Fun Stuff > ENJOY
Remember when The Simpsons was funny?
a_cannibal_potato:
--- Quote from: Spinless ---You know Ricky Gervais? That annoying gimp thing with a goatee that think's it's funny but isn't? Over here Sky One hyped that one episode of the simpsons he wrote a LOT. The advertising campaign was pretty huge. I don't really need to say anything about the quality of the episode, you already know everything about it. But that is the moment I vowed never to watch the simpsons on tv ever again. Even before that episode, it was still tolerable. I could idly watch watch it for 20 minutes while waiting for food or something. Even if it wasn't funny.
The characters are not the same characters they used to be.
The jokes are shit and cramped into every possible second of the show.
The script is just lazy. All the dialogue is now just setup for a bad joke.
I remember when I was 8/9 and I use to get excited when a halloween special started. Few years later, I'd groan and watch something else.
--- End quote ---
I loved the earlier Halloween episodes, don't watch much TV these days, i'll keep the better memories of the simpsons close to my heart and avert my eyes from the stuff they play now =[
Spinless:
--- Quote from: nihilist --- Though, you have to admit that the first few years were pretty balls as well. Animation and voice acting was pretty damn low quality. I think it was season four or five that it got pretty good.
--- End quote ---
You're one of those people who thinks that graphics make a videogame right?
The only good actors are the really pretty ones?
If a band isn't hyped, they can't be good?
Now, I know that you don't think like that, you're an intelligent guy. But the first season of the simpsons is still a classic. Yeah, it looks and sounds dated, but the stories, the scripts, the humour are all timeless.
I'd have to watch them all again to be certain, but I think the first few seasons were the best.
JLM:
One of the saddest moments of my life was realizing that not only had I missed an entire season of the Simpsons, but that I really didn't care. The writing started to lag a bit in season 11, but picked up for a few years. The past two years, though, have been just dreadful, and the humor, which used to be witty and subtle has turned towards hit you over the head "see you're supposed to be laughing here because it's funny" business. Short of adding a laugh track I don't know how much worse it could get.
nihilist:
--- Quote from: Spinless ---You're one of those people who thinks that graphics make a videogame right?
The only good actors are the really pretty ones?
If a band isn't hyped, they can't be good?
--- End quote ---
I do believe you missed the "voice acting" bit. I don't give a rat's ass for the script if it is presented in a bad fashion. So yes, the presentation of something does have an impact on the performance.
MatticusPrime:
--- Quote from: Inlander ---The Simpsons has been almost unwatchable for me for several years now. The episode where they went to Africa was the first Simpsons episode I'd ever seen where I didn't even raise a smile, not once. But the decline started long before then. I'm tempted to say that the rot set in after Phil Hartman's tragic death.
--- End quote ---
I remember the Africa episode specifically as being the one that finally drove me away from the show. I couldn't even feign interest in it after that.
And I miss Phil Hartman and the characters he voiced. Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz were veritable fonts of comedy gold.
--- Quote from: Inlander ---Compare the rhythm of the recent episodes, to an episode from the golden years - say, the Stone Cutters episode. Or the monorail episode. It's very different.
--- End quote ---
What strikes me about those early episodes is how clearly I can remember them. All someone has to do is say "the monorail episode" or "the Stone Cutters episode" and I can immediately recall most of the jokes, and could probably replay the episode in my head if I thought about it enough. Sometimes the trigger is even simpler: "The goggles, they do nothing!" works just as well.
(Did you know it only just occured to me that Phil Hartman did the voice for Lyle Lanley on the monorail episode? I know it's obvious but for some reason I never made the connection before now.)
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version