Red Mosquito

Stickman wrote:Word round the campfire is that The Simpsons are going to kill off a major character this season, who do you think it will be? Will Barney finally die from drinking? Will Abe Simpson just die from old age? Will Chief Wiggum finally have one too many doughnuts?

Place your bets!

dimejinky99 wrote:RIP Marcia Wallace.

Stickman wrote:Word round the campfire is that The Simpsons are going to kill off a major character this season, who do you think it will be? Will Barney finally die from drinking? Will Abe Simpson just die from old age? Will Chief Wiggum finally have one too many doughnuts?

Place your bets!

dimejinky99 wrote:RIP Marcia Wallace.

Poor old Edna. The kids done her in

stip wrote:Does anyone here play that Simpsons:tapped out iOS game?

stip wrote:Does anyone here play that Simpsons:tapped out iOS game?

More importantly, I remain firm in my belief that the most valuable resource to Simpsons fans is not the ability to watch the show whenever they want, but rather the ability to reference the show at a moment’s notice. Within this deal,The Simpsons is being used as a leverage point to build a channel brand, generate revenue, and maximize potential revenue for a new channel; within popular culture, however, The Simpsons is used as a generator of meaning, a way to communicate that is best served with a different non-linear application that this deal would seem to render impossible (or at least highly unlikely).

The Simpsons Clip Database is an idea I’ve been tweeting about for a few years now. Every time I want to make a Simpsons joke on Twitter or Facebook, I search YouTube hoping that someone has managed to post the exact 10-second clip I’m looking for. For some people, this sounds crazy; for me, and others like me, this is common sense. The most common instance for me is any time I am attending or discussing a BBQ: When I wanted to make this joke earlier this year, I searched YouTube and was excited to find a copy of the exact clip that every Simpsons fan knows I’m talking about because that’s how this works. It was filmed off a television screen, and could be deleted at any moment. However, it allowed me to both contextualize the reference for those who weren’t familiar, while simultaneously inviting those who get the reference to revisit the joke within the context of the episode, but through the logic of viral video rather than taking thirty minutes to stream an episode.

We don’t think about The Simpsons in terms of episodes, not in our contemporary moment. While I will be happy to revisit various Simpsons episodes in their entirety on FXX or FXNow, and I will on occasion pull out my DVDs and watch a few episodes back-to-back, how we think of and use The Simpsons on a daily basis comes in the form of jokes, bits, and memorable sequences. The Simpsons travels in these bite-sized chunks, and the value of The Simpsons in the age of online streaming should ideally reflect this. What I’ve long proposed is an online app that allows you to create your own clips based on classic Simpsons episodes: Users can select a brief section of an episode to isolate, create metadata to make it searchable within a database, and then share that clip through social media.

stonefury wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:http://www.threadless.com/thesimpsons/

I have my credit card on standby.

cutuphalfdead wrote:Final selections are pretty weak.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Tomacco