Now that the dust has had 30 years to settle, was this episode as bad as people make it out to be?
>>153659529I also watch TheRealJims
yeseven the creators have made it effectively non-canon
>>153659529It was a "funny episode of a comedy show" but it shat on, for lack of a better word, "the lore" the show had established that people had apparently taken very seriously up to that point.
>>153659614Shut up
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>>153659614Fpbp
>>153659529I don't think it was funny or clever enough to justify being so obnoxious/subversive.
>>153659983I thought it was pretty funny but it still didn't justify anything.It really showed the divide between the writers and the fans, it was just a bad idea from the very beginning.
>>153659529The premise was nonsensical, the ending was strange and uncharacteristically cold, it wasn't funny enough to justify itself and it ended up not mattering at allIt feels like it's parodying something else, like a show you didn't watch but was important at the time, but no, this shit is original
It’s really weird they just get throw the “real” Skinner out so callously.
>>153659529The episode itself was fine but in the meta context of The Simpsons it was a harbinger of things to come. Like I don't think they would have done two jokes about Homer being literally raped if they hadn't decided to fuck up Skinner's character in this episode.
>>153659529>Simpsons >canon Your frustration is your own doing.
>>153659529Don't worry what other people think, chronic thread-maker.
>>153659529>30 years no fuckin way...
>>153659529yeah
OP...
>>153659529I didn't know the episode was hated until I referenced Armin Tamzarian in middle school and some kid groaned about it. I thought it was fine when it was new and didn't think about it. As an adult I think the twist is pretty stupid and bad for Skinner's character, but in terms of jokes and such the episode isn't bad.
