I'm not one to ever jump the gun on race card shit, but isn't that a little racist to Africanize cartoon characters that are otherwise somewhat ambiguously white? (I guess technically they're yellow, but culturally they appear to take on more or less white stereotypes and behaviors) .. Is it that different as if an ad touting Seinfeld reaching Angola featured all the characters in blackface? (Michael Richards puns notwithstanding)
@lobstr: I'd agree if I didn't know for a fact that (1) all Angolan little girls have beaded braids and (2) all Angolan families have crooked elephant pictures on their walls.
@Nice Beaver: The fact that it's crooked is just a reference to the Simpsons, but yes, a friend of a friend just came back from a trip to Angola and said it was pretty standard to have the elephant picture. It's sort of like those possum pictures everyone in the South has.
@nozer: What? I'm supposed to have a possum picture? Where do I get one?
Just giving you a hard time (though I honestly have no idea what a "possum picture" could refer to). I'm a Southern transplant anyway.
Simpsons stamps? Exellent. I already have Simpsons checks and address labels, so all I need now is a vile of Matt Groening's spit to seal the envelopes and my bill-paying process will be complete.
Um, does this mean this Brie person is no longer Pete's wife? 'Cause if it does this could mean interesting things for the show, and by interesting I mean, Peggy and the illegitimate child she denies/dreams of/wants to trap Pete with/not really. Yay?!
@The New No. 2: I had forgotten about that after Peggy's glorious and devastating Pete smackdown. So I am comforting myself that they will never get together even if Pete's wife is out of the picture.
Lately my wealthiest friend who derives her income from being the paramour of an M.D. who pays her to be the "President" of a failed, but still extant useless medical website has been sending me emails about Obama being a socialist and about how the housing crisis is Clinton's fault (Let's face it -- that was the most enduring blow job in history).
I don't know what she means by this in any way shape or form.
I do know that as "President" of this web concern she spends her time making cute little tschotskes for her adopted granddaughter. The granddaughter's mother is an MD and her father is an attorney. They are Korean and invited 300 people to her first birthday party.
Money is no object.
Oddly both of the MDs in this story derive the majority of their income from Medicare patients having obtained a state subsidized education in the UC system, but see taxing the wealthy as anathema.
Well, Good Times somehow balanced humor with poverty so I think that this is more jarring for the show's usual format. It would have been more fitting for King Of The Hill.
That picture of Marge crying is really doing a number on me right now. Seriously, that animated fictional character is breaking my heart. It's like that episode of Futurama with Fry's pet dog ... despite having seen it about 10 times, I always tear up at the end. Goddamn.
Richard, no one wants to see Marge cry like last night. Wasn't for laughs.
What about when Homer "left something" upstairs for the new owners, and we're meant to think it was something vile, but it was flowers and a card that said.
"Please love our home as much as we did."
Um, I really did tear up a bit at that. I don't think the whole episode was played for laughs, really. I agree with Everfade, it was trying to be contemporary, but yes, I also agree with you it was a downer.
But it's because we care about the characters, their dilemma- and the shelter etc-
maybe the ep. is a good way to show millions of people out there what families actually are going through, showing how awful it really is. It has to be leavened with humor, but I respect the attempt more than..just mindless entertainment we're flooded with.
(Like the dad on Family Guy being "injected with the gay gene" and becoming a prancing, lisping swish. Dear God.)
I didn't get to watch last night's episode of the Simpsons as our electricity ran out and I didn't have a quarter to make it run for another half hour.
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Just giving you a hard time (though I honestly have no idea what a "possum picture" could refer to). I'm a Southern transplant anyway.
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But if Matthew Weiner is like David Milch, when Brie's pilot fails, he won't take her back on the show.
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I don't know what she means by this in any way shape or form.
I do know that as "President" of this web concern she spends her time making cute little tschotskes for her adopted granddaughter. The granddaughter's mother is an MD and her father is an attorney. They are Korean and invited 300 people to her first birthday party.
Money is no object.
Oddly both of the MDs in this story derive the majority of their income from Medicare patients having obtained a state subsidized education in the UC system, but see taxing the wealthy as anathema.
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What about when Homer "left something" upstairs for the new owners, and we're meant to think it was something vile, but it was flowers and a card that said.
"Please love our home as much as we did."
Um, I really did tear up a bit at that. I don't think the whole episode was played for laughs, really. I agree with Everfade, it was trying to be contemporary, but yes, I also agree with you it was a downer.
But it's because we care about the characters, their dilemma- and the shelter etc-
maybe the ep. is a good way to show millions of people out there what families actually are going through, showing how awful it really is. It has to be leavened with humor, but I respect the attempt more than..just mindless entertainment we're flooded with.
(Like the dad on Family Guy being "injected with the gay gene" and becoming a prancing, lisping swish. Dear God.)
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But I haven't said anything funny on this site in weeks.
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