The Simpsons - discussion

[backontrack]

Some genius bits recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouXGkS9mT7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz7_JP7ROvA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CHQlZiJ8YM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jx9rghDOF4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wZP8_uB2Qg
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[Calthrop]

Essentially, I don't watch televison -- don't have a television set -- but have seen a fair selection of "The Simpsons", when visiting relatives / friends over the years. Reckon it often, funny / entertaining / on-target satirical; but am a bit bewildered as to how come so very many people have become so super-devoted to it -- my feeling is, it's not that wonderful.

Just one thing about "The Simpsons" which I detest, to the point of seeing-red-running-amok-with-a-machete fantasies: the Simpsons-created word "cromulent". I know the background -- in whichever episode, somebody was using the coined word "embiggen" -- another bod objected to same, whereupon somebody else pronounced said coined word, a perfectly "cromulent" one. I see where they were coming from, and am aware that the word has been taken up in a big way throughout the Internet, and has flourished there ever since -- maybe, indeed, filling something of a gap in the language: but I bloody loathe and abominate the word -- for me, there's something abhorrently smug and twee about it -- when I see it used, I just want to go out and KILL. Irrational on my part, for sure -- but I hate, hate, hate it.

 

[ComUtoR]

the Simpsons-created word "cromulent". I know the background -- in whichever episode, somebody was using the coined word "embiggen" -- another bod objected to same, whereupon somebody else pronounced said coined word, a perfectly "cromulent" one. I see where they were coming from, and am aware that the word has been taken up in a big way throughout the Internet, and has flourished there ever since -- maybe, indeed, filling something of a gap in the language: but I bloody loathe and abominate the word -- for me, there's something abhorrently smug and twee about it -- when I see it used, I just want to go out and KILL. Irrational on my part, for sure -- but I hate, hate, hate it.

You must have a heart attack every time the OED gets updated.

 

[D6975]

My son loves the Simpsons, so I get to see quite a lot of episodes.
Lots of the bits that make me smile go straight over his head, references to people, films, TV series etc that he's too young for.




Nukular, it's pronounced nukular is one that was on recently. So I had to explain about Regan.
Homer walking through a hedge then using a golf club to latch onto a car was another one he didn't get.

ps Futurama is very good too.

 

[backontrack]

Homer walking through a hedge then using a golf club to latch onto a car was another one he didn't get.

Isn't that the one where Homer becomes Flanders' best friend and Ned is really annoyed by it?

 

[Calthrop]

You must have a heart attack every time the OED gets updated.

Probably; but in my estimation, bigotry is permissible, if it's about stuff which gives no hurt to real living people !

 

[Strathclyder]

Isn't that the one where Homer becomes Flanders' best friend and Ned is really annoyed by it?

Yeah, Homer Loves Flanders (Season 5 Episode 16). Also home to this great little moment....
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[TheEdge]

Probably; but in my estimation, bigotry is permissible, if it's about stuff which gives no hurt to real living people !

A much more cromulent response would have been to simply be mildly perturbed.

 

[trainmania100]

I like the Simpsons its generally quite funny like the Troy Mcclure films

 

[NY Yankee]

Homer walking through a hedge then using a golf club to latch onto a car was another one he didn't get.

ps Futurama is very good too.

It was a parody of the movie Terminator 2 when T-1000 chased John Connor, Sarah Connor, and the terminator.

 

[Strathclyder]

Bump.

Thought that some of you folks might appreciate this gem from Season 2's Treehouse of Horror (Episode 3). Has to be one of the best adaptions of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven ever produced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiXjaPqSyY

 

[SS4]

Has anyone tried a Flaming Moe?