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Simpsons - decent episodes from season 10 to 23?

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  • #92
    Viral Vector
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Viral Vector


    The Irish episode: In the Name of the Grandfather

    Season 20

    It was so funny, Mickrosoft and Leprechauns on mobile phones!!!


  • #93
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,324 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    RichieC wrote: »
    not the case as seasons 2 to er..8 I think are still up there with the best comedies ever made. Seaon one was a bit primitive but had its moments.

    The one where the family got shock treatment in season one was excellent.
    krudler wrote: »
    Its one of the best episodes ever, damn right it counts. seasons 8 and 9 had their great episodes too, I think the Sherry Bobbins episode is when it started it descent into the debacle it is today

    Homer V the city of New York from season 9 is class aswell.


  • #94
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    The older something gets the more you take it for granted. It aired before the internet so most people had a common sense of mainstream media and jokes didn't spread as fast. It also depends on your age when it initially aired. Do you watch any other show that was around this long?


  • #95
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,998 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Viral Vector wrote: »
    The Irish episode: In the Name of the Grandfather

    Season 20

    It was so funny, Mickrosoft and Leprechauns on mobile phones!!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggXmKPMaHMo


  • #96
    Viral Vector
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭Viral Vector


    Suas11 wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggXmKPMaHMo
    Oh a sarcasm detector...that's a real useful invention!


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  • #97
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Potatoeman wrote: »
    The older something gets the more you take it for granted. It aired before the internet so most people had a common sense of mainstream media and jokes didn't spread as fast. It also depends on your age when it initially aired. Do you watch any other show that was around this long?
    New Simpsons sucks! It just sucks, and no justification will make it not suck so stop it!


  • #98
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    If the simpsons were painted blue instead would you guys watch it


  • #99
    strawdog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭strawdog


    Suas11 wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggXmKPMaHMo

    Even that clips a rip off from their better days!



  • #100
    Kamjana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭Kamjana


    krudler wrote: »
    This is just an amazing moment from the show, theres more emotion in this few seconds than the last 10 seasons:



    (its backwards thanks to fox being assbags when it comes to simpsons clips on youtube)

    That episode has just started on Channel 4 now :D


  • #101
    Priori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭Priori


    This clip, for me, epitomises the greatness of golden-age Homer. What they have done to this timeless character in the later episodes is nothing short of Greek Tragedy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh5knx1Bt64


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  • #102
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    phasers wrote: »
    New Simpsons sucks! It just sucks, and no justification will make it not suck so stop it!

    What age were you when you when you still liked it. Your tastes change as you age but nostalgia is a powerful emotion.


  • #103
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    Potatoeman wrote: »
    phasers wrote: »
    New Simpsons sucks! It just sucks, and no justification will make it not suck so stop it!


    What age were you when you when you still liked it. Your tastes change as you age but nostalgia is a powerful emotion.

    How come I still find the old episodes just as funny as ever then?


  • #104
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Potatoeman wrote: »
    The older something gets the more you take it for granted. It aired before the internet so most people had a common sense of mainstream media and jokes didn't spread as fast. It also depends on your age when it initially aired. Do you watch any other show that was around this long?
    As I grow older I realise that Coronation St is only getting better and better.


  • #105
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    How come I still find the old episodes just as funny as ever then?

    Like I said nostalgia is a powerful emotion. ;)


  • #106
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    Potatoeman wrote: »
    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    How come I still find the old episodes just as funny as ever then?

    Like I said nostalgia is a powerful emotion. ;)
    How come I don't find season 1 funny? What about nostalgia. How come I don't find season 10 episodes ( 13 years ago) funny?


  • #107
    whatsamsn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭whatsamsn


    The episode on Channel 4 now is one of the best ever made :D

    Homer fakes his death and where he first meets his mother. So many classic jokes in it. Sad ending with him looking into the stars :(
    One of the best endings they've ever had.


  • #108
    cat_dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭cat_dog


    phasers wrote: »
    everybody defending new Simpsons needs to be permabanned.
    You only hate new Simpsons because "everyone else does" :rolleyes:


  • #109
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    How come I don't find season 1 funny? What about nostalgia. How come I don't find season 10 episodes ( 13 years ago) funny?

    Personal taste or a priest touched you when you were wearing you Bart Simpson undies.


  • #110
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Potatoeman wrote: »
    Personal taste or a priest touched you when you were wearing you Bart Simpson undies.
    That's very specific.


  • #111
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    Magdalena Some Radium wrote: »
    That's very specific.

    You can't prove a thing! ;)


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  • #112
    whatsamsn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭whatsamsn


    krudler wrote: »
    that was Family Guy :pac:

    did the family guy do the whole "just like your mother, cant take a punch" line too?


  • #113
    Burky126
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    Summed up


  • #114
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    cat_dog wrote: »
    You only hate new Simpsons because "everyone else does" :rolleyes:
    Why did you use quotation marks for that?


  • #115
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,686 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    I liked the episode where Selma adopts a baby from China from season 16. It had a few funny lines and the classic "emotion" that was in the early seasons.

    I lost faith in the Simpsons when I seen the Japan episode - that was terrible.


  • #116
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I like the new simpsons. They did that really funny episode recently, where Mrs Krabapple or whatever her name is was suspended from teaching. And the epsiode with banksy's opening.


  • #117
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,197 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    the episode where they went to Africa was the end of any good simpsons to me, such a bad episode, you could see the shift from clever writing to just random crap writing in that one. i seem to remember that that episode actually had a decent start

    checked which season it was, it was season 12, that season had some decent episodes before the africa one, the one where Homer removes a crayon from his brain was pretty good.


  • #118
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    this still makes me laugh even though I've seen it thousands of times. "fiddle-dee-dee..that will require a tetanus shot.."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEAgr9AlxAI


    its the sound of the nail piercing his foot that makes it, the shows makers had this crazy ability to come up with the most horrendous sounding effects for Homers various injuries.


  • #119
    thebostoncrab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭thebostoncrab


    Season 8 is without a doubt the greatest season of any tv show ever made, and the only one I needed to own on DVD. No episode is below excellent


  • #120
    honru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    As someone posted earlier the Armin Tamzarian episode was the beginning of the end. There's a handful of decent episodes in seasons 9 and 10 but I stopped watching it after that. Hard to believe that was over ten years ago and it's still going.

    The most depressing thing is how the writers use the characters. Their personalities and quirks are so overbearing and one-dimensional compared to how they were depicted in the seasons during the 90s. Perhaps as a result of this they're just not funny anymore. Lisa and Marge are now so god damn annoying... what is up with that excruciating upward inflection in Marge's voice these days?


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  • #121
    Icepick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭Icepick


    The Italian Bob from season 17 feels like a pre-season 10 episode and has a lot of good jokes, probably more than the previous 7 seasons.


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