![]() ![]() I'm not saying that popular media pushing against boundaries caused social and political polarization in the US over and above, say, the internet, but it's a huge part of the story. We went from Ray Jay Johnson to It's Always Sunny in the same 30 years as the boom in reactionary evangelical church attendance and the complete dropoff of "normal" church attendance because it was no longer quasi-compulsory. We can make fun, but it's easy to underestimate the scope of the social changes that happened after Bart Simpson disrespected his elders, the Seinfelds quit masturbating for a week, Kyle called Cartman a dildo, and the seventh seal didn't open. "I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you" must have been a world-ender for boomers who think "hell" is an obscenity lmao Then a couple years later I got the S1 dvd box set and I thought it sucked and was weird. I got a couple bootleg tapes with a bunch of random S2 episodes for christmas one year, maybe in 1999 or 2000? Even as a kid I noticed the massive tonal difference between like the fugu bucket list ep and then contemporary material like homer and ned's vegas bender but I still loved their tone/humour/wholesome vibe. It just feels more like a cohesive concept of a show about an average family rather than a string of (often very good) jokes.Īlso it has a ton of jokes I'm not sure what you guys are talking about. It's definitely a different animal than later seasons and the animation is rougher but Homer is much more relatable as an everyman who's just kind of dumb in an average way and had kids that bug the hell out of him. I recrntly rewatched it and I genuinely like season 1. (though That 90s Show having Sonic proposing to Amy was a laugh for reasons I'm entirely certain went over the writers' heads) In general the Simpsons, even the newer episodes I've seen, has been surprisingly consistently good in portraying video games in then-contemporary fashion compared to how boomer comedy usually struggles with the very basics of the concept. Wouldn't you want to play Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge or Larry the Looter? What I'd really like is a compilation of video games based on the joke games from the show.
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