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What are some thing you don’t get because you’re too young?

Sue Lightning

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wbgreen said:
The original SNL cast. They made some good movies, but the first years of the show are boring and unfunny.
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Seeing people in my generation who love SNL is perplexing. I mean these are people who didn’t even watch it in the 2000’s, we’re talking their exposure is strictly everything after 2010 and I don’t know how you can love the show with that being your exposure to it.
 
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Sue Lightning said:
Seeing people in my generation who love SNL is perplexing. I mean these are people who didn’t even watch it in the 2000’s, we’re talking their exposure is strictly everything after 2010 and I don’t know how you can love the show with that being your exposure to it.
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I want to smash Kate McKinnon's stupid face - and I don't even mean the rape way. I'm talking Joe Cumia style
 
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Turk February said:
What's not to get? At a time when family sitcoms were saccharine and aimed at the youngest and oldest possible demographics at the same time, like Full House and Family Ties, the Simpsons used the fact it was a cartoon to present the world with a retarded alcoholic man, his codependent wife, his delinquent victim of child abuse son, and his neurotic, victim by proxy, daughter. If The Simpsons don't seem unique now, it's because its soaked into the cultural foundation of American television, and everything has a little Simpsons in it ever since.
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God damn, that's a perfect description.
I remember when bart Simpson t shirts were banned in school because he was so bad
 
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Sue Lightning said:
Yeah thats my entire point. The Simpsons isn’t special because I grew up in a time where everything was influenced by it. All of the supposedly “golden age” seasons are filled with references I don’t get because I wasn’t born 20 years ago. So when anyone tells me “Bro the Simpsons is one of the best shows ever!” i can just tell they’re an oldhead.
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“References” aren’t what makes it funny. The writing, the little quips, the dumb things characters say, one liners, the way characters react in an ironic fashion, without them realizing it. And no other show used that as the source of comedy as well or as distinctly as The Simpsons.

Like groundskeeper Willie’s quote:


It won't last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!

See, you don’t need to know the intricate details about all of those conflicts to find it funny. In fact, the details don’t matter at all. You don’t even have to know that Japan exists in order to find this funny. The joke is that Scots are retarded trouble makers who are too stupid for their own good.

I used to think like you do, but it’s probably just youthful arrogance. I would do that to older people all the time when they would make a reference to something from before my time. In reality, it just made me look like a fawking dope who can’t connect to something just because I’ve ever heard of it before.

It takes 2 seconds to guggle it. You young niggers have the answers to every question that every generation before you had to struggle with on their own for decades. And yet somehow, you all mostly still are just as ignorant and unaware of before your time than ever before, if not moreso.

At my current age, when young people try to play the fake tough guy act and say “you’re old!!!” because I mentioned something they’ve never heard of before, I just shake my head at them being proud of their insignificance. They put no time in, yet they act like we’re all here to impress THEM.

Young people with no memories and no frame of reference have this oddball confidence to act unimpressed when they don’t understand.

In the words of Grandpa…

I used to be “with it,” but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore, and what’s ‘it’ now seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to youuuuu
 
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DMAN said:
“References” aren’t what makes it funny. The writing, the little quips, the dumb things characters say, one liners, the way characters react in an ironic fashion, without them realizing it. And no other show used that as the source of comedy as well or as distinctly as The Simpsons.

Like groundskeeper Willie’s quote:


It won't last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies! Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!

See, you don’t need to know the intricate details about all of those conflicts to find it funny. In fact, the details don’t matter at all. You don’t even have to know that Japan exists in order to find this funny. The joke is that Scots are retarded trouble makers who are too stupid for their own good.

I used to think like you do, but it’s probably just youthful arrogance. I would do that to older people all the time when they would make a reference to something from before my time. In reality, it just made me look like a fawking dope who can’t connect to something just because I’ve ever heard of it before.
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Ok i get what you’re saying and that joke is funny. Maybe i’m just generalizing the Simpsons.
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It takes 2 seconds to guggle it. You young niggers have the answers to every question that every generation before you had to struggle with on their own for decades. And yet somehow, you all mostly still are just as ignorant and unaware of before your time than ever before, if not moreso.

At my current age, when young people try to play the fake tough guy act and say “you’re old!!!” because I mentioned something they’ve never heard of before, I just shake my head at them being proud of their insignificance. They put no time in, yet they act like we’re all here to impress THEM.
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Again like I said before, the issue isn’t that I don’t “get” the references as in what they’re talking about, I don’t “get” the humor because they’re talking about shit that happened 30-40 years ago which would really only be funny at that moment in time. Many comedy shows have this issue because theres no way to tell if a cultural moment will endure (think OJ) or become irrelevant after a month.
 
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Turk February said:
What's not to get? At a time when family sitcoms were saccharine and aimed at the youngest and oldest possible demographics at the same time, like Full House and Family Ties, the Simpsons used the fact it was a cartoon to present the world with a retarded alcoholic man, his codependent wife, his delinquent victim of child abuse son, and his neurotic, victim by proxy, daughter. If The Simpsons don't seem unique now, it's because its soaked into the cultural foundation of American television, and everything has a little Simpsons in it ever since.
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CQ_Beans said:
Reminds me of early 90’s SNL when it was a weird show because that’s what it was when I watched it as a kid.
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I just remember there were a few seasons where it was random joke after joke like Family Guy but obviously before Family guy existed and mastered it. I just dont remember what seasons those were. Id imagine with Family Guy and south park being way edgier that Simpsons are pretty tame/bland if you did grow up with it.
 
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