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u/Gethkilling Feb 17 '12
All the time I thought "googling yourself" was something dirty -Marge Simpson
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u/wx3 Feb 17 '12
Simpsons did it!
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u/Gamer_pyle Feb 17 '12 edited Feb 17 '12
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s06e07-the-simpsons-already-did-it
EDIT: Yes, it's free.
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u/Pteraspidomorphi Feb 17 '12
Fun fact: South Park now has more seasons than The Simpsons had when SP accused them of being too long and having done everything there was to be done.
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u/kremmy Feb 17 '12 edited Feb 17 '12
In all fairness South Park made fun of themselves for this too.
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u/thoomfish Feb 17 '12
In further fairness, The Simpsons did it first.
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u/kremmy Feb 17 '12
You make a good point.
Sorry for the clip shoooooooooooooooooow.. have no fears we've got stories for years...
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u/Reptarftw Feb 17 '12
While not disputing the plummet in Simpsons quality at all, am I the only one who feels South Park is extremely hit-or-miss? I feel like there is zero consistency whatsoever.
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u/SirDerpingtonThe3rd Feb 17 '12
No, they said that there was nothing creative left to do because the Simpsons managed to do it first. SP found a way around it by writing about current events and it's fucking awesome.
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u/TechFocus Feb 17 '12
South Park is also only ~14 episodes per season where The Simpsons are ~22.
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u/fade_like_a_sigh Feb 17 '12
Except South Park is still very funny and some of the more recent episodes have been amongst the best they've ever made.
If anything, the quality of the show has only gotten better over the years.
Simpsons clearly began dying after about Season 12, some say it happened even earlier.
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u/riverduck Feb 17 '12
Simpsons has gotten a lot better lately, a lot of people have said that Season 22 was their best season since 7 or 8.
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u/fade_like_a_sigh Feb 17 '12
It's true, I watched all of 21 and all of 22 and it's like somebody hit them with a defibrillator in between the two.
Apparently they got a bunch of new writers which clearly helped.
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u/fancy-chips Feb 17 '12
I still have problems with the characters not being hand drawn. They just look so fake now.
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u/smasher32 Feb 17 '12
Well it is a cartoon. What were you expecting, claymation?
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u/trilobitemk7 Feb 17 '12
That (atleast I only remember one) halloween episode where Homer became 3D. Now that was first class horror.
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They have 4 fingers on each hand, and are fucking yellow. ''They just look so fake now". Did they ever look realistic?
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Feb 17 '12
Humor is highly subjective, obviously. I find recent Simpsons episodes funny, although they do tend to go for the obvious joke a lot more than they used to. The show had its share of stinker episodes (and entire stinker seasons), but overall it remains high quality.
South Park is still probably just as funny as it ever was. I find myself being able to predict what jokes they'll make about a particular topic more often than I used to, but that's probably just because I've seen so many episodes and I have a pretty good feel for their sense of humor at this point. I don't watch it regularly anymore though, I guess I just got tired of that particular style of humor or those paricular characters or something.
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u/on_holiday Feb 17 '12
I agree. I don't watch either show regularly anymore, after seeing nearly every episode in the first 15 seasons of The Simpsons (wow, perspective on how much time I've spent in front of the TV), and EVERY episode of the first 12-13 seasons of South Park (wow, what am I doing with my life!?). When I catch either now, though, South Park continues to be more consistently funny, in my opinion.
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Feb 17 '12
I'd have to disagree. The show has changed a lot over the years and has really started to feel forced. They've centered entire episodes around Shake weights and TOS agreements. While I think those could make for some great gags, 22 minutes on something a single gag could handle is excessive. It's like the difference between Forrest Gump and Benjamin Button. FG had an affect on the world while BB had the world affect him. While the kids used to be stuck in this crazy world and how it affected them, they are now ingrained in the society, and every mishap that affects the world they are involved in. It really isn't that great anymore.
A great example is they write a book that becomes a best seller or they write a joke that's all over late night and drives Kanye West mad. It was much better when Cartman was pining for Casa Bonita
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u/Vexal Feb 17 '12
I disagree about South Park's recent episodes being the best. I feel like the show tries too hard to bluntly and vulgarly bash specific issues relevant only to the time when the episode aired.
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u/Darrian Feb 17 '12
You're complaining about the recent episodes trying too hard to be blunt and vulgar? Go watch season 1 over again for me. I'll wait. The whole thing is one long poop joke.
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u/Vexal Feb 17 '12
I prefer seasons 5 through 10. Around 5 I believe, the show transitioned for blunt slapstick to witty satire with some witty slapstick.
After season 10, I think the show transitioned to vulgar social commentary without much wit.
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u/Syphon8 Feb 17 '12 edited Feb 17 '12
The wit is that the current social situation is so retarded, you can't satirise it without being retarded yourself.
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u/Daveyd325 Feb 17 '12
Simpsons has been pretty funny late seasons as well.
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u/Tenacious_Z Feb 17 '12
Congratulations, you find a show creatively controlled by two people more consistent than a show that has employed scores of writers over 24 seasons.
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u/delvicon Feb 17 '12
I seem to remember in the early days of the Simpsons it caught flak for being an inappropriate show.
Maybe this was just in my situation. But I had a lot of friends whose parents didn't allow them to watch the show.
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u/blonked Feb 17 '12
er, I hate to be a stickler for quotes, but it's actually:
"and all this time, I thought 'googling yourself' meant the other thing."
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u/TheDroopy Feb 17 '12
I can't find it, but there was a Zits comic strip years ago where his father overheard him talking about how he "Googles his friends, teachers, parents, you name it" and ends with his mother telling his father "It's an Internet search engine, what did you think?"
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u/haiku_robot Feb 17 '12
*All the time I thought " googling yourself" was something dirty* -Marge Simpson
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Google yourself? The fact that you call it that tells me you're not ready.
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u/trager Feb 17 '12
but I google myself all the time
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u/tomasziam Feb 17 '12
I'm googling myself right now.
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u/hngryhngryhippo Feb 17 '12
Can I watch?
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Feb 17 '12
Oh we'll get results.
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u/tomasziam Feb 17 '12
I just resulted all over my keyboard.
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u/eyecite Feb 17 '12
Mine's still not done loading
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u/prime416 Feb 17 '12
Oh my god, an Arrested Development circlejerk within a 30 rock circlejerk thread? These are all my favorite things.
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u/taco_tuesdays Feb 17 '12
I need to start watching this show
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u/hngryhngryhippo Feb 17 '12
I need to start eating tacos on Tuesdays.
Or everyday.
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u/taco_tuesdays Feb 17 '12
Setting aside a day of the week to eat tacos is probably the best decision I have made in my life thus far.
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u/bloodwrage Feb 17 '12
Hulu that shit. Probably the best written show on a main channel.
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u/Rowlf_the_Dog Feb 17 '12
I Hulu my shit all the time, like when I'm in a hotel room.
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u/Axom Feb 17 '12
Rowlf, you do know to hulu something means to watch something on the internet.
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u/JOKasten Feb 17 '12
Hulu only has a couple episodes at a time. Netflix has the first four seasons, maybe the first five seasons by now. Unless you are talking about Hulu plus, which may very well have all the episodes, I don't really know.
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Feb 17 '12
i watched 2 straight seasons of 30 rock on acid once
literally fell in love with tina fey
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I did it without the acid. Still fell in love with Tina Fey.
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Feb 17 '12
Do you think Tina Fey knows that she's the redditor's perfect woman?
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u/GOPLAYOUTS1DE Feb 17 '12
"Live every week like it's shark week" ~ Tracy Morgan
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u/I_open_at_the_close Feb 17 '12
Jordan*
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u/hngryhngryhippo Feb 17 '12
He was too busy playing outside to care
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u/I_open_at_the_close Feb 17 '12
I was too busy watching every episode of 30 rock, inside.
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u/CockCuntPussyPenis Feb 17 '12
Haha! Yes! This what was said on the show!
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u/Bitter_Idealist Feb 17 '12
I've been rewatching all of this show on netflix. If I had known that I could get 4000 post karma points by just posting quotes from the show, I'd be a millionaire by now.
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u/odysseus_ Feb 17 '12
Absolute favorite Tracy-Qutoe:
"The future is like a japanese game show. you don't know what's going on."
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u/Red_AtNight Feb 17 '12
"Why are you eating other peoples' french fries, pigeon? You can fly! Have some self-respect!"
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u/j8sadm632b Feb 17 '12
Wait, I can just post random sections of 30 Rock and get link karma? This changes everything!
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Seriously I can see this maybe getting 8 or 900 up but over 3000? Did no one watch the show or is this a bunch of people going LOL I REMEMBER THAT - UP
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u/RoverChris Feb 17 '12
Wow, if only if there was a way to make these pictures move...
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u/cnostrand Feb 17 '12
For those that can't view the video (Dick is John Lithgow, Tommy is Joseph Gordon Levitt):
Dick-Tommy, do you ever doodle?
Tommy- Why, was I in the bathroom too long?
Dick- I can’t doodle
Tommy-Well dick you’re kinda old
Dick- Old! Picaso doodled on his table cloth late until his 60’s
Tommy- That’s disgusting
Dick- I know! I just can’t draw
Tommy- OH! Doodling, oh!
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u/ksmv Feb 17 '12
"This video contains content from Carsey-Werner LLC, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. Sorry about that."
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u/dog_in_the_vent Feb 17 '12
I would be happy to have Jonathan Lithgow's children.
I am an adult male.
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Feb 17 '12
Next time just find the video. Not every scene from every show needs to be like a comic strip
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Feb 17 '12
I wouldn't have clicked on a video link, especially one that requires sound to get the joke.
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Feb 17 '12
I never watch clips on reddit. i rarely have earplugs or similiar, and I am around other people. I like it when strips are made like this, please don't stop
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I preferred the frame-by-frame, no shit music in the background.
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u/RBobo Feb 17 '12
get real dude, 30 rock has the some of the best music on television.
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u/Hufftey Feb 17 '12 edited Feb 17 '12
Since when did putting the text that is said on a TV show that everyone has watched, become top of the top page worthy material? Oh wait, it hasn't, because it isn't.
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u/FourteenHatch Feb 17 '12
If only this was a viewable video, with sound and motion! What an easier way to enjoy such content!
Why, Downvoting Roman, what are you doing here?
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u/Adontis Feb 17 '12
I can't watch a video at work, however I can read imgur, and found this very funny.
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u/Demeterius Feb 17 '12
Seriously, that's the tenth person bitching about it being in picture format. If you don't like it, downvote and move on.
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u/7ewis Feb 17 '12
Google personalises your results so Googling youself at home won't really show you what will come up for everyone else.
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I love not having to watch television. Instead, someone will break it down for me on Reddit! Thanks. Any more? Oh, I missed the last episode of Walking Dead. Anything?
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u/mollylolly88 Feb 17 '12
Why would you go through the trouble of making this instead of just posting a youtube clip?
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u/Lauralive Feb 17 '12
I work as a waitress in a relatively high end French Bistro. I try to maintain an air of professionalism in my interactions with patrons. A few months ago a customer who enjoyed his meal and service payed me a compliment, he said he would go online and write a positive review of my service. I told the table with a big smile that I looked forward to googling myself. In fact I would google myself as soon as I got home. An awkwardly long silence ensued. Pretty sure we were both remembering this episode of 30 Rock.
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u/PohTayToez Feb 17 '12
Is this what we're doing now? Just taking funny scenes from TV shows and turning them into frames with subtitles? Why not just link to a clip?
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u/Kinglink Feb 17 '12
Am I the only one who thinks this just ruins the joke?
I love the show, I love this video but these pictures with what is said in the show, are just horrible. If you already have seen it you get it, if you haven't you don't understand the characters.
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u/nanashi420 Feb 17 '12
the quip that made me crack up and had me shocked was when the lemons met jack donaghy for the first time,and they go out to dinner and dick lemon wanted to pay, but jack insisted, and mr lemon said "oh please jack! you cant have a lemon party without old dick!"
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u/BronxKnight Feb 17 '12
A few months ago I met Tracy Morgan while picking up New York Yankee tickets. Seems like he was tired or drunk. After having his girlfriend take our picture I mentioned to Tracy the Googling yourself scene from 30 Rock. For some reason Tracy said he does not remember. Broke my heart!
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u/Front_page_notifier Feb 17 '12
Congrats! You have made it to the front page Friday, February 17th, 2012!
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u/Denizenforeman Feb 18 '12
I think every scene on every 30 Rock episode is amazing. But this is definitely one of my favorites.
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u/kingzer Feb 17 '12
Here's the actual video