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  1. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Treehouse, terrorist ... Amazingly, but as with everything, The Simpsons have already done it.

     
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  2. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    But Trump was weird shit in diners too. But Hal the corn farmer said "that's exactly what 'Merica needs right now. he tells it like it is"
     
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  3. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  4. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think I’ll start a poll asking if Sounders’ encyclopedic knowledge of the Simpsons is more impressive, or disturbing.

     
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  5. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    1618731105049530368 is not a valid tweet id
     
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  6. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Only the first 9 years. After that I stopped paying attention.
     
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  7. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador
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  8. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  9. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Drinking? Oh, yes.

    I have never met any in Wisconsin who has ever gone to one of adult book stores along the highways.

    Same with the fireworks stores, often next to the adult book stores
     
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  10. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

    Jul 23, 2015
    Independent Republic of the Bronx, NY
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ghana
    There is one by me in Wheatfield and also a Third Base in. Buffalo but both have been closed for a while. There was one in Windsor, I drove past called Out and About.
     
  11. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

    Jul 23, 2015
    Independent Republic of the Bronx, NY
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ghana
    For Cereal it was Corn Flakes then we graduated to Kix. I rarely got any of the good ones

    @Belgian guy you hard about the Waterloo Skulls?
     
  12. Cris 09

    Cris 09 Trololololo

    Nov 30, 2004
    Westfalenstadion
    Club:
    Borussia Dortmund
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    I'd name my bar, "To Get Buzzed".
     
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  13. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    :eek:
    If he is, he probably won’t admit it.
     
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  14. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    We have much in common.
     
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  15. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    The thing is, I've heard more than a few younger people say something like they watched it for a decade until season 25 or whatever when it stopped being funny, and I'm starting to think The Simpsons is the constant and it's the people that change.
     
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  16. Pønch

    Pønch Saprissista

    Aug 23, 2006
    Donde siempre
    [​IMG]
     
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  17. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Mine would be DAFB - drink argue fight barf.
     
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  18. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    Olympia
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    It's incredible to think they have had 740 episodes or so. Given the show takes place within one year, they are now over 2 episodes occurring each day in their internal year.
     
  19. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    I don't know. I remember the first 9, 10 seasons being hilarious as hell. Season 11 hits and it was alright, it did give us Stupid Sexy Flanders. But then as the show goes on, it just gets worst. And there is something to be said for comedic quality. There's a compilation I saw somewhere of Johnny Tightlips, and you can tell the jokes start funny then just slowly get worse.
     
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  20. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
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  21. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I watched a recent-ish episode not terribly long ago, and it was...fine. Amusing enough, no unkind or cringe humor, didn't make me laugh out loud, and totally forgettable. But a reasonably amusing 20-odd minutes of TV comedy.
     
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  22. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Paul Pelosi skull-bashing video released

     
  23. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    I've erased a few responses to this line of discussion, but I think what I want to say is that in the late 80's/early 90s, there was still a non-fragmented culture that the show could tap into. The Simpsons itself became a huge part of the culture. My siblings and I spoke to each other largely in Simpsons quotes, and one of my brothers and I spent a whole summer swapping VHS and catching OTA broadcast to assemble our own complete set of "mix tapes" of the first 7-8 seasons.

    Around season 9, they ditched the whole premise of Homer working at the power plant, and it became more of a "let's see what crazy things Homer & the Simpsons get into this week!" It had to evolve, because how do you go 30 seasons in the same paradigm? However, along with the fragmentation of culture, I also became unmoored to the Simpsons universe.

    It's a fine show. I don't watch.

    I think South Park started out as a pretty crass and pointless cartoon, albeit groundbreaking. About the time The Simpsons started to fall apart for me, their writing and social commentary became wickedly funny. (Major Boobage was just an amazing episode!) However, I just haven't ever felt like I was missing something if I didn't catch an episode. I think it's because the humor is a bit biting and cruel, and it isn't as fun to live in that space.

    I'm not going to watch that either.
     
  24. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    I was a fan for a year or so, but I figured out that the show's underlying philosophy was "if you try to do or believe anything, you are a moron".
     
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  25. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

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