The Simpsons marathon

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The Simpsons marathon is on FXX for 24 hours for 12 straight days.
 
I would want to watch it, but I don’t have the channel in my cable. 😦
 
The newer Simpsons shows are nothing like the older ones. In the newer episodes, the Simpsons do the right thing majority of the time, when it comes to parenting, doing immoral, illegal things, cheating on your spouses, drug use, etc. I was quite shocked to see how the simpsons have changed…It seems like someone got to the writers and told them to make Marge and Homer better role models.

One episode in particular I watched, involved Homer meeting some younger, beautiful woman, she fell for Homer and knew he was married, Homer liked the attention but he realized this younger woman was interested in him in that way, he very quickly left and reminded her he was married to Marge, he was not the type of guy to cheat on his wife, etc. LOL I could not believe I was watching the real simpsons show!!

However when they were first created, the fact that they did not do the right thing, ever, was what made them popular, people were right to not let their kids watch the show back then, but today, the shows are not shocking or immoral anymore, Im not sure what happened, but something did take place around early to mid 2000s where this changed.

Plus, even on the more rude shows, like Family guy, when it comes down to it, they do the right thing as well, they WILL NOT knowingly cheat on their spouses, do drugs, etc.and when faced with these choices, they end up choosing to take the moral path…strange to me??? since this is the opposite of what these shows are supposed to be.
 
It is on in a different room as background sound as I work on the computer.
 
Pax Christi

Years ago, at my friends’ wedding, during the entrance hymn, I started singing:

In the garden of Eden, baby,
don’t you know that I love you?

The bride and groom turned to me and smiled and stifled their laughter.

In the garden of Eden, mama,
don’t you know that I’ll always be true?

My other friend, on my left, lost it!

Love the Simpsons.

God bless.
 
The Simpsons used to have a lot of heart. Some classic episodes that present surprisingly “moral” messages include:
  • The one where Bart sells his soul and then struggles to reclaim it.
  • The one where Homer and Marge go on a marriage retreat.
  • The one where Marge is tempted to cheat on Homer with her bowling instructor.
  • The one where Lisa protests Homer’s cable theft.
  • The one where Bart and Lisa reunite Krusty with his rabbi father.
Even after the golden years, didn’t the Vatican proclaim them to be Catholic?
 
howirenic said:
Even after the golden years, didn’t the Vatican proclaim them to be Catholic?
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Well it’s not an official Vatican statement. It’s an analysis made by a priest in a column for the L’Osservatore Romano. It’s an assumption, not an official declaration.

As a Simpson’s fan, I disagree. Not all the Simpsons are Catholic. Originally all of the immediate members of the Simpsons family are Protestant (belonging to some fictional church with combines Lutheran and Presbyterian churches). Bart is the only Catholic member of the immediate family since he was converted in that episode which aired the month after Pope St. John Paul II died. Lisa became Buddhist in that episode where she got angry that their local church subsumed to commercialism.

As far as I know Bart and Lisa have not converted back to Protestantism. Marge and Maggie remained Protestant. Homer did become Catholic during the same episode Bart became Catholic, but years later in one episode he became a deacon in his local Protestant church.
 
CatholicWhovian said:
Well it’s not an official Vatican statement. It’s an analysis made by a priest in a column for the L’Osservatore Romano. It’s an assumption, not an official declaration.

As a Simpson’s fan, I disagree. Not all the Simpsons are Catholic. Originally all of the immediate members of the Simpsons family are Protestant (belonging to some fictional church with combines Lutheran and Presbyterian churches). Bart is the only Catholic member of the immediate family since he was converted in that episode which aired the month after Pope St. John Paul II died. Lisa became Buddhist in that episode where she got angry that their local church subsumed to commercialism.

As far as I know Bart and Lisa have not converted back to Protestantism. Marge and Maggie remained Protestant. Homer did become Catholic during the same episode Bart became Catholic, but years later in one episode he became a deacon in his local Protestant church.
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Marge doesn’t convert because, “No one is going Catholic. Three children is enough, thank you.” Homer gives her a pamphlet on NFP called “Plop Till Ya Drop”. 😃 I laughed quite a bit at the episode.
 
howirenic said:
The Simpsons used to have a lot of heart. Some classic episodes that present surprisingly “moral” messages include:
  • The one where Bart sells his soul and then struggles to reclaim it.
  • The one where Homer and Marge go on a marriage retreat.
  • The one where Marge is tempted to cheat on Homer with her bowling instructor.
  • The one where Lisa protests Homer’s cable theft.
  • The one where Bart and Lisa reunite Krusty with his rabbi father.
Even after the golden years, didn’t the Vatican proclaim them to be Catholic?
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And the Sideshow Bob episodes. Today I saw the Mary Poppins spoof and the episode where Flanders goes crazy, it’s the Hurricane Flanders one.

The Halloween ones are always good. Lol.
 
I don’t have nearly the cable package necessary to get that channel. But I can have a marathon anytime I want with the DVDs. At least, with the seasons I would want to watch (the first 8).

It is kind of neat that they are doing this. That is one long marathon.

It makes me wonder how the show will ever end.
 
I don’t have cable or I’d be all over that! Love the Simpsons.
 
CatholicWhovian said:
Well it’s not an official Vatican statement. It’s an analysis made by a priest in a column for the L’Osservatore Romano. It’s an assumption, not an official declaration.

As a Simpson’s fan, I disagree. Not all the Simpsons are Catholic. Originally all of the immediate members of the Simpsons family are Protestant (belonging to some fictional church with combines Lutheran and Presbyterian churches). Bart is the only Catholic member of the immediate family since he was converted in that episode which aired the month after Pope St. John Paul II died. Lisa became Buddhist in that episode where she got angry that their local church subsumed to commercialism.

As far as I know Bart and Lisa have not converted back to Protestantism. Marge and Maggie remained Protestant. Homer did become Catholic during the same episode Bart became Catholic, but years later in one episode he became a deacon in his local Protestant church.
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Since they all attended church as a family(even Grandpa Simpson) in the movie, I assume they are all protestant again.
 
I remember when I used to reprimand my dad for watching this show in its early seasons…

then after “And Maggie Makes 3” or “Lisa’s First Word” I started watching it…

Then came the episode three years ago, where they had a parade with “heterosexual catholic priest” float…containing ONE priest…that was IT for me… I stopped watching it regularly on Sundays (And thanks to OUAT on ABC on Sunday nights at the same time, I don’t need to watch Simpsons anymore).

I have been watching a LITTLE of the marathon…but only when I was BORED or there was nothing else on… there are a few episodes that I still like… “Lisa’s Rival” e.g., but only when Ralph wins the Diorama-Rama for his “unopened star wars figures”.

I think the earlier seasons were better…as the show grows to 20+ seasons, they keep ret-conning how Marge and Homer Met. And the fact that Homer spoiled ESB for the rest of the people waiting in line to see it…

I don’t know how they are going to replace Marcia Wallace, who passed away earlier this year…Mrs Krabappel was a mainstream…If the main cast starts dying…the show will HAVE to end.
 
I’m also a big fan of the Simpsons. I’m not entirely sure that the Simpsons was as immoral in the earlier seasons as some people make them out to be. Overall, I’ve always found the show to be kind hearted and surprisingly gentle in their portrayal of religion. Yes, they absolutely poke a ton of fun at Christianity, but they’ve also taken the time to have positive examples of Christians. Look at the Catholic episode of the Simpsons: when is the last time you’ve seen the Church portrayed that well ESPECIALLY in a satirical piece.
 
jediliz said:
I remember when I used to reprimand my dad for watching this show in its early seasons…

then after “And Maggie Makes 3” or “Lisa’s First Word” I started watching it…

Then came the episode three years ago, where they had a parade with “heterosexual catholic priest” float…containing ONE priest…that was IT for me… I stopped watching it regularly on Sundays (And thanks to OUAT on ABC on Sunday nights at the same time, I don’t need to watch Simpsons anymore).

I have been watching a LITTLE of the marathon…but only when I was BORED or there was nothing else on… there are a few episodes that I still like… “Lisa’s Rival” e.g., but only when Ralph wins the Diorama-Rama for his “unopened star wars figures”.

I think the earlier seasons were better…as the show grows to 20+ seasons, they keep ret-conning how Marge and Homer Met. And the fact that Homer spoiled ESB for the rest of the people waiting in line to see it…

I don’t know how they are going to replace Marcia Wallace, who passed away earlier this year…Mrs Krabappel was a mainstream…If the main cast starts dying…the show will HAVE to end.
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In the beginning of the show, they really marketed it as Bart-centric and played up the “Underacheiver and proud of it” motif. I know that rubbed my mom the wrong way, too. Fortunately, they moved away from that.

I stopped watching right around season 12 or 13 when Homer was getting seriously maimed in pretty much every single episode. It just wasn’t the same. Though the few episodes I have caught more recently suggest that they’ve moved on from that.

Since Marcia Wallace only voiced the one character, I think they’ll probably just retire the character the same way they did with Phil Hartman’s characters when he died. I don’t think they’ll try to replace her.

With so few people doing so many voices, I don’t see how the show could continue if one of the principal cast members passed away. Hopefully they wrap up the show before that happens. Even though I don’t watch it much any more, I’d like to see the show end properly rather than just sort of ending.

Of course, with so many, many episodes and lines of dialogue uttered, they could probably construct a lot of episodes with recycled dialogue if necessary. 😛
 
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