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cote finally sent us a candidate worth voting for: Joseph Fitzpatrick Fitzgerald Fitzhenry Quimby! He's anti gun control (but pro bullet control) and his tax plan is perfect! (With our first week of election coverage finally wrapped up, I needed the laugh).
The cause? Ian Maxtone-Graham.
Ian Maxy-Pad and the other amateur's who've been brought in to write for the Simpsons will gladly destroy characterizations built up over years in pursuit of a few laughs for poor jokes. In a 1998 interview, Graham admitted he didn't even watch the Simpson's before he was brought in to write for it. Perhaps it's worth noting that Graham also wrote for SNL, and left that program in shambles when he left.
I suggest everyone write to Fox, and demand the ouster of Fagboy-Graham and the current crop of shitty writers. Bring back Conan. Bring back the other decent writers. Even new writers who have at least seen the first four seasons are better than the assholes who are now writing the Simpsons.
Even with Quimby being included in this next round of the debates, many candidates are being ignored by the fascist US administration, and I feel the people have the right to know about them!
BRAK, OOG, and Slashdot Cruiser are all viable candidates for the US Presidency. Personally, I was going to vote Nader, but I would much rather vote BRAK, if only to get funding for the Cartoon Network!
So, in this election, vote your conscience.
ALL HAIL BRAK!
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Quimby: Demand? Who are you to demand anything? I run this town. You're just a bunch of low-income nobodies!
Assistant: Uh, election in November. Election in November...
Quimby: What? Again!? This stupid country.
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.
His body is found a decade later, marooned in a sand trap in the back nine.
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Weeeeeeell, it doesn't say his dead body, does it?
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.
You can thank Matt Groening for the early simpsons (choking, causing heads to throb, tyrant homer, the bartman, "don't have a cow, man").
The real genius behind the Simpsons is George Myer and his fellow writers from Harvard's Lampoon and Army Man. I think most of them are gone.
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Monty Python is a really bad example for your point. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" depends completely on references to the King Arthur legend, as "Life of Brian" depends on the Gospel. Come to think about it, all humor is a reference to something else.
Try lynx. It works fine from AIX. You're right about fox being moronic, though.
WARNING: there is a trojan on your
It would never work anyway. I mean, why steal canadian money? It's not like it's worth anything :-)
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
Worst senator ever.
If I was an American, I'd vote for Diamond Joe. I agree, forget bullets, club people with your pistols and rifles! Mwahaha!
Chris 'coldacid' Charabaruk Meldstar Entertainment
My idea of gun control is hitting what I intended to.
You can have Gore's "Fuzzy Math", Bush's "Lock Box" or Quimby's "CHOWDA!"
If you want a good candidate, Vote Quimby!
It's not for everybody
I have a theory that the reason for this is the feminisation of modern entertainment. Everything now has to be comfortable, known and within safe boundaries. Another example of this would be Star Trek (not humour, I know). It used to have people of real character - Kirk, Spock, Bones etc - and almost every episode involved travelling to new planets and having new experiences. But, in TNG, they hardly ever visit new planets! They are always getting trapped in their damned holodeck, stuck in their own minds. Everything is directed inwards, rather than outwards, towards the frontier. This inward directed cancer of self reference seems to be spreading throughout our entertainment industry, and it's really pissing me off!
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
There is no
There's only one candidate worth voting for this year, and that's Vermin Supreme-- He may not have the worst policies, but he has worst habedashery, and the ugliest HTML! Vermin Supreme promises to make crime against the law! combat illiterates! Fight the unemployed! And stop pregnant teenagers!
Have any other candidates released their dental records to the press? I think not! Gotta wonder what they're hiding, eh?
...And if you think Vermin's a joke, you should see the other candidates!
Forgot to include my link.
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Btw, it's Meyer, I misspelled it before.
Here's a long story about George Meyer, who is a comic genius and a really cool guy. It's long, but a great read.
http://www.snpp.com/other/interviews/meyer00.ht
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1) Their references are necessary - if you don't get the reference, you don't get the joke
2) The references of older shows are to a wider, or common pool of knowledge among everyone. If not, they are subtle, and not necessary
3) Modern shows make references about other Modern shows and 'fads', which older shows just didn't
4)In modern shows these references are rammed down you're throat all the time. They seem to be the entire point of the show at times (cf The Simpsons)
Anyway, I definately think there is a qualitative difference between the two. Modern shows seem to be all pop culture and making inside jokes that will make the guy who gets it feel pleased with himself for having got it. It just gets a bit tiresome, after a while.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
There is no
I posted this in the "Simpsons Rant" thread, but I thought I'd put it in the main discussion thread too.
The real reason for the success of the Simpsons is not Matt Groening, but a writer from the Lampoon, Harvard's in-house humor magazine. Sam Simon, a producer, liked George Meyer's Army Man enough that he tracked Meyer down and hired the whole staff onto the Simpsons.
The rest is history.
You can read a nice long story about it here:
http://www.snpp.com/other/inte rvi ews/meyer00.html
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Nothing in the second ammendment mentions the right to own bullets.
"This gun has cost me everything. Everything but my precious gun." -- Homer Simpson
Quimby's reckless disregard for the Canadians, and the fact that he wants to come up and steal our lunch money is a horrible idea. We Canadian's won't sit idly and let you American thugs steal our poutine money. We have a formidable offense, including Bryan Adams and Celine Dion. We do not like to think that we would have to unleash such a terrible force, but if forced to, we will use such drastic measures.
Oh, yeah, and I don't your Mecha Striesand can stand up to such an aural offense.
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Ok, sorry to do this, but I think many Simpsons fans will agree with me.
Lately, the Simpsons has been declining in quality, there's no doubt about it. I feel the reason is rather than good content with story long shows, they're bringing in guest stars to fill the bill. Last season they had Limp Bizkit, Brittany Spears, Mel Gibson, John Goodman and others.
Don't get me wrong, making use of celeberity guests can enhance a show, but when you use them as the primary reason for viewers to tune in, overall show quality degrades.
Remember the classic episodes like Who Shot Mr. Burns Part I and II, Trash of the Titans, Mayored to the Mob, Flamin' Moe's, Dufflessness and $pringfield? Some of them (Trash of the Titans and Flamin' Moe's) had celebrity guests (Steve Martin and Aerosmith respecively), but the overall story and humor were out of this world. Trash of the Titans happens to be my personal favorite.
The other thing is that Matt Groening is now concentrating on Futurama, so he's not doing any of the writing for The Simpsons. Bring Matt back!
Well, that's enough for me. In summary we want content over guest stars!!
What do all of you folks think of the overall direction of The Simpsons (better or worse, and why)?
and then...
1978 - Joe Quimby reluctantly graduates from college, after his father threatens to take away his girlfriend.
I guess that Joe Quimby Sr. was a very influential man.
It makes no difference who you vote for. Either way, this planet is doomed.... DOOMED!
That said, I'm voting for Kodos.
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
Sounds a lot like Duke, the character from Doonesbury. And I quote, regarding the surplus, "The Republicans worry that it'll all disappear in some pork barrel social program; I worry that it will literally disappear. Vanish. If you put it in the stock market or in some bank, it's just a few bytes of memory on a computer, vulnerable to hacker-terrorists, or worse, daytraders, who can take down our economy in ten seconds of panic...I think we'd better take a good hunk of it, and put it somewhere safe. Change it into small bills, drop it in a bunch of titanium cases, and bury it in strategic sites throughout the 50 states. The feeling of security we'll have knowing that we've got real cash if we need it, will more than compensate for the lost interest."
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison