Pretty much any simpsons episode where they go anywhere is horrible. The last passable one was japan, but that worked likely because Japan really does have a crap ton of zany shit in it that doens’t require a great deal of exaggeration

Part of the problem is that the show was and still is very contrarian for contrarianism’s sake. Before the status quo was clearly conservative, so they took liberal or anti-conservative stances. Now though we’re in a very weird limbo where conservativism and/or “alt-right” is being touted as the counterculture, while…

I’m okay with that. Realistically though, they’ll probably have to leave the house to shoot their coffee makers, or murder their toaster ovens or whatever other appliance they’re angry at this week.

Exactly. It’s strange to me that someone would think people of Indian descent are being wholly disingenuous about this. For the most part, they are just expressing their personal experiences and mixed feelings about the character, which are fairly mild. Like, you really can’t fathom that a minority rarely represented…

Also, why is your approach to this to be insulting? You literally can’t think of a way to engage on this topic aside from “Your complaints are invalid, and also you’re stupid”?

I’m not particularly offended by Apu. I’m a white guy. There’s probably a correlation there.

Stop doing it, or else!

I don’t have personal knowledge of what the people who make and write The Simpsons these days do with their lives but I’m willing to bet that they live in a very closed atmosphere of coastal comedy / animation folk who kiss their ass every single day of their lives for being a part of The Simpsons, The Comedy…

The problem isn’t that “racists” are using the only Indian cartoon character on television to make fun of Indians regardless of the details of the character. The problem is that everyone is using the only Indian cartoon character on television to inform their enter attitude on Indian people.

Okay, so they don’t watch the show.

Nothing is sadder than Littlefoot’s mom dying. Also that scene in Dumbo where he goes to visit his mom in Elephant jail ruins me so much.

I just have to say how impressed I was by Josh Brolin’s CGI performance. Perhaps the best I’ve ever seen of the type that I can remember.

The food montage is AMAZING. To me, it was a food version with Homer of the rakes/Sideshow Bob bit. Not as funny, but in that realm. You gotta give credit to the animators for the details in the drawings of the food, and to the writers for hitting every single dish and restaurant imaginable practically. The blackened…

...because when it rains, Bourbon Street makes its own gravy.

I will remember Mr. Bell’s show for this interesting clip TOOL used for it’s closing track “Faaip de Oiad” of their Lateralus album.

Yeah, the only time the show comes close to its former glory these days is when they have David Paulides come on and give missing person reports. Some of those accounts are fucking spooky.

They weren’t frequent, but there were times that Art shut people down. If he detected insincerity from a caller or guest, he would challenge them aggressively. If you sincerely claimed that you had been reduced to 1 mm in height and lived in the pocket of a Smurf, Art would let you go on as long as you were…

I have recently come to the epiphany that Bob’s Burgers is a pro-introvert show. Maybe the most pro-introvert I’ve ever seen. There are SO many plotlines that are just, “I can’t believe I’m socially obligated to step out of my comfort-zone and interact with other people.” I think that’s why I’ve bonded to it so…

“A cabin in the woods?! Didn’t you see Cabin in the Woods?!”

He should have hasseled her about a Ellen* revival. Jeremy Pevin is currently at a very loose end, and Arye Gross hasn’t done anything of real note since being Moriarty to Dr Mark Sloan’s Holmes in Diagnosis Murder.