Red Mosquito

EJ wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I also have gotten in the habit of watching FXX reruns, which I'm not happy about, considering the episodes are cropped and edited. Some of the editing has gotten really egregious, too - they are cutting some of my favorite jokes.

However, it makes it much more convenient than rifling through my DVDs. I usually watch a few episodes every day.

heh, I never noticed that. I occasionally watch eps on FXX too. Any examples of some scenes they've cut out?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

EJ wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I also have gotten in the habit of watching FXX reruns, which I'm not happy about, considering the episodes are cropped and edited. Some of the editing has gotten really egregious, too - they are cutting some of my favorite jokes.

However, it makes it much more convenient than rifling through my DVDs. I usually watch a few episodes every day.

heh, I never noticed that. I occasionally watch eps on FXX too. Any examples of some scenes they've cut out?

The one that I couldn't believe that I noticed the other day was in the Treehouse of Horror segment where they run over Ned Flanders on his fogwalk. In the unedited version, Homer sings the "Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp" jingle. Then, Marge asks him if he put the foglights in, and he sings "Guess I forgot to put the foglights in" in the same melody. I fucking love that joke; the foglights jingle is one of my most-quoted Simpsons lines.

The edited version omits the Sugar Crisp jingle, so he just sings the foglights line while eating cereal with no context. It's a confounding edit.

EJ wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

EJ wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I also have gotten in the habit of watching FXX reruns, which I'm not happy about, considering the episodes are cropped and edited. Some of the editing has gotten really egregious, too - they are cutting some of my favorite jokes.

However, it makes it much more convenient than rifling through my DVDs. I usually watch a few episodes every day.

heh, I never noticed that. I occasionally watch eps on FXX too. Any examples of some scenes they've cut out?

The one that I couldn't believe that I noticed the other day was in the Treehouse of Horror segment where they run over Ned Flanders on his fogwalk. In the unedited version, Homer sings the "Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp" jingle. Then, Marge asks him if he put the foglights in, and he sings "Guess I forgot to put the foglights in" in the same melody. I fucking love that joke; the foglights jingle is one of my most-quoted Simpsons lines.

The edited version omits the Sugar Crisp jingle, so he just sings the foglights line while eating cereal with no context. It's a confounding edit.

Wow. That is so bizarre and so lame. That's a classic bit too. Do they seriously have a hard time budgeting commercial time in or something?

Steve Albini wrote: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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

EJ wrote:Damn. Now, I miss the days of the reruns on Fox at 7 pm and 11:30 pm.

There used to be a Simpsons/Seinfeld rerun block around 7pm sometime around 2002. Lost many hours and a good amount of brain cells to that block of programming.

Steve Albini wrote: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.

theplatypus wrote:We have a 5-hour "golden age" Simpsons marathon on an Argentine TV channel every Saturday afternoon. It is glorious.

EJ wrote:

theplatypus wrote:We have a 5-hour "golden age" Simpsons marathon on an Argentine TV channel every Saturday afternoon. It is glorious.

So, its in Spanish? I assume you've watched it in both languages. Just curious if the jokes still come across the same.

theplatypus wrote:

EJ wrote:

theplatypus wrote:We have a 5-hour "golden age" Simpsons marathon on an Argentine TV channel every Saturday afternoon. It is glorious.

So, its in Spanish? I assume you've watched it in both languages. Just curious if the jokes still come across the same.

I switch over to the English audio because I'm more used to it now, but I'll also sometimes watch it in Spanish for the sheer nostalgia of it (that's the version of the show I grew up watching).

The Simpsons is interesting in that the Spanish dub has its own set of jokes that they use in place of the ones that don't translate well (which is a lot of them, considering the amount of wordplay and American pop culture gags). Instead of awkwardly trying for a literal translation-- which is what most dubbed shows end up doing-- they replace the joke with something different that does work. It's almost like watching a different show at times.

stip wrote:this came at the expense of a tom waits super tournament. there is no such thing as victimless fun

durdencommatyler wrote:

stip wrote:this came at the expense of a tom waits super tournament. there is no such thing as victimless fun

This is the first time I've ever been mad at Pete.