I agree!
The BBC shouldn't buy the rights to these programmes if they so obviously haven't any intention of treating them with the respect they deserve.
Did I say 'these programmes'?
I meant The Simpsons.
The Simpson should be uncut and it should be on Friday night (preferably instead of Coupling). I lost my cable connection five years ago (something to do with not paying them, bastards) and the Beeb are still showing the ones I taped on SKY five years
ago. If I do miss a Simpson's -- and I hate doing that -- I can always look it up in a television guide and track down the episode on tape. Sometimes I watch them but mostly I lose heart. I seen some of them too many times. I want new Simpson episodes; I want something to eat ice cream to, to get stoned to, something to relish as the week's television chokes on Gail Porter, decorating and cooking. Forget the snooker, tennis, football; forget Delia Smith; forget Ainsley; lose Jamie somewhere (if only his brain would fry up, please let mobiles be harmful when over-used. As Bill Hicks said: that's a private prayer.) What I'm trying to say is, less shite
more Simpsons. Don't Dome the money on new junk. Buy some more Simpson episodes.
Hello Suii. Hello John! I think Channel 4 has died after your attacks. No one is using it. It is an ex-forum. But we must not sleep, there is much work to do. New crap is leaking from our televisions every day.
When I wrote : "If I do miss a Simpson's", I should have wrote: " if I do miss a Simpsons' " .
And I also wrote: "I" instead of "I've". I blame my English teacher. I fell in love with her. She made my teenage years a cliche. She was divorced which meant she went to orgies. I wore my dad's after-shave for her.
I was supposed to have a crush on my games teacher.
But he was a fat bastard with a face like a duck.
>I was supposed to have a crush on my games teacher.
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>But he was a fat bastard with a face like a duck.
Was his face like a whole duck or just a duck's face. I'm finding it hard to picture.
one of my games teachers ran off with a sixth former to whom he was later engaged. and i thought that was an urban myth.
j xxx
ps. anyone lose their virginity to a teacher? it's quite common, apparently....
my english teacher ran off with a girl from the class
I heard they got married a couple of years later....
Ultimate games teacher anecdote:
I went to a girls boarding school where the games teacher was yer typical red-faced jolly-hockey-sticks stocky lezzer type (actually she looked a bit like Sandy Toksvig, only bigger). After a school disco she was found in one of the bathrooms by a second-former (that's about 14 years old for you younger kids with yer year elevens and all that). She was naked, pissed out of her head, sitting on the toilet and half asleep (the games teacher, not the second-former). The next day at assembaly she just wasn't there...no explanation was given...nobody knows what became of her...
Beat that!
At my comp. we had a butch, stocky, taller version of Sanfdy Toksvig PE teacher too! I think there's a factory in the midlands that makes them!
Anyway, one day at school the fire alarm went off during a 1st form PE lesson, and the girls were about to go in the showers (she loved that, perved on lasses all the time) she wouldn't let them get dressed so all these poor 11 year olds had to stand on the tennis court wrapped in their towels. The smartarse teacher tried to climd through a side window and got stuck cos her bum was too big! Served the bitch right, the firemen spent half an hour trying to free her!
Ahhh, so *that's* what became of her...
Well, my games teacher, erm...had a face like a duck.
Of course, it's not just P.E. teacher who seem unable to grasp the concept of education. At a sith form ball a couple of years ago, a male biology teacher at my school got "cosy" with a female student, before getting into a fight with her boyfriend in the toilets. Ahh, the crazy thing testosterone will make you do...
That would have been so much more exciting if the teacher had got cosy with the boy, and had in the toilets with the girl.
My game's teacher was very Pratchett-esque. i swear she once shouted "Get some ball, you soft nellies!" at us when we were playing hockey.
Oh, and my Physics teacher used to stalk me. he was quite attractive, in a 40-year-old-bachelor-who-can't-put-on-weight way.
>That would have been so much more exciting if the teacher had got cosy with the boy, and had in the toilets with the girl.
Well, you've nicely summed up my school there. Not exciting enough.
I'm just glad i'm not there anymore. It really was incredibly depressing. Hang on, that's the reason why i liked it...
Whoops! forgot to put my name on that last one. It's so complicated this computer stuff
It certainly is.
And my sentence should have finished '...had a fight in the toilets with the girl'.
This computer stuff. Tsk.
back to the Simpsons because all of the teachers in my school were either married, gay or ugly bastards any way i have to agree with john & suiii because the BBC that so wonderful company (yeah right) are too tight to pay for new ones infact the first series from 1990 has been shown less that the 1991/2/3&4 series also what an arse for showing the first half of "who shot Mr. Burns" and then saying "well that's the end of this series we will show a brand new series in the Autumn withe the concluding part"... WHY NOT FUCKING SHOWS US THEM NOW!!!! YOU SAD BASTARDS ALWAYS INVESTING IN AROUND WESTMINSTER, NEWSNIGHT AND FUCKING EASTENDERS, GREG DYKE FUCKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
Anyway one question is Futurama any good and is The new series of South Park anygood because the first series wasn't bad and the second series declined by the end and also I would like to know if anyone perfers South Park to the Simpsons (sad fuckers)
I think the "Who shot Mr Burns" episode was always designed as an end-of-series cliffhanger to boost ratings (probably at the US sweeps). I seem to remember that there was a lot of "Who shot Mr Burns" buuild-up in the states over the months that it was away.
So, technically, the BBC are correct to do this. However, I wish they wouldn't.
The BBC are indeed fools. The Simpsons could pull an enormous audience if it was treated properly. I have often been mocked by my father for watching 'that daft yank cartoon', but he watched it for the first time the other week and was grudgingly forced to agree that it was brilliant.
As for South Park Vs The Simpsons, there's no way you can even make a comparison. Yeah, they're both animated, but it ends there. I like South Park, but it wears pretty thin after a while. I must say though that the SP movie far exceeded expectations when compared wth the series. They should stop making it soon though, quit while they're ahead so to speak.
The Simpsons pulled in 9 million viewers when shown on BBC1 at the start of its run on the BBC back in November 1996.
At its peak on BBC2, it was getting about 6.5m. It now gets around 4m.
And 'Who Shot Mr. Burns' is a season cliffhanger, so the BBC are actually doing something right for a change. Unfortunately, by not promoting it at all, it may as well just have been concluded there and then, as no suspense has been built up.
<wipes stains off anorak>
In repsonse to the futurama query, i think it is a good programme, although obviously not as good/funny as Simpsons, although it is still early days. I think that the maim problem is that the principal character of Fry is probably the worst person on the show. Bender, the robot, is much funnier, due to the fact that he has no morals.
Benders rarely do!
...I think i must be the most unfortunate person here. i never saw Pt. 1 of "who shot..."... but i've seen part 2 5 times now. ruddy FOX59...
It's available on video though.
On PAL, at least.
Yes, but why should I have to pay for a video that i will probably never watch, when Mr. Murdoch can just show the old ones instead of commissioning new, blisteringly funny ones?
...no, hang on.
But the Season 3/4/5/6/7 ones are a lot better than the later Season 10/11 ones.
Nothing will ever beat Tomacco.
...except some of the older ones, yes. but i was almost right!
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Smirnoff
I'm very glad Barney didn't stay in his first incarnation. He was terrible in tonights 'Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire'
Yes he was.
But then a lot of things about that one are terrible.
Yet strangely..stil better than South park.
Oh yes.
The only South Park I really like is the film.
Yet I feel a Simpsons film would be awful.
Me too.
The strange, strange world of animation, eh?