The Simpsons also has some pretty good deranged memes. Steamed Hams is a good one but I also present getting the dud as another gem
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That elevator only goes down…and someone made an aaawful mess down there…
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That’s exactly the kind of Simpsons gag I’d expect you to like
I also love it too ofc
I just wish I had a Fabergé egg
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I’ve been making my way through seasons 1-10 of The Simpsons for like . . . two years now. I love the episodes I like - the best ones are some of the best episodes of TV I’ve ever seen - but most of the time watching the show I am bored out of my mind. The fifty-jokes-a-minute pace becomes grueling when you don’t find any of the jokes in an episode funny lol. Like it’s so dense with one-liners that the first minute of an episode is usually a wide enough sampling for me to know if I’ll like an episode or not.
Would definitely agree the really good stuff starts in season 4, but I’m on season 6 now and imo the quality has remained wildly inconsistent. I can’t see myself ever rewatching a full season.
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hmmm….does reading a bunch of half-remembered out of context quotes change your mind?
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I have no idea how you all are pulling so many of these out it’s actually impressive to me
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tbh it’s kind of impressive to me too. for me it’s like a feeding frenzy where as soon as other people start throwing quotes out old pathways in my brain are uncorked and they all come rushing back to me.
i’m used to people (friends, loved ones) finding the simpsons boring, but i’ve never met anyone who loves it AND finds it boring. what are the boring episodes or moments to you and what are the funny ones?
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i would also say that the show in its current form has come out of its hacky lull that it was in for about twenty goddamn years. it’s not how it used to be but i feel the current staff are at least trying to do interesting stuff. last series (35?) had a good number of weird marge-centric eps that are worth watching.
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I think to answer which ones I find boring I’ll have to keep a Simpsons log starting with season six lol. I just went back and rewatched “$pringfield” cuz I remember not liking that one, but actually it’s a good episode, hampered by a few jokes that made me roll my eyes.
As for episodes I find funny, “Marge on the Lam” might be my favorite in season five. Virtually all of the jokes land for me.
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The first and last lines in this clip kill me
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I agree with @MoH that seeing other quotes opens up pathways to more that I can then remember myself, but I also think it’s noteworthy that in all likelihood we consumed the show in a way that no new fan ever could. There were two episodes on every week day in syndication for me growing up, at 6 and 6:30. Unless I had baseball practice or whatever I literally watched two episodes of The Simpsons every week day for basically my entire time living at home and going to school. No one getting into it now is going to build up a background like that
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Not with that attitude.
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What’s wild to me is that in the grand scheme of things I wouldn’t even necessarily call myself a “Simpsons Fan”–that seems reserved for folks who identify in that way, but for a generational sweet spot the combination of the US monoculture 90s and syndication means that a shocking amount of folks within +/- 4 years of like, 40, probably have a decent handful of Simpsons (and also probably like, Friends) quotes banging around in their brains
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I imagine the age range is a little broader than that just based on who’s participating itt but yeah. Syndication is the answer—and having the TV on all the time and the monotasker nature of a television set with curated programming, and the ubiquity of all that meant that it was unusual to meet someone in the same age bracket who grew up without television.
I thought about how people watch streams now in sort of the same way but it isn’t the same is it? If something is prerecorded then it’s available on demand and it’s hardly common for people to have a HTPC pointed to a video stream as background noise. I think it’s definitely better this way lol but I dunno, it’s also worse in other ways. I don’t feel like teasing out the details right now.
or Seinfeld, even early Spongebob, Kids in the Hall if you’re Canadian.
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