The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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ToroidalBoat said:
hey @Syaoran Li

What's your favorite radio station good Simpsons episode?
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That's honestly a tough question.

Honestly, I'll pick one for each season. Of course, the seasons will be largely limited to the Golden Age (Seasons 1-8.) and the Silver Age (Seasons 9-12) but I'll also include some from the post-Silver Age but pre-movie seasons since IMO, "Zombie Simpsons" doesn't truly set in until around the movie and the HD seasons.

Season 1: Some Enchanted Evening
Season 2: Three Men and a Comic Book
Season 3: Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
Season 4: Marge vs. The Monorail
Season 5: Boy-Scoutz in the Hood
Season 6: Homer Badman
Season 7: Bart on the Road
Season 8: The Springfield Files
Season 9: The Cartridge Family
Season 10: Mom and Pop Art
Season 11: The Mansion Family
Season 12: The Great Money Caper
Season 13: The Lastest Gun In The West
Season 14: Helter Shelter
Season 15: Margical History Tour
Season 16: Midnight Rx
Season 17: The Italian Bob
 
For me it had to be "You only move twice"
The jokes were all pretty solid and most have aged well enough. And Hank Scorpio was just the goddamn best. There's a good reason they ended up not using him as a villain in the movie, and it's because he was far too amicable and likable. Would have been too hard to make him a proper villain in the eyes of the fanbase.
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
For me it had to be "You only move twice"
The jokes were all pretty solid and most have aged well enough. And Hank Scorpio was just the goddamn best. There's a good reason they ended up not using him as a villain in the movie, and it's because he was far too amicable and likable. Would have been too hard to make him a proper villain in the eyes of the fanbase.
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I love the episode even more since I've become a James Bond fan.

Syaoran Li said:
@ToroidalBoat

What would be your favorite Treehouse of Horror episodes?
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I know you weren't addressing me, but my favorites are II, III, V, VIII, X, XIX and XXIV and my absolute favorites are II, III, V and X.
 
Cape Feare is honestly my favourite even though I totally admit there are simpsons episodes that are more moving/tackle more meaty subject matter, but it has to be the funniest. It's to me the quintessential example of how densely packed with great jokes the classic episodes are. Homer Badman a close second; its satire of manufactured media outrage is still so spot-on 27 years later.
Even though it's a season 5 episode technically it was a holdover from season 4, and for many of the original writing team, the last episode they worked on. it does have a very end-of-term feel just on how wacky the episode generally is, not to mention the timeless time-filling exercise of sideshow bob being hit by rakes for 30 seconds

*THWACK* nnhherrurrerreruh
 
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The Simpsons' lifestyle is unattainable, confirming the American Dream is dead

When The Simpsons first hit televisions back in 1989, they were meant to embody most Americans’ notions of typical suburban family: the dad with a working class job, the homemaker wife, three kids, a cat, a dog—the usual. But 1989 was a long-ass time ago, and my, oh my, have things changed. Although the show’s cartoon characters aren’t subject to aging, the world around the Simpsons clan has kept up its societal reference points, leading some to ponder the question: Can a prototypical nuclear family à la Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie survive American’s modern economic horrors?

...C’mon. We all know the answer to that one.

And so does NPR’s Planet Money, which last month aired a story examining whether or not we could consider the Simpsons a “middle-class” family by 2021's standards. To do this, they spoke with Dani Alexis Ryskamp, author of the Atlantic essay “The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable.” Ryskamp went to super-fan lengths to determine the exact dollars and cents, such as pinpointing an exact shot of Homer’s paycheck in a 1996 episode and extrapolating that he would have made about $25,000 that year.

“Back in 1996, the median household income was about $35,000. So if Homer’s salary stayed in the same place relative to the median household income, Homer would be earning around $50,000 today, which is definitely a solid salary,” explains Planet Money’s co-host, Stacey Vanek Smith, before Ryskamp morbidly reminds us, “Tuition has more than doubled. Health care costs have more than doubled. I believe housing costs have more than doubled.”

“The idea that you could have one breadwinner in a family of five who had a high-school education, working a union job at a power plant and buying a nice house in the suburbs and supporting a spouse and these three other kids...at this point, [it’s] not normal but aspirational,” they continue.

So, yeah. Basically, most people would kill for Homer’s originally mediocre, middle-of-the-road lifestyle these days. Is The Simpsons an accurate depiction of middle-class life? Definitely no. Is it still funny? We’ll leave you all to devour one another in the comments section for that one...

Oh, and that episode featuring Homer’s paycheck? It’s from Season 7's “Much Apu About Nothing,” so at least showrunners have caught up with the times in other aspects...sort of.

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The Simpsons' lifestyle is no longer economically realistic

A single-income, working-class family supported by a union-backed job only requiring a high school education? That's no way for Lisa to get braces in 2021.
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The Simpsons' lifestyle is unattainable, confirming the American Dream is dead

When The Simpsons first hit televisions back in 1989, they were meant to embody most Americans’ notions of typical suburban family: the dad with a working class job, the homemaker wife, three kids, a cat, a dog—the usual. But 1989 was a long-ass time ago, and my, oh my, have things changed. Although the show’s cartoon characters aren’t subject to aging, the world around the Simpsons clan has kept up its societal reference points, leading some to ponder the question: Can a prototypical nuclear family à la Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie survive American’s modern economic horrors?

...C’mon. We all know the answer to that one.

And so does NPR’s Planet Money, which last month aired a story examining whether or not we could consider the Simpsons a “middle-class” family by 2021's standards. To do this, they spoke with Dani Alexis Ryskamp, author of the Atlantic essay “The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable.” Ryskamp went to super-fan lengths to determine the exact dollars and cents, such as pinpointing an exact shot of Homer’s paycheck in a 1996 episode and extrapolating that he would have made about $25,000 that year.

“Back in 1996, the median household income was about $35,000. So if Homer’s salary stayed in the same place relative to the median household income, Homer would be earning around $50,000 today, which is definitely a solid salary,” explains Planet Money’s co-host, Stacey Vanek Smith, before Ryskamp morbidly reminds us, “Tuition has more than doubled. Health care costs have more than doubled. I believe housing costs have more than doubled.”

“The idea that you could have one breadwinner in a family of five who had a high-school education, working a union job at a power plant and buying a nice house in the suburbs and supporting a spouse and these three other kids...at this point, [it’s] not normal but aspirational,” they continue.

So, yeah. Basically, most people would kill for Homer’s originally mediocre, middle-of-the-road lifestyle these days. Is The Simpsons an accurate depiction of middle-class life? Definitely no. Is it still funny? We’ll leave you all to devour one another in the comments section for that one...

Oh, and that episode featuring Homer’s paycheck? It’s from Season 7's “Much Apu About Nothing,” so at least showrunners have caught up with the times in other aspects...sort of.

tv.avclub.com

The Simpsons' lifestyle is no longer economically realistic

A single-income, working-class family supported by a union-backed job only requiring a high school education? That's no way for Lisa to get braces in 2021.
tv.avclub.com tv.avclub.com
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Wasn't this already joked about in Homer's Enemy?
 
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