"The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3-D! On Ice!" Talkback (Spoilers)

I enjoyed it...My favorite part was the guy who auditioned for them who sounded EXACTLY like Homer (his Marge wasn't too bad either)....it was also kind of interesting seeing people who had Simpsons tattoos,and the collectors of their merchandise...
Bill Donahue annoys me to no end....the guy must have absolutely no sense of humor(I'm Catholic myself,and find their jokes about my religion funny),and doesn't seem to realize that The Simpsons makes fun of EVERYONE,Catholics aren't being singled out for ridicule....
 
That was a fun little special. Damn the length of this show's run is impressive.

I remember reading about the Groundskeeper Willie dispute, I laughed about the photos with Willie pasted in them.

Conan's bit on the ending was awesome, I could so just picture it in my head too.

"I am an unauthrorized Homer" was pretty great too.
 
They never mentioned if any of the serious collectors have the Simpsons Arcade Game. And leave it up to Fox to sue a beer company because they feel they're the only ones who should make money off a dying series.
 
And This is what they meant about the complainers and I for one agree. He didn't mean about Nostalgia he meant that 10 years ago you probably saw something different about the simpsons that you liked but changed and stopped watching. If there is/was something different and you don't like it that's your fault not theirs. every part of the formula changes and you've got to except it. The only reason they're going on is because they're having fun, you think they care if you haven't laughed at an episode since the tracy ullman show? As long as they're doing what they want and fox isn't coming in taking over everything The Simpsons will not die. End Rant

But I for one loved it. It was a nice send off for the fans that still watch. my favorite parts were they're controversies and the characters fans aside from Moe they always try to throw him in somewhere. But I hate seeing those collections (and yes the man from England did have the arcade) just seeing that is like a waste of time and money. One day it could all be destroyed then it'd be a complete waste of everything. And Bill Donahue please :shrug: your acting like the catholic churches are free from any critcism. Get over it It's not as perfect as you make it out to be...

I Also I wonder if this whole Seth and Matt. G war is just light ribbing with each other. I mean why else would you put your biggest competitor on your annivesary special?
 
Oh yes, it's all in fun. Like Jeremy Clarkson having Tiff and Vicki on his latest video.

I thought the Duff Beer part was interesting, with the 'I like it, so I made it' attitude. :p That guy's Homer impression was impressive.
 
The best part was the fighting over which city in Scotland is Groundskeeper Willy's hometown. Wow... talk about dedication to the cause.

Also liked the opinions of fans outside of the US think of the show, particularly later on when they focused on the episode that took place in Rio de Janeiro. And the Simpsons collectors are crazy, especially that couple in the UNK. Heh... and it's not weird for the wife because she has her own 'too big for a reasonable person to have' collection - teddy bears, in her case.

You know, I never thought much about how important Homer and Marge's relationship is to the stability and sustained success of the show. Thinking more extensively about it, I truly do believe that there's no bigger sign of doom for the show itself than if they ever split for good.

And despite all the cries that the series isn't as good as it used to be, you have to admit the Homer-Marge relationship is one thing that the showrunners still get right after 20 years on the air.
 
People who say that have a very poor understanding of humor.

The special was surprisingly balanced (never expected to see the head of the Catholic League) but I wanted some kind of rebuttal to that remark. When I'm offended, I'm not laughing.

When they mentioned countries angry with the show, I thought they would mention Japan, since the Japanese Trip episode is banned over there. Mentioning Scotland was pointless since they LOVE Willie. Some Arab-Americans have found Apu offensive -- that's another one.
 
Well the documentary wasn't very informative but I still enjoyed it...

It actually got me pretty nostalgic, I used to be the biggest Simpson fan, I actually stopped watching when I moved to the states in 1999 and since we had DirecTV we couldn't view local channels and when they finally offered local channels two years later I was a freshmen in High School and had grown out of tv.

Anyways I've watched a few of the newer episodes, and I don't think they're that bad. I think people like me just grew out of the simpsons and view the older episodes with nostalgia. The times have also changed and the show has not and is no longer as edgy as it once was. Some plots have been done too many times already as well as the quality is not as good but its not as big of a difference as people make it out to be, then again I haven't watched most of those seasons just judging from the few episodes I've seen which is should still be a somewhat decent amount.
 
I thought that was a pretty good special. There was no way they could cover the immense influence the Simpsons had on television and the world in an hour, but they covered a lot. People who work on the show, fans, people in other countries, it was great.

I liked MacFarlane acknowledging that Bart talking back to Homer was just as risky then as the stuff he does now. Also Conan's bit at the end was funny because it was so serious. I would actually like to see that animated just as a joke, Marge seriously telling Homer he's a threat and destroyed the town 600 times and all that.



I'm sure Al Jean will be glad to know thousands of people out there think his name is "EAN".
 
I was watching on a 4:3 TV and thought maybe that was the reason, but obviously not, as I figure most here are watching on a 16:9. It looked like they were zooming in when they shouldn't have. NBC (at least the Detroit feed) does it all the time themselves. Half of the captions during The Office are cut off and the characters seem uncomfortably close to the screen. :p
 
With the number of clips from S10 and before compared to S11 to now, I guess Morgan Spurlock gave up on the latter half of the series, too.



No, I don't and that's like saying if you don't like anything and everything the Government does you're an unpatriotic and unAmerican. Catagorizing the audience for not liking what your putting out is nothing more than ego stroking and the show going down on itself. And guess what? Putting 'art' into the public realm makes you a target for criticism! Get over yourself, Al.



You're complaining about the critics being over the top? Well, you've traded one set of hyperbolic expletives for another and for the record, I've never met anyone who said the show sucked after the Ullman shorts, even the heavily-called upon, 1992 Star Trekkie Nerd stereotype the writers like to use as a callback.



Of course it won't die. Zombie Simpsons, the Simpsons with no brains and pulse, continues to exist to sell merchanidise. That's it's only reason for continuing the show and since the quality of the show, ratings, and such doesn't effect Fox's bottom line, it's no wonder the writing has gone to ****. The show has become, as Bill Oakely and Josh Weinstien alluded to: "...Like churning (the episodes) out like a sausage factory."

BTW, they shoud've renamed this the 10th Anniversery Special since 101 clips were from the first 10 seasons and 13 from Seasons 11+.
 
Yes you do things change and we learn to accept it. it isn't like that at all if your government changes and you don't like it and you've done all you can you have to accept it. And I'm not saying it's not an Ego stroke but if a friend of yours got married and you know he's cheating the wife knows he's cheating and it's their 10th anniversary are you going to just ruin their big day talking about how the past year has been a lie?


I meant the writers of the show and I was using it as an example as if to say fans that criticize the show past the 10 or 11 season could hate everything the writers pull out there ass and still not care what you or anyone else thinks.


That isn't fair some of those people work really hard on that show. But I guess that was spurlock's and everyone else's including my take on the critics that pan it for what it is today as opposed to what it was when there was no competition.
 
That depends if they're both saying: "Gee, don't we have the most perfect marrige on the planet and if you don't agree, then you must be some kind of fruitcake who doesn't 'accept' the institution of marrige!"



They have that right, and by that token, they shouldn't say anything, but it's also grossly misguided (and cowardly) to talk a lot of guff from behind a cartoon character and then turn and run and hide back into the writers' room. If they choose to make fun of the people who don't think they're work is the greatest thing since oxygen without even adressing what is being said, then it shows what kind of people they really are.



I'm going to take a chance and say you're wrong. The show wasn't this 'instituiton' during it's formative years and they had to fight against the Cosby show. Not only that, but a lot of people had a much more stereotypical view that the Simsons was just a kids show because it was a cartoon and people were just turned off to the idea. Nowadays, you can't even throw a stick without it hittting somtthing Simpsons related and I refuse to 'accept' what the writers are passing off now as a show I used to love. I don't even consider it a real TV show, just a commercial to remind people there's merchandising to buy.
 
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