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Early Simpsons Unwatchable?
mychmose
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Does anybody else find the Early Simpsons episodes unwatchable?
Homers' slow voice is the main culprit. Apparently Dan Castellaneta was trying to sound like Walter Matthau in those days.
As soon as I hear Homer speak I change channel.
Luckily it got better
Homers' slow voice is the main culprit. Apparently Dan Castellaneta was trying to sound like Walter Matthau in those days.
As soon as I hear Homer speak I change channel.
Luckily it got better
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It's terrible.
Still, better than most of the last 10 seasons.
Yep, anything after season 10 is unwatchable (and several season 10 eps are questionable) but I think the first season still has a certain charm, such as when Homer sucks out a marshmallow from a jelly and says "Marshmallow" in his low voice, but then it was just the first season and any show is going to change over time as they find their feet.
Mister Burns looks like a shark, as does Moe
Smithers is brown
Barney is badly-drawn
All the main characters' heads flip when they speak, ie the mouths open way too much
Homer's original voice is just too funny
Some of the ancillary characters are so badly-drawn you can see where, in some instances, they were hastily sketched, in others they're just variants of Bart
Lenny and Karl have not yet been introduced, and Homer's coworkers are all generic slobs
Some people in crowds look quite literally like monsters or things from a nightmare
The deep blue sky on the opening credits always makes me laugh
Good to see how far they've come....
(at least, in terms of drawing)
The first 3 seasons pulled absolutely huge ratings in the US,so it had to be doing something right.
And you might be interested to know, Jim Brooks (who owns The Simpsons) hated the original animation so much, at the first internal screening, he got up and started screaming at the animation supervisor. He demanded they go back and re-animate a lot, so that's why Season 1 changes so much.
Well, Sky = Fox, but satellite rights will be different from terrestrial ones and will need to be negotiated separately. They'll each last for a while before needing to be renewed, which is why some seasons do a few rounds on one platform before going to another.
I honestly think that's a myth. I remember seeing them before the Simpsons series started running, and they were intact.
Oh definitely. It's only because it got much better (and Homer's voice and style wasn't as ponderous) that we have the opportunity to compare the two. I've never really compared later episodes, but I tend not to find many I don't like.
Do you guys think it would be as funny with the same script and it wasn't a cartoon, just a human played sitcom? (with obvious necessary modifications).
I can't pin point a place in the Simpsons life where it started going downhill, but I do not like the new ones at all.
There was an episode where someone had been trying to murder Homer, and Sideshow Bob helped him find out who it was. It turned out to be Frank Grimes' son :eek:
The Frank Grimes episode ("Homer's Enemy"?) was pure comedy gold, but that new episode just put a stink on it.