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    08/18/09

    In reply to Angolan Simpsons, Revealed
    I don't want to know what happened to Snowball 2.
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    Image of bens bens
    08/18/09

    In reply to Angolan Simpsons, Revealed
    This looks like a t-shirt sold at a fair circa '92. You know, the one next to Bugs Bunny smoking a joint.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    08/18/09

    @bens: Yabba dabba doobie!
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Angolan Simpsons, Revealed
    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)
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    08/18/09

    @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.
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    08/18/09

    @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.
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    Image of SybilDisobedience SybilDisobedience
    08/18/09

    @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.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/18/09

    @nozer: That wasn't a picture of a possum. You should probably get checked for rabies.
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    Image of Inhaler Inhaler
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    ..but The Simpsons stopped being funny about 10 years ago. Sheesh.
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    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    If James Franco shaves his armpits in a hotel bathroom, but no one is there to photograph it ...
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    Image of GooberSaysHey GooberSaysHey
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    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.
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    Image of jackvinyl jackvinyl
    04/01/09

    @GooberSaysHey: vile indeed.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    Wow, every day lately, this feature seems to include at least one picture of a shirtless actor.
    Thank you, Richard.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    04/01/09

    @Kid Twist: I do my best.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    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?!
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    04/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I hope not! That would be jumping the shark if they actually get together, especially after the Season Two finale.


    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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    Image of The New No. 2 The New No. 2
    04/01/09

    @Lizawithazee: I'm pretty sure Pete's wife was leaving him in the season finale when she went back to her parents' home.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    04/01/09

    @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.
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    Image of Mediokra Mediokra
    04/01/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I don't think Pete's wife is good at acting. At all. She has projection-y theatre voice.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    04/01/09

    In reply to Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
    Wanda Sykes can do no wrong in my book. Especially since she outed her sweet sassy self. I want to live with her.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    03/10/09

    In reply to How Much Can We Laugh about the End of the World?
    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.

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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    03/09/09

    In reply to How Much Can We Laugh about the End of the World?
    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.
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    Image of Mediokra Mediokra
    03/09/09

    In reply to How Much Can We Laugh about the End of the World?
    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.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    03/09/09

    In reply to How Much Can We Laugh about the End of the World?
    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.)

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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    03/09/09

    In reply to How Much Can We Laugh about the End of the World?
    I am heartened to see the former media elite (citation needed) become class warriors, instead of Waverly Inn habitues.


    But I haven't said anything funny on this site in weeks.

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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    03/09/09

    In reply to How Much Can We Laugh about the End of the World?
    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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