The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Michael Jacks0n said:
Oh god, let's not give them any ideas.
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They already did that.

There was one episode made like two years after bitcoin first became a mainstream word where Krusty I think, bemoans that he lost all his money buying Bitcoin. This was right when boomers started thinking crypto was dead, just another silly flash in the pan idea.

Then like two years later that massive bitcoin price spike hit and all of a sudden bitcoin and crypto was back in the public eye again.

A joke became dated in less than five years.

I only heard about this second hand, never saw the episode in question. Just remember laughing at how out of touch the writers were.
 
Michael Jacks0n said:
Yeah, this joke in particular always irritated me. Sure, Futurama writers couldn't see 1,000 years into the future, but they just shoehorned in a then-contemporary gag into a show that was set in the 31st century. The joke was that investing a penny into an internet business was a waste of money, as their stock was supposedly worth nothing. Surprise surprise, Amazon shares have been some of the most valuable stock in recent years. Currently a share of Amazon stock sells for over $2,000.
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I wanna say that episode predicted trumpbux but actually it was based on a similar stimulus package that everyone forgot about because of 9/11 bush couldn't buy reelection with money so he used fear
 
Syaoran Li said:
I'll be honest, I'd love to see more Simpsons video games, preferably with the high quality of Hit & Run as opposed to the cheapo cash-ins like Simpsons Skateboarding.

However, if I was in charge of a new AAA Simpsons game, I'd touch up on the wider "lore" of The Simpsons.

You could do a Treehouse of Horror game that's done in a survival horror style, or something like a WWII FPS parody based on the Flying Hellfish where you play as a young Abe Simpson.

Hell, I'd even have a framing device of Granpda telling war stories, so you could start out as a straight-up Medal of Honor style FPS but as it goes along, it becomes a zany Wolfenstein 3D-esque game with zombies, mutants, Nazi super-science, and gathering treasure and relics to add in the Hellfish Bonanza, with the implication being the later levels are so bugfuck insane because Grandpa is senile and rambling on with his war stories that don't go anywhere.

Another idea could be a stealth game in the style of Metal Gear Solid 3 with Seymour Skinner in 'Nam or you could do a Jebediah Springfield game that's sort of like the Red Dead Redemption to Simpsons Hit & Run's Grand Theft Auto.
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All of these sound like more fun than anything I've played in the last 4 years. At least with a Simpsons setting, you KNOW you're going into Clown World, USA.
 
Moe: Well, if Mr. X were here right now. I'd buy him a tall frosty beer.

Homer: Hey, Moe. Can you keep a secret?

Moe: No.

Homer: Not even a little one?

Moe: No!

Homer: What if I just whisper it?

Moe: No, I tells ya!
 
this person is legally blind.
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TowinKarz said:
It certainly won't make sense 40 years down the road to anyone who wasn't "there" to see the .com implosion firsthand.

Whereas the "escalator to nowhere" joke is immortal.
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Hitting the nail on the head why old Simpsons jokes about the internet and everything else are still relevant today while all the new stuff falls flat; the old jokes are timeless and can still be applied to today's world. Homer mocking the obsessive Itchy and Scratchy nerd will always be funny because nerdy manchildren have always complained about childrens cartoons and they'll continue to do so in the future, same with the Internet King plotline, there will always be trendy tech start-ups run by idiots who don't know the first thing about computers or the internet and survive solely on marketing and hype. The one episode where Homer got fatter to work at home has some computer jokes, but they're all based around Homers stupidity and laziness where he has a dunking bird hit the "y" key over and over again so he can slack off and almost causes the plant to blow up and kill everyone in town as a result. The point of the jokes aren't "computers are strange and silly weirdos use them" its "Homers is the same lazy idiot he always was at the Nuclear Power Plant".

Same thing with their political jokes, Kang saying that voting third-party is "throwing your vote away" will always be relevant or Burns campaign for governor where carefully staged photo-ops, smear tactics, and whatever other trickery the candidates advisors come up with are still going to be critical of the American election process even 100 years in the future. They were making fun of universal ideas not fleeting trends like the newer episodes.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
Posting the gag they're talking about for posterity's sake.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WlRV6yxZUSQ
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This gag at least was less cringy than what the heck was that.
Member when the Simpsons mocked pop culture instead of sucking dry its dick?
However, there are hidden gems in the couch gags like this:
Maybe is too edgy but I don't care, nothing can't pozz the Simpsons harder than the writers and Fox do, so who cares? At least this one had effort behind.
 
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Still rewatching old episodes, just got the the one where Homer and his mom reunite and are again torn apart. That ending was legit one of the saddest things I've ever watched on TV in my life. Used to be this show could hit you right in the feels with the force of a charging bison, now it just induces eyerolls whenever it tries.
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
Still rewatching old episodes, just got the the one where Homer and his mom reunite and are again torn apart. That ending was legit one of the saddest things I've ever watched on TV in my life. Used to be this show could hit you right in the feels with the force of a charging bison, now it just induces eyerolls whenever it tries.
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I rewatched Lisa's First Word the other day, and that ending with Maggie going, "Daddy" just melts my heart. That one is also special to me because it's such an unexpected turn on the running gag where all the other kids say, "Homer." It takes a funny joke and replaces the punchline with something genuinely emotional.

It's amazing how effortless the show was in inducing those kinds of emotions.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
I rewatched Lisa's First Word the other day, and that ending with Maggie going, "Daddy" just melts my heart. That one is also special to me because it's such an unexpected turn on the running gag where all the other kids say, "Homer." It takes a funny joke and replaces the punchline with something genuinely emotional.

It's amazing how effortless the show was in inducing those kinds of emotions.
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The episodes going back to the kid's early childhoods were always great. Let's not forget this little gem that shows us that Homer used to be a good father.
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ExceptionallyExceptional said:
The episodes going back to the kid's early childhoods were always great. Let's not forget this little gem that shows us that Homer used to be a good father.
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This is like the Ur example for me because it's probably the first time I got choked up watching a television show (though come to think of it The Simpsons is probably the only show to do that to me).
 
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