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The writers of these episodes were really on another level considering it was a cartoon. Lisa's first word is still a personal favourite of mine, especially no
by tedk-42 2y ago
The writers of these episodes were really on another level considering it was a cartoon.
Lisa's first word is still a personal favourite of mine, especially now as a father.
- kenjackson 2y agoWhat's her first word?
- g4zj 2y agoApparently it was "Bart". I had to look it up because I was curious as well.
- 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 2y agoI guess GP is referring to the episode, rather than the actual word . . .
- gedy 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa's_First_Word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa's_First_Word
- tedk-42 2y agoMore incentive to watch the 20min episode if you ever get the opportunity haha
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- fluoridation 2y agoTo be honest, it's difficult to tell if the subplot makes sense on purpose, or if the writers just wanted to make a joke and it just happened to end up making sense. I don't think I had ever put the three scenes together before now.
- nativeit 2y agoOne of the first things I learned in film school is _nothing_ in a production at that level is coincidence or serendipity. To get to the final script and storyboard, the writers would have gone through multiple drafts, and a great deal of material gets either cut, or retooled to reinforce thematic elements. To the extent that The Simpsons was a goofy cartoon, its writers’ room carried a great deal of intellectual and academic heft, and I don’t doubt for a moment that there was full intention with both the joke itself, and the choice to leave the character’s motivations ambiguous.
- jshdhehe 2y agoGoofy cartoon but I always thought it was very cleverly done in parts. The laugh followed by "fuck life is actually like that" aftertaste.
- vlovich123 2y agoThe entire writing room was Harvard grads and people who went on to accomplish impressive things in the industry (eg Conan O’Brien was a writer, David X Cohen was a writer and then went on to cocreate Futurama with Groening). The early writing team was one of the sharpest ever assembled and dismissing it as a “goofy cartoon” is missing the talent behind it just like if you dismissed Futurama in that way.
- sobkas 2y ago> One of the first things I learned in film school is _nothing_ in a production at that level is coincidence or serendipity. To get to the final script and storyboard, the writers would have gone through multiple drafts, and a great deal of material gets either cut, or retooled to reinforce thematic elements. To the extent that The Simpsons was a goofy cartoon, its writers’ room carried a great deal of intellectual and academic heft, and I don’t doubt for a moment that there was full intention with both the joke itself, and the choice to leave the character’s motivations ambiguous. Not everything, for example I read somewhere that chess "fight" in Tween Peaks was random and didn't adhere to chess rules because no one really paid attention to record or follow moves.