The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

"No the later seasons aren't THAT bad!"

The later seasons:
 
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King Metalia said:
I happened to enjoy Homer's Enemy. Why does everyone else here seem to dislike it so much?
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I'm surprised too. To me it's the last episode of the "real" Simpsons—literally the finale, acknowledging that the show's become too folded in on itself to go on. It was the right time to stop, and they knew it, and they didn't do it.

Another odd phenomenon, not so present here but in general internet commentary, is an insistence that what went wrong with The Simpsons is that what it parodied—idealized-family sitcoms—stopped existing, so the show had to become something else to go on, and that something else is the retarded shit that is "zombie Simpsons."

I'm old and I remember what was on TV back then, not as a list of show names but as actual things I saw. The idealized-family sitcom was already a dead object of mockery before the Simpsons began. (Remember Alf?) It was one of many '80s dances on the grave of the genre. (So was Family Ties, but that's not how people remember it.) The Simpsons was the funniest one—or maybe second behind Seinfeld, which started at almost exactly the same time and mocked the dead genre in a different way.

People are adopting/imitating the cultural "memory" of chatbots. LLMs know what people say about things. They don't know the things. People say The Simpsons was a scathing rebuke to the oppressive moralizing sameness of the programming of its time. Was it? Was The Andy Griffith Show the hegemonic televisual paradigm of 1989?

No, it was Roseanne—a scathing rebuke to blah blah blah.
 
No-Eyed Square Guy said:
People are adopting/imitating the cultural "memory" of chatbots. LLMs know what people say about things. They don't know the things. People say The Simpsons was a scathing rebuke to the oppressive moralizing sameness of the programming of its time. Was it? Was The Andy Griffith Show the hegemonic televisual paradigm of 1989?

No, it was Roseanne—a scathing rebuke to blah blah blah.
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People act like the 90s were like the 50s meanwhile I can’t remember anything for kids that didn’t involve Barf, Rap or rock music, bugs, eyeballs, you name it gross edgy weird stuff, wacky yellow people with a skateboard boy and slingshot was more of a sign of the time over some really thoughtful genius critique that these people say it is It had. It lost its edge when the 2000s came

you ever wonder what a scathing rebuke of today would be like? If they allowed it?
 
I was a Teenage “JA”-man said:
People act like the 90s were like the 50s meanwhile I can’t remember anything for kids that didn’t involve Barf, Rap or rock music, bugs, eyeballs, you name it gross edgy weird stuff, wacky yellow people with a skateboard boy and slingshot was more of a sign of the time over some really thoughtful genius critique that these people say it is It had. It lost its edge when the 2000s came

you ever wonder what a scathing rebuke of today would be like? If they allowed it?
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Just feels like we've dialed back since the 90's, we're becoming as repressive as our grandparents.
 
Trilby said:
Just feels like we've dialed back since the 90's, we're becoming as repressive as our grandparents.
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As repressive as your grand parents?

Why is this some universal bullshit people fall for? Movies today are infinitely more censored than they where in the 1980s. Zero blood or tits/heterosexuality or harsh language in mainstream movies nowadays.

The only repressive people back the where the same ones today, leftist. It was leftist that pushed for music warning labels, not the right. This is easily one of the biggest gas lighting operations in the last century.
 
The Simpsons lost a lot of its luster once I realized most of its humor is just ancient pop-culture references that nobody understands anymore

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74164978231 said:
The only repressive people back the where the same ones today, leftist. It was leftist that pushed for music warning labels, not the right. This is easily one of the biggest gas lighting operations in the last century.
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I’d say it was just middle aged wine moms doing what they do best the marge simpsons and the yes-men who loved them, politics unrelated. people were slightly more homogeneous pre-bush
Joshua Cohen Mohnstein said:
The Simpsons lost a lot of its luster once I realized most of its humor is just ancient pop-culture references that nobody understands anymore

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true, but they make references that have already aged poorly even today that were made in 2016.
 
I was a Teenage “JA”-man said:
I’d say it was just middle aged wine moms doing what they do best the marge simpsons and the yes-men who loved them, politics unrelated. people were slightly more homogeneous pre-bush
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it was Tipper Gore, wife of future Democrat Nominee for president (who ran with a VP pick famous for being big mad at video games)
Tipper Gore literally had congressional hearings over music lyrics, it was a lot more than some old bastard making his sermon about how poogermans and the metallicas are the devil.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
it was Tipper Gore, wife of future Democrat Nominee for president (who ran with a VP pick famous for being big mad at video games)
Tipper Gore literally had congressional hearings over music lyrics, it was a lot more than some old bastard making his sermon about how poogermans and the metallicas are the devil.
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Oprah and hillary too ugh… I remember the “Marilyn manson and doom caused columbine and how it’s the equivalent of lead paint causing brain damage” and how they backpedal now because to appeal to the youths they do it now with like the contemporary art which is pandering to a small minority of youth nowadays (my nimbyist family still hates my stuff)
What’s funny now is the fact that the Simpsons sucks up to these kinds of people after years of being witch hunted than again these politicians never truly squished it, just bitched about it.
 
2007 was an interesting time for The Simpsons. There was a feature film in theatres, then a self-referential video game unrelated to the movie a few months later. Of course, it's simply titled The Simpsons Game.


This game is special for a number of reasons: it was written by original writers Tim Long, Matt Selman, and Matt Warburton; three different versions of it exist across its six released platforms (360 and PS3 includes an interactive hub world Springfield; PS2, PSP and Wii versions do not; the DS version is a straight-up 2D platformer with an interactive "Pet Homer" section); each version of The Simpsons Game has different cover arts; and it's the last console video game featuring the Simpsons license.

I've 100%'d The Simpsons Game on my Xbox 360. The writing is top-notch; the plot goes as follow: the Simpsons family finds out they're in a video game from a mysterious manual falling from the heavens. Together, they use their newly found video game powers for selfish reasons before Springfield gets invaded by Kudos and Kados. Now, they must use their powers to save Springfield and find their creator.

As of now, EA still owns the exclusive video games rights to The Simpsons IP, but they have not done anything with it since The Simpsons: Tapped Out.
 
The Last Stand said:
I've 100%'d The Simpsons Game on my Xbox 360.
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I would've too if the d pad wasn't so finicky. I played that ddr challenge over and over damn near flawlessly, but my dpad kept adding in random adjacent inputs so I never ended up getting that achievement for clearing it perfectly.

But yes, absolutely great game. Won't get too into it for people who haven't played it but it really comes across as a game made by people who like video games. Plenty of fun and creative references that are actually integrated into the game as a whole beyond just "hey look, remember that game?" Maybe not quite as good as Hit and Run but it was still a shockingly good licensed game. Highly recommend (especially with local co op with a friend, though it will have performance issues on the original 360)
 
synthetic_glazer said:
I would've too if the d pad wasn't so finicky. I played that ddr challenge over and over damn near flawlessly, but my dpad kept adding in random adjacent inputs so I never ended up getting that achievement for clearing it perfectly.
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They didn’t fully account for the 360’s mushy D-Pad for that minigame. There’s a massive difficulty spike right before meeting God with Benjamin Franklin as well.

Anyway, one tip I have is to not press both directions at once, rather do them one RIGHT after the other. The timing may take some getting used to when the characters come down the screen, but it isn’t too hard. If you mess up, just mash the D-Pad until you fail to start over.
 
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