Simpsons: Season 13

[Reply #160 on:]

Yeah, but we can't control what we can't...uh, control.

[Reply #161 on:]

Brawl In The Family

I thought it was pretty decent and if they keep making them like this then I don't mind them carrying on until Season 20. I loved the acid rain bit where Homer runs in and out of the house screaming, when he runs out he gets burned, when he runs in he sees the TV broken. The Monopoly game part was the highlight of the episode with many funny moments and the whole family interacting with each other classic Simpsons style.

It was interesting to see the Vegas girls return and it seemed ok but it wasn't needed. I would say it's the second best Season 13 episode after THoH 12. By the way, has anyone noticed how strange some of the animation is in Season 13 in general? Today after watching a Season 10 episode on Sky One, which was nice and clean the new Season 13 episode, had a duller color and some slightly of animation, in one part Marges head was brighter above her necklace than the rest of her body. I've noticed some other strange animation in other Season 13 episodes as well. Strange when you consider that the animation in the previous Season was spot on.

[Reply #162 on:]

Last night's episode wasn't too good. I won't even bother reviewing it.
6/10, C+, no better.

[Reply #163 on:]

 

Originally posted by Greg Durand:6/10

Thats above average.

[Reply #164 on:]

Hmm, maybe Durand HASN'T sold his soul to Al Jean.

[Reply #165 on:]

BRAWL IN THE FAMILY SUCKS ASS!!!! But, last Sundays, "The Latest Gun in the West" wasn't very good either. I'd give it 2/5.
Milhouse: Bart's a goner, anoyone wanna be my new best friend?
Ralph: I will!
Milhouse: Finally! I'll be the dominant one!
Ralph: Be quiet!
Milhouse: Yes sir.

[Reply #166 on:]

I hadn't watched the Simpsons in awhile. The last ep was ok, but this line sucked all the fun out:

Marge: I guess you're not going to have an adventure this week.

[Reply #167 on:]

I think sunday's episode was the only one I have been looking forward to this season. I guess it wasn't too bad. Dennis Weaver was pretty badass, but the jokes weren't too funny, and I didn't get the whole thing with the dog chasing Bart(was it supposed to be a parody of "Duel" or what? It fell flat with me).

[Reply #168 on:]

I have no idea. Maybe, it was a parody of "When Animals Attack" 

[Reply #169 on:]

new eps for the Uk this March...

03-10     18:30 [DABF05]  Jaws Wired Shut
03-24     18:30 [DABF03]  Sweets and Sour Marge

[Reply #170 on:]

 

Originally posted by the_AmyLover_1:
new eps for the Uk this March...

03-10     18:30 [DABF05]  Jaws Wired Shut   
03-24     18:30 [DABF03]  Sweets and Sour Marge    

Thanx for the info, I'm surprised that Sky is showing them in a different order to the US though

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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
 Thanx for the info, I'm surprised that Sky is showing them in a different order to the US though 

That's the order they recieve the eps in from the US.

[Reply #172 on:]

Two Sundays, two new eps.
3/10: "The Old Man and the Key": Grampa tries to impress a new resident at the retirement home Zelda (voiced by Olympia Dukakis) by getting his drivers license back.
3/17: "Tales From the Public Domain": The Simpsons spoof mythology with Bart as Hamlet, Lisa as Joan of Arc, and Homer as Odysseus in The Odyessy.

[Reply #173 on:]

I'm not sure, but are The Simpsons going to be doing an extra non-Haloween spoof show for every season?

It would work out better if the theme for "Public Domain" was more concrete, like making all 3 myths be from ancient Greece, or Rome, etc. "Hamlet" is not mythology, at least not to my taste.

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Originally posted by Just Chris:
I'm not sure, but are The Simpsons going to be doing an extra non-Haloween spoof show for every season?

You could be right, I think they do it when the writers are out of ideas to make plots for normal epiodes so they just spoof popular stories. The reason It could be every season from now on is because "Bible Stories" was Season 10, "Tall Tales" Season 12 and already we have "Tales from the Public Domain" in the following Season 13, they really are running out of ideas.

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Last night's episode was just awful. The Simpsons are really getting bad.

[Reply #176 on:]

Jaws Wired Shut

I liked this one, when I first read the title I thought it would be a load of crap but it was pretty good, second best of Season 13. I liked seeing Itchy & Scratchy back in it again and I could relate to Homer getting fed up of the trailers. What made it good though was Homer's bonding with the rest of the family. The Milhouse bit was amusing but the ending wasn't too good though.

[Reply #177 on:]

"Getting" bad isn't even in the equation anymore, Durand.

[Reply #178 on:]

I'd say "getting worse" or "scraping rock bottom".

[Reply #179 on:]

You whiners.  Try seeing if anything even comes close to the shit that's on TV compared to The Simpsons (aside from Futurama of course).  It's still a great, funny show.

[Reply #180 on:]

I disagree. It used to be a great, funny show. It is slowly dragging itself out of the wacky and zany into less irritating, but I'd much rather watch other shows such as black books, etc, because the simpsons (currently) sucks.

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It's still GOOD... but it was once PHENOMENAL. That's the difference.

[Reply #182 on:]

 

Originally posted by Kryten:
It's still GOOD... but it was once PHENOMENAL. That's the difference.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head.

[Reply #183 on:]

That I'll agree with, but I hate how it's made out to have gone from the best thing on TV to the very worst.

[Reply #184 on:]

So, um, yeah, I saw hunk hunka burns in love the other week, an I was left with one question.  When did the writers just stop trying?

[Reply #185 on:]

You're assuming they're not letting the DJ 3000 write the episodes.

"Did you hear about those clowns in Congress? What a bunch of clowns."

[Reply #186 on:]

"How does it keep up with the news like that?"

[Reply #187 on:]

Too bad Manjula had to come in too late into the series with the crap episodes. She is one mahat-mama.

[Reply #188 on:]

You all are treating The Simpsons way too bad. I like new episodes. It's just a new style of humor and i think it's funny.

[Reply #189 on:]

I definintely think Season 13 has been a good one. Seasons 1 through 9 were pretty good and then the episode plots started to get kind of dull for Seasons 10 through 12. Then I think that the show has made a majoy comeback with Season 13 for sure.

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Sweets and Sour Marge

After finally getting a new Futurama in the UK yesterday I forgot all about The Simpsons, hence the late review. It was ok but I really hate the stupid unrealistic jokes like when they threw the Butterfinger in the fire and it somehow managed to jump out unharmed. Those are the kind of kiddy jokes that I hate and would never be in it during seasons 1-8. It was no where near as good as Futurama, but to be fair the Futurama was particularly good. I rate the new Simpsons episodes about average for Season 13.

[Reply #191 on:]

The Butterfingers joke is funny when you remember that Bart Simpson is the spokesman for Butterfingers.

[Reply #192 on:]

 

Originally posted by Speed-Bump:
You all are treating The Simpsons way too bad. I like new episodes. It's just a new style of humor and i think it's funny.

You do have a point, though. The Simpsons' change in comedy style is inevitable, since they've been around since '89. I guess they're trying to keep with the times.

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And the times suck

[Reply #194 on:]

Half Decent Proposal

I really liked this episode, definitely the best episode of Season 13 so far. At last some feeling and emotion were present within an episode. Plenty of laughs and a reasonable plot, not wacky which is good, and the 70s prom with all the characters dressed up in 70s clothing was great. Possibly the stand out episode of Season 13, although not as good as “Trilogy of Error”, the stand out episode of the previous season. 

[Reply #195 on:]

Weekend at Burnsie's

I think you had to be stoned to enjoy this one.

[Reply #196 on:]

I agree.  I'd rather have watched Adult Swim, but my younger sister was transfixed.  Not a good thing... 

[Reply #197 on:]

The only real good thing about the episode was during the beginning, where Marge lays out clothes for the scarecrow -- I really liked the pop-ups.

Once, I had an idea that they should release special videos of episodes done a la VH1 pop-ups, showing hidden in-jokes and media references as the show went on. And they finally did something like that.

[Reply #198 on:]

Does anyone know what song Disco Stu played in "Sweets and Sour Marge"? 

[Reply #199 on:]

Not season 13, but still fun.  I was watching Homer Bad Man tonight, and I frame-by-framed the Rock Bottom corrections.


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