best bit = green day

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

boo the simps movies suXoRed a bit :(

i. beavis and butthead had LESBIAN SEAGUL and the savage pencil PEYOTE SEQUENCE
ii. South Park had all those songs and a real OMG WTF drive to the silly beyond
iii. it just felt like it was colouring within the lines the whole time

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ahh OK - yes I can imagine exactly what you're getting at.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i spose what i'm imagining could have been done -- at a micro or a macro level -- is some retconning, to take account of and/or use the clash of formal demands, ie gags that weren't just oneliners without consequences, or non-politically-specific satire

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

"ie gags that weren't just oneliners without consequences"

What was so great about the very best eps (those 50-60 or so that from the early-to-mid 90s) of the Simpsons were all those gags without consequences. Whole eps of it! With only a skeleton of a story (so all the more remarkable how some eps would manage to carry such an emotional charge as well). The South Park film succeded partly as it ws a musical - if Groening tried to go for a genre to flesh it a bit instead of a long ep...he should've made that Itchy and Scratchy film instead!

This is thinking out loud as (like nicolars) I'm 99% certain I wouldn't enjoy it, unless my brother (who loves American Dad and the Simpsons and South Park and every comedy ever, I think, drags me along)