Are there any jokes or cultural references in the Simpsons that, by virtue of the show's age, are now obsolete?
hundreds, I'm sure. Especially the later seasons that were more pop culture and current events driven.
>>83825100
How so? It's been a while since I've seen it, but all I can think of is Adam West, and he's timeless.
>>83825100
How? Did I miss some cultural reference?
>>83825100
Explain how!
>>83825201
>the Sea Captain songs on tape commercial
>Ordering a cassette or CD from a commercial for just $9.99 plus shipping and handling
>All the songs scrolling upwards in the middle of the screen as a music video keeps changing
Gooooood memories.
>>83825201
Don't forget the qt mexican country singer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCl-HXllGI0
There was that "Apple computers" "what computers?" joke in the Homerpalooza episode.
>>83825046
Bart did the Bart man and Ralph said it was so 1990s.
Does that count?
>>83825255
>>83825201
Oh christ almighty, I didn't even think about that.
>>83825345
>They're a bunch of middle aged office drones now
*40-something, balding, deadlifting, unironically-holds-strong-opinions-about-Marvel-movies IT workers
>>83825046
The joke about it having its own website may be dated, but the fact that only universities can get them still gets across how important the school is (perhaps even better).
>Marge: Can we get rid of this Ayatollah T-shirt? Khomeini died years ago.
>Homer: But, Marge! It works on any Ayatollah: Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi...even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmada and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power.
>Marge: I don't care who's consolidating their power.
>>83825487
Still works pretty well, desu.
I understood Krusty as a reference to Bozo the Clown when I was a kid, but I don't know if local kids TV shows like that even exist anymore.
the idea that a single blue-collar American worker can provide a comfortable middle-class standard of living for his wife, their three children and pets
>>83825147
Kids these days wouldn't get using the radio tuner to balance the plow truck
>>83825417
>Homer Badman
if anything that episode is even more relevant now than it was in the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Y0dTNH7Ns
>>83825417
Homer Badman works better than ever.
>>83825417
Homer Badman is as relevant today as ever
Question: Does "Remember Alf? He's back, in Pog form!" become less relevant as both of those things fade from collective memory, or more funny because that's the joke?
gentle reminder that Homer Bad Man is about media-fuelled moral panics
it gave us "Homer - this is God...frey Jones"
>>83825646
better, given all the 80s 90s pop culture revivals
>>83825589
According to this http://www.simplyhired.com/salaries-k-nuclear-power-plant-safety-inspector-jobs.html, a safety inspector at a nuclear plant makes an average salary of $80,000, which is a pretty respectable salary and certainly enough to sustain a family in a lower-middle class neighborhood.
>>83825255
Those are not a thing anymore?
I haven't watched late-night TV for some time.
>>83825302
>that moment in the 90s when Apple was irrelevant
Well, with Apple the way is going, this joke might make sense again.
>>83825417
I have that feeling about a lot of the classic episodes. It all feels very much like early 90s.
>>83825626
They did show in one episode that the house was given to them by Grandpa. Stil maintaining even a crappy house costs a lot.
>>83825646
I just know that the Alf actor recently died.
>>83825743
that was the midget, not the puppeteer
>>83825757
So are puppeteers seen as actors or not?
>>83825646
Even funnier.
On the DVD commentary for Bart vs Australia the writers have to explain what some of the references in the slides Phil Hartman's character shows the family because no one remembered things like Jocko, and those were recorded in 2005.
>>83825255
God, those commercials.
>MONSTER BALLADS
>CLASSICAL THUNDER
We actually bought the Time-Life Christmas Collection from one of those commercials. I still listen to it every year.
>>83825255
They still do those for kidz bop.
>>83825701
Homer only makes 18k a year after deductions based on his cheque from Much Apu About Nothing.
>>83825764
moreso than the midgets used for walking shots. Puppeteers will still provide the voice and close up shots.
>>83825779
>blues music played over thunderstorm sounds
>vaguely New Age music played over water sounds
i don't even know if those are a thing any more. like the weird Mr Plow commercial could have been a real thing in the era when late-night tv was weird like that, i would assume anything like that these days would be eaten up and spat out by meme culture
>>83825782
>over 20
Who buys them??
>>83825046
Hell, even Futurama has dated references. Bonds broke the home run record 5 years after this episode came out.
>>83825834
Mormons
>>83825933
I would say that Futurama almost aged more badly.
I feel lower than when Madonna realized she missed Tailhook
>>83825820
>vaguely New Age music played over water sounds
Shit, remember Chant? People were obsessed with monks for a while
>>83825834
Fundamental christians
>family sits on the couch to watch a TV show together
The Simpsons is outdated even before the episode starts.
>>83825834
Grandmothers looking for gifts for their young relatives that they don't know very well.
>>83825782
And Now That's What I Call Music.
>>83825933
Didn't they say it didn't count because steroids
>>83825965
What is this, Family Guy?
>>83825255
I am 21 year old and I know this exclusively from parodies.
Radioactive Man
because shit, the comic book market imploded under its own morbid hologram-bagged stupidity in what? 93? 94?
>>83826125
96-97
>>83826114
I am 18 and I saw them all the time. They're still around, too.
Not a single parody is funny or clever, though.
>>83826125
The thing about stuff like that is, because comics are still around and popular today, their stories still work. They're just basic and not modern. Made today it would be about company wars and hollywood multimillion dollar movies and shit, but what they had still works because Springfield is a small basic town full of idiots. As long as the medium is still around, those episodes won't be so dated.
>>83826158
dad rock hasn't changed any
>>83826158
>>83826158
>Rock
>Chvrches and Grimes
Rock isn't relevant anymore. Everything is either hipsters recreating earlier genres, and some lingering indie.
Electronic music and rap/trap has completely supplanted it as the culturally relevant genre. Rock is the jazz of the 21st century
>>83826158
Hipster stereotypes are destroying the sanctity of rock music festivals!!!! ha ha look at the guy with the /styled beard/, look there's a /craft beer/ tent lol, and here's a shrill GENDER IS MEANINGLESS stereotype!! Caravan Palace, Zebrahead and Reel Big Fish guest-star.
B-plot: Marge's annoyed throat sound is sampled by Less than Jake and becomes famous on Not Soundcloud.
I think that the interpretation of Jon in Homer's Phobia is starting to lose credibility. A lot of gay men aren't that flamboyant these days (source: am gay, many gay friends who you wouldn't know unless they told you)
The message it delivers is on point however and the fact that nobody except Homer, Moe and Barney bring Jon's sexuality into everything is good representation on how gay people should be treated
>>83826338
>We work hard
>We play hard
>>83826338
>forgetting about Karl
i'm ashamed on your behalf, anon
>>83826303
Depends on what kind of rock you're talking about. Pink Floyd is as good as any jazz. Ramones not so much...except that isn't the point of the Ramones...so it's apples and oranges at that point
;_;7
>>83826358
Oh yeah, that didn't spring to mind right away though. Karl was done excellently and subtly.
>>83825811
THATS why mr burns is so rich
>>83826358
>>83826377
i think we all need a Karl of our own every now and then
>>83825717
They make computers?
>>83826377
I haven't watched the show in a damn long while, what was this guys deal again?
The entire notion that TV matters and that families watch it together. That's been outdated for over 10 years.
>>83826432
>Always wanted to be Karl for someone else
>Always end up being Homer, because everyone I know is a psychotic workaholic.
Feels bad.
the Eye on Springfield intro looks straight out of 1994: dissolve cuts, the logo, the everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxhb34_iGg
>>83826472
Karl was Homer's mysterious guardian angel; also ambiguously, unobtrusively, possibly gay. One of the show's best one-shot characters, just before the 'Hooray!' guy.
>>83826423
And then Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear and other garbage 00s indie bands tried to kill rock again, only this time there was no one to save it.
>>83826537
Ah, I see.
Thanks.
>>83826308
>rap/trap
Maybe if you are urban for like three years now.
>>83826338
>>83826639
Hamilton won Best Musical, hip-hop is mainstream now
>>83826338
Gay steelworkers, man.
>>83826338
>A lot of gay men aren't that flamboyant these days
And John wasn't even that flamboyant. Freakin' George Takei is more flamboyant
So, remember:
Call my name
It's Mr. Plow
That name again is Mr. Plow
>>83826821
Now do the hip-hop remix.
>>83825046
what about the reverse?
what references date the SIMPSONS as a show that has been on the air since 1989?
smart phones and HD graphics that look terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQMEhZZZPNU
>>83826910
Meant as a response to >>83825981
>>83826772
>steelworkers
>in the USA
Yeah, that's really dated.
>>83825774
Kids bop comercials are still a thing, I've also seen a few 30+ minute long infomercials for a few guys from the 80s on netgeo wild.
>>83826881
Martin Prince being the butt of jokes (Wang Computers shirt, the lute), instead of awkwardly hitting on Lisa, posting a diatribe on r9k, then shooting up the school
>>83826881
Yeah they put way too much emphasis on smartphone and 'trending technology' shit in new episodes. It seems every episode there's some kind of joke like "LOOK! HOMER'S USING AN Apple(r) iPad (tm) LOL!!!!" I'm just waiting for the invitable snapchat joke a couple of years late.
>>83825589
That hasn't been true since the 60s.
>>83826537
>the Eye on Springfield intro looks straight out of 1994: dissolve cuts, the logo, the everything
That's because it was a parody of the show Eye on LA, I can't find the 90s intro so have the 80s intro instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Q4u542gSc
>>83825933
The post-revival episodes were especially dated. There were a ton of current events episodes like the Obama birth certificate episode, the iPhone one (featuring Susan fucking Boyle) and the EULA lawsuit episode.
>>83826881
that stupid episode with GURLS KAN PROGRUM AS GUD AS MENZ guest starring Wheatly from Portal 2.
>>83826986
I think the absolute worst was that episode when Homer had a fucking existential crisis because he broke his iPad.
>>83826881
Has Skinner brought up his days in 'Nam in the latest seasons?
>>83827291
is this a trick question
because Skinner was literally ridden out of town on a rail, and his name was forbidden under penalty of torture
>>83826956
yup, all the gay industry got outsourced to Asia.
>>83827291
nope
retconned into being in desert storm
>>83825693
Suicidal people?
>>83826290
fuck you Grimes is amazing
Homer's webpage still works as a joke, since it's obviously awful, but I doubt many younger people experienced the kind of pages this makes fun of.
I haven't seen a dancing baby in years...
>>83827500
>I haven't seen a dancing baby in years...
that meme is twenty years old, anon. it's literally older than most posters
>That episode where Bart says he's part of the "MTV generation"....
What's MTV?
>>83827500
The dancing baby .gif only ever made me think of Ally Macbeal.
Ally Macbeal was also the last time I saw so many people talking about bathrooms.
>>83826590
I guarantee you if I wiped your memory of Animal Collective and Arcade Fire, and told you their music came out in 1988, you'd like at least one of their songs.
There's an episode where everyone goes clamoring to a wall full of payphones for some reason. That must look odd.
I'm playing Pokemon Crystal and the whole "put these people's names in your portable digital device, so you can talk to them from anywhere, also, they can interrupt your outdoor adventure for no good reason!" was bizarre and unrealistic back when I played Silver. And I had no clue what the "signal bar" icon was supposed to be.
In 2000, cellular phones were around but their common and casual use was still a strange concept. We didn't think the outdoors was meant for that.
>>83827583
yeah
back when MTV was "rebellious"
now its just sad and about preggers 16yr olds
You have a cellphone?!
>>83827750
i watched the first season of real world again and man, i actually cared about the people living in that house
>>83827796
Is that the one with The Miz in it?
>>83825417
>Homer Badman
I don't think you could have picked a worse example. That episode is still relevant to American society today, and to numerous countries as well.
>>83825345
We have millennial slackers now, the joke still works.
>>83827205
>guest starring Wheatly from Portal 2
The episode could've been okay if the writers had played Portal 2.
>>83826881
Many "jokes" that are really just references to other things
It's sad to see The Simpsons doing stuff that you'd see on a bland Family Guy episode
>>83826338
>A lot of gay men aren't that flamboyant these days
tumblr, Bravo, and pride parades say otherwise.
>>83827583
Also
>The episode with the cringy Youtube and "redbull" teacher
>>83827306
You can still say Skinner, but you can't say Ar- nice try, you just wanted me to get tortured.
I tried to update the joke
>>83825779
>>83825255
SAIL AWAY SAIL AWAY SAIL AWAY
>>83828009
School needs a hashtag.
>>83827363
>Before the show goes off the air there will have to be another retcon to be Iraq War, much like the Punisher
>>83828013
God damn, I heard that snippet so many times I've been stockholmed in truly loving that song, even today.
>PURE MOODS....
>>83827846
no idea
>>83828009
>get a virtual tour using oculus Rift!
>>83828039
ugh
that is horrible
only nam could make frank frank
what can the fucking iraq war do to make frank frank?
can we go even deeper?
How about old Simpsons jokes that became dated and it ran so long that it came around to up to date again
>>83828039
>implying there was a first retcon
They just stopped talking about it.
How about time they let Critic in?
I was visiting my family who watch Simpsons a lot a few weeks back when that episode came up.
For them, it was just another episode, having never seen a single episode of it.
And that thing is jam-packed with references that will fly over your head unless you know The Critic.
>>83825961
>I would say that Futurama almost aged more badly.
The "Obama" episode is probably the worst of the revival era.
>>83828092
Nah
There were many parts of the Iraq war that completely Fucked people up
How is it different from vietnam
>>83826864
I'm Mr. Plow and I'm here to say
I'm the plowingest guy in the USA!
>>83828112
>yfw the Berenstein Bears became Christian propaganda about ten years ago
>>83828190
I think you mean Berenstain.
>>83828112
Nice photoshop
>>83828083
>>83828031
>>83828210
>Beren
No, I fucking refuse to believe it's not Bern. When did the world change around me again?
>>83828190
>The Berenstain Bears: God Loves You
>The Berenstain Bears Say Their Prayers
>Berenstain Bears Bible
This truly is the worst universe.
>>83828158
because nam is still talked about and be remembered, as the iraq war won't because we will still be there in 2100 and beyond and also FMJ is better than anything about anything post 2000 for movies about the iraq war
>>83828364
>waah Nam was worse 'cause pop culture!
Boo hoo
>>83827627
Well I already do like a couple of Arcade Fire songs. It's just as a whole that they suck.
I do like plenty of 00s indie bands, those are just some of the specific ones that took the genre in an awful direction in the latter half of the decade and into the 10s.
>>83828378
You didn't read that post at all. Vietnam ended, so there's a clear period of history to talk about. The Middle East horseshit is never going to end unless the Iranians manage to get a nuke and glass themselves.
>>83827789
The was a time when 8yos had no $700 gizmos.
>>83828190
>Berenstein
I thought they are jews.
>>83828671
>mr burns loses all his money
>it's a 'we put the simpsons characters in public domain stories' episode
>>83825487
The joke is that homer has a muslim fanatic on a t shirt and that there's so many that it can apply to any. And also that homer, of all people, is knowledgeable about middle eastern politics.
I would say it hasn't aged at all and if anything more people in a post 9/11 world would laugh.
>>83828683
>it's a 'one of the Simpsons goes to jail' episode
>>83828734
>homer, of all people, is knowledgeable about middle eastern politics
that episode revealing homer wrote letters to a fictional nazi
>>83828524
>back in my day childrenchildren played with sticks and mud, if they were lucky enough to afford mud!
Fuck off grandpa, there was always rich kids, there was always poor kids and poor kids eventually got what rich kids had 10 years before.
>>83828790
Hoooooooooommmmmmmeeeeerrrrr!!!
>>83828009
Nope, apps are also worthless now.
Everyone can make one.
>>83828790
Wait what episode is that?
>>83828853
He needs to be as smart or as stupid as the joke requires. He is consistently stupid to move the plot.
>>83828837
the mindy episode: he's Homer's guardian angel who wanted to be Sir Isaac Newton instead
>>83828803
Maybe I lived in a poorfag region but we didn't had rich kids. Back in my day a sony walkman was pure decadence.
>>83826423
I think electronic will break the cycle since it's always had both
>>83828557
Apparently Leo and Mike, the sons of the original writers Stan and Jan Berenstain (Stan was Jewish, Jan grew up in an Episcopalian family), have taken the series in an explicitly religious direction:
>Over the years, my parents and I often heard from Christian families how much they appreciate the values-based themes of our books. By dealing with religion through the fun and laughter of the Berenstain Bears, we hope to nurture these families in their goal of raising children secure in their faith.
>>83828210
I grew up with the books called "Berenstein," but I guess I misremembered the spelling or something. I had no idea there was a big controversy until now.
>>83828882
>Walkmans were being phased out for portable CD players
>I wanted one because I never had a walkman like my sister
>mother didn't want to buy me one
>Cry like the kid I am
>Birthday rolls along and we go to the cinema
>arcade is right next to it and has a prize machine where you match the block
>play it and win a shiny new CD player
50p for a CD player in the early 2000s, I was fucking ecstatic.
I think I still have it somewhere.
>>83828882
Where did you grow up, africa?
The Itchy and Scratchy Movie episode was outdated even back when it aired. There was a time in which if you missed a movie in theatres you wouldn't be able to see it, but that hasn't been the case since the 80s.
In real life Bart would have just waited for the VHS to come out, and these days he'd just pirate it.
>>83828039
Will they ever retcon Grandpa being a WWII veteran? Even Korea would be pushing it at this point.
>>83829128
I think it'd be funnier to keep him as a WWII vet, simply because his stories are ridiculous enough anyway
ACH DU LIEBE, DAS IS NICHT EIN BOOBIE
>>83829128
Mr. Burns was a ridiculous stretch from the very first seasons, considering he was depicted as having grown up anywhere from the Great Depression to the Industrial Revolution. The impossibility of their ages is just part of the joke.
>>83825779
>kids will never know that every bad boy has his soft side
>>83828980
Lucky fuck
>>83829064
Itchy and Scratchy themselves are quite outdated, they're Tom and Jerry parodies, but they stopped making that decades ago, kids these days don't watch it. And the censors wouldn't allow something that violent anyway.
>>83828734
It's always funny when Homer is genuinely smart about some arbitrary thing. Like how he just happens to be an expert on Supreme Court justices.
>>83829128
Probably not. They didn't retcon Skinner, they just stopped mentioning nam. Grandpa is old enough looking that they can still get away with WWII without anyone thinking about it.
>>83829242
And back then it was an over the top parody of cartoon violence. Family Guy gets to that level unironically now.
>>83829242
No that's not the problem. Even in 89 there was no Tom and Jerry cartoon. The problem is that the exaggeration doesn't work anymore because stuff like Happy Tree friends did it without any irony.
>>83829064
Even when Matt Groening and the other writers were growing up, wouldn't popular movies then be shown on Television from time to time?
>>83829380
Happy Tree Friends wasn't aired in the kids timeslot.
>>83829449
Doesn't matter. The joke is dead. Normal shows like FG are more violent than the parody in the simpsons.
>>83829560
Family guy isn't a parody of T&J. Happy tree friends was doing it ironically, too. The whole joke was cute characters being violent.
>>83829242
>they stopped making that decades ago
The most recent Tom and Jerry episode came out three months ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Tom_and_Jerry_Show_(2014_TV_series)_episodes
>>83828931
It's been a stupid meme for years. People post how they remember it differently and how we're in an alternate timeline etc. At least you admit you remember it wrong.
Just google Berenstain Bears and you'll find links about it.
>>83829064
Bart wasn't allowed to ever see the movie. Home video rental was always a thing since The Simpsons started. The understanding is he'd never be able to watch it. Not in the theatre, not rental, etc.
Eventually as an old man he talks his dad into going.
>>83827990
thats what happens when they gather
a friend of mine is a big gay bear who acts normal when he's with normal people but put him in a room of gays or a pride parade then the gay flows like wine
>>83829605
You are missing the point.
>>83829746
No, you're just making a poor one.
>>83829690
>Eventually as an old man he talks his dad into going.
"Which one's Itchy?"
"The mouse."
"Itchy's a jerk."
"(chuckling) Yeah."
>>83826358
>>83826377
Didn't the voice of Karl refuse to come back because they were going to make him into some terrible gay stereotype for a cheap joke in said later episode?
>>83829912
>>83829984
Harvey Firestein is a self-respecting gay man who hates flamers.
http://www.queerty.com/harvey-fierstein-calls-johnny-weir-a-faggot-gets-free-pass-for-using-homophobic-slur-20140516
>>83825811
Holy shit. Even adjusted for inflation for a nuclear energy safety technician he makes shit
>>83830094
To be fair, he's dangerously underqualified for the job.
>>83829690
Bart wasn't allowed
So what? Bart would find a way around it. Homer could prevent him from going to the town's only movie theatre, but he couldn't prevent him from secretely watching a VHS.
>>83828112
Subtle. I like it.
>>83826801
Is this what gays regard as not being flamboyant? lol
>>83829647
>lots of people misread a name that could easily be mistaken
>it must be a change in the timestream
Man people really don't like being wrong. Another one of these 'Mandela effects' seems to be people not understanding different map projections.
>>83830070
I miss when Harvey firestein was in shit. I haven't seen him in a while since the fucking 90's in movies.
>>83831047
I looked into some examples. I don't believe anyone seriously thought the singer's name is "Reba McEntire" for instance.
>>83829643
I saw one episode of this, and just found it to be eh.
Does anyone on /co/ care about the 2014 Tom and Jerry show?
>>83826956
>>83825717
>We're as far from the peak of the Smashing Pumpkins now, as Homer was from the peak of Grand Funk Railroad in 1996
>>83825046
>Any key? Where's the "any" key?
This joke was already old/obsolete/stolen from a joke book for 12 year olds WHEN THE EPISODE AIRED.
>>83825255
CHAKA KHAN
CHAKA KHAN
>>83825740
No? They bought the house when Lisa was born, but around season 20 Ned payed off the mortgage.
>>83826338
Holds up because it's John Fucking Waters
>>83825840
Momar Khadafi died in like 2011. Still kind of relevant.
>>83825646
Pog was already on the way out when that one aired, which is what made it good, cause Milhouse himself was behind the times.
>>83826377
I still don't know what his fucking problem was. Why did he care so much about helping Homer?
>>83833109
W-WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?
>>83825046
>www.studynet.edu
You'd think they would go for a more ridiculously specific URL but that looks pretty legit.
>>83828759
>Three Men and a Comic Book.
Since you mentioned it..
>children even reading comic books anymore
They're exclusively the domain of the 30-year old manchildren now.
>>83833198
I'll have you know I'm in my 40's!
>>83825046
I don't get it.
>>83834910
>millenia detected
At the time of airing, a school having a website was only for high end private education. Nowadays even Father Flyover's Middle of Nowhere Bible School has its own website.
>>83826323
Stop.
>>83826508
You can be my Karl, gayanon.
>>83832823
ow, my age
>>83829064
>In real life Bart would have just waited for the VHS to come out, and these days he'd just pirate it.
He wouldn't even have to wait for it to hit theaters before he pirated it; sometimes these big-budget movies hit the 'net weeks before they air for everyone else.
>>83825834
I used to think kidz bop was stupid but then I learned that kids can mess up their voices by trying to emulate adults, so I think it's cool to have age appropriate vocal models for songs they like.
>>83835187
I can't help that I was born in '88, man.
>>83835187
>>83835569
Thanks for explaining it, though.
>>83830070
>Harvey Firestein
Dude talked about his gay lover at the Tony's 1984. Dude was out during the Regan administration and the AIDS epidemic, he's been out longer than Johnny Weir's been walking this earth.
When man who's been out for 30+ years calls you 'faggot' you say 'thank you', because that man has been through the wars.
>>83825345
I'll have you know Gen X is still bitter and cynical thank you very much! We grew up in Boomer nostalgia and are going to grow old with millennials running the fucking world.
Also: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Lisa's_Wedding
Lisa's wedding was supposed to have happened in 2010.
>>83836097
And if Elton John calls you a faggot you say 'thank you; but it doesn't change the fact that you have been costing on nostalgia and mawkish sentimentality for years'.
>>83828459
which then lead to canadaian idiot
>>83827732
that's cause at that point Japan was at least a couple years ahead of the US in terms of cell phone usage and technology(as well as minors having them), see also all the electronic stuff Izzy/Koushiro had in Digimon Adventure
>>83827500
No one mentions the flying toasters? Screen savers haven't been a thing for decades!
>>83836511
po-tay-to / The popularity of "Candle in the Wind" was the main reason Diana's death was tragic.
>>83825526
Obviously. It works on any Ayatollah
15 years old
still relevant
>>83833198
i only see kids at comic cons anymore and even then i feel like they don't want to be there, like when your wife doesn't want to be somewhere she is bored with.
any comic shop i pop into across the US has dudes my age give or take a decade and thats it. if kids do stop in, they glance at comics and leave.
probably because single issues are too expensive for them
>>83826405
The fuck is wrong with the UK?
>>83836062
remember when faggot meant something else?
>>83828092
Watch some of the Afghanistan/Iraq war docs out there like Restrepo.
>>83828836
That's the point of the original joke
>>83828112
There's this joke from 1992:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together."
>>83828092
Doesn't have to be one big war. He could be ex-military turned executive outcomes type mercenary. They get around, particularly in nasty little brush fire wars and insurgencies in Africa and South America. Comes home for the last time after a decade or so doing horrible things to horrible people for horrible reasons, but for excellent pay.
That has the added angle of giving him a load of guilt to work through. He thought he could shower off the blood, take the money, and lead a peaceful life. Like he feels like he somehow brought that violence back with him as if it were an exotic disease he carried unknowingly, and that's fundamentally what killed his family.
>>83829242
They do still make Tom and Jerry cartoons, they just aren't as violent as the old ones. Besides that plenty of kids have seen classic Tom and Jerry because it plays every morning on cartoon network.
>>83837833
That's a fucking depressing thought isn't it?
>>83837001
They copy American trends. Bugchasing started in the US gay scene.
>>83828378
Nam was actually worse in terms of deaths, both of US and allied servicemen and Vietnamese, than the Iraq Wars.
>>83837909
What they make now is a cash grab, no artistic or entertainment value. Just milking an IP for pennies at this point.
>>83827500
http://www.penguin-empire.com/
Homer's Barbershop Quartet is the most dated episode I could think of
>Barbershop
>all those Beatles references
>far out man, i haven't seen a bong in years
>>83825933
>>83827182
Don't forget the fucking Napster episode, of all things.
>>83838449
That episode was dated almost immediately after it aired.
>>83838377
So you think the Beatles were contemporary at the time t was made? Plus the fact that barbershop quartets are dorky and old was the joke.
>>83838449
The Napster episode at least has the benefit that the actual plot had nothing to do with Napster as it was known and internet downloads are more relevant than ever. Other than the company's name, the episode has good staying power.
>>83826973
They still sell collections, only they are done through 30 minute infoemercial now. I've caught the 60's music one and the soul one a few times on El Ray. They always start after all the kung fu is over.
>>83828247
>>83830599
Fuck it, spoonfeed me, what are you talking about?
>>83832960
it's like you dont have any family that's older than 30. Old people are still as clueless as ever with computers.
>>83839420
The fact that the "a" in Berenstain has been Photoshopped to an "e," presumably.
>>83839459
Not him, but I can't remember the last time a computer said to "press any key to continue" in a situation where old people would see it.
>>83829408
it took like 7 years for Empire Strikes Back to come on tv, and they made a huge deal out of it.
>>83825405
Why is his lip over his hand
>>83836815
That show was too good for this Earth. Greatest work place comedy I've seen.
