What’s your job in relation to tv anyway?
What’s your job in relation to tv anyway?
obviously not advertising, otherwise he’d be able to publicize his sub mediocre band better… oooh burn!
not everything on tv is mediocre well at least the shit i watch isn’t!
Late,
grmpysmrf
I don’t have cable anymore. The only TV I watch is whatever’s showing at the gym (usually news), Colbert and Stewart on Comedy Central’s website, and the occasional Family Guy on hulu.
Looking forward to the next Venture Bros. season on DVD, though.
What’s your job in relation to tv anyway?
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What’s your job in relation to tv anyway?
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lol… stantley spadowsky… so you have your own kids tv show?
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The wit and social observation and dry, black humour has vanished only to be replaced by vapid slapstick, forced and lazy pop culture references and stupid celebrity cameos.
100% this. I stopped watching somewhere around the 98-99 years. Sad to hear it has got progressively worse, it used to be a great show.[/reply]
Spot on.
The Simpsons seems to have had three phases.
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Episodes where everyday things happened to the family, nothing too wacky. There were a few laughs, but ultimately, a moral message pervaded, and everyone could relate to it to some degree, and it was good. Ie: when Marge gets tempted into an affair, when Homer pulls a rort to get that Amoxilin stuff for his hair, etc etc etc.
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Then, they sort of seemed to move into more wacky situations, yet generally, there seemed to be a sort of moral underlining to it. More silly ‘daydreaming sequences’, and it had gotten a little more risque with the times. Like the episode where Maggie gets Mr Burns’ bear.
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South Park and Family Guy; the use of random and shock humour ultimately saw the Simpsons trying to compete. Quite frankly, I didn’t like seeing Homer getting kissed by another man… ya dig? I think they should seriously go back to the phase two formula. The plots are banal, there is too much of an emphasis on shock (so basically, I’ve disallowed my 6 and 3 year old cousins from watching it when I’m looking after them), and the once subtle adult references are just so blatant that it’s become unfunny.
Sad, really. But then again, it’s like a standup comedian saying the same joke every night for 20 years.
Fuck it, bring Conan back. [pirate]
The episode where Homer got kissed by another man was really early - season 1 or 2.
No, no, no! I’m talking about the recent one where he shares an apartment with a couple of homos and one full on kisses him, causing him to run!
Unlike Butters’ dad
If you see Conan’s name at the start of an episode you can be guaranteed the episode will be good. But my favourite would have to be the nuclear power plant softball episode. Wonderful. Also Homer as a sex offender and Homer as union leader were epic.
MYall time fav was the Johnny Cash episode with the flaming hot insanity pepper from the evil jungles of guatamalupa (or wherever) and homer trips… even my then like, 6th grade mind who never did drugs knew that episode was where it was at. I don’t think the show peaked yet. At the very VERY least youall probably would have to agree that the halloween episode is always worth watching
No, no, no! I’m talking about the recent one where he shares an apartment with a couple of homos and one full on kisses him, causing him to run!
Unlike Butters’ dad
Ah, I didn’t see that one.
The best Simpsons episode I recall was when Homer discovers a bizarre likeness of himself on a Japanese soap (?) box and the family flies to Japan. That episode literally had me laughing uncontrollably and violently, to the point of self-harm.
“NOW BACK TO SEIZURE FIGHTING ROBOTS!”
The best Simpsons episode I recall was when Homer discovers a bizarre likeness of himself on a Japanese soap (?) box and the family flies to Japan. That episode literally had me laughing uncontrollably and violently, to the point of self-harm.
“NOW BACK TO SEIZURE FIGHTING ROBOTS!”
if that’s the one where they end up on the Japanese game show at the end, that was a decent one.
“The super bonus hard question…”
Homer: (before the question is even asked) “is the answer Japan?”
disappointed host: “yes it is” 
genius!
Late,
grmpysmrf
LOL, FISHBULB!!!
To Skarekroe,
I looked up and it turns out that episode was gonna have the original guy that kissed Homer in it… what was his name? Carl? I can never remember these things off the top of my head.
Anyway, they approached the chap who did the voice (who played Mrs Doubtfire’s brother/makeup artist, very distinct voice), and he actually turned it down after reading the script; purely because, he felt it didn’t do his character, nor the Simpsons, justice. [laugh]
That original ‘man kiss’ episode was the way the Simpsons should’ve been; it was edgy enough to do something that other cartoons weren’t at the time and make a few eyebrows head toward the sky.
However, it was not so blatant that any little kid looking at it would’ve thought much of it; hell, even I don’t. You see that sort of shit happen all the time at soccer games, or at school as a joke, or whatever.
It was beautifully ambiguous; edgy for sure, yet it still sort of had an innocence to it. It wasn’t in yer face, and at the end of the episode, there was a stated point to it which many people could relate to; familial pressure to provide for the family, being something you’re not and developing a crutch, and sometimes doing the wrong thing to maintain it for the right reason.
I’m definitely over-analysing, but they were good episodes.
Instead, in the second ‘gay-kiss’ episode, there wasn’t much homer hadn’t already learnt; Karl taught him to believe in himself and others, John Waters taught him gays weren’t all bad folk, and… what left is there to learn, preach, whatever?
Just a stupid storyline and shock tactics to keep up with the times.
“The super bonus hard question…”
Homer: (before the question is even asked) “is the answer Japan?”
disappointed host: “yes it is”
[laugh] I just remembered that, and now I’ve busted a gut.
Instead, in the second ‘gay-kiss’ episode, there wasn’t much homer hadn’t already learnt; Karl taught him to believe in himself and others, John Waters taught him gays weren’t all bad folk, and… what left is there to learn, preach, whatever?
Just a stupid storyline and shock tactics to keep up with the times.
Yep.
They’re out of ideas and they’re out of jokes. I loved 'em once upon a time - I scheduled my work and classes during my senior year in college so that nothing conflicted with the syndicated Simpsons episodes every afternoon - but I haven’t felt like I’ve been missing anything by not watching new ones in a decade.
Same here. I’d never missed an episode of the Simpsons and then…
I never bother any more.
Hmm. Maybe something to do with getting a life, I spose…