When did you stop religiously watching The Simpsons

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Which season was the last you watched consistently

Pre-9
14
12%
9
6
5%
10
25
22%
11
22
19%
12
16
14%
13
10
9%
14
4
3%
15
4
3%
16
4
3%
17+/still watch
10
9%
 
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Postby goldmatt » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:03 am

Saddlesore Galactica was my breaking point.
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Postby quinine » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:20 am

I have watched thru the entire series many, many times and the tandem bike episode is also precisely where I come to the "abandon all hope, ye who enter here" moment. my best friend and I also watched them live back then, we knew they were bad but it was still something kind of special, partly because I wasn't allowed to watch it at home but I guess also because it still felt like at least someone was *trying* to make something that got people like us, which in retrospect of course was naive and unearned but probably is largely why it's still around. also the only better entertainment options we had were a handful of actual good episodes or mst3k airings with commercials sloppily edited out on disintegrating maxwell tapes.

I am ashamed to say my answer here is 17, but also offended at being lumped in with "still watch"
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Postby ocean pimp » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:23 am

lockheed's old roommate wrote:"up yours children!"


haha i forgot about this
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Postby furrowed brow » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:26 am

murray st. wrote:the principal and the pauper is extremely good

the audio commentary for it where the writer chastises the episode's critics for being fucking pedantic losers is one of my favorite things in the world


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Postby endless dave » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:43 am

I remember thinking The Simpsons was just THE funniest show in the world when I was a kid except for a few months when I was ten or so when I became dogmatic with my friends that Freakazoid, in fact, was now the funniest show on television
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Postby joe » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:46 am

skinner's mom in the principal and the pauper episode is great and she is an easy character to fuck up through overuse/dehumanizing (as they did in other episodes)
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Postby rich uncle skeleton » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:51 am

The commentary on the principal and the pauper is sick
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Postby joe » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:55 am

thank you for "talking simpsons" thread. starting in mid season three and this is amazing
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Postby florida man's old roommate » Fri Jun 23, 2017 1:54 am

always loved skinner's mom as a character, shes hillarious, ( i always thought the idea of skinner's mom making him retroactively payback the food he ate as a child was the funniest idea in the world) also all the references to psycho :D

i dont really think that the principal and the pauper was the "jump the shark moment" like peeps on the internet say (ie the episodes wiki page) i agree that more when al jean took over and digitalized it, is when it all started to go wrong.
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Postby florida man's old roommate » Fri Jun 23, 2017 2:13 am

rich uncle skeleton wrote:The commentary on the principal and the pauper is sick


any links to this ?
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Postby joe » Fri Jun 23, 2017 2:30 am

you can get commentary on simpsons world

http://www.simpsonsworld.com/video/436505155662

you can get a preview or login if you have cable
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Postby Kenny » Fri Jun 23, 2017 3:46 am

john penis wrote:I have watched thru the entire series many, many times and the tandem bike episode is also precisely where I come to the "abandon all hope, ye who enter here" moment. my best friend and I also watched them live back then, we knew they were bad but it was still something kind of special, partly because I wasn't allowed to watch it at home but I guess also because it still felt like at least someone was *trying* to make something that got people like us, which in retrospect of course was naive and unearned but probably is largely why it's still around. also the only better entertainment options we had were a handful of actual good episodes or mst3k airings with commercials sloppily edited out on disintegrating maxwell tapes.

I am ashamed to say my answer here is 17, but also offended at being lumped in with "still watch"


It was just because of the limit in poll options. I had actually gone up to 20+/Still watch but had to cut it down
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Postby Kenny » Sun Jun 25, 2017 9:21 am

I've been watching through the 10th season as I do housework/dishes etc. and it's weird to feel so ambivalent, since I watched these when they were new and they still have some funny bits but they are obviously bad.

It's like they lost the momentum of creating new memes (to use 2017 words) and started commenting on other people's memes.

I think S10E07 "Lisa Gets An A" is a good episode though.
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Postby waldojeffers1 » Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:13 am

season 9 is when I stopped watching regularly, although I've still seen a good number of post-9 episodes
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Postby Althea » Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:59 am

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Lawrence Tierney guest starred in the episode as Don Brodka. Another former show runner, Josh Weinstein, called Tierney's appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had". In addition to yelling at and intimidating employees of the show, Tierney made unreasonable requests, such as abandoning his distinctive voice to do the part in a southern accent and refusing to perform lines if he did not "get the jokes".[5] Despite this, Oakley and Weinstein thought Tierney did a good job. Weinstein said, "He certainly delivered and he's one of my favorite characters we have had [on the show]."[6] After Tierney's death, the episode "The Old Man and the Key" was dedicated to him.


The "everything except capiche" exchange between Don Broadka and Bart is my vote for the funniest joke in the series' run.

I bought dollar bin copies of the season four and five DVDs years ago and now my kids are super into them. One of their friends was over yesterday and she said "what's the Simpsons?" which made me feel as old as the hills.
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Postby Kenny » Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:03 pm

I've been watching Season 10 plus while i do dishes and stuff and it's weird how many things I think of as Simspsons canon come from them. Like Apu having 8 kids is from season 11, and so is Moe's No Funeral thing.
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Postby Limoges » Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:35 pm

I stopped watching weekly whilst new episodes were still shown on Sky One and were sponsored by Dominos Pizza. 2003? I guess my giving up had more to do with getting broadband internet / Xbox live than not thinking it was funny anymore. I actually don't think I even noticed a quality decline until I watched a 2008 episode about an Islamic family Homer mistakes as terrorists. I haven't seen a more recent episode than that because yikes.

Difficult to fathom how there are probably 250 - 300 episodes of The Simpsons that I've never seen.
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Postby sordid affair » Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:23 am

andrei wrote: i heard james joyce is tough, this is probably like the james joyce of rap, ostensibly, if you wanna think of it in those terms. haha, and it bumps, too!


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Postby furrowed brow » Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:34 am

You have to admit, though, he's one of the most smartly-written racial stereotypes ever.
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Postby Kenny » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:21 pm

Apu is definitely racist and I don't think you even have to be woke to see. I've been rewatching old simpsons eps with the Talking Simpsons podcast and every time Apu comes up is pretty :? :? :?
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Postby Cartman Sandiego » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:45 pm

ive seen every episode through season 28 just because i want to see the zany things that happen. fat tony and selma get married, there's a show about moe's rag, paul rudd encourages kareem abdul jabbar to choke homer, homer becomes a glenn beck-style news pundit...
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Postby furrowed brow » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:46 pm

does Maggie ever talk?
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Postby joe » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:48 pm

Apu as a white dude in 'brown face' is 100% on point. I think I always assumed it was a self-depreciating Indian dude voicing it until I learned otherwise, but that was probably willfully naive of me. Azaria also voices Lou and Carl, but they aren't caricatures the same way Apu is.

edit: also Shearer as Hibbert
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Postby Cartman Sandiego » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:49 pm

yeah in a lot of episodes, but the most well-known instance is "lisa's first word" where she says daddy and is voiced by elizabeth taylor
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Postby Cartman Sandiego » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:55 pm

In the final scene, Gil thinks he's found a new friend in a weakened Taquito who licks Gil's hand and barks happily. Gil doesn't realize the Chihuahua is only being friendly so he can get a taste for Gil before the poor ex-salesman finally dies and Taquito eats his corpse.
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Postby furrowed brow » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:57 pm

Potential Boarder wrote:yeah in a lot of episodes, but the most well-known instance is "lisa's first word" where she says daddy and is voiced by elizabeth taylor


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Postby hologram » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:58 pm

when did Simpsons start drawing faces on inanimate objects

I know the show doesn't have legs to stand on but talk about a crutch
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