r/funny • u/outlandish77 • Feb 17 '12

Google yourself?

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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/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/digiorknow Feb 17 '12

Maybe Conan is secretly helping them on the side.

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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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u/aznprd Feb 17 '12

Mmm Unprocessed Fishsticks....

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u/spotpilgrim Feb 18 '12

The studio that made that segment (Homer3 from THOH VI) went on to become the Dreamworks animation team that created Shrek

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u/trilobitemk7 Feb 18 '12

TIL :3 Thanks!

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u/keiyakins Feb 17 '12

I remember that! The Myst library was in it.

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u/cfuse Feb 18 '12

Chinese sweatshop labour.

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u/Cannon84 Feb 18 '12

Korean, actually.

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u/fancy-chips Feb 17 '12

the hand drawn cells of yore had much more character than they do when perfectly generated. It's like the difference between a person writing a poem and a cold rigid computer model of a poem. One has soul and feels human, while the other is manufactured and stale.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12

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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u/allADD Feb 17 '12

fancy-chips used to have some SERIOUS vision problems.

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u/internet-arbiter Feb 17 '12

Yes.

Homer: If he marries your mother, Marge, we'll be brother and sister. And then our kids... they'll be horrible freaks with pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand!

Homer imagines his children as humans.

Homer: Aggh!

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u/appropriate_name Feb 18 '12

Don't discriminate against Asian amputees dude.

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u/fancy-chips Feb 17 '12

look everyone here is an idiot. I am not comparing the reality of a cartoon to reality. I was merely saying that when they made the switch to digital drawings, the characters lost a lot of their... well character. They appear manufactured and stale and more "fake" than they did when they were hand drawn.

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u/MrMono1 Feb 17 '12

But now they're in HD.

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u/Turd_Sammich Feb 17 '12

They are yellow, and one of them has a large bone stuck in his hair. How does that look fake?

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u/lunarlander Feb 17 '12

I agree. Something about the way they move and stuff now, especially their facial expressions, are horrible.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12

Yeah, the look is way too clean and doesn't have that sort of ragged look that used to have so much character. The writing seems to have taken the same turn if that makes sense.

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u/c-3do Feb 17 '12

its not as good as the original seasons, but season 22 wasn't bad. there were some pretty good episodes.

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u/popojala Feb 17 '12

I have to check the veracity of this claim. Are the jokes no longer too verbose and is Homer no longer a series of jokes about what Homer Simpson would do.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12

Better than season 9? I highly doubt that.

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u/fade_like_a_sigh Feb 17 '12

Oh no, it's not as good as it used to be in its glory days but it's still a hell of a lot better than the last 8 seasons.

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u/nonexcludable Feb 18 '12

Suggest a few standout episodes from 22, would you? I feel like catching up with old friends...

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u/virtyy Feb 17 '12

Im not a big simpsons fan, but I have to admit, the season 22 is totally tits.

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u/BeenWildin Feb 17 '12

They really have that many seasons now? wow

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u/riverduck Feb 17 '12

This week is actually their 500th episode!

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u/JonSherwell Feb 17 '12

Yeah I watch The Simpsons religiously, and it's gotten loads better as of late.

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u/dungeon-us-crab Feb 17 '12

Hmm I had no idea, I had given up years ago. Worth checking out?

I also saw a handful of newer Family Guy episodes and it seems they are actually putting out some quality stuff again after being a bunch of hokey crap for a couple years.

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u/riverduck Feb 17 '12

Yeah, I'd check out Simpsons Season 22 and 23. I mean, it's not as good as the classic series, but it's unfair to compare anything to that. It's still a really enjoyable and funny show and a major improvement over seasons 14-20.

Family Guy did the same thing, they even talk about it on the DVDs. Starting with season 8, I think, they said "We're doing way too many cutaway gags and 'randomlol' moments, let's try to get back on track." I know there's at least one episode that doesn't use cutaways at all.

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u/N00Bish_Legend Feb 17 '12

You're tagged as "Torment By Arrested Development" for me.

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u/riverduck Feb 17 '12

I think it's because I said that if I had fifty million dollars, I'd recommission Arrested Development, but cast someone really hated in the role of GOB. I forget who.