"Yoink!"
-Jasper Johns

I smell a community college Fine Arts course

I don't get why we don't just link to the site that has all the examples instead of a tiny article telling us about a site with all the examples.

/stupid gif size restrictions

browntimmy: I don't get why we don't just link to the site that has all the examples instead of a tiny article telling us about a site with all the examples.

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And this guy's head of the Spaceology Department at the Correspondence College of Tampa!

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"Le grill"? What the hell is that?!?

That's one of the under appreciated great moments in Simpsons history with Homer trying to assemble a brick grill. AGGGGGGGGGH!

They forgot the famous, "Botched Hibachi".



The tricycle is on loan from the Maggie Simpson collection.

Pretty cool, but why'd they have to use such tiny pictures?

AlwaysRightBoy: I've never really watched this show, is it funny?

//I mean, who hell watches cartoons

The first six or so seasons of The Simpsons are worth buying.

I like cartoons in they help me to suspend disbelief while bieng entertained (hopefully) by the writing.

Really, is Two and a Half Men any more real? It sure as hell isnt as smart as most animated shows.

TomD9938: The first six nine or so seasons of The Simpsons are worth buying.



ftfy, even if season 9 isn't as good as the preceding seasons.

After a decade...it's probably time to kill it.

Haven't personally watched it in years, though I'm sure I'm a perfect example of every demographic and all.

Family guy isn't very funny anymore either. Neither is SNL. Maybe it's just me. I still like the monty python show skits, and American Dad and Southpark still make me chuckle.

"Mom and Pop Art" is one of the best episodes ever made. Nice find, subby. Plus un.

/art and art history geek
//Simpsons nerd
///"Museum Noises" made me laugh way, way, way too hard

TheManofPA: FeedTheCollapse: TomD9938: The first six nine or so seasons of The Simpsons are worth buying.



ftfy, even if season 9 isn't as good as the preceding seasons.

Personally, I go Seasons 1-6 as the golden age with 7-9 as smart and still top tier, 10,11,12 are good/above other shows with 13 being the one with cracks. Seasons 14-16 are the ones that people use as references that the show should have died years ago (they are weak seasons but not as bad as most of the dreck around). Season 17-18 the show starts to recover. Seasons 19-current are close to 11/12 (hard to tell because we've had years to memorize lines from 11-12), maybe right below. The hard part is they've covered so much territory that it is hard to cover new ground.

The movie I put up there with seasons 7-9. I mean come on "General Marriot Suites, clap for Alaska, that crazy old man from church was right" are all good lines.

I do think The Simpsons movie is the best show was in a looooong time.

That said, I kind of disagree with your timeline:

Season 1 is good, but doesn't hold up well at all. Some of the emotional moments are melodramatic and the animation is mixed.

Seasons 2 and 3 are a massive improvement over season 1 and are only slightly worse than season 4 - 8. Still a bit melodramatic, but the animation is indistinguishable from season 4-8.

Seasons 4 - 8 is where Simpsons gets its reputation for best show ever. Humor is top notch and the emotional moments are finely mixed in with the humor. Seasons 7 and 8 have many very good episodes easily on par with the 2 previous seasons.

Season 9 is good, but uneven. Oddly enough, the Mike Scully (who ran seasons 10-12) episodes are great while the episodes headed by past showrunners (including current showrunner Al Jean) aren't nearly as good.

Seasons 10-12 is where the wheels on the show really came off. some good episodes/moments in the mix, but some really bad episodes/moments as well. Lots of episodes start of good, but crap out towards the end or vice versa. I'm wondering if the dip has to do with The Simpsons starting to get competition among other animated shows (i.e. Futurama, South Park, and to a lesser extent Family Guy)

Season 13-onward is just bland to me. It doesn't have as many bad moments as season 10-12 did (Though the episode with Ted Nugent recently was one of the worst they've had in years), but it also doesn't have the good episodes either. I watch it because I have a DVR, but I probably wouldn't bother otherwise.

Gummy venus de milo?

Sweet sweet can

FeedTheCollapse: Season 13-onward is just bland to me. It doesn't have as many bad moments as season 10-12 did (Though the episode with Ted Nugent recently was one of the worst they've had in years), but it also doesn't have the good episodes either. I watch it because I have a DVR, but I probably wouldn't bother otherwise.

to append:

I think Simpsons now feels like 2 separate camps running the show: the standard writers/showrunners and a Lindsey Naegle-esque committee trying to "synergise the show's paradigm." The results are a show that feels like your parents trying to sound cool by using modern jargon/references. Sadly, I think the former camp has just as much blame for the Meh quality of the show now.

How could they miss this fine art gem?

FeedTheCollapse: FeedTheCollapse: Season 13-onward is just bland to me. It doesn't have as many bad moments as season 10-12 did (Though the episode with Ted Nugent recently was one of the worst they've had in years), but it also doesn't have the good episodes either. I watch it because I have a DVR, but I probably wouldn't bother otherwise.

to append:

I think Simpsons now feels like 2 separate camps running the show: the standard writers/showrunners and a Lindsey Naegle-esque committee trying to "synergise the show's paradigm." The results are a show that feels like your parents trying to sound cool by using modern jargon/references. Sadly, I think the former camp has just as much blame for the Meh quality of the show now.

Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that....I'm fired, aren't I?

Good find subby!

Baryogenesis: How could they miss this fine art gem?

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Can I play the piano anymore?

Using Rockwell as an inspiration isn't unique to the Simpsons. A page from one of our comics:



First panel inspired by the artist's favorite Rockwell.

/shameless plug

Today's college freshmen class don't remember a time when The Simpsons was funny.

TomD9938: AlwaysRightBoy: I've never really watched this show, is it funny?

//I mean, who hell watches cartoons

The first six or so seasons of The Simpsons are worth buying.

I like cartoons in they help me to suspend disbelief while bieng entertained (hopefully) by the writing.

Really, is Two and a Half Men any more real? It sure as hell isnt as smart as most animated shows.

It's sort of the 1970's Road Runner cartoon of sitcoms.

AlwaysRightBoy: propasaurus: AlwaysRightBoy: I've never really watched this show, is it funny?

/once in a blue moon , I see people post pics
//I mean, who hell watches cartoons

// I quit after Tom and Jerry

Wow, you are the coolest guy in here.

Not at all. I'm just fascinated that a lot of Farkers illustrate their points by posting cartoons of the Simpsons, Family guy etc.

Well I'm going to blow your mind then, because I'm going to explain that concept by referencing yet another TV show. We do it because, "(the) Simpsons did it!" (from South Park).

There probably is some deeper meaning to it, something about shared experiences through popular culture or some crap like that, but really it just comes down to the fact that The Simpsons has been on for 23 years, and has aired nearly 500 episodes (about half of which are the funniest, sharpest and most clever satire of it's generation).

And during that time they've managed work in references to hundreds of movies, songs, other TV shows, celebrities, historical events, and as evidenced by this article, even famous works of art. You name it, The Simpsons has probably referenced it. Of course these references are often buried in the episodes, because they usually have no bearing on the plot whatsoever, it's just the writers are working in their own clever winks to the audience to see if they'll notice.

Originally The Simpsons was just a mirror, reflecting pop culture back at it's audience in clever way, but it's been on so long, that now The Simpsons is pop culture. It's all of it, the whole thing. And it's ingrained in the generation that grew up in the 90s. For about 5 to 7 years, it was simultaneously the funniest, best-written, and most critically acclaimed show on TV. So when nerds like us who grew up with it make references to it, we don't see it as just referencing some dumb TV show to make a point, it's like we're saying, "I get where you're coming from, we both saw that one episode of The Simpsons where they did that thing we're talking about, and remember how great that was?".

Or something. Wow, I really shouldn't post on Fark after this many shots of rum. What the fark was I talking about again? Oh yeah, The Simpsons kicks ass man, if you got a problem with that then we're going to have to fight.

JosephFinn: Baryogenesis: How could they miss this fine art gem?

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Can I play the piano anymore?

Of course you can!

MrEricSir: Today's college freshmen class don't remember a time when The Simpsons was funny.

Tell me about it. The Simpsons hasn't been funny since Matt Groening showed his character sketches to that second PA at the Ullman show.

I flip my hair in disgust at you posers.

Snooty Simpsons remark

/has seasons 1-16 on the computer
//boxed sets are a fortune of $

AlwaysRightBoy: Passive Aggressive Larry: AlwaysRightBoy: propasaurus: AlwaysRightBoy: I've never really watched this show, is it funny?

/once in a blue moon , I see people post pics
//I mean, who hell watches cartoons

// I quit after Tom and Jerry

Wow, you are the coolest guy in here.

Not at all. I'm just fascinated that a lot of Farkers illustrate their points by posting cartoons of the Simpsons, Family guy etc.

Well I'm going to blow your mind then, because I'm going to explain that concept by referencing yet another TV show. We do it because, "(the) Simpsons did it!" (from South Park).

There probably is some deeper meaning to it, something about shared experiences through popular culture or some crap like that, but really it just comes down to the fact that The Simpsons has been on for 23 years, and has aired nearly 500 episodes (about half of which are the funniest, sharpest and most clever satire of it's generation).

And during that time they've managed work in references to hundreds of movies, songs, other TV shows, celebrities, historical events, and as evidenced by this article, even famous works of art. You name it, The Simpsons has probably referenced it. Of course these references are often buried in the episodes, because they usually have no bearing on the plot whatsoever, it's just the writers are working in their own clever winks to the audience to see if they'll notice.

Originally The Simpsons was just a mirror, reflecting pop culture back at it's audience in clever way, but it's been on so long, that now The Simpsons is pop culture. It's all of it, the whole thing. And it's ingrained in the generation that grew up in the 90s. For about 5 to 7 years, it was simultaneously the funniest, best-written, and most critically acclaimed show on TV. So when nerds like us who grew up with it make references to it, we don't see it as just referencing some dumb TV show to make a point, it's like we're saying, "I get where you're coming from, we both saw that one episode of The Simpsons where th ...

You sir, explained it very well. No need for fistacuffs.

Simpsons did it

Passive Aggressive Larry: AlwaysRightBoy: propasaurus: AlwaysRightBoy: I've never really watched this show, is it funny?

/once in a blue moon , I see people post pics
//I mean, who hell watches cartoons

// I quit after Tom and Jerry

Wow, you are the coolest guy in here.

Not at all. I'm just fascinated that a lot of Farkers illustrate their points by posting cartoons of the Simpsons, Family guy etc.

Well I'm going to blow your mind then, because I'm going to explain that concept by referencing yet another TV show. We do it because, "(the) Simpsons did it!" (from South Park).

There probably is some deeper meaning to it, something about shared experiences through popular culture or some crap like that, but really it just comes down to the fact that The Simpsons has been on for 23 years, and has aired nearly 500 episodes (about half of which are the funniest, sharpest and most clever satire of it's generation).

And during that time they've managed work in references to hundreds of movies, songs, other TV shows, celebrities, historical events, and as evidenced by this article, even famous works of art. You name it, The Simpsons has probably referenced it. Of course these references are often buried in the episodes, because they usually have no bearing on the plot whatsoever, it's just the writers are working in their own clever winks to the audience to see if they'll notice.

Originally The Simpsons was just a mirror, reflecting pop culture back at it's audience in clever way, but it's been on so long, that now The Simpsons is pop culture. It's all of it, the whole thing. And it's ingrained in the generation that grew up in the 90s. For about 5 to 7 years, it was simultaneously the funniest, best-written, and most critically acclaimed show on TV. So when nerds like us who grew up with it make references to it, we don't see it as just referencing some dumb TV show to make a point, it's like we're saying, "I get where you're coming from, we both saw that one episode of The Simpsons where th ...

This is very well said. Kids who grew up in the 90s...watching this show, it just has a huge meaning for my life, as I'm sure other formative programs did for people of those generations.

My brother (who is 29) and myself (who is 31) would literally spend an hour during a road trip with our family just quoting funny Simpsons lines to each other in the backseat. Often complete non sequiturs , he would merely bring up something from Episode X, we'd go off about it , crack up, and then our memory would be jogged by a different episode. Often characters like Lionel Hutz, Chief Wiggum, or groundskeeper Willy just had terrific lines.

Lou: "All right, your current location?
Wiggum: "Oh, uh, I'm, er, I'm on a road. Uh, looks to be asphalt...oh, geez, trees, shrubs...er, I'm directly under the earth's sun...now!"

Come on, that's comedy gold

The Simpsons continues to be clever.

The show didn't get stupid, you did.

I hardly watch the Simpsons, ever, but knowing it's still on the air, and still making new episodes is strangely comforting. Like, if the show stopped making new shows, TV wouldn't be the same, even if I don't actively watch TV.

Kinda like how you might hardly see or interact with an old uncle, for various non-negative reasons, that you used to like as a kid but if they were to pass on (at the age of 90-something), in addition to the loss there's the feeling life is now irrevocably different despite the fact your interaction with them has long been absent.

stoli n coke: MrEricSir: Today's college freshmen class don't remember a time when The Simpsons was funny.

Tell me about it. The Simpsons hasn't been funny since Matt Groening showed his character sketches to that second PA at the Ullman show.

I flip my hair in disgust at you posers.