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Title: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Himu on March 21, 2009, 06:34:50 PM: I've been watching The Simpsons with a few buddies lately. You know, the OLD Simpsons.

This morning we watched all of season 4.

And I mean, does tv ever get better than this? I don't think so.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on March 21, 2009, 06:35:35 PM: No.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 06:37:25 PM: ::)
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: bud on March 21, 2009, 06:37:53 PM: never got into the simpsons.

i've tried watching a couple of eps, but i didn't find it really funny.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Himu on March 21, 2009, 06:44:07 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 06:37:25 PM
::)

What kind of childhood did you have?

[youtube=560,345]R4i8SpNgzA4[/youtube]

[youtube=560,345]6xbuFLFfD4k[/youtube]
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: bud on March 21, 2009, 06:44:50 PM: [youtube=560,345]cNkp4QF3we8[/youtube]
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 21, 2009, 06:45:37 PM: Quote from: bud on March 21, 2009, 06:37:53 PM
never got into the simpsons.

i've tried watching a couple of eps, but i didn't find it really funny.

Were the episodes produced during the last ten years? If they were, your reaction is perfectly understandable.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 21, 2009, 06:47:11 PM: Quote from: bud on March 21, 2009, 06:44:50 PM
[youtube=560,345]cNkp4QF3we8[/youtube]

Where's Blackmage when you need him to threaten someone's life?
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 21, 2009, 06:48:26 PM: Quote from: bud on March 21, 2009, 06:44:50 PM
[youtube=560,345]cNkp4QF3we8[/youtube]

I find this post offensive.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Himu on March 21, 2009, 06:50:49 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on March 21, 2009, 06:46:47 PM
The episode where Maude Flanders died was the episode where i realized something was wrong. :'(

what season is that from? i remember them HYPING it and making a huge deal out of it
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: bud on March 21, 2009, 06:53:01 PM: what are some classic episodes?
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 21, 2009, 06:53:26 PM: Season ten or eleven. The show was already going downhill around season seven or eight.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: demi on March 21, 2009, 06:53:52 PM: Did you guys jerk each other off? It's the only thing I could think that is more gayer than watching Simpsons together.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Himu on March 21, 2009, 06:54:26 PM: One Fish Two Fish Blowfish Blue Fish and Bart the General are my favorites.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 21, 2009, 07:00:12 PM: Bart Gets an F
Mr. Plow
Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
Flaming Moe's
Radio Bart
Last Exit to Springfield
"Lisa Needs Braces!
"Dental Plan!"
"Lisa Needs Braces!
"Dental Plan!"
"Lisa Needs Braces!
"Dental Plan!"
Marge vs. the Monorail
The Last Temptation of Homer
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Rman on March 21, 2009, 07:13:52 PM: When the show became Homer's Stupid Adventures, I stopped watching.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 21, 2009, 07:24:01 PM: Probably season three.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 07:24:11 PM: Quote from: Himuro on March 21, 2009, 06:44:07 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 06:37:25 PM
::)

What kind of childhood did you have?

One that didn't involve the Simpsons. I've never seen a full episode, and honestly even the clips I watch today aren't funny at all. Probably a nostalgia thing for people
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 21, 2009, 07:25:13 PM: It's hard for someone who's never watched an entire episode to make that kind of judgment.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 07:25:53 PM: Not really
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Costanza on March 21, 2009, 07:27:57 PM: Futurama is better
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 21, 2009, 07:30:55 PM: Quote from: Costanza on March 21, 2009, 07:27:57 PM
Futurama is better

By the time you were old enough to watch The Simpsons, it was already on the decline. While Futurama was great, it can't touch classic Simpsons.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 21, 2009, 07:31:30 PM: Futurama is nowhere near Simpsons at its peak. Family Guy? GTFO

Quote from: Jinfash on March 21, 2009, 07:29:26 PM
Quote from: Costanza on March 21, 2009, 07:27:57 PM
Futurama is better

Last season or two were terrible. First couple of seasons were good.

Agreed. The first two seasons were great; the other two seasons are total shit. I still own them though...
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on March 21, 2009, 07:38:38 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 07:24:11 PM
Quote from: Himuro on March 21, 2009, 06:44:07 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 06:37:25 PM
::)

What kind of childhood did you have?

One that didn't involve the Simpsons. I've never seen a full episode, and honestly even the clips I watch today aren't funny at all. Probably a nostalgia thing for people

Nah. The writing is pretty much comedic perfection. You missed out.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 21, 2009, 08:16:29 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 07:25:53 PM
Not really

The Simpsons--unlike, for example, Family Guy--had actual plots. And the jokes--again, unlike the jokes in Family Guy--were often integral to those plots. As such, you can't fully appreciate the show from watching random clips, as you have tried to do. It will give you a superficial, incomplete impression of the show.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 08:26:17 PM: So less Family Guy, more Arrested Development?
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Himu on March 21, 2009, 08:27:12 PM: Am I the only person who loves season 1? I mean, it's not always laugh out loud funny and the animation is crude, but it shows a side of the Simpsons you rarely ever see. Homer is a dimwit, but he's a good-natured dimwit who'd do anything for his family. I mean, can you really imagine Homer selling the family tv to help the family in later seasons? Or Homer taking it upon himself to have a second job because he didn't get his Christmas bonus?

Homer's progression is an allegory to the series I think. Early Simpsons is heartfelt and very humane. Later Simpsons is extreme and just stupid.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Himu on March 21, 2009, 08:27:34 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 08:26:17 PM
So less Family Guy, more Arrested Development?

Yes. Download season 1 from Thepiratebay.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Draft on March 21, 2009, 08:33:06 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 07:24:11 PM
Quote from: Himuro on March 21, 2009, 06:44:07 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 06:37:25 PM
::)

What kind of childhood did you have?

One that didn't involve the Simpsons. I've never seen a full episode, and honestly even the clips I watch today aren't funny at all. Probably a nostalgia thing for people
So you were a Cosby guy?
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 21, 2009, 08:34:33 PM: Season 3-6 are the golden years. 2 and 7 have a mix of shit and good episodes.

I agree that Season 4 is probably the best. Season 6 is up there as well.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 21, 2009, 08:37:03 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 08:26:17 PM
So less Family Guy, more Arrested Development?

somewhere in between.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on March 21, 2009, 08:39:35 PM: Season 4 might be the best season of any show ever.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: cool breeze on March 21, 2009, 08:41:12 PM: My favorite episode of The Simpsons isn't even a full episode, just the Time and Punishment segment from Treehouse of Horror V.

Quote from: Genghis Cohen on March 21, 2009, 06:46:47 PM
The episode where Maude Flanders died was the episode where i realized something was wrong. :'(

Whenever people cite when Simpsons started to get poor, they always bring up that episode. It's actually kinda weird.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: BlackMage on March 21, 2009, 08:44:02 PM: LOST. And if you say no i'll fucking kill you!
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: bud on March 21, 2009, 08:47:44 PM: demi leper this filth
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 21, 2009, 08:49:00 PM: Lost? smh

Quote from: swaggaz on March 21, 2009, 08:41:12 PM
My favorite episode of The Simpsons isn't even a full episode, just the Time and Punishment segment from Treehouse of Horror V.

Quote from: Genghis Cohen on March 21, 2009, 06:46:47 PM
The episode where Maude Flanders died was the episode where i realized something was wrong. :'(

Whenever people cite when Simpsons started to get poor, they always bring up that episode. It's actually kinda weird.

Maude's voice was different (clearly didn't even try to replicate the original) and I suppose how she died was more of a sign of the spastic, shitty Simpsons that exists today.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: BlackMage on March 21, 2009, 08:52:03 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on March 21, 2009, 08:45:50 PM
Lost is nerd garbage.

so is your fat face! :maf
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 08:56:09 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on March 21, 2009, 08:45:50 PM
Lost is nerd garbage.
::)

The Wire :bow
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: BlackMage on March 21, 2009, 09:03:07 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 21, 2009, 08:56:09 PM
Quote from: Genghis Cohen on March 21, 2009, 08:45:50 PM
Lost is nerd garbage.
::)

The Wire :bow

fuck the wire bitch! :gun
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: etiolate on March 21, 2009, 10:00:30 PM: x-files and twilight zone would be my top two

but for comedy, classic Simpsons is king
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on March 22, 2009, 01:33:40 AM: Quote from: T EXP on March 21, 2009, 08:49:00 PM
Maude's voice was different (clearly didn't even try to replicate the original) and I suppose how she died was more of a sign of the spastic, shitty Simpsons that exists today.
The voice actor who did Maude Flanders didn't want to do the show anymore. They didn't kill her off for narrative reasons, they simply wrote her out of the series.

I'd say The Simpsons from seasons 3-8 is about as good as any TV show has ever been. Since then, The Simpsons got worse, then much worse, and then kinda better. Nowadays its not bad at all, but it pales in comparison to its glory years, although to be fair, not much else stacks up against Prime Simpsons.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on March 22, 2009, 10:26:06 AM: Quote from: Green Shinobi on March 22, 2009, 01:54:34 AM
Seinfeld was just as good as prime Simpsons for sure.

I would also say that Entourage seasons 1-3 rivaled both of those shows.

What the fuck. :lol :lol
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Cheebs on March 22, 2009, 10:29:36 AM: I love Entourage but that comparison is...weird.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on March 22, 2009, 10:42:00 AM: I enjoy Entourage, but comparing it to Simpsons and Seinfeld is borderline distinguished mentally-challenged.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on March 22, 2009, 01:23:03 PM: You need to watch more television then.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on March 22, 2009, 02:21:43 PM: Lost is better than Entourage, though.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on March 22, 2009, 02:24:05 PM: Better acting, better technical merits (cinematography, sound, etc.) and better everything, really.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 22, 2009, 02:41:14 PM: Quote from: Willco on March 22, 2009, 02:24:05 PM
Better acting, better technical merits (cinematography, sound, etc.) and better everything, really.

I can understand people not liking the show (especially what it has become more recently), but it's nigh impossible to deny the acting and technical merits are top notch.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Cheebs on March 22, 2009, 02:56:57 PM: I don't like Lost, I got bored after the second season but yeah, the show is really well acted and looks fantastic.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: demi on March 22, 2009, 03:19:29 PM: Cheebs watches chick flicks - denied

Click X and log off
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: demi on March 22, 2009, 03:19:58 PM: Quote from: bud on March 21, 2009, 08:47:44 PM
demi leper this filth

Done
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: OptimoPeach on March 22, 2009, 03:33:24 PM: Quote from: BlackMage on March 21, 2009, 08:44:02 PM
LOST. And if you say no i'll fucking kill you!
Yesssssssssss
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: bork on March 22, 2009, 08:48:27 PM: I was never into the Simpsons anywhere near as much as I was Matt Groenig's Life In Hell comics.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on March 23, 2009, 03:44:30 AM: curious timing on this. (http://www.avclub.com/articles/in-a-way-theyre-all-winners-10-simpsons-episodes-f,25487/) Who's the AV Club member here.
Title: Re: Is there a tv show better than old Simpsons?
Post by: Himu on March 23, 2009, 09:53:05 AM: Those descriptions don't sound very appealing.