The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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I honsestly cant read that blog because of its politics. Deadhomersociety was the same but no where as upfront or retarded.

Regardless I think newer episodes use some sort of emotional blackmail to get the "simpsons is good again" crowd to like it. It loves to do unusual character pairings and emotional music montages so thyat reviewers are like "you see its so wholesome!!!!!!!!!!!!" The most revealing is the recent stew lies episode in which the entire first portion olf the episode is just an unrelated Bart and Lisa story that ends with an emotional sitcom hugs It is never mentioned again and is just to be "OMG wholesome!" The simpsons has always been about character dynamics but not in this way.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I saw some article on the show having another future episode with the joke that NBA is now MNBA and WNBA is now NBA. It's just so tiresome, old Simpsons would have enough balls to admit no one watched WNBA rather than do this Reddit tier takes.

Also the usual case of Bart being a loser and Lisa being successful (meaning no children and a career that will dump her at the same speed Snowball XCIII will eat her corpse) is so boring. South Park had more interesting future by playing with audience expectations rather than pretend that how children at the age of 10 behave will actually be reflected 35 years later.

Modern day adult Lisa would be at best some consultant to an NGO doing nothing to improve the world while drinking boxed wine every evening.
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Cartman self-improving and being 100% genuine with it and kicking Kyles ass to defend his family was something I would never expect. Then you have Stan and Kyle bitter because they became vapid adults with unfulfilled lives and bitterness.
 
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A good enough place to end the show would have been the Season 11 finale, “Behind the Laughter.” A meta-retrospective episode would’ve been a fine note to go out on. Anyway, that was 25 years ago.

Also, let's not forget that the "Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" episode lampooning past-their-prime TV shows turning to ever-more-desperate gimmicks to keep audiences watching aired twenty-eight years ago.
 
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We've had Disney's endless Simpsons stream on a bit and I recently caught part of one of the D+ exclusives, "The Past and the Furious." Leaving aside the plot and writing (bad), it features young Monty Burns. I was shocked at how great he sounded because Harry Shearer has sounded too old to perform Burns for some time now. Welp, turns out it was fucking Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

While it was a one time thing, it somewhat robbed me of hope that the show is ever going to end - I think we are just going to see recastings ad nauseum until the earth crashes into the sun (or the show becomes unprofitable).
 
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Commander X said:
A good enough place to end the show would have been the Season 11 finale, “Behind the Laughter.”
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That's what I think would've been a good final episode, though maybe it'd be better if the show ended by the end of S10. Which could've made "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" that final episode. Speaking of, I read somewhere that the episode did not air in Japan because of that one scene of Homer throwing the emperor into that bin full of sumo thongs.
 
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Commander X said:
A good enough place to end the show would have been the Season 11 finale, “Behind the Laughter.” A meta-retrospective episode would’ve been a fine note to go out on. Anyway, that was 25 years ago.
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Having the show end with a Christmas special would have also been fitting considering the first episode was a Christmas special.
 
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King Metalia said:
Having the show end with a Christmas special would have also been fitting considering the first episode was a Christmas special.
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True, I could see that work perfectly. Of course my idea of an end to the series is to have it be a homage to the creator, and reference this short made by Matt's father, Homer Groening.
 
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Commander X said:
A good enough place to end the show would have been the Season 11 finale, “Behind the Laughter.” A meta-retrospective episode would’ve been a fine note to go out on. Anyway, that was 25 years ago.

Also, let's not forget that the "Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" episode lampooning past-their-prime TV shows turning to ever-more-desperate gimmicks to keep audiences watching aired twenty-eight years ago.
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While not a season finale, "Gump Roast" would have also been a nice send off. Clip show highlighting the entire show, featuring a song at the end that mocked the show for its declining quality and how they would continue to run it into the ground.

My favorite thing that never gets discussed about that episode by the way is how they made a joke at the end of the song about Grandpa Simpsons marrying Patty and Selma to highlight a nonsensical episode plot, and yet nearly five years to the day that Gump Roast aired they ended up having an episode with that plot.
 
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LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2 said:
While not a season finale, "Gump Roast" would have also been a nice send off. Clip show highlighting the entire show, featuring a song at the end that mocked the show for its declining quality and how they would continue to run it into the ground.

My favorite thing that never gets discussed about that episode by the way is how they made a joke at the end of the song about Grandpa Simpsons marrying Patty and Selma to highlight a nonsensical episode plot, and yet nearly five years to the day that Gump Roast aired they ended up having an episode with that plot.
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I think that's the first non-THoH episode where Kang and Kodos have major speaking parts. iirc they just show up like Comic Book Guy or Sea Captain or something, like it's a normal thing. That's season 13 and the show had already been on WAY too long.
 
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This is my 2000th post.
I really like how they handled references in the older seasons.
Stuff like this is really tasteful. A nice, tongue in cheek parody that pays respects to the source material. Here's another perfect example:

In the new seasons, they just slap the pop culture references in directly with no taste. Shit like this.

P. S. Burns is a NIGGER
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TheArtilleryman said:
I wasn't ready for how hard "Simpson's Roasting on an Open Fire" was going to hit me after being away from real Simpsons for so long. We have to kill the show. This can't go on.
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Member when animation could actually be heartfelt and actually give you feels instead of just lolzsorandum (modern Simpsons) annoying (Bob's Burgers) or openly glorifying being a sociopath? (Rick and Morty)
 
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