i like home movies iirc
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
Or horrible oil burns.
― IEEE (Leee), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
seriously tho i have no idea what the simpsons would have to lose from making good episodes again
What if they did like a 24-style plotline that runs over a whole season; I'd watch that.
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
― IEEE (Leee), Friday, December 30, 2011 1:43 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink
burns runs the nucleur plant
Didn't they have a 24 episode with Kief and Chloe?
― IEEE (Leee), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
i really don't believe anyone proposing some kind of 'experimental' direction for the simpsons would actually watch and enjoy episodes like that if they were actually done
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
xpost that was 22 minutes tho, i'm saying a whol;e season with a narrative arc like the baltimore drug television show that the tumblr whites like
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
this is a comedy show
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
there's no inherent comedy in a narrative arc
they can put it on HBO and hire disgusting simpsons slash fic artists to animate the sex scenes
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
well there is something to be said about the difficulty of searching for a new plotline when you've met everyone's love interest, mother, pet etc. etc.
feel like "characters team up to go retrieve the city's beloved lemon tree from a neighbouring town" testifies to the onetime originality of the show though; routinely introducing others is fine but i feel like part of what makes the early eps so good is their scale & the fact that it is v 'texture of family life' orientated, about someone getting a new substitute teacher or remembering something or having whatever small disagreement w/a neighbour, stuff that's just a conceit to map amusing 'workings of a family' dialogue onto
― ABSTRACT: is my heart. A stranger (schlump), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
they prob just need better writers
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Lol some dude
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
yes. i always think of the weird switch when there was understandably suddenly no more lionel hutz & troy mcclure in the show, & suddenly the awful like "generic marketing people" guys, network execs in suits or whatever who spoke flatly & represented corporate culture. like it was a landmark moment, i can't really imagine any of the writers are as invested in the emotional side it once had.
― ABSTRACT: is my heart. A stranger (schlump), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
i bet there are lots of young writers working on the show now who grew up with it and are trying very hard to do their best and honor the show's legacy, which makes it all the more tragic. stuff like that makes me think of what a terrible thing it could be to collaborate with your heroes or be part of something that big.
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
schlump, I think you're describing the Simpsons-as-sitcom era, as opposed to the Simpsons-as-cartoon death spiral.
― IEEE (Leee), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
like if matt groening walked into the room right now and asked any of us to fix the show, we'd all blow it, every one of us, no matter what we'd like to imagine (xpost)
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 30 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
well I think earlier writers were prob also more willing to shape characters into something new whereas today they're expected to have characters act 'in character'
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
I am Matt Groening.― Ryan LZA (Leee), Friday, December 30, 2011 9:57 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
― Ryan LZA (Leee), Friday, December 30, 2011 9:57 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
xpost
― IEEE (Leee), Friday, 30 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
they need to find some new young rebels who just dont give a fuck *points at self*
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
you can't all of a sudden just make homer 25-years old that's crazy
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I DONT HAVE TO LISTEN TO U DAD
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
we're all going to blow it.
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
i'm picturing an Armageddon-type scenario where a ragtag team of average joes gets shot into space in a desperate last ditch attempt to save The Simpsons' 27th season
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 30 December 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
why not? i mean i havent seen a new episode in at least a year probs more but if i heard it got interesting id def watch it again
― tumblr wights (є(٥_ ٥)э), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
anyway honoring the shows legacy is the problem you arent a good writer if yr a slave
so if youve got matty groans # tell him to hit me up ill fix shit jho can help he knows whats up
― tumblr wights (є(٥_ ٥)э), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
prob would just alienate the weirdos who actually still watch it more than get a new audience
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
a spinoff would be a better way to do it I think, nothing to lose w/ a spinoff
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
the 14 year olds killing time btw macfarlane shows would just surf for internet porn and text regardless
― tumblr wights (є(٥_ ٥)э), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
is it really them? in my head it's like, weird 40 year olds
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
in any case, they may also be sexting
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
― tumblr wights (є(٥_ ٥)э), Friday, December 30, 2011 4:13 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
so ready
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
wasnt there some article about how like the diehard simpson maniacs who were filling up content on snpp.com just slowly stopped?
I really think the Simpsons audience is under 21s who dont really know any better, like the same way we watched Cheers or Married With Children into their dire last seasons
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Friday, 30 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
did Cheers really fall off that much? i haven't seen enough reruns in way too long to remember, but i always had the sense it at least had about as good an 11th season as any show that got that far
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 30 December 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
snpp.com's content stopped some years back but Usenet's demise is probably to blame there, as thats's where all the content and discussion came from.
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Friday, 30 December 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.austincollege.edu/38554/kevin-bozelka/
― IEEE (Leee), Friday, 30 December 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
oops wrong thread
― IEEE (Leee), Friday, 30 December 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
Futurama, Home Movies, The PJs...
1999-2000 was literally the last time anyone debuted a prime time animated cartoon that wasn't pure steaming diharrea.
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:02 (twelve years ago) link
that is seriously depressing to me
the oblongs stans can gtfo
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
You should try Regular Show which has been reasonably good lately and was really on when it first started.There's a few good shows on tv now that basically are animation with live action actors: workaholics, sunny, modern family. single camera modern gonzo comedy sans laugh tracks might just as well be cartoons in my mind
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
some dude, can do me a solid and rank these 12 shows from "just dogshit terrible" to "you should basically kill yourself if you watched more than one episode of this"
The Goode Family, Sit Down Shut Up, Allen Gregory, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Bob Burger, God The Devil and Bob, Sammy, Game Over, Gary & Mike, The Oblongs and Baby Blues
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
i guess include The Archer in there too
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
and yeah, Archer is actually quite good though i know you don't like it.Also Venture Bros dude! Maybe not prime time enough for you but cmon
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
Venture Brothers is on cable dogg
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:43 (twelve years ago) link
but also is terrible
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
The one episode of Archer was so fucking bad i almost punched a hole in my television
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:45 (twelve years ago) link
archer seems like the sort of show youd find really funnie although i guess the whole smirking sketch troupe absurdism contains too many lol cultural references or s.thing?
― tumblr wights (є(٥_ ٥)э), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:48 (twelve years ago) link
of the shows you list ive only seen 'american dad' and 'the oblongs' and they both totally sucked
― tumblr wights (є(٥_ ٥)э), Saturday, 31 December 2011 07:49 (twelve years ago) link
it was wasn't it...sometimes i forget all the details.
― NZA, Monday, 2 January 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link