The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Jewelsmakerguy said:
Wasn't Sneed in the era that bordered on Zombie-era?
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Yes, definitely, but I think that's part of the irony in the meme. Although Simpsons shitposting is a unique art that mainly only consists of material from the Golden Era, what separates Sneedposting is that it's almost like ironic, satirical Simpsons shitposting that makes a mockery of the whole thing in general. Whereas basic Simpsons shitposting has some artistic merit to it, Sneedposting is like a low-effort parody of something that's already a parody to begin with. Zombie era is forgettable, but the fun of Sneedposting is that Sneed and Chuck are completely stupid, inane 1-dimensional characters who contribute next to nothing in the entire Simpsons canon...and that in itself is what makes them unique to play around with.

It's almost like Porkins in Star Wars: he was a useless character in the original film who had a handful of lines of dialogue and then dies, but he has his own following in the fandom due to the absurdity of his character, and to a lesser extent his name and how his actor was obese.

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Pickle Dick said:
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) from the 11th season, episode 5

yeah it came out around the time the series was getting knees-deep into garbage, i dont hate the episode itself though, it was alright for what it was
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The 11th season is often seen as the silver age of the series. The early 90s heyday is over but the worst of the worst was still just over the horizon. The three major problems people have with episodes around this time being episodes that are just bland and boring, episodes that stray too far from reality even for the simpsons (the computer wore menace shoes, saddlesore galactica being the most infamous example) or episodes that tried to be shocking and keep up with the likes of south park and family guy (homer vs dignity) between all the "naked and smelling of panda love" and jockey elves you could still see glimmers of the old show here and there.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Wasn't Sneed in the era that bordered on Zombie-era?
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Sneed was from the Silver Age (Seasons 10-13) and I actually like that era.

If there's a "Border Age" where you're past the Golden Age and the Silver Age, it'd be the early-mid 2000's or around Seasons 14-16 where the episodes are mostly boring or mildly bad but you still have the occasional good episode.

Then everything past the movie is pure Zombie Simpsons.
 
Syaoran Li said:
If there's a "Border Age" where you're past the Golden Age and the Silver Age, it'd be the early-mid 2000's or around Seasons 14-16 where the episodes are mostly boring or mildly bad but you still have the occasional good episode.
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I watched these episodes when they were still new since it was like a family tradition, but I remember finding myself laughing less and less at them, or just being plain apathetic towards watching them. In Golden Era episodes, if I missed one I'd be devastated, whereas with these "Silver Age" ones I'd forget they were even on TV, and I'd only watch like half of them before changing the channel. I binged a bunch of the Silver Age ones fairly recently and found them all to be downright terrible and not even watchable. Meanwhile the Golden Era episodes still make me laugh to this very day.
 
Michael Jacks0n said:
I watched these episodes when they were still new since it was like a family tradition, but I remember finding myself laughing less and less at them, or just being plain apathetic towards watching them. In Golden Era episodes, if I missed one I'd be devastated, whereas with these "Silver Age" ones I'd forget they were even on TV, and I'd only watch like half of them before changing the channel. I binged a bunch of the Silver Age ones fairly recently and found them all to be downright terrible and not even watchable. Meanwhile the Golden Era episodes still make me laugh to this very day.
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Kinda the same for me. Way back you couldn't fucking pay me to miss an episode of The Simpsons. Then it became a case of catching it if it happened to be on when I flicked over the channel. Nowadays if I see an episode that has the new animation I change the fucking channel.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
God, did I hate Sadgasm. That was the moment I gave up on Simpsons. It wasn't just making unfunny episodes which I can forgive; it retconned good Simpsons episodes in the process. Especially since comedy cartoons don't give a damn about continuity anyways.
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It wasn't my breaking point, but that episode was the first one I ever watched that I found to have almost no redeeming qualities. By the time the Snuggle Dungeon came along I was fucking done.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
God, did I hate Sadgasm. That was the moment I gave up on Simpsons. It wasn't just making unfunny episodes which I can forgive; it retconned good Simpsons episodes in the process. Especially since comedy cartoons don't give a damn about continuity anyways.
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I watched the episode before I started deep-diving into the older material so I had never seen any of the classic flashback episodes. At the time I thought it was funny (lack of any frame of reference was to blame; I still didn't know how much funnier the classic era was) and I didn't understand why people were so angry.

Then when I started watching the older stuff, I quickly realized why a lot of people were justifiably upset. That '90s Show essentially tried to erase some of the show's most famous heartwarming moments for the sake of establishing some mangled floating timeline, where Bart and Lisa are eternally children so their birthdates are moved farther along. It would have been better to have just never brought those weird incongruities up at all. Plus the show already did a much better satire of the 90s by sheer virtue of the fact it existed all throughout the decade during its golden years.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
God, did I hate Sadgasm. That was the moment I gave up on Simpsons. It wasn't just making unfunny episodes which I can forgive; it retconned good Simpsons episodes in the process. Especially since comedy cartoons don't give a damn about continuity anyways.
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eh at least negative xp was able to get a good song out of it, then again he turned so need a cute girl into gold just by having it be actual music instead of chris' screeching over his backstreetboys cd.


anyway season 18 really should have been the shows final one. It was irrc the last season made before the movie and "you kent always say what you want" was written to be something of a finale, (so hence why there's a big forth wall break towards the end) Its also funny how in the time since it was made, the subject matter it was meant to satirize don Imus has up and died, further proof the Simpsons will outlive us all it seems
 
HOMЯ came out 20 years ago today, it seems to be one of more liked post-Season 9 episodes according to IMDb (8.1). I haven't watched much of it beyond the stocks sequence and Homer having Moe sticking a crayon up his nose, what do you fellow simps fans think of the episode?
 
Pickle Dick said:
HOMЯ came out 20 years ago today, it seems to be one of more liked post-Season 9 episodes according to IMDb (8.1). I haven't watched much of it beyond the stocks sequence and Homer having Moe sticking a crayon up his nose, what do you fellow simps fans think of the episode?
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It suffers from Grinch syndrome. Homer should just be a well-meaning dumbarse, there's no need for a backstory.
 
Pickle Dick said:
HOMЯ came out 20 years ago today, it seems to be one of more liked post-Season 9 episodes according to IMDb (8.1). I haven't watched much of it beyond the stocks sequence and Homer having Moe sticking a crayon up his nose, what do you fellow simps fans think of the episode?
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I was fine with it. Simpsons decline was a very slow process and it was easy to fall into the trap of zombie Simpsons/Family Guy/whatever the fuck Fox Animation Domination show is on now because of how slow the quality dropped. As long as it didn't fuck with previous episodes, I could watch it without complaints. Which is why I hate that Sadgasm episode so much; it fucked up a much better episode for no good reason.
 
Back then it was easy to make a Dancing Jesus gif on The Simpsons since no one batted an eye. Though, in this day and age, I’d wonder if someone made a Dancing Muhammad.
 
Pickle Dick said:
HOMЯ came out 20 years ago today, it seems to be one of more liked post-Season 9 episodes according to IMDb (8.1). I haven't watched much of it beyond the stocks sequence and Homer having Moe sticking a crayon up his nose, what do you fellow simps fans think of the episode?
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I like it. It's got some good gags like the fact that Homer having an IQ of 105 makes him one of the smartest men in Springfield, and his relationship with Lisa's handled real well. It's one of those episodes that show that The Simpsons didn't start to completely suck right after its golden years.
 
Pickle Dick said:
HOMЯ came out 20 years ago today, it seems to be one of more liked post-Season 9 episodes according to IMDb (8.1). I haven't watched much of it beyond the stocks sequence and Homer having Moe sticking a crayon up his nose, what do you fellow simps fans think of the episode?
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I know this is going to piss off some of the other people, but frankly I fucking hated that episode. Besides the whole "explanation for the sake of explanation" shit, it tries to do the whole cynical worldview thing that the series has generally done well (especially Homer's Enemy). Problem is, whereas past episodes say "Yeah, youpeople suffer, but so do we, so at least we're suffering together", there's an air of elitism to HOMR; it tries to say a "profound" message about intelligent people not finding happiness, but without even going into how self-defeating and backwards such a message is (sorry to be a moralfag, but that's just how I see it), all I get out of it is Al Jean (who wrote the episode) thinks he and his douchebag Hollywood elite are smarter and better than the "uneducated" riff-raff.

Frankly, it should've been a warning to viewers of the show's abandonment of speaking for the people for the sake of sucking off the liberal elite, and the fact that it won an Emmy just proves it, considering there were other nominees in the same category I feel deserved it more. I have other nitpicks about the episode, but I'm already inviting "Autistic" and "Mad at the Internet" reactions just by saying this, so I'll just say my piece and tell you this: HOMR is overrated dogshit and, to me at least, a sign that the episodes under Al Jean's leadership would be no better than what Mike Scully did, something that's very evident just looking up opinions online.
 
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