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Lef - 2014-10-20

Alright, 5 shiny ones. Lack of context, saving me time, etc.


BiggerJ - 2014-10-20

If DC can make a MOBA out of alternate versions of its characters so can the Simpsons. They should do that. I would pay money to play as Hertzfelt Maggie or MISTA SPAKURU.


BiggerJ - 2014-10-20

*Hertzfeldt


infinite zest - 2014-10-20

I would watch what I believe is Bart as a Spider, Lisa as an Owl, Homer as a Walrus and Marge as.. something. I didn't catch that the first time.


BiggerJ - 2014-10-20

Some kind of jungle cat. They're from a previous Halloween episode.


infinite zest - 2014-10-20

All things considered, that wouldn't be a horrible way for the show to progress, if they intend on just keeping it going and going. At least to the best of my knowledge, they've never been able to do a completely serious episode like All in the Family, Fresh Prince, or even Family Guy and American Dad with the bank vault episode and the weird August Osage County-esque play respectively. Sure, it can tug at the old heartstrings, but it's usually under the assumption that Homer, as bumbling as he is, is a truly loving soul in the end, but only after some Simpsons-esque antics happen first.

It'd be cool if the franchise went into the Hertzfelt side on one end and a much more serious side on another, one where, I dunno, they age over time, get sick, etc. and major issues like divorce and death are taken seriously, in more of a Hernandez Brothers-type approach. I mean, hell, it worked pretty well for the Muppets: get rid of the drug references from the first movie and you've got a family show. Make them babies and you've got a kids show. The lasting power endures to this day, while the Simpsons is just rotting away trying to still be funny doing the same thing for 25 years.


BiggerJ - 2014-10-21

By MOBA, I was actually referring to MOBAs like Leauge of Legends, DC's Infinite Crisis (which I mentioned) and the Adventure Time one. But I still agree with what you said anyway.


infinite zest - 2014-10-21

Ah. I had to look it up. In a way, Simpsons Tapped Out is like that, by its premise alone: Homer destroys Springfield and you rebuild it, often focusing more on peripheral characters doing Stonecutter quests and such, and depending on the season, Holiday activities. It's fun but an apocryphal tale, do NOT give in and buy Donuts, and then wonder why you're having Taco Bell for dinner instead of Taquiera Los Gorditos, not that it happened to me or anything..

DC's another good example. The very dark Miller/Nolan Batmans can exist at the same time as the quirky and fun Brave and the Bold and Teen Titans Go, and frankly I'd love to see the TTG folks have a go at the Superfriends. And while I like Cognitivedissonance's theory that the show ends full circle with the original Christmas episode, it appears they've already done it, leaving everybody in the room, and the audience with a "what now" look on their faces. Assuming most of us grew up with the Simpsons, they are probably more iconic than, well anything I can think of. Our parents' generation sort of grew out of the Mickey Mouse Club, and younger generations who have an opportunity to grow up with shows like Adventure Time get the sandbox approach: Jake and Finn don't appear in an entire episode? No big deal. But the Simpsons is just stuck with this formula, but it's a formula with characters that we don't outgrow, even if we don't like the show anymore. It was funny when Comic Book Guy mentions how the show "betrayed" the audience back in Season 7 or 8, or even the Behind the Laughter episode where Lisa shouts "The Simpsons are going to Delaware!" but now that's come true. And rather than pulling the plug on characters that have 25+ years of cultural impact on kids and adults (The Looney Tunes characters are the only other animated characters I can think of, but often I associate an adult with a Tweety Bird shirt with Walmart) I'd like to see The Simpsons live on in the aforementioned ways. Just no live-action or CGI. Erotic cakes are fine though.


Kabbage - 2014-10-20

There is seriously nothing more awkward than anime jokes in The Simpsons.


Spaceman Africa - 2014-10-20

I'll give them props for actually basing them off real characters this time.


Kid Fenris - 2014-10-20

I'm kind of surprised they included Matsumoto from Bleach. From what I remember of that series, she wasn't even one of the main characters.


Caminante Nocturno - 2014-10-21

The people behind The Simpsons have had an obvious knowledge of anime for a long, long time.


infinite zest - 2014-10-21

Yeah they know what they're talking about, but it's always got this way of explaining the reference which gets annoying. Like the beautifully done Miyazaki bit: it's all there, but of course it's Apu's Moving Kwik-e-Mart, Otto's the Catbus Totoro, etc.


Rodents of Unusual Size - 2014-10-20

I don't get the reference where they are all wearing glasses.

I wish they'd stayed away from Archer.

I hate this. Five stars because this is almost anti-Halloween.


infinite zest - 2014-10-20

Rous assuming you're not talking about the Despicable Me glasses guys, whatever they're called, the preceding one is a Sylvain Chomet (Triplets of Belleville) reference who animated a couch gag maybe a year ago.


infinite zest - 2014-10-20

Whoops. self-5-star and horrible grammar? I hate MYSELF! :)


Rodents of Unusual Size - 2014-10-21

Okay yes, the Despicable Me one I got. The Triplets of Belleville I have not seen so thank you, that was just bothering me.

Did they honestly do an episode with the old Tracy Ullman versions? That's an awful idea.


Xenocide - 2014-10-20

This last short wasn't very funny, but I give them props for it being technically excellent. The "original" Simpsons were actually animated in the style of the first season, with that weird mouth pucker when they say their "o's" and Bart's head and eyes occasionally going in different directions. Dan Castalanetta even did an excellent job recapturing Homer's original Walter Mathaiu-voice for Homer.

But once they got everyone in the same room, the writers had no idea what to do with them all. So it just became a bunch of predictable jokes about each of them killing each other, because Halloween.


Xenagama Warrior Princess - 2014-10-20

The animation I really did enjoy and they seemed to capture the old essence for the 'Ullman Simpsons' almost to a tee from the twisted grotesqueness and the "trumpet mouths" as Groening once put it - maybe they seemed a little bit more fluid and animated then the original ones, though. I thought I would have never missed hearing Castellanetta's older, duller Homer voice but somehow it opened a portal of nostalgia in my heart.

The idea was novel but, to be frank though, a lot of the jokes did come off a little flat as if they really had no direction when they brought the generations together. Somehow I was hoping that the story would have had the modern Simpsons introduce the older family to the modern ways of the world and technology.

I could imagine a lot of gags they would have had introducing older Homer to the marvels of "portable television" via a tablet.


Riskbreaker - 2014-10-21

Nobody working in this show remembers how to tell a joke anymore.


Rodents of Unusual Size - 2014-10-21

I know this has been covered endless times here but the biggest difference between say, the first ten or eleven years and after is that they used to mock mediocrity and now they have become what they used to mock.

Also, they used to have a much more acutely political bent and that has edge has really evaporated over the years.


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