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The Simpsons 600 Marathon |OT| | Starting Thursday at Noon EST / 9am PST on FXX
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I might be able to catch the Joy of Sect in a bit, and if I can watch Simpson Tide later, that will be a satisfactory conclusion to the marathon.
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Don't you hate pants?!
redmetal86
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YAH!
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lmao. Hail to the Chimp.
friskykillface
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Simpson tide hype in less than an hour
ThePrequelsSuck
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Keep going guys. I want to see the thread reach s10 at least.
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The last marathon thread made it close to a full 8,400 replies.
That said, 7,200 of those replies came through the first 9 seasons - so we're in the tail end of things interest-wise now.
I'll do my part to keep the thread hopping by calling attention to high-quality episodes throughout the remainder of the marathon's run but if folks want to just tune out and bury themselves in something else that's all fine and good, too.
I'm not much of a fan of it, either.
I enjoy it less than the two high-quality HD era Christmas episodes.
I really had to suspend my disbelief that the rest of the family would be so gullible as to believe Bart's half-baked lies.
The Trebek cameo amused me, at least.
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The Simpsons just isn't a draw anymore.
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More like the last marathon ran during the dead of summer and was a rather new novelty.
This one has a ton of outside competition for time from games, movies, other television, sports, etc. and it's not exactly a fresh idea any more.
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Man, i hate to beat a dead horse but these seasons after 6 just don't have that feeling that the earlier does. Art got too clean.
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The Internet wasn't nearly as robust.
People often had to write actual letters to complain about how offended they were about something.
More often than not they didn't even bother.
That, and didn't James L. Brooks arrange a special deal for the show so it didn't have to obey censor notes anywhere near as other shows of its day? Correct me if I'm wrong.
friskykillface
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I just hate that episodes run during the early am
I would have added like 100+ more replies if I saw the early am episodes
I would have added like 100+ more replies if I saw the early am episodes
ThePrequelsSuck
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I don't think FXX advertised this second marathon as much.
I don't think they even started a hashtag.
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Kinda lame confession: Lost Our Lisa is the first ever Simpsons episode I remember seeing. Born in '89 so I was too young for the classics.
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Depending on who you ask, we're still be in the classics. 
I may be alone here, but I thought that the first 2/3rds of season 10 were pretty good. Not as good as the "classic era", of course, but it still felt pretty "season 9-ish" in terms of pacing and humor.
But then you get to the last 1/3rd of season 10, with episodes such as "The Old Man and the C Student" and "Monty Can't Buy Me Love", which feel like tired self-parodies with bland homer-centric bullshit, thin plots, wooden dialogue, and stiff UGLY fucking animation.
When I watched the first FXX marathon of the show, I thought "I'm still enjoying the ride so far, let's bring it on" at the beginning of S10. However, by the end of that season, I thought "Wow, this is already fucking terrible, they should've put the show out of its misery at this point." I'm sure most others felt the same. And this marathon will bring the same feeling over the next several hours.
I may be alone here, but I thought that the first 2/3rds of season 10 were pretty good. Not as good as the "classic era", of course, but it still felt pretty "season 9-ish" in terms of pacing and humor.
But then you get to the last 1/3rd of season 10, with episodes such as "The Old Man and the C Student" and "Monty Can't Buy Me Love", which feel like tired self-parodies with bland homer-centric bullshit, thin plots, wooden dialogue, and stiff UGLY fucking animation.
When I watched the first FXX marathon of the show, I thought "I'm still enjoying the ride so far, let's bring it on" at the beginning of S10. However, by the end of that season, I thought "Wow, this is already fucking terrible, they should've put the show out of its misery at this point." I'm sure most others felt the same. And this marathon will bring the same feeling over the next several hours.
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Phil Hartman's last role is coming up.
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I think we all miss Phil. It's crazy to imagine what kind of episodes we'd have gotten focused on Lionel and Troy had he not been killed. Although, given how the quality of the show regressed, I'm not sure his characters would be as fondly cherished as they are now.
Incidentally, I just realized that I'm now officially older than Phil was when he died and I've accomplished so much less in life. Ah well.
Fun fact... Hartman voiced Mr. Wilson in the old Dennis the Menace cartoons that ran during the 1980s. He also voiced Dennis' father. Never made that connection before.
Episodes where the guests are playing a character are alright but episodes where the special guest stars play themselves are usually pretty bad.
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Yeah, I can't defend it. Homer behaves like an obnoxious asshole pretty much the entire way through as well.
I can think of countless HD era episodes that are better.
There are a handful of exceptions.
Stephen Hawking
Neil Gaiman
Gary Coleman
Stan Lee
Mark Hamill
Adam West
Lucy Lawless
Richard Dean Anderson
Countless MLB Players in Homer at the Bat
But yeah, for the most part I'm in complete agreement. The guest star performances I remember are the ones where celebs play characters... not animated versions of themselves.
They aren't always terrible but this one was just so damn forced. I don't think any of the jokes land well and after a while its just basically,"ohh celebrities!"
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This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
Yup, I remember thinking the same thing when it first aired; I felt like it was the start of the decline (more of a steady slope than a steep one at that point).
Homer at the Bat still the GOAT
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As much as I enjoy the idea of Uptown Girl as a protest song, Homer spends the majority of that episode acting like a complete asshole as well.
That's a running theme of most of the terrible early post-Classic era episodes.
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