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The Simpsons |OT2| It's a pornography thread- We were posting pornography
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Rhomega Beta
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As an '80s fan, this is awesome! Also, I'm in the mood to go to the...Wod...Fir.
LordOfChaos
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Generally I feel the Simpsons has been having a lot of phoned in episodes...But damn, Barthood had some feels.
Nerdkiller
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People still say that?
Quick. Someone back me up with a reference relating to...oh nevermind, thought of one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0wTtiJygY
LordOfChaos
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Nerdkiller
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You're playing with fire by bringing in non-Simpsons related images into a Simpsons thread.
LordOfChaos
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Let me atone with this
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Rhomega Beta
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You could call them Whitey Whackers!
and here come the pretzels
Zombie Lyle
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Chief Wiggum: So Superintendent Chalmers can vouch for your whereabouts?
Seymour Skinner: Oh, yes... But anything else he tells you is a filthy lie.
Patrick Bateman
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Bah!
This scene is actually in Steve Jobs when they go over Apple's various failures during the 90s lol.
Also, I'm currently going through season 9 and... man. Such a steep drop in quality from season 8 watching them back to back. With the family in disarray, episodes increasingly resorted to gimmicky premises and nonsensical plots. They deal with some really weird and sometimes depressing themes, too. You have the twin towers, Skinner isn't actually Skinner, Homer buys a gun, carnies, the Simpsons house being stolen from them, religious cult brainwashes the town... yikes.
Zombie Lyle
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How are the twin towers a depressing theme? I mean... The episode is from the 90s.
I don't know... I don't think the plots were too weird at that point. The new York one is one of my favorites.
Especially the ending.
UberTag
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I see you've been introduced to Mike Scully.
The steep drop is however not really related to a specific season, considering the weird production cycle. The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson is in reality a season 8 episode, as is The Principal and the Pauper. They overproduced a lot in season 7.
That would explain a lot.
I have a theory that when the show started to decline is when Groening stopped paying as much attention to it because he was working on Futurama.
Blue Ninja
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Is Groening still actively involved with the show at this point? I know he's doing that new Netflix thing, too.
He wrote Loan-A-Lisa in season 22. But let's be honest, was he actually involved after season 2? because that is the end of his role as showrunner, he did like five episodes as a writer and for the rest he was credited as executive producer, but he still has that role.
Blue Ninja
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Good point, yeah.
The credits state Valentina Garza wrote that episode.
Groening's only writing credits in the series are Some Enchanted Evening, The Tell-Tale Head, Colonel Homer, 22 Short Films About Springfield, and the movie.
Oh yeah, he developed Loan-A-Lisa.
Boss Doggie
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It's the little things that I enjoy in the classic episodes.
Like in "The Day Violence Died", it has a small commentary on how having more money won't make you "rich".
Like in "The Day Violence Died", it has a small commentary on how having more money won't make you "rich".
Obviously the episode takes on a whole new meaning watching it now. I personally can't see the twin towers and not think about 9/11 at this point. Makes the episode hard to watch now, which is a shame because it was one of my favorites.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Did they ever show the income of the Simpsons family
Rhomega Beta
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No, but it must be pretty good considering Homer's the only worker and supporting a family of 5, 2 pets, two cars, a mortgage, and can travel around the world on a whim. 6 figures, maybe?
And lobsters for dinner and his son owns a factory.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
On one hand, he works in a power plant.
On the other hand, it is owned by Burns, and he likes to go cheap on workers.
On the other hand, it is owned by Burns, and it he could be pretty much tricked into giving workers good pay.
That's why I was wondering. They talk about money problems yet most of the time they don't seem to have an issue.
On the other hand, it is owned by Burns, and he likes to go cheap on workers.
On the other hand, it is owned by Burns, and it he could be pretty much tricked into giving workers good pay.
That's why I was wondering. They talk about money problems yet most of the time they don't seem to have an issue.
Speaking of which, what was the deal with Herman in that ep? Was he into sadism?
Rhomega Beta
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Aside from the reference to Pulp Fiction that's been going on through the episode, I got nothing.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I miss out the reference then if that was point, although I thought he had that sadist streak in some of his short appearances.
It's purely just a Pulp Fiction reference. Everything that leads up to it is as well.
Yeah with the Pulp Fiction reference two characters brawl into a store and they are both captured by the store's owner who happens to be a sadist. Just from the characters they had to pull from for that role, I think it had to either be Herman, Comic Book Guy, or the guy who owns King Toots music store. They probably went the right way with it.
It was a different time. The early 90s was a time where a guy could own a house, support his kids on a bad paycheck. They mostly skirt around it nowadays showing them they live paycheck to paycheck. And of course, there was the Grimes episode lampshading it.
Well there was this:
I actually don't know if it that is good or bad for people back then.
That's like $12/hour. Minimum wage was $4.75 in 1996 according to my Google FU. You know assuming the episode took place in the year it aired.
It's the biggest tax increase in history!Well there was this:
Actually it's the lowest tax increase in history, dad.