ITT: The most dated Simpsons jokes
WHAT computers?
>>77338939
That bit isn't really dated because you could drop any First Lady into the scene and it would still work the same way. Things like Bart watching a shoplifting video on VHS are what I'd consider dated.
>>77339290
I bet that it'll be relevant again in another eleven months
>>77339461
>because you could drop any First Lady into the scene and it would still work the same way.
Yeah, it could just as easily be Michelle Obama
Now a gag with Bill Clinton walking around playing the sax is dated because that was a particular stereotype about him that wouldn't apply to any president.
>>77339506
That episode where Michelle Obama told the kids of Springfield elementary that she has aids wtf
The Michael Jackson episode, where they still think of him as black. And Bart makes his point by showing the guy a vinyl record album.
>inb4 studynet.edu
>>77339360
Oh christ
THIS
Haha, it's funny because they're referencing the Wii which already came out 3 years before this episode aired.
>>77338939
>Are we there yet?
>No
>Are we there yet?
>No
>Are we there yet?
>No!
cont
>>77343004
Are we there yet?
>>77342867
Who is the superior company, Sorny or Funtendo?
>>77343027
Magnetbox
It was too good for this world
>>77339360
>>77339290
Context?
>>77338939
The show itself hasn't been relevant since the 90s. So itself is a dated joke.
>>77343479
here's one of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6ov8yxZ7A
>>77343128
I'm holding out for a genuine Panafonix.
>>77343004
What, do kids not do that anymore?
>>77344146
It's not that they don't, it's just that you can distract them with ipad games now.
>>77338939
Pretty sure this was dated before it even aired.
>>77344509
This is what happens when a cartoon with a two-year production cycle tries to be topical.
>>77344509
It's like an old person asking what's hip and cool these days, and then showing every thing in the song in the most literal way possible.
>>77344897
>Ahoy there dean!
The Lady Gaga episode.
She had already fallen out of mainstream popularity by the time that aired.
Fuck, she's practically a nobody right now.
>>77344918
Does she still try to attach herself to the gay cause?
>>77344924
All I know is that she's on American Horror Story right now.
>>77344918
She basically became what she hated and left for a bit in an interview. Sounded like something from a cliched "rise to fame" movie saying how was always tired, hated sponsoring shit she didn't want to and all the PR bullshit.
>>77344931
Getting rammed in a bathtub
>>77343027
Supernintendo Chalmers
>>77344918
She just launched the most accalimed Jazz album in decades
>>77339461
Some places still use VHS's because it's cheaper than upgrading something to do the same job
>>77344853
why does it take two fucking years to make an episode of The Simpsons, other cartoons do it in less?
>>77346883
They actually write a script.
>>77346883
I'd imagine the two year cycle is somehow the most cost effective.
Also surely once the cycle starts it must be very difficult to change it, what with likely dozens of episodes all at different stages all at once?
>>77344853
>two-year production cycle
>South Park can pump out an episode in less than a week
>Simpsons needs 2 years even when using similar tech
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>>77342443
I spent over a hundred dollars on vinyls yesterday. In my defense I found a lot of really cool ones.
>>77346883
I think they batch produce a bunch of them to save money while other shows are in a continuous production cycle
She looks like Blossom!
>>77346948
South Park takes longer than a week to make.
Blatantly cheap animation that they've been making jokes about for years allows them to make it considerably quicker and cheaper, but making a show is a very time consuming process regardless of how low budget it looks.
>>77346883
If I had to guess I'd say each step in the production cycle is done separately.
Writing
then animation
then recording
I'm sure there's more to it than that but it's probably the most cost effective method.
>>77346980
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_Days_to_Air
>>77346883
They gotta pile up all that cash the main cast gets paid.
>>77346431
>living in the third world
>>77338939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdEpjGlwsWQ
>>77339360
>>77343530
Good stuff
>>77346940
Haha, that was a good one.
Back when the Simpsons aired it was somewhat believable that someone was stuck in the Disco era
Now he's just some mentally insane guy
>>77348745
>First appeared in Season 7.
Honestly, when you see Disco Stu you're more than likely looking at an episode where the Simpsons was already in decline. Season 7 was great for sure, but even Season 8 is pretty debatable.
>>77347788
This is dated, but somehow it's even funnier now.
>>77346883
2 is on the lengthy side, but it's not ridiculous. Many production cycles for 22 minute cartoons take over a year to go from conception to release. There are a lot of hands it has to pass through to finish the product and traditional animation takes a lot of work.
David Ortiz, Matt Damon, and Seth McFarlane are gonna beat my ass for this, but does anyone know who the Kennedys are?
"Is he the guy that got shot on the History channel?"
I'm pretty sure kids don't know.
I didn't know cable TV used to have its own awards show until I saw it on The Simpsons.
>>77348951
>pretty sure my kids don't
Get them a better fucking education then. No, seriously, that's a really fucking big problem man. You gotta teach them about the history of America. And naturally the rest of the world.
Now here's the toughie: start kids out on local scale history then expand or start big then move inward so you can see how the ripples affected home?
I started out with state-level history then we moved to US and finally world history myself.
>>77346980
They put out a documentary when they were making the CentiPad episode and they had 6 days to write it, plot out the animation and record the voices. They even had time to go in and edit a pile of stuff because of new topical shit happening throughout the week.
>>77343004
>Are we insane yet?
>>77346883
It doesn't take two years or even close. It's really more like six months with episodes being done in batches of 3-4 at a time.
>>77348951
Come on, dude. If you were a 10 year old in the 90s, JFK was still decades before your time.
>>77339548
He's still entitled to style himself President, because nobody's going to forget that he's had his two terms.
It's still dated by the appearances of Nixon (who died in 1995 or so), Bush snr (who retired in 1993 and is 91 now), Henry Kissinger (92 and ready to drop), or even billionaire tyrant Rupert Murdoch (stepping down as president of FOX, 84, said to be in poor health and possibly suffering from dementia based on his appearance before the UK government over phone hacking at his newspapers, had an entire family since his last appearance and a hilarious divorce as well, being replaced by his incompetent children who will either run the empire into the ground within a few years or tear it apart trying to gain overall control for themselves).
Plus there's a whole bunch of early episodes in syndication alongside later ones that don't make sense, because the early ones are pre-cellphone plots and the later ones simply reflect modern life by including cellphones.
>>77349537
Their process is different though; they basically use clipart and prebuilt sets for the majority of it, and the animation is mostly simplistic enough that they have very little to do. It's like comparing playing with dolls to putting on a play with actors in a theater.
>>77343530
>>77339360
That's a no-brainer because it's a joke about how Apple was close to bankruptcy at the time when the episode aired.
The psychic in Bart the Murderer saying it's Splitsville for Ted Kennedy and his wife.
"A portable stereo? Bart, were you planning to listen to hard rock in Sunday school?"
"Maybe."
This bit stopped making sense during the Clinton years.
The idea of a 30-something woman having a crush on the Monkees as a child.
>>77348951
I'm 18 and know who the Kennedys are.
>>77349695
>even billionaire tyrant Rupert Murdoch (stepping down as president of FOX, 84, said to be in poor health and possibly suffering from dementia based on his appearance before the UK government over phone hacking at his newspapers
I don't believe the guy is senile, but he sure did exploit the feeble old man card at that thing to get out of answering uncomfortable questions. For example, he is partially deaf (not surprising at his age) and purposely didn't wear a hearing aid that day so he could have the excuse of "Oh, I can't hear the question. Please say again."
If you can attend a two-hour hearing like this and then crack jokes to reporters afterwards, you can't be that senile or out of it. Whatever happens to Murdoch's empire doesn't really matter to him anymore, but you can sure bet he's concerned about the fate of his son.
>>77347788
This is an example of a joke reverse-dating
>>77348951
JFK is a bigger deal then he should have been because he died, but the whole Kennedy family is still pretty prominent and still the butt of many political jokes due to them being generally dumb and spoiled and in politics on their name alone
>>77347007
recording is often done before animation because lip sync
>>77339290
Underrated post
>>77346948
You are an idiot.
>>77350223
>but the whole Kennedy family is still pretty prominent
Since Ted died, not really, no.
>>77350020
Reported for underage
>>77350101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D89kIT6PqIg
He is definitely a bit slow on the take here. I've known a few 80 year olds who were really sharp and you'd think they were mentally in their 50s, but age apparently hasn't been so kind to him even though he could afford the best health care.
>>77350533
You don't get to his position of power without being a master rusesmith.
> I Feel Like Chicken Tonight
> Like Chicken Tonight
> Like Chicken Tonight
That was dated when it aired, and that was in season 5.
>>77345663
So a nobody then.
>>77345663
"I'm wondering if you guys could do a tribute to Bleeding Gums Murphy."
"Oh I'd love to, little lady. Unfortunately we don't have his album."
"If I could find a copy, would you do it?"
"Sure. Of course, our broadcasting range is only 30 feet. Thereby making us the most powerful jazz station in the USA."
"You guys sure have a lot of problems."
"Tell me about it. Check out our morning guy."
"Hello, this is Hans Moleman. Good Moleman to you. Today we continue our series about the agonizing pain in which I live every day."
>>77350533
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQW3KKItqA
Dubya does most of the talking here because the old man seems really pretty out of it. Also check out the hilariously butthurt Mudslimes in the comment section.
>>77350533
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>>77348951
You are underselling some folks there anon.
I'm 21 and i know a lot of this shit, then again history was something i found fascinating.
>>77349196
>>77350796
>daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
>>77349695
Murdoch should have retired at the turn of the millenium. He was a media genius 40 years ago but time passed him by.
>>77342443
Dude even when that episode aired vinyl hadn't been a popular media for decades.
>>77352987
It was 1991. Vinyl had been the standard only 10 years earlier.
You guys remember the Apple Newton right?
>>77353197
only from Ashens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLg1Wtl9ffQ
>>77351209
>47788
>ITT: The most dated Simpsons jokes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18nfx4x0D7A
>>77347788
This needs to be carved onto the Simpsons Metaphorical Tombstone.
This will never cease to utterly fucking hilarious.
>>77350796
>"Hello, this is Hans Moleman. Good Moleman to you. Today we continue our series about the agonizing pain in which I live every day."
Everyday, I realize I'm slowly becoming Moleman
>>77353197
the Simpsons is literally the only pace I ever saw that in my whole life
>>77350223
>due to them being generally dumb and spoiled and in politics on their name alone
Please don't do this.
>>77348745
Come to think of it, the joke barely works now anyway. The "end" of disco was 1980; there are people with children who don't remember it. Disco-style music in itself doesn't get anywhere near the backlash it used to, because for the people who didn't grow up in the days when it was obnoxiously omnipresent, it's just another genre of music - look at how popular Daft Punk is.
>>77345663
...that's the same thing as saying she is a nobody..
>>77349284
Pretty much everyone who took history knows JFK, and most people who are up on their politics know Ted, but the days of the Kennedy family being American royalty are long gone. I think the last one to be really prominent would be JFK Jr, and most people who know him these days only know him because he died in a plane crash. Everyone else is just C-list celebrities and the occasional moderate political position.
>>77354304
Are you implying that Daft Punk is Disco?
>>77344203
You could distract them with gameboys and stuff back then too.
>>77354825
It was hardly that ubiquitous. Besides, batteries ran out quickly.
>>77339290
Goddamn it
>>77354859
>batteries ran out quickly
I forgot how much the first one used to use up.
>>77354975
I had one. It did not last more than an hour or two.
>>77354757
>Genres House[1] electronic disco[2] dance[1]
>>77355262
Daft Punk is Disco like a chicken is a dinosaur.
Daft Punk evolved from what Disco evolved from.
>>77354304
Well, it's kind of like how Elvis jokes used to be commonplace into the 90s however Gen Xers and Millenials don't particularly give a shit about that.
>>77339360
That one actually works on a different level now.
>>77355589
Yeah, a shittier level.
When it aired, Homer wasn't an ignorant buffoon. He was just a 35 year old man.
Not knowing about Apple made perfect sense.
But now, not knowing Apple is borderline retarded.
In order to retain the initial meaning, change "Apple" to "Linux".
>>77355642
Just think of it as the clerk being confused by Apple being a computer company instead of trendy handheld gadgets.
>>77347710
>Britain is a third world country
You take that back!
>>77355642
But Linux has never been a big common name. It's remained relatively stable around 1-2% browser share for the past 20 years. It's lost some ground on server percentages but considering how much more servers there are these days I'm sure as a business name it's remained relatively stable too.
>>77339548
Bill Clinton, the closest we'll ever get to having a black president.
"It's not our fault we have such short attention spans, Dad. Our generation watches an appalling amount of TV."
>>77347788
To be fair, this was always intended to be a joke at their own expensive because it aired when Simpsons selling out and merchandising was at a fevered pitch. But it's still pretty damn funny in light of how things turned out.
>Hey, that bartender looks like John Travolta!
>Yeah...l-looks like *nervous sweating*
The joke was JT was a has-been but it aired very close to when Pulp Fiction came out.
Lisa chuckles nervously, then says, "oh, I was just thinking of something i saw on Herman's Head."
"Whew, this must have been left over from our bicentennial party."
Oh wait, that was Rugrats.
>>77354757
Daft Punk made disco/funk okay for white boys to listen to. That's their main gift to the world. It delivered us from electronica being, "Imagine a speaker oonce ooncing into a human ear. Forever."
>>77342443
but vinyl's popular again
"Hello Mr. Simpson, I represent Rebel Yell Records, a division of the Kawasaki Corporation."
>>77349824
IDGI. Why?
>>77357971
Early 90s, we'd had years of Republican presidents, Christfags were powerful, and they thought heavy metal was Satan's work or something.
>>77348951
>does anyone know who the Kennedys are?
>"Is he the guy that got shot on the History channel?"
If only you knew how bad things really are.
