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Those are actually not too bad Rotten tomato scores. Anything below a 6 is when things can get bad.
Years ago I marathoned seasons 1 through 13 while enduring benzo withdrawals. I can absolutely confirm that these ratings are accurate.
I am slightly worried by anti-vaxxers being Simpsons fans. Do they understand what they are watching?
The Simpson stopped making stories about the family and started making episodes where every week was a new celebrity coming to Springfield. Then they did some odd reboot thing where now they’re just retelling stories with a modern look? It’s so weird. The show should have ended with the movie IMO
Your comment seems to have been instinctively downvoted but a lot of other people are saying the same thing, so i feel like there’s truth to it. Personally I don’t really watch the simpsons but i tried to binge the first season when i saw it was on disney+
I’m so old I was an adult when I saw the very first shorts on Tracy Ullman.
I was shocked when they hit 20 years. Now, I’m just baffled. Why are people still watching? I can only guess, habit?
The last thing I watched was part of the first movie. Since I had, coincidently, just read Under the Dome (which King claims was not born from the movie), I didn’t even finish the movie.
I was Bart’s age when the show came out. I’m now older than Homer
Ullman shorts so good they’re off the charts.
The Simpsons SHORTS: https://youtu.be/Ufx0tioBw1w
Everyone:
Anti-vaxxers: “You are just getting vaccines to be trendy, not to protect your family and others!”2026 and they’re still frothing at the mouth over masks and vaccinations.
They’ll never let it go lol, just permanently triggered.
I have those in my family.
Those who got vaccinated will be dying any day now. /s
It’s a very slow-acting poison. It takes a few decades to kick in.
In 8-9 decades it should get everyone.
My father sill to this day says it was a “muslification attempt”, “trying to force burkas in the whole population”.
He has two health-related degrees.
Unfortunately, idiocy is also highly infectious.
These are the people who constantly whiner about “NPCs” just following directions without thought, showing the same line of dialogue 6 years on lol
Yeah I thought I was supposed to be dead from sudden onset Bill Gates microchip 5g disease by now because I’m vaccinated. But instead I’m still reading their dumb posts on the Internet.
Everyone just ignoring the vaccine scepticism eh?
No that’s central to what quualifies it as a meme to me. The only funny thing in this oost is how he compares simpsons haters with
antivaccinatorswith
anti vaccinatorswith any-vaxxers.
Oh yeah, haha, good catch
No we are ignoring typos; no grammar nazis here
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Oh shut the fuck up. When I went to school I the 90s, you weren’t even allowed to attend class if you were not vaccinated. They’d send you home and you couldn’t come back until you provided proof that you were completely up-to-date on your shots. Nobody complained about it, and guess what? Nobody died, developed autism, their blood didn’t become magnetic, either.
Being fully vaccinated was not only accepted, it was required*. And then Facebook came along and gave idiots like you a platform to spread lies and misinformation, fueled by an algorithm designed to confirm your misinformed biases so that* you stay on the website longer and they get more money. All the major social platforms do it now, YouTube, Twitter, etc. You’re only shown what you want to see, never any dissenting opinions or facts.
And that’s how you get the anti-vax movent. Billionaires have capitalized on stupidity for their own selfish gains. And you fell for it, hook line, and sinker.
That’s why independent open source platforms like Lemmy are crucial. They don’t weaponize ignorance for profit.
Edit: I’m caught up on all modern vaccines too, including COVID. Still doing fine.
They don’t weaponize ignorance for profit.
Yeah! Here people are ignorant for free!
Not even the 90s, colleges up to the 2020s required your vaccines all be up to date. Knew someone who got screwed on having to pay out of pocket for a chicken pox vaccine their parents never got them as a kid and they weren’t able to buy books that semester because of it. American healthcare system is whack, vaccines should be free.
Thanks for calling out the bullshit, friend. Mainstream science literacy is in a sad state.
I remember whole class trips to local clinic to get vaccinated, because every parent knew someone from childhood someone who was negatively affected when there were no vaccines.
As for social media I think major contributor of polarization is actually a down vote button. Every action, every comment prompted the content so naturally the most controversial will go to the top.
This is why I’m still not that happy about Lemmy instances that disable this, because it promises this, but I guess if the community is coated and also that other instances can down vote, then perhaps it isn’t as bad.
This person also seems to think they cloned and murdered Dave Chappelle…
That’s one way of reconciling his earlier work with his TERF bullshit.
I thought that rumor was about Jim Carrey
Yeah, I’ve heard “they” do a lot of weird stuff
They aren’t anti-vax in general though. They didn’t have a problem with the vaccines used in the 90s and neither do I.
COVID vaccines were and are different, at least the ones used in the west. China and Cuba used traditional vaccine types such as inactivated vaccines which contain whole dead viruses. These are cheap and easy to mass manufacture and have been used for decades.
USA vaccines used mRNA which was a newer and more experimental technique that hadn’t seen deployment at this scale ever before. The UK vaccine ChAdOx1 used a different technique involving using another virus as a vector (specifically an adenovirus). Again this is a new and somewhat experimental technique. Now the UK vaccine is at least reasonably easy to manufacture and distribute. The mRNA vaccines on the other hand were extremely difficult to distribute as they required very low temperatures to be stored, basically cryogenic temperatures. This required new techniques to be developed to distribute and administer them at the scale required, and was very difficult for the global south to do. They were also more expensive.
So you could argue that at least some of the vaccines (mRNA type) were a cash grab or not suited for global use and were just a way to get more money for big pharma. If this is actually true I have no idea.
In terms of effectiveness this is where it gets interesting. None of these vaccines were as effective as originally thought. They often did not stop people getting infected as was originally claimed (supposedly more than 90% effectiveness for mRNA vaccines). This is why COVID is still in circulation today. The vaccines did reduce symptoms and hospitalisation, which is certainly better than nothing, but it’s also not what was promised. So yeah I can understand why people are pissed. It also seems that using the more expensive and supposedly more effective vaccine types was basically pointless as traditional vaccine types or the cheaper UK vaccine would have worked just fine.
Appreciate your long response, but let’s not pretend that Covid is here in the US today for any other reason than bad policy and rampant political propaganda. It has absolutely little to nothing to due with mRNA vaccine efficacy and everything to do with the billion dollar bullshit machine deployed to make you question reality. This is clearly evident if you simply compare existing weekly US Covid death rates to anywhere else in the world that also recieved the mRNA vaccine.
We’re currently the only country in the world where Covid deaths are still happening weekly. Because Covid is now endemic here, and likely will be permanent. If you can find a single other country in existence that used mRNA vaccines and had a similar result (Japan, Ireland, Germany, France, Belgium, etc, etc) you might have a point.
But seeing as how the opposite is very clearly observable, mRNA vaccines being less effective has little to nothing to do with Covid still being in the US.
I am not from the USA and was not talking specifically about the USA but go off I guess.
They often did not stop people getting infected as was originally claimed (supposedly more than 90% effectiveness for mRNA vaccines). This is why COVID is still in circulation today.
Like every vaccine, it prevented sickness in some people and attenuated it in others.
The reason why COVID is still around is the same reason why the flu is still around. It mutates a lot.
COVID does not undergo as rapid antigenic shift as influenza viruses. It’s more closely related to cold viruses (hence coronavirus which are cold viruses) which generally mutate more slowly. So I don’t think this is the whole reason even if it’s part of the explanation. There are other parts of the viruses behaviour and characteristics that maybe could explain this. It doesn’t really make a difference for my point though. The vaccines were substantially less effective than promised. We also didn’t have to use experimental vaccine techniques and could have saved money by using cheaper vaccines.
Whether or not this was the case, it doesn’t absolve people who refused to get vaccinated.
Did they over-promise and under-perform? Perhaps, but you’d have to go look up who promised what and compare that with the actual effectiveness of the vaccine, and I’m not sure what the point of that would be.
There are multiple clear reasons to do this actually. We have COVID inquiries in my country the UK. Part of that is looking at excessive spending on unnecessary or inappropriate equipment and corruption with regards to spending. Looking at vaccine manufacturers is important as it’s the governments job to regulate these things. They are the ones who paid for the vaccines and determined who got what type of vaccine and in what order. If there was a possibility to vaccinate people faster and more efficiently more people could have survived and our economy might not be quite so bad. It’s also possible that serious side effects caused by the vaccines could have been reduced. We can and should hold both the NHS and the pharmaceutical companies accountable for what they have and haven’t done.
Furthermore we should continue pursuing improved vaccines in the name of eradicating the disease. There was talk of a new vaccine called nova vax. I am now wondering what happened to it.
As for “absolving” people who didn’t get the vaccine. I am not sure what to say here. I don’t think you should guilt people over decisions they made about their own body. That’s a morally questionable thing to do. I say this as someone who got three shots of vaccine for COVID.
Your if it fully worked, the virus would have died out idea would only work if everyone in a population got vaccinated and that population didn’t have any contact with anywhere else where some people weren’t vaccinated. There weren’t any regions where everyone got vaccinated, so it’s not applicable to the real world.
Pretty sure this is a misunderstanding of epidemiology. To prevent an outbreak you need only get the r value below 1. The r value being the average number of people and infected person passes the disease onto. That’s why we were able to successfully eliminate smallpox and suppress measles and other common diseases in developed countries. Even in countries where most people got vaccinated for COVID like my home in the UK this did not happen. There are still outbreaks of the disease in places with high rates of vaccination. This tells me we are in need of either a better vaccine or a new strategy like anti virals. There was actually talk of improved vaccines like nova vax at one point.
Hey I’m pro-vax and I’ve been 100% vaccinated my entire life from 1970s to present for everything except the covid-19 vax. Everything about COVID has been a psyop. As an Army veteran I even have the anthrax vaccine.
No, what happened is that the COVID pandemic coincided with a pandemic of stupidity, and you weren’t immune to either of them.
Everything about COVID has been a psyop.
What brought you to this conclusion?
It shows the trend but the colors make this look far more severe than the scores reflect
Eh, idk how it is with series, but <7 for films means not worth the time (excepting special circumstances), and 7 to 8 is okay to good.
Yeah they should have had black as 5.x, grey as 6.x, white as 7.x, green as 8.x, and gold as 9.x
Or just use the Blizzard/rpg rarity colors for user defined groupings so that people can make their own thresholds for how to opine for whatever ratings.
For example, I typically think of each number as three categories: low-7s, mid 7s, and high 7s. A low 7 is watchable and decent, a mid 7 may be pretty good but not have a ton of truly moving content or messaging, and high 7s are like the last rating of ultimate popcorn - fantastic, but relatively intellectually empty. And as soon as you hit 8.0, to get there, it has to start having some levels of boundary-pushing of my expectations AND be very good.
So I would relate all of the 7s as like a Diablo green item rarity, maybe with high 7s being blues. High 8s maybe starts to get into yellows, and 9s are legendaries with mid and high 9s being reds or like Diablo ancients. Very low 7s and high 6s would definitely be whites, with mid and low 6s being greys. And anything under there… Probably also greys? Maybe have a gradient where the lower the rating, the more transparent it gets. 1.0 or 0.0 (whatever the lowest is) would have to still be visible, though.
And now I know SCmSTR’s very arbitrary scale compared to Diablo rarerity scale colors. What a time to be alive.
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Automatically coloring cells is one of the things Excel excels at. Green for the upper bound (either a static number or ~90th percentile), yellow for 50th percentile, red for lower bound (static number or 10th percentile etc.). Automatically gradients everything in between. Want it more green? Lower the upper bound. Want it more red? Raise the lower bound.
Absolutely. That’s data visualisation for you
just checked out of curiosity, s6e3 is a clip show, and s9e11 is a musical clip show
I just (re)watched S9 E11 (“All Singing, All Dancing”) last night, and it’s fine but if I wasn’t watching during dinner I’d have skipped the episode.
I know it’s a clip episode, but it’s probably my favorite clip episode. Snake’s horrible singing, specifically the “Ooo ooo ooo” before the act break always sticks with me. The “Ough oouu uuuah”.
That’s when you turn on the dvd commentary track
I’ve watched nearly episode in the first 20 seasons of The Simpsons three times or more but I have always skipped those episodes
The idea of doing a clip show only 6 seasons in is diabolical.
In the '70s/'80s, one clip show per season was pretty common.
Yeah, and nobody liked it. It was just there to save the show some money.
Cartoonists, too, need vacations
You could hire enough of them so they can get their vacation.
That’s why we all love Community. In “Paradigms of Human Memory” (Season 2, Episode 21) it was super expensive because all the clips were new. It was a great episode in general too.
They also burned up a lot of great premises. But ya know what, that clip show was great. “It’s all terrain, dummy.”
Rick and Morty (also Harmon) did the same with the Mindblowers (or whatever it was called) episode. Also great.
Interdimensional cable episodes were the original R&M clip shows but i think it got stale for Harmon so they did the mindblowers on the newer season
I guess it made more sense back when people didn’t catch every episode. Still glad it’s not the norm these days.
Clerks the TV show did it for their 1st episode.
And it’s an incredible bit.
It’s the second episode but your point stands.
Stargate did one in the first season.
Stargate SG1 had a clip show most seasons
But I forgave them because I knew they needed to save that money for the finales
The first clip show episode is actually season 4 episode 18, but the framing for the clips is so good that the episode is worth watching.
S6e3 was a clip show, s9e11 was a musical clip show.
What about s23e22?
Edit: no need to respond, just keep scrolling and you’ll get to another comment that answers this.
Every episode of modern Simpsons:
“[First name] [Last name]! [Pronoun]'s the best [occupation] in all of [country].”
- Lisa Simpson, directly to the audience.
“That’s right, Lisa. I’m here to [ad for a song/book/movie/space-nazi].”
- [First name] [Last name].
As someone who grew up with the Simpsons and also pretty recently watched the first 29 seasons again, the first 9 seasons we definitely the best seasons. They’re timeless. The show became too afraid to be offensive.
Season 23 episode 22: Rating 3.9: Lisa Goes Gaga: Lisa helps Lady Gaga and learns the importance of being yourself.
Season 30 episode 18: Rating 4.6: Bart vs. Itchy and Scratchy: Krusty releases an all-female reboot of Itchy and Scratchy
We can guess at why those two got the lowest ratings of the entire series.
I could guess, but why don’t you just go ahead and say it? I’m not sure what you’re implying, it could be anything.
I’d say the Gaga was for pandering to fans of a celebrity to get them to watch. Making a Gaga centric episode at the height of Gaga’s popularity is pandering. As compared to having a few lines by George Harrison or Paul McCartney which were at their height of popularity 20 years earlier. When contemporary celebrities were used like Smashing Pumpkins is was as a cameo, not the focus of the entire episode.
The all woman Itchy Scratchy episode would be panned because it’s punching down on the feminist movie remakes.
it’s punching down on the feminist movie remakes.
Is that feminist? Giving women a recycled story with a history and a ton of baggage instead of a universe thats really theirs? You’re setting them up to never be their own thing, always compared to the original.
See, ladies? We made movies for you but no one liked them…obviously because of misogyny, not because they were obvious and soulless cash grabs.
It’s corporate feminism.
That’s the other thing. Take a beloved franchise, with expectations through the roof. Hire the laziest writers you can find, making sure none of them understand what people connected with in the source material. Market it as “look, the movie you loved, but with vaginas now!”
I’m convinced ghostbusters 2016 was created solely to give ammo to chuds.
I’m too familiar with internet anonymity to truly believe this but I wouldn’t be surprised if the ghostbusters backlash was started by the studio.
There’s no way they didn’t know it was bad…but they already paid for it and would get shit for canning it. So they made it seem like the release was sabotaged by the patriarchy.
Corporations are ALL about dividing and conquering.
You don’t hire the writers because they’re lazy, you hire them because they’re cheap and you want to minimise production costs because there are women in the film so you’re not expecting to sell any tickets except to people who’ve fallen for the social media marketing campaign you ran that said anyone who doesn’t watch the film is a misogynist. It’s just classic race-to-the-bottom profit seeking.
I’ve no idea either.
Thank you for the info, i assumed it would be “treehouse of horror” episodes. My mum didn’t let me watch them and said they were horrifying 🤧😭
They’re not as good as the old ones by a lot, admittedly they’re frequently pretty bad but I still kind of feel like the treehouse of horror episodes tend to have at least one passable story and are usually the highlight of the season.
I remember how horrifying the first Treehouse of Horror was with checks notes an Edgar Allen Poe rendition of The Raven.
Yeah mate sounds awful
