Quester
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Post by Quester on Jul 13, 2006 15:26:59 GMT -5
Yes t'was inevitable. Had to be done.
As inspired by another thread (y'all know the one). I have decided to let people post where they think Simpsons could go with new episode ideas. Be serious with this and.....aww what the heck you'll just go off topic and ruin it anyway. Yell the animated jaundice madness ensue:............
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joker51087
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Post by joker51087 on Jul 18, 2006 13:10:48 GMT -5
This may seem out of line, but maybe the Simpsons will take a new road and have some of their main characters age and change. For instance, they could have Bart go to the fifth grade and Lisa go to third (I know there was an episode where Lisa was skipped to third, but she went back to second at the end). They could also do more story involved seasons, like have Homer lose his job, but instead of making it one episode, keep it like that for awhile, maybe a whole season or two. Would anyone else like to see this?
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Post by HoM on Jul 18, 2006 13:16:53 GMT -5
Nope, because then it does away with the set concept of the series. I don't want to have to watch week after week of the show when I can just decide to watch it one week and not the next. They'd lose ratings as one of the pulls of the show is that they AREN'T long running storylines and the like.
Remember when Principal Skinner was revealed... Not to be Principal Skinner? The ending of that summed up the series quite well "And no one shall speak of this event again!" Or some such line spoken by the Judge.
That's my view, and I think maybe a lot of others.
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joker51087
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Post by joker51087 on Jul 18, 2006 13:22:34 GMT -5
That's true. I guess I didn't think much about that, and I like that Principal Skinner episode. Wasn't his real name Armin Tamzarian or something?
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Post by HoM on Jul 18, 2006 13:23:38 GMT -5
Tanzarian? Yeah, something like that.  |
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Post by darkknightdetec on Jul 21, 2006 22:14:28 GMT -5
The Simpsons ROCKS!!
Never in the long history of the Simpsons has there been any kind of change whatsoever, and I'd like to keep it that way.
Ever since the new creative team came to the Simpsons a few seasons back, the show just hasn't been that same. It's still been good, but the number of laughs per episode seems to have slumped a little, and that's not something you can do when you have a show like Family Guy airing a meare hour later. Not to say that the Simpsons should have the same style of humor as Family Guy, but the show does seem to slip a lot lately in terms of overall hilariousness.
Plus we have THE SIMPSONS MOVIE coming out in July of '07, so you never know what direction the series will go in after that.
Anyway, I think they could crack a few more jokes, but they should never, EVER, make the characters age. It shouldn't be an overly dramatic show, either, just something you are excited to watch because you know that you're in for a laugh.
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Post by Brandon on Jul 22, 2006 18:11:58 GMT -5
I don't think the SIMPSONS should progress timewise until the last episode, or maybe if they had a movie after the show ended. A lot of jokes could come from that.
I would say however that any concept is open-ended in terms of story. Look at Superman for example, he's been in print non-stop for a very, very long time. But the challenge is to have writers who can continually approach the stories with fresh ideas and not fall into cliches. With a parody show like Simpsons though, there should be an endless supply of source material, the question is can they continue to deliver it in a way that works without the humor becoming obvious.
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Post by HoM on Jul 23, 2006 5:48:49 GMT -5
I think a show hits a low when it insults something that has come after it, which bears similarities to it, for instance the Family Guy 'clone' thing which I've heard of, that's the show of a snipey writer trying to be funny by mocking something that has been inspired by it. People shouldn't do that, because that makes them look bad. |
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Post by brigante133 on Jul 23, 2006 22:02:33 GMT -5
no. it really doesn't because its one thing to be inspired, its another to take that same character and dress him up in another package because the idea is popular.
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Sam
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Post by Sam on Jul 24, 2006 17:10:20 GMT -5
I heard in an interview with Matt Groening on the radio that the last ever episode of the show will be marked with one of the characters undergoing a change and aging with it not being forgotten or retconned at the end of the show. There has been one concrete change though, Maud Flanders dying. She's still dead.
I don't really like the Simpsons as much any more, I have to say. I much prefer Futurama, I can sit and watch that till the cows come home.
<During the typing of this a small insect flew at me from out of my keyboard. I will now never state my dislike of the Simpsons ever again>
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