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Guess the Episode "Rules"
- Post a screenshot from an episode of the Simpsons. Frinkiac being a popular source.
- If posting a GIF the file size should be less than 1MB, otherwise it may not be animated.
- Easy, a screenshot any who's seen the Simpsons would get.
- Medium, a screenshot that would take a moment for most people to get.
- Hard, a screenshot that someone only gets after you explain it to them.
- Genius at Work, a screenshot that makes someone go, "Yeah, that's from The Simpsons, the one where the family does the funny thing".
These "Rules" aren't real, so if you think of something clever, do that instead.
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Season 6, episode 3 was a clip show, in case anyone else was wondering what happened there.
I'm so glad that those aren't really a thing anymore.
Sometimes they are, but ironically, as the clips weren't actually shown before. Like "Morty's Mind Blowers", and I'm pretty sure Community did it a few times.
They don't make much sense nowadays, but when you didn't have access to the episodes and seasons were 20+ episodes it wasn't so bad. Plus when they got creative with the framing device I think it worked well.
Take for example the season 9 episode 11 episode "All Singing All Dancing", which you can see on the chart as the lowest rated episode of season 9. I still sing the "Paint Your Wagon" song or think of Snake's weird singing voice. Sure that could have been the B plot for a different episode, but the new parts of the episode we got was great.
But yes, they don't make sense anymore.
Even as a kid I hated clip episodes.