The Simpsons thread

Family Guy pretty much took ALL their ideas from The Simpsons. The only thing that they've really done differently is changed the focus of certain aspects of the show (like upping the flashbacks, for example). It's a funny show and an adequate Simpsons rip-off, but it's still a rip-off nonetheless.

Saying that The Simpsons is stealing ideas from Family Guy creates a paradox, because what you're really saying is that The Simpsons is taking their ideas from a show that blatantly took their ideas from The Simpsons. All I've really seen the latter Simpsons episodes do is desperately try to be spontaneous and random, which was something that the older episodes did effortlessly, and what Family Guy has only made its existence off trying to duplicate.
 
DeathcoreRyknow said:
Family Guy pretty much took ALL their ideas from The Simpsons. The only thing that they've really done differently is changed the focus of certain aspects of the show (like upping the flashbacks, for example). It's a funny show and an adequate Simpsons rip-off, but it's still a rip-off nonetheless.

Saying that The Simpsons is stealing ideas from Family Guy creates a paradox, because what you're really saying is that The Simpsons is taking their ideas from a show that blatantly took their ideas from The Simpsons. All I've really seen the latter Simpsons episodes do is desperately try to be spontaneous and random, which was something that the older episodes did effortlessly, and what Family Guy has only made its existence off trying to duplicate.
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Trying to duplicate? Family Guy has proved itself better to the Simpsons in every shape and form. The random stuff comes from the extremeness of Family Guy which does brilliantly while the Simpsons can't even cope with. Family Guy took the genre and improved on it. The Simpsons has merely proven itself to be stuck on its past glories.
 
I don't care how great anyone thinks Family Guy is, there's just no way in hell it can touch The Simpsons in its prime. That "random stuff", that highly unpredictable fashion, is pure Simpsons, no way around it. But anyway, well we'll see in another 20 years which show will be considered a genre-defining classic and go down as one of the greatest shows in television history (my money's on the one that's already being touted as that).

But enough Family Guy shit, this is about The Simpsons, damn it. Here's one of my all time favorite quotes, one of the most random and greatest nonsensical rants ever, in my opinion:

Look, Marge, you don't know what it's like. I'm the one out there every day putting his ass on the line. And I'm not out of order! You're out of order. The whole freaking system is out of order. You want the truth? You want the truth?! You can't handle the truth! 'Cause when you reach over and put your hand into a pile of goo, that was your best friend's face! You'll know what to do! Forget it, Marge, it's Chinatown!

I've just always loved that one. Anyone else have favorite quotes?
 
I love that quote! Here's a couple good ones just to name a few:

"Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub."-Bart

"Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. It's the American way."-Homer

"Okay, folks show's over! Nothing to see here, show's............oh, my God! A horrible plane crash!"-Chief Wiggum

"I bent my wookie!"-Ralph

"Aie thats it. You've slapped your Willy long enough!"-Groundskeeper Willie
 
Robot Commander said:
"I bent my wookie!"-Ralph
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Oh man, Ralph Wiggum has the best quotes...

"My cat's breath smells like catfood."

"The doctor says I wouldn't have so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outta there."

"Principal Skinner, I got car sick in your office."

"Me fail english, that's unpossible."

That last one is a favorite for sure. God I love that show.
 
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I am Evil Homer, I am Evil Homer!
 
Here are some quotes I find funny:


Scully: Homer, we're going to ask you a few simple yes or no questions. Do you understand?
Homer: Yes. (lie dectector blows up)


Homer: There's your giraffe, little girl.
Ralph Wiggum: I'm a boy.
Homer: That's the spirit. Never give up.


Wife: Now Cletus, why did ya haf to park next to my parents?
Cletus: Now, Now, Hun, they're my parents too...
 
i like the new simpsons the one i found really funny was the one where homer went to the bank i think and then he ran behind a plant and goes daddy will you ask the man for some candy homer is a comic legand
 
The funniest ever simpsons bit I think is when Homer is naked hanging from the hot air baloon and he gets pulled along the glass roof of the church when rev. lovejoy tells everyone to look up in the sky.
 
One of these days I'm seriously going to sit down and learn the whole Simpsons theme on my guitar. I can play parts here and there, but I wanna be able to play it in its entirety.
 
crazy viper player said:
yes i love the simspons, i have season 1 too! 8)
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Same, but I kinda like the new ones... I think they're SOMEWHAT funny, I'm not a fan that would use 35GB on your PC for it, but would I would do is DOwnload it, burn 'em onto DVD's, and delete it, then defragment my hard drive. BTW, how long DID it tkae you to download that shizz? My favorite moment... well, I can't hink of my fave, but one of them would be where Homer gets Reall pissed off, and goes outside, and stares at the sky with his fists in the sir and yells, "F---" then the "camera" cut him off and goes to another scene.
 
FPSfan1234 said:
My favorite moment... well, I can't hink of my fave, but one of them would be where Homer gets Reall pissed off, and goes outside, and stares at the sky with his fists in the sir and yells, "F---" then the "camera" cut him off and goes to another scene.
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Actually, he was still inside. He was upset that Mr. Burns could never remember who he was (from the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" episode), and they'd just received a thank-you note from Mr. Burns for the chocolate they sent him. When he finds out his name isn't in the note, he says, "kids, would you step outside for a second?" Then he stands up and says "F--", and it cuts to the outside where you hear a loud organ sound and see birds scatter. Then Flanders says, "good lord, that's the loudest profanity I've ever heard!"

Anyway, classic moment, but I just had to set up the scene the right way. I'm just weird like that.
 
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