1. Comment #28696 by shetlandforpeace on March 30, 2007 at 12:18 pm

Doh, I know the feeling.

Marvelous stuff - love The Simpsons.

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2. Comment #28703 by Devolution on March 30, 2007 at 12:40 pm

hahaha Wow! Best intro ever! I love how Moe "Devolves" into a rat.

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3. Comment #28722 by anotherclinton on March 30, 2007 at 1:56 pm

Wish it had been Rev. Lovejoy or Ned instead of Moe.

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4. Comment #28743 by Yorker on March 30, 2007 at 3:06 pm

I use the Simpsons as a yardstick. Every time I meet someone new, I ask if they like the Simpsons, if they say "no" I don't ask anything else.

If I had to cut a character, I would ditch "Krusty", but the rest are indispensible!

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5. Comment #28748 by macronencer on March 30, 2007 at 3:30 pm

Yorker, I'm kind of with you, but I first find out whether they've given it a chance, because I didn't at first. For several years I couldn't get past the way they were drawn. Then my cultural tastes broadened a little and I began to watch - instant hit with me.

Of course, now I don't have a TV, and this is one show I do miss a little :(

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6. Comment #28749 by shetlandforpeace on March 30, 2007 at 3:39 pm

Yorker, no, Krusty's great!

Favourite quote (from memory); "Jimi Hendrix said he plotzed on it. His actual words."

Not being Jewish/Yiddish/New Yorker/American I don't know what the word means, or even if I've got the right word. But I laughed really loud at the thought of a Jewish Jimi.

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7. Comment #28750 by Shuggy on March 30, 2007 at 3:40 pm

Of course, this is the version of evolution the creationists mock (and it leaves out natural selection). Maybe if the original Homerunculus had diversified into Homeresque plants, Homersauruses, etc as well as the true Homer....

But it's very funny in its own right.

(The music is familiar: what is it?)

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8. Comment #28753 by Planeswalker on March 30, 2007 at 4:07 pm

Yay, The Simpsons!

Wish it had been Rev. Lovejoy or Ned instead of Moe.

That would have been pretty evil >:D

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9. Comment #28754 by shetlandforpeace on March 30, 2007 at 4:11 pm

I also love Lisa's aspirations towards a world based on logic. Why do we have a 24-hour day? Who says a week has 7 days?

But you must admit, South Park, Family Guy and American Dad are better.

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10. Comment #28761 by Civilized Worm on March 30, 2007 at 4:49 pm

The last two series of South Park have been very dissapointing and Family Guy has sucked since they brought it back, at least the Simpsons only started to suck around series 10.

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11. Comment #28764 by Shuggy on March 30, 2007 at 5:01 pm

shetlandforpeace:

Why do we have a 24-hour day? Who says a week has 7 days?

Before good artificial lighting, day and night were far more distinct, so instead of thinking about a 24-hour day, they thought about a 12-hour day and a 12-hour night, and 12 is that smallest number that can be divided into both quarters and thirds (though their hours would grow longer and shorter with the seasons - not so much towards the equator).

I think the 7-day week has to do with some mystical/numerological power they gave the number seven. Or maybe it was the smallest number they could economically afford a day off. I'm pretty sure the story about God resting was back-formed from that.

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12. Comment #28767 by shetlandforpeace on March 30, 2007 at 5:07 pm

Hi Shuggy.

You should try living in Shetland. We'll have 24-hour daylight in about 6 weeks' time.

There's a creationist joke in there somewhere but I can't think of it at this time of night.

;)

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13. Comment #28769 by kcjerith on March 30, 2007 at 5:44 pm

You know I love the first 7-8 seasons (give or take) of Simpsons, but the last several years (more like 6 or 7) have been hit and miss at times, not to say they aren't good, but they have to seem to have lost there bite. Maybe because they are a show that has been on so long that it is hard to explore new plot lines. Maybe it is because family guy, south park and the shows on adult swim (Go team Venture!) has made them seem tame.

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14. Comment #28775 by Yorker on March 30, 2007 at 6:35 pm

5. Comment #28748 by macronencer

Yes, the early drawings were less attractive. I would really like to know if I'm the only guy who finds Marge sexy? :)

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15. Comment #28776 by ao9news on March 30, 2007 at 6:38 pm

I don't think The Simpsons compare to Family Guy, if only because they are vastly different. To me, Family Guy is better, but maybe not for others. The Simpsons tries to be too preachy and please everybody, and only a few jokes are really good.

The Evolution clip of Family Guy was better, and more to the point:



Family Guy, in contrast, tries to be as absurd as possible, and I love that, and that's what it's critics complain about, that there's no "plot". Screw plot, give us more stuff like this:





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16. Comment #28780 by Raigen on March 30, 2007 at 7:13 pm

The thing about The Simpsons as well was that one episode they ran when Lisa found the "Angel" Skeleton, remember that? Oddly enough that episode had some rather low-key "faith is a good thing" undertones to it, upon recollection.

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17. Comment #28783 by Robert Maynard on March 30, 2007 at 7:44 pm

But dude, that episode was awesome.
It guest starred Stephen Jay Gould!

I'll restrain from trying to recall all the neat points and themes in there, but Lisa's skepticism was ultimately the big one, along with the general absurdity of the towns feverish belief in the angel, which was then easily converted to feverish consumer lust. :P
It was thematically pretty similar to the 'miracle' of Maude's statue at Praiseland.

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18. Comment #28797 by karlJ on March 31, 2007 at 12:40 am

I wonder what it is with that Simpson cartoon. I frequently find myself rather choose watching an old episode that I have seen several times before over the news or some other "important" informative program.

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19. Comment #28799 by Vadjong on March 31, 2007 at 12:55 am

Almost exactly Fat Boy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now" video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucs6kKHxfz0

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20. Comment #28802 by wice on March 31, 2007 at 1:46 am

6. shetlandforpeace:
http://www.babylon.com/definition/plotz/Dutch

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21. Comment #28804 by fatcitymax on March 31, 2007 at 2:06 am

http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/poitier/135/thermo.wav

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22. Comment #28805 by shetlandforpeace on March 31, 2007 at 3:01 am

Hey Wice! You're a star.

I'm going to start dropping in 'the word' wherever I can now.

A happy man! ;-)

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23. Comment #28814 by IceFreak2000 on March 31, 2007 at 3:58 am

I loved both the Simpsons and the Family Guy evolution clips, but the clip that still has me howling with laughter every time I see it is the Guinness 'Evolution' advert.

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24. Comment #28815 by Planeswalker on March 31, 2007 at 4:01 am

Almost exactly Fat Boy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now" video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucs6kKHxfz0

Nice. I just understand why it starts by saying "For 350 billion years ago..." That seems a little too long ago?

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25. Comment #28949 by Rick777 on March 31, 2007 at 8:11 pm

Bahah! Loved the family guy bit with God and his roomie. I have full cable ,but I don`t watch tv much anymore ,except for "Myth Busters" on the Discovery channel ,and the occasional good doc.

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26. Comment #28979 by WayneMV on April 1, 2007 at 2:28 am

What are you guys talking about? That Simpson's intro didn't have the slightest thing to do with actual evolution. This is the sort of mischaracterization of evolution I would expect to see from creationists, not from the Simpsons or Richard Dawkins. (And I second Shuggy's comment above.) Misinformation like that is a big part of why the general public in the US has trouble understanding evolution as a process - the majority of the time evolution is referred to in popular TV shows, the context is actually of some sort of impossible metamorphosis having nothing at all to do with actual evolution.

At least it is not as bad as the citing of "evolution" to explain the superpowers of the characters on the show heroes. Can't the writers of such shows find a better way to frame their stories without maligning science in the process?

Well, I love other aspects of both the Simpsons and Heroes enough to forgive them on this. But it still annoys me.

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27. Comment #28992 by MagratGarlick on April 1, 2007 at 5:15 am

I think the 7 day week is probably a quarter of a lunar month. It would also be one of the moon's distinct phases. New moon to half-moon, half to full, full back to waning half and then back to new moon again.

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28. Comment #29043 by vdubmatt on April 1, 2007 at 10:17 am

Our weeks do have to do with the lunar cycle. Also the days are named after the seven "heavenly" bodies known before telescopes. Monday=moon, Tuesday(Martes)=Mars, Wednesday(Miercoles)=Mercury, Thursday(Jueves)=Jupiter, Friday(Viernes)=Venus, Saturday=Saturn, and Sunday=Sun.

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29. Comment #29152 by roach on April 1, 2007 at 10:32 pm

The Simpsons Seasons 2-10 are better than anything Family Guy will ever produce. This is a fact.

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30. Comment #29205 by Philip1978 on April 2, 2007 at 4:30 am

I say and KNOW both are good because the TV Guide says so, DONT QUESTION THIS, for the word of the TV GUIDE is the Truth!
They both have their different merits, both make me howl with laughter and until they stop doing that I will keep watching it all, woo hoo!

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31. Comment #29629 by jh on April 3, 2007 at 5:14 pm

"Also the days are named after the seven "heavenly" bodies known before telescopes."

In english most of them are named after Norse Gods. Tiu's day, Woden's day, Thor's day, Frig's day.

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