NEW SIMPSONS EPISODES!

You can't even call anything after Season 11, let alone what's going on now "The Simpsons." I take cue from the blog Dead Homer Society and can only call it "Zombie Simpsons": It died long, long ago, but keeps going on undead...

I saw part of an episode on a plane this week. Homer sold a few filler lines but I can hear jokes about Christian Charity being a porn star name anywhere (SNL basically did the same bit on its xmas show) and that was as good as it got. If it's not as offensively bad as it seemed a few years ago, it might be because I'm desensitized to it being mediocre.

At least Fox has accepted that the voices are irreplaceable and will just nuke it if Dan Castanella wants the yacht that's coming to him.

actually, that's probably yacht fleet at this point.

i have to say, if Zombie Simpsons is the only thing keeping Seth MacFarlane from having 4 shows on TV instead of just 3, i'll allow it

who are the people who regularly watch these?

only good recent one was the christmas one this year where they all go forward in time. i mean "good," but better than other recent ones.

what frustrates me with new ones is how dull they look. they never seem to pull off fantistical dream sequences or psychadelic pepper trips or anything anymore. now it just looks like shit.

oh, and its shit and not funny and the stories are stupid and you can't care about the characters because they are all incredible unlikable etc. etc.

i have to say, if Zombie Simpsons is the only thing keeping Seth MacFarlane from having 4 shows on TV instead of just 3, i'll allow it

― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, December 30, 2011 3:25 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

Ha, as much as I despise Zombie Simpsons for forever breaking my heart, this is kind of OTM.

i remember when the first season aired, i was Bart's age. Four more seasons and I'll be Homer's age O_O

or seven more seasons if blah blah blah comicbookguy.jpg

i remember when the first season aired, i was Bart's age. Four more seasons and I'll be Homer's age O_O

― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Friday, December 30, 2011 11:56 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

ok that's pretty fucked up to think about

Despite Homer's embodiment of American culture, his influence has spread to other parts of the world. In 2003, Matt Groening revealed that his father, after whom Homer was named, was Canadian, and said that this made Homer himself a Canadian.[107]

http://i.imgur.com/JrdeQ.jpg

i thought the movie was alright in terms of narrative, the characters being more or less who they should be, all those things that have mostly fallen apart in the last ten years. where it mostly failed for me was in not being very funny. recent seasons, i've no idea what the most recent episode i saw was. i stopped buying the dvds at season 10. when in hmv the other week i had a slight urge to buy season 11, but looking at the episode list, ayayay, i can't have that soiling my collection.

i hope if they do the 24 hour simpsons reruns channel they play certain seasons in certain timeslots so people know when they can see the classix

I am Matt Groening.

So you know that if the last episode I saw was I watched online well after it aired because I heard Alan Moore, Dan Clowes, and Art Spiegelman were on it, and I have no idea when that was, the series has become no more than wallpaper.

they should just give the Simpsons to Seth mcfarlane, lol think abt it, watch the Internet go wild

r u guys afraid to respond to this incredible post cause u know thats exactly whats going to happen

is bob's burgers the tv show good?

yes

tbh i keep waiting for simpsons writers to just totally give up trying to be 'the simpsons' and find creative freedom unburdened by the weight of history. like a six episode serialized run abt the rich interior life of todd flanders w/o any jokes (or really i guess attempts at jokes) a goof episode where every homer line gets sd by lisa long ibsenesque episodes abt the cypress creek bourgeoisie

mordy otm

like at this point 'the simpsons' is such a richly detailed world to set stories in couldnt someone find interesting ones to tell outside of w/e crappy jokeless adventures are being inflicted on the simpsons in their own familial hell????

maybe they should all die in a fire

then family guy moves into their house

like a six episode serialized run abt the rich interior life of todd flanders w/o any jokes (or really i guess attempts at jokes) a goof episode where every homer line gets sd by lisa long ibsenesque episodes abt the cypress creek bourgeoisie

this sounds like Moral Oral

well yeah starburns got through what two seasons before he realized telling the same story abt the same character every episode was p limiting?

anyway i like jho's idea wheres my phone need to call fox...

holy shit bob's burgers was like worse than american dad wtf you guys

http://media.fox.com/media/progressive/51296410001/51296410001_740929083001_ari-origin05-arc-639-1294365549280.jpg?pubId=51296410001

like at this point 'the simpsons' is such a richly detailed world to set stories in couldnt someone find interesting ones to tell outside of w/e crappy jokeless adventures are being inflicted on the simpsons in their own familial hell????

Isn't this "22 Short Films About Springfield"?

like at this point 'the simpsons' is such a richly detailed world to set stories in couldnt someone find interesting ones to tell outside of w/e crappy jokeless adventures are being inflicted on the simpsons in their own familial hell????

― tumblr wights (є(٥_ ٥)э), Friday, December 30, 2011 6:26 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i love this & think it's p much otm, & i kinda remember that south park getting good was the result of them embracing the sort of roaming-eye-around-the-village thing in which we dipped into weird strands of suburban life, rather than just played with the kids. but i think the thing that it requires is just originality & good writing, rather than reliance on guest stars & absurd premises - shit like the reclaiming-the-lemon-tree-from-shelbyville ep was a great exploration of a weird story in the daily life of a small town, & they don't do that anymore, they always end up on safari or in japan or swapping jobs with steve martin or w/e (tbh even this is lazy crit based on what it was like five years ago, i can't imagine where it's stooped to now)

The show is said to fill the void created by the cancellation of King of the Hill, which Bob's Burgers executive producer Jim Dauterive worked on for nearly its entire run.[5]

BTW, I have mused about writing a Ulysses-inspired episode done in an ineluctable "Trilogy of Errors"/"Simpsons Bible Stories" modality. Debating on opening lines: "The Simpsons are going to Ireland!" or "Introibo ad altare Dei."

the void in the schedules or the void

is bob of bob's burgers supposed to be asian? I can't tell

whiney if you hate home movies then nobody really needs to hear your opinion on bob's burgers

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.

the show prob should have just kept introducing new regular characters

yeah the premise of the show is 'most hairy-armed asian man in the world opens a burger joint' xpost

asians can be hairy-armed

maybe those are just tribal tattoos

i like home movies iirc

Or horrible oil burns.

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.

Or horrible oil burns.

― 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?

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

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

this is a comedy show

btw - david cross has been in archer. and pretty much everything else (heard him on aqua teen hunger force the other night). i wouldn't exactly call him the model of comedy integrity.

i dunno if there is anyone i'd call the model of comedy integrity. louie ck maybe, if you go for that sort of thing.

um Home Movies was amazing xxxxposts eat a dick die mothafucka

1999-2000 was literally the last time anyone debuted a prime time animated cartoon that wasn't pure steaming diharrea.

RONG

frisky dingo

I think you guys are strugglin with the word "prime time"

Literally no one in this thread is shitting on Home movies dude

sry i was going off what ship said about you hatin it

pulled a d33j and skimmed the thread. resume.

who cares if it's """prime time"""" a show either exists or it doesn't. cartoons generally aren't to begin w/ cause they're cartoons.

I do think that Adult Swim got oversaturated with extremely mediocre adult cartoons with retarded bizarre concepts over the last 5 years, but that's as obvious a point as saying 13 year old kids like pictures of boobs.

I was thinking about the 'what if ilx takes over the simpsons' concept upthread and I realized that it would prob just turn into an adult swim show

Bobs burgers and archer are great u soulless monster

I saw one episode of Bobs Burgers. I liked it, but I'm not sure how much of that aws due to the fact that I want to make love to H Jon Benjamin's voice

Iatee we are talkin about prime time cartoons itt, not just cartoons. Everyone knows Spongebob and Adventure Time rule

back in the day we had Rocko's Modern Life on the ole nickomolodeon

yeah but primetime cartoons on big networks have to aim for ~mainstreamer~ tastes which means they have to walk a thin line cause your mom has to like them too. overall it's prob easier to make a good cartoon show than ever.

I think what I'm trying to say is that this is whiney's moms fault

can we all agree that Allen Gregory is the worst show ever and just move on

Ive seen about four minutes and it was pretty much like 90% gay jokes. And at least two Hispanic people where it was clear a white person was doing the voice

JONAH HILL DONE IT AGAIN

Agree with poster way above, it'd be great to see utterly bizarre and experimental Simpsons. i feel like the characters and storylines are so well known that you don't even need jokes for weird narrative episodes to be funny. Good use of the existing capital.

Of course nothing like that would ever happen, unless whoever has control over the creative direction totally loses his/her mind.

it'd be great to see utterly bizarre and experimental Simpsons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_6Kp7q5tbA

yeah, that jumped to mind when i wrote that. I'd love to see, say, an episode where Milhouse falls in love with Bart and the entire thing is like some uber sentimental after-school special. No jokes, just really uncomfortable emotions and out-of-step seriousness. i'd find that funny, at least.

wtf was that

i want to see an episode where Milhouse and Bart are wrestling, put each other in sleeper holds, and both pass out, and lie on the ground motionless for the next 18 minutes

http://youtu.be/sM3fW2fylGk

whoops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM3fW2fylGk

OK, I'm done.

that video reminds me of when I used to test myself and see how long I could listen to this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX9e3ABDLzg

whiney so otm re: archer

yeah absolutely, IMO Archer is kinda in the same realm as stuff like Family Guy where the jokes come so fast and are spoken so confidently that you kind of feel like it just has to be funnier than it actually is

the only animation that really impressed me lately was some weird Adult Swim show called SuperJail (or something like that) that I caught while flipping through channels - I don't know if it was funny per se but the animation was really something

also that "bart the general" clip is really amazing, everyone should be watching this

like all that dumb "Dead Bart" creepypasta stuff was pretty annoying but it did strike me how cool it would be if they really did make an episode that was totally surreal and uncomfortable to watch. South Park kinda crossed this line with the "You're Getting Old" episode but I'd love it if they just once did something totally inexplicable

Superjail is turrible

bart the general is good but not as good as Dilbert 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8AUPSfgk18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021PPpmwX98

a talking DOG?!?!?!?!

its no http://i41.tinypic.com/25u0dhe.png, that's for sure

hey there was one episode on the other day where it was in the future and they were all the age they were supposed to be and and homer wasn't a drunk and maggie was a rock star. it was kind of cool. it could be almost ten years old though as far as know.

yeah, that was the christmas one

it was wasn't it...sometimes i forget all the details.