Watching this video made me realize that Spongebob is probably the children's equivalent of The Simpsons. Like The Simpsons, Spongebob had a few brilliant initial seasons, was allowed to exist far past the point of relevancy or quality (still going after 20 years), and has an active meme culture that is almost exclusively dedicated to those first few brilliant seasons.
Season 1: Homer gets fired from his job and goes from a big enough depressive episode for him to want to attempt suicide. Then a truck almost hits his wife due to the absence of a street sign so Homer decides to devote his life to making his town a safer place and in he end he gets rehired as his job's safety inspector(of sector 7-G) Season 30: Homer plays Leauge of Legends and does the Floss
season 33: homer is cancelled and goes on a heist mission to get rid of the the post that exploited him; also he’s just a real sweetheart these days, he doesn’t even strangle his only son anymore
And it's really just making Skinner say he has dread over lying to Chalmers. AKA, existentialism as it is understood nowadays on the Internet: I'm kinda sad and the world is meaningless, lol. This idea of making these fanfics, shitposts and remixes profound culture is perhaps one of the most blatant indications I've ever seen that the Internet has completely obliterated any and all irony and self-awareness and is just a dumb mistake. Making dumb Simpsons remixes is now emotionally impactful culture because people just can't get away from their nostalgia of the 80's and the 90's and the world is incapable of releasing itself from this absolute self-reference and identification with dead and exploited franchises. That's the true sadness I got out of this whole video.
What this proves more than anything is that the original incarnation of the Simpsons was so beautiful and good that not even 20 years of betrayal, failure and idiocy can destroy it.
It kind of can. People my age don't watch the Simpsons. Even the old "good" seasons fall flat compared to some of the shows that have can come since, like Futurama.
“...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.” ― Henry Jenkins
@Jordan Ghill But that's the point, you utter twat. The videos are about narrative and story as the overarching structures of our lives; choosing childish drivel as a focal point allows people to find the structural story that is otherwise lost because of how deceptively simple these forms are and how easily they are dismissed, especially in an age of unending media saturation. Story is how we communicate, story is the structure of our lives and in a very real way story is who we are, which is what the videos are really about. TL;DR The man's brilliant and you're a myopic prick.
"He who hunts monsters must take care that he does not become a monster himself. When you look long enough into the abyss, so too does the abyss look into you."
There was a post credits scene added to a re-run of an episode of the Simpsons the week the Cosby show went off the air in 1992. In the scene Homer and Bart discuss in a meta-contextual sense why the Cosby show was being taken off the air. Bart: Hey dad how come they're taking the Cosby show off the air Homer: Because Mr Cosby wanted to stop before the quality suffered Bart: Quality, Shmality, if I had a TV sow I'd run that sucker into the ground. Homer: Amen boy, Amen.
I never heard before that Akira and the Simpsons were released just a week apart from eachother Must've been mindblowing to be into animation back in those times
Watching this all the way through, I didn't realize how deep just a single frame of animation or just how much depth there is within the characters that the fan works give life to a zombified version of a show.
Dive into just about any fandom. You will see these things happening. People don't just watch their favorite shows and movies or read their favorite books. They think sometimes deeply about the characters and what might be happening.
But it's not deep. See Rick and Morty the writers don't intend any of this stuff. This video is Eye Patch and others searching for themselves in any way they can and from whatever they can.
Simpsons even touched on its existential crisis a few years ago, with the longest couch gag in the show's history, where we go to the far future of the Simpsons, where it has degraded and been so far removed from its original context as to be nearly unrecognizable. It also implies a decline of the civilization producing the show. Very strange and surreal. Also, my favorite Steamed Hams is the Persona Social Link.
That episode's couch gag was made by Don Hertzfeldt, the same artist who made Rejected and World of Tomorrow. Both of them deconstruct the commodification of individuality and the relentless pressure of taking something commercially successful and abusing it for maximum profit.
It’s so sad that the Simpsons can’t die, Fox won’t let it. At least Futarama was allowed to die with its dignity vaguely intact. Edit: wow do I look like a fool (although I do actually quite like the revival)
Futurama's ending was genuinely quite beautiful, and I do hope that they don't bring it back. The quality was already starting to suffer a little after it returned-it was nowhere near as bad as zombie Simpsons, but *in my opinion*, there were more bad episodes per series in new Futurama than in the old.
Comedy Central era Futurama is kind of like Seasons 9-11 of the Simpsons. Not as good, but still watchable, and at least Futurama got to give a sense of resolution to their characters.
@@leow3696 yeah the ending made up for all the bad episodes from those seasons and there are some great gems in there like the late Philip j fry (time travel forward episode) or one of my favorites episodes lethal inspection (benders not having a backup episode). It definitely wasn’t the prime but it was miles ahead of zombie simpsons
What The Simpsons has become is an excellent analogy for growing up and becoming aware that the person you are isn't the person you thought you'd be. Then trying to deal with it the best you can.
Hearing about Bartkira reminded me of a show my college did called "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play", which is basically about a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic scenario where they retell an episode of the Simpsons like we would retell a folktale, and they act it out. they have paper mache masks of the characters and everything. Theres a bootleg floating online somewhere if anyone wants to see more weird Simpsons content. Its a very fun show!
What's particularly interesting about that play is that it's a reference to the episode "Cape Feare. Which itself is a parody to the 1991 film Cape Fear, which was a remake of the 1962 film of the same name which was an adaption of the the 1957 novel The Executioners. So, a book, became a film, which became a film, which became an animated parody, which became a play. Now, that's what the play is all about, how context can change a story through constant retellings. Very clever.
@brandon roberts Then simply don't run a show for 20 years. Most shows can't make it past a few seasons without dropping in quality due to ideas already being used up.
This is the most obvious and scary fact about The Simpson's I was in denial of. On my 8th Birthday, (Lisa's age) I had the best birthday cake ever of Bart and Lisa airbrushed on to it. Now, I'm Homer's age and stressed out.
To put things in perspective, Star Trek VI was 25 years after the show first aired. Star Trek Insurrection would be at the same place as to original star trek as the first season of the Simpsons is to this year.
Simpsons Shitposting on Facebook was largely the catalyst for that explosion source: admin, and also the Lucien Hughes mentioned in the video was one of our admins as well our 300k member group just got zucc'd though, rip in pieces sweet angle
@@Uberkatze- a website that had adopted our sneed memes Tbh half of the popular ones were ones we initially forced into existence, the other half showed up in our group from users creating them
If we’re talking about fan content that recontextualizes shows, there’s a great comic about Bart and Chris from Family Guy going to couples therapy with Bobby as their counselor. And it makes Homer and Peter out as abusive dads who have traumatized their sons and that ugly trauma rears it’s head as they try to make their relationship work. I know it’s a meme and it’s ridiculous but I did always appreciate the approach to familial relationships and how slapstick in TV shows can be morphed into real traumatizing abuse.
It always amazed me when I see casual mentions of this comic because it was made by one of my friend as a school project. He works in the mental health field and there’s a sadly high amount of people born in the 80’s/90’s who were abused as kids but normalized it because of the amount of shows that featured abusive behaviors (among other things). He also wanted to explore how a parent who genuinely love their children can still cause them a lot of harm (like Homer probably would in the real world). Anyway, he never expected this comic to become half as popular as this but I’m glad it did! (There was also a sequel that was available on Etsy but I think it sold out)
When the Simpsons started I was closer to Maggie‘s age. When the Simpsons were at their peak I was Lisa‘s and Bart‘s age. Now I am close to Marge‘s age...
The Simpons is so full of Sex Jokes and what not else nowadays it's freaking me out. It's disgusting that we basically know about every single inhabitant that he's using Viagra - it was stated about Grandpa, Hibbert, and many, many more. And that's just onething. Just one thing.
@@gaiusjuliuspleaser It must have flown over my head. So that episode where Homer and Abe sell a tonic that makes the adults of Springfield so horny that the kids start coming up with elaborate conspiracy theories about why they're not seeing their parents as much was about sex? What about the one where Homer and Marge spice up their love life by having sex in public?
I'm glad that the scenic subculture began. I always thought I was the only one who saw something very special about the background settings artwork of the classic episodes.
@@Narusasu98 Homer eating fugu and going through a 20 minute abridged lifetime, leading to his last moments in a lazyboy listening to a walkman at dawn, was one of the most harrowing episodes of my young life. That moment when the tape stops and he goes limp in the chair truly pulled my heart from out my chest, but it is back-lit from a dark living room with such beautiful tones of maroon and blue facing a quiet Springfield morning sunrise. There's no substitution for a beautifully sculpted backdrop, and is a scene I will never forget, due to the effectiveness of its visual and emotional tone (and also subsequent end-credits gag of Homer living life to his fullest by watching a T.V. bowling circuit and eating pork rinds.)
It's scary how accurate that Memes = Genes thing is. An image that transitions from one person to another, slowly changing as it passes on. I've never thought of it like that before.
This is... beautiful. In thirty minutes you’ve dissected the underlying problems in one of entertainments biggest downfalls in a style that is distinctive and lovingly wistful. In this sea of talentless and snarky critics flinging their negative opinions with only the intent inflame and support themselves, your videos have a heart and soul. You understand the purpose of both media and these types of videos, and I hope you know that you are the keeper of the flames of media in this age of rehashing and discourse. also anyone who’s read Bartkira is a man of good culture lol
This took me on a journey I did NOT expect. The internet is a weird, surreal, beautiful, horrifying place...and maybe that's what Groening was saying at the onset of the Simpsons about reality? Awesome vid, man.
The vaporware Simpsons aesthetic gives me the feeling of watching reruns of television episodes replayed in the early hours of the morning, imparting the feeling of being awake and alone in quiet, lonely, liminal spaces.
When the sky is a rich gold that pears through the slighty transparent curtens, altering the suns' rays color. I wake up to the TV being left on all night. Adult Swim plays it's reruns. It turns 6:00 am. Adult Swim plays its rendition of the national anthem. Cartoon Network announces it's self with neon colors and flat CGI shapes And a greeting voice. The channels Democratic changes, but the day feels isolated from time. The rich gold light sadly, ketchs up with time. The gold light fades into a grey shell of it's former self.
the people who grew up during that time are now the internet savvy adults who can make content. but if you think about it the writers of The Simpsons grew up in the 60's and 70's and one can see the pop-culture reference in those early episodes. nothing exist in a vacuum.
When The Simpsons was at its peak you almost literally wouldn't go through a day without hearing someone quote from it, or doing so yourself. There was a perfect Simpsons reference for just about every real life context - and everyone got the reference. With the show being made to die the ugly and prolonged death it is, I'm glad to see some of its better qualities getting to live on in meme culture - shitty mobile games not withstanding.
I think it’s super important for me to point out that that was the case even in my non english-speaking country. People would do the finger wiggle and say ”eeexcellent” or laugh and point at their friends like Nelson when they goofed up. Despite being SO clearly commentary on the American society and the concept of the American nuclear family, something about the characters transcended cultural context and became relatable to people whose culture had some great differences.
I'm a little surprised he didn't mention Okilly Dokilly. They're a band that dresses like Ned Flanders and write songs based on lines from the show. The genre is called "Neddle" music.
How are most of your videos so well made and hypnotic? Your voice makes me just want you to narrate a whole documentary. Massive respect to you and truly thank you
The ending of that video was oddly...optimistic? Like as long as there are people who remember classic Simpsons and pay homage to it in some way, then the Simpsons that we all remember and love is still around, as opposed to the heartless aberration they're shamelessly flaunting on television.
I agree the classic Simpsons episodes are always timeless and are pure 90's edge. I'll always love seasons 1 - 7 as well as Season 8 and 9 - 12 the Mike Scully Seasons.
I love the earlier Simpsons, I love the earlier shows like ed edd n eddy that were like that, being understandable characters in their situation. Also like kingdom hearts as a game simple story and imaginative with friendship and love told in its storys. It's only our postmodern era that has changed over time thinking this is overrated or stupid, dismissed as though we are robots, as that ventures somewhere that is cynical and exaggerated. You could argue from its start creativity grows with variety yet meaning becomes lost in the long term. Old shows are relativable and comforting becouse they tell about communication, people make mistakes yet its understandable of the situation and to make up for it to mend the wounds. Santa little helper last year I watched Christmas and I was amazed by it's simple and realistic take for a cartoon of urban US in the late 80s, in the UK its kinda the same even today How would today be explained as we ourselves are told how the world is by exaggeration and lables? I mean show a human side then deteched. Corporations have the idea, yet these shows get taken over, innovative over time but that's not the whole point as it gets stale, stiff and lacking substance. References is used rather then bedding into actual issues.
Obviously the Simpsons haven't aged that much from the 1990 episodes so it means maybe only two years passed in story time so why didn't they have smartphones and all the current technology in the 1990's episodes?
Hi Mr. Wolf, Are you familiar with Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play? It's probably the most interesting and well made post-modern Simpsons thing ever made. Yes it's a play, but it's been officially (I think) recorded and put on UA-cam. The play is about how the Simpsons, and media in general, is perceived and remembered in the world long after a global nuclear catastrophe. Part 1 is a few people in the woods, soon after the meltdowns started. They're quoting the Simpsons to distract themselves from what's going on. Part 2 is the same group, a few years later, acting as a theater troupe in this post-apocalypse. They perform live renditions of SImpsons episodes, complete with fake commercial breaks. Because no one has access to any scripts or videos of the show, accurate lines of dialogue-- mostly sold to them by people outside the troupe-- are a hot commodity. Part 3 is 75 years after the end, where society has reverted to a tribal state. We see the type of performance art this culture would put on and somehow, The Simpsons is still ingrained in storytelling. Their version of the show is warped through a decades long game of telephone and is absolutely bizarre and haunting. The playhouse I saw it in had each of the three parts in a different room with different a atmosphere. Honestly, it was the best theater experience of my life. I'm basically pitching this play to you because it's criminally underappreciated. And from your video, I would imagine that you'd be interested. Okay thanks bye
@@michaellombardi1620 Just checked the youtube search results for it again. Actually I don't think any of the results are "official recordings" if that is even a thing (probably not). Mostly high school renditions and stuff.
I’m so glad someone mentioned this and in such a thorough and concise way at that. It’s a great play that premiered at Playwrights Horizons and it’s very unusual.
Wow, that sounds amazing. I didn't expect it to be like, an above the board production, but it totally is. Still trying to even dig up the script; it's probably extra on lock down since its got the weight of the playhouse and the original show's IP behind keeping it from the public.
We're in denial state for a long time. We know the Simpsons deserve a mercy killing but we love it so much we want to keep it alive. We desperate for content but the one aired on TV are disappointing so we did something. We surgically fuse Simpsons with other pop culture media to keep it going, to keep it consistent and relatable. Suddenly we found contents from unlikely source and we love it so much because it prolong the life of something we love even if it means we making a frankenstein's monster of a show. But unlike frankenstein who got repulsed by his own creation we actually embrace it like a long lost friend.
"everything I've talked about in this video, I will link in the description" just a friendly reminder that you forgot to link to Scenic Simpsons Hentai... Just something I noticed by total coincidence...
Dont know if I will be able to find it again, but there was a comic about Lisa having some kind of school project and together with Marge they visit Comic book shop to be able finish it. Comic book guy needed to leave because of something and allowed them to be alone in his shop. They found a door with a sign: "DO NOT ENTRY, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE SIMPSON". They of course went in and found a storage of episodes. They watch few and have to deal with what they have seen. At the end, Lisa started to cry and asked Marge: "Mom, can I be a little girl again?" "I dont know, dear."
"Ye gods, my show is ruined!" - Simpsons fans around season 12. "But what if I were to upload classic content and disguise it as something fresh?" - Simpsons fans around 2017.
Imagine a Simpsons Hit & Run sequel/ successor, but with a constantly revolving day & night cycle, more varied missions, all being set in an interconnected complete 3D replica of Springfield and allowing unlimited freedom for traversing throughout the entire map, and finally a story produced by the Classic Era show writers. A man can only dream of such a phenomenal game.
That would be an Awesome Idea for a Simpsons game. I would like the Classic Show Writers to return as well as making the characters like them selfs from season 1 - 7 as well as not make Homer Simspons a Stupid character all the dang time. Also, I would love to have classic elements of the classic episodes as well as Treehouse of Horror stuff as well in the game. have a Minecraft open-world RPG customizable style, make it all DRM Free and have Mod Support have a Unique story and have Fans and People who loved the show as well as classic staff that worked on the show make the game. You can also play almost all the characters and more plus Costumed OC's you make in the game. I can go on all day.
I love The Simpsons. Maybe I didn't get into it as much as some others did, but the feeling of nostalgia from watching an episode is a special feeling to me. Sometimes when I was feeling lonely and homesick when I first got to college a couple years ago I'd make some popcorn and sit in my dorm at around 8pm watching The Simpsons on Disney+.
Modern Simpsons is like what happened to modern power puff girls. The original PPG show in the 90s was a fun, bombastic, sometimes even violent show with a lot of well written episodes. The modern reimagining of PPG released a few years ago has none of the charm, energy or even character the original show had, so we have the advantage of being able to separate these two shows as one being better then the other. Simpsons however unlike PPG is still owned and operated as being 'the same show' under licence and continuity. It doesn't have the advantage of being able to separate itself from another version of itself because it just didn't stop.
Best comment I've read in years. I wish I could like it more than once. However, even last seasons of original Power Puff girls had less quality. In my opinion they should have stopped with the "Forced Kin" episode. Its ending with Mojo Jojo saving unitentionally the day instead of the usual ending of the girls saving it would have been a great finale. That's what it bothers me the most with modern Simpsons. We can't separate the crap storylines and episodes from the classics and unfortunately some modern Simpsons episodes are linked to the classics, tarnishing their legacy. Even if the writing staff and many fans insists there is no canon in the Simpsons, sadly that is not the case: Maude's death IS canon and that move was made for the wrong reasons, affecting also all storylines in a negative way.
This was a fantastic documentary. I've never quite seen or heard someone not only summarize the appalling zombified state of the show, but describe how the community can feel the pain and suffering of the Simpsons characters as they are forced to endure this terrible state of existence. The Simpsons is more than a TV show, it's a brilliant cultural idea that lives deep in the hearts and minds of a dedicated fan base. As such, we all feel the suffering of Bart, Lisa, Homer, Marge, Maggie, and all the rest of Springfield. All the memes, the Simpsonswave, even SimpsonAkira all reflect this tragic state of affairs. Hats off, good sir. You've connected the dots in a way I never quite realized that extends far, far, beyond merely stating the obvious. Yes, the Simpsons as a show exists as nothing more than a money making shell of itself. But the Simpsons as an expression of an idea still *thrives.*
There is a couch gag in season 26 done by Don Hertzfeldt (of "REJECTED" fame, giving us "My spoon is too big" and other iconic quotes) done with little to no oversight from Fox that is pretty much exactly this. It begins with Homer accidentally going back in time to his pre-Santa's Little Helper appearance before rocketing forward to the distant future where the Simpsons as a whole becomes a distorted, absurdly distilled mockery of itself. Jacob Geller has a great video on it and how it ties to both the current status of the Simpsons and Hertzfeldt's other work.
Hey there Super Eyepatch Wolf. I am not really hip with the kids and my siblings are really much into Anime and Manga, don't know the difference. Or so it was, I decided to click on your explanations of Berserk, because they are very much into it, and I kind of wanted to know what was the appeal. And worked my way from there. I didn't watch your videos but instead listened to them while I am at work. And I must say that you present the topics in such a way that it is really interesting to listen to. Just wanted to tell you that even for a guy like me who is pretty much out of the loop you manage to convey these topics in a way that I feel like I finally understand that this is not just visual medium but also pretty deep story telling. Will continue to listen to your material.
Good on you dude. I find his analysis to be incredibly cathartic and educational, especially since he covers topics I myself am passionate about. I do encourage you to pursue reading a manga like berserk, as it is a truly transcendent experience in terms of its beautiful art and storytelling
@@orpheus2724 I wonder, did you mean "cathartic" instead of "lethargic"? I'm not trying to nitpick - I know you meant another word and was just hazarding a guess there. :)
@@orpheus2724 Same. Even though some memes are more surreal than interesting, like the Treehouse Of Horror Collab that will soon get a sequel, others are really great and giving new perspective of things you normally think are just jokes.
@@ddd-op5wy what is wrong with you? Because you don't agree with someone you want them to die? Honestly, maybe you should get some professional psychological help...
This video allowed me to keep my sanity in a time when it was slipping away. It made me love vaporwave and the simpsons in a new way. It’s a fantastic experience to sit through. And I love it.
People here scared at that lovecraft rip off abomination while that garfield comic video where jon talking alone with no garfield are more creepier and real.
I also feel like Simpsonwave really oddly captures the kind of loneliness and nostalgia a lot of American Gen Z kids kind of feel. A lot of the stuff we like is aging very quickly and a lot of us aren’t ready to grow up and let go of the things we love. We’re living in a tumultuous time where even I, an 18 year old, don’t understand the likes of someone 4 years younger than me. There’s a generational gap between me and a kid younger than me, that’s bow FAST stuff is aging now. Trends aren’t really trends anymore they’re just little microdoses of long standing memes. TikTok is kind of a perfect example for this. Trends are moving in and out faster than ever and everything is growing to get the biggest audience possible so it results in tiny trends being The Thing for like a day and than never hearing about it again. Or maybe I’m just old and can’t cope with growing up.
I’m 18. You’re probably 19 now. You describe our age perfectly. Who let us be adults? When the world was normal pre pandemic, we were definitely children. Then we got shut away, and now we’re not children. How do we exist in this world?
I'm 33, and the world now is completely unrecognizable from what I grew up with. And not in a good way, not at all. Politics, culture, entertainment... It is all crazier, and shallower. I will be surprised if shows of the quality of Seinfeld and early Simpsons are ever made again, and I haven't seen a new movie I have really liked in years. The difference between the WWII generation the Baby Boomers was so great it was like things shifted into an alternate universe. I am pretty sure this is happening again with Gen Z.
it's so confusing cause im 22 and my brother is 18 and growing up we remember the same trends, games, series, clothes, memes, etc. and now i feel like everyone is just trying to be 1000 steps ahead of the next trend and everyday someone is like "x is coming back into fashion" and there's 100 new microtrends and nothing seems to linger
The Simpsons show is being destroyed and the creators hide behind a very idiotic statement: "You yourself aren't as good as you were a few years ago." They literally used that line non-stop whenever somebody said the show is going bad. Once a world wide phenomenon, now it barely means anything anymore.
The show it just cringe worthy now, and has been ever since the HD era of tv started. I think shows like South park and family guy have stayed relevant for far longer than Simpsons.
@@BoleDaPole South Park was excellent for 17 seasons. The Simpsons was excellent for 7. Family Guy was serviceable at best for maybe 2 or 3 seasons. No comparison whatsoever.
I think it's easy to look at the Simpsons as a single brand or entity which has turned bad and lost its spark, but I find it comforting to remember that the Simpsons is a fluid show which was heavily moulded by the people working on it. That's what made the early seasons so special; watching season 1 or two episodes is so different to watching a season 7 or 8 episode because Oakley and Weinstein bring such a charming sense of character to the later seasons. Or the David Merkin era with its hilariously over-the-top plotlines and brilliant, subversive jokes. Season 2 will always be the more sombre season with episodes that make you cry (Bart Gets an F, Lisa's Substitute) and seasons 3-4 are the episodes with some of the most interesting concepts (the Springfield monorail, a nuclear meltdown). I like the fact that even though the show is pretty bland and unwatchable today, It'll never be a shadow of its former self because it's 'former self' moved on. The showrunners that made the old seasons great did their time, contributed all that they felt they could and then left. Modern Simpsons is just a generic soulless sitcom using the Simpsons Brand.
seeing the tapped out thing at the beginning nearly gave me a heart attack bc my dads been playing it nonstop for 9 years on his iPad. idk what level he is ill ask later and edit it onto this post but holy shit his town is fucking huge. there's so much shit. 9 consecutive years. he's 60. when will it end. edit: wow i totally forget to update this. as of right now he's played it for 10+ years, he's level 183, he's got over a billion of the in game currency and yet only 1 of the premium currency, and he's got over 450 characters. the town is so large im surprised it doesn't lag out his iPad.
Tapped out perfectly describes the Simpsons as a franchise and the fanbase Fox/EA is exploiting. It's very fitting that EA is involved, and now Disney.
> 21:44 "Which, just like everything else I talk about this video, I will link in the description below." > 18:20 - Talks about Scenic Simpsons Hentai > No Scenic Simpsons Hentai link in the description You said *everything*, dude. You made a promise.
No, its capitalism, the only reason why the simpsons keeps existing is because they make money, the only reason why the series started to apeal to twitter morons is because that will make people mad, giving the show negative atention and there for, make more money, its all because fox want more money so they can pay for more stuff that make money.
>Starts talking about Steamed Hams. "Oh man, I loved those. My favorite was the Nier: Automata one." >Starts talking about the Nier Automata one specifically. *Audible happy noises*
>Looks up Simpsonwave out of curiosity. "This is pretty damn neat, but I don't think it's for me." >Song stuck in my head >Song refuses to leave "Okay maybe a rewatch." This was 10 rewatches ago
This wonderful kind of spiralling creativity that you find in the world of fan fiction is only possible with the input of a huge collective of contributing minds, and is precisely what copyright culture and an obsession with ownership stifle out of existence.
Imagine the Simpsons characters, and the fact that they're actors on a set. SImpsonswave is just them now, past the prime of the show. Now they just do it habitually, with no passion. Thinking about the good ol days but it'll never be the same.
Man, you should explore fanfiction more. it always has this stigma of being bad but it gives explorations of some stories that the original creators won't or can't go to.
as someone who recently when on a fanfiction binge of all the stuff i read years ago, i can confirm this. some of it is trash, but some of it is great.
I felt the exact same way about this one cobra Kai fanfic I read on ao3 about a character named hawk. Season 2 left this character undeveloped who's motives made no sense, but I kinda consider this fanfic my own personal canon becasue it adds so much to his chatacter that actually makes sense to HIS character! There really are so Jems out there
When an all-prevalent symbol dies, it is liberated from its meaning. It starts to exist on its own in many different contexts and with many meanings. This is just one example.
I love how when he talks about how the fanbase took the series to new heights and transcended what it used to be, it only features old Simpsons and none of the new content has any substance to take from
Fiction is a form of reality, in a way. The stories may not be real, but the feelings, the messages and overall the spirit of every story is very much real
What makes the memes so explosive is that everyone agrees (actively or passively) that something is very wrong. I think the viewer's nostalgic childhood takes offense by the uncanny state of a beloved brand being absolutely everywhere but as a shadow of its former self. Simpsons memes are as much a protest as they are an homage. I believe fans want to relive the magic of the initial seasons but can't shake the existential offense taken by the current state of the Simpsons brand. Ironically, the direct inspiration for the meme couldn't exist without recognising the corruption of the brand. For the work to be effective, the outrage does need to be recognised somewhere in the meme (either that "The Simpsons *used to be great*" or that "The Simpsons *is not great anymore*"). It's a never-ending cycle. Again, Simpsons memes are as much a protest as they are an homage. They wouldn't get made if the show ended or continued on a high note.
I'd add to this that these memes are an attempt to relive the show as if we were watching it for the first time. It has become boring, mediocre, and predictable. These memes are none of those things. Its an attempt to see something we love again for the first time. I get this exact feeling playing the Dark Souls games. There is nothing I wouldn't do to be able to play them again for the first time. I endlessly seek out mods that switch the gameplay up, add enemies, items, bosses. All so I can get a fresh hit of what I love so much. DS hasn't become bad per se, like the simpsons, I've just played it so much that I just go through the motions, lovely, happy motions, but the same motions nonetheless. Rewatching early simpsons is the same. These memes are a beautiful switch up of the good parts and yes, like you said, they're also a protest to what it has become.
The scenic Simpsons account and all its content is basically just a compilation of images of liminal spaces. The way the images are described here, as it pertains to vibes and surrealism, matches perfectly with them.
This is why things like Fan fiction are a good thing (even though it is a double edged sword at times) the passion of the fans is what made the show and it’s also what kept it alive long after it lost its original soul.
Raden Truman that’s why I said it’s a double edged sword, sometimes the art that fans create is without a doubt better than the original. A few examples are abridged series such as Something Witty entertainment’s SAO abridged turned one of the most bland op for no reason characters into someone hilarious it makes more sense with him being a solo player due to the inflated ego and insecurity complex
Me, an aspiring political science student, who's looked into semiotics quite a bunch, and hears of Richard Dawkin (practically) only in reference to his coinage of meems: Super Eyepatch Wolf: \*starts describing the history of memes and the word meme\* Me: Oh, not this again...
(not complaining about the introduction though, it is necessary before addressing the topic, but god damn, almost every mention of Dawkin's work I've seen is in relation to meeeeems; he's done other things too ;_;)
The Simpsons is dead and Simpsonswave is its ghost. Bartkira and Marge Simpson's Anime are its heirs and season 30 is the shambling corpse being sustained by Fox's lich sorcery
I cannot accept that Marge and Homer are in their mid 30's! I've always thought of them as at least 10 years older than that and being in their mid 40's.
Yup. I was a kid in the 90s watching the classic Simpsons, and it feels so weird that I'm now the same age as Homer and Marge. :D I don't feel nearly as adult as Marge is portrayed in the show.
they were supposed to be in hs in the 70s when the show was airing in the 90s, so if they are in their 30s they're in their late 30s, like 38 at the youngest
Same here. But it kind of makes sense, with Bart only being 10 and Maggey being toddler age. I guess we just have to accept... that we're growing older and will eventually be older than these fictional characters whose age never changes.
It’s amazing how well made these videos are. I went into the description looking for one of the song and it was pages and pages of sources and credits to all the comics, videos, articles, and websites Eyepatchwolf sifted through in order to create these videos. You are genuinely one of the most meticulous youtubers I’ve ever come across. I mean it when I say there is not a single video of yours that I’ve watched that I did not enjoy, even when the topic of the vid was something I wasn’t really interested in. Thank you for your amazing style and personality; your work does not go unappreciated.
the super nintendo chalmers bit killed me. reading marge simpson anime killed me too, but in a different way--it touched some deep, buried part of me that was alive in another life. i don't think it would have been the same if i wasn't a wlw. good video, man.
The simpson music stuff is pretty simple. It mixed meloncholy techno music (current music and mood of society) with old familiar nostolgic stuff that reminds you of better times.
I don't know what it is, but I hate the new, clean lines and backgrounds of modern Simpsons. It feels sterile and clinical to me. Something about the rougher look of traditional animation with the little shadows the colored cells make on the backgrounds feels so much more appealing. Even the color palette of early Simpsons feels so much livelier and richer. It's such a small aesthetic thing to be picky about but the modern episodes feel bland by comparison looking at the art alone. #PutTheSimpsonsBackInThe90s #WhereTheyBelong #LetTheExistentialNightmareEnd
It's digital animation done poorly. When done right, digital can replicate hand-drawn almost perfectly (with only color bleeding disappearing, which might account for a color palette feeling much less lively). The thing is, digital animation is done to save on costs, so almost by default, it's going to look and feel as cheap as possible. Digital coloring can be extremely expressive and feel real kino, but studios rarely do it right because the point is almost never to do it "right". Just do it at the cheapest cost point. IIRC, it costs about $300,000 to make a single episode (yes, EPISODE, not season) of a cartoon for a "cheap" cartoon on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. For a show like _The Simpsons_ whose voice actors and writers are much bigger names and which feature celebrities often, they run upwards of two to three _million_ per episode (seriously, look it up: it's astounding how big of a gap there is between how expensive people think animation is and how expensive it actually is). Going with traditional hand-drawn animation can balloon costs by several times over. So while it steals a lot of the soul of a show when done awfully, it's often the only thing that keeps a show running without being canceled... though by this point, it would be a mercy kill for _The Simpsons._
Those are my feelings to most animated projects nowadays, mostly the ones who are new incarnations to old series (example: Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Family Guy and duh, The Simpsons). Cleaner lines also make you notice obvious flaws. This is mostly noticeable in anime because of how their production works: cheapest and quickest. Not to be confused with animated japanese projects. Anime is an industry and completely different from indie projects and animated japanese movies (provided they're not based on anime obviously).
@@RobotScarlet "anime" is just a contraction of "animation" that is used in Japan. This distinction you're making between "anime" and "animated Japanese projects" doesn't exist. In fact, the Japanese call western animation "anime."
I legitimately don't think I will ever get tired of this channel. Your fascinating (albeit obscure lol) choices of topics, the clear attention to detail and hours of work you put into researching said topics, your engaging scriptwriting, and your flawless delivery make your videos truly something special. I've been feeling a bit down lately and just finished a multi hour long binge of several of your videos, and it's raised my mood immensely. There's something so comforting about sitting down for a 30-60 minute video essay on a topic I previously would've had zero desire to learn about, yet having the information presented in such an interesting and engaging way that I find myself fully invested and learning so many new things I had no idea would be so interesting. Keep up the great work, my friend!
I relate the sadness of simpsons wave to my own sadness last year when I was living abroad while my relationship was falling apart. I’d wander the city at night under neon lights and the foreign writing. Alone with my thoughts and this music in my ears. It was something that let me contemplate my thoughts. And it helped me stay alive.
Watching this video made me realize that Spongebob is probably the children's equivalent of The Simpsons. Like The Simpsons, Spongebob had a few brilliant initial seasons, was allowed to exist far past the point of relevancy or quality (still going after 20 years), and has an active meme culture that is almost exclusively dedicated to those first few brilliant seasons.
Alway thought this but never put it into words 👍🏽
Eh, I think the modern seasons are still good but you right
It has always been terrible.
alex langley Season 10 Simpsons = Season 4 SpongeBob
@@enjamessimpson no it hasnt. THats just you
Season 1: Homer gets fired from his job and goes from a big enough depressive episode for him to want to attempt suicide. Then a truck almost hits his wife due to the absence of a street sign so Homer decides to devote his life to making his town a safer place and in he end he gets rehired as his job's safety inspector(of sector 7-G)
Season 30: Homer plays Leauge of Legends and does the Floss
Homer get iPad
Homper becomes the Messiah in Jerusalem.
season 33: homer is cancelled and goes on a heist mission to get rid of the the post that exploited him; also he’s just a real sweetheart these days, he doesn’t even strangle his only son anymore
Does he actually?!
@@thepengyknightno! But are we just gonna wait around until he does?! *shakes fist*
My man just did a whole segment on the existentialism of Steamed Hams
Lucian
As one does
That last bit is amazing. Someone Rashomon-ed Steamed Hams.
And it's really just making Skinner say he has dread over lying to Chalmers. AKA, existentialism as it is understood nowadays on the Internet: I'm kinda sad and the world is meaningless, lol.
This idea of making these fanfics, shitposts and remixes profound culture is perhaps one of the most blatant indications I've ever seen that the Internet has completely obliterated any and all irony and self-awareness and is just a dumb mistake. Making dumb Simpsons remixes is now emotionally impactful culture because people just can't get away from their nostalgia of the 80's and the 90's and the world is incapable of releasing itself from this absolute self-reference and identification with dead and exploited franchises.
That's the true sadness I got out of this whole video.
@@RDV333 deep shit bro
@@RDV333 And yet, isn't Everything just a remix of something that came before?
The steamed hams remix of feel good Inc unironically goes so hard and I think that’s kind of a testament to how good the original song is in a way
10:13
What this proves more than anything is that the original incarnation of the Simpsons was so beautiful and good that not even 20 years of betrayal, failure and idiocy can destroy it.
Alright I think “betrayal” is pushing it a bit- the show didn’t go bad on purpose.
That's such a beautiful perspective 🖤
That's.....kinda beautiful.
It kind of can. People my age don't watch the Simpsons. Even the old "good" seasons fall flat compared to some of the shows that have can come since, like Futurama.
the old Simpsons was shit
Coming late to this video. I was one of the artists who took part in Bartkira
You even used my drawing of Millhouse in this video at 20:58
Sweet!
Hey, great job! ❤
Epic
👏🤠
“...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.”
― Henry Jenkins
Jordan Ghill insecure much?
@@imperialwolf7872 definitely lol
@Jordan Ghill But that's the point, you utter twat. The videos are about narrative and story as the overarching structures of our lives; choosing childish drivel as a focal point allows people to find the structural story that is otherwise lost because of how deceptively simple these forms are and how easily they are dismissed, especially in an age of unending media saturation. Story is how we communicate, story is the structure of our lives and in a very real way story is who we are, which is what the videos are really about.
TL;DR The man's brilliant and you're a myopic prick.
It's picqued, not peaked.
Unless it's smut
"Quality, shmaulity; if I had a TV show I'd run that sucker into the ground" -Bart Simpson, 1992.
Ironic.
you became what you swore to destroy
"He who hunts monsters must take care that he does not become a monster himself. When you look long enough into the abyss, so too does the abyss look into you."
@@spooderman6312 Bart is basically my age. 1980-1982. He'd be 40 now, older than his father.
@@Benkenobi8118 just like most simpsons executives
Insert that Batman quote said by Harvey Dent about what you become.
There was a post credits scene added to a re-run of an episode of the Simpsons the week the Cosby show went off the air in 1992. In the scene Homer and Bart discuss in a meta-contextual sense why the Cosby show was being taken off the air.
Bart: Hey dad how come they're taking the Cosby show off the air
Homer: Because Mr Cosby wanted to stop before the quality suffered
Bart: Quality, Shmality, if I had a TV sow I'd run that sucker into the ground.
Homer: Amen boy, Amen.
I hope this is real
@@MixMasterLar Like all of classic Simpsons the clip is available online.
@@MixMasterLar ua-cam.com/video/vWgI2YAupCM/v-deo.html
Here you go and thanks!! ua-cam.com/video/vWgI2YAupCM/v-deo.html
So harrowingly prophetic...
I never heard before that Akira and the Simpsons were released just a week apart from eachother
Must've been mindblowing to be into animation back in those times
I see the girl on your pfp everywhere but so far nobody could tell me what anime it's from
@@JeyJey88-9 it's from a song called Anime tighs
That's sailor saturn (Hotaru Tomoe) from Sailor Moon
Back then we were weird very geeky people who followed animation it was kind of shameful.
@@juannaym8488 you jokin right? Like people are dumb af but this just HAS to be a joke of sorts, right?
Watching this all the way through, I didn't realize how deep just a single frame of animation or just how much depth there is within the characters that the fan works give life to a zombified version of a show.
This is precisely why copyright laws need to fucking change... THANKS DISNEY!
Dive into just about any fandom. You will see these things happening. People don't just watch their favorite shows and movies or read their favorite books. They think sometimes deeply about the characters and what might be happening.
But it's not deep. See Rick and Morty the writers don't intend any of this stuff. This video is Eye Patch and others searching for themselves in any way they can and from whatever they can.
Simpsons even touched on its existential crisis a few years ago, with the longest couch gag in the show's history, where we go to the far future of the Simpsons, where it has degraded and been so far removed from its original context as to be nearly unrecognizable. It also implies a decline of the civilization producing the show. Very strange and surreal.
Also, my favorite Steamed Hams is the Persona Social Link.
That episode's couch gag was made by Don Hertzfeldt, the same artist who made Rejected and World of Tomorrow. Both of them deconstruct the commodification of individuality and the relentless pressure of taking something commercially successful and abusing it for maximum profit.
honestly, that couch gag is the best Simpsons episode in a decade or more
There's a really good video by Jacob Geller about that couch gag. Check out "The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love"
It’s so sad that the Simpsons can’t die, Fox won’t let it. At least Futarama was allowed to die with its dignity vaguely intact.
Edit: wow do I look like a fool (although I do actually quite like the revival)
Futurama's ending was genuinely quite beautiful, and I do hope that they don't bring it back. The quality was already starting to suffer a little after it returned-it was nowhere near as bad as zombie Simpsons, but *in my opinion*, there were more bad episodes per series in new Futurama than in the old.
Comedy Central era Futurama is kind of like Seasons 9-11 of the Simpsons. Not as good, but still watchable, and at least Futurama got to give a sense of resolution to their characters.
@@leow3696 yeah the ending made up for all the bad episodes from those seasons and there are some great gems in there like the late Philip j fry (time travel forward episode) or one of my favorites episodes lethal inspection (benders not having a backup episode). It definitely wasn’t the prime but it was miles ahead of zombie simpsons
@@everlastin8732 okay, like they weren't as funny but they were more plot driven so they oddly were really good
And now Disney won’t let it die.
What The Simpsons has become is an excellent analogy for growing up and becoming aware that the person you are isn't the person you thought you'd be.
Then trying to deal with it the best you can.
Thank you for this beautiful insight i couldn't articulate this better if i tried
@Henryk Gödel - This comment is entirely too real.
>Super Eyepatch Wolf
>It's another video on The Simpson
>have already watched the other one like 5 times
Thank you for doing this
Hearing about Bartkira reminded me of a show my college did called "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play", which is basically about a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic scenario where they retell an episode of the Simpsons like we would retell a folktale, and they act it out. they have paper mache masks of the characters and everything. Theres a bootleg floating online somewhere if anyone wants to see more weird Simpsons content. Its a very fun show!
I remember seeing a group preforming that play as part of one of my high-school theatre assignments. Man, it was existentially trippy.
My community theatre is doing that play too!
What's particularly interesting about that play is that it's a reference to the episode "Cape Feare. Which itself is a parody to the 1991 film Cape Fear, which was a remake of the 1962 film of the same name which was an adaption of the the 1957 novel The Executioners. So, a book, became a film, which became a film, which became an animated parody, which became a play. Now, that's what the play is all about, how context can change a story through constant retellings. Very clever.
this is so cool!
Unfortunately the show suffered the same fate as one of it's titular characters
Don't Forget You're Here Forever
DBLoCK_ThE_KeyBlade Master and this time there is no "do it for her"
@@belafeldbusch3397 If you define "her" as "cash money", there is.
@brandon roberts Then simply don't run a show for 20 years. Most shows can't make it past a few seasons without dropping in quality due to ideas already being used up.
@brandon roberts South Park has managed fairly well
I just realized I went from Bart's age when the show began to Homer's age now..
Your pfp scares me
This is the most obvious and scary fact about The Simpson's I was in denial of.
On my 8th Birthday, (Lisa's age) I had the best birthday cake ever of Bart and Lisa airbrushed on to it.
Now, I'm Homer's age and stressed out.
Do you still follow "it"?
Even Maggie would be 33 now.
To put things in perspective, Star Trek VI was 25 years after the show first aired. Star Trek Insurrection would be at the same place as to original star trek as the first season of the Simpsons is to this year.
What was really weird about Steamed Hams was that that was already a very minor meme for years before it blew up again.
Oh hi deadwing
Too bad he didn't talk about any Simpsons x Yakuza crossovers eh Dork?
Simpsons Shitposting on Facebook was largely the catalyst for that explosion
source: admin, and also the Lucien Hughes mentioned in the video was one of our admins as well
our 300k member group just got zucc'd though, rip in pieces sweet angle
@@almond5284 what is 4chan
@@Uberkatze- a website that had adopted our sneed memes
Tbh half of the popular ones were ones we initially forced into existence, the other half showed up in our group from users creating them
If we’re talking about fan content that recontextualizes shows, there’s a great comic about Bart and Chris from Family Guy going to couples therapy with Bobby as their counselor. And it makes Homer and Peter out as abusive dads who have traumatized their sons and that ugly trauma rears it’s head as they try to make their relationship work.
I know it’s a meme and it’s ridiculous but I did always appreciate the approach to familial relationships and how slapstick in TV shows can be morphed into real traumatizing abuse.
It always amazed me when I see casual mentions of this comic because it was made by one of my friend as a school project. He works in the mental health field and there’s a sadly high amount of people born in the 80’s/90’s who were abused as kids but normalized it because of the amount of shows that featured abusive behaviors (among other things). He also wanted to explore how a parent who genuinely love their children can still cause them a lot of harm (like Homer probably would in the real world). Anyway, he never expected this comic to become half as popular as this but I’m glad it did! (There was also a sequel that was available on Etsy but I think it sold out)
@@nellymerricat5961 That's really amazing actually because I think about that comic a lot as a traumatized gay dude. Tell him thank you for me
@@phantomchain3020 I’ll make sure to! I’m sure it will means a lot to him
I’m almost surprised this comic didn’t get mentioned in the video!
What's it called?
15:13 "Now at 36 years old" Realizing I'm almost as old as Marge gave ME an existential crisis
Just imagine you were someone a year younger than Bart when the show began, and now 5 years older than Homer!
Tell me about it.
I'm one year away from 36 years old and this part of the video really gave me food for thought.
When the Simpsons started I was closer to Maggie‘s age. When the Simpsons were at their peak I was Lisa‘s and Bart‘s age. Now I am close to Marge‘s age...
"NYAHH!"
The Simpsons is the poster child of "the show is dead, but the fandom is alive".
The Simpons is so full of Sex Jokes and what not else nowadays it's freaking me out.
It's disgusting that we basically know about every single inhabitant that he's using Viagra - it was stated about Grandpa, Hibbert, and many, many more. And that's just onething. Just one thing.
Cough sonic cough
@@slevinchannel7589 It was full of sex jokes back then, too, but they were subtle.
@@gaiusjuliuspleaser It must have flown over my head. So that episode where Homer and Abe sell a tonic that makes the adults of Springfield so horny that the kids start coming up with elaborate conspiracy theories about why they're not seeing their parents as much was about sex? What about the one where Homer and Marge spice up their love life by having sex in public?
The kings are gone, but they haven't been forgotten
I'm glad that the scenic subculture began. I always thought I was the only one who saw something very special about the background settings artwork of the classic episodes.
Same, some are really beautiful
@@Narusasu98 Homer eating fugu and going through a 20 minute abridged lifetime, leading to his last moments in a lazyboy listening to a walkman at dawn, was one of the most harrowing episodes of my young life. That moment when the tape stops and he goes limp in the chair truly pulled my heart from out my chest, but it is back-lit from a dark living room with such beautiful tones of maroon and blue facing a quiet Springfield morning sunrise. There's no substitution for a beautifully sculpted backdrop, and is a scene I will never forget, due to the effectiveness of its visual and emotional tone (and also subsequent end-credits gag of Homer living life to his fullest by watching a T.V. bowling circuit and eating pork rinds.)
Seriously those skies were so pretty!
It's scary how accurate that Memes = Genes thing is. An image that transitions from one person to another, slowly changing as it passes on. I've never thought of it like that before.
Memes, the DNA of the soul.
- Monsoon
That's the original intended meaning of the word meme as coined by Richard Dawkins, the basic unit of cultural information.
Did you not watch the video, John?
@trashtrash2169 probably a reference I'm not getting, but my name's not John.
@@TheZipperDragon Read the names of everyone in the room and then tell me who you think I'm talking about.
Did you call him Super Nintendo Chalmers?
thoraxurungus No, no, he said “what’s that rattle?”, it’s about the heating duct....
Yes, yes he did
3:36 btw
Glad someone else noticed. Guess it's just a lisp.
@@A_Dopamine_Molecule whats a battle?
This is... beautiful. In thirty minutes you’ve dissected the underlying problems in one of entertainments biggest downfalls in a style that is distinctive and lovingly wistful. In this sea of talentless and snarky critics flinging their negative opinions with only the intent inflame and support themselves, your videos have a heart and soul. You understand the purpose of both media and these types of videos, and I hope you know that you are the keeper of the flames of media in this age of rehashing and discourse.
also anyone who’s read Bartkira is a man of good culture lol
I absolutely agree.
This took me on a journey I did NOT expect. The internet is a weird, surreal, beautiful, horrifying place...and maybe that's what Groening was saying at the onset of the Simpsons about reality? Awesome vid, man.
Hopefully you get more upvotes than this. You deserve it.
@@kristiang.9600 Gosh, thank you - wasn't expecting so many likes, if any at all.
@@alliesfrench I'm so glad you got all this appreciation. I don't see comments like yours on UA-cam that often. 🙂
Remember that surreal couch gag showing the simpsons in the future?
This video took me on that journey, just more in depth.
@@5tr4nge75 Oh, dear god...you mean this one? Very Rejected Cartoons, in a way...and depressing... ua-cam.com/video/m78gYyTrG7Y/v-deo.html
"Having his boss, supernintendo Chalmers"
You sneaky sneaky man.
I thought I was going crazy
delightfully devilish
Super Eyepatch Wolf: "...despite the fact--"
Me: "THAT THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY GRILLED."
Underrated
Ye... you know th...one thing should i...excuse me for one second...
EL ANONIMO of course
Eh, McDonald's streams it's burgers, I always took Krusty burger as a McD proxy
@@jailbirdsjailhouse852 [yawns} Well, that was wonderful. Good time was had by all. I'm pooped.
The vaporware Simpsons aesthetic gives me the feeling of watching reruns of television episodes replayed in the early hours of the morning, imparting the feeling of being awake and alone in quiet, lonely, liminal spaces.
that's deep!
you neiled it
When the sky is a rich gold that pears through the slighty transparent curtens, altering the suns' rays color. I wake up to the TV being left on all night. Adult Swim plays it's reruns. It turns 6:00 am. Adult Swim plays its rendition of the national anthem. Cartoon Network announces it's self with neon colors and flat CGI shapes And a greeting voice. The channels Democratic changes, but the day feels isolated from time. The rich gold light sadly, ketchs up with time. The gold light fades into a grey shell of it's former self.
then i put the batteries in ice to make them work again
Same for me, except in superliminal spaces.
Notice how its nearly always seasons 2-11 that people make memes and re-purpose stuff from, says a lot.
Well, consider that season 11 aired pretty close to season 1 of Spongebob. The meme baton simply passed on.
the people who grew up during that time are now the internet savvy adults who can make content.
but if you think about it the writers of The Simpsons grew up in the 60's and 70's and one can see the pop-culture reference in those early episodes.
nothing exist in a vacuum.
Same with spongebob
@@stayskeptic3923 you just blew mind 🤔
When The Simpsons was at its peak you almost literally wouldn't go through a day without hearing someone quote from it, or doing so yourself. There was a perfect Simpsons reference for just about every real life context - and everyone got the reference.
With the show being made to die the ugly and prolonged death it is, I'm glad to see some of its better qualities getting to live on in meme culture - shitty mobile games not withstanding.
I think it’s super important for me to point out that that was the case even in my non english-speaking country. People would do the finger wiggle and say ”eeexcellent” or laugh and point at their friends like Nelson when they goofed up. Despite being SO clearly commentary on the American society and the concept of the American nuclear family, something about the characters transcended cultural context and became relatable to people whose culture had some great differences.
8:35 i heard you say a sneaky super nintendo chalmers
Pieter Vandersmissen i was just about to comment the same thing. Its a nod to ralph. Thats what he called chalmers in an early episode of the show
@@Scorpiofrfr indeed, and he was very subtle about it 😁
Pieter Vandersmissen I wanted to rewind to make sure I heard it right, but I chose not to. There was something magical about just letting run
@@Nexuish i guess reality is a choice bro
was about to post a similar comment.
I'm a little surprised he didn't mention Okilly Dokilly. They're a band that dresses like Ned Flanders and write songs based on lines from the show. The genre is called "Neddle" music.
Have we gone far enough?
@@davidhong1934 NEVER.
I swear I thought they were called “The Nine Inch Neds”
Unless… there are multiple Flanders Banders…
Heavy neddle music I love white wine spritzer.
They're Ned Flanders cosplays that plays in a death metal band
Eletronic Arts, Zombie Simpsons and mobile gaming.
That's a really sad trinity.
Yeah dude especially PvZ that shit was my childhood
An unholy trinity.
@@lol-ih1tl remembers that
"There is a glass box surrounding these characters"
shoulda used clips from the movie
How are most of your videos so well made and hypnotic? Your voice makes me just want you to narrate a whole documentary. Massive respect to you and truly thank you
Like the Simpsons Super eyepatch Wolf is one of a kind
The ending of that video was oddly...optimistic? Like as long as there are people who remember classic Simpsons and pay homage to it in some way, then the Simpsons that we all remember and love is still around, as opposed to the heartless aberration they're shamelessly flaunting on television.
I agree the classic Simpsons episodes are always timeless and are pure 90's edge. I'll always love seasons 1 - 7 as well as Season 8 and 9 - 12 the Mike Scully Seasons.
Homarge
It was weirdly beautiful.
I love the earlier Simpsons, I love the earlier shows like ed edd n eddy that were like that, being understandable characters in their situation. Also like kingdom hearts as a game simple story and imaginative with friendship and love told in its storys. It's only our postmodern era that has changed over time thinking this is overrated or stupid, dismissed as though we are robots, as that ventures somewhere that is cynical and exaggerated. You could argue from its start creativity grows with variety yet meaning becomes lost in the long term. Old shows are relativable and comforting becouse they tell about communication, people make mistakes yet its understandable of the situation and to make up for it to mend the wounds. Santa little helper last year I watched Christmas and I was amazed by it's simple and realistic take for a cartoon of urban US in the late 80s, in the UK its kinda the same even today How would today be explained as we ourselves are told how the world is by exaggeration and lables? I mean show a human side then deteched. Corporations have the idea, yet these shows get taken over, innovative over time but that's not the whole point as it gets stale, stiff and lacking substance. References is used rather then bedding into actual issues.
I've met the artist behind the marge simpson anime, so i was pretty surprised to see her work being featured in the video
The real Simpsons were the friends we made along the way
The real one piece*
I would laugh react if I could
Aldo Nares :)
The real Simpsons were the Six billion dollars we made from micro transactions
Underrated comment. :P
"Don't have a cow" - funny yellow boy
*drops sandwich* B’oh!
"Do not possess bovine, male" - brat sompsin
Eat Pant
Obviously the Simpsons haven't aged that much from the 1990 episodes so it means maybe only two years passed in story time so why didn't they have smartphones and all the current technology in the 1990's episodes?
@Shaman X [Everyone Disliked That]
Only Super Eyepatch Wolf can talk about Simpsons memes for half an hour and have me be like “Holy shit that’s deep.”
The Simpson's Fandom is still evolving, and so much more has happened. I think this video needs a part 2
How they are evolving
Hi Mr. Wolf,
Are you familiar with Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play? It's probably the most interesting and well made post-modern Simpsons thing ever made. Yes it's a play, but it's been officially (I think) recorded and put on UA-cam. The play is about how the Simpsons, and media in general, is perceived and remembered in the world long after a global nuclear catastrophe.
Part 1 is a few people in the woods, soon after the meltdowns started. They're quoting the Simpsons to distract themselves from what's going on. Part 2 is the same group, a few years later, acting as a theater troupe in this post-apocalypse. They perform live renditions of SImpsons episodes, complete with fake commercial breaks. Because no one has access to any scripts or videos of the show, accurate lines of dialogue-- mostly sold to them by people outside the troupe-- are a hot commodity. Part 3 is 75 years after the end, where society has reverted to a tribal state. We see the type of performance art this culture would put on and somehow, The Simpsons is still ingrained in storytelling. Their version of the show is warped through a decades long game of telephone and is absolutely bizarre and haunting.
The playhouse I saw it in had each of the three parts in a different room with different a atmosphere. Honestly, it was the best theater experience of my life. I'm basically pitching this play to you because it's criminally underappreciated. And from your video, I would imagine that you'd be interested.
Okay thanks bye
CreamBeliever it’s on UA-cam? That’s good, I’ve wanted to see it for a while
@@michaellombardi1620 Just checked the youtube search results for it again. Actually I don't think any of the results are "official recordings" if that is even a thing (probably not). Mostly high school renditions and stuff.
I’m so glad someone mentioned this and in such a thorough and concise way at that. It’s a great play that premiered at Playwrights Horizons and it’s very unusual.
Over 3 hours long, with intermissions.
Wow, that sounds amazing. I didn't expect it to be like, an above the board production, but it totally is. Still trying to even dig up the script; it's probably extra on lock down since its got the weight of the playhouse and the original show's IP behind keeping it from the public.
We simply don't want The Simpsons to die. Even though we know The Simpsons is already dead.
We're in denial state for a long time. We know the Simpsons deserve a mercy killing but we love it so much we want to keep it alive. We desperate for content but the one aired on TV are disappointing so we did something. We surgically fuse Simpsons with other pop culture media to keep it going, to keep it consistent and relatable. Suddenly we found contents from unlikely source and we love it so much because it prolong the life of something we love even if it means we making a frankenstein's monster of a show. But unlike frankenstein who got repulsed by his own creation we actually embrace it like a long lost friend.
im2sxc4yall same for fallout same for Star Wars same for Star Trek.
We just can’t let something good die peacefully
Don’t cry for me I’m already dead
the endless struggle of any fan. You don't want the series to end, but you want it to keep a spark it can't keep going forever.
You can always watch reruns. That's still better than the crap they put out now that you probably won't watch anyway. I tried and it's depressing.
"everything I've talked about in this video, I will link in the description"
just a friendly reminder that you forgot to link to Scenic Simpsons Hentai...
Just something I noticed by total coincidence...
Waiting for sauce
@@tourdealtomare why is it a thing & why thank you for linking it
Asking for a friend...
@Imight Realperson I mean yeah, but I'm just here to lend a helpful reminder
Just google the following words: rule 34 simpsons
Dont know if I will be able to find it again, but there was a comic about Lisa having some kind of school project and together with Marge they visit Comic book shop to be able finish it. Comic book guy needed to leave because of something and allowed them to be alone in his shop. They found a door with a sign: "DO NOT ENTRY, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE SIMPSON". They of course went in and found a storage of episodes. They watch few and have to deal with what they have seen.
At the end, Lisa started to cry and asked Marge: "Mom, can I be a little girl again?"
"I dont know, dear."
Wondering if you found the name of this comic :)?
Now that Disney owns Fox, I'm eagerly awaiting for that Simpson's live action remake.
it better be a horror movie
NOOOOO!!!!
This comment is gonna get hundreds of likes
Can Disney fuck off?
Or even better - if the series does end soon, they'll reboot it a decade later, maybe make it live-action.
"Ye gods, my show is ruined!" - Simpsons fans around season 12.
"But what if I were to upload classic content and disguise it as something fresh?" - Simpsons fans around 2017.
This is so fucking funny thankyou for your service
"Delightfully funny, me!"
The Steamedpsons
Delightfully devilish Vontos' Magic Murder Bag
Simpsonwave?
Imagine a Simpsons Hit & Run sequel/ successor, but with a constantly revolving day & night cycle, more varied missions, all being set in an interconnected complete 3D replica of Springfield and allowing unlimited freedom for traversing throughout the entire map, and finally a story produced by the Classic Era show writers.
A man can only dream of such a phenomenal game.
that would be too powerful... but fuck it add input based attacks from Tekken.
And it should serve as the series finale as well. Not only that, but you should be able to explore Shelbyville and Capital City too.
nope, because the simpsons loss popularity, but making a simpsons game in the 90s would aged poorly due for hardware limitations
The amount of money I'd give for a game with that level of good game design, nostalgia and closure.
That would be an Awesome Idea for a Simpsons game. I would like the Classic Show Writers to return as well as making the characters like them selfs from season 1 - 7 as well as not make Homer Simspons a Stupid character all the dang time. Also, I would love to have classic elements of the classic episodes as well as Treehouse of Horror stuff as well in the game. have a Minecraft open-world RPG customizable style, make it all DRM Free and have Mod Support have a Unique story and have Fans and People who loved the show as well as classic staff that worked on the show make the game. You can also play almost all the characters and more plus Costumed OC's you make in the game. I can go on all day.
I love The Simpsons. Maybe I didn't get into it as much as some others did, but the feeling of nostalgia from watching an episode is a special feeling to me. Sometimes when I was feeling lonely and homesick when I first got to college a couple years ago I'd make some popcorn and sit in my dorm at around 8pm watching The Simpsons on Disney+.
It sounded like you said "Super Nintendo Chalmers"
He did
He’s Ralph Wiggum
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Super Mario Chalmers
Modern Simpsons is like what happened to modern power puff girls. The original PPG show in the 90s was a fun, bombastic, sometimes even violent show with a lot of well written episodes. The modern reimagining of PPG released a few years ago has none of the charm, energy or even character the original show had, so we have the advantage of being able to separate these two shows as one being better then the other.
Simpsons however unlike PPG is still owned and operated as being 'the same show' under licence and continuity. It doesn't have the advantage of being able to separate itself from another version of itself because it just didn't stop.
Best comment I've read in years. I wish I could like it more than once.
However, even last seasons of original Power Puff girls had less quality. In my opinion they should have stopped with the "Forced Kin" episode. Its ending with Mojo Jojo saving unitentionally the day instead of the usual ending of the girls saving it would have been a great finale.
That's what it bothers me the most with modern Simpsons. We can't separate the crap storylines and episodes from the classics and unfortunately some modern Simpsons episodes are linked to the classics, tarnishing their legacy. Even if the writing staff and many fans insists there is no canon in the Simpsons, sadly that is not the case: Maude's death IS canon and that move was made for the wrong reasons, affecting also all storylines in a negative way.
True. But at least the family weren't twerking
@@georgebarrett8065 need I remind all of the homer and Peter Griffin carwash incident?
@@CorazonMexica PPG was supposed to end with the special see me, feel me, gnomey. But that episode got banned due to communism
I gotta say as someone from Albany NY, the segment with steamed hams has ALWAYS been a local meme.
Has anyone set up a burger place called 'Skinner's Steamed Hams' yet?
At that "thanks for watching" fakeout, for a moment I was genuinely like "damn that went by fast, didn't feel like 20 mins"
my brain is fried
The Simpsons used to have characters that acted like people, stories that made sense, non repetitive jokes and episodes that made you think.
The only question I have to ask is ...... why is Peter Parker a Dragonite ?
Key words: "Used to" 😔
This was a fantastic documentary. I've never quite seen or heard someone not only summarize the appalling zombified state of the show, but describe how the community can feel the pain and suffering of the Simpsons characters as they are forced to endure this terrible state of existence. The Simpsons is more than a TV show, it's a brilliant cultural idea that lives deep in the hearts and minds of a dedicated fan base. As such, we all feel the suffering of Bart, Lisa, Homer, Marge, Maggie, and all the rest of Springfield. All the memes, the Simpsonswave, even SimpsonAkira all reflect this tragic state of affairs.
Hats off, good sir. You've connected the dots in a way I never quite realized that extends far, far, beyond merely stating the obvious. Yes, the Simpsons as a show exists as nothing more than a money making shell of itself. But the Simpsons as an expression of an idea still *thrives.*
"simpsons: tapped out" sounds like the current seasons
das de joke
That joke would apply to the last 20 seasons.
CriminalIntent89 lol
in reineer wolfcastle's voice "thats the joke."
Sounds like a good party game.
Watch the latest episode of the simpsons without tapping out.
I bet both my kidneys that there are at least six rejected scripts for episodes about how the show has been long dead but not allowed to die.
"Homer's Enemy" was intended as commentary on how the Simpsons had gone on for so long that it's characters were becoming too wacky to be relatable
@@davidhong1934 My god, it was still the 90s when they made that episode and the notion of the show changing too much was already there
There is a couch gag in season 26 done by Don Hertzfeldt (of "REJECTED" fame, giving us "My spoon is too big" and other iconic quotes) done with little to no oversight from Fox that is pretty much exactly this. It begins with Homer accidentally going back in time to his pre-Santa's Little Helper appearance before rocketing forward to the distant future where the Simpsons as a whole becomes a distorted, absurdly distilled mockery of itself. Jacob Geller has a great video on it and how it ties to both the current status of the Simpsons and Hertzfeldt's other work.
@@kkyehh Yeah, I'm aware of it and have seen that video.
They finally got to do one! Albeit in a Treehouse of Horror.
And maybe that Anonymous Leak one too?
8:20 steamed hams but its summarized in a super eyepatch wolf video
Hey there Super Eyepatch Wolf.
I am not really hip with the kids and my siblings are really much into Anime and Manga, don't know the difference.
Or so it was, I decided to click on your explanations of Berserk, because they are very much into it, and I kind of wanted to know what was the appeal. And worked my way from there.
I didn't watch your videos but instead listened to them while I am at work. And I must say that you present the topics in such a way that it is really interesting to listen to.
Just wanted to tell you that even for a guy like me who is pretty much out of the loop you manage to convey these topics in a way that I feel like I finally understand that this is not just visual medium but also pretty deep story telling.
Will continue to listen to your material.
Good on you dude. I find his analysis to be incredibly cathartic and educational, especially since he covers topics I myself am passionate about. I do encourage you to pursue reading a manga like berserk, as it is a truly transcendent experience in terms of its beautiful art and storytelling
Welcome to the pack, friend!
@@orpheus2724 I wonder, did you mean "cathartic" instead of "lethargic"? I'm not trying to nitpick - I know you meant another word and was just hazarding a guess there. :)
@@orpheus2724 Same. Even though some memes are more surreal than interesting, like the Treehouse Of Horror Collab that will soon get a sequel, others are really great and giving new perspective of things you normally think are just jokes.
@@ddd-op5wy what is wrong with you? Because you don't agree with someone you want them to die? Honestly, maybe you should get some professional psychological help...
This is a beautiful video
22:45 what's this theme background, sounds very nice
Irish people always know how to make even the saddest things beautiful and charming.
@lilo lila lol, simp
This video allowed me to keep my sanity in a time when it was slipping away. It made me love vaporwave and the simpsons in a new way. It’s a fantastic experience to sit through. And I love it.
Now I want to see you do a video on the Creepy Garfield/Gorefield/ImSorryJon phenomenon.
What happened to Garfield?
@@davidhong1934 Just go to r/imsorryjon. You'll see
@Adrian Dominguez Aw thanks man ^^ I totally forgot this gem
People here scared at that lovecraft rip off abomination while that garfield comic video where jon talking alone with no garfield are more creepier and real.
What about Lasagna Cat? And Sex Survey Results?
can't wait for Disney's upcoming photo-realistic CGI "live action" version of the Simpsons
"Oh, dear God, no!" -Moe Szyslak
Idk about you guys but that would be hilarious so I have 0 objections
With Will Smith casted as Homer.
Wasn't that already a thing at the end of one of the movies?
Simpsons was punched by 「Gold Experience Requiem」 and can never reach its true end
Abdega wha-
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I also feel like Simpsonwave really oddly captures the kind of loneliness and nostalgia a lot of American Gen Z kids kind of feel. A lot of the stuff we like is aging very quickly and a lot of us aren’t ready to grow up and let go of the things we love. We’re living in a tumultuous time where even I, an 18 year old, don’t understand the likes of someone 4 years younger than me. There’s a generational gap between me and a kid younger than me, that’s bow FAST stuff is aging now. Trends aren’t really trends anymore they’re just little microdoses of long standing memes. TikTok is kind of a perfect example for this. Trends are moving in and out faster than ever and everything is growing to get the biggest audience possible so it results in tiny trends being The Thing for like a day and than never hearing about it again.
Or maybe I’m just old and can’t cope with growing up.
I’m 18. You’re probably 19 now. You describe our age perfectly. Who let us be adults? When the world was normal pre pandemic, we were definitely children. Then we got shut away, and now we’re not children. How do we exist in this world?
@@theonejmv Getting old is a different experience to becoming not a child.
Having to provide for yourself is difficult.
I'm 33, and the world now is completely unrecognizable from what I grew up with. And not in a good way, not at all. Politics, culture, entertainment... It is all crazier, and shallower. I will be surprised if shows of the quality of Seinfeld and early Simpsons are ever made again, and I haven't seen a new movie I have really liked in years. The difference between the WWII generation the Baby Boomers was so great it was like things shifted into an alternate universe. I am pretty sure this is happening again with Gen Z.
This is happening with Millennials too
it's so confusing cause im 22 and my brother is 18 and growing up we remember the same trends, games, series, clothes, memes, etc. and now i feel like everyone is just trying to be 1000 steps ahead of the next trend and everyday someone is like "x is coming back into fashion" and there's 100 new microtrends and nothing seems to linger
This tells me how much potential that these characters still have.
Honestly it's beautiful what people have done here
The Simpsons show is being destroyed and the creators hide behind a very idiotic statement: "You yourself aren't as good as you were a few years ago." They literally used that line non-stop whenever somebody said the show is going bad. Once a world wide phenomenon, now it barely means anything anymore.
Sad but true.
The show it just cringe worthy now, and has been ever since the HD era of tv started.
I think shows like South park and family guy have stayed relevant for far longer than Simpsons.
@@BoleDaPole South Park was excellent for 17 seasons.
The Simpsons was excellent for 7.
Family Guy was serviceable at best for maybe 2 or 3 seasons. No comparison whatsoever.
@@loosetube5417 nah completely false
@@loosetube5417
South Park is still good, Family Guy never was
I think it's easy to look at the Simpsons as a single brand or entity which has turned bad and lost its spark, but I find it comforting to remember that the Simpsons is a fluid show which was heavily moulded by the people working on it. That's what made the early seasons so special; watching season 1 or two episodes is so different to watching a season 7 or 8 episode because Oakley and Weinstein bring such a charming sense of character to the later seasons. Or the David Merkin era with its hilariously over-the-top plotlines and brilliant, subversive jokes. Season 2 will always be the more sombre season with episodes that make you cry (Bart Gets an F, Lisa's Substitute) and seasons 3-4 are the episodes with some of the most interesting concepts (the Springfield monorail, a nuclear meltdown). I like the fact that even though the show is pretty bland and unwatchable today, It'll never be a shadow of its former self because it's 'former self' moved on. The showrunners that made the old seasons great did their time, contributed all that they felt they could and then left. Modern Simpsons is just a generic soulless sitcom using the Simpsons Brand.
seeing the tapped out thing at the beginning nearly gave me a heart attack bc my dads been playing it nonstop for 9 years on his iPad. idk what level he is ill ask later and edit it onto this post but holy shit his town is fucking huge. there's so much shit. 9 consecutive years. he's 60. when will it end.
edit: wow i totally forget to update this. as of right now he's played it for 10+ years, he's level 183, he's got over a billion of the in game currency and yet only 1 of the premium currency, and he's got over 450 characters. the town is so large im surprised it doesn't lag out his iPad.
What level?
Tapped out perfectly describes the Simpsons as a franchise and the fanbase Fox/EA is exploiting.
It's very fitting that EA is involved, and now Disney.
I knew EA was involved, but Disney? Seriously?
@@braylonbowen2058 disney bought fox's entertainment properties
@@VineFynn+ why am i not surprised?
Did you really just call him "Super Nintendo Chalmers"?
I mean who doesn't?
lol... yes, I had to rewind at that point, and do a double-take.
The subtitles confirm it.
Basic reference m8
There's lifelong, never-miss-an-episode Simpsons fans who don't know what a "Super Nintendo" is.
> 21:44 "Which, just like everything else I talk about this video, I will link in the description below."
> 18:20 - Talks about Scenic Simpsons Hentai
> No Scenic Simpsons Hentai link in the description
You said *everything*, dude. You made a promise.
Then admitted it went too far
I literally just want to find this one fucking hell
@@jacoblevenson7934 "I may have gone too far in a few places"
Just Google it, it's a Kickstart Ed fanzine
Tho unfortunately it doesn't seem available anymore
The Simpsons is an extreme example American TV running good shows until they become bad shows.
Not just American TV shows, Doctor Who's lookin pretty bad these days
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
No, its capitalism, the only reason why the simpsons keeps existing is because they make money, the only reason why the series started to apeal to twitter morons is because that will make people mad, giving the show negative atention and there for, make more money, its all because fox want more money so they can pay for more stuff that make money.
@@fcoomega7734 Capitalism is what made the Simpsons big in the first place.
It's not bad it's average a solid 6 or 7 out of 10. Just a shadow of itself.
>Starts talking about Steamed Hams.
"Oh man, I loved those. My favorite was the Nier: Automata one."
>Starts talking about the Nier Automata one specifically.
*Audible happy noises*
>Looks up Simpsonwave out of curiosity.
"This is pretty damn neat, but I don't think it's for me."
>Song stuck in my head
>Song refuses to leave
"Okay maybe a rewatch."
This was 10 rewatches ago
Steamed Hams, but it's a 30 minute long Eyepatch Wolf video
I’d watch that.
dead meme
@@hoesmad8035 Formerly alive
@@iloveketchup20 format memes are not funny
This wonderful kind of spiralling creativity that you find in the world of fan fiction is only possible with the input of a huge collective of contributing minds, and is precisely what copyright culture and an obsession with ownership stifle out of existence.
Imagine the Simpsons characters, and the fact that they're actors on a set.
SImpsonswave is just them now, past the prime of the show.
Now they just do it habitually, with no passion.
Thinking about the good ol days but it'll never be the same.
Reminds me of Bojack Horseman kind of.
Man, you should explore fanfiction more. it always has this stigma of being bad but it gives explorations of some stories that the original creators won't or can't go to.
DanDraco all fanfiction is porn it’s not that deep
as someone who recently when on a fanfiction binge of all the stuff i read years ago, i can confirm this. some of it is trash, but some of it is great.
yeah, but he would have to sink himself in an ocean of shitty fanfiction to analyze the occasional pearl, it takes way, waaaaaaay too much time
@@GinHindew110 it really, really does not lmao. You can always tell a quality from sinopsis alone.
I felt the exact same way about this one cobra Kai fanfic I read on ao3 about a character named hawk. Season 2 left this character undeveloped who's motives made no sense, but I kinda consider this fanfic my own personal canon becasue it adds so much to his chatacter that actually makes sense to HIS character! There really are so Jems out there
When an all-prevalent symbol dies, it is liberated from its meaning. It starts to exist on its own in many different contexts and with many meanings. This is just one example.
Тимофей Воронов :333
Well said.
Simulation and simulacrum.....
It is fascanating how self evindent concepts start sounding pretentious once you give them a scientific name.
I love how when he talks about how the fanbase took the series to new heights and transcended what it used to be, it only features old Simpsons and none of the new content has any substance to take from
The ending of this video had me feeling tremendously sad for The Simpson’s as if they were real people who are stuck
Fiction is a form of reality, in a way. The stories may not be real, but the feelings, the messages and overall the spirit of every story is very much real
What makes the memes so explosive is that everyone agrees (actively or passively) that something is very wrong. I think the viewer's nostalgic childhood takes offense by the uncanny state of a beloved brand being absolutely everywhere but as a shadow of its former self. Simpsons memes are as much a protest as they are an homage.
I believe fans want to relive the magic of the initial seasons but can't shake the existential offense taken by the current state of the Simpsons brand. Ironically, the direct inspiration for the meme couldn't exist without recognising the corruption of the brand. For the work to be effective, the outrage does need to be recognised somewhere in the meme (either that "The Simpsons *used to be great*" or that "The Simpsons *is not great anymore*"). It's a never-ending cycle. Again, Simpsons memes are as much a protest as they are an homage. They wouldn't get made if the show ended or continued on a high note.
I'd add to this that these memes are an attempt to relive the show as if we were watching it for the first time. It has become boring, mediocre, and predictable. These memes are none of those things. Its an attempt to see something we love again for the first time.
I get this exact feeling playing the Dark Souls games. There is nothing I wouldn't do to be able to play them again for the first time. I endlessly seek out mods that switch the gameplay up, add enemies, items, bosses. All so I can get a fresh hit of what I love so much. DS hasn't become bad per se, like the simpsons, I've just played it so much that I just go through the motions, lovely, happy motions, but the same motions nonetheless.
Rewatching early simpsons is the same. These memes are a beautiful switch up of the good parts and yes, like you said, they're also a protest to what it has become.
Memes... A Modern Critique on Modern Times. Only memes being very condensed in information could narrate the modern era of information highways.
Has it really been 2 years since "The Fall of The Simpsons"?
Damn man, it always hits me hard how fast time goes
Formerly the Sneed of the Sneedsons
did you trigger your dad when he realized his son will never pass on his seed?
The scenic Simpsons account and all its content is basically just a compilation of images of liminal spaces. The way the images are described here, as it pertains to vibes and surrealism, matches perfectly with them.
Somewhere between a shitpost and a love song, modern beauty is found and the human experience explored
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Fox: *Cancels the X Files*
Also Fox: *Keeps a reanimated corpse of the Simpson’s*
The X Files takes effort to write. Can't say the same thing about Zombie Simpsons.
Family guy wasn’t funny for a long time
Also it’s hill
To be fair the X-files seemed to be phoning it in after the first movie
X Files doesn't make billions of dollars in merchandise
This is why things like Fan fiction are a good thing (even though it is a double edged sword at times) the passion of the fans is what made the show and it’s also what kept it alive long after it lost its original soul.
Raden Truman that’s why I said it’s a double edged sword, sometimes the art that fans create is without a doubt better than the original. A few examples are abridged series such as Something Witty entertainment’s SAO abridged turned one of the most bland op for no reason characters into someone hilarious it makes more sense with him being a solo player due to the inflated ego and insecurity complex
the cultural value of transformative fanwork and our access to it thanks to the internet is something I deeply cherish
Super eyepatch wolf: *starts describing the history of memes and the word meme*
Me: *a staunch metal gear fan* wait I've seen this one before
Funkboi: mentions that he is a staunch fan of metal gear and memes
Me, a Metal Gear and meme fan: _spouts Monsoon quotes_
Monsoon is no doubt one of my favorite characters of all time
Me, an aspiring political science student, who's looked into semiotics quite a bunch, and hears of Richard Dawkin (practically) only in reference to his coinage of meems:
Super Eyepatch Wolf: \*starts describing the history of memes and the word meme\*
Me: Oh, not this again...
(not complaining about the introduction though, it is necessary before addressing the topic, but god damn, almost every mention of Dawkin's work I've seen is in relation to meeeeems; he's done other things too ;_;)
How typical of you to meme away, Monsoon the Memer!
The Simpsons is dead and Simpsonswave is its ghost. Bartkira and Marge Simpson's Anime are its heirs and season 30 is the shambling corpse being sustained by Fox's lich sorcery
Forget Fox, The Simpsons is now the property of Disney, and the mouse will keep squeezing the franchise for every last cent for the next 100 years.
I cannot accept that Marge and Homer are in their mid 30's!
I've always thought of them as at least 10 years older than that and being in their mid 40's.
For real
Yup. I was a kid in the 90s watching the classic Simpsons, and it feels so weird that I'm now the same age as Homer and Marge. :D I don't feel nearly as adult as Marge is portrayed in the show.
they were supposed to be in hs in the 70s when the show was airing in the 90s, so if they are in their 30s they're in their late 30s, like 38 at the youngest
Same here. But it kind of makes sense, with Bart only being 10 and Maggey being toddler age.
I guess we just have to accept... that we're growing older and will eventually be older than these fictional characters whose age never changes.
People used to grow up and have children. Nowadays women think they can live a "Sex and the City" fantasy until their 50s until they become catladies.
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the super nintendo chalmers bit killed me. reading marge simpson anime killed me too, but in a different way--it touched some deep, buried part of me that was alive in another life. i don't think it would have been the same if i wasn't a wlw. good video, man.
The simpson music stuff is pretty simple.
It mixed meloncholy techno music (current music and mood of society) with old familiar nostolgic stuff that reminds you of better times.
Nailed it. Now the question is just why does society feel that way right now
I don't know what it is, but I hate the new, clean lines and backgrounds of modern Simpsons. It feels sterile and clinical to me. Something about the rougher look of traditional animation with the little shadows the colored cells make on the backgrounds feels so much more appealing. Even the color palette of early Simpsons feels so much livelier and richer. It's such a small aesthetic thing to be picky about but the modern episodes feel bland by comparison looking at the art alone.
#PutTheSimpsonsBackInThe90s #WhereTheyBelong #LetTheExistentialNightmareEnd
It's digital animation done poorly. When done right, digital can replicate hand-drawn almost perfectly (with only color bleeding disappearing, which might account for a color palette feeling much less lively). The thing is, digital animation is done to save on costs, so almost by default, it's going to look and feel as cheap as possible. Digital coloring can be extremely expressive and feel real kino, but studios rarely do it right because the point is almost never to do it "right". Just do it at the cheapest cost point.
IIRC, it costs about $300,000 to make a single episode (yes, EPISODE, not season) of a cartoon for a "cheap" cartoon on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. For a show like _The Simpsons_ whose voice actors and writers are much bigger names and which feature celebrities often, they run upwards of two to three _million_ per episode (seriously, look it up: it's astounding how big of a gap there is between how expensive people think animation is and how expensive it actually is). Going with traditional hand-drawn animation can balloon costs by several times over. So while it steals a lot of the soul of a show when done awfully, it's often the only thing that keeps a show running without being canceled... though by this point, it would be a mercy kill for _The Simpsons._
Those are my feelings to most animated projects nowadays, mostly the ones who are new incarnations to old series (example: Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Family Guy and duh, The Simpsons).
Cleaner lines also make you notice obvious flaws. This is mostly noticeable in anime because of how their production works: cheapest and quickest. Not to be confused with animated japanese projects. Anime is an industry and completely different from indie projects and animated japanese movies (provided they're not based on anime obviously).
Cranberry the Cat YES. Also the voices. Characters all sound like they are shouting constantly now.
@@RobotScarlet "anime" is just a contraction of "animation" that is used in Japan. This distinction you're making between "anime" and "animated Japanese projects" doesn't exist. In fact, the Japanese call western animation "anime."
I think you meant "clinical", not cynical.
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I relate the sadness of simpsons wave to my own sadness last year when I was living abroad while my relationship was falling apart. I’d wander the city at night under neon lights and the foreign writing. Alone with my thoughts and this music in my ears. It was something that let me contemplate my thoughts. And it helped me stay alive.