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The Simpsons: A Journey Through Shit

Started by JamesTC, January 08, 2021, 11:12:10 PM

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Voting closed: December 24, 2021, 08:55:16 AM

thr0b

Quote from: JamesTC on January 16, 2021, 07:33:49 PM
Season 20 - Episode 15 - Wedding for Disaster

The HDTV did not fall off the wall.

The Parson (like a Bishop, I think) is visiting Springfield and everybody is really excited for some reason. He speaks to Reverend Lovejoy and tells him his ministerial certification has lapsed, so the various ceremonies are invalid which includes Homer and Marge's marriage which is the plot of the episode.


Nnngh. HE DIDN'T EVEN MARRY THEM.



Their crappy marriage has been the plot of several episodes. This is just lazy.

Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse

Quote from: thr0b on January 17, 2021, 08:19:39 PM

Nnngh. HE DIDN'T EVEN MARRY THEM.



Their crappy marriage has been the plot of several episodes. This is just lazy.
I think Reverend Lovejoy married them the second time in the Borrow a Feeling episode, after Homer got a quickie divorce so that they could have a proper wedding.


Quote from: Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse on January 17, 2021, 08:22:50 PM
I think Reverend Lovejoy married them the second time in the Borrow a Feeling episode, after Homer got a quickie divorce so that they could have a proper wedding.

Yeah, that's the one that's referred to.

JamesTC

They do explain it in the episode too for people who aren't aware. Marge pulls out a photo album marked second wedding and they go over some pictures of it.

dissolute ocelot

The whole "oh no we're not married" plot feels like something from a 1940s comedy, not from the 21st century. But still, even if there have been a lot of episodes about the Simpsons marriage, it's one of the most fertile areas of comedy. And it's also fun seeing how they introduce a lot of ridiculous detail to show Rev Lovejoy isn't a member of any actual Christian denomination because you wouldn't want to upset the Anabaptists or Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The last couple of episodes have at least been mildly amusing (it's also fun watching Moe sabotage his relationship with the short woman).



idunnosomename

Quote from: JamesTC on January 15, 2021, 12:01:40 AM


Eventually Homer has to cross a river like that classic riddle about taking only one across at a time and not leaving one with a certain thing. Homer sees Professor Frink and tries to ask him for help but accidentally throws poison into his mouth. Homer works out the riddle but leaves Maggie on the doorstep of a convent where a nun thinks she has been left for them. The nuns will not let him have Maggie back.


what

gib

Quote from: idunnosomename on January 18, 2021, 10:56:21 AM
what

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf,_goat_and_cabbage_problem

haven't seen the episode but i guess

santa's little helper = wolf/fox

maggie & toy = goat/chicken

poison = cabbage/corn

Billy

Quote from: JamesTC on January 16, 2021, 07:11:08 PM
Season 20 - Episode 14 - In the Name of the Grandfather

This is the only episode of the show to air in the UK before the US, as a kind of publicity stunt it was on Sky One five days before the Fox airing. It did ok ratings wise but didn't beat the all-time Sky record of the Ricky Gervais ep.

The opposite extreme to that is the Season 9 episode where Homer gets a gun that didn't air in the UK for years, Sky refused to show it for almost a decade and it was left to BBC2 to finally broadcast it about four years after America. Even now when Channel 4 airs it there's some significant editing including changing the ending completely so that Marge now
Spoiler alert
throws the gun away
[close]
instead of
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keeping it
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thr0b

It's depressing how badly Channel 4 edit their imports. Simpsons is hacked to bits.

When they had Friends, they'd skip episodes in the daytime airings (The One With The Free Porn, for instance), or cut out scenes entirely.

Scenes, episodes and jokes which Comedy Central and Channel 5 have no issues showing in the same or earlier time slots.

idunnosomename

Quote from: gib on January 18, 2021, 11:13:49 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf,_goat_and_cabbage_problem

haven't seen the episode but i guess

santa's little helper = wolf/fox

maggie & toy = goat/chicken

poison = cabbage/corn
i love it


The Mollusk

Why does every episode title after about season 12 or 13 have to be some horrific crowbarred-in pun? It's like the writers are trying to justify their shite plots by giving the episodes what they believe to be zany and enticing titles when all it actually does is make it look like they came up with the punchline and then worked backwards. The older seasons have loads of pun titles as well but they were at least really simple word replacements which were more cute and endearing and less tenuous and cringe-inducing. Hate to sound like a miserable old cunt, especially since I'm only 33, but you really do know what you're getting with titles like "Lisa's Pony" or "Bart Gets an F" or "Mr. Plow". Episodes titles you could set your watch to.

bigfatheart

Quote from: thr0b on January 18, 2021, 11:39:23 AM
It's depressing how badly Channel 4 edit their imports. Simpsons is hacked to bits.

When they had Friends, they'd skip episodes in the daytime airings (The One With The Free Porn, for instance), or cut out scenes entirely.

Scenes, episodes and jokes which Comedy Central and Channel 5 have no issues showing in the same or earlier time slots.

If you watch Mr Plow on Channel 4, Moe's is sadly no longer a pornography store.

idunnosomename

Quote from: PlanktonSideburns on January 17, 2021, 12:31:11 AM

Really want to see this
search on youtube for "homer eats himself" (the actual segment is called "Mmm, Homer"). i'd link but none of them are quite the full episode so not really worth it. but him cutting his finger off to Mario Batali cooking his head is easy to find

i mean they could've made it worse. at least he doesnt eat his own eyeballs

remember Oz??!

Spoiler alert
Glynn: The M.E has ruled McCullun's death a suicide.  He bit into his skin, chewing off chunks of muscle over the course of a week or so, causing himself to bleed out.

Sister Pete: Sweet Jesus!

Murphy: Like a cannibal.

McManus: A cannibal eats somebody else's flesh.

Murphy: So, what do you call a guy that eats his own flesh?

McManus: Inventive.
[close]

maybe it was worth making i dunno really

kalowski

There's a series 15 episode on right now. It's fucking awful. Homer loses his job and becomes a car salesman, but he is clearly mentally ill, or had some sort of learning difficulty. He's bought an old ambulance but there are no jokes here. None at all.

Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse

Quote from: kalowski on January 19, 2021, 06:10:33 PM
There's a series 15 episode on right now. It's fucking awful. Homer loses his job and becomes a car salesman, but he is clearly mentally ill, or had some sort of learning difficulty. He's bought an old ambulance but there are no jokes here. None at all.

BUYYYY MEEEEEE BUYYYY MEEEEEE BUYYYY MEEEEEE

kalowski

Quote from: Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse on January 19, 2021, 06:23:28 PM
BUYYYY MEEEEEE BUYYYY MEEEEEE BUYYYY MEEEEEE
That was the only good bit in the whole episode.

JamesTC

Season 20 - Episode 17 - The Good, the Sad and the Drugly

Bart and Milhouse play a prank in which they remove each and ever screw in the school which leads to disaster. Milhouse gets caught but Bart doesn't. Skinner and Chalmers are suspicious that there is somebody else involved, but Milhouse keeps his mouth shut and gets suspended for a week. Glinner Kirk Van Houten is shouting at the TV again. Bart visits Grandpa at the retirement home and a young girl called Jenny is visiting her aunt at the same time and he falls in love which is the plot of the episode.

Lisa looks on the computer and finds the world is going to end in 50 years. Bart asks Jenny to go on a picnic. Lisa is a nutcase telling everybody that the world is going to end. Skinner tells Lisa to go to therapy. Bart pretends that Homer is mentally disabled to Jenny and then they go for a boat ride. The bullies are playing keep away with a duckling so Jenny asks him to rescue it. Bart is beaten up. Lisa is given happy pills. Bart invites Jenny to dinner with the family. Lisa keeps seeing smiley faces everywhere.

Milhouse visits while Jenny is over and he is angry that Bart didn't come to visit. Bart needs to keep pretending he isn't the bad boy he normally is but Milhouse wants her to find out. Lisa is off her fucking head and tries to kiss a fan that Maggie is holding up to her so Marge throws away her happy pills. Santa's Little Helper takes the happy pills. Bart reveals is only pretending to be good and also reveals he is El Barto. Jenny breaks up with him. Bart buys flowers to win her back... except they aren't for Jenny but they are actually for Milhouse. Bart and Milhouse do a big prank by turning the hallways of the school into an ice rink. Credits roll.

3/10 - Both plots have been done before and there really isn't enough changed to make this not a pathetic rehash. But a few funny bits rescue it from being a real awful episode.

JamesTC

Season 20 - Episode 18 - Father Knows Worst

Couldn't believe what happened at the end of the opening titles. The HDTV fell off the wall. I'm going to have to tell everybody about this. It was so unexpected and hilarious.

Homer, Lisa and Bart are at the boardwalk. Marge is at home fitting a new water heater when she discovers a secret sauna in the basement but decides to keep it to herself. Homer accidentally eats a flaming stick and then Bart gives him lighter fluid to drink and he burns his mouth. A few weeks later he is recovered, but now he is hypersensitive to taste. Homer tries various foods but they are too powerful. Lisa suggests the school cafeteria, and he starts eating all his meals at the school. Homer meets a parent who is overprotective of her son and this convinces Homer to be a "helicopter parent" which is the plot of the episode.

Marge is really relaxed. Homer eats a jar of mayonnaise despite one minute earlier having hypersensitive taste. Homer tries to help Bart with a school project and helps Lisa with fitting in by giving her a book about being in cliques. Homer and Bart decide to build Westminster Abbey for the school project. Marge is still really relaxed. Lisa hosts a party for her clique and is popular. Bart is building the project but Homer intervenes and says he would do it despite Bart being keen to learn. Homer falls asleep while working and destroys his work. Bart's project is chosen as the winner as it is the only one that actually looks like it wasn't built by a parent, but Bart reveals the truth. Lisa hates being in the clique. Homer decides he should continue being a neglectful parent as it is for the best. Marge takes Homer to the sauna. Credits roll.

3/10

JamesTC

Season 20 - Episode 19 - Waverly Hills, 9-0-2-1-D'oh

Marge is on a power walk and drinks loads of smart water so needs the toilet. Marge goes to the toilet at the school and notices how rundown the school has become. Marge confronts Skinner. Marge decides to get a small apartment in Waverly Hills so they can send Bart and Lisa to a better school. Homer rents the crappiest apartment he can find. Homer and Marge are told they would have a surprise inspection in the next month to make sure they live in Waverly Hills. Homer agrees to live there for the duration.

Bart and Lisa start their first day at their new school. Homer meets two guys who live at the apartments. Some girls tell Lisa about a singer called Alaska Nebraska and then she gets a B+ so starts to cry. Bart gets arrested by Chief Wiggum to make him look cool and then it is revealed that Wiggum did it so Bart would go to Ralph's birthday party. Bart is now cool so he wants to help Lisa to fit in. Bart tells the school that Lisa is friends with Alaska Nebraska. Bart forgot to go to the birthday party so gets chased by the police and is forced to go.

Homer is teabagging somebody on Halo when Marge visits. Marge and Homer go to a party. Homer and Marge go back to the apartment and have sex. The teacher bribes Lisa to help her daughter see Alaska Nebraska. Lisa is told she must get her friends in school some backstage passes. Lisa sneaks into Alaska Nebraska's dressing room and begs her for the passes. Lisa is thrown out by security.

Homer and Marge bicker at the apartment like when they were first dating. The inspector visits the apartment so Homer and Marge mess everything up and throw toys around. Lisa admits she lied to her friends at school and is chased. The inspection goes well. Lisa tells Homer and Marge she wants to return to Springfield Elementary. Bart says he wants to go back because he forgot he was playing hide-and-seek with Milhouse and it cuts to Milhouse having been hiding for three weeks. Homer and Marge say they will miss their love nest. Cut to Homer and Marge snogging in the treehouse. Credits roll.

3/10

Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse

Quote from: JamesTC on January 19, 2021, 07:58:29 PM
Lisa is off her fucking head and tries to kiss a fan that Maggie is holding up to her
The funniest bit of the episode.

JamesTC

Season 20 - Episode 20 - Four Great Women and a Manicure

HDTV dun fall off wall. Hehehe.

Lisa, Maggie and Marge go for a manicure. Marge tells Lisa about Queen Elisabeth I.

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elisabeth I is played by Selma. The Queen refuses all the men who are offered to her including the King of Spain but falls for Walter Raleigh (Homer). Walter makes out with the Queen's assistant (Marge). The Queen sentences them to death but are saved when the Spanish armada approaches. Walter accidentally burns down the boat leading the attack on the Spanish. Walter is knighted and the Queen says she doesn't need a man because she has England.

Back to the manicurists and Lisa tells the story of Snow White but replaces the dwarfs to not infringe on Disney copyright...

Snow White

Crabby (Moe), Drunky (Barney), Hungry (Homer), Greedy (Mr. Burns), Lenny, Kearney and Doctor Hibbert are singing. The Wicked Queen asks the HDTV who is the fairest and he says Snow White. Lisa is Snow White. Groundskeeper Willie goes to kill Snow White but he can't do it, so she hides with the dwarfs. The dwarfs return while singing a song about getting high on shrooms. Crabby wanted to kiss Snow White which is just creepy. Snow White is forced to eat the poison apple by an old woman who is then mauled by animals.

Lisa then explains that Snow White was brought back by a lady Doctor. Marge now tells the next story...

Lady MacBeth

Marge is herself acting in a play and Homer is playing a tree. Marge gets Homer to kill the lead Sideshow Mel and he then gets the lead. The reviews praise Doctor Hibbert's performance, so Marge insists Homer must kill him. Homer kills Doctor Hibbert with laughing gas. Everybody in the play gets better reviews than Homer, so he must now kill Barney, Duff Man, Lenny, Eddie and Lou. The ghosts blame Marge and kill her. Homer performs the play on his own and is great. Ghost Marge praises him but then tells him he must do all the other Shakespeare play, so he kills himself.

Maggie wants a story now...

Maggie Roark

Ayn Rand book retelling, so I know fuck all of the source material and I don't want to know any more.

Maggie is at daycare. The teacher wants every child to conform, so he breaks down Maggie's building block structures and all other various art projects. The parents are visiting and the teacher leads them in where Maggie has built a big Empire State Building out of building blocks. The teacher puts Maggie on trial and Maggie does some fucking speech. Oh fuck off. Maggie grows up to be an architect with a daycare centre on top. Meanwhile Maggie is painting a van Gogh on the wall and Marge scolds her. Credits roll.

2/10 - Mostly lacked any level of creativity and was just doing the story with a few jokes. The Lady MacBeth had potential and might have worked if it was longer in a Treehouse of Horror episode. The fuck are they doing with the Ayn Rand bit.

idunnosomename

Surely a reference to Ayn Rand School for Tots in Streetcar Named Marge

neveragain

Yeah, also featured again in a Pixar-ish short about Maggie escaping daycare.

Sonny_Jim

Quote from: thr0b on January 18, 2021, 11:39:23 AM
It's depressing how badly Channel 4 edit their imports. Simpsons is hacked to bits.
I think the most infamous example was when it was being sponsored by Dominoes and this charming scene happens, although it was pretty easy to edit around.

notjosh

Struggling to get through these synopses now, at the rate they're coming and how depressed they make me.


For your own sanity, please remember that no one is forcing you to put yourself through this.

dissolute ocelot

Quote from: JamesTC on January 19, 2021, 09:27:50 PM
Season 20 - Episode 19 - Waverly Hills, 9-0-2-1-D'oh

Marge is on a power walk and drinks loads of smart water so needs the toilet. Marge goes to the toilet at the school and notices how rundown the school has become. Marge confronts Skinner. Marge decides to get a small apartment in Waverly Hills so they can send Bart and Lisa to a better school. Homer rents the crappiest apartment he can find. Homer and Marge are told they would have a surprise inspection in the next month to make sure they live in Waverly Hills. Homer agrees to live there for the duration.
Well done the Simpsons for doing a parody of Beverly Hills, 90210 in 2009. The original series ran from 1990 to 2000. Despite that, this is a fairly enjoyable episode IMO for having Marge and Homer actually being nice and loving to each other, the Weezer song, and some amusing Hannah Montana disses (a show that was still on air when this episode was broadcast!!!!!).  Demerits for the lazy No Country For Old Men reference. Still overall more good bits than average for late Simpsons.

Quote from: JamesTC on January 19, 2021, 10:15:13 PM
Season 20 - Episode 20 - Four Great Women and a Manicure
I seriously believe these anthology episodes must be either a tax dodge or the result of a convoluted union deal where they can get three weeks of something for one week of something else. Nobody wants to watch these lame unfunny stories that aren't even about the Simpsons. It's like at the end of Daria when they had lots of cartoons of the main characters dressed up as different people, except Daria didn't try to animate them like some kind of primary school history pageant. EDIT: Maybe they use them to try out new writers or animators, which would make no sense because they're not even writing the Simpsons?

rude soil

Quote from: JamesTC on January 19, 2021, 08:22:54 PM
Season 20 - Episode 18 - Father Knows Worst

Bart's project is chosen as the winner as it is the only one that actually looks like it wasn't built by a parent