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Kazi
Is Anybody Here?
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 Posted - 11/18/2005 : 1:57:31 PM
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| Any ideas on why they aren't funny anymore, besides the fact that they always bring on celebrities? |
love is not who you want to go to bed with, it's who you want to wake up with. |
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enthuTIMsiast
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 11/18/2005 : 2:07:25 PM
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| I know exactly why they aren't funny. |
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I am not the albatross of love, I am the human ellipsis. I am dot dot dot. - Leo Kottke
I hate beating people over the head with anything. We can all make up our own minds. What we don’t have is enough music. More music please. - Leo Kottke |
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Kazi
Is Anybody Here?
46 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 2:15:49 PM
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| oh yeah, why is that? |
love is not who you want to go to bed with, it's who you want to wake up with. |
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SurferX
Chatterbox
USA
263 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 2:41:32 PM
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Simple...They are using all the good jokes for the Simpsons movie!
Seriously though...The show has been on the air for more than 15 years...Throw that in with the fact they don't want to be TOO edgy and you've got your modern day Simpsons.
However, the voice acting has never been better. Those guys are amazing! |
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therippa
Fluffy-Esque
Kazakhstan
1099 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 2:53:38 PM
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I think the simpsons is no longer funny for the following reasons...
1. The new writers try to take the show in a different direction than they did from seasons 3-9. I loved seasons 1-2 when I was a kid (when the focus was on Bart), but now I cringe at them. Around season 3 they realized Homer should be the comedic focus, and did so with great results.
2. The plots of the recent seasons are too topical. Homer getting stoned (although that was funny), gay marriage, adoption...blech. Leave the topical humor to south park, they do it right.
3. Celebrity guests no longer do character voices. Back in the early seasons, whenever they had a special guest it was to do the voice of a Springfield character, not themself. It seems nowadays they build entire episodes around the "special guest", not the other way around. For example, the episodes with Tony Hawk and 50 Cent.
4. Not that this doesn't make it any funnier, but the animation is now done on a computer and I just plained liked it better when it was hand animated...it almost seemed like since so much work had to be put in to it they made sure they had a solid plot to go on.
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Arthen
Alien Abductee
USA
4845 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2005 : 3:28:42 PM
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More Sideshow Bob!
Oh! And another thing comes to mind, the passing of Phil Hartman. That could be another reason for the series being not as funny. He added so much. |
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Kenneth
Chatterbox
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Posted - 11/18/2005 : 3:35:41 PM
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| The one last week when Homer was working out with the dumbbell was pretty funny. Not sure if it was new or not but it was the first time I had seen it. |
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2005 : 4:14:33 PM
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| They should cancel the Simpsons already....and NOT CANCEL ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT!!!!! That is my favorite show (along with Scrubs). Fox needs to realize that just because The Simpsons was the reason they became a major network does not mean that they need to keep renewing their contract. Stop prolonging shows to the point where ideas are running short and let new shows have a chance. |
Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs. |
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The Simpsons aren't funny anymore
