The Simpsons Finally Go HD
 

Disclaimer: Spare me all the "SIMPSONS ISN"T FUNNIEZ ANYMOREZS!@" bullsh*t. I just want to talk about how cool the intro was.


Got quite the surprise this evening. The Simpsons finally went high-def. I was sitting there not expecting anything different (didn't even realize there was finally a new episode on tonight), then suddenly the intro is filling the whole screen. Drop the food out of my mouth to exclaim "What the hell?" and then see this...



Just beautiful. I've been having a hard time looking at the show in standard-def every week after seeing them look so good in the movie and the video game. I loved how it paid tribute to the show's heritage, but updated everything. Characters that should have been added in 1992 all the way to today were all there. Cloud gag was funny with the bird added in. Chalkboard gag intact, albeit a little later. Maggie is $486.52, Grandpa is finally in the car, hell, even Sideshow Bob gets in there at some point. Lots more Krusty too. I nearly wet myself when (Treehouse Of Horror notwithstanding) Marge finally just plowed through Homer. They even upgraded the family's TV and put a digital converter box on top (how timely).

Can't say I'm one bit sorry to see what little was left of the old intro finally get tossed. The animation was dated. Everything looks so clean now. It does them justice. I was annoyed that King of the Hill beat Simpsons to go HD, and I hadn't done any reading on it, so to see the intro finally redone in true high-definition, I nearly wet myself. Now, get it in gear Family Guy.

I didn't like it too much.

Way too busy IMO. Theres like ten billion things going on.

This crap is still on?

Whoa, they finally -- FINALLY -- updated the intro! Never thought I'd see it happen.






...And yeah, the show still sucks balls. 1994 FTW!

I loved it, I laughed quite a few times, def. an upgrade.

I loved the updated intro! Finally, after dying in Season 6, Bleeding Gums Murphy is gone...

As a side note, did anyone watch the X-Men Origins; Wolverine spot last night? Now I'm even more geeked to see it! I'm so happy I'm taking every Friday in May off!

Eh, I'm gonna start having to watch these online. Apparently, my Fox station thought it would be cool to switch to digital only like 3 months before it was supposed to.

That said, Who wants to play spot the fanservice? Sawing off Jebidiah Springfeild's head... fanservice....Mr. Sparkle box on the check out... fanservice... :tcouch:

(Yeah, I enjoyed it... and one of the funnier couch gags of late...)

I thoroughly enjoyed the new intro. The animation looked crisper in last night's episode than previous episodes, even on a normal TV.

Could've fooled me. Like I said, I have a normal TV, but Simpsons actually looked different; King of the Hill looks the same to me as it always does. Is it that much of a difference on an HD one?

Not really. I mean, KOTH in a 16:9 frame now, but the animation itself is unchanged. The Simpsons actually went through a noticeable animation upgrade to accompany the HD resolution.

I don't like the new intro, but the show does look a million times better.

Mixed feelings. If they had to update it, it's about as good as it could've been. It did feel a bit busy.

I admit to being overly sentimental but I always thought it was charming that the longest running show on TV had always kept the same basic intro. It felt timeless to me, I'unno.

Plus I have slight depth perception problems, so all this HD stuff kinda messes with my eyes. I'm sure I'll get used to it.

I don't know, if they had actually changed the progression of the intro, perhaps I would be annoyed, but they didn't. All the classic scenes are there--they just added more. Even kept the same Klasky-Csupo squiggle font on the logo. I just felt it brought in all the 20 years of heritage the show has accumulated while keeping everything it was.

It just looks so cluttered. Otherwise it's fine.

I liked it too. TMB went into it nicely, so I won't repeat what's been said.

And I still don't get why a few people here are down on The Simpsons. It still owns the sub-par Simpson-wanna-be shows that are around. You know the ones I'm talking about.

Maybe because it stopped being funny nearly 10 years ago? And no, I don't.

I almost didn't even post this because I knew the discussion would just boil down to this. It always does.

I'M SORRY. The new intro looks very nice.

Now you're just pandering to me. I'm going to cry. :(

The Simpsons has always supplied good, clean, clever humor. But I guess that's not what people want anymore. If the humor ain't vulgar or moronic, than I guess it's just not funny.

And since you didn't get the reference, I was talking about shows like Family Guy. A show which its humor is mainly derived from pop-culture references, which admittedly are occasionally humorous, but otherwise a shallow and empty show.

Sorry, but it's true.

American Dad is the best show on the fox sunday lineup and I'll stand by that till the day I die or it starts to suck.

I watch both Family Guy and American Dad in addition to The Simpsons... King of the Hill to a much lesser extent. Family Guy can be uproarously hilarious at times, but there are many, many times when I just go "Oh God, I can't believe they just did that!" A lot of their jokes center primarily around surprising watchers with their absurdity or grossness. The part in one episode where Peter, Brian, Stewie, and Chris drank vials of ipecac and barfed all over the place makes me want to just shut off the TV. The sad thing is, I have a co-worker that will play that scene on YouTube at least once a week at work... and laugh like a freakin' hyena. There are other times, like last night's Christian Bale sketch, that just go on long after they were funny.

American Dad actually started out weak in my opinion and got better as time went on. Its first season or so was recycled Family Guy jokes with lame political humour thrown in, but it soon found its own identity, and at times, I think it's actually better than Family Guy.

But Simpsons will always be the cream of the crop. It makes me laugh on a consistent basis and even the lamest episodes are funnier than any other sitcom on the air right now - animated, or not.

The Simpsons is anything but "clever" anymore. Oh! Haha! Spider-pig! It's a pig but also it's like Spider-man! He does whatever a Spider-pig does! THAT'S HILARIOUS!!

Homer's character is nothing like he used to be. When the Simpsons was GOOD he was slow but honestly tried, cause, you know, the show had charm then. Now he's just an idiot because the people who still watch the show are moronic and find that to be the funniest thing EVAR!!! lolololz

Family Guy has never tried to be deeper than what it is. It's better than Spider-pig any day.

Sorry, but it's true.

The Simpsons used to be the greatest thing on television. I'll just leave it at that.

psh.. The way you described Homer sounds like hmm... Peter Griffen, who is possibly the sorriest character ever created. He's basicly Homer Simpson, but way more stupid to a level that it's not even funny in any way but just sad and annoying.
Honestly, all Peter Griffen is is a retarded, disgusting fat-ass. And anyone who could possibly find him funny would have to be as stupid as... *EDITED by Ryona. I went too far. I didn't have to be mean. So...yeah..*


I won't argue that not every little joke on the Simpsons is gold. But overall, The Simpsons still remains as a series with quality.

Don't even try with the "It's better than Spider-Pig" nonsense. There are so many things in Family Guy that raises question as to how the show even survives.

Hey guys, remember this....?

How's the weather up there on that high-horse?

Oh right, I see. Because I'm saying it as it is, so I must think I'm f***ing Moses or something.
I forgot that ignorance is bliss.

Yeah because everything you say is the truth! Gotcha!

Simpsons remains a quality series? You're insane.

Also, I'm pretty sure its "Griffin" and "Trailer."

You win, Stryker.
I ain't touching this thread anymore.

That's probably for the best...

I always figured him a cross between George Jetson (except fat) and Archie Bunker (except without any clue about the fact that he's a racist bastard) with the brain of a sh*t eating duck.

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Family Guy was funny. It was. Back up until the second season of the rebirth. Then they fell into the same jokes, the same bits, and all the characters turned generic, and all the envelopes were pushed, so nothing seemed risky anymore. There are 3 main problems with the show... The constant onslaught of clumsily placed "This is worse than the time..." jokes. Now, don't get me wrong, I find a fraction of them funny... but half the time they just throw together garbage like "This is gonna be bigger than Uncle Sam's Nipples" (was that an inside joke or something? I still don't get it), "That's like making Sneakers O'Toole take off his sneakers." and my personal least favorite, the poorly set up "Illegal Immigrants need more jobs like my cousin Peter Pig needs new houses."

Secondly, the show was a million times better before Stewie took over as star of the show, and he lost all his edge trying to kill everyone and take over the world, and then he became an unfunny effeminate weirdo that says "funny" things. The "Let's pretend the refrigerator is a monster" is the LOWEST point of the series, as far as I'm concerned.

And Thirdly, just kill Meg the hell off. She was pretty much added to the show because Fox wanted some female interest, and the writers didn't know what to do with her half way through the third season. And now all it is is jokes about how everyone hates Meg. I mean, they killed off Paddy Taninger, the vaudeville guys, and I'm sure they ended the Herbert the pervert jokes (remember, I haven't seen an episode of this since December, so things could have changed).

American Dad is a better show BECAUSE it doesn't have to satisfy stoners the way Family Guy does (no thanks to Adult Swim)... we get character development and wacky, interesting plots. But because Family Guy supposedly gets more interest, American Dad gets treated like a red headed step child EVEN by its own creator. I remember posting online to someone who worked on story boards on AD, and he said that the FG crew got all this amazing FG merchandise for Christmas bonuses, and the AD team just got the same baseball caps.

As for the Simpsons.... I still love them, however.... Cletus hasn't been funny since the Clinton administration, I'm sick of every episode that uses Lisa as the writers agenda to whine about stuff, Homer works at the Nuclear Power Plant, not as a florist, not as a window repair man, and I liked it a million times better when the celebrity guests played characters, and not themselves muttering Simpsons catchphrases, especially writers, artists, and architects that no one but the writing staff knows or cares about. But other than that, yeah, I still love those guys.

So.....cool intro huh.

The intro was somewhat entertaining, but not even the best intro evermade would want me to continue watch the simpsons after being traumatized by the newer eps, call me radical, but really it didn't lack down for before after season 17. And about Family Guy; it's funny sometimes, but overall i find annoying.

Okay, I'm making an oath to never mention the word "Simpsons" on these forums ever again.

Geez, seriously.

Aw, com'on. It's been a long time since I got to have an emo moment.

No, I was agreeing with you. everyone freaked out.