SteveWinwood
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I never watched the simpsons so
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I never watched the simpsons so
Servbot #42
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My condolences to Jeff, i dunno how it is in America but i hope the company can give him some time off to properly grieve. Still i know Jeff will be allright in the end.
SteveWinwood
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FRAUD
It's what the kids call "Youtube fodder". It has already been covered by PewDiePie, so mission accomplished I guess? Also, the scaling of things in that game is all wrong.
I would seriously recommend watching some episodes of the very early seasons of the Simpsons. They are classics.
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Anyone born in the 80s probably got more than a handful of pop culture experiences through the simpsons. as an example, the ending of the original Planet of the Apes was spoiled for me through the Simpsons.
no excuses for attributing that reference to Sunny, though. People need to step up their game.
It's strange. These games are oftentimes so imbalanced from a narrative perspective because much more thought is put into the lore than the actual plot of the game itself. I can understand budget constraints and all that jazz, but considering the backstory is of a young girl's attempted suicide who is assigned to an asylum for the insane only to become embroiled in some supernatural hooky dooky all I see now is a wasted opportunity.
Go watch it. Not only is it a great movie, but by having not seen it you're missing an essential barometer by which to measure all villainous characters you encounter in future fiction be it video games or otherwise.
This is like only playing video games released after you were born. SO MUCH GOOD STUFF IF YOU DELVE BACK INTO THE ANNALS OF HISTORY.
I had vague recollections of a Simpsons scene but I wasn't certain. I wasn't completely sure of what the original reference was either. I've never seen One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (And probably never will, suck on it film nerds) but I assumed that's where the scene was taken from just because people got pissy about it and it was related to a mental institution.
Simpsons has been flat awful for the entire lifetime of the average Giant Bomb user. Always Sunny has been a far superior show for its entire existence and possibly a more relevant cultural touchstone to many people under 30.
SteveWinwood
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I would seriously recommend watching some episodes of the very early seasons of the Simpsons. They are classics.
i never really watched it
never interested me
i got to college and had a good friend who could basically recite every line from the first 7 or so seasons and i ended up watching a few episodes here and there
i watched probably around 14 episodes in that fxx marathon
its a funny show dont get me wrong i just hold little reverence for it since i didnt grow up on it
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Eh, the only time I've watched a movie that aired before the year I was born, it was either in school to study it or it happened to be on free-to-air TV when friends are over.
Yup. Nurse Ratched will pretty much take the sting out of any fictional villain.
Lucky you then - lots of great films for you to experience for the first time.
Haunted
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Can't help but agree. I know that seems oddly specific, but that's exactly what this feels like.
Though competition in the space has heated up so much thanks to Pewdiepie and the dozens of copycat channels, I think that something as shoddily done as this won't gain traction.
Weird. You talk like danryckert but your username says Antiwhippy.
Haunted
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As fun as it is to poke fun at wrongly attributed pop-culture references, it's probably just an age/generational difference we have to accept.
Well, if you like movies, there's lots of excellent classics for you to catch up on, then.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I actually have no context of what this GIF means.
Eh, I honestly have very little interest in cinema as an entertainment medium.
Jimmyfenix
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Have i entered the Twilight zone?
Well, when this dude can get over 200k views playing this shitty gam and fake screaming every 10 seconds, you know that there's at least a market for even the copycats. But I have to imagine that people watching videos of such shitty games won't go out and buy them in large numbers at least.
Technosteve
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are you even an american
Skip the first season if you're gonna watch The Simpsons. But I recommend at least watching a few episodes and see if you like it. I never saw the show growing up because we didn't have any TV channel that showed the series, so I first began watching it when I was about 19-20. One of my favourite series all time for sure.
Freedom = $1.05
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I know, I know. I was once seeing a girl a few years younger than me and her cultural touchstones came from Hey Arnold. That's when I knew it, I had official crossed over to becoming an old person.
Hot Coldman
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AKA the internet's most overrated show?
bender
What time is it?
Breaking Bad would like to have a word with you.
Jimmyfenix
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I hated Futurama.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
If you are younger than 20 years old, I can see why you would skip The Simpsons. The last 10 years of episodes are terrible.
Jimmyfenix
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Yup i can agree with this. I loved every episode prior to that though.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I know I did.
Didn't really watch many movies when I was younger so I'm pretty sure 80% of all my "pop-culture" knowledge comes from the Simpsons
bender
What time is it?
It's been terrible for longer than that, sadly.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Season 14 was the last season with some really good episodes. Not many but some.
Bahahahaha. Oh man, oh man. You slay me, GBGaf.
fierrotlepou
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First try, I'm proud of you Drew!
EmCeeGramr
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i can't get over this internal monologue in The Spooky Hat Ghostman
geeze louise, if you think this nuthouse is bad, try my wife's cookin'! [bow tie spins around]
geeze louise, if you think this nuthouse is bad, try my wife's cookin'! [bow tie spins around]
fierrotlepou
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bender
What time is it?
Check out Godfellas, The Sting and Lethal Inspection if you haven't. Futurama had a great run before being cancelled. The movies weren't very good and the Comedy Central runs were hit and miss. It just never had a chance to overstay its' welcome like the Simpsons which is why I appreciate it. I used to love the Simpsons (started with the Tracey Ullman show) but it lost its way which is understandable considering its' tenure.
DanRyckert
A good strange little man
I probably saw The Simpsons reference the water fountain thing before I saw One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but I was definitely referring to the latter. One of my favorite movies ever.
bigwinnerx
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Simpsons came out when I was about 11, lived through all the merchandising/Bart shirts getting banned at school ("I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?").
Coming in at lunch and talking about the show the night before with your friends. It was glorious all the way through high school and first little bit of college. Then as much as I faded away from watching it due to other things, the show fell off, too. It was like a mutual breakup. But man, those first few years were great.
Coming in at lunch and talking about the show the night before with your friends. It was glorious all the way through high school and first little bit of college. Then as much as I faded away from watching it due to other things, the show fell off, too. It was like a mutual breakup. But man, those first few years were great.
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