Homer's onto something here... pic.twitter.com/uEmRSLYoc1
— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) December 6, 2023
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As if it wasn't already clear that The Simpsons has been a mockery of itself for at least a decade, they've managed to reach an even lower level, reaching a new plateau of unamusement while simultaneously torturing all viewers with absolutely terrible voice acting performances. The clip presented here is a good example of this. What is the point of this shit anyway and who is watching it? Zoomers may not know it (or maybe they do, since zoomers are often portrayed as a group to be hated, even though half of all internet users are zoomers), but The Simpsons was by far the best animated series of all time, and in the highest tier of all shows - namely the S Tier along with the Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks and Euphoria. Just let it end already. It's not even fun to hatewatch any longer.
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Writers gotta be trolling giving poor Julie Kavner a speech.
I'm out of the loop here and apologize if this has been covered but Marge sounds awful. I haven't watched the show in years and decided to tune in tonight and all I could think was Marge sounds truly awful. It legitimately ruined my watching experience and had to switch it off. Are they just allowing the show to die with the original cast? I can't imagine Disney keeping this going for much longer.
Disney is desperate right now and The Simpsons is one of their big Disney+ hits. Rumors say they're pushing the Simpsons producers for a new movie after their disastrous box office year. Recasting seems more likely than cancelling at this point, should it be needed.
I think this is the first time Skinners voice has sounded off
and they want to bring harry back for another spinal tap movie?
Honestly at this point, they should maybe consider using the literal weeks of audio voice recordings to make an ai voice program for the voice actors. Have the voice actors still record lines to get the cadence and emotion right and use the ai to fix the voices. Everyone still gets paid and gets to keep their voices from degrading further
I was willing to give it a shot. I'm a lifelong B&S fanatic, so I had to tune in to see if they were gonna do an end credits song and I was delighted to see they did, even if they didn't write it themselves.
Of course, I had to skip to the end. I just can't handle the shitty, limp, lifeless "writing" the show has devolved to, and obviously the VOICES.
Even Skinner sounds like he has about three weeks to live. And as soon as Marge comes on, I instinctively turn the sound off and turn on the subtitles. They need to stage an intervention for Julie Kavner. This can't keep going on. Just use AI based on her voice from 40 years ago and keep paying her, if that's what it takes.
A+ for Belle & Sebastian, D- for the rest of this horseslop.
PS....the song playing in the montage is called "If You Find Yourself Caught In Love" from the album "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" if you were curious.
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Mine is Last Exit to Springfield.
I know it is a bit generic but this is an absolute behemoth of an episode. True sovl.
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Saw a guy on twitter
refer to homer's rant as a "millenial's tiktok 
rant" and it makes perfect 
sense, the writers are all brainded lefty millenials and think 
that an overacted tiktok 
preachy rant is the peak of entertainment
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political orientation isnt the main thing wrong
they just sheltered af
the writers could be rightoids and it would still suck, bc most the people who struggle to break into writing and succeed "against all odds" are peoples who's parents wanted and expected a college education from them
so they went from highschool to college and wrote shitty stories on their macbook with all the QUIRKY stickers and a lot professors told them it was good (it wasn't) because they get paid to be encouraging and if their student evaluations go up, that's clout and job security
some of them may have unique life experience π«travelingπ« tho, but the traveling is usually generic traveler locations where all the other rich kids go for enrichment
they have break up and it's the first really bad thing to ever happen to them
hoo boy
thats when the hair dye and 2nd, 3rd, and 4th tattoo comes in
and obsession with "trauma"
edit: the odds they suceeded against was their parents mildly complained or weren't encouraging, and the less white a writer is, the more they will whine about their ethnicity... as if white parents want their well educated kids to be cartoon writers
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Yeah one big problem is that modern writing (and this goes for art and music in general) is pretty hard for a normal person to break into without financial ruin first so the majority of people who do it are upper middle class kids who have mom and dad's money to support them or industry plants/nepotism types who will have a job secured.
And these types rarely have anything interesting to say.
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In the art school I failed out of, there were a whole lot of rich students from connected backgrounds and a lot of them resorted to
twitter discourse shitpost peices and were perpetually hungover and/or stoned and/or adderalmaxxing and not bringing their best
I was friends with one of them and she was really nice but most of them were mean af
my favorite was how a lot of them liked to describe their family as "working class"
which isn't said a lot in the USA... but middle class sounded too privileged ig, and most of them had enough sense not to claim they were poor.
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It's worse than that - because writer's rooms and more exclusive postgrad writing degrees (like Iowa) are so obsessed with racial themes, they remove any gatekeeping regarding quality for BIPOC writers and 'centre' them. But, of course, plenty of BIPOC people are upper-middle-class, so the writers skew wealthy and you end up with a bunch of "black" media shaped by the extremely specific viewpoints of incredibly wealthy, striving black people mostly from the East and West coast. Unironically, black people's 'representation' on screen is worse than it was twenty years ago because the kind of black people they want behind the screen and writing books can only be those that represent a specific aesthetic. The average black family in like Georgia or Baltimore isn't seeing themselves on TV and in movies.
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i've often lamented that gone are the days of normal black dudes in film and tv. i feel like representation peaked in the 80s and 90s because all the black guys you saw were definitely black, but they were normal dudes. it felt properly american in the sense that they were integrated without losing their identity completely. idk what happened, if it was just a fantasy, or a forced perception by the writers, or genuinely better representation. i just know that most black dudes i see seem much less real to me.
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Yeah some r-slurred blue class worker like Homer would not have the problem of being invited to too many cross-country destination weddings.
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The SOVL that comes from genuinely hating your shitty job is long gone
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True, if your goal is to be a comedy
writer, theres already countless people that have done the hard work and paved the way for you, and if you just follow 
in their footsteps youre not gonna 
have anything 
new or interesting 
to say
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Honestly in a way that kinda fits. If Homer stays the same age in every series, 2023 Homer would probably have been born in the late 80s/early 90s, so he'd be a millennial
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They've been doing that, moving episodes set in the past and future forward relative to the year. It's fricked and I wish they'd stop, but that's true for the show in general.
I really liked the movie, but other than that I've not watched The Simpsons for far longer than I watched it.
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