."

[Internal screaming]
 
Damn Near said:
My buddy and I have a hypothesis wherein the last season of the Simpsons you find acceptable directly correlates to the last year you spent in high school
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2007 was the year I began high school, and that was when I pretty much gave up. The movie premiered the month before I started my freshman year. Otherwise, you might be onto something.

Sort of reminds me of a hypothesis of my own about Weird Al albums. The best Weird Al album is whichever one was your first.

The movie itself was good, but I'm not sure why I quit being a regular follower after that.

I think that was when I finally realized the decline had fully set in. Season 18 was pretty bad in hindsight and even when it was airing, I thought it was weaker than previous seasons.
 
Gotta say, solid episode so far tonight. I almost feel like turning off the television just so that I don't see it getting derailed in the third act like so many other recent season episodes that are almost great but are ruined by the ending.

UPDATE: Nope, the ending was fine. One of the good "Simpson's go to" episodes that neither felt like a travelogue infomercial paid for by the country/city they went to nor was it about over the top outrageous country stereotypes (not that I don't like "Bart vs. Australia"). It was set in Costa Rica but it could be pretty much anywhere there's jungle.
 
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Damn Near said:
My buddy and I have a hypothesis wherein the last season of the Simpsons you find acceptable directly correlates to the last year you spent in high school
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That almost makes sense since I graduated in '96 and hadn't seen that many episodes past '97.
 
If you count Quebec CEGEP as "high school" (2 year junior college that is basically the equivalent to grade 12 but you pick the program and you take more electives), yeah, I graduated in 1998 which corresponds to the end of season 9, roughly the end of the golden age or the first season of the slow decline.
 
I'm 100% certain that I'm late to the party, but this is the funniest goddamn shit I've ever seen in my life.

 
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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
"Why is Mr. Burns being so nice to me?"

"...and if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours!"

"Wait a minute, is he coming onto me?"

"I mean, if I should slip something into your pocket, what's the harm?"

"Oh my God, he is coming onto me."

"After all, negotiations make strange bedfellows! Heh heh heh."

[Internal screaming]
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Sure, I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no!
 
About the new episode, since I'm late and gay again (don't really care about catching new episodes on the night they premiere anymore), it's pretty mediocre. Joint family vacation gone wrong episode. Simple shit. Highlights below:

  • The episode for some reason focuses on the financial troubles of the Simpletons, weird for a modern episode, especially with Lisa panicking (by constantly twirling her hair), about how expensive the joint vacation will be once they pay their share. It turns out that they don't have to pay for it since the Van Houtens (who run the vacation in the first place) own the beach house that the joint families stay at for free. I think focusing on the financial aspects of the Simpsons with Lisa constantly trying to rationalize why the family wouldn't care about finances is unique and a pretty interesting plot point that I don't think has been seen in an episode thus far. It's pretty intriguing.
  • The Disney episodes so far look cleaner than last season's pre-Disney shit. I feel as if they clean up the episodes better and they look less copy and paste. The character designs actually look like they fit into their settings so the aesthetic looks more fitting. This is interesting since it turns out that this episode was animated by Rough Draft, and not Akom, Akom being the superior to Rough Draft, and Rough Draft usually looks like shit. I'm guessing the Simpsons has some Disney influence.
  • I feel like they are finally pitching Marge's voice up. Her voice sounds tolerable here...or maybe it's just me getting used to her shitty voice.
  • Only two funny lines: Homer says to Marge in reference to Patty: "Why are you bringing this thing?" and then Homer says later on "I'll have you know that urination in a privately-owned merry-go-round is not public urination." I love a good piece of technicality wordplay.
  • A weird joke in the episode when Bart and Lisa are trying to find the sum of what their parents owe, there's a book that Kirk Van Houten owns that was called "Protecting The White Male: America's Most Endangered Species" and I'm not sure whether or not that is based and redpilled or if that is cringe and bluepilled. I immediately thought of the usual round of complaints of /pol/ saying "duh white race will be less than 50% within a few years", so there's gotta be that one animator on the staff that KNOWS the way of the truthpill.
4/10. Since this episode was better than usual, mostly because the story is engaging even though the episode is not that funny. AV Club gave it a B+: https://tv.avclub.com/a-well-written-simpsons-gives-the-family-a-satisfying-v-1839914470
 
The Pink Panther said:
  • A weird joke in the episode when Bart and Lisa are trying to find the sum of what their parents owe, there's a book that Kirk Van Houten owns that was called "Protecting The White Male: America's Most Endangered Species" and I'm not sure whether or not that is based and redpilled or if that is cringe and bluepilled. I immediately thought of the usual round of complaints of /pol/ saying "duh white race will be less than 50% within a few years", so there's gotta be that one animator on the staff that KNOWS the way of the truthpill.
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Uh, look, I'll level with you, Mister. This is a prank call that sort of backfired, and I'd like to bail out right now.
 
The Pink Panther said:
  • A weird joke in the episode when Bart and Lisa are trying to find the sum of what their parents owe, there's a book that Kirk Van Houten owns that was called "Protecting The White Male: America's Most Endangered Species" and I'm not sure whether or not that is based and redpilled or if that is cringe and bluepilled. I immediately thought of the usual round of complaints of /pol/ saying "duh white race will be less than 50% within a few years", so there's gotta be that one animator on the staff that KNOWS the way of the truthpill.
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Reminded myself of the Martin Mull specials just now.

EDIT: More!
 
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