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

ChimpanZ

Fruit Loops, Cheerios, Pops, Trix, Cocoa Pebbles
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Pop culture is just something use to pretend they are cultured because they ignore anything that was too long ago to be relevant to them. Just because they don't get the references doesn't make the Simpsons worse than the many shows that it inspired. Same with Married With Children. It was the show that allowed all those to exist.
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JoeBrotheChildSpitGuzzler

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Chive Turkey

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I've never thought of The Simpsons as a cultural reference-based show. Sure, it had them but it wasn't centred around them. All the great episodes I remember were based around plots and gags that are pretty timeless or at least universally comprehensible.

Contrast that with Family Guy, which wallows in surface level pop culture references, or South park, of which the whole shtick is to give topical satire. I can think of a lot more SP or Futurama episodes that revolved around shit that's pretty dated now compared to classic era Simpsons ones, and they're a lot more recent.
 

The Talking Dead

My network, heart and book all failed. Hooly shit!
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I've never thought of The Simpsons as a cultural reference-based show. Sure, it had them but it wasn't centred around them. All the great episodes I remember were based around plots and gags that are pretty timeless or at least universally comprehensible.

You are correct. I like Sue but he's being a silly goose on this point. You don't need to have grown up in the 90s to appreciate why the first 10 seasons of the Simpsons were so good.
 

IGotATreeOnMyHouse85

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It’s crazy to think the Simpsons were at one point considered controversial just because the Fox network was seen as “edgy” at the time for being a new network. Even George Bush Sr as president complained the show was bad for family values. Now Simpsons is the most safe compared to the many “adult” cartoons. That being said I can’t see anybody actually watching the current Simpsons and enjoying it unless they werent alive when it was good in the 90s. I don’t agree with the good seasons being that dated unlike family guy or South Park that relies all on pop culture for storylines. Some jokes related to celebrities on older ones might not hold up but the stories were based on situations involving the family. Maybe the Bee Sharps one would be hard to understand if you never heard of the Beatles and Krusty get Cancelled and Homer at Bat were celeb / sports star heavy.

I got to talk to Kelsey Grammer about a year ago at an event for his beer and I told him how even episodes based on something like the movie Cape Fear was even still funny / memorable even if you isn’t see the movie. Kelsey got on the Simpsons because of Sam Simon - who really was behind what made the show so great those early seasons and hiring the writers.
 
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Imager

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I wrote a long vague thing that i just deleted about how the internet has replaced these shows that act as snapshots of a culture and time period like the Simpsons or Seinfeld, but that wouldn’t be fair. To give a genuine answer it may be South Park. Growing up that was the shit. Edgy and banned in schools. Almost always topical to the time. But I think it doesn’t have the same staying power as half of the shit “we” consumed from the internet.
Is anything banned in schools anymore?
 

Imager

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I don’t understand boomer broccoli hair.

Or how now once you’re a mom you have to tuck your shirt into your pants only where the zipper is and leave the rest untucked.

I don’t understand why Stranger Things was popular with 12 year olds who don’t understand the 80s references. I saw a couple of episodes of The Wonder Years when I was 12 and realized that even though a kid was the main character, the show wasn’t made for me. So I don’t get the love from them for Stranger Things.
 

aRTie02150

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I don’t understand boomer broccoli hair.

Or how now once you’re a mom you have to tuck your shirt into your pants only where the zipper is and leave the rest untucked.

I don’t understand why Stranger Things was popular with 12 year olds who don’t understand the 80s references. I saw a couple of episodes of The Wonder Years when I was 12 and realized that even though a kid was the main character, the show wasn’t made for me. So I don’t get the love from them for Stranger Things.
I watched about 5 minutes of Stranger Things and seen one of them using a flashlight that was clearly an LED and I decided not to watch again.

Not even kidding.
 
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