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Apr. 19th, 2010 07:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedCut my fingertips yesterday while sawing some branches. Later on, Mom cut her's while making dinner.
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Half the plot of last night's episode of The Simpsons featured a new fad called "Ball Fighters", which I commented I was familiar with what they were ripping off from having read Chelle's blog before. However, one of Bart's friends did say "It makes Digimon seem like Pokemon", so at least that goes to show that simply mentioning actual names of franchises isn't illegal. (Not that I didn't know that before.)
One thing did almost drive me away from that episode. For the other half of the plot, Homer gets sentenced to community service for "instigating" a panic in a bank, by doing something that couldn't even remotely be mistaken for such. At first, I thought this was gonna be like another episode, The Parent Rap (seriously, fuck that one!), but for once, it actually lead to something positive!
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Half the plot of last night's episode of The Simpsons featured a new fad called "Ball Fighters", which I commented I was familiar with what they were ripping off from having read Chelle's blog before. However, one of Bart's friends did say "It makes Digimon seem like Pokemon", so at least that goes to show that simply mentioning actual names of franchises isn't illegal. (Not that I didn't know that before.)
One thing did almost drive me away from that episode. For the other half of the plot, Homer gets sentenced to community service for "instigating" a panic in a bank, by doing something that couldn't even remotely be mistaken for such. At first, I thought this was gonna be like another episode, The Parent Rap (seriously, fuck that one!), but for once, it actually lead to something positive!
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Date: 2019-07-14 12:32 pm (UTC)with what they were ripping off
The Simpsons can't rip off Bakugan (I assume that's what it refers to?), since they're not making a series revolving around anything similar, they're most likely just satirizing it (I haven't seen the episode, but I'm a bit familiar with the Simpsons and how they not take certain things serious).
One thing did almost drive me away from that episode. For the other half of the plot, Homer gets sentenced to community service for "instigating" a panic in a bank, by doing something that couldn't even remotely be mistaken for such.
Why does that drive you off, didn't you notice that's satire too? It falls in line with the Ball Fighters thing : overreacting about minor things.
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Date: 2019-07-14 12:33 pm (UTC)That's actually what I meant.
About the second question, not sure how to answer that. Either way, though, the episode I compared it to was, in my opinion, not the least bit funny. The Parent Rap consisted almost exclusively of Homer and Marge being penalized for something that Bart did, and frankly, most episodes I've seen were much better than that. That is what I assumed last night's episode was gonna be like where Homer was involved.
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Date: 2019-07-14 12:33 pm (UTC)The Parent Rap I haven't seen, but that sounds like they're jabbing at how the media will hold parents responsible for it if their kids do something wrong. Can imagine though how it would be annoying to watch something unfair for the duration of an episode.
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Date: 2019-07-14 12:34 pm (UTC)http://www.hulu.com/watch/139656/the-simpsons-chief-of-hearts
Enjoy!
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Date: 2019-07-14 12:34 pm (UTC)