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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Dec 21, 2010 20:45:44 GMT -5
It was the episode where Apu was having children. Homer makes a snide remark about having kids, to which Bart replies, "Sorry for being born." Homer follows this up with, "I've been waiting so long to hear that."
Absolutely loathed that line. It's the major reason why I don't like the later seasons of The Simpsons. Homer doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about his family anymore. In the golden years of the show, he loved his family, with most of his "get rick quick" schemes being for them. Now, he's been reduced to a Peter Griffin clone. Basically, he's a selfish asshole!
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Dec 21, 2010 20:47:26 GMT -5
Homer doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about his family anymore. In the golden years of the show, he loved his family, with most of his "get rick quick" schemes being for them. Now, he's been reduced to a Peter Griffin clone. Basically, he's a selfish asshole! Yep. Pretty much this. He no longer has any redeeming qualities
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Dec 21, 2010 21:40:07 GMT -5
this thread confuses me
are we picking perticular lines and jokes that fell flat like the rover hendrix joke or are we trashing whole episodes or the writing as a whole.
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Post by Cela on Dec 22, 2010 0:35:52 GMT -5
Homer fantasises about murdering his father after they have a car accident. Falling flat may not have been the word for it. It sickened me to my stomach and I haven't watched a new episode since. Yeah, I have no clue what that was about. I get the running gag of ignoring Grampa, but that was just tasteless. It was a Sopranos reference for when Tony killed one of his men in the same way.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Dec 22, 2010 4:39:27 GMT -5
this thread confuses me are we picking perticular lines and jokes that fell flat like the rover hendrix joke or are we trashing whole episodes or the writing as a whole. Particular lines. As it turns out, quite a few episodes nowadays have jokes that fall flat from beginning to end, hence why we're trashing some whole episodes.
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Post by JRX on Dec 22, 2010 9:50:42 GMT -5
I almost forgot at the beginning of "I Am Furious Yellow," Skinner says at a school assembly,"Bart's friend, Milhouse."
WTF?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 22, 2010 13:42:02 GMT -5
Anytime they use the word wang.
I know it's about the most edgy term for penis one can get away with on TV, but it's still not funny and I think the show is above it.
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Post by mdvega on Dec 22, 2010 14:09:07 GMT -5
One of the recent Treehouse episodes had a Harry Potter parody. Bart tried to turn a frog into a human and ended up making a monster. It was deformed and puking violently and begging to die, probably one of the most revolting things I've ever seen, only they kept going back to it like it was a laugh.
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Post by Enrico Palazzo on Dec 22, 2010 14:31:26 GMT -5
I never liked the gorge episode. Thought it just wasn't funny.
I spent about 20 minutes thinking of something in the Simpsons (series 1-9) that I didn't like. It takes me equally as long to think of something I did like from seasons 9- to the most recent episode I seen.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 22, 2010 14:35:02 GMT -5
I never liked the gorge episode. Thought it just wasn't funny. I spent about 20 minutes thinking of something in the Simpsons (series 1-9) that I didn't like. It takes me equally as long to think of something I did like from seasons 9- to the most recent episode I seen. You mean when Homer tries to jump Springfield Gorge on Bart's skateboard?
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Post by PKO on Dec 22, 2010 16:08:05 GMT -5
Thought of a specific one (post Season 10 unfortunately, still having trouble finding one before hand).
In Homer the Moe when Moe's professor tells Moe he has cancer, asks Moe if he has a cure in desperation, then drowns himself in a lake.
Why would anyone find that funny?
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Post by A Dubya (El Hombre Muerto) on Dec 22, 2010 16:32:07 GMT -5
Just about all new Simpsons seasons fly over my head, and have fallen flat as far as I'm concerned. I started to notice the show really sucking hard in about 2001-2002 (and not in the good way).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2010 16:50:08 GMT -5
I almost forgot at the beginning of "I Am Furious Yellow," Skinner says at a school assembly,"Bart's friend, Milhouse." WTF? I'm confused. What's wrong with that?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 22, 2010 19:41:17 GMT -5
Thought of a specific one (post Season 10 unfortunately, still having trouble finding one before hand). In Homer the Moe when Moe's professor tells Moe he has cancer, asks Moe if he has a cure in desperation, then drowns himself in a lake. Why would anyone find that funny? Because it's funny.
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Dec 22, 2010 19:42:03 GMT -5
I almost forgot at the beginning of "I Am Furious Yellow," Skinner says at a school assembly,"Bart's friend, Milhouse." WTF? I'm confused. What's wrong with that? yeah i though it made a good joke about how unimportant milhouse is
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Post by strykerdarksilence on Dec 22, 2010 19:44:49 GMT -5
Another one (well several over the whole run of the show) I remember is any reference to MAD magazine, particularly where Bart sees their office.
Maybe it's because I'm in the UK and have never seen anything to do with MAD, but I find the jokes just mind-numblingly dull and unfunny to the point it puts me off ever looking up anything from MAD.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 22, 2010 19:47:51 GMT -5
Another one (well several over the whole run of the show) I remember is any reference to MAD magazine, particularly where Bart sees their office. Maybe it's because I'm in the UK and have never seen anything to do with MAD, but I find the jokes just mind-numblingly dull and unfunny to the point it puts me off ever looking up anything from MAD. I agree, kind of. I was never a MAD fan. I thought the line, "Let's call it, Everybody HATES Raymond" was kind of clever, in that, it's not clever at all. It shows what the Simpsons writers think of MAD these days.
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Post by PKO on Dec 22, 2010 19:49:12 GMT -5
Thought of a specific one (post Season 10 unfortunately, still having trouble finding one before hand). In Homer the Moe when Moe's professor tells Moe he has cancer, asks Moe if he has a cure in desperation, then drowns himself in a lake. Why would anyone find that funny? Because it's funny. Ah, see my definition of funny doesn't include laughing at someone commiting suicide due to an illness that millions of people die from every year.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 22, 2010 19:51:16 GMT -5
Ah, see my definition of funny doesn't include laughing at someone commiting suicide due to an illness that millions of people die from every year. If it makes feel any better the character is a cartoon, thus didn't die, plus never had cancer. Moe's reactions are what make the bit funny.
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Post by A Dubya (El Hombre Muerto) on Dec 22, 2010 21:14:13 GMT -5
LOL. I did laugh when Moe was trying to put his head in the oven that one time. But I am perverted and dark.
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