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[Monkeydog]

Simpsons still is funny, it just doesn't hit the same highs as it once did, and occasionally hits really low lows, but it's not downright terrible.

 

I'd say Family Guy is downright terrible though. It's so ridiculously mean and ugh. It's funny once in a while, nowhere as funny as it was before it was canceled. I'm really disappointed that the Family Guy writers wrote that episode, because from everything I've seen/heard about it is it's too Family Guy and not enough Simpsons. Family Guy is just too mean, stuff that would never happen in The Simpsons. Because at the very least, The Simpsons can pull human emotion and heart, something Family Guy never does. I can't even excuse it for not doing that by being mean spirited kind of humor, because Archer/It's Always Sunny are the same way but can still feel grounded and human when they need to.

 

 

 

I am kind of excited for The Simpsons/Futurama crossover this season. I do hope it's more Futurama than The Simpsons.

[panda]

So crossover episodes are okay now? Because when The Simpsons did that with Jay Sherman (The Critic), it got panned by actual critics and Matt Groening himself for just being a cheap stunt.

[Monkeydog]

Matt Groening is crazy and A Star is Burns is a great episode.

I'm not saying crossovers are particularly great, and the Family Guy one proves it, but anything that results in more Futurama is okay in my book.

[Monkeydog]

So I actually watched the crossover because meh.

 

It was actually better than I was expecting, but still had really really bad terrible moan worthy parts. Basically anything involving Peter/Homer, Stewie/Bart, and Meg/Lisa. The highlights being Brian and Santa's Little Helper and some of the cameos (James Woods, Bob from Bob's Burgers, and Roger from American Dad). Hell, I think the first five or so minutes that was just Family Guy was better than the majority of what came after it.

 

But what really just soured me on it was just how mean they wrote some of the Simpsons characters. They don't do mean things for no reason like Family Guy characters. It was pretty bad and is the worst thing about the crossover. That's why Brian/Santa's Little Helper is a a highlight for me, because you can't write Santa's Little Helper wrong and Brian is probably the strongest Family Guy character when he's not being overly pretentious. 

 

But yeah, mostly meh, with a lot of ugh.

[kspr]

the twilight zone: nightmare at 20,000ft. william shatner acts like a jerk by smoking on a plane. can you imagine? then he sees a langoleer or something on the wing if the plane.

[Vicious Parker]

Korra premiered yesterday. I have to say, you know a show has a great supporting cast when the title character is only in the last minute of an episode, but it's still entirely engaging throughout.

[Stars]

Are we on book 4 now, or is this just book 3? I haven't watched book 2 yet, and I've lost track of how far along the show is.

[Vicious Parker]

Book 4.

[panda]

Dinner theater is underrated.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[Stars]

Got my brother caught up on book 1 of Korra. Hopefully we'll be starting book 2 soon.

[Kamau]

I second the "Korra is a fantastic show" notion. Tara and I finished watching all the previous seasons (me for the first time, her for the second) about three days before the new season aired, and now we've been watching new episodes every Friday via Chromecast (I love my Chromecast).

 

I think it's kind of awesome how it's a sequel show yet still equally as awesome as Avatar: The Last Airbender.

 

(I'm also watching all the rest of my shows now that they're back, including Survivor, The Amazing Race, The Voice, Agents of Shield, and Once Upon a TIme.)

 

(We're also watching Arrow, season 2. The last episode we watched ended on a MAJOR cliffhanger but I couldn't stay up any more because work. So I'm going to hide the DVD today in case Tara decides she can't wait any more, and we'll watch it tonight.)

[BottomGuy]

I'm on board with the new Korra season, too, and I'm seriously intrigued with where they are taking the series. 

 

Sadly I can no longer watch it on TV. And I don't mean through cable. For Books 2 & 3 of Korra, I watched them on my Nick app that is on the Xbox. No muss, no fuss. But then my cable provider had to get into a disagreement with Viacom, who owns Nickleodeon, and Viacom is now blocking me from watching any of their network shows on their websites. It's still super easy to watch the episodes as they premier online elsewhere, but I think I might get a Chromecast now.

[Stars]

Steven Universe, finally.

 

Dude has a star on his shirt. What's not to love?

[BottomGuy]

The second season of Steven Universe is starting to get pretty awesome. And surprisingly dramatic in all the right ways.

[Stars]

Halfway through Korra book 2.

[Lackadaisy]

Gekkan Shojuo Nozaki-Kun is cute.

Oh god i need to watch more Siberian cartoons

[Stars]

Finished book 2. Now to track down book 3. Anyone know if it's on Hulu or the like?

[Vicious Parker]

http://www.nick.com/legend-of-korra/ ?

[Stars]

Ooh, didn't know they put full episodes on the site. Looks like it only has the four most recent episodes though, so everything before the book 3 finale is missing. =(

[Vicious Parker]

There is a legend of Korea channel on YouTube (I would link it, but I'm on mah phone). Give that a shot.

EDIT: my phone thinks it should be "Korea." I'm going to let it have its way this time, because that's funny.