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Surely this is as low as The Simpsons can possibly go. I mean, I can't even imagine a more retarded plot hook than Lisa gets a fucking beard of bees. It has to be up from here, right?
Lol, I saw that yesterday. It's one of those rare moments where I didn't whine about it, I just changed the channel. Never before have I changed the channels when the Simpsons was on and it wasn't a rerun.
Yeah, as painful it is for me to say it -- The simpsons needs to be euthanized. There is just nothing anyone can do with the series that's fit for network primetime. Just last sunday, Homer and Marge got remarried again, seriously.
It's really a shame that soon most of Fox's sunday night line-up will be produced by that hack Seth Macfarlane. I'm not even kidding; King of the Hill is being canceled to make room for the Clevland Show:
Ugh (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fisYzsEBaNM)
It's just Family Guy with a black spin. That's right, Macfarlane is Blaxploitating himself.
Flounderman
04-05-2009, 04:34 AM
If the DVD sales for the Futurama movies are good enough they're considering another season of the tv series. Everybody go out and buy all the movies, NOW. Save Fox sundays!
Captain Awful
04-05-2009, 05:00 AM
If the DVD sales for the Futurama movies are good enough they're considering another season of the tv series. Everybody go out and buy all the movies, NOW. Save Fox sundays!
I watched Bender's Big Score. I think Futurama had it's shining moment of glory, and it's gone now.
They should grab the few good shows from Adult Swim and air them. I want Lucy Daughter of the Devil and Home Movies back.
Flounderman
04-05-2009, 05:25 AM
I watched Bender's Big Score. I think Futurama had it's shining moment of glory, and it's gone now.
So far I've only seen Beast with a Billion Backs but I thought it was fairly good.
Yeah, I dunno what to think of the new Futurama stuff. It's decent enough, but I think the series proper ended on a perfect high note, and I'd rather see it left at that than witness its steady descent into senility a la The Simpsons.
Ensenada
04-05-2009, 11:29 AM
Wasn't there an episode where Maggie gained super powers and saved the rest of the family?
Yeah, it's just going to keep getting worse. Groening isn't going to wake up one day and say "You know what? I actually don't like huge sums of money any more."
punkgorilla
04-05-2009, 04:00 PM
Yeah, I dunno what to think of the new Futurama stuff. It's decent enough, but I think the series proper ended on a perfect high note, and I'd rather see it left at that than witness its steady descent into senility a la The Simpsons.
Yeah there's nothing worse than seeing awesome shows get flogged way beyond death.
Wasn't there an episode where Maggie gained super powers and saved the rest of the family?
Yeah, it's just going to keep getting worse. Groening isn't going to wake up one day and say "You know what? I actually don't like huge sums of money any more."
I'd think that if you already have huge sums of money, putting down a show with dignity seems to be worth more. I'm wondering if they're really just trying to make some unstoppable world record by stretching it as many seasons as they can go.
antikhaoz
04-06-2009, 12:31 AM
I began to lose faith in the Simpsons with that episode about Krusty's daughter. But my faith survived.
Later I lost all interest with that episode about the pregnant teen that Bart was in love with. I just said "blah" and changed the channel. They are out of ideas, officially.
Captain Awful
04-06-2009, 05:48 AM
It makes me mad to see so many great shows not make it past the first season due to poor time-slots or lack of advertising, then the Simpsons lasts 20 years and it's been complete shit for ten of them. It was great before South Park came out, and now even South Park is staying afloat by mocking pop-culture. As stated, I admire Adult Swim, even if more than half their shows are complete shit. They're at least sorting the good from the bad and giving it a try.
Ensenada
04-06-2009, 08:05 AM
I'd think that if you already have huge sums of money, putting down a show with dignity seems to be worth more. I'm wondering if they're really just trying to make some unstoppable world record by stretching it as many seasons as they can go.
You'd think that, but then again, you don't have huge sums of money.
Yeah, I dunno what to think of the new Futurama stuff. It's decent enough, but I think the series proper ended on a perfect high note, and I'd rather see it left at that than witness its steady descent into senility a la The Simpsons.
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/06/its-official-futurama-returns.html
Cue the descent!
Captain Awful
06-10-2009, 10:55 AM
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/06/its-official-futurama-returns.html
Cue the descent!
I'm sure it will get along just fine on Comedy Central.
Demaar
06-10-2009, 06:57 PM
Yeah nah, if I owned the The Simpsons property or whatever, I'd milk the fuck out of it until everyone hated it. As it stands, morons still love The Simpsons.
Heh, yeah, it's too late to get the old fans back. Might as well focus on the /b/tards.
Malwyn
06-12-2009, 03:05 AM
I watched the last three episodes of Pushing Daisies the other day. I'm not sure how long the formula of cutesy morbid fairytale could keep going, and the various celebrity cameos were likely expensive, but cutting a show halfway through a fucking series with three or four unresolved storylines dangling over a cliff was just a cunt move. I loved pushing daisies so much, the vestigial ovaries I grew were so worth it. I never really got into firefly, but from what I can tell it was a similar deal. Now, I also watch southpark and family guy habitually because I'm a whore who'll do anything to waste twenty minutes of my life if it means putting off an incredibly boring assignment.
Didn't family guy get cancelled twice or something? Now it's just a bunch of recycled jokes (like the tripping over, then rocking back and forth breathing loudly gag, jesus fucking christ) that fill out a good ten minutes of a twenty minute episode, with the rest following some airy, unresolved sideplots, or getting as deliberately offensive as the television network will put up with (which is a lot, apparently). I'm looking forward to the next star wars thing, since blue harvest was pretty awesome, but I don't have high hopes for what comes after that. These kinds of shows are the fast food of entertainment- cheap, fast and admittedly kind of tasty. But they're not good for you, you get sick of them very quickly, and they're such an enormous multi-million dollar industry that you might wonder why TV networks even bother producing an interesting, insightful and witty show when they could pump out twenty minutes of processed pop culture and make much more money.
Demaar
06-12-2009, 04:01 PM
They cancelled Pushing Daisies? :(
the show is a business. the objective is to make money, not forever remain a pristine childhood memory.
it's always funny to me when people are like "oh the show is so awful now," and then they roll their eyes and mug for an imaginary camera that is going to shower them with validation and furry jizzyiffs for their opinion.
awful compared to what? family guy? king of the hill? nah.
Captain Awful
06-18-2009, 05:10 PM
the show is a business. the objective is to make money, not forever remain a pristine childhood memory.
it's always funny to me when people are like "oh the show is so awful now," and then they roll their eyes and mug for an imaginary camera that is going to shower them with validation and furry jizzyiffs for their opinion.
awful compared to what? family guy? king of the hill? nah.
So are you saying that it's okay for a show to become absolute shit for the sake of making a quick buck? Really? You don't believe in dignity?
Ensenada
06-18-2009, 05:22 PM
It's not okay, but it happens, and no amount of internet snarking is going to cause Matt Groening's heart to grow three sizes and force him to cancel the show/make it funny again.
Captain Awful
06-18-2009, 05:25 PM
It's not okay, but it happens, and no amount of internet snarking is going to cause Matt Groening's heart to grow three sizes and force him to cancel the show/make it funny again.
At the very least I like to know other people have lost respect for him. I feel the same way about George Lucas, only three times stronger.
Ryuichi Naruhodo
06-18-2009, 05:46 PM
Bart: Hey, I know it wasn't great, but what right do you have to complain?
Comic Book Guy: As a loyal viewer, I feel they owe me.
Bart: What? They're giving you thousands of hours of entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe you? If anything, you owe them.
Comic Book Guy: Worst episode ever.
Captain Awful
06-18-2009, 06:07 PM
Bart: Hey, I know it wasn't great, but what right do you have to complain?
Comic Book Guy: As a loyal viewer, I feel they owe me.
Bart: What? They're giving you thousands of hours of entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe you? If anything, you owe them.
Comic Book Guy: Worst episode ever.
If only it really was free...
Malwyn
06-18-2009, 06:27 PM
There's a pretty big and clear difference between people who say "how dare this series no longer cater to my specific tastes, they should carry my childhood nostalgia for decades!" and people who think "this series used to be pretty cool, now it's objectively terrible.".
The latter are just people who get annoyed when a good show that should have just died with dignity, doesn't. Obviously the older fans of the series don't have any 'claim' to it and should have no authority when it comes to what the creators want to do with it. The people who say 'we own celebrities, because they had the sheer gall to be known' and 'I have a personal right to everything I see on commercial media' are retarded, of course. But that doesn't mean you can't complain when a good show goes bad, that's just as retarded.
It's like, Andy Warhol. You can smile and call him a genius all you like, but he still tried to pass off urine on canvas as art.
Demaar
06-18-2009, 08:31 PM
Awful compared to itself. I usually don't complain about it though, I just ignore its existence.
So are you saying that it's okay for a show to become absolute shit for the sake of making a quick buck? Really? You don't believe in dignity?
I'm not sure I believe in the dignity of grown adults that become emotionally involved in a cartoon series.
Demaar
06-19-2009, 10:09 AM
Meh, The Simpsons was initially intended for all ages, with some clever/subtle jokes for the adults watching that would go over the kids heads, and some silliness for the kids to keep them interested.
Thing is, the silliness has overwhelmed the show. Homer has become more and more stupid with each season. He started becoming really annoying right around the time that I was an adult and I just wasn't interested in his retarded antics any more. This is actually why I never got into Family Guy either, Peter's retarded antics were just annoying in the few episodes I watched. The show has changed to appeal to nitwits and kids. If you don't think it has, you either never watched the early episodes or have a poor memory of what they were like... or maybe you're the intended audience for the new episodes.
I agree that becoming "emotionally involved" in a cartoon is silly, but I think you over-estimate how much people really care about what's happened to the show. Mild irritation can seem like hysterical ranting on the internet.
Edit: Like I said before, if I owned the rights to the show I'd milk it for all it's worth too. I really don't expect them to make a clever show any more (especially since they seem to get cancelled pretty quickly these days) when there's so much money to be made by appealing to jackasses. I acknowledge it's not for me any more and ignore its existence.
Captain Awful
06-20-2009, 03:08 PM
I'm not sure I believe in the dignity of grown adults that become emotionally involved in a cartoon series.
You don't have to be emotionally involved to have an opinion. I'm sorry, I mean I don't have to be emotionally involved to have an opinion. Coming from what I assume is a very mature person, what do you think about things less nerdy, like let's say, UFC? Yes, please tell me about your emotional involvement in a game involving men hitting eachother.
Ryuichi Naruhodo
06-20-2009, 04:40 PM
If you think UFC isn't nerdy you clearly haven't been on any MMA forums.
Demaar
06-21-2009, 12:50 PM
Anything can be nerdy if you try hard enough. I'd almost call some people I know football nerds cause they take their enjoyment of it to extremes most people wouldn't...
You don't have to be emotionally involved to have an opinion. I'm sorry, I mean I don't have to be emotionally involved to have an opinion. Coming from what I assume is a very mature person, what do you think about things less nerdy, like let's say, UFC? Yes, please tell me about your emotional involvement in a game involving men hitting eachother.
I suppose if I were forced to watch UFC, I would feel incredibly bored. Eventually I would feel rage in my struggle to escape or fight. If neither worked, I would become beaten, depressed, and accept it. I would probably stop eating and will myself to die over the course of years. Or I would change the channel.
shMerker
06-23-2009, 05:52 AM
DMV: You forgot to mug for the imaginary camera.
Someone goes "I happened to see this thing on TV that sucked even more than I was expecting, confirming my belief that it has sucked for a while now, checkmate everyone who disagreed with me up until now. It's sad that talented people are either working on this tripe or being ignored in favor of it." and then people interpret it as "I will continue to watch this show even though it sucks and will complain loudly about it to anyone who will listen."
Man, I already stopped watching TV. Do I have to turn off the internet too?
The Archduke
07-01-2009, 10:40 AM
OH MY FUCKING GOD SHE HAS A FUCKING BEARD OF MOTHERFUCKING BEES!
This should infuriate me, but I can't shake the feeling this is a publicity stunt. Like New Coke or something. (http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2009/07/is-fox-planning-to-recast-futurama.html)
The Archduke
07-19-2009, 01:12 PM
Personally, I prefer Tabb.
Demaar
07-19-2009, 01:26 PM
New Coke was real, actually. From what I've read it tasted better, it's just a case of people being stupid and stubborn and not wanting things to change.
Not much difference between soda's. If you're going to make a new formula, just call it something else and not have it replace the well-liked one.
Personally, I prefer Tabb.
So what's Tabb in this analogy, Family Guy? Simpsons?
The Archduke
07-20-2009, 12:09 PM
So what's Tabb in this analogy, Family Guy? Simpsons?
Reading too deep into my posts, my friend.
I'd say King of the Hill is RC Cola -- not great, but sensible and gets the job done.
Demaar
07-20-2009, 04:46 PM
Tab is talk radio.
That's not an animated sitcom.
Demaar
07-21-2009, 04:18 PM
Tab isn't a carbonated beverage.
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