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« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2008, 07:22:57 pm » |
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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2008, 07:50:26 pm » |
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Why do they get a man to voice a young boy, anyway? The boys in the regular cast are voiced by actresses for a reason...
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« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2008, 09:35:13 pm » |
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Doesn't make particular sense, does it? Sounds like they had the script first and then shoed the guest star into it.
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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2008, 11:18:27 am » |
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Wait... you mean... they wrote it before they thought about guest stars? Instead of signing a star and then writing an episode around them?  |
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« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2008, 02:31:52 pm » |
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Wait... you mean... they wrote it before they thought about guest stars? Instead of signing a star and then writing an episode around them? Seems like it. |
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I memorized "Holy Grail" really well I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL - "Weird Al" Yankovic, "White and Nerdy" "Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more, deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell, somewhere, for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!" - Nny I draw too, dammit! |
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« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2008, 06:17:00 pm » |
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Why do they get a man to voice a young boy, anyway? The boys in the regular cast are voiced by actresses for a reason...
Wait... you mean... they wrote it before they thought about guest stars? Instead of signing a star and then writing an episode around them? It's sad when something that in all probability was down to bad planning, could be interpreted as a sign of improvement. |
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« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2008, 11:24:01 pm » |
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Why do they get a man to voice a young boy, anyway? The boys in the regular cast are voiced by actresses for a reason...
Wait... you mean... they wrote it before they thought about guest stars? Instead of signing a star and then writing an episode around them? It's sad when something that in all probability was down to bad planning, could be interpreted as a sign of improvement. Know what else could be interpreted as a sign of improvement? Writing a good episode. Which this was. Hoo-ah! * triumphant pelvic thrust* |
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I memorized "Holy Grail" really well I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL - "Weird Al" Yankovic, "White and Nerdy" "Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more, deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell, somewhere, for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!" - Nny I draw too, dammit! |
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« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2008, 06:34:11 am » |
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I dunno... I haven't seen the episode, but the amount of times I've seen "claims" from people that a single good episode could mean a potential upswing and the following week's show turns out to be one of the most boring, fan-insulting pieces of tripe made has been, well... let's say quite common.
EDIT: Case in point, this latest little synopsis that appeared at NoHomers just a few hours ago:
When Lisa convinces Marge to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a ballerina by auditioning for the Chazz Busby Ballet Academy, Chazz discovers Lisa’s natural talent and enrolls her in the academy instead. During a break from practice, Lisa inhales her fellow ballerinas’ cigarette smoke and attributes her improvement in ballet to smoking. Lisa soon becomes addicted to secondhand smoke, with no chance of quitting in sight. Meanwhile, Homer shows Bart his secret room where he manufactures beef jerky. When Homer realizes that a family of raccoons have made off with his beef, he decides to confront the animals in the “Smoke on the Daughter” episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, March 30 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-1908) (TV-PG D, L, S, V)
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« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2008, 02:41:19 pm » |
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When Lisa convinces Marge to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a ballerina by auditioning for the Chazz Busby Ballet Academy, Chazz discovers Lisa’s natural talent and enrolls her in the academy instead. During a break from practice, Lisa inhales her fellow ballerinas’ cigarette smoke and attributes her improvement in ballet to smoking. Lisa soon becomes addicted to secondhand smoke, with no chance of quitting in sight. Meanwhile, Homer shows Bart his secret room where he manufactures beef jerky. When Homer realizes that a family of raccoons have made off with his beef, he decides to confront the animals in the “Smoke on the Daughter” episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, March 30 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-1908) (TV-PG D, L, S, V)
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I memorized "Holy Grail" really well I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL - "Weird Al" Yankovic, "White and Nerdy" "Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more, deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell, somewhere, for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!" - Nny I draw too, dammit! |
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« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2008, 03:22:51 pm » |
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When Lisa convinces Marge to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a ballerina by auditioning for the Chazz Busby Ballet Academy, Chazz discovers Lisa’s natural talent and enrolls her in the academy instead. During a break from practice, Lisa inhales her fellow ballerinas’ cigarette smoke and attributes her improvement in ballet to smoking. Lisa soon becomes addicted to secondhand smoke, with no chance of quitting in sight. Meanwhile, Homer shows Bart his secret room where he manufactures beef jerky. When Homer realizes that a family of raccoons have made off with his beef, he decides to confront the animals in the “Smoke on the Daughter” episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, March 30 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-1908) (TV-PG D, L, S, V)
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« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2008, 04:10:08 pm » |
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Oh, but don't you get it? It's another "issues" episode! We all know that attributing dancing talent to secondhand smoke is a serious problem among eight-year-old girls. If you don't agree, you obviously care more about video games and actually entertaining stuff than Serious World Issues (tm).
I just give up. If they want to make a statement about the dangers of smoking, could they just have a character, Idunno, actually START SMOKING? If they don't want to make a statement, it's still a bloody awful plot. Could be OK, goes in the wrong directions.
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Let us march on, though there's no hope at our side
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« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2008, 06:00:48 pm » |
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SIMPSONS EPISODE GENERATOR:
a) DUMB PLOT involving HOMER, MARGE, BART or LISA. Actually, it doesn't matter who the character is because it'll eventually turn into HOMER doing something RETARDED.
b) Add a BUNCH of random characters, often one-liners there for no reason but to act as FILLER (SIDESHOW MEL, KRUSTY, WILLIE, MOE, etc..).
c) HOMER has a CRAZY SCHEME. BAD things happen.
d) Add at least one GUEST VOICE. If the GUEST VOICE is a YOUNG WOMAN, then she will be a LOVE INTEREST for BART.
e) Completely DESTROY established canon and / or have HOMER do stunts that should KILL HIM (ie. FALLING OFF a 300-foot BRIDGE).
Using a) to e) as guides, buy an inexpensive book of MAD LIBS and fill in the blanks with SIMPSONS characters and REFERENCES. PROFIT!
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« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2008, 06:42:42 pm » |
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I'd love to think that synopsis was a joke, I really would...
And I can't believe that anyone in regular contact with Patty and Selma wouldn't already be either hooked to or immune to nicotine....
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« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2008, 06:51:12 pm » |
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I dunno... I haven't seen the episode, but the amount of times I've seen "claims" from people that a single good episode could mean a potential upswing and the following week's show turns out to be one of the most boring, fan-insulting pieces of tripe made has been, well... let's say quite common. Yeah, snap. And the few more recent episodes I've caught in my college bar/combination room/etc when other people have been watching them have varied from very average to awful (though, admittedly, I don't recall anyone especially raving about them when they first came out). When Lisa convinces Marge to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a ballerina by auditioning for the Chazz Busby Ballet Academy, Chazz discovers Lisa’s natural talent and enrolls her in the academy instead. During a break from practice, Lisa inhales her fellow ballerinas’ cigarette smoke and attributes her improvement in ballet to smoking. Lisa soon becomes addicted to secondhand smoke, with no chance of quitting in sight. Meanwhile, Homer shows Bart his secret room where he manufactures beef jerky. When Homer realizes that a family of raccoons have made off with his beef, he decides to confront the animals in the “Smoke on the Daughter” episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, March 30 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-1908) (TV-PG D, L, S, V) Uh-huh. I can imagine this synopsis on ff.net sooooo easily... |
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