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I love the Simpsons on Sky One on Friday, the episode when they come to England. What did you think of it?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i avoided it but i expect a couple of lines would've made me laugh. i noticed that David Mirkin is producing episodes again - his productions from ten years or so ago are among the finest episodes ever imo.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Homer: "...and none of your dry English humour!"
Hotel receptionist: "I wouldn't dream of it, sir."

That was the best Simpsons in a long time.

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Homer (after driving round the roundabout hundreds of times): "I'm going to act like an American! Unilaterally!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Now they're stealing sight gags from Chevy Chase movies?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I think there was just the one Griswalds gag, but that was rather a shameful steal. Most of the rest of it was surprisingly funny though.

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

but that was rather a shameful steal

I thought it was an homage.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

they're all about their movie steals though, surely?

― chris (chris), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

whenever i say the simpsons has been crap for years, someone always says "oh you should see x new episode, it's as good as any simpsons". and then i watch it, and it's just another massive disappointment and i am left bewildered. this one was no exception.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

ie. it was not good at all

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

We Americans are England's children! Sure we don't call as often as we should like our goody-two-shoes brother Canada... not that he's ever had a girlfriend, I'm just sayin'.....

Classic.

― Catty (Catty), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, it was the worst one ever. With in T*** B****, the worst guest spot ever BY A FUCKING MILE. This is speaking as someone who doesn't think it's lost its way as much as people would have you believe, and would cite episodes like the one where Lisa and Bart are in the same class as evidence of this.

But one amazing throwaway line about Jimmy Page was not enough to save it, not nearly.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm sure it wasn't that bad, most of the new episodes are probably average rather than actually terrible - any episode in which Homer cries like a baby/Scooby-Doo for more than 3 seconds gets immediately switched off for me tho

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Well yeah, the funny thing is that I still laughed way more during it than I ever have during any episode of Friends ever ever.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the best Friends episodes > the worst Simpsons episodes in terms of laughs and eveything

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I think if no one had seen the truly great, great Simpsons episodes from, say, seasons 3-9 or so, they might think the past several years were not shabby. But the current Simpsons is like mid-'70s Rolling Stones: flashes of brilliance, but mostly competence that's going through the motions, too aware of its own legend, trading in on past glories and abandoning much of what made it great during its heyday.

I still watch it with crossed fingers, hoping for something that's as front-to-back brilliant as, say, the St Patrick's Day/Rex Banner episode, or the Burns Casino one, but these days that seems impossible.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the-return-of-Homer's-mom episode was ripe with laughs, personally. That was this season, right?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The one where she thinks he's dead, that's why she comes back? That's the only Homer's mom one I've seen...

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Krusty's bar mitvah is easily the best of this season.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah that was great.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It can't be as bad as the Bart vs. Australia episode. Yanks can never do an 'Ossie' accent...

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked the gay aristocrats

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

some of this season's eps have been total classics, like the one where springfield gets sick of family-friendly stuff.

the best guest on the england episode was jk rowling:

lisa: "can you tell me how the series ends?"
rowling: "he grows up and marries you... is that what you wanted to hear?"
lisa: "yeeeessssss..."

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Best of a bad bunch, sadly. And the Scottish Play joke w/ Ian McKellen is just a variation on an old Blackadder joke (and probably dozens of similar)

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the animation sucks now too. The characters have lost a lot as the technology has improved for some reason. Plus the move from Bart being a troublesome kid to essentially being Homer's wacky sidekick just blows.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

You'd a thought Maggie would have growed up a bit by now, too...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I love though that now there's this legacy where they can make these self-referrential jokes like when Homer's at his mom's "funeral" and the casket rolls away and he's mad and he kicks a neighboring tombstone and it falls and says 'Frank "Grimey" Grimes' on it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

oof, that one with Grimes Jr was horrible

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The truth of the matter is I love all the self-referential jokes cos they make me feel like I belong and they're for my benefit and novices DON'T UNDERSTAND. I don't watch enough telly to get that from any other programme, with the possible exception of Soccer Saturday.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

wait is Grimes the fella that cottons on to the unreality of Homer/simpsons/springfield etc? and he dies really tragically imitating Homer's unsafe behaviour in a nuclear power plant, and his funeral is a joke. that story was great!

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i never liked it, i hate that kind of humour, i guess it's black but lacking the genuine poignancy black humour can often have, it just left a really nasty taste in the mouth. more recently Homer was an assassination target for a mysterious figure which turned out to be Frank Grimes's son - a fairly pointless episode in which nothing was learned or gained on any level (would've enjoyed it more if Homer had actually been killed and spent the rest of the season as a ghost personally).

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I'm not not liking it!

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"He happened to like prostitutes"

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"If the flintstones has taught us one thing, it's that pelicans can be used for mixing cement"

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

I love the Simpsons on Sky One on Friday, the episode when they come to England. What did you think of it?
― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, January 11, 2004 5:45 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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