The General Discussion Lounge

[Kiyosuki]

Yeah well, in the end its only surface. As common a phrase as it is, you can't really ever judge a book by its cover when it comes to people. Well at least thats what I try to remind myself of every now and then.

Funny thing though about Comic Book Guys, is they really do tend to look and act all similarly to eachother. Its quite odd.

[richardUK]

I've been told many, many a time that I am freakishly like Homer Simpson, except for in appearance (I have no muzzle, my eyes arent seperated with a black line, I have quite a lot of hair and I'm almost ten stone).

But apprently my personality, attitude, clothing style and way I live my life is incredibly like Homer's.

Woo-hoo!

[Stevie V. Scrivello]

My 12th grade Zoology teacher bore a striking resemblance to Mr. Burns, except he was a lot nicer (still didn't like kids much) and he had a mustache. The way he talked, it was as if we were still living in the 50's; I found it fascinating, although the other kids hated it.

They also hated me because I always kissed up to him and fetched his coffee in the mornings...and suddenly my results on that personality test make a lot of sense. Oh, Jesus. :-$

[Mr Black]

I could sware my physics teacher is identical to professor frink.... Glaven!

[DotheBartman]

Haha, shit....

Does anybody know if "Kill Gill" is showing again soon? I wasn't going to watch it tonight anyway, but I totally forgot to record it even...

I know they usually wouldn't show it again this soon, but I'm wondering since they sometimes show the Christmas episodes a second time right before Christmas.

Oh, and um, my middle school teacher was incredibly like Principal Skinner, and even sounded identical. I also had a teacher in 7th grade named Mr. Burns. He was really a cool guy though, and in fact, a huge Simpsons nerd. He even had a Homer Simpson alarm clock on his desk. And he was pretty young at the time too.

And I once met a guy who looked exactly like Ned. The glasses, the hair, the head-shape, the green sweater. It was so weird.

[jayzamann]

And I once met a guy who looked exactly like Ned. The glasses, the hair, the head-shape, the green sweater. It was so weird.

If he had yellow skin that would be incredibly freaky.

I've never seen anyone who looks like a Simpsons character, but I have met many who speak a lot like them. I've met many middle aged men who both speak like and have mannerisms similar to Homer. It was tres funny.

[Reservoir Dog]

There is something i found that you might find interesting. I was watching all my Simpsons DVDs in preparatoin for season 9 coming out on DVD and i heard something on the commentaries for "Blood Feud" in season 2. At about 4 minutes into the episode David Silverman said something about being able to talk about Snowball's name and afterwards came an odd silence. This is where I put my conspiracy hat on. Could David Silvermans comment have been stricken from the commentaries?

[BradysMom]

There is something i found that you might find interesting. I was watching all my Simpsons DVDs in preparatoin for season 9 coming out on DVD and i heard something on the commentaries for "Blood Feud" in season 2. At about 4 minutes into the episode David Silverman said something about being able to talk about Snowball's name and afterwards came an odd silence. This is where I put my conspiracy hat on. Could David Silvermans comment have been stricken from the commentaries?

Facinating. I'll have to check that myself. I've noticed in some commentaries that the voices are increadibly low toned, so low that you cannot hear them at times which is annoying.

[Charlie]

And there's also people who talk naturally, but the problem is their voice is too low-toned. I've had trouble hearing things that Jim Reardon has said on some commentaries because of how low pitched his voice is.

[Adam R]

^That could be a TV problem. Sometimes, one part of the audio sounds much quieter than the rest on some TVs, on my old one I could never hear Jon Lovitz on the commentaries. That is odd though RD. Parts of the commentary being edited out isn't too unlikely. For example, one of the commentaries is edited in region 2. In Bart Gets an F, there is a small story edited out about the person who played Karl seeing clear semen stains on the headboard of his bed, which is gone in the region 2 because that would give the box set a 12 certificate and they wanted to keep it PG. It's pretty ridiculous though seeing as though the sets from season 5 onwards were rated 12 anyway due to the episode content and also that probably no one under 12 would watch the commentaries anyway.

Also, did no one mention that the show was 17 yesterday?

[Charlie]

In Bart Gets an F, there is a small story edited out about the person who played Karl seeing clear semen stains on the headboard of his bed, which is gone in the region 2 because that would give the box set a 12 certificate and they wanted to keep it PG.

It's actually Simpson and Delilah, not Bart Gets An F

[Charlie]

Ok, so last night I couldn't sleep at all, so I was watching my Season 3 DVD. Because my parents get real crabby if they can hear it in the middle of the night, I resorted to using headphones...anyway;

Go watch Bart the Lover, and listen VERY carefully to Ms. Krabappel between the shots of Bart spitting in her cup and the scene in the bath. I think it's during the part where she says she wants a man to love her regardless of what she looks like, anyway, someone obviously coughed or laughed or talked or something while Marcia was reading her lines, because you can still hear them in the background briefly during that segment.

[Stevie V. Scrivello]

^Holy crap, I think you're right! That is, unless my ears are deceiving me again...

[Nebuchanezzar]

Homer the Moe: I can clearly see what's so bad about it, but what's so baaaaaaaaaad about it to make it amongst the worst of the worst that I hear many people think it is. I'm prepared to be enlightened, not to disagree. So far, I detect a disjointed plot, some cruddy gags and an all around cruel atmosphere (not that it's an inherently bad thing to have a cruel atmosphere on a Simpsons episode) going against it. Go!

[Imperciph]

I'm usually the one who despises Homer The Moe and is the most vocal about its crappiness. Horrible episode with the worst tasteless and mean-spirited gags ever, Homer at his jerkassiest extreme with his jerkass antics continuously dominating the show again and again so much that it's overused to the max and yields almost zero laughs, all other character interactions are lazily written and are therefore unfunny, main premise is a retread and plotting is all over the place and the fact that it actually tries to pass itself as a feel-good episode irks me to no end. Hell, we barely get one or two scenes of these "emotional" storylines : they're just present to have Homer run Moe's, have Moe remodel Moe's and have a storyline involving jerkass Homer building a bar in his garage and shoot Moe somehow and then coming to his senses. (what storytelling ;-/ ) The whole thing is poorly developed that the whole "emotional" payoff of Moe finally getting a tip doesn't work at all. It also has what I consider the worst joke in the history of The Simpsons :

Moe:Is, is there anything I can do?
Professor:No, unless you have a cure for cancer. Do you have a cure for cancer? 'Cause that would be great!
Moe:I'm sorry, Professor.
Professor:Goodbye, Moe.
Moe:Bye, Professor.
[the professor walks calmly into the lake and disappears beneath the surface]
Hey, don't you want to take your shoes off before you go swimming? Professor? [realizes] Oh. Oh. Um, hmmm

[Adam R]

Imperciph is right about Homer the Moe. In some ways, to me that seems like "the worst of Mike Scully collection". It has a little bit of everything that went wrong in the Scully era. "Jerkass" Homer is the flaw here shown most heavily, but to me it seems to have little bits of everything else thrown in: tasteless jokes and pain gags, a poor plot with forced emotion thrown in at the end and some other questionable characterisations.

Go watch Bart the Lover, and listen VERY carefully to Ms. Krabappel between the shots of Bart spitting in her cup and the scene in the bath. I think it's during the part where she says she wants a man to love her regardless of what she looks like, anyway, someone obviously coughed or laughed or talked or something while Marcia was reading her lines, because you can still hear them in the background briefly during that segment.

I can't hear anything like that at all.

[TheFlandersMan]

Moe:Is, is there anything I can do?
Professor:No, unless you have a cure for cancer. Do you have a cure for cancer? 'Cause that would be great!
Moe:I'm sorry, Professor.
Professor:Goodbye, Moe.
Moe:Bye, Professor.
[the professor walks calmly into the lake and disappears beneath the surface]
Hey, don't you want to take your shoes off before you go swimming? Professor? [realizes] Oh. Oh. Um, hmmm

Ha! I'm not sure I remember that scene but I think that's pretty funny.

[Stevie V. Scrivello]

^ Hate to sound like a prude, but I fail to see the humor in that exchange.

[Postmaster]

I never actually got all the hatred towards the joke, and your not being fair by not quoting the scene it's entirety, because part of the humour is supposed to be in the way they go from having a normal conversation to the professor just suddenly announcing he's dying in a very stiff-upper-lipped way, and moe not really taking this news onboard properly at first.
It's not just "HaHa he's commiting suicide because he's dying of cancer, look how dark we are"

[Charlie]

I can't hear anything like that at all.

I found it by listening through headphones, and it was on the left channel if I'm not mistaken.

[Reservoir Dog]

I never actually got all the hatred towards the joke, and your not being fair by not quoting the scene it's entirety, because part of the humour is supposed to be in the way they go from having a normal conversation to the professor just suddenly announcing he's dying in a very stiff-upper-lipped way, and moe not really taking this news onboard properly at first.
It's not just "HaHa he's commiting suicide because he's dying of cancer, look how dark we are"

I laughed at that joke although i did know how terrible it was. The joke had some elements of what you said, but mostly it was just a "HaHa he's commiting suicide because he's dying of cancer, look how dark we are" joke.

[Stevie V. Scrivello]

As long as we're on the subject of lousy jokes, I have my own contribution, from *ugh* Bart To The Future:

Bart: I can't believe "smell you later" replaced "goodbye"!

Eh. See Spot. See Spot run. Run, Spot, run.

[grissom]

As long as we're on the subject of lousy jokes, I have my own contribution, from *ugh* Bart To The Future:

Bart: I can't believe "smell you later" replaced "goodbye"!

Agreed. I've always thought that was one of the dumbest and laziest jokes the show has ever attempted.

[BradysMom]

I'll admit, I laughed at the smell you later joke the first time I heard it.

[Nebuchanezzar]

Agreed. I've always thought that was one of the dumbest and laziest jokes the show has ever attempted.

How? In comparison to what?

[grissom]

How? In comparison to what?

It's just not clever or intelligent at all. Plus the ridiculously dumb sounding 'future explanation' line "I can't believe 'smell ya later' replaced goodbye". People don't walk around talking like that.

[Nebuchanezzar]

Yes, but not a lot of jokes from any 'ol era are much cleverer than that line. I simply don't see the problem with it. It was a cheap, very quick quip about a change in the future, nothing more, nothing less.

[Veryjammy]

It's stupid and lazy. Like nearly everything in Season 11. The idea of Smell Ya Later replacing goodbye isn't funny anyway. But because it isn't clear that that is the joke, they have to have the characters clunkily explain it. Considering it's not a funny concept anyway, the expository line renders it even worse. But then this is the same season we got the ultimate crappy explanatory line, 'there was no cane in Citizen Kane' so it's no surprise.

[Stevie V. Scrivello]

I always wondered if they even looked at the script for "Bart To The Future" before they gave it a thumbs-up. Then again, I wonder that about quite a few other eps.

Really, I don't know why I hate this ep so much, there's other things to hate like "Kill The Gator and Run" or "Homer The Moe", or "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" *gah...*, or most of the more recent eps. Thing is, I laughed at least once or twice during these. "Bart To The Future?" Nope. For me, that whole "smell you later" thing was just one badly written joke in a whole pile of badly written jokes.

[CrazyRedFish]

Write The Name of a Member in the simpson's family and then write hes/shes Enemie!

I'm first: name:Bart Simpson's enemy: sideshow bob