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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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Indeed it was. He was better than most guest spots, too. The episode as a whole was better than most recent episodes. Perhaps the movie reinvigorated the writing team. Yeah, the opening was a little late season-esque, but the overall plot was fairly decent. I give it a B-. A nice season premiere episode.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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Man I hope someone puts that Plopper intro onto YouTube. The episode sounds shit, but the intro sounds like good fun!...
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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The Season 19 premiere was decent. Not great, but better than a lot of episodes last season.
The suggestion that this intro will replace the old one (which they've been using for 18 years) is stupid, though. Think about it. Why would they permanently use an intro in which the town is in ruins when everything's back to normal in the show itself? It's clearly just a one-off thing to cap the movie and that's it.
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gaschief
Professor
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Tree house of horror episodes rock. Is there any plan to release them as a complete set? Has it happened already and Ive missed it? please, please say yes!
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Fry12
Crustacean
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Sundays episode was great. The best part was with Wiggum and the stuffed monkey.
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MrBlonde
Liquid Emperor
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Originally posted by IamBender: Originally posted by Bendersfan1221: Spider Pig has a great theme song though... you mean liek speedo..err..spider man?
It's "liek" Spider Man but it's not "like" Spiderman. Terrible jokes aside, Spider Pig was a character intorduced in The Simpsons Movie a few months back.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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Classic Simpsons > Simpsons Movie > New Simpsons
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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The last two episodes were WAY BETTER than the first two episodes of this season. They were better written and not so much about "Homer is stupid" or "Homer gets a new job". Okay, so one of those two episodes was Homer gets a new job, but it was better, in my opinion, than the previous two. "I Don't Wanna Know" was the best of the season so far. It was a good Marge episode that was character driven, not zany antics driven. The Simpsons has strayed away from good character driven episodes. They've also taken too much interest in zany antics episodes, à la Family Guy. I think if the writers go back and watch episodes before Season 10 they'll realise better episode structures and make the return of good characters that haven't been on in a while. I hope that Treehouse of Horror is good.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Originally posted by i_c_weiner:I think if the writers go back and watch episodes before Season 10 they'll realise better episode structures and make the return of good characters that haven't been on in a while. I hope that Treehouse of Horror is good. I would have thought so too, but for years they've been re-watching the old episodes whilst recording DVD commentaries. Nothing changed with the new eps. Only the movie captures some of the magic of old....
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Officer 1BDI
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« Reply #235 on: 10-20-2007 11:38 »
« Last Edit on: 10-20-2007 11:38 »
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I... jeeze, I don't think I've watched a single episode from the new series. I might have caught the premiere, but if it's the episode I'm thinking of (Bart loses a baseball game, the town turns against him, and he throws himself off an effing water tower in despair), then the following remains valid: I just can't pretend to enjoy the show anymore.
Maybe I should give it, once again, one more chance, but based on what you guys are saying here, I think that would be a lost cause.
The movie was the kicker. They proved they can still do some good with this show with that movie, and yet OFF's still in the same rut that I started noticing in season 10. I'm tired of waiting for the characters, the plots, the writing, the everything to make a turnabout.
It's been said ad nauseum, but the people it's directed at don't seem to get the message: the show should end now. It should have ended five, even ten years ago, but now it's just... it's not even a shell of what it used to be. It's like someone took the husk and spliced it with Seth MacFarlane's brain*; it's a completely different beast at this point.
If some people still find enjoyment from the show, then that's great. I'm just not one of those people.
* Not that I think Seth MacFarlane is a horrible showrunner, because I do find some merit in AD, but Family Guy/American Dad are NOT The Simpsons (or they weren't...).
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ivan_fry
Bending Unit
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I might have caught the premiere, but if it's the episode I'm thinking of (Bart loses a baseball game, the town turns against him, and he throws himself off an effing water tower in despair), then the following remains valid: I just can't pretend to enjoy the show anymore. That episode is "The Boys of Bummer"; the premiere was "He Loves To Fly and He D'ohs", which had Homer becoming a pilot. To be honest, the last episode I *REALLY* enjoyed was "Girls Just Want To Have Sums", from Season 17. There were only three relatively good episodes in Season 18. Since people have brought up the subject of 'least favourite episode', mine is "Take My Wife, Sleaze" from Season 11.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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It's out now, I will be getting it hopefully for my Birthday...
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