The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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horrorfan89 said:
Joy to the world! The teachers dead! We barbequed her head! What happened to her body? We flushed it down the potty! And round and round it goes! And round and round it goes!
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when you really think about it HAW HAAAW could sum up at least a third of all posts on the farms
 
Jozef said:
The post-cancellation episodes of Futurama were very hit and miss; there's some good ones, but just do yourself a favour and skip the episodes that try to tackle current year politics.

Also, I thought Mars was uninhabitable? then suddenly there's native Martians, who at the end of the episode, left Mars to find a new planet when they found out the "bead" was a giant diamond worth a fortune.... then later on, apparently native Martians still live on Mars and are forced to live on squalid reserves.... so which is it? It's pretty obvious they just retconned it to make a social commentary.
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I don't think Futurama was ever that good apart from the first few seasons, if even. The characters got insufferable way quicker than The Simpsons did. Still great shows, though.
 
Calandrino said:
I take TPatP and Homer's Enemy as signs that the writers had exhausted the show's format and maybe didn't even like the characters anymore, to the point that meta material was the only thing to really interest them. At best they make sense as episodes of a show nearing the end of its run, but then it didn't die.


A lot of people would tell you that post-cancellation Futurama already sucked anyway. They had great episodes until the end, but they did drop the ball more often as the series went on, and some heavy-handed current year politics started to bleed in. If you want to know what Futurama would be like if it continued airing uninterrupted you can just (god have mercy on you) watch Disenchanted, which is woke, boring, soap opera-ish, and about as funny as an ISIS beheading. It's possibly worse than the lowest points of Zombie Simpsons, and I only say "possibly" because Disenchanted always sucked so you can't get invested enough to be mad about it.
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Most of the writers in the Golden Age and even the Silver Age (with the noted exception of Al Jean) felt the show was going to end at around 10 or 12 seasons since they would've been able to end on a relatively high note and beat The Flintstones' track record.

Then Al Jean took over and decided to keep the show going just so he could spite some nameless Usenet dorks who dissed an episode he wrote that one time in 1995.

MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
Who even wrote disenchanted anyway? What point does it have? It almost reads like Matt Groening wanted to make his own Game of Thrones but nobody would throw money at one of his projects unless it was "comedy".

As an aside, I think season 6 is on the money for the beginning of the end, where they did the very SJW/Hollywood Communist thing of framing Walt Disney as a Nazi.
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In all fairness, Walt Disney actually was rumored to be a fascist and a White nationalist for decades. It's one of the oldest widely known Hollywood rumors, right up there with that Richard Gere story that Bart's classmates are sick of hearing about.

That's less of a "woke" thing and more about referencing an urban legend that was fairly well-known.

Duncan Hills Coffee said:
That's sort of what happened. Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, who wrote most of the episodes for seasons 8 and 9, admitted they didn't think the show would be on for much longer and stated on the DVD commentaries that they were getting experimental.

The show was running out of gas and the writers knew this. It's just that the series, for one reason or another, didn't end when they thought it would.
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They all had the plan they'd run 10 or 12 seasons, just to make sure they could beat The Flintstones. This is part of why the season finale of Season 11 was extremely meta.

Even Scully kinda ran with this plan. But then Al Jean took over and kept the show on as long as possible until it was fully within Zombie Simpsons territory by the end of the 2000's.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Most of the writers in the Golden Age and even the Silver Age (with the noted exception of Al Jean) felt the show was going to end at around 10 or 12 seasons since they would've been able to end on a relatively high note and beat The Flintstones' track record.

Then Al Jean took over and decided to keep the show going just so he could spite some nameless Usenet dorks who dissed an episode he wrote that one time in 1995.



In all fairness, Walt Disney actually was rumored to be a fascist and a White nationalist for decades. It's one of the oldest widely known Hollywood rumors, right up there with that Richard Gere story that Bart's classmates are sick of hearing about.

That's less of a "woke" thing and more about referencing an urban legend that was fairly well-known.



They all had the plan they'd run 10 or 12 seasons, just to make sure they could beat The Flintstones. This is part of why the season finale of Season 11 was extremely meta.

Even Scully kinda ran with this plan. But then Al Jean took over and kept the show on as long as possible until it was fully within Zombie Simpsons territory by the end of the 2000's.
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The Simpsons was never fucking going to end no matter what Scully and company thought circa 7-12 and quite frankly, rather than going meta and just expecting a random cancellation to fall on them to save them from keep writing for the show, they should have manned the fuck up and pushed hard for a time skip for the show. Or better, slowly phased out the kids and focus exclusively on the adults.

As for Walt Disney, a lot of the stuff about him being a Nazi is solely due to disgruntled animators who got fired/blackballed when they tried to unionized wanting to slime and libel him. He was conservative but a lot of him being a Nazi is union smear-mongering to try and destroy his reputation out of spite due to his anti-union stance.
 
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MirrorNoir said:
The Simpsons was never fucking going to end no matter what Scully and company thought circa 7-12 and quite frankly, rather than going meta and just expecting a random cancellation to fall on them to save them from keep writing for the show, they should have manned the fuck up and pushed hard for a time skip for the show. Or better, slowly phased out the kids and focus exclusively on the adults.

As for Walt Disney, a lot of the stuff about him being a Nazi is solely due to disgruntled animators who got fired/blackballed when they tried to unionized wanting to slime and libel him. He was conservative but a lot of him being a Nazi is union smear-mongering to try and destroy his reputation out of spite due to his anti-union stance.
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It doesn't matter where it came from as long as it's funny and references something in common knowledge/culture. Tying to this and another point I'm gonna make, the Simpsons was never SJW, considering they had a joke of Edgar Hoover crossdressing.
 
Seventh Star said:
It doesn't matter where it came from as long as it's funny and references something in common knowledge/culture. Tying to this and another point I'm gonna make, the Simpsons was never SJW, considering they had a joke of Edgar Hoover crossdressing.
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It was center-left at the very most.
 
MirrorNoir said:
The Simpsons was never fucking going to end no matter what Scully and company thought circa 7-12 and quite frankly, rather than going meta and just expecting a random cancellation to fall on them to save them from keep writing for the show, they should have manned the fuck up and pushed hard for a time skip for the show. Or better, slowly phased out the kids and focus exclusively on the adults.

As for Walt Disney, a lot of the stuff about him being a Nazi is solely due to disgruntled animators who got fired/blackballed when they tried to unionized wanting to slime and libel him. He was conservative but a lot of him being a Nazi is union smear-mongering to try and destroy his reputation out of spite due to his anti-union stance.
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also there was the time he was buddies with literal nazi Werner Von Braun, but hey who wasn't pals with America's Best Rocket Scientist Who Clearly Never Did Anything Else
but yeah afaik the Walt Is A Nazi thing is bullshit, esp given how much he employed (((The Sherman Brothers)))
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I noticed that Ralph was Flanderized pretty hard by season 6. He was kind of dumb up until this point, but everything Ralph has to say for a full episode revolves around his cat, regardless of context. He has now metamorphized into a full on smooth brain. This obviously isn't zombie territory yet, but there are notable omens/symptoms of it early on.
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And to think in the episode "The Latest Gun in the West", even Milhouse is dominated by Ralph...
 
Finals are making me ready to have some kind of psychotic mental breakdown, as per usual, and I'm feeling spicy about how I want to try to recover from it over the summer. I've heard The Simpsons actually used to be good and kind of based but never watched since I was more of a King of the Hill kind of person before I fell off of watching tv altogther, posts on this thread corroborate that og Simpsons is pretty fair, but I don't have the patience to binge all the way up from ep1s1 to when it went zombie because I have a hard time sticking to shows in the long haul anymore. If you had to recommend just a single season to watch, would would be your pick for an uninducted dweeb like myself?
 
Reshiram Battle.mp3 said:
Finals are making me ready to have some kind of psychotic mental breakdown, as per usual, and I'm feeling spicy about how I want to try to recover from it over the summer. I've heard The Simpsons actually used to be good and kind of based but never watched since I was more of a King of the Hill kind of person before I fell off of watching tv altogther, posts on this thread corroborate that og Simpsons is pretty fair, but I don't have the patience to binge all the way up from ep1s1 to when it went zombie because I have a hard time sticking to shows in the long haul anymore. If you had to recommend just a single season to watch, would would be your pick for an uninducted dweeb like myself?
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4.

I think that one has the funniest yet most grounded episodes.
 
Reshiram Battle.mp3 said:
Finals are making me ready to have some kind of psychotic mental breakdown, as per usual, and I'm feeling spicy about how I want to try to recover from it over the summer. I've heard The Simpsons actually used to be good and kind of based but never watched since I was more of a King of the Hill kind of person before I fell off of watching tv altogther, posts on this thread corroborate that og Simpsons is pretty fair, but I don't have the patience to binge all the way up from ep1s1 to when it went zombie because I have a hard time sticking to shows in the long haul anymore. If you had to recommend just a single season to watch, would would be your pick for an uninducted dweeb like myself?
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4, 5, and 6 are all good contenders. 8 is a personal favorite of mine, but that's when the feeling of "OK, the show is starting to get old" starts showing its head for a lot of people, and I can understand why.
 
Syaoran Li said:
In all fairness, Walt Disney actually was rumored to be a fascist and a White nationalist for decades. It's one of the oldest widely known Hollywood rumors, right up there with that Richard Gere story that Bart's classmates are sick of hearing about.

That's less of a "woke" thing and more about referencing an urban legend that was fairly well-known.
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No it wasn't, it was concocted by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and was first printed in the Daily Worker when he had a slap fight with a cartoonist's union affiliated with Herb Sorrell and his organization, the CSU. You can thank the Soviet Union for that one.

Here's footage of Walt Disney testifying against Herbert Sorrell.

I'm of the opinion that anyone who repeats the lie that Walt Disney was a Nazi is fully in the know as to how and why he was accused and is just spreading it because of ideology.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
No it wasn't, it was concocted by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and was first printed in the Daily Worker when he had a slap fight with a cartoonist's union affiliated with Herb Sorrell and his organization, the CSU. You can thank the Soviet Union for that one.

Here's footage of Walt Disney testifying against Herbert Sorrell.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kJLQ3efGG4k
I'm of the opinion that anyone who repeats the lie that Walt Disney was a Nazi is fully in the know as to how and why he was accused and is just spreading it because of ideology.
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yeah I've always heard it was an issue of "Walt Didn't Take Crap From Unions" which meant "REEEEEEEEEEEE NAZI" even back then
 
Update: had the psychotic breakdown before finals even hit, and decided to look back at this thread. Thank you for the suggestions! :) I'll probably watch 4 as my intro season then since the next two seasons after it seem solid enough too, in case this becomes something I just end up doing over the summer or after semesters to stay sane.
 
After all these years... His name...
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is Al...
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AL SNEED
 
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