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Re: The Simpsons Season 19 (2007-2008)
Is this season premiere a lot earlier than usual? I remember the season starting in October or November following the Halloween special in recent years.
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Re: The Simpsons Season 19 (2007-2008)
It looked like the home town was near the great lakes... Sort of near Chicago or Detroit.. I wasnt able to tell any closer than that.
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Re: The Simpsons Season 19 (2007-2008)
I checked out the new episodes from (cough) various sources (cough). I do not regret my decision to quit watching in 2005. I gave up trying to defend the show's quality five years ago because I was fighting a losing battle.
The show is still a mess which can only make episodes that evoke times when it was still funny, in the previous century. There are good concepts but they are executed poorly. As for the jokes, I haven't felt anything so forced since the last time I went to the can. Also, it has grown a mean streak a mile wide (Homer dreaming about patricide, Bart assisting Homer's "abandonment" of the family). The movie, merely by not being terrible, made me think the show could be saved.
That 90's Show was proof the end is near. If Homer and Marge are 40, they would have been born in 1968, graduated from high school in 1986, and four-year college in 1990. Even so, Kurt Cobain died a few months before "Friends" began, thus Marge's haircut and a phone call by a musician to his cousin Kurt (pretty lame Back to the Future reference) would not have coincided. I would vote it as the one and only "Worst Episode Ever".
When the end comes, I'll say "at least it's not suffering anymore."
And that's all I have to say about that.
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Re: The Simpsons Season 19 (2007-2008)
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Originally Posted by TravisR
I thought That 90's Show was terrible but you're trying to apply the real world's timeline to a cartoon? They don't even bother to stick to their own universe's timeline.
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Okay, so I went a little overboard. Still, I think they should at least stick to their own floating timeline.
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Re: The Simpsons Season 19 (2007-2008)
There is a timeline, only inasmuch as Bart was born 10 years ago, Lisa was born 8 years ago, etc. That's why I call it a "floating timeline." But considering Sideshow Bob can now have a son older than Maggie I see they don't even care anymore.
That 90s Show was also possibly the least funny episode they've made. Even an average clunker could occasionally get a few chuckles or a smirk.
To be fair, there have been a few decent episodes in the last few years, like Springfield Up. And Mr. Burns' expression when Smithers catches on fire and says "I'm flaming" is one of the funniest things I have seen in awhile. There needs to be more of that.
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