>talking shit with friends about how weird the Simpsons is now
>friend says that in ten years the Simpsons will be referencing shit like tiktok and pokemon go
>other friends mentions they already did a pokemon go episode
>we call bullshit
>friend show us the part of the episode
I can't believe this is real
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I was there when it premiered and I still can't believe it. Considering how good the A-plot was, it made for a very schizophrenic episode.
>Considering how good the A-plot was
I don't believe you
It was. The A-plot was about Bart gigoloing himself out to old ladies as a grandson-for-hire. Quite creative for that far into the show's run.
Pretty sure they made an roblox reference in some episode last season, and the episode isn't that half bad. But I mean, the show moves with the times also, you can't really expect them to keep making 90's pop culture references can you?
Modern simpsons is at it's worst when they make a few episodes decisions and jokes trying to cling to relevancy, like adding random celebrities or pretending they will have some major status quo change that leads to nothing. The episodes that make reference to modern stuff is to be expected, at least they add something new to the boring already exhausted dynamics.
except the episode was about a mechanic that isn't possible in Roblox.
The fact they made a parody of roblox was the right decision, god knows if this game will even be 1/10 as relevant in 3 years. Is about the premisse, not the IP attached to the premisse.
I remember playing roblox in 2007. I thought it was pretty neat then. I dont remember having to pay for costumes and games, that's pretty scummy how they do that to kids now
‘Marge Gamer’ is still the worst to me. I never asked for an MMO Simpsons episode and I don’t need this episode to be one, but the sheer cluelessness with which they approached this decade old stolen idea is just embarrassing.
How are anime parodies in this day and age still this far off the mark? Are the writers literally 80 years old and only acquainted with Astro boy? Even a DBZ joke would feel more timely than whatever this is.
Again, they got it really right last season with the death note parody. I don't think you guys realize this episode is like 6 years old, half a decade. You know how much things change in 6 years but is like you guys think this was made last week.
death note came out almost 20 years ago
And?
And you have made no coherent statement of fact while mentioning "6 years" repeatedly.
the last Death Note movie came out in 2017, they were probably reacting to that
Didn't they just steal the concept of the Death Note Simpsons crossover from a webcomic artist? I am pretty sure I remember reading that like 10 fricking years ago.
Really?
It was an official comic
I thought she just did fan comics. Well alright then.
She was a fanartist, drew the "all of Springfield crowds in" couch gag in anime style, it went viral, and Bongo hired her.
>I don't think you guys realize this episode is like 6 years old, half a decade
Death Note finished airing the English translated Anime while Bush was in office.
They "stole" it from the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 14 comic which came out in 2008.
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Take your meds bro.
The pokemon go episode is 6 years old, almost 7 actually. Not the show "Death note". I never even come close to talking about the age of the anime.
>I never even come close to talking about the age of the anime.
Pretty sure anon's point is "it's not a timely parody if you riff on Death Note" since the original post you linked was discussing how out of date Astro Boy and DBZ jokes are. And ultimately they're just delving into an award winning comic for their material, which kind of feels like desperation anyways.
Are you actually seeding all your friends from a discord group related to dyslexia or something? Is this some sort of tard raid? How so many people in a unique thread can misinterpret two line sentences this bad anyway?
Are you legitimately schizo? Why is a conspiracy theory necessary here? Why would a "raid" be happening around you right now?
I don't know, am I? Because you can not be this stupid and you are just pulling my leg. or you really don't know what irony is? Personally I like to think you are just a figment of my imagination.
I wasn't even one of the anons confusing your statement about which episode was 6 years ago, go soak your head and cool off.
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Anything for you, babe.
Sorry dog, learn to communicate better. The only antecedent in your post to your use of the pronoun "this" was the "death note parody". Three different people understood that as meaning you were talking about Death Tome not Mr. Goodbart.
I want you to breakdown exactly how anything in my sentence lead you to believe that. I'm serious. I'm reading this over and over again and the is nothing there that even leads to this conclusion.
Alright, fine.
>Again, they got it really right last season with the death note parody.
This implies the topic of the conversation you're leading with is Death Tome. Now it certainly doesn't make sense as a reply chain. First because it's not the subject of the post you're replying to. In fact you lead with the word "Again": suggesting this is a returning topic however no one in this thread up until your post mentioned or alluded to Death Tome.
>I don't think you guys realize this episode is like 6 years old, half a decade.
Which is legitimately nonsensical with the already explained antecedent. Your steam of consciousness carried the thought "Well Death Note was good |but the Pokemon episode|" without allowing distinction in subject. Following the first sentence with the antecedent of Death Tome. Which is not any number of years old. However the precedence in the same paragraph was "they got it really right... with the death note" so as a reader one connects these phrases and those who fail to assume our leap in logic understand a fallacious point being made. This read is not clarified and thus continues in your final sentence...
>You know how much things change in 6 years but is like you guys think this was made last week.
Leading from the understood previous sentences a reader has to try to rationalize a connection with an understood subject. In my case I assumed you were talking about how the Death Note Parody would hold up over time, while drawing a random timeframe to evoke that.
>This implies the topic of the conversation you're leading with is Death Tome. Now it certainly doesn't make sense as a reply chain.
No, it doesn't. I'm talking about the episode they are parodying, did you just selective ignore the fact that I was talking about the episode when it was right there after the death note name?
> without allowing distinction in subject.
The distinction is the full stop., because I ended talking about the death note parody and started another sentence talking about the pokemon parody. You have dyslexia, you are selective ignoring the word "episode" to make sense of this shit. At least you can score some ritalin, something I can do because i can read good.
>did you just selective ignore the fact that I was talking about the episode when it was right there after the death note name?
I couldn't "ignore it" because it wasn't clear that's what you had done.
>The distinction is the full stop
There is no distinction because you do not introduce the new subject in your new sentence.
>You have dyslexia, you are selective ignoring the word "episode" to make sense of this shit.
You I had to ignore several phrasing issues along with nonsequitors to come out with that read. But that isn't because I failed to read it's because you formatted your thoughts poorly and now trying to suggest the nonspecific subject of "this episode" could only possibly mean one thing, that is not included in your post as an antecedent.
This is your last English lesson.
Episode episode episode episode episode episode you are a fricking homosexual episode episode episode episode.
Can you tell me what the text above is about?
Even six years ago that "Haha anime" parody is dated.
This type of lol anime humor is circa 1998
At least the Mr. Sparkle episode was amusing, and mascot culture of Japan is on the mark. Pokemon Go was barely anime styled at all. It's like an editorial cartoon written by an elderly man who just plain doesn't get it.
It's very weird to me that we're still getting anime parodies that are taking pot shots at the bad Speed Racer and Godzilla dubs, and maybe Sailor Moon, but still largely informed by a view of anime that's half a century out of date.
The average 30 to 50 year old knows what anime is and probably grew up watching at least one show. Why are writers still pretending that anime is some weird niche interest and not something that aired internationally for decades and is now easily available on every streaming service in existence? Imagine if they did this shit with Rock and roll music and were still making jokes about Elvis shaking his hips suggestively.
Yeah, I remember kids taking potshots at these shows back on fricking newgrounds. It's surreal seeing mainstream media miss the boat for so long that kids were doing this like 10-15 years before them.
My best guess is that alot of current day animators grew up on the internet when anime was mocked, especially anyone who went to art school to draw some style. Basically a bunch of "cool kids" seething that anime is more popular then American animation.
I get it simpsons making those jokes. What surprises me is something like rick and morty doing those jokes with that summer godfather parody. Specially because they kinda did a much better (but unfunny) joke with rick and the two crows.
And the fact that anime now a days is just as cliché and full of weird shit also. There is a lot to make fun but no one ever does.
Rick and Morty could easily do a joke where they go to anime reality and hot high school girls are throwing themselves all over Morty because he looks like such a bland, boring normal guy to take the piss out of harem shows.
Yeah but then how else can we get incest jokes and women empowerment episodes?
Could also have it so that Morty realises that these girls' 'personality quirks' are legitimately dangerous. Like him getting thwacked by the tsundere and straight up getting a broken nose out of it.
Any animator/artist who was around in the late 90's is STILL bitter about Pokemon coming along and dominating the shit out of western animation. They have been struggling to get that sweet merchandise money since the TMNT craze. Suddenly Pokemon comes along with cheap animation and is selling everything from clothes to stuffed toys. Trading cards, video games, even one of the most popular mobile games ever.
All animators/artists since then are butthurt that anime/manga is still dominating, and they are stuck trying to force higher wages through their union while the studio heads are saying "why should we pay more when you guys can't compete with anime/manga?"
They are forced to acknowledge the existence of anime and manga, but they will never show it any respect.
What about all the shows that took cues from anime and appreciated it
That’s basically 99% of french animation.
>Guys this wacky show about Japanese weird fighting animals is making money!!!
Hell yeah!!
>Guys this wacky Japanese show about collecting and fighting weird animals is making money!!!
The fricking gall.
What's that? A show written by incompetent people that have no idea how to properly parody stuff got it wrong? What a surprise! There are plenty of shows that do it right, old and new, and that's because they have writers that know the material they're parodying. In 20 years you'll still see some shows doing it wrong. Hack writers gotta hack.
Fair point. It's just sad seeing Simpsons fail so hard at parody. I know it's been awful for years. I do. But seeing screenshots like OP still wound me, somehow.
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Does this really count as an anime reference though? Pokemon Go looks like that, that's what it is.
No, it really fricking doesn't. Simpsons by default looks more "anime" than these plain-ass motherfrickers.
Boomers, anon. For a good chunk of time, these people thought that fricking Speed Racer was what all anime was like, and that c**t came out in the sixties.
Why did they dress homer as Shazam?
Simpsons has always referenced current things. You just never noticed before because you watched it as a kid and didn't know what they were referencing.
>Simpsons has always referenced current things.
If by "current things" you mean half a decade or more after they were relevant, sure.
Come to think of it even golden simpsons usually referenced old things. It’s just now they’re considered old too so it comes off as being “behind the times” rather than flexing nerd pop culture knowledge
Things just used to last a lot longer before the internet. Just look at how horribly dated nunuFuturama's covid and crypto jokes are because they were literally last year's headlines.
You could argue it's also because things back then were objectively better and timeless, which is the reason why people still watch stuff like the Predator but nobody gives a shit about marvelslop movie 54 two weeks after release, but that's a whole other can of worms.
South Park was successful back in the day because it was piss easy to animate and episodes could be pumped out in weeks, striking while the iron was hot right when things started to become faster and faster.
>Simpsons has always referenced current things.
Simpsons has also always referenced maybe not "antiquated" things but definitely things that were not hot or topical.
The entirety of Troy McClure is one but in specific that Planet of the Apes musical was in an episode that came out 23 years after the last Planet of the Apes movie, and honestly 27 years after the specific Planet of the Apes movie, and only one anyone still cared about.
Some things never leave the cultural zeitgeist. Planet of the Apes was this major thing that lasted a long time and several movies. Pokemon Go feels like a flash in the pan in comparison. And it was. It was just a meme game that everyone loved for a time and then dropped.
>Planet of the Apes was this major thing that lasted a long time and several movies
Well that's where I'd cut against you. I feel like Planet of the Apes was infamous for its twist but I'd argue it had otherwise left the zeitgeist, though it hadn't slipped from consciousness or awareness... if it makes any sense to distinguish those two. The movies fell off into B movie status at least soon as Escape, the third one. The Apes comics weren't hit sellers to the point Marvel dropped the line. The live action TV show lasted half a season and was cancelled. The cartoon was a borderline Flintstone parody and even that finished its run 21 years before A Fish Called Selma.
I will maintain the joke about this wasn't just a hokey musical stage adaptation of a once-popular IP. But that Troy McClure was such an H-Lister that he was getting a career revival out of hokey musical stage adaptation of a tapped out once-popular IP from nearly 30 years ago.
Yeah, true, ultimately the point probably was Planet of the Apes was dated and hokey even in the 90's, and that Troy was all washed up (this was pretty core to the whole episode).
I think that just further contrasts this thing in the OP which was both too late and the subtlety of the parody is just hammered against audiences with an intelligence insulting point that "Anime is weird." Further missing the point was "Pokemon Go" was actually a western developed game using an IP people were quite well grounded with since the 90's. Trying to waive off Pokemon as this incomprehensible thing from Japan just shows how bad and out of touch the writers are.
Planet of the Apes was late 60's, which is the nostalgia point for the Simpsons, largely because of Homer and Marge's age.
Really, the closest older episode with a topical reference I can think of is the Lollapallooza one.
I feel like I keep getting dragged back down into this side of the issue I'm not interested in. Whether it was just a name out of a hat that would make for a silly musical or chosen because it's inherently lame itself isn't really of interest to the point I'm trying to make.
There's also a question as to what counts as a "reference" for our purposes.
Bonestorm could be any violent videogame but it's probably Mortal Kombat. Yet we don't see any of the game itself.
Treehouse episodes got close with Nightmare on Elm Street.
The Simpsons tackled the feud the Bushes... but that's talking about itself.
The Springfield Connection has homages to a lot of procedural and cop movies, and Speed was in the mix for about 4 seconds.
When Bleeding Gums Murphey died they made a reference to the Lion King which came out a year earlier which also joked about Kimba as part of a rapid fire gag.
Having an entire scene or B plot revolve around something is something more substantial than acknowledging a present thing.
>Speed
*The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down
The Planet of the Apes films aired pretty much all the time on cable during the '90s. Especially on the various Turner networks and Sci-Fi Channel.
At the time, Brain Guy and Professor Bobo weren't callbacks to things you only saw decades ago but references to movies you had a reasonable chance of coming across just randomly flipping around.
I thought that bit was poking fun more at the big broadway adaptations that were all the rage in the 80's like Cats
>TikTok
thanks, now I can go to sleep full of anger
oh my god I havent seen anything simpsons since the 90s and i'm so fricking mad
I think I'll just not click this one.
It’s Lisa and the other kids singing Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok”
Someone describe this for me, I'm not brave enough to endure whatever might be on that link
Imagine going from appearing in one of the most famous shows of all time to an internet furry cartoon.
what does this visual vomit have to do with anything?
She didn't appear in Simpsons, they just used her song.
Gaga appeared in Simpsons.
you finally aged out of the Simpsons
it's for younger people than you now, you boomer motherfricker
DO THE HOMER SHAKE
>>we call bullshit
>I can’t believe this is real
You can’t believe that The Simpsons, made a reference to something popular?
What? Are you moronic?
The more I look at Simpsons in general, the more I feel myself rot...
it finally happened