The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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ToroidalBoat said:
TIL George Carlin voiced Munchie in that hipie episode.
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He's actually done that a few times. He played Fillmore the Volkswagen in the Cars movies. I seriously miss the days when the Simpsons found clever uses for celebrity cameos than just going "OMG, IT'S THIS CELEBRITY YOU'VE HEARD OF!!!"
A lot of the times they portrayed real people they'd just use impersonators like with George H.W. Bush and his feud with Homer. Or they'd make up completely fictional counterparts like Rainier Wolfcastle or Drederick Tatum.

The Simpsons used to be so fucking clever. Especially when they slipped in little shit your mind might not notice for awhile like Sneed's Feed and Seed (Formerly Chucks) or Bart reaching for 2 cupcakes that look suspiciously like tits.

Now their jokes are about as subtle as an axe to the face. And half as funny.
 
CWCissey said:
That was a Clockwork Orange reference.
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Oh shit, I didn't even spot that. It totally is.
See what I mean? They were fucking clever back then.

I still miss how real Springfield felt. They had landmarks like any other town that almost never get mentioned anymore. Like, when the fuck was the last time they even mentioned Spriengfield Gorge?
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
Oh shit, I didn't even spot that. It totally is.
See what I mean? They were fucking clever back then.

I still miss how real Springfield felt. They had landmarks like any other town that almost never get mentioned anymore. Like, when the fuck was the last time they even mentioned Spriengfield Gorge?
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The Movie or the Family Guy episode I think.
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
Especially when they slipped in little shit your mind might not notice for awhile like Sneed's Feed and Seed (Formerly Chucks) or Bart reaching for 2 cupcakes that look suspiciously like tits.
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CWCissey said:
That was a Clockwork Orange reference.
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I liked the mashed potato circus tent reference to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

(nice slipping in of sneedposting there)
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
He's actually done that a few times. He played Fillmore the Volkswagen in the Cars movies. I seriously miss the days when the Simpsons found clever uses for celebrity cameos than just going "OMG, IT'S THIS CELEBRITY YOU'VE HEARD OF!!!"
A lot of the times they portrayed real people they'd just use impersonators like with George H.W. Bush and his feud with Homer. Or they'd make up completely fictional counterparts like Rainier Wolfcastle or Drederick Tatum.

The Simpsons used to be so fucking clever. Especially when they slipped in little shit your mind might not notice for awhile like Sneed's Feed and Seed (Formerly Chucks) or Bart reaching for 2 cupcakes that look suspiciously like tits.

Now their jokes are about as subtle as an axe to the face. And half as funny.
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I think that's more out of necessity though. There was no way in hell George Bush was gonna appear on the Simpsons, and probably ditto Schwarzenegger or Tyson.
 
Jeff Heaney said:
I think that's more out of necessity though. There was no way in hell George Bush was gonna appear on the Simpsons, and probably ditto Schwarzenegger or Tyson.
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So I guess it's like the case of John K. Getting around their limitations made them more clever, whereas once those limitations are removed the whole thing falls to shit.


CWCissey said:
The Movie or the Family Guy episode I think.
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I didn't watch the crossover when it happened. I knew it would be shit from the get go as both shows have turned to shit so any crossover they do would by default be shit.
And I've intentionally blocked most of the movie from my memory. I just really couldn't see why people thought it was so good, because I found it so lacking in any entertainment value that I've actually gone out of my way to avoid watching it again.
 
Jeff Heaney said:
I think that's more out of necessity though. There was no way in hell George Bush was gonna appear on the Simpsons, and probably ditto Schwarzenegger or Tyson.
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Not to mention, when they did have real celebrity cameos they were often comical in their subtlety or execution, like getting Dustin Hoffman to play a substitute teacher and not making a bug fuss over it, or having Michael Jackson as a guest and crediting him as someone else...not to mention MJ didn't even play MJ in that episode...he played a nutcase at the mental hospital! Other times they'd bring in obscure celebrities like retired athletes such as Johnny Unitas or Joe Frasier, but they'd have like 1-2 lines of dialogue and it wasn't enough to disrupt the plot. The humor was that it was a famous person voicing a cartoon character in a comical, nonsequitir moment.


Hell, even the George Harrison appearance in the B Sharps episode was like this: he merely appears at the party where Homer ignores him to devour brownies, and at the end he drives past and scoffs at their impromptu rooftop performance. It was done subtlety and relevant to the plot, and not hamfisted like the Lisa Goes Gaga episode where the celebrity is the the entire focal point.

ExceptionallyExceptional said:
So I guess it's like the case of John K. Getting around their limitations made them more clever, whereas once those limitations are removed the whole thing falls to shit.
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This is also what killed The Howard Stern Show when it moved to Satellite. The terrestrial radio show was fucking edgy and anti-PC, mainly because they had to strategically craft the show's dialogue to just barely skirt the FCC guidelines. They had edgy content, but their delivery to bypass guidelines was what made it funny. They would invite pornstars as guests, but since they couldn't words like "asshole", they'd refer to the girl's asshole as "fart box". Then once he moved to Sirius and he could use cuss words, the show lost its charm. It just devolved into a bunch of lame celebrity interviews with people like Ellen Degeneres or Amy Schumer. Stern's freedom to use cuss words doesn't mean a thing anymore: it's not edgy or shocking like it was in 1998 or so when he'd bring Jenna Jameson as a guest and ask her about orgasms on a national radio show.
 
Michael Jacks0n said:
Not to mention, when they did have real celebrity cameos they were often comical in their subtlety or execution, like getting Dustin Hoffman to play a substitute teacher and not making a bug fuss over it, or having Michael Jackson as a guest and crediting him as someone else...not to mention MJ didn't even play MJ in that episode...he played a nutcase at the mental hospital! Other times they'd bring in obscure celebrities like retired athletes such as Johnny Unitas or Joe Frasier, but they'd have like 1-2 lines of dialogue and it wasn't enough to disrupt the plot. The humor was that it was a famous person voicing a cartoon character in a comical, nonsequitir moment.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OFV38GIaTSw
Hell, even the George Harrison appearance in the B Sharps episode was like this: he merely appears at the party where Homer ignores him to devour brownies, and at the end he drives past and scoffs at their impromptu rooftop performance. It was done subtlety and relevant to the plot, and not hamfisted like the Lisa Goes Gaga episode where the celebrity is the the entire focal point.



This is also what killed The Howard Stern Show when it moved to Satellite. The terrestrial radio show was fucking edgy and anti-PC, mainly because they had to strategically craft the show's dialogue to just barely skirt the FCC guidelines. They had edgy content, but their delivery to bypass guidelines was what made it funny. They would invite pornstars as guests, but since they couldn't words like "asshole", they'd refer to the girl's asshole as "fart box". Then once he moved to Sirius and he could use cuss words, the show lost its charm. It just devolved into a bunch of lame celebrity interviews with people like Ellen Degeneres or Amy Schumer. Stern's freedom to use cuss words doesn't mean a thing anymore: it's not edgy or shocking like it was in 1998 or so when he'd bring Jenna Jameson as a guest and ask her about orgasms on a national radio show.
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Gotta agree on Stern. He really bacame unfunny after he was free of the FCC.
Saying "I fucked her in the ass" isn't funny. Saying "I pud punched her in the poopchute" is fucking hilarious.
 
Michael Jacks0n said:
Not to mention, when they did have real celebrity cameos they were often comical in their subtlety or execution, like getting Dustin Hoffman to play a substitute teacher and not making a bug fuss over it, or having Michael Jackson as a guest and crediting him as someone else...not to mention MJ didn't even play MJ in that episode...he played a nutcase at the mental hospital! Other times they'd bring in obscure celebrities like retired athletes such as Johnny Unitas or Joe Frasier, but they'd have like 1-2 lines of dialogue and it wasn't enough to disrupt the plot. The humor was that it was a famous person voicing a cartoon character in a comical, nonsequitir moment.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OFV38GIaTSw
Hell, even the George Harrison appearance in the B Sharps episode was like this: he merely appears at the party where Homer ignores him to devour brownies, and at the end he drives past and scoffs at their impromptu rooftop performance. It was done subtlety and relevant to the plot, and not hamfisted like the Lisa Goes Gaga episode where the celebrity is the the entire focal point.



This is also what killed The Howard Stern Show when it moved to Satellite. The terrestrial radio show was fucking edgy and anti-PC, mainly because they had to strategically craft the show's dialogue to just barely skirt the FCC guidelines. They had edgy content, but their delivery to bypass guidelines was what made it funny. They would invite pornstars as guests, but since they couldn't words like "asshole", they'd refer to the girl's asshole as "fart box". Then once he moved to Sirius and he could use cuss words, the show lost its charm. It just devolved into a bunch of lame celebrity interviews with people like Ellen Degeneres or Amy Schumer. Stern's freedom to use cuss words doesn't mean a thing anymore: it's not edgy or shocking like it was in 1998 or so when he'd bring Jenna Jameson as a guest and ask her about orgasms on a national radio show.
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Don't forget Linda Ronstadt in Mr. Plow. That was hilarious because Barney used her purely to shit talk Homer's business, not to mention how inexplicable it is that a fat lazy drunk managed to get a superstar singer in his advertisement for his small plow business.
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
Oh shit, I didn't even spot that. It totally is.
See what I mean? They were fucking clever back then.

I still miss how real Springfield felt. They had landmarks like any other town that almost never get mentioned anymore. Like, when the fuck was the last time they even mentioned Spriengfield Gorge?
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Now they scream at your face how much it's a shithole.
 
imagine how much more beloved the simpsons would be if they were put to rest back in 1999? or even 2017, instead they're going to keep going despite more and more of the voice actors being replaced or dying off. Say what you will about Family Guy, the left hasn't gone after them for any of their bullshit (outside of cleveland brown, and i personally hope Seth kills him off instead) 20 years is pretty much the near max for this type of program.
 
2020Suicide said:
imagine how much more beloved the simpsons would be if they were put to rest back in 1999? or even 2017, instead they're going to keep going despite more and more of the voice actors being replaced or dying off. Say what you will about Family Guy, the left hasn't gone after them for any of their bullshit (outside of cleveland brown, and i personally hope Seth kills him off instead) 20 years is pretty much the near max for this type of program.
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Only autists really seem to hate FG
 
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