No.4939
Yes I know, it's an anime board. But since this board is relatively dead, how about a nice curve ball to spice it up? if worse comes to worse more the thread to /hobby/
Anyway, I just recently watched season 1 - 9 (and some one offs) and I was wondering what's your guys opinions on the show? I personally enjoyed it, with these being my top three:
1) Bart gets an F
2) Homers Enemy
3) E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
It's pretty obvious why 1 & 3 are solid, but I don't see people talk about 2 that much. Which I don't get why.
Homers Enemy; Frank Grimes, is obviously the personification of the "dream American worker". The dream worker who in any dire situation will simply just "pull up his boot straps" and work harder to get a better life. The reality is though is that, no one actually cares about him going through those hardships. Yes, while Burns did originally try to hire him after seeing his struggle, he was predictably ignored after Burns found the next shiny thing to gawk at, and the hardships of Frank was quickly ignored by the rest of society.
Maybe it was obvious and I'm slow, but the lesson that it taught is still a great reminder, that is: a system that abandons you to unnecessary hardships is not going to care if you actually succeeded in those hardships.
This reality is hammered in further with Homer existence, one who has gotten off lucky and lived by all accounts a fairly fulfilling life. Any mess ups that Homer has cause is ignored since as long as profit is made, they don't care what he does.
And his death is a great ending, Homer continues in the system with his actions since he cares not for the boss "making" his precious money, while Frank takes the approach that work is a virtue and mocks homer only to get killed accidentally when taking his mockery to the extreme.
Perhaps I'm looking into it too much, or I'm viewing it backwards, what do you think /anime/ or /hobby/ if this is moved?
No.4942
>>4939Before reading your post I though Homer's Enemy was overrated. I think, given that Matt Groening was kind of a punk, so he was a bit leftist (dunno who came up with the episode though), it may have been intentional.
My favorite Simpsons episode is probably the Treehouse of Horror that had Homer 3D. That was pretty cool.
No.4945
Technically this goes in
>>>/hobby/ but frankly I don't mind. I'm not a big fan of Simpsons but I loved the couch gags and my favorite character is Apu, the man is neat, both embracing and subverting the Indian-immigrant stereotype.
The hatred for his character by liberals is laughable.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9XLVvQAgiFE/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F68l9FozxJ8 My favorite couch gags
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Triplets_of_Belleville_couch_gag https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro_couch_gag https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/La-Z_Rider_Couch_Gag No.4949
anime = animation
No.4951
>>4949Well yes, but weebs and /co/ like to be pedants about separating Eastern and Western animation.
No.4986
for the drama:
1) the late philip j fry
2) the sting
3) the luck of the fryrish
for the funny/cool concepts:
1) the prisoner of benda
2) the anthologies of interest
3) godfellas
No.5496
>>5122>>5138I don't understand this fucking meme/joke. What is even the relevance?
No.9696
>>5541…I still don't get it TBH, I guess this must be a burger injoke or something
No.9701
>>9696There's a store called "Sneed's Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck's)". So as you can see, "Sneed" rhymes with "feed" and "seed". The implication here is that, when Chuck was the owner, it was called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck" because those two verbs rhyme with his name.
No.9876
Embedding error.
Best moment of the Simpsons: Return of the USSR
No.9877
>>9701Ooooooh, wow, that's… such a convoluted joke, you have to be obsessed with that kind of shit to have it come to mind IMO, this "Fuck and Suck" shit didn't even cross my mind from seeing that.
No.9888
>>9877To be honest, it's funnier if you understand it by yourself, explaining the joke in such detail makes it unfunny.
>>9876Definitely
No.9953
>>9877>you have to be obsessed with that kind of shit to have it come to mind IMOIt's just phoneme substitution. It's something everyone learns as children. Dr Suess is famous for it.
No.9954
>>9953I know but frankly my mind doesn't really go there, I guess it's not that far in the gutter as I thought, there's hope for me yet.
No.10253
>>10242>picI like drawing characters from other series as Simpsons characters. Partly because I don't think most people do a good job. But the Misato and everything in your pic is pretty good.
No.10656
>>9888>it's funnier if you understand it by yourselfYeah true, also checked trip 8s
No.14912
my favourite anime episode is when cousin greg from succession cameos in simpsons next week
No.18753
>>18746There's no good vtub-
No.18798
>>4939barely remember any episodes (I watched it when I was a kid), but the poochie episode has one of the most inspired punchlines to any episode of any show I've seen, it's so good
No.20762
>>18753Yes, there are no good vtubers.
>>18798 Which episode was that?
No.21793
This belongs more in
>>>/hobby/ to be honest, being Western animation and all that.
No.23856
Recently saw some clips of The Simpsons: Season 35 Episode 13
The Simpsons: 20,000 BC and I thought it was rather well animated and creative compared to more recent stuff.
No.23860
>the creator of the board wants this to be an anime board
</a/nons collectively ignore that
I don't even know what's going on on this board anymore.
No.23862
>>23860>>23861As one of the people that lobbied for this board back on roulette, the Western threads for the Simpsons and other stuff are from before the East-West division of content was more enforced.
No.24358
Simpsons wasn't all that fun when it was new and the most recent seasons are boring as shit IMO. The best parts were gags like the one where Russia at the UN announced itself as the USSR again and intros that were posted ITT.
No.24372
>>4939There's too many people who don't get Grimes is supposed to be the asshole. Some of them even think he was right!
>>4942Groening didn't write it but it is one of his favorite episodes.
No.24373
>>20762S8E14 The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
No.24385
I really liked the one where homer beats up george bush
No.24386
>>23860Western anime is still anime. They added some extra syllables and called it "animation" but it's still anime.
No.24389
>>24386>Western anime is still anime>They added some extra syllables and called it "animation" but it's still anime. 10/10 shitpost
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