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Welcome to TheSimpsons, a community for discussing everything related to America's non-prehistoric cartoon family, The Simpsons!

Right about now, you're probably saying, "Troy, basically every post starts with 'Guess the Episode', is that all this community is?"

To which I say you've got some attitude, mister.

But no, any Simpsons content is allowed in this community, although we do ask that you keep the shitposting over in !simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works.


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[–] mwproductions@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Season 6, episode 3 was a clip show, in case anyone else was wondering what happened there.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm so glad that those aren't really a thing anymore.

[–] coolie4@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

Even as a kid I hated clip episodes.