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The Simpsons Season 19 (2007-2008)

post #1 of 23
9/21/07 at 9:16am
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New season begins this Sunday with an episode guest-starring Steven Colbert and Lionel Richie.

Looks like there has also been a revamp of theSimpsons.com. Looks pretty cool.

I know there are plenty of folks who say the show is a shell of what it once was, but I think the last 4 years or so have shown improvement over the period around season 10-11-12.
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post #2 of 23
9/21/07 at 1:21pm

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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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post #3 of 23
9/21/07 at 1:45pm

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Originally Posted by streeter
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.
It used to be that way but Seasons 17 and 18 both started in September too. Of course then Fox didn't play any new episodes during October for baseball.

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Originally Posted by Sam Favate
I know there are plenty of folks who say the show is a shell of what it once was, but I think the last 4 years or so have shown improvement over the period around season 10-11-12.
I'm definitely a fan who thinks the show took a big dip after about S10 (though when I post about the current episodes, I try to highlight what was good about as opposed to being the Comic Book Guy) but I do think that the last few years have gotten better than the nadir of S12 to S15.
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post #4 of 23
9/23/07 at 7:47pm

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I liked the opening when we got to see

(Spoiler tags for those who haven't seen The Simpsons Movie) Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Springfield's reconstruction after the events of the movie
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post #5 of 23
9/23/07 at 9:00pm

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Originally Posted by TravisR
I liked the opening when we got to see

(Spoiler tags for those who haven't seen The Simpsons Movie) Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Springfield's reconstruction after the events of the movie
I liked that too... It was also refreshing to see a full title sequence on network television again. Well done.

...Then he was on a plane with Mr. Burns on another zany, unbelievable adventure and I changed the channel.
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post #6 of 23
9/24/07 at 8:58am

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I loved the opening! A fun booster for having seen the movie

I've not watched the show much in recent years: this episode was fun, but not killer. I'll stick with my 11pm reruns, and watch the new season if convenient.
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post #7 of 23
12/16/07 at 8:01pm

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I thought tonight's episode was surprisingy good. Or maybe I just enjoy a good "Irish kiss" joke.
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post #8 of 23
12/18/07 at 5:19am

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I thought the episode was ok. I did like the Youtube ending, and Bart beating up young Homer.
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post #9 of 23
12/18/07 at 3:46pm

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was the couch gag new?

and did it show, very quickly were the simpsons live.
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post #10 of 23
12/19/07 at 6:11am

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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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post #11 of 23
2/18/08 at 10:00am

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Anyone still watching this show? For me, this season broke the old adage "bad Simpsons is still better than most shows on TV". I am this close to hitting my TV with a stick and yell "be funny".
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post #12 of 23
2/18/08 at 10:05am

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Originally Posted by Phil Kim
Anyone still watching this show? For me, this season broke the old adage "bad Simpsons is still better than most shows on TV". I am this close to hitting my TV with a stick and yell "be funny".
Last night's episode was terrible but I still think the last two seasons have been much better than most of the last five seasons (that's not saying much though). Either way, I'm in until the show ends or I die.
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post #13 of 23
2/18/08 at 1:35pm

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Either way, I'm in until the show ends or I die.

Same here but last night's was at the low end of quality. Ok, at the bottom. But, the heart shaped candy that Burns gave Smithers with the inscription "Release the hounds" gave me my one good chuckle.

The only episode I really enjoyed this season was "E Pluribus Wiggum".
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post #14 of 23
4/14/08 at 12:56pm
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Boy, last night's Simpsons was one of the best in a long time. For those that don't know, the show brought back Lurleen Lumpkin (Beverly D'Angelo) from way back in Season 2 (season 2, right?). It also guest-starred the Dixie Chicks. Hilarious. Pretty sure you can see it on the web if you missed, at thesimpsons.com.
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post #15 of 23
4/14/08 at 1:04pm

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I watch the Simpsons erratically, by Tivo. I think I caught a new-season episode on "The 90s", that was fantastic! It was a (revisionist) history of Marge & Homer's pre-marriage years during the go-go 90s, when Marge when to college and Homer started a grunge band. One of the funniest I've seen in good while.
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post #16 of 23
4/14/08 at 3:29pm

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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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post #17 of 23
4/14/08 at 7:46pm

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Originally Posted by MatthewA
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 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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post #18 of 23
4/14/08 at 10:56pm

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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.

Okay, so I went a little overboard. Still, I think they should at least stick to their own floating timeline.
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post #19 of 23
4/14/08 at 11:02pm

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there is no time line on the Simpsons.
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post #20 of 23
4/15/08 at 5:30am

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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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post #21 of 23
4/15/08 at 9:25am
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I always thought it would be great to see the characters realize that they are stuck in the same age, to have (for example) Bart wake up one day and realize he's supposed to be about 28.

Still, I thought the Lurleen Lumpkin/Dixie Chicks episode was the best in years. The Sopranos bit at the beginning was well done as well, and a bit disturbing too.
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post #22 of 23
4/15/08 at 10:01am

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Originally Posted by MatthewA
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".
That episode obviously had nothing to do with any "canonical" Simpons's history. The show started in 1989, so of course Marge & Home weren't affectless 20-somethings, childless and unmarried in 1993. (And isn't it established that Homer got Marge pregnant just after high school.) But then again, Bart's been in fifth grade for 19 years? So what's some revisionism in a fantasy world?

I found it a great send up of the 90s -- having gone to college and grad school in that time, and just had a conversation about IKEA the day before -- I found it very amusing and maybe the funniest new Simpons I've seen in a few years.

But the best is when Tivo gets an older Treehouse of Horror
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post #23 of 23
4/15/08 at 1:11pm

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I guess I am in the minority but I thought the episode was horrible. Perhaps I am biased for disliking the country music, but I liked the earlier Lurleen episode.
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