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Simpsons/Family Guy crossver episode

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

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I've downloaded it and will watch it so that I feel qualified to comment in this thread that I've just started don't judge me.

Also I read the identity of the HUGE SIMPSONS DEATH...

Krusty's dad. Who's been in about two episodes in 25 years. What a pisstake.
 
Yeah saw the death thing, big whoop.

Just finished watching the simpsons guy, I think the highlight was the car washing scene, I thought Homer and Peter worked better as friends than enemies, watching them try to kill each other didn't have the same lightheartedness that the chicken fights had.

Its like of like watching your favourite action star beat up your dad.
 
I was actually kind of enjoying it(!) for the first half or so. One thing that really stood out was that The Simpsons reference were all classic series references (they even had Dr. Nick in there who I think died in the movie?) and that whoerever wrote it was obviously a big Simpsons fan and had a respect and knowledge for the show's history. It was actually funnier than any new episode of The Simpsons I've watched recently.

But then the fact that it was a Family Guy episode took over. And that means overly long, time-wasting jokes that just aren't even funny to begin with (was the cutaway purposely bad or was it just bad?) They did kind of bring up the the differences between the two universes (the rape joke was about that so wasn't as bad as it seemed when I read about it) but never really explored it. Instead they went into some stupid sideplots and then kept repating "haha, look how horrible all the Family Guy characters are" (the Meg stuff just isn't funny and never really has been.)

Then they seemed to be wrapping things up and there were still ten minutes to go and I thought "oh they're going to do a ten minute chicken fight, aren't they?" And they did. But at this point one thing I noticed was that the animation was much much better than in modern Simpsons. It actually felt like a cartoon rather than a weird, sterile Flash game. The fight was quite impressive on a technical level...but I agree with whisky that it wasn't really something I wanted to see. It just became ultra violent rather than funny (again because it was a Family Guy episode.) It was like a fanfic someone had written for a Homer/Peter fight that you'd think would never get made. Because it's a bad idea.

(I did laugh at Roger's cameo because Roger is always funny.)

So yeah, this was slightly better than I was expecting in some ways, but still could have been so much more if they'd followed up stuff instead of just going "haha here's ten minutes of of violence!"
 
Futurama crossver episode: well, it existed. I definitely watched it. I can't remember much about it? It wasn't a disgrace to either show, but it didn't really do anything interesting either. It just existed.
 
Scruffy blew his own head off, but his headless body was still sweeping up outside at the end of the episode, the lady newsreader got eaten, and Kang and Kodos appear to be lesbians.

I wonder if we will see Bender in the basement again some time?
 
Next week's show is from a spec script Judd Apatow sent them in 1990, when he was 22 and not famous yet.

They are really scouring the bins at this point.
 
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