The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Travoltron said:
My grandmother sometimes lamented that much of the entertainment, movies, music, cartoon characters she enjoyed were taken away/erased. I assume that must have happened during the civil rights movement. She always emphasized that it was utter nonsense and hysteria.

I'm afraid I can't remember specifics, but I know she had a "golliwog" doll that she thought was adorable. And she mentioned the Frito Bandito being taken away. That happened before I was born, but she didn't seem to realize that.

But I know how she feels now. She said nobody was offended at the time about these things. And yeah, I grew up with Apu and I never heard a peep about him being offensive. Not one article in any of the left-wing rags. Not one post on Usenet. Nobody had a problem with it until that one asshole made it a problem.
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I'm sure she misses this program, it was my dad's favorite.
 
Trilby said:
Makes you want to go back to the days when she had a crush on "Corey".
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hqJ5gKZNkuY
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You just know they'll make a 'Morrissey is right wing now' joke that resets the status quo. Plus with Cumbertwat doing the voice, it'll be a posh Londoner rather than a working class Mancunian with no references to Salford in the episode at all.

I may actually hatestream this for you lot's entertainment. Appreciate it.
 
Ruin said:
Aurora borealius?
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At this time of Day?

Tootsie Bear said:
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=ieg-AK5Z6xQ
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Tootsie Bear said:
Funny you should say that...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ad-ixVWCcQ8
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Okay this shit is creepy. Did the writers finally find the ultimate self-insert with which to manifest their feelings for Lisa within the show? And don't fucking tell me the writers don't have a creepy pedo boner for Lisa with how much they idolize her and make her into their ideal woman.
starborn427614 said:
I was thinking of Woody Allen, personally.
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Pretty fitting comparison I'd say.

Trilby said:
Makes you want to go back to the days when she had a crush on "Corey".
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hqJ5gKZNkuY
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Ah yes, back when the writers still treated her like a kid until season 5 started slowly rearing her into the Lisa we know today.
 
TopCat said:
John Cleese mocks Hank Azaria’s Apu regrets by apologising to ‘white English people’

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John Cleese has mocked an apology by The Simpsons actor Hank Azaria, who voiced the controversial Apu character on the long-running series.

During a podcast appearance earlier this week, Azaria apologised for voicing the character, who has been accused of perpetuating harmful stereotypes about South Asian people. The history of racism that the character inspired was explored in a 2017 documentary titled The Problem with Apu.

“I was speaking at my son’s school, I was talking to the Indian kids there because I wanted to get their input,” Azaria said during Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. “A 17-year-old ... he’s never even seen<em>The Simpsons</em> but knows what Apu means. It’s practically a slur at this point. All he knows is that this is how his people are thought of and represented to many people in this country. I really do apologise.”

Cleese appeared to reject the apology in a tweet, in which he sarcastically apologised for his own past work.

“Not wishing to be left behind by Hank Azaria, I would like to apologise on behalf on Monty Python for all the many sketches we did making fun of white English people,” Cleese tweeted.

The Fawlty Towers actor added: “We’re sorry for any distress we may have caused.”

In 2020, Cleese claimed that “political correctness” was stifling creativity in the comedy world.

“I would love to debate this with a ‘woke’,” Cleese said. “The first question I would say is, ‘Can you tell me a woke joke?’ I don’t know what a woke joke would be like other than very, very nice people being kind to each other. It might be heart-warming but it’s not going to be very funny.”

Azaria’s Simpsons character, the Indian shopkeeper Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, was quietly phased out of the show in 2016.

www.independent.co.uk

John Cleese mocks Hank Azaria’s Apu regrets by apologising to ‘white English people’

Monty Python star previously condemned ‘woke jokes’
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Every time John Cleese tries to be "based," I just think of this:
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