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He was a character from a Warner Bros. animated movie!
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Mongrel wrote:Thad wrote:So remember how 20 years ago they put Jay Sherman in an episode of The Simpsons and Matt Groening was so incensed that he had his name removed from the credits and bitched to the press about it?
Uh, no, I don't actually remember that. What the hell does Groening have against the Sherman character?
A_Star_Is_Burns#Controversy wrote:Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, was a critic of the episode when it was first released. He felt that the crossover was a thirty-minute advertisement and blamed James L. Brooks, calling it an attempt to get attention for one of his unsuccessful shows. After unsuccessful attempts to get the episode pulled, he decided to go public with his concerns shortly before the episode aired. He stated that his reasons for doing so were that he hoped Brooks would have a change of heart and pull the episode, and that "articles began to appear in several newspapers around the country saying that [Groening] created 'The Critic.'" Groening had his name removed from the credits, so he does not receive his normal "created by" and "developed by" credits that air at the end of the opening sequence.
In response, James L. Brooks said "I am furious with Matt, he's been going to everybody who wears a suit at Fox and complaining about this. When he voiced his concerns about how to draw The Critic into the Simpsons' universe he was right and we agreed to his changes. Certainly he's allowed his opinion, but airing this publicly in the press is going too far. [...] He is a gifted, adorable, cuddly ingrate. But his behavior right now is rotten."
(Ellipes and brackets in original Wikipedia article. I've removed the citations, which all reference an LA Times article that doesn't appear to be available online.)
There's a bit in the commentary on A Star is Burns where Lovitz sarcistically refers to it as "Matt's favorite episode".
Lottel wrote:I actually really liked that episode because it showed you can be an unconventionally attractive person with weird interests (fat bald man who sings food jingles) like Homer and Jay are but if you treat people well, you can be happy and people will like you. Or you can be like Homer and... yeah.
It is a great fucking episode for a number of different reasons. Senor Spielbergo, "Don't cry for me, I'm already dead", "Barney's movie had heart, but football in the groin had a football in the groin" -- it is classic Simpsons on its own merits, with or without Jay.
Whereas last night's Family Guy crossover...well, I laughed in places, I cringed in others, and I've already forgotten most of it.
It sure did have a lot of references to things that were on The Simpsons 25 years ago! "Eat my shorts," prank phone calls to Moe's, Homer falling down Springfield Gorge...now, tempting as it is to make a joke that Family Guy is written by people who watched a few Simpsons episodes in the early 1990's, the current showrunner of Family Guy is Richard Appel, who wrote for Simpsons during seasons 7-10 (and named Homer's mother, Mona Simpson, after his wife), so it's a little weird that this episode threw in so many references that the show was already making fun of as outdated even back then.
The best bit was the middle-act twist where Homer discovers that Pawtucket Patriot Beer is just Duff with a different label slapped on it, and after a lengthy argument about whether it's just a pale, inferior imitation or a product that goes in its own direction and some people actually prefer and Duff's not even that good anymore, Judge Flintstone notes that both of them bear a striking resemblance to Bud Rock. Missed opportunity: I'd have loved to see them work Ralph Kramden in as a punchline on top of the punchline.
That said: there is absolutely no metric by which this was better in any way than A Star is Burns, and yet Matt Groening didn't have his name taken off it.
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Just wanted to mention that I watched the Family Guy/Simpsons crossover on an internet thing at work today and I could not recall a single thing about it besides how terribly these two went together. Style and tone were all over the place.
It actually brought out the worst in The Simpsons when they tried to meet each other halfway.
It actually brought out the worst in The Simpsons when they tried to meet each other halfway.
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Yeah, here's what Dennis Perkins on the AV Club said about it:
I can't bring myself to care enough to be "genuinely angry", but I definitely winced and gritted my teeth at every single one of those, and I'm pretty sure I actually said "Jesus CHRIST" when Homer's eye popped out of its socket.
The rant goes on for another paragraph, and it ends with this:
That's hard to argue with, really.
When Stewie jumps in on Bart’s prank phone call to Moe’s with a gleeful, “Your sister’s been raped!” When Meg, seeking companionship from Lisa, shows her gratitude for Lisa’s kindness by capping off a litany of her personal grotesqueries by carving Lisa’s name bloodily into her arm. When Stewie tries to get in good with Bart by ball-gagging and torturing Nelson (and Principal Skinner, Apu, Jimbo, and Sideshow Bob). When Peter and Homer’s fight ends up offhandedly injuring children and culminates in a bloody, tooth-detaching climax. When, in its very existence, the episode allowed Family Guy’s sensibilities to seep into The Simpsons’ universe, I felt myself growing genuinely angry.
I can't bring myself to care enough to be "genuinely angry", but I definitely winced and gritted my teeth at every single one of those, and I'm pretty sure I actually said "Jesus CHRIST" when Homer's eye popped out of its socket.
The rant goes on for another paragraph, and it ends with this:
These shows have different styles of comedy, fine. But only one of them is diminished for having been associated with the other.
That's hard to argue with, really.
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You mean Jay Sherman's not a real person?
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I was just watching Earthworm Jim (episode 3: Assault and Battery) and you know what? This show totally did the Bad Guy Therapy Session years before Wreck-It Ralph. They even have a noticeably similar Bad Guy Affirmation.
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De weeages of sin... is death. But! The hours are good!
EDIT: Eerily, this was my 666th post
EDIT: Eerily, this was my 666th post
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Jim Cummings does the greatest voice in history for Psy-Crow.
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Welp:
1. that was better than the Family Guy crossover
2. but not nearly as good as the Critic crossover
3. and I guess I didn't catch whether Groening took his name out of the credits, but given that he had veto power, if he DID take his name out of the credits it would have been a self-referential joke
4. and speaking of the credits, I saw Phil LaMarr's name but I don't remember Hermes having a single line.
ETA: Adding this so I can reference it later:
1. that was better than the Family Guy crossover
2. but not nearly as good as the Critic crossover
3. and I guess I didn't catch whether Groening took his name out of the credits, but given that he had veto power, if he DID take his name out of the credits it would have been a self-referential joke
4. and speaking of the credits, I saw Phil LaMarr's name but I don't remember Hermes having a single line.
ETA: Adding this so I can reference it later:
Oh nobody’s father who art nowhere, I know you can’t hear me, completely ignore this prayer. Nothing art thou and nothing will
thouever be. Jesus was just a man. A man.
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I don't know if anyone missed it or anything, but Bee and Puppycat started.
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Wait a minute, is that second one...
Steven Universe is seriously going all out for the 'best everything ever' award.
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That last one is just straight-up Sanic, too.
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Ever wanted to own a piece of Coraline or Paranorman? LAIKA is auctioning off puppets.
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Finally finished Mystery Inc.
I have very mixed feelings about the last 13 episodes, but couldn't help smiling at the ending.
I have very mixed feelings about the last 13 episodes, but couldn't help smiling at the ending.
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http://www.cmf-fmc.ca/press-room/articl ... en-summit/
ReBoot: The Guardian Code (Rainmaker Entertainment) presented by Michael Hefferon, follows the adventures of four typical teens whose lives are upgraded in a big way, when they discover they are next-gen Guardians - super cool heroes that stream into cyberspace so they can defend humanity from deadly computer viruses and malware.
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CLEANSE YOUR PALATE!
STEVEN UNIVERSE!
STEVEN BOMB!
[youtube]http://youtu.be/cwb2y51L4oE?t=57s[/youtube]
ffff. YOUTUBE TAAAGS!
STEVEN UNIVERSE!
STEVEN BOMB!
[youtube]http://youtu.be/cwb2y51L4oE?t=57s[/youtube]
ffff. YOUTUBE TAAAGS!
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Eh. That pitch for the ReBoot, uh, reboot is terribly written but the concept seems cool enough. ReBoot at its best was always more focused on world-building than making any damn sense so more stuff about who the Guardians are, what their command structure is like, etc. etc. etc. has potential.
Also obviously there's the big question of whether the world will still stay mired in early 90s IT concepts of if it will reflect the modern mobile-connected world more.
Also obviously there's the big question of whether the world will still stay mired in early 90s IT concepts of if it will reflect the modern mobile-connected world more.
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please use a terrifying digital recreation tony jay voice to play a bizarre corrupted megabyte
tia
tia
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Classic wrote:CLEANSE YOUR PALATE!
STEVEN UNIVERSE!
STEVEN BOMB!
[youtube]http://youtu.be/cwb2y51L4oE?t=57s[/youtube]
ffff. YOUTUBE TAAAGS!
Aaaand now I have to watch Stephen Universe.
Been kinda putting it off for a rainy day but lordy lordy
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