C & C The Simpsons " The 90's Show " ( 1/27/08)

It was the 90's. In Sonic CD. I should know, I had the game in the 90's.

They just called her Princess Sally in the states for continuity reasons and localization reasons. Even though... she looks nothing like Princess Sally.



Might I add there were no such things as Sonic abstinence boards until 2008 in the Simpsons? :p
 
This episode officially supports my theory of every post-classic Simpsons season taking place in a different timeline each year.

And, yeah, the only good parts were the Weird Al scene and the Sonic the Hedgehog billboard.
 
All in all, I'm left with feelings where the negatives outweigh positives. For the most part, it was a dumb continuity reboot, the ONLY gags I really enjoyed were Weird Al and the LOTR joke, otherwise it was once again messing continuity up, it was a bit more excusable with The Way We Weren't, but they've retconned it so many times I'd think it was...you get the idea...
 
How did I miss the couch gag? I watched from the end of 5th grader up until the end of the first act without leaving the tv. I didn't see the intro or couch gag. WTF?
 
Gotcha. I still think it was a bizarre joke, as she was pretty obscure a character then. I'm guessing this episode took place about 1997...

BTW, snagged the image. it's just too funny not to have it.
 
I gotta think this story isn't true due to the backstory being set in the 60's and 70's and Bart being born in 1980 since Empire was out when Marge was pregnant. Anyway the 90's stuff is pretty funny.
 
Having slept on it for a bit, I think this episode is ready for another review.

I can see that the writer's were going for a 90's parody, but they ruined the episode by weaving in the Homer-Marge back story. While the time period in their lives is definitely episode material, it probably should be within the constraints of the time line, which would put it somewhere in the late 70
s early eighties.

Some of the jokes were decent (Sonic, LotR, the nerd being 'grunged' by the crowd) but others fell really flat (Back to the Future, Bill Clinton, the narcotics gag). And don't even get me started on Homer inventing grunge, I don't know what they were thinking with that idea.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but The Simpsons was broadcast for the entire decade that was the nineties, during which time it not only influenced a lot in the world of TV and culture, but also transformed it entirely. I find it very odd, that said show would not refer to itself in some way, especially as it has done so in the past (Bart's balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade for instance).

As a standalone episode, it is about average for the current times, but for fans of the show, it proves beyond reasonable doubt that the show in it's previous incarnation is perhaps lost forever.
 
The episode has to take place in 1994 or earlier for Kurt Kobain to be alive. One of the mainy problems with this episode the countless ninties references are done in a way that they can't happen at the same time. Because that Sonic Add with the newer Amy Rose design places the episode in 1999.The writers don't know what year this episode took place in it seems.
 
You tell yourself that- I'm an '80s die hard fanatic( born in '82). In the flashback episode where Lisa is born, the year appears to be 1981( or '82), and Homer comes home singing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"...which didn't come out till a year later- yeah, I notice these things.

Here's the BIG difference though...DESPITE that inaccuracy, the show was still utterly hilarious back then.

Time can take its toll on things...and while things change all the time, change isn't ALWAYS for the better. We're learning that with Simpsons- apparently the hard way.

I didn't see this episode, and to be honest, have no desire to. Every time I see Homerpalooza I'm reminded of this terrible, lame-o, depressing, pitiful decade of a follow-up to the '80s, and that's just something I don't want. But I'll gladly watch some Classic Simpsons any day- "classic" being Seasons 3-8..9, at MOST. Ironically though, they're not as funny as they once were either. But there's "not as funny" and "not funny at all"- that's CURRENT Simpsons.
 
Interesting how The Simpsons are rewriting themselves in the history books again. Then again, you need keep yourself fresh with the time period for new group of viewers. I do believe this episode is ahead of its time. I mean were still retro with the 80s and in the next decade we're going to be retro with the 90s. Lots of pop culture of the 90s were implanted and quite bit of irony were in a few gags. Overall, the episode was good and still keep itself true to the storyline of how things came to be in the end.

Nice to see Wierd Al pop up towards the end making fun of Homer's band Sadgasm.
 
This episode sucked. Sucked I say. It made me want to set my car on fire. I may not watch another new Simpsons episode agian, seriously what are the new Simpson writers doing with this show? They suck at writing it. Bring back the old writers I say. Ahh screw this, I'm just going to watch the DVD's from now on, I'm sorry but this is just sad. They act like the 90 episodes never happened. Why bring back Sideshow Bob this year if there going to do this, boo!!!!
Please don't flame me for changing my thoughts on the show, this is how I feel now, thank you.
 
Don't forget, all those classic Simpsons episodes are from that "terrible, lame-o, depressing, pitiful decade of a follow-up to the '80s".:p

I'm curious to what you mean when you say they're not as funny as they once were. Do you just mean you've seen them before so the jokes aren't as fresh or unexpected, or is it something else?
 
I have to say that I think that you guys are being overly harsh on this episode. If anything it seems to parody those shows and movies that themselves attempt to parody previous decades and condense them down to a single year. In fact at no time did they say it was an actual year, it was simply the 90s.

Then again I'm one of the few people who thinks the 80s simply weren't that cool or that funny. I don't think they're a terrible decade, it's just I don't understand why the 80s have become this incredible decade where magical and funny things occured.

As for the gags, being a huge BTTF fan, I'll never hate a phone gag reference. That gag itself was anachronistic when it first appeared in BTTF and an ontological paradox of immense proportions. I was surprised that most of the gags worked for me. Though I've loved the 90s, so it should probably come as no surprise.

And no, I don't have a problem with the continuity errors and sliding time scales, as they through those out almost 9 seasons ago. In fact they even made a joke about it two seasons ago when Lisa go through several cats and names the last one Snowball II. When a passing Principal Skinner called her out for cheating continuity, in a rather sly fourth wall gag IMO, she then calls him out for doing so himself in a reference to the whole Tamzarian/Skinner debacle.
 
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