The Simpsons - "Angry Dad: The Movie" - Talkback [2/20]

Eh, this had lots of amusing individual moments, but it was far too disjointed to enjoy as a whole. IMO, the best joke was Homer coming over the speaker phone at the table read, which is a reference to Harry Shearer doing table reads over a speaker phone. This felt like a bunch of sketches edited together that resembled a complete episode.

Also, the worst joke was Homer shuffling cards and drinking soda with his ass. Yikes!

6.5/10, or C-
 
This episode was funny...I loved the references to other animated movies/shorts,especially the Pixar ( "Mixar" ) ones...."You've got an Enemy" was a great song parody (to Toy Story's "You've got a Friend in Me")....
 
This was a terrible episode. Even the movie skits were boring and I didn't laugh once.

"Angry Dad" was an obvious jab at, "Angry Birds," and it wasn't the least bit amusing. Homer acts like a jerk as usual, Bart is out of character, and "Mixar," really?
 
I liked this episode, Itchy and Scratchy plus the opening Bart stunt was a lot of fun (why he could pause in front of Rod to "freshen up" his sandwich is beyond me).

The real highlights were the animated parodies. I'd totally go see Condiments. I liked the Mixar and the song "You've Got An Enemy", but why were the mascots attacking Lisa and not Bart? Huge missed opportunity not to have Brad Bird in this episode.

I laughed pretty hard at the fact that "Keyes on Van Nuys" was on Homer's list of things to see, I hear those commercials all the time.
 
Besides all the little nods and parodies of other animated features, I got a real kick out of the Itchy & Scratchy sketch. They were really speaking in Mandarin and the subtitles were translated fairly well.
 
I enjoyed all the cartoon shorts they showed. The itchy and scratchy cartoon was pretty good too. I couldn't believe Homer apologized to Bart in the end and it was funny how they were cutting up the Oscar.
 
while i didn't find the episode particularly funny, it was nice to see them reference an earlier episode. i also enjoyed seeing all of the animated shorts.
 
It was a good episode. Lots of great jokes and different qbljikation styles. And Homer drinking soda with his ass? Ewwww. But that was like the only joke I really dislked.

So it was HERE was were Wallace & Gromit would guest star.
 
I know most cartoons aren't supposed to be realistic, but in the episode it said angry dad was created in 1999 by Bart and it's now 2011. This has nothing to do with a cartoon 'ageing', it's about the lack of internal logic of this particular episode's plot. Even if you do or don't nitpick continuity of the show, this bit of plot development was terrible.
 
The episode's pacing was bad, moving really fast, but having really long animated film clips. But I did really like how they parodied those animated movies and the award shows. Hopefully, that will get people to look up those films, and watch them.

And count me as one of the people who could care less about the whole illogical aging in this show. After over 20 seasons, ya'll should be used to it by now.
 
This episode was pretty good. The jokes were funny and the Pixar parody ruled. Sadly, Im taking ten points off because of that short where these French people sniffed food up their noses and when Homer put the soda on his butt.

(Anyone know when FOX is gonna show a encore or rerun of this episode?)
 
You're confusing apples with oranges, chief. This episode basically said: "Your 10 year old son created a cartoon sensation 12 years ago." (And the episode "I am Furious Yellow aired in 2002, BTW.)

I can understand when people say "It's just a cartoon" to dismiss any critique of surrealism (funny, or otherwise), but this isn't about characters ageing, it's about the writers pushing the credibility of the current humor. Unlike reality, fiction has to make sense.

Also, this guy brings up a great point to the "it's just a cartoon" crowd:

"It's just the way you keep calling it "just a cartoon" as if that means anything can happen because it's just a bunch of random drawings that do not follow any real rules. If characters started flying around in a live-action tv show when it's supposed to be a down to earth show about real people, you wouldn't say "chill, it's just a tv show". Sure, surreal things happened in the classic era, but that's what was established in the show. As long as you were able to accept it, then nothing is wrong, but there is still a line of plausibility somewhere in that universe, no matter if it's animated. Bart skating around the house/yard because of a rope connected to the ceiling fan isn't black-and-white crossing the line. It's subjective, but it was pretty wacky because of the over-convenience and just the way it's executed feels so cheap, whereas Homer falling off a cliff has him in the hospital afterwards or Bart spinning around in season 4 made you feel the momentum of michief and danger. Of course, just because things happened back then doesn't mean they are flawless and that there weren't moments when they were really pushing it. It's a cartoon, yes, and it has more freedom than your ordinary live-action show, but there's still limits."
 
Honestly? I think the writers added the joke on purpose just to read people's reactions on the Internet.

So yeah, it's a troll joke, and it wouldn't be the first time it had happened.
 
That or maybe 1999 wasn't talking about when Bart made the movie. Maybe it referred to the company on it's prime and bing able to buy stuff like those chairs.
 
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