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CyberKnight
Urban Legend
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I have to disagree with your statement that parts of Season 14 were grade "A" material. I've watched all this past season (except for Moe Baby Blues, which hasn't aired) and I honestly can't say I've enjoyed any of the episodes; indeed, I've got bored halfway through most of them and turned it off to do something else. I still watch them, though: a) because otherwise pro-post-Season 9 Simpsons fans whine "Oh, you haven't been watching the past few seasons" b) because ocassionally (and I do mean very occasionally), there are still flashes of brilliance. "New" Simpsons I find is funnier when you're watching it with other people, whereas "Classic" Simpsons can make me laugh out loud when I'm watching it by myself. (I also disagree with the honorable ~Faze~'s statement, as well, due to the magic of DVD. ). I'm going to hold off voting until I've seen "Moe Baby Blues", because I've heard plenty of good things about it and it's written by an ex-Futurama staffer. I really do want to give the Simpsons a chance, it deserves at least that. But it just feels to me like a slightly less crude version of "Family Guy" at the moment. (All this is opinion and is liable to change at any time, at my discretion. It is however how I feel when I wrote this post).
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OC_James
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #9 on: 10-20-2003 18:15 »
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Agh, that excuse is horrible. Sure, there's hardly anything good on television, because the majority of mainstream media prefers crap over quality, but there is still good stuff on television. And if for some reason you complete loathe all there is on tv, you have DVD's and the internet. If you're looking for quality entertainment (or naughty asian schoolgirl porn), there's an infinite amount of it on the internet. Sure, there's a lot of crappy stick cartoons and reptitive "kill Osama Bin Laden/Suddam Hussein" games, but look beyond those. The link thread is enough proof of the entertainment value the web has. Than there's DVDs. There are so many movies/concerts/tv shows available on DVD, that you should never be bored if you have a DVD-player. Than there's video games. There's so many different types of video games that just about anyone can find one to suit their personality. Oh, and don't forget the fact that you are not locked inside your house.
My point is, the excuse that nothing good is on tv, isn't really an excuse for the Simpson's recent crappiness. It's ironic. People used to crticize Family Guy all the time because they claimed it was a rip-off of the Simpsons (but than again, apparently any TVPG-TVMA cartoon is a rip-off of either the Simpsons, South Park, or King of the Hill to the mainstream public) and maybe it was, but it seems now that the Simpsons is a popular TVPG rip-off of Family Guy. Problem is, anybody who hasn't been watching the Simpsons from the start realizes it's decline in quality. I'll admit the show has become a tad more tolerable recently, but it's still miles away form it's old self.
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Futurama_Hil
Urban Legend
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« Reply #14 on: 10-20-2003 20:09 »
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I just can't watch them anymore. It's not the new eps that's the problem, well kind of, but I can't even watch the classics! I'm not sure why. As I've said, I think it may be because I think Futurama should've taken over or something. Or maybe I can't stand to watch fox. I've tried to watch them, but I usually end up trning it off. I used to watch them with my family every Sunday bu tnow I'm just losing interest in it. Now that my rant over my personal problems is over, , I'd conclude from what I have seen and what I have remembered from the Simpsons. Yes, I enjoy almost every episdoe I have seen, despite the Scully era. I'm voting for # 3. It just doesn't beat Futurama, and Family Guy barely beats it out- making it the last out of these three shows that get compared oh so often.
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PCC Fred
Space Pope
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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~: I love The Simpsons, it's still better than a lot of the crap that's on nowadays.
THINGS I'D RATHER DO THAN WATCH NEW SIMPSONS EPISODES: *Watch new episodes of any of Stargate SG1, Friends, Frasier, Becker, Angel. *Watch the DVDs/videos of any of Futurama, MASH, Cheers, Star Treks TNG and DS9, Babylon 5, Doctor Who. *Play computer games *Chat with Aleel *Post on message boards *Look at sexy Leela images *Wank *Play computer games *Eat *Do university work *Spend time with my family *Sleep *List things I prefer doing to watching new "Simpsons" episodes
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Everything but the Scully shite.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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You can't blame Mike Scully for the downfall of The Simpsons. It's the whole staff's fault. Even after Scully left and Al Jean took over, it didn't get any better. In fact, it got worse. Basically, here's a little break-down...
SEASONS 1-2: Classic, although they weren't that funny, and they were waaaay too preachy.
SEASONS 3-9: Just terrific. The golden age of The Simpsons. Great writing, hillarious jokes and such an awesome style.
SEASONS 10-14: Awful, just plain awful. Though there may be 10 or so good episodes in this batch of crap, it can't distract from the fact that it's complete garbage. The show began to get stupid and the characters just didn't seem to matter anymore. The Simpsons writers tried to adjust to modern whacky-sattire comedy (like seen in South Park and Family Guy) but just failed miserably.
Anyway, I'm not voting. Leelaholic didn't give us enough options (I'd vote for #2, but then I'd be saying that I like the Al Jean era too). This poll should have been split into Seasons - it's just too biased.
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Jamesbondcja
Professor
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I love it despite the Scully era gets my vote.
Sure there has been alot of crap churned out recently but what the hell there are still alot of gems!
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User_names_suck
Professor
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« Reply #32 on: 10-21-2003 15:32 »
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I dont think scully can get all the blame, and its not like it became that bad, just not as good. i heard someone say it got too wacky under scully. i think swartzwelder writes some of the crazier episodes and moments he's been there from the beginning. i'm not criticising him but you cant only blame scully for the shows craziness. and seasons 11 and 12 stll put out great episodes (9 and 10 were still fantastic just some occasinal lapses in season 10) such as grift of the magi days of wine and doh'ses the computer wore menace shoes homr and posibley the great money caper
also the diffrentley styled episodes which were already mentioned
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User_names_suck
Professor
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Originally posted by PCC Fred: THINGS I'D RATHER DO THAN WATCH NEW SIMPSONS EPISODES:
*Watch new episodes of any of Stargate SG1, Friends, Frasier, Becker, Angel. *Watch the DVDs/videos of any of Futurama, MASH, Cheers, Star Treks TNG and DS9, Babylon 5, Doctor Who. *Play computer games *Chat with Aleel *Post on message boards *Look at sexy Leela images *Wank *Play computer games *Eat *Do university work *Spend time with my family *Sleep *List things I prefer doing to watching new "Simpsons" episodes
see most of these things make it very hard to take you seirously, you actually have no shame about getting off on a cartoon character
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User_names_suck
Professor
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it means masturbate its an english slang term for it
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