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lsd said:
Nope some of them are every bit as good as their early classics but it's too trendy to say they are not funny anymore .
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Can you think of any examples of great recent episodes? I'd genuinely love to see them, I stopped watching new episodes ages ago,
 

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Would be interested as well to see what episodes are perceived as good as early classics. I've seen them all, and they are nowhere near close.
 

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The crossover memes on Instagram are so stupid but I love them so much :lol:
 

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I really think the appeal of The Simpsons is underrated. Okay the episodes/storylines aren't a patch on what they were but for someone who grew up with them it's a really, really easy watch. I can easily watch 3 in a row without even noticing that each episode isn't as good as episodes 20 years ago.
 

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Oscie said:
I really think the appeal of The Simpsons is underrated. Okay the episodes/storylines aren't a patch on what they were but for someone who grew up with them it's a really, really easy watch. I can easily watch 3 in a row without even noticing that each episode isn't as good as episodes 20 years ago.
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Yup, same here. I do think it has simply become "cool" to complain about todays The Simpsons - it is obivously not as good as it used to be (how could it after so long??) but it is, as you say, a very easy watch.
 

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Oscie said:
I really think the appeal of The Simpsons is underrated. Okay the episodes/storylines aren't a patch on what they were but for someone who grew up with them it's a really, really easy watch. I can easily watch 3 in a row without even noticing that each episode isn't as good as episodes 20 years ago.
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Season 10 was 20 years ago, sounds about right.
 

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I will unfollow this thread because of that scene, this is the last warning.
 

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You don't appreciate dank humour. You probably don't understand Rick and Morty either
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Love Rick and Morty watched it from start I just hate click bait garbage that only the idiots who make them could find funny this is thethe ***** thread either use real Simpson clips or nothing .
 

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Love Rick and Morty watched it from start I just hate click bait garbage that only the idiots who make them could find funny this is thethe ***** thread either use real Simpson clips or nothing .
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It's not really clickbate though, is it?
 

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INTERVIEW: BILL OAKLEY
We managed to get ahold of Bill Oakley to answer some questions, because I will take ANY opportunity to pester my writing heroes about utterly nonsensical memes they inspired. In case you didn't know, Oakley is the individual responsible for the "steamed hams" segment, and is thus responsible for the spread of this genre of shitpost. I wanted to know his feelings on the matter:

Have you ever heard of or seen "Simpsons shitposts"? Specifically the trend of mixed-reference shitposts? Sorry for typing "shitpost" so much.

Yes, I have seen hundreds and hundreds of them and I love almost all of them.

What's your take on Simpsons shitposting?

I think your analysis is spot-on. It is remixing references which have grown pretty tired after 20 straight years and putting them together in new and delightful ways. Actually my only quibble is that I don't think they are shitty so I think the term is a misnomer.

I agree that the term "shitpost" isn't really ideal for this subgenre, which feels like an honest-to-goodness art form, if a highly specific one. Maybe "fishbulbs"?

I like fishbulbs!

When you originally wrote the "steamed hams" sequence of 22 Short Films About Springfield, did you feel you had struck something meaningful?

No, I had no idea whether it was funny or not. I thought there was a possibility it might be terrifically unfunny, in fact. It was extremely self-indulgent of me to write the longest segment in the entire episode and not include a single "traditional" joke and I thought there was a huge possibility it might get cut. When I turned the script into Greg Daniels, who was coordinating the episode, I seem to recall he read through it without laughing once. And the table read was a pretty big failure at the time too. It seems to have gotten a lot more popular as time went on -- which I appreciate.

When did you start realizing "steamed hams" had become a legitimate meme unto itself?

I feel like I first noticed it three or four years ago, on Twitter and to a lesser degree on Facebook. Then when this happened about 18 months ago (https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/thousands-of-people-keep-asking-this-grocery-store). I knew the whole thing had taken off and since then it has been feeding on itself. I have a feeling "Inventor of Steamed Hams" is going to be on my tombstone now.

Do you have a favorite "steamed hams" meme, shitpost, or video? There are a ton - someone even turned the scene into a track in Guitar Hero.

My favorite one is the one my kids made me two years ago for Christmas, which is a live action reenactment of the entire segment, word for word and shot for shot, starring them. They even had steam coming out of Seymour's oven (my actual oven) for the flaming roast. However I am never putting this online because it shows how messy my house is.

Besides that one, I like the one where Seymour never answers the door and Chalmers just remains standing on the porch forever. But there are so many other good ones too, I just can't recall them at the moment.

However my favorite shitpost of all, which is not steamed hams-related, is the super-cut of the all the "You got the Dud" mash-ups which I believe it so incredibly hysterical it may have given me a slight brain aneurysm.

Have Simpsons Shitposts given you any deeper appreciation of old jokes that otherwise were semi-forgotten? Moe's "here's the 4-1-1" bit is now one of the MOST FREQUENTLY-CITED Simpsons jokes - a bit that wasn't even on most fans' radars before a few years ago.

I had no idea people liked the lemon stuff that much, or Kirk's drawing of dignity. And till you sent me this, I didn't think anyone remembered the "paint my chicken coop" bit.

Do you (or any other former/current Simpsons writers) send EACH OTHER these mash-up shitposts ever? Would love to know if anyone is sending these to John Schwartzwelder.

To my knowledge we don't send them to each other, no, but we might tag each other in them in twitter or cc' one another sometimes. Mainly for me it'd be Josh or Dan Greaney on Twitter, I am not in touch with most of the others

I have not communicated with Swartzwelder, I have no idea how one would send them to him other than tag or cc him on twitter as I suspect he does not own a cell phone or anything like that.

What's the next rich vein of Simpsons Shitposting people should be diving into? Moe's "Oh, dear god, NO!" from Bart's Comet? Homer's "It's pretty big...I guess." from Bart vs. Australia? Something completely different? In other words, what's your favorite Simpsons reference that you don't see get referenced ENOUGH?

I would like to see more Itchy & Scratchy stuff but I realize that's hard to mash-up. But I guess most of all I would like to see a lot more of the McCrary twins on their minibikes.
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Apologies if this one has already been posted. I see a lot of different versions have :lol:
 

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Was trying to explain the genius of the "Probably misses his old glasses" scene to my gf the other day (she's never really watched the Simpsons and yes I've told her it's a crime) and realised it doesn't really come across well when you just explain the scene to someone without showing it :lol: She was just like "ok."
 

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Solius said:
Was trying to explain the genius of the "Probably misses his old glasses" scene to my gf the other day (she's never really watched the Simpsons and yes I've told her it's a crime) and realised it doesn't really come across well when you just explain the scene to someone without showing it :lol: She was just like "ok."
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Meta humour at its finest that scene
 
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