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Zmithy

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I liked the Lost parody, first episode I've watched in a long time, and was pretty funny. Is the show less crap these days, or is it just a case of a few good eps scattered around an ocean of terrible?
Ideally, I'd like to start cherry-picking the best episodes to watch, no way I can be bothered to sit through all the bad ones.
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meisterPOOP

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Fry and Leela, Sharing their little world...
...A little world where there are sharing their world...
Now, that is BEATUIFUL.
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SolidSnake

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I think that the past 6 newer episodes of Season 23 is something die hard Simpson Fans can deal with. They actually weren't that bad. I actually think a few of them were actually entertaining, like Them, Robots and Beware my Cheating Bart. The Simpsons would be better off having their episodes like this, because there is probably not a chance in hell that they can get to their classic greatness again, but this is a little close to it. I got bad hopes for the one coming on tonight, because it sounds like a reused idea. -_-
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winna

Avatar Czar
DOOP Ubersecretary
 
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MuchAdo

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I hope they wrap the show up at 25 seasons and go on with more movies like Al Jean said they would do, after the series ends.
All good things must pass, what's wrong with wanting a little finality?
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Gorky

DOOP Secretary

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So I found this Nostalgia Critic video kind of interesting. He actually makes a really convincing case for being the number one episode of all time--even though I'd probably put "Marge vs. the Monorail" or "Lisa's Wedding" ahead of it on my own list. On an unrelated note: I hate the funky things that spoiler tags do to the format of my paragraphs. Oh well...
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Gorky

DOOP Secretary

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so he'll probably only have a handful of lines and serve no purpose to the plot.
Like pretty much every guest star who plays him or herself just for publicity's sake! That's kind of an interesting thing to think about, though: How many guest stars have ever appeared as themselves in an episode and significantly advanced the plot? "When You Dish Upon a Star" revolved around Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, and "Beyond Blunderdome" was all about Mel Gibson; I suppose you could also make a case for Michael Jackson in "Stark Raving Dad," though he's not actually playing himself. And I'm sure there are a lot of other examples that are escaping me at the moment, especially from the later seasons. In any event, though "Stark Raving Dad" is a classic and I have a strange fondness for "Beyond Blunderdome," as a general rule I'm not a huge fan of guest stars playing themselves. I might be slightly more amenable to a Justin Bieber cameo (god, it hurts my soul just to type those words out) if he were playing an actual character--but the fact that the producers presumably called that little twerp up and said, "Do you want to play yourself on this TV show that's had a greater cultural impact than you ever will, and that has in fact been around since before you were born?" just makes me ill.
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SolidSnake

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The latest Simpsons episode that aired this night (12/16) had something to do with an old dog of homer's when he was a kid (6 years old they said?), and it was actually not bad. Something happens to Abe and he winds up telling the story since it "Affected Homer the most as a kid". Some things I didn't like (Homer's iPad game from the beginning was stupid, and his "side" of what happened to his dog was probably Homer's worst quote).
Now the first thing that popped up in my mind was "Jurrasic Bark". Ironic?
But overall, I kinda liked the episode except for the messed up beginning.
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Frida Waterfall

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« Reply #198 on: 12-19-2012 04:19 »
« Last Edit on: 12-19-2012 04:28 »
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"King of the Hill" aired a hipster episode during the last season it aired. And that was several years ago. The did a pretty good job of satiring the culture too (imo, better than "The Simpsons". Arlen managed to drive away hipsters by making the neighborhood look family-friendly and welcoming. Hipsters who shop at Urban Outfitters are bigger knobs than most other cultural divisions (rednecks, Jersey Shore followers, etc.) Hipsters are often left-leaning politics wise, often considered "anarchists" and "rebels who wouldn't drink from the mainstream". Urban Outfitters is owned by some far right-wing political campaign contributor who is just raking in money from clueless dumbasses (who probably got said money from their wealthy parents, as brought up in the "King of the Hill" episode). But do I stop shopping at Urban Outfitters? Depends, a lot of their items in the "Apartment" department can be purchased at other, sometimes lesser-known retailers at a significantly cheaper price. Example: Here's a "Filigree Scroll Vanity Tray" at Urban Outfitters. Here's the exact same thing at Timeless Settings for two-thirds of the price at Urban Outfitters. Best thing to do is perform a Google search first before purchasing the item. Could save you quite a bit. For Urban Outfitters, this is quite a strategic move. Not the part about buying merchandise from somewhere else than turning a higher profit. Fact is, the types who would buy at Urban Outfitters are either hipsters or wannabe hipsters, and certainly are not going to even consider looking at a retailer aimed more towards perfume-doused elderly women. I should probably take this observation/rant to the shopping thread, but, hey, whatever.
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