Starting From Scratch

[vollyballgirl101]

Yes, we do. And...?

 

[crackfuct2001]

that prompted Butters to come up with something that The Simpsons didn't do.

 

[vinay_6543]

Sorry, but I really don't see where you're going with this.

 

[xostrawberry_shortcakeox]

Depends. Are you expecting complete originality or a degree of originally?

As for cliches, if the story benefits from the cliche, then it should be used. If the cliche is just used out of laziness, then I frown on it.

 

[Steven.]

I've seen the episode, it was titled "The Simpsons Already Did It", but if you will recall, at the end of the episode, the other cast members informed Butters that TV shows borrowing ideas from other programs has been going on for decades, even before The Simpsons, and also that even The Simpsons itself has been guilty of doing so, so your analogy really doesn't work here.

The point is: it's not about being 100% original, becasue it's been established that this is next to impossible. Sometimes it's not the idea, but what you do with it that makes it one's own.

 

[allieness14]

These days, it's not the originality of an idea, since it was probably used before. Rather, it's how you execute it and make it your own. Putting your own little twist on it.

 

[j_mac1908]

Are you trying to say that the South Park writers were trying to tell us that cartoons are too cliched?

Butters was naming some pretty Simpsons-specific things.

I still don't understand what this thread is about.

 

[987654321]

The Wolf point was to express his disdain for lack of originallity in cartoons.