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DannyJC13
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Hopefully, next year, he'll run out of cheap ways to keep people interested and go back to the Futurama crossover well.
"In the season 28 premiere it turns out that...um...all three of the kids were adopted!"
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Scrappylive
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« Reply #209 on: 06-13-2015 01:15 »
« Last Edit on: 06-13-2015 01:19 »
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The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant must have a really lax system of employment. They let him come back to his old job every time! I honestly expected Homer to be stranded in space when he became an astronaut and the rest of the show would be about him trying to re-establish contact with Earth. Bart would grow up to become an astronaut so as to search the stars for his father. They had me really worried there! Fool me 574 times, shame on you. Fool me 575 times, shame on me. I remember when they killed off Maude. This was before the internet was quite so ubiquitous, so there was some actually mystery there. I deduced that it had to be Maude based on what they were showing in the commercials (Ned was shown looking over the rails) and common sense (they weren't going to kill off a main character). I had no idea Maggie Roswell was leaving he show, so that information did not influence me. I shared my deductions and my siblings got mad at me for "ruining the (obvious) surprise."
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Tachyon
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« Reply #213 on: 06-15-2015 04:58 »
« Last Edit on: 06-15-2015 05:09 »
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Tachyon
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« Reply #215 on: 06-15-2015 06:04 »
« Last Edit on: 06-15-2015 06:06 »
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Sorry; I sometimes forget how much of a pain it is, fighting with absurd copyright laws from another country. And on your phone, too. edit: (and media plugins) It's the "I AM SPARTACUS" scene from the 1960 film (imdb).
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Gorky
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Ugh, what a little bitch. I would have had a degree of respect for Harry Shearer if he'd framed his contract dispute as an objection to the show's shit-tastic quality - if he'd acted from a place of artistic integrity - and might have even encouraged his jumping ship. Didn't he flat-out say the show had gone to hell 10 years ago during the last The Whole Cast is Gonna Be Fired and Replaced debacle? It's certainly still a valid argument!
But this whole "not enough time for side projects" excuse was so silly; at this point, The Simpsons is his side project. This retroactively seems like such a crass publicity stunt on Shearer's part, and that's just so yucky. I guess I'm glad he's sticking around, if only because his characters are so iconic and central to many people's enjoyment of the show - but the part of me that's been hoping for something to put this show out of its misery already is quite bummed. Oh well...
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Beamer
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Yeah, I guess this is good news. Didn't he flat-out say the show had gone to hell 10 years ago during the last The Whole Cast is Gonna Be Fired and Replaced debacle?
He's made a lot of vague statements that would certainly imply that's his opinion, but I've never been able to find a quote of him outright saying the show is terrible now. ...The part of me that's been hoping for something to put this show out of its misery already is quite bummed.
To be fair, as much as I'd like to see The Simpsons put out of its misery, it doesn't look like that would've been the case even if Shearer had quit for good. At this rate, I'd say it's going to take a major cast death before they even consider it.
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Beamer
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Well, that was one of the worst episodes the show has ever produced.
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Beamer
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Weird, it actually sounds like they do have a multi-episode story arc planned for this season. But yeah, I think the cop-out dream ending definitely brought this one down a few pegs, but even then, I only chuckled once the entire episode, and groaned many times. It wasn't quite "talking dish rag" bad, but it was definitely up there for me.
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Beamer
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I wouldn't be surprised if the term "multi-episode story arc" is being used quite loosely here - I highly doubt we're going to have episodes ending on cliffhangers and plots continuing over consecutive episodes or anything like that. Much more likely, I'd say we get one episode where Smithers coming out to Mr. Burns is the main story, and then another episode later in the season with a B-plot pertaining to Smithers now being out of the closet. The show doesn't do multi-episode arcs in the way that, say, South Park or Archer sometimes does, but they have had sequel episodes before (ie. Alone Again, Natura-diddily and I'm Goin' to Praiseland, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? and Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?, etc.) - and some minor characters have had continuity with their stories, such as the Apu episodes in seasons 9 through to 13, the relationships with Edna and Skinner (and later Flanders), the early Sideshow Bob episodes, and those terrible episodes with Cletus's daughter that no one gives a shit about.
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