The Simpsons New HD Opening Sequence

How is it not much of a big deal? You said yourself that the character has been dead for a decade. It reeks of laziness to leave him in there. I mean, Luanne is married with a child now. It makes no sense to still show her jumping on Buckley's motorcycle. Also, what about Kahn? He lives on the Hills' block and he appears in the show quite often. They could have added him to the opening as well. Or Joseph and Connie. There's so many ways they could have improved it. I can't believe people are actually praising them for taking the easy way out. I mean, that's like a fashion designer getting praised for taking an old design but using it with more expensive fabric.
 
Do you really think they were going to go crazy extensively updating the opening to a show that's only got a handful of episodes left to air anyway?

Going back and forth about things with you tends to get people nowhere, Master Moron. So lets just agree to disagree and end this.
 
It's reassuring to see I'm not the only one who considers this to be fairly stiff and souless, much like the actual episode animation. When I expressed this view elsewhere, the general reaction I got was that I was still hung up over the season one animation. I'm glad to see there are others who see my actual point :)

So yeah, I'm not that big a fan of it. I agree further that all the cameos and continuity odds just come off as bloated. For some reason in particular, the Maggie getting scanned joke change is the one I like the least. We swap out a fun, wacky gag for Marge standing there grinning like an idiot and another round of their obsession with the fist shaking gag?
 
No one says the The Simpsons has to look like it did in Season 1. Heck, I'd be content if the show looked like it did in Season 11.

The current computer animation is just virtually unappealing to me and hurts my eyes to look at it.
 
You could watch an entire episode and sit there cataloging show cliches that I'm willing to bet are all written down in the writer's playbooks. Fist shaking, obscure character references, lame sign gags, slams at the FOX network, Homer having a bi-polar tirade, monkey jokes, gay jokes, blood, bodily fluid and violent gags...I'm sure you already know the list, Hell Cat.

It makes the show a chore to watch when there's no creativity to it anymore. Just the same things over and over. It doesn't help that all the voice acting is as snarky and as insincere as possible, as if all the voice actors treat these characters like they're doing stand-up. Everyone is guilty of this, especially Kavner.
 
I don't see how cramming a ton of characters into The Simpsons intro makes it better. And honestly? Bart going past Cat Lady and such wasn't my biggest problem with the intro, but the lifeless animation and the added scenes with Ralph and such that just felt painfully tacked on. And removal of Mr. Burns for some reason.

...Why is the Cat Lady and Rich Texan in the theme song and Mr. Burns, a far more important character, has been removed?
 
Apparently "true" Simpsons fans think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. Of course, I don't see it but what do I know. I've only been a fan since day 1. I suppose I should just shut my mouth, right? ;)
 
To be fair, Mr. Burns and Smithers weren't in the first season's intro either. In fact, Jacques, Apu, Moe and Chief Wiggum also weren't in the first season intro.
 
On another note, Harry Shearer announced today on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann that The Simpsons will be back for their 21st season, beating out Gunsmoke as the longest running ficticious show on television.
 
Gunsmoke had almost 650 episodes, so if Matt's on a roll, we won't see the show end for quite some time.

But breaking records for the Simpsons on a network that's too dependent on them is like the King of the Hill episode where Bill's record number of TDs is broken by the oposing team handing the star QB the ball.
 
There's no such thing as "crappy" in an objective point of view. But then again, people don't go on message boards to discuss objective points of view anyway -- there's nothing to discuss about an objective point of view.

Semantics aside, it's insulting to suggest that anyone who prefers the animation in the original intro must be tainted by nostalgia. Some people prefer fluid, colorful animation to precise, technical animation. The old intro was the former, the new intro is the latter. Personally, I agree. The new intro does look "cleaner" --that's the objective truth -- but that's not necessarily a good thing. The colors are less rich, the movements are more stiff, and that's just not what I like.
 
Same here. You know things are bad when Season 2 - heck, Season 1 - heck, the Tracey Ullman shorts - look more lively and energetic than Season 20. They complain on the DVD commentaries all the time that they don't do certain subtle lively touches in the animation anymore, so why don't they, oh, I don't know, start doing them again? I mean, heck, the show's still drawn by hand, often by many of the same people who've been drawing the characters since 1989. Do digital coloring and 1080i resolution really make it impossible for the characters to look, well...alive?
 
Same here. Flash is good if it in the right hands. But then again a Flash on Newgrounds has the excuse that it was normally one man animating it, but when one man animation surpasses a TV, well you got a problem.
 
You're acting like they replaced Mr. Burns and Smithers with Cat Lady and Rich Texan. They replaced Mr. Burns and Smithers with Lenny and Carl.
 
I like the new opening. It's more current as far as characters go. Bleedy Gums murphy died years ago. Bit weird to still have him on the sidewalk. At least they have a him in a plaque on the wall.
 
I gotta admit the new intro was pretty cool. I was hoping the new intro would be a remake of the old one with some nice surprises added, and it was. Though first time I tried watching it, the cable company interrupted it by sending out an Emergency Alert System test (I know it was the cable company cause our cable box said "EAS" on the time display), but second time I watched the whole thing from start to finish, then rewound it to check out the freeze-frame jokes. I liked the addition of Apu's children, and replacing Bleeding Gums with Disco Stu was a good idea. And I'm glad the Crazy Cat Lady and Rich Texan were thrown in as well, most likely because they've become rather popular in recent years.

Anyone notice that Ned Flanders no longer stands in front of his house either? It's just Rod and Todd. And I like how they added Miss Hoover to the bus with the flat tire, and left the sunbathing Patty and Selma intact. And I was DEFINITELY expecting Homer to just try and outrun the car, but actually getting hit was a big surprise!

Overall, it sure beats the heck out of cutting a portion of the old intro so we don't see Maude Flanders and Bleeding Gums Murphy (Dr. Marvin Monroe is still alive).
 
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