The Simpsons - General Discussion

[SoMuchTV]

1 hour ago, Galileo908 said:

And Marge roasting a water melon was such a weird, random detail.

 

38 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:

That was in the dishwasher!

 

6 minutes ago, Galileo908 said:

Still weird!

I was trying to figure out what was going on there! Some kind of culinary trend I’m not aware of, like poaching fish in the dishwasher? Some crazy extension of early Covid precautions?  Just some random weirdery?

[ottoDbusdriver]

Old Army Comic book covers

-- Keep Your Privates Private Private !
-- True Tales of Blazin Pee-Holes
-- When Johnny Comes Scratchin' Home
-- The Misadventures of Sgt. Spirochete

Grandpa Simpsons' magazine
-- High Pants Times -- Geezer of the Year Contest
                                  -- How to make Creamed Corn Less Tangy
                    
Moe: "I'm sorry Homer, I'm not accepting organs as payment.  Any more."

Cereal boxes at the Try-n-Save
-- Fruit-Free Frootees
-- Penicill-O's
-- Man Flakes
-- Circle-Os
-- Raisin Flan
-- Twizzlers Instant Oatmeal
-- Snap, Crackle, and Pop Rocks
-- Sugar Frosted Cakes
-- Gummi Bears in Cereal Box
-- Stabby-Oh's
-- Honey Bunches of Nerds Rope
-- Count Cavity
-- Frosted Mini Clowns
-- Asbest-O's
-- Eclairios cereal
-- Budget-O's
-- Bran Cheks
-- Buffalo Wild Wings Sprite-Glazed Hot Flakes
-- Brach's Candy Corn Fudge

I was a little underwhelmed by this episode -- considering it was the Season finale and all.

[Spartan Girl]

Regarding Marge roasting a watermelon in the dishwasher, this is a woman who has ironed garbage bags and untossed salads. Like @Galileo908 said, it’s pretty in character to the weird random things she tends to do from time to time.

[Snow Apple]

Marge probably saw a hack that putting produce in the dishwasher gets rid of germs and pesticides. Say what you will about Marge but she tries to keep a clean house so sanitizing food, even without scientific facts, doesn't surprise me.

[DoctorAtomic]

Would the heat destroy the watermelon though?

[Tachi Rocinante]

Was does Grampa think Lisa and Maggie are "dumb as dirt"?  I know he's supposed to be a doddering old man, but it seemed forced.

[Galileo908]

6 hours ago, Tachi Rocinante said:

Was does Grampa think Lisa and Maggie are "dumb as dirt"?  I know he's supposed to be a doddering old man, but it seemed forced.

Even though, yeah, the Simpson women turn out okay, Grampa just wanted to be mean.

[Ambrosefolly]

On 5/20/2024 at 8:27 PM, Galileo908 said:

Even though, yeah, the Simpson women turn out okay, Grampa just wanted to be mean.

I'd be mean too if my son and daughter-in-law were forcing me to live in a small windowless room just to save a few bucks (by using the grandkids to guilt), especially since I sold myown house so they could buy their house, and after promising to have me move in, stuck me in the old persons home where they hardly visit.

I'd cap the tirade off by pointing out that Homer spends to much money drinking at Moe's (who will hold you at gunpoint to pay your tab) and that Marge can get a job outside the house. 

[opus]

‘The Simpsons’ to Produce Four New Episodes Exclusively for Disney+ — Including a New Christmas Two-Parter

[M. Darcy]

New season starts on Sunday!

[DoctorAtomic]

I'm already dusting off my Heisenberg hat. 

[Galileo908]

We're back!

Season 36, ep 1: Bart's Birthday

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Bart celebrates the most shocking birthday of his entire life -- one that might just change everyone in Springfield forever.

Airs 9/29/24

[Spartan Girl]

They’re doing a fake series finale?

Marge, why didn’t you just mail the invitations yourself. I know you’re permanently stuck in June Cleaver land, but you have two legs and two hands. Why depend on Homer for everything?

It’s cute that they’re pretending that AI hasn’t been writing the episodes for the past decade.

Edited September 30 by Spartan Girl

[Galileo908]

WOW, did NOT see this being the fake last episode coming. And that "Bart's Birthday" was an episode "written" by AI. Of course it has all the tired ending tropes: Skinner retires and sets up a spinoff, Burns dies, Smithers confesses and kisses Burns's skull, the SNPP closes, Bart acknowledges the Sunglasses Kid, CBG and Kumiko had a baby! Weddings! Deaths! Milhouse moves away! Homer and Marge finally went to therapy and become good parents! Real Seymour Skinner! The repetition of "I'm gonna miss this place" and closing up cracked me up. Yeah, this was a giant fanservice episode like Lisa The Boy Scout, but I ate this up. Hell, we got Hank Scorpio and the Space Coyote making cameos.

Conan's role was essentially Troy McClure from The 138th Episode Spectacular.

Loved all the clips and shout outs. I noticed the Krusty Head DVD in the pile of DVDs. Also yes, that was really the (Simpsonized) cast of the Simpsons Porno Parody.

Wasn't expecting Mark Proksch (Colin Robinson from WWDITS) as Hack-GPT. But it couldn't be anyone else. And he was the last minute guest star. His lines were recorded last week!

48 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

Marge, why didn’t you just mail the invitations yourself. I know you’re permanently stuck in June Cleaver land, but you have two legs and two hands. Why depend on Homer for everything?

AI had to feed from EVERY episode, and there were a lot of plots with Marge. Why would the "last episode" be anything different?

Edited September 30 by Galileo908

[Spartan Girl]

3 minutes ago, Galileo908 said:

AI had to feed from EVERY episode, and there were a lot of plots with Marge. Why would the "last episode" be anything different?

*sigh* Yup.

Pissed-Off Tom Hanks was the best part of the episode.

[DoctorAtomic]

Nice to see Conan back. I enjoyed all the celebrities in the audience. 

I could totally buy Fox using AI to end the Simpsons. I'm surprised they haven't had an AI show already. Don't tell me it hasn't been considered. 

People were complaining that the Simpsons wasn't as funny as it used to be after the first episode aired. 

I liked all the classic finales in the credits. 

A good premiere. Our resident Marge fan a little steamed but largely unscathed. 

[KWalkerInc]

I watched this episode on demand (which is always taken from the Philadelphia station) so that I could watch a movie, but it cut off during the closing credits so that I had to stop the movie and watch the credits again during the local broadcast to see the last few finale parody shots.  Which show were they parodying with the one with Mr. and Mrs. Van Houten in the back of the limo?

[ottoDbusdriver]

Ending scenes of other TV shows seen over the end credits

-- The Sopranos
-- M*A*S*H
-- Mary Tyler Moore Show
-- Breaking Bad
-- Game of Thrones (with Ralph Wiggum as Bran)
-- Frasier (with Sideshow Bob as Frasier)
-- Succession
-- Newhart

[M. Darcy]

That was weird as hell and I really liked it. 

And, heh, "Out of my way, Opie!" was ad libbed by Tom Hanks. 

[opus]

That was good. Heck, I might have held that back for the actual series finale.

But maybe they really do plan to go on forever….

[Josette]

6 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

Ending scenes of other TV shows seen over the end credits

-- The Sopranos
-- M*A*S*H
-- Mary Tyler Moore Show
-- Breaking Bad
-- Game of Thrones (with Ralph Wiggum as Bran)
-- Frasier (with Sideshow Bob as Frasier)
-- Succession
-- Newhart

Also, Mad Men. Between M*A*S*H and Mary Tyler Moore.

[DoctorAtomic]

I caught most of them even though some of the finales (Succession) are shows I didn't watch. I did watch MTM a few years ago. 

I loved the ending of Mad Men because I was around when the Coke commercial aired, so as soon as I heard the *ding*, I knew what it was. 

I *think* I was allowed to stay up to watch MASH, but I'm not sure. I knew the Newhart one because I did watch the second Bob Newhart show.

They should have done Lost with Santa's Little Helper. 

I wonder what shows were pitched. That would have been a fun meeting. These were really great choices. 

[Galileo908]

15 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

-- The Sopranos
-- M*A*S*H
-- Mary Tyler Moore Show
-- Breaking Bad
-- Game of Thrones (with Ralph Wiggum as Bran)
-- Frasier (with Sideshow Bob as Frasier)
-- Succession
-- Newhart

Succession was the only one I didn't recognize. I got a big laugh out of Ralph as Bran from GOT, because that fits so perfectly.

Among the list of shows that fed their last episodes to Hack GPT, you can spot Homeboys From Outer Space, the first show Michael Price worked on.

[Galileo908]

Season 36, ep 2: The Yellow Lotus

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The Simpsons encounter death on vacation at a high end resort.

Airs 10/6/24

[Giuseppe]

Is anyone else's TV schedule showing the new ep tonight airing at 7, and then again at 8? Programming error? My DVR is picking up the 7 airing, but skipping over the 8. I won't be home, so I guess I'll just manually record the 8 showing.

[DoctorAtomic]

My tivo shows the Simpsons at 7 and Bob's at 8. 

[Spartan Girl]

Now this episode, I liked! I wish they got Jennifer Coolidge to play Bob’s rich new wife since that obviously who her character was based on.

I laughed at the dig at Barbra Streisand’s memoir, it really was that thick. 

What’s even more miraculous is Marge didn’t do a single thing to annoy me in this episode! Not one! Yes, I know it won’t last, just let me revel in this.

[Galileo908]

"Save me, Baywatch!"

I'd imagine I'd get more out of the intro if I actually saw White Lotus. They even had a Jennifer Coolidge soundalike (voiced by SNL's Chloe Fineman). I have a feeling some folk'll like it that Marge wanted to take advantage of squatting in Not Jennifer Coolidge's luggage room. And wait, last week they remembered Sideshow Bob's Italian family, but now he's married to Not Jennifer Coolidge? They even remembered when he married (and almost murdered) Selma for her money. But the ending was just flat. The timeshare guy died, but for once (in a long time) Bob was innocent?

Wait, why does the name Nick Callahan sound familiar? (One Frinkiac search later) He was one of the Red Blazer realtors from Realty Bites! He was the guy with the headset!

The fortune teller looked like she was related to Milhouse (which makes sense, given he has an Italian grandma), but she was Luigi's mom?!

"Hey, I need that for evil!"

[tearknee]

[rethought reposting Simpsons meme]

 

Edited October 7 by tearknee

[DoctorAtomic]

I don't know anything about the White Lotus, but I really liked the specialized opening theme. 

I always like when characters wear different outfits than usual. And Maggie with the Toblerones. The background shots of the dogs being pampered were killing me. 

Who was Jay Pharoah playing?

59 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

What’s even more miraculous is Marge didn’t do a single thing to annoy me in this episode! Not one! Yes, I know it won’t last, just let me revel in this.

Hats off!

 

[M. Darcy]

13 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:

Who was Jay Pharoah playing?

Drederick Tatum.  It seems that he took over doing the voice a few years ago.  

Edited October 7 by M. Darcy

[aghst]

On 10/6/2024 at 6:31 PM, DoctorAtomic said:

I don't know anything about the White Lotus, but I really liked the specialized opening theme. 

 

That theme was definitely a takeoff of the WL season 2 theme.

There were no funny lyrics in WL though but the visuals, scenes of people doing various things as represented in mosaic, was definitely parody.

[tearknee]

On 10/8/2024 at 2:07 AM, M. Darcy said:

Drederick Tatum.  It seems that he took over doing the voice a few years ago.  

Yeah, non-white [well, yellow] characters now are voiced by the correct ethnic background actors.

[Dirge]

If this post shouldn't be here, please let me know and I'll delete it (but I don't see a Media or other kind of thread). 

Today the Nebraska Supreme Court threw a Simpsons reference into an opinion. “Patty and Selma at the Department of Motor Vehicles may not be constitutional scholars, but they know that they are expected to follow the law ... ”

[tearknee]

Shows the age of the justices?

[Lois Sandborne]

Doing my annual viewing of TOH episodes, and thanks to autoplay I'm catching all of the election episodes along the way. Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish is really underrated. I think it's a better episode than Sideshow Bob Roberts, even though it has fewer gags.

[tearknee]

I like SBR if only for the characters of the Col, Krusty and Bob.

 

Seasons 1-2, even 3, are too "serious". 5-7 has a warm blend of humor and heart.

[DoctorAtomic]

So there's 2 episodes tonight? I figured the Mets game would have been on. 

[ottoDbusdriver]

Season 36, ep 3: Desperately Seeking Lisa

Lisa has a blazing misadventure in the dark world of Capital City's downtown art scene.

Airs 10/20/24

Pinch hitting for @Galileo908

[ottoDbusdriver]

51 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:

So there's 2 episodes tonight? I figured the Mets game would have been on. 

Looks like just the 1 episode at 8:30pm tonight.

Universal Basic Guys is on at 8pm.

[Galileo908]

52 minutes ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

Pinch hitting for @Galileo908

Thanks! I'm beat after NY Comic Con. I went to the Simpsons panel, and that was a good time. We got to see clips from tonight's ep (based on After Hours), and the Christmas special.

Edited October 21 by Galileo908

[Galileo908]

So what I thought were clips from the THOH were actually from this episode. We got to see the scene of Lisa arriving in Capital City, and Lisa running into Chalmers (David Byrne sighting!)

Loved all the sign gags in Capital City. The Planet of The Apes musical got a revival!

Love the irony that Patty and Selma couldn't smoke in the Laramie Cigarettes restaurant. And got a laugh out of a performance artist eating her own sweater.

I thought this was a pretty fun plot. And Marge barely got to do anything, which should satisfy certain people.

[DoctorAtomic]

My tivo listed it as new twice.

I liked a completely Lisa centered episode, and all the over the top 'art' jokes and the black and white transition shots. I figured this was going to take a turn. I liked the scam of getting the money from the Roosevelt doinker. And the callback to the juice. 

The best part was supernintendo Chalmers freaking out about running into Lisa - 'life long learning' totally lands. 

Nice, literal tip of the cap from Martin. 

I think our number 1 fan is going to like this one! She won't even need her hat!

[Spartan Girl]

This was indeed a fun episode. I was afraid that this would lead to an ending of “Lisa needs to learn not to aim so high and be grateful for her dead-end town” and even though she got screwed over by the city bohemian artists, that thankfully was the case.

The callback to the juice was random, but whatever.

[DoctorAtomic]

No, the juice had the high fructose corn syrup in it, and Lisa had been up all night and was crashing. She drank the juice and was able to escape over the wall. 

[Galileo908]

21 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

The callback to the juice was random, but whatever.

"If there was a gun introduced in Act 1, I'd shoot you right now!" was such a great line.

[Tachi Rocinante]

Lots of good stuff in this one.

Was Kool-Aid Jesus a deliberate shot at Andres Serrano's transgressive "art"? I won't mention the name of it for fear of offending.

Also included a minor dig at Keith Haring, too.

Never heard of Tracy Letts.

Griffin Dunne was the cockroach guy. Nice.

[DoctorAtomic]

47 minutes ago, Tachi Rocinante said:

Was Kool-Aid Jesus a deliberate shot at Andres Serrano's transgressive "art"? I won't mention the name of it for fear of offending.

That's a deep deep cut if so. 

[Galileo908]

Season 36, ep 4: Shoddy Heat

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An unearthed corpse opens up a cold case from Springfield in the 1980s

Airs 10/27/24

[Galileo908]

So thanks to the sliding timeline, Grampa was a young Miami Vice-like detective in 1982. Abe and Agnes is a ship I'm surprised this show hadn't gone to yet. I thought they were gonna somehow establish that Abe or Billy was Skinner's real dad (making him younger than Homer, since Young Seymour wasn't seen), but it was just that Burns promised Homer a job at the plant and permanent job security.

Even the polar bear in Past Burns's office was just a cub. And present day bear got its head blown off.

I liked that they remembered Patty and Selma's love of slideshows. And how several slides were of them transferring the slides to digital. And they remembered The VHS Village (formerly The Beta Barn).