Simpsons - surely loved by all

[pointydog]

Just walked past the telly and the Scottish character was dressed as a frenchman in class saying "bonjourrrrrrrr" and I chortled heartily.

I'm sure this has come up on mn before, but if you don't like the Simpsons (and I can't imagine many won't) could you just tell me why?

I just can't think of any good reasons not to.

[BethAndHerBrood]

I must be in the minority then. I loathe it!!!

And the reason?? Just because I do!!!

[RTKangaMummy]

WE DEFFO DEFFO DEFFO HATE THE SIMPSONS

DREADFUL DREADFUL DREADFUL GRAPHICS

DS SORT OF WATCHES IT SOMETIMES COS HE SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY 11 YEAR OLD THAT DOESN'T BUT HE DOESN'T REALLY LIKE IT EITHER

[RTKangaMummy]

btw I know I was shouting but I really really really hate the SIMPSONS

[Wotzsaname]

I don't mind it BUT HATE HATE HATE Itchy & Scratchy

[Tinker]

Yes, I wondered this on teh taking kids to see Harry Potter thread (cinema boredom for me) - other option was teh Simpsons. Couldn't understand teh vitriol against the Simpsons

[PeachesMcLean]

Because it's on all the effing time and gets boring. There's only so much I can take.

[RTKangaMummy]

IMHO ALL CARTOONS FROM USA AND JAPAN ARE DREADFUL

THE GRAPHICS ARTWORK IS DREADFUL

Apart from DISNEY etc it is all dreadful

SOUTH PARK AND ALL OTHERS LIKE THAT ARE AWFUL

[Wotzsaname]

I like spongebob and I would like to live in his Pineapple Home.

[RTKangaMummy]

I must admit I have never seen SPONGEBOB

[zephyrcat]

I hate the Simpsons. I just don't get cartoons for adults!

[Tamum]

I don't often watch it but when I do there are some great jokes on it. I saw most of one about Homer having heart surgery recently and it was just brilliant.

[pointydog]

kanga, you were being a bit shouty yesterday I notice

You talk about the graphics but surely the obvious overwhelming achievement of teh SImpsons is the script?

[pointydog]

Think it's very unlikely you will like spongebob, kanga. Graphics, as per youge, are awful. AWFUL

[RTKangaMummy]

sorry i mn lying on the bed so one handed and so sometimes caps lock is on

[RTKangaMummy]

or I shout on purpose as per simspons

[pointydog]

that's not so bad then! You did sound in a bit of a rage

[RTKangaMummy]

my bumping is gobbdigook like hgfdcrdtres43q54eyfhfy5e546fjjk

cos it is kanga language



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[RTKangaMummy]

the last sentance is kangaboy's speaking

[RTKangaMummy]

ooooooooops kangaboy speaking

[peanutbutterkid]

It makes me laugh sometimes (DH is a fan), but... I really dislike the Simpsons. Find it trite, predictable, depressing, lots of gags at the expensive of characters that evidently can't help being so pathetic/sad/incapable. Makes me cringe. Where's the humour in characters with such hopeless lives?

I know someone hates the Simpsons because it's on Fox TV in USA, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch and has very biased right-wing bias news coverage, so all things FOX are tainted in his view. Also Fox owns the copyright to all things Simpsons and have huge fangs out for anybody that tries to use the slightest hint (like just 1 second or a picture) of one of their images -- even for charity or in low budget documentaries.

[pointydog]

that's interesting, peanut, your view that they have hopeless lives, that it's taking the piss.

I don't see that at all. I see it as very sympathetic to the hopelessness of life. But I recognise that that's how problems arise with different senses of humour.

[southeastastra]

20 years old today!

[pointydog]

huzzah!