The Simpsons

[Biff Pocoroba]

This week's opening was all Christmas-y but it wasn't a Christmas episode. That's this week, I wonder if they'll have another themed opening?

There was no opening theme or couch gag this week; it went right into the story. It was Christmas-y in that it was a spoof of Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas movies but the plot took place in summer.

[Jorge]

To those who remember the debate...

Team "unrelated instance" wins

[doug rr]

obviously

[Biff Pocoroba]

Comic book guy got an origin story. It started out as a nonSimpons episode but it didn’t go in that direction and the Wes Anderson tone in the second half was a nice, well played touch. A decent late era episode.

[Norah]

2:13 mark of this video

[Stickman]

[Biff Pocoroba]

About to hit 700 and renewed for a 33rd & 34th year which will bring us through the 2023-2024 season.

[Norah]

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[spike]

[Birds in Hell]

[Jorge]

Had no idea this was a debate. The answer seems obvious to me, but I'm curious to see what RM says.

Similar to the "man saying goodbye to a shoe" debate. More generally, I like this video as an examination of the absurdity of hyper-specific message board pop culture debates.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Norah]

no he dreams of being a viking you fucking dolt

[Jorge]

Also never knew this was a debate. It’s obviously a reference to his ability to excel at sleep. How is there even a question?

Lol

Is this serious or are you doing a bit

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I’ve never heard the term “that’s where I’ma Viking” to mean you’re good at something. He goes to sleep and is a Viking in his dreams. How could it mean anything else?

[JuanHamm]

Interesting. I always took it to mean he was good at sleeping as well.

I'll watch the video later.

[wease]

Also never knew this was a debate. It’s obviously a reference to his ability to excel at sleep. How is there even a question?

Because he’s not smart enough for such metaphor making?

He’s dreaming about being a Viking.

[Jorge]

Fascinating

We have a definitive answer as to what the intent was (as the video lays out, the writers have said they intended for it to be that Ralph dreamt about being a Viking) but it's super interesting to see how different people interpret it differently, and often can't see how the other interpretation would even work