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Telly addicts

Simpsons - surely loved by all

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pointydog · 19/04/2007 18:09

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.

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BethAndHerBrood · 19/04/2007 18:29

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

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

RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 18:53

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 · 19/04/2007 18:54

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

Wotzsaname · 19/04/2007 18:57

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

Tinker · 19/04/2007 18:59

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 · 19/04/2007 18:59

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

RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 18:59

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 · 19/04/2007 19:02

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

RTKangaMummy · 19/04/2007 19:03

I must admit I have never seen SPONGEBOB

zephyrcat · 19/04/2007 19:03

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

Tamum · 19/04/2007 19:04

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 · 20/04/2007 17:20

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?

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FioFio · 20/04/2007 17:21

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pointydog · 20/04/2007 17:21

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

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RTKangaMummy · 20/04/2007 17:28

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

RTKangaMummy · 20/04/2007 17:29

or I shout on purpose as per simspons

pointydog · 20/04/2007 17:30

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

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RTKangaMummy · 20/04/2007 17:40

my bumping is gobbdigook like hgfdcrdtres43q54eyfhfy5e546fjjk

cos it is kanga language

l,mklj;n pijjk;m uipjhniukjn

RTKangaMummy · 20/04/2007 17:41

the last sentance is kangaboy's speaking

RTKangaMummy · 20/04/2007 17:41

ooooooooops kangaboy speaking

peanutbutterkid · 20/04/2007 17:46

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 · 20/04/2007 19:51

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.

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southeastastra · 20/04/2007 19:52

20 years old today!

pointydog · 20/04/2007 19:54

huzzah!

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