Champion Rabbit wrote:One question needs to be asked before they release this movie.

"Is it going to be as good as the South Park movie?"

Pound for pound, square inch for square inch, man to man, The Simpsons has consistently taken a shit (from a considerable height) on South Park. I would therefore reasonably assume that there is no need to even consider the potential outcome of such a comparison. Save these brain cells for alcohol.

Rimbaud III wrote:Save these brain cells for alcohol.

I don't agree.

Champion Rabbit wrote:

Rimbaud III wrote:Save these brain cells for alcohol.

I don't agree.

If you're going to save them for thinking, more fool you.

Rimbaud III wrote:

Champion Rabbit wrote:

Rimbaud III wrote:Save these brain cells for alcohol.

I don't agree.

If you're going to save them for thinking, more fool you.

Damn me and my comedic quoting.

I thought the SP movie was pure genius; Simpsons hasn't been even approaching funny for years.

There's no denying it's got bad in recent seasons. Even the actors are on record as having said so. It's a shame. I think what's happened is that a generation of folk that grew up watching it are now writing for it. The scripts seem to reflect this - it feels like you're watching a curious impersonation of an episode from its heyday.

Rimbaud III wrote:There's no denying it's got bad in recent seasons. Even the actors are on record as having said so. It's a shame. I think what's happened is that a generation of folk that grew up watching it are now writing for it. The scripts seem to reflect this - it feels like you're watching a curious impersonation of an episode from its heyday.

I agree. It still has its moments, but they're fewer and farther between, and the bad parts can be downright embarassing.

But maybe they've been hoarding all of the good material for this movie over the last couple of years...

this show has been painfully unfunny since 2000 or thereabouts. anytime "current events" jokes arise in a show, which is the worst and laziest kind of 'humor' ever, you know it's essentially as worthwhile as a dog fart.

i don't have high hopes for this unfortunately. i think it will probably end up like the more overblown episodes with lots of cameos, some type of gimmick (which character is gay? which is gonna die?), and lots of appearances from the secondary characters who wore out their welcome like 8 years ago (disco stu, prof. brink, ranier wolfcastle).

i wonder if it'll have cussing.. that'd be odd

lawrence wrote:this show has been painfully unfunny since 2000 or thereabouts. anytime "current events" jokes arise in a show, which is the worst and laziest kind of 'humor' ever, you know it's essentially as worthwhile as a dog fart.

Painfully unfunny seems like a huge overstatement. Other than Arrested Development, there is not a show on non-cable TV that generates as many laughs as the Simpsons. At their rock-bottom worst, which I won't deny they have reached, the show is still funnier than every single sitcom that has been on television since Seinfeld ended. And just about every single sitcom before that.
I think they should hang it up because they are becoming more and more like their hack imitators (Family Guy), where the jokes are arbitrarily wedged in to a fit around a handful of "funny" scenarios rather than a arising from a plot.
I think I know what you're saying about "current events" jokes. There was one episode last season where Homer said something about Bush that was supposed to be a joke, but was so not-funny and totally out of character that you couldn't help but notice how lazy and shitty the writers are getting.

Rimbaud III wrote:

Champion Rabbit wrote:One question needs to be asked before they release this movie.

"Is it going to be as good as the South Park movie?"

Pound for pound, square inch for square inch, man to man, The Simpsons has consistently taken a shit (from a considerable height) on South Park.

I totally agree - and I think we all know South Park got their ass handed to them in this Simpson's bit:

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[Bart and Milhouse watching South Park. The South Park characters are drawn in Simpsons style.]

Milhouse: "I hear those kids' voices are done by grownups"

Bart: "Hey, there's nothing wrong with that. I just wonder how they keep it so fresh after 43 episodes."

[Next scene: the SP boys are at the South Park Forum.]

Stan: "I can't believe we paid to see a band with Steve Gutenberg, Calista Flockhart, and Farty the Crippled Robot!"

Farty: [on stage, playing a guitar] "look who's in my fart. O.J." [Farty farts and O.J. appears in the brown cloud.]

O.J.: "I'm gonna kill you all." [destroys Farty, then goes after the band, cutting their heads off.]

Bart and Milhouse: [dance around] "Cartoon Violence! Cartoon Violence!"

O.J.: [has Cartman's dripping head on his knife] "Now I'm going to find the real killer."

[Marge comes in and turns off the TV.]

Bart and Milhouse: [startled] "AAAAAAAA!!!"

Marge: "Kids, that cartoon is not life-affirming. We're going to watch a show about the everyday problems of angels."

[She turns on the TV and changes the channel to PAX TV.]

Announcer: "Now, back to "Good Heavens."

Elderly Woman: "Jesus called today."

Elderly Man: "He did??"

Bart and Milhouse: [run out of the house screaming, with their hands on their ears] AAAAAAAA!!!