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Post by lugnut on Aug 22, 2014 20:07:34 GMT -5
Anyone else watching? Day 2 of 12, smack in the middle of Season 4 right now (arguably the best season, but some say it's 5). I can't help but watch even though I've had the DVDs for years and seen 'em all a hundred times. On the plus side, it seems it's been given an HD restoration and they're airing the full, uncut original broadcast versions for the first time since... well, the original broadcasts. On the negative side, they've cropped the damn things to 16x9. You can get away with this on some shows (the widescreen versions of Seinfeld that run in syndication look mostly fine), but this isn't really one of them. It was very clearly composed for 4x3 all along and used every inch of the frame, so the crop really hurts, and it's kind of a shame that these versions are probably what will be seen on TV from now on.
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Post by Vandelay Industries on Aug 22, 2014 20:20:31 GMT -5
i've got seasons 1 through 15 on DVD, but i couldn't resist turning it on a few minutes ago....i'll be damned, 'marge vs. the monorail' is on, one of my fave episodes. "i call the big one 'bitey'!"  |
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Post by Cducharme on Aug 22, 2014 21:03:59 GMT -5
No way to watch Fxx unfortunately
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 23:25:51 GMT -5
You couldn't pay me to watch this shit for 12 days straight.
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ok so wtf happened to the good days???
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Post by Gingerbaby89 on Aug 23, 2014 5:20:06 GMT -5
Absolutely awesome im lovin it lol
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Post by lugnut on Aug 23, 2014 8:21:41 GMT -5
In what may be the least surprising news ever reported by The A.V. Club, we have uncovered documented proof that people like to watch The Simpsons. In fact, people like to watch The Simpsons so much that they’re willing to climb all the way to the top of their channel listing to find FXX in order to do it. The shocking evidence behind this comes from Variety, which says the first day of FXX’s Simpsons marathon tripled its normal audience and gave the network its “most-watched day ever.” Now, we are talking about FXX, so its “most-watched day ever” still wouldn’t necessarily be a feather in the cap of another network, but its ratings were actually good enough to make it the fifth most-watched network overall during primetime on Thursday. As Variety points out, that put it ahead of regular FX, which actually aired new episodes of Married and You’re The Worst last night. New episodes, by the way, that happened to get lower ratings than a TV show that’s old enough to rent a car. The Simpsons’ big winner on Thursday—the individual episode that earned the highest ratings—was “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge,” the one where Springfield bands together to put an end to cartoon violence. If the quality of The Simpsons in general is anything to go by, FXX’s ratings will continue to get better and better for a few days, until the marathon reaches season 10 or so. At that point, audience numbers will gradually decline, and FXX executives will start to reminisce about how much better The Simpsons used to be. “Remember season four?” they’ll ask. “The Monorail song, dental plan, Whacking Day. Those episodes were great, ratings-wise.” Yes they were, fictional FXX executive. Now let’s finish this story so we can go back to watching the marathon. |
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Post by Vandelay Industries on Aug 23, 2014 9:37:20 GMT -5
it's a crime to be broadcasting the earlier seasons during graveyard shift hours. that time slot should be reserved for all the recent seasons. not to mention, maybe the ratings would remain steady if they were still airing "classic" eps on day 12....i can't imagine there's much of an interest for anyone wishing to get re-acquainted with, say, season 22....
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Post by R&ROVER on Aug 23, 2014 10:21:16 GMT -5
You couldn't pay me to watch this shit for 12 days straight. ^ |
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Post by lugnut on Aug 23, 2014 10:33:26 GMT -5
You couldn't pay me to watch this shit for 12 days straight. ^ Could you really be so out of touch? No... No. It's the children who are wrong. |
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Post by R&ROVER on Aug 23, 2014 15:07:14 GMT -5
This ^ means I'm out of touch?  |
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