| Re: Mad About You [message #248321] |
Fr, 14 April 2006 23:37 |
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Sable Basilisk wrote:
> D'oh - got that one wrong.
>
We shall punish you by making you watch 'The Simpsons Movie' over and
over and over again. It's gonna suck.
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| Re: Mad About You [message #248366 ] |
Sa, 15 April 2006 15:36 |
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>We shall punish you by making you watch 'The Simpsons Movie' over and
>over and over again. It's gonna suck.
Doesn't it seem like "The Simpsons" is becoming everything it ever made
fun of? The show was great for the first four seasons and it's been
coasting ever since.
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| Re: Mad About You [message #248389 ] |
Sa, 15 April 2006 21:53 |
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<marc0ni [at] earthlink.net>
> Doesn't it seem like "The Simpsons" is becoming everything it ever made
> fun of? The show was great for the first four seasons and it's been
> coasting ever since.
You need to post some evidence to support your thesis. Otherwise I will
simply say, "the answer... is NO."
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| Re: Mad About You [message #248399 ] |
Sa, 15 April 2006 23:04 |
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Xino Kiner <isalas79 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
><marc0ni [at] earthlink.net>
>> Doesn't it seem like "The Simpsons" is becoming everything it ever made
>> fun of? The show was great for the first four seasons and it's been
>> coasting ever since.
>
> You need to post some evidence to support your thesis. Otherwise I will
>simply say, "the answer... is NO."
"Homer vs Dignity"
and a whole host of other crap that's come through since then.
Bart faking his own kidnapping after attending a rap concert was really
awful.
--
Wiggum: No. We need to find out who it belonged to. We want a DNA test.
DNA guy: Ooh, ooh, ee, ooh, ooh, that takes, uh, eight to ten weeks.
Wiggum: [sighs, hands him a carton of cigarettes]
DNA guy: Did I say weeks? 'Cause I meant seconds.
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| Re: Mad About You [message #248431 ] |
So, 16 April 2006 17:15 |
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Example: Bart is reading a "Mad" feature entitled something like "A
Mad Look at Hippies." Bart says, sincerely, "Wow, those Mad guys aren't
afraid whose toes they step on". But the entire point of the joke is
that Mad magazine has become so lame that it's still satirizing 30 year
social trends.
A few seasons later, "The Simpsons" has an episode in which Homer
becomes a hippie.
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| Re: Mad About You [message #254521 ] |
Di, 18 April 2006 08:11 |
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> >> Doesn't it seem like "The Simpsons" is becoming everything it ever made
> >> fun of? The show was great for the first four seasons and it's been
> >> coasting ever since.
> "Homer vs Dignity"
That was several years after the fourth season. It is not a bad episode,
except for the whole panda rape scene.
> and a whole host of other crap that's come through since then.
such as.......
XINO
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| Re: Mad About You [message #254538 ] |
Di, 18 April 2006 18:44 |
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Well, in one episode, Bart got his "Mad Magazine Special Edition -
there's only about 18 of these a year". And in the magazine, they were
making fun of Spiro Agnew. By your logic, a few seasons later, Homer
should have become Spiro Agnew.
Aaron Hirshberg
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| Re: Mad About You [message #254624 ] |
Mi, 19 April 2006 09:15 |
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Xino Kiner <isalas79 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
>> and a whole host of other crap that's come through since then.
>
> such as.......
Such as the example I gave /that you snipped/, genius.
--
Lisa: Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by
Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
-- No cynicism here, "Another Simpsons Clip Show"
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| Re: Mad About You [message #254669 ] |
Do, 20 April 2006 07:16 |
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> >> and a whole host of other crap that's come through since then.
> >
> > such as.......
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> Such as the example I gave /that you snipped/, genius.
Hold it, professor. One bad example does not constitute "a whole host of
other crap". IMO, ten examples would make a whole host, or at the VERY
least, TWO examples.
XINO
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| Re: Mad About You [message #254696 ] |
Fr, 21 April 2006 00:49 |
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On 20-Apr-2006, "Xino Kiner" <isalas79 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >> and a whole host of other crap that's come through since then.
> > >
> > > such as.......
> >
> > Such as the example I gave /that you snipped/, genius.
>
> Hold it, professor. One bad example does not constitute "a whole host of
> other crap". IMO, ten examples would make a whole host, or at the VERY
> least, TWO examples.
If we're voting, I vote that it takes eight instances to be a "host".
Eight has always been a good integer - and it has never really received the
credit it deserves.
IMHO
Gary
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| Re: Mad About You [message #254729 ] |
Sa, 22 April 2006 02:31 |
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Xino Kiner <isalas79 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> and a whole host of other crap that's come through since then.
>> >
>> > such as.......
>>
>> Such as the example I gave /that you snipped/, genius.
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>Hold it, professor. One bad example does not constitute "a whole host of
>other crap". IMO, ten examples would make a whole host, or at the VERY
>least, TWO examples.
OK.
"Pranksta Rap", "A Tale of Two Springfields"*, "HOMR", "Pokey Mom",
"Saddlesore Galactica"*, "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge", "New Kids on
the Blecch", "The Blunder Years", "The Lastest Gun in the West",
"Fraudcast News".
* these precede "Homer Vs Dignity", but which I retroactively deem just
about as bad. So it's a whole host of other crap, some of which was
contemporaneous and most of which came after.
--
When the president starts doing things that risk American lives, then loyalty
to him has to be put aside. I think the way he has responded to al Qaeda, both
before 9/11 by doing nothing, and by what he's done after 9/11 has made us less
safe. Absolutely." - Richard Clarke, 60 Minutes March 19 2004.
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| Re: Mad About You [message #254736 ] |
Sa, 22 April 2006 10:12 |
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> Eight has always been a good integer - and it has never really received
the
> credit it deserves.
> IMHO
You must be an octophile.
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| Re: Mad About You [message #254737 ] |
Sa, 22 April 2006 12:01 |
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On 22-Apr-2006, "Xino Kiner" <isalas79 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
> You must be an octophile.
Octo-dilly-icious! (Did i spell that right?)
Gary
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