The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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ToroidalBoat said:
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now, what
I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. And it'll happen to you too..."
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What's IT now genuinely sucks though, we can all agree about that surely?
 
CWCissey said:
And good shit from my childhood 'reimagined for a new generation'
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Do they edit out "problematic" lyrics?

I heard the quality of music took a big plunge when smartphones became mainstream (by the early 2010s). I imagine the quality of the Simpsons also took a sharp decline around then too. The show already sucked by then, but it likely sucked far worse after.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Do they edit out "problematic" lyrics?

I heard the quality of music took a huge plunge when smartphones became mainstream (by the early 2010s). I imagine the quality of the Simpsons also took a sharp decline around then as well. The show already sucked by then, but it likely sucked far worse after.
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Depends on the lyric really.

The best stuff is not really on the radio if I'm honest, and it's a damn shame there aren't more bands that play a fuckin' instrument encouraging kids to pick one up themselves.

Instead we have shitty people spewing their shitty opinions over a computer generated beat and stabbing eachother.
 
Speaking of tech, it sounds like Zombie Simpsons is a technophile show now, judging from that Elon Musk appearance. The old show would poke fun at technology. Is the show even satire anymore?

CWCissey said:
people spewing their shitty opinions over a computer generated beat and stabbing eachother
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wat

(There's even music generated entirely by AI now.)
 
ToroidalBoat said:
And that's despite being made to watch The Happy Little Elves.


There was the "Butt-Head Memorial Auditorium" the kids named.

Remember when the show would make fun of Ren and Stimpy?
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I do!
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CWCissey said:
Homerpalooza was on the other day and now I'm horrified that at this point, the kids would have been bitching about Homer playing the bands that appeared as guests in that episode.
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I wonder where that puts Grand Funk Railroad right now, Grandpa Simpson's generation?
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Speaking of tech, it sounds like Zombie Simpsons is a technophile show now, judging from that Elon Musk appearance. The old show would poke fun at technology. Is the show even satire anymore?
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I'd say so. The increased use of technology, coupled with the show's own production being computerized on both the animation and musical fronts would make it count as a technophile show.

As for satire? Closest we're going to get are the barely changed names like Mapple or Funtendo. Something they parodied back in Season 8.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
I had originally assumed a creepy boy hit on her after she got braces and thus she was being fetishized, but according to wikipedia her classmates just liked her more because the braces made her smile. And, as we all know, there's nothing more misogynistic than a smiling woman.
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Being happy is problematic.
 
www.indiewire.com

Hank Azaria Will No Longer Voice Apu on ‘The Simpsons’ — Report

The immigrant Kwik-E-Mart proprietor has been a source of controversy on the Fox series for decades.
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While no official statement from the series and its representatives has emerged so far, “The Simpsons” voice actor Hank Azaria has revealed in a new interview with /Film that he will no longer voice Apu, the Indian immigrant proprietor of the Kwik-E-Mart on the beloved animated show. In the interview, which took place during the ongoing TCA tour in Southern California, Azaria said, “I won’t be doing the voice anymore, unless there’s some way to transition it or something…What they’re going to do with the character is their call,” referring to the series’ creative team that includes executive producers Matt Groening and James L. Brooks. “It’s up to them and they haven’t sorted it out yet. All we’ve agreed on is I won’t do the voice anymore.”

Azaria has contributed voice work to the series since it began in 1989, and his character has been a source of controversy for decades. In 2017, comedian Hari Kondabolu released the documentary film “The Problem with Apu,” which outlined how audiences of South Asian descent perceived Apu as one of their sole sources of representation on TV — for better or worse. After the movie was released, Hank Azaria said on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” that he was open to the idea of no longer voicing the character.

“I think the most important thing is to listen to Indian people and their experience with it,” Azaria said at the time. “I really want to see Indian, South Asian writers in the writers room…including how [Apu] is voiced or not voiced. I’m perfectly willing to step aside. It just feels like the right thing to do to me…The idea that anyone young or old, past or present, being bullied based on Apu really makes me sad. It certainly was not my intention. I wanted to bring joy and laughter to people.”

In a 2018 episode of “The Simpsons,” writers on the series addressed the controversy in a scene where Lisa looks at a framed picture of Apu and says, “Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can you do?”

Now, according to Azaria, the decision to stop voicing Apu on the series, which has been on TV for 31 years, was a mutual one. “We all made the decision together,” Azaria told /Film during the TCA tour. “We all agreed on it. We all feel like it’s the right thing and good about it.”

In a May 2018 USA Today interview, Groening said, “I’m proud of what we do on the show. And I think it’s a time in our culture where people love to pretend they’re offended.” The exact future of the character, and whether he will remain in the show, remains to be seen.

IndieWire has reached out to Fox for comment.
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Gordon Cole said:
www.indiewire.com

Hank Azaria Will No Longer Voice Apu on ‘The Simpsons’ — Report

The immigrant Kwik-E-Mart proprietor has been a source of controversy on the Fox series for decades.
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The comedian (or "comedian") responds https://twitter.com/harikondabolu/status/1218243117197025280
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It's pretty pathetic that Azaria and pals ended up throwing in the towel after initially telling him off and also doing it three years later when people care even less about The Simpsons than they did then and that documentary has essentially been forgotten about
 
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