Biff Pocoroba wrote: 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.
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 10:02 pm
by Jorge
To those who remember the debate...
Team "unrelated instance" wins
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 10:09 pm
by doug rr
obviously
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue January 05, 2021 1:54 am
by 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.
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Sat January 23, 2021 10:35 pm
by Norah
2:13 mark of this video
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Fri February 19, 2021 4:35 am
by Stickman
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Sat March 20, 2021 12:48 am
by Biff Pocoroba
About to hit 700 and renewed for a 33rd & 34th year which will bring us through the 2023-2024 season.
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Sat March 20, 2021 1:03 am
by Norah
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Sat March 20, 2021 1:34 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Sat March 20, 2021 1:51 pm
by spike
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 11:46 pm
by Birds in Hell
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 1:32 am
by 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.
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 2:07 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 3:09 am
by Norah
no he dreams of being a viking you fucking dolt
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 3:10 am
by Jorge
tragabigzanda wrote: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
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 3:35 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 3:50 am
by 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?
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 11:44 am
by JuanHamm
Interesting. I always took it to mean he was good at sleeping as well.
I'll watch the video later.
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 12:14 pm
by wease
tragabigzanda wrote: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.
Re: The Simpsons
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 12:27 pm
by 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
