The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Mr. Awesome Man said:
I think everyone on Earth will die before The Simpsons,
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ToroidalBoat said:
What if humans go extinct, but they leave behind an AI that still makes new Zombie Simpsons episodes until the machine loses power?
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Well, with AI and deepfake technology, maybe this could be a reality. Humanity dies, and computers still generate AI Simpsons episodes using audio from previous episodes, like those deepfake audio videos of JFK reading the Navy Seal copypasta. Wow, talk about dystopian.
 
Michael Jacks0n said:
Well, with AI and deepfake technology, maybe this could be a reality. Humanity dies, and computers still generate AI Simpsons episodes using audio from previous episodes, like those deepfake audio videos of JFK reading the Navy Seal copypasta. Wow, talk about dystopian.
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There Will Come Steamed Hams
 
Zaryiu said:
Here's a game:
Name or describe off the top of your hewd : The most disgusting episode (can be a ToH segment or episode IF there is a consensus it is worthy of being counted alongside normal episode, bonus if it was was played straight) and not necessarily because of how angry it made you
A moment in the show you shed at least one tear
An episode that pissed you off based on it's that pissed you off

I'll go first: The Treehouse of hour where Homer performs auto-cannibalist (not the one where is head becomes a donut, the one where Homer accidentally cut a finger off which falls off on the grill which leads him to eat more and of his parts and this is played without a joke)
When Homer's mom has to run away the first time she was in the show
The sequel to Camp Krusty
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Most disgusting episode: Last Tap Dance in Springfield, just for the parts where it shows Homer's eyes completely crusted over after getting LASIK. Don't know why but that just turns my stomach to the point I can't watch those scenes.

Moment that made me shed a tear: No episode has made me full out cry, but the ending of Mother Simpson where Homer has to say goodbye to his mom and the final scene just shows him sitting on the hood of his car staring out into the night really hit me in the feels. Tied would be Lisa's last conversation with Mr. Bergstrom in Lisa's Substitute.

Moment that made me angry: Not angry, but Lisa Goes Gaga was the last episode I watched that just made me irritated with how bad the show had gotten.
 
The Simpsons is older than streetfighter 2 at this point and they had to move up the birthdates for characters because Ryu, Chung-Li, and Ken were all born in the 60's and 70's originally.
 
Zaryiu said:
Name or describe off the top of your hewd : The most disgusting episode (can be a ToH segment or episode IF there is a consensus it is worthy of being counted alongside normal episode, bonus if it was was played straight) and not necessarily because of how angry it made you
A moment in the show you shed at least one tear
An episode that pissed you off based on it's that pissed you off
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  1. That episode when Homer was literally raped by a panda, and it was played off for laughs. That episode in general was overall disgusting and sick.
  2. Season 2 when Bart gets an F. I cried a bit towards the end when Mrs. Krabapple graded his test for the last time and gave him an F, and Bart started to cry before she realized she marked something incorrectly, and instead passed him with a D-. I watched that show when I was a kid and was struggling in school at the time, and back in those days my parents would verbally/physically punish me for getting bad grades. When Bart failed his test and started crying, I felt that in real life and started to get watery-eyed myself.
  3. Insane Clown Poppy's intro is the epitome of Jerkass Homer. It starts with him and Bart using fireworks to destroy things around the house, including Lisa's VCR and Santa's Little Helper's dog house.
 
Zaryiu said:
Here's a game:
Name or describe off the top of your hewd : The most disgusting episode (can be a ToH segment or episode IF there is a consensus it is worthy of being counted alongside normal episode, bonus if it was was played straight) and not necessarily because of how angry it made you
A moment in the show you shed at least one tear
An episode that pissed you off based on it's that pissed you off
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1. The Lard of the Dance has this one gag where Homer got his face sucked in a hose, causing his eye to bulge grotesequely. I've got a strong stomach, so not a lot bothers me but anything to do with eyes grosses me out.

2. Probably a little cliche, but I love the ending of And Maggie Makes Three. Doesn't make me cry, but it does melt my cold little heart.

3. In the Na'vi, a parody of Avatar in Treehouse of Horror XXII. Firstly, it was an Avatar parody that came years late. Avatar was old news by 2011 so it felt very much like the show was trying and failing to be hip. Second and more importantly was that Avatar isn't a horror movie so it was an incredibly poor fit for Treehouse of Horror. That was the moment I realized modern Simpsons wasn't worth my time.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
they had to move up the birthdates for characters
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I think The Simpsons does what's called a "floating timeline" now. But if they do that, is Skinner still a Vietnam vet, or does the "floating timeline" thing apply to him too? Gulf War vet?

Eh whatever, my "headcanon" only goes up to Season 10 (and Zombie Simps is another show), keeping The Simpsons a 1990s thing to me.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I think The Simpsons does what's called a "floating timeline" now. But if they do that, is Skinner still a Vietnam vet, or does the "floating timeline" thing apply to him too? Gulf War vet?
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Exactly. If Skinner were a Vietnam vet, he'd be pushing 70 now, unless he forged his birth certificate to serve in the war prior to being 17.

The thing about the floating timeline is that no matter what, they always portray Homer and Marge going to prom in the 1970s, which makes no fucking sense. They've already retconned Homer and Marge to being Gen-X grunges in the 1990s (seriously, what the fuck), but in Zombie Simpsons they still show them at a high school dance where everyone has afros and bell bottoms.
 
Marissa Moira said:
The Simpsons is older than streetfighter 2 at this point and they had to move up the birthdates for characters because Ryu, Chung-Li, and Ken were all born in the 60's and 70's originally.
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Street Fighter just doesn't list birthyears anymore. Especially since it's canon that SF3 happens at the turn of the millenium but we're way past 2000.
 
Michael Jacks0n said:
Bart started to cry before she realized she marked something incorrectly, and instead passed him with a D-
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Bart got that extra point by demonstrating applied knowledge during his tearful rant about how he actually studied this time. Pure sitcom cheese that has a sincerity that doesn't exist in popular culture any more.
 
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Bart got that extra point by demonstrating applied knowledge during his tearful rant about how he actually studied this time. Pure sitcom cheese that has a sincerity that doesn't exist in popular culture any more.
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It's so weird how realistic and emotional the show was without being preachy. It was edgy and emotional at the same time. The Simpsons was an amazing show in its early days because it destroyed the societal norms for traditional American sitcoms. It wasn't zany and slapstick with laugh track, and they managed to tackle real adult subjects with the use of crude, multicolored cartoon characters. When you watch Bart struggle to study in school and nearly have a mental breakdown over his lack of success, it really hits home. The writers then manage to polish it off with humor by having Bart kiss his teacher and then realizing how gross it is.
 
Am I the only one who remembers this?
The spot itself is pretty sweet but them sucking down on Coca Cola at the Superbowl was a foreboding sign.
 
UnKillFill said:
I never knew that the Simpsons did a ripoff of "Run Lola Run," But tonight I watched S12E18 "Trilogy of Error." It aired after I stopped regularly watching the Simpsons, and so this was my first time seeing this episode. (Tbh if I *had* seen it new, I wouldn't have gotten the reference. haha)
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That's one of the best post-season 8 Simpsons episodes, next to Behind The Laughter.

It gives off a false impression that this is the standard of quality that the Simpsons is at during those seasons, which sadly, it's not, but the BTS behind the episode was very interesting. Writer Matt Selman had all of the events in the episode planned and MAPPED out for weeks ahead of time before pitching the episode so the writing feels very compelling and very organic despite its manic structure. The advantage of having a great story allows the jokes and more time to be focused on telling great jokes since the story was already prepared. It's a very unique episode and it's one of few episodes that I'd recommend from that time period.
 
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