The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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TowinKarz said:
That's kinda why I bailed at that point, when the celebrity cameos start to flood in and the jokes turn away from "funny" to "LOOK! pop culture relevence!", that's a big ol' JUMPED THE SHARK neon sign lighting up. Like, when Bart fraudulenty joins the Big Brother program when Homer is too lazy to be a Dad, they at least created a generic character to pair him up with. After 2000, they'd have just paired him up with Hootie and the Blowfish..... just because.

Well, enough griping, more fond memories:


-There's William Henry Harrison

I died in thirty days!
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Good points, the 200th episode didn't aged well. They should had used a better plotline then "Trash of the Titans" to celebrate the 200th episode.
 
Eh, but even so, Trash of the Titans reeked of zombie Simpsons: pointless celebrity cameos, absurd/surreal premise, and of course "Jerkass Homer."
 
Krusty Gets Kancelled is the RIGHT way to use celeb cameos... if you must: when they make sense to the plot, however tenuously. Like Homer at the Bat's premise to get then-Major League players in the episode because Mr. Burns hired them as ringers to win an important company ball game.

Absurd? Perhaps, but since they were there to take just as much abuse as a "regular" person, especially in the way they get knocked out one-by-one the night before the big game, the result is hilarity in itself, not groaning to "Oh come on, stop the forced dialogue about what a big fan you are, just get on with it already".

Smithers- "I have some bad news Sir, Mike Scoscia isn't expected to survive the night, Steve Sax is facing several counts of murder, and Ozzie Smith has just....... disappeared"

Ozzie - "Waaaaaaaaaaaaauuuughghhhhhgh! Oh, cool! *snaps photo* Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaughghghghgh!!!!!!"



Just cramming them in for "Look how hip we are, fellow kids!" forced-relevancy is jarring, and it's also blatant pandering when they won't even make fun of them, and the show's overall decline in humor makes it worse as there isn't even a good joke to pave it over. I.E. - London Symphony Orchestra? Someone here ordered the London Symphony Orchestra, possibly while high.... Cypress Hill, I"m looking in YOUR direction....."

There's a reason that in Bart Gets an Elephant, they threatened the DJ's with being replaced by a machine instead of name-dropping Rush Limbaugh (which would have arguably still been funny) let alone a voiced cameo (which wouldn't have). The joke about the machine providing "three kinds of inane chatter"


How's that weather for ya?

Well hot dog! We have a wiener!

Hey hey hey , it looks like those clowns in congress did it again......

was funny enough that they didn't need to "spice it up".



To me, all domestic comedy, but especially animated comedy, took a real sharp decline in the last years of the 20th Century as the idea of humor shifted away from "thinking" jokes or even slapstick and became more about "Look at how STUPID and RANDOM we are! Isn't that funny?" stuff. Something I called "Bro Humor", jokes that could only be made and laughed at, by drunken frat boys.

No, being stupid and random isn't a joke, it's being stupid and random. It can be funny, but like watching a guy shit his pants, it doesn't stay funny.

The original Family Guy started out pretty funny, but eventually devolved into self-referential running gags and "LOLRANDOM AND "PISS!" AH HA HA HA" and that's when I kinda gave up on "new" animated comedy and just watched old episodes of The Critic with a tear in my eye instead, as that kind of Fratboy bro-humor "comedy" came to dominate the landscape.
 
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TowinKarz said:
To me, all domestic comedy, but especially animated comedy, took a real sharp decline in the last years of the 20th Century
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They really have. Look at Family Guy. The first few seasons of that show were absolutely great. They were definitely "edgier" than the Simpsons, but they weren't as "OMG, ISN'T THAT OFFENSIVE/RANDOM/WHACKY??! LAUGH! LAUGH PLEASE GOD LAUGH!" as they are today. And that show went downhill way faster than the Simpsons, and in a way I blame them for some of my least favorite Simpsons episodes. Take, for instance, the episode What Animated Women Want, an episode which I fucking despise because it just felt like they were trying to be Family Guy edgy by having Homer building a BDSM dungeon in his garage because 50 Shades of Grey was the topic of the month.
It also had the Marge is a Nagging Bitch and Homer is a Neglectful Jerkass shtick going, as well as having Millhouse act like a dick to Lisa which for some reason makes her like him? It also decided to have Wanda Sykes on, for some goddamn fucking reason.
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
Homer building a BDSM dungeon in his garage because 50 Shades of Grey was the topic of the month.
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Holy fucking shit.

I've been meaning to watch this one for a while, but I've never heard of the premise beyond it being "another really bad marriage crisis episode" and then seeing it on a few bottom 20's, but now I'm intrigued. How the fuck can they do this in a PG show anyway?
 
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This thread has become the Hans Moleman quote thread...




Lesbians? This isn't my army reunion!


You're coming home with me!

Yes colonel.
 
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