# Simpsons: RIP Snowball II **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042 "2004-01-11T20:42:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/1 "2004-01-11T20:42:27Z")
The description for tonight’s episode includes “Lisa and Marge mourn the loss of Snowball II.” How sad. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/2 "2004-01-11T21:33:54Z")
Well, actually, according to [snpp.com](http://snpp.com), they only THINK that the cat is dead. Implying, like…that it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/3 "2004-01-11T22:09:40Z")
Either way. Great spoiler in the title. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/4 "2004-01-11T22:11:19Z")
Nothing in the title that isn’t in the episode description. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/5 "2004-01-11T22:13:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > \*\*Nothing in the title that isn’t in the episode description. \*\* Which I haven’t seen. Thanks for spoiling the show. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/6 "2004-01-11T22:13:21Z")
That’s why I don’t read episode descriptions. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/7 "2004-01-11T22:17:54Z")
I’m sorry. That came out harsher than intended. It’s just that I enjoy tv most when I don’t know anything about the story before I watch it. Of course, that isn’t as important with the simpsons as with with other shows, but I still try to avoid anything spoilerlike. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/8 "2004-01-11T22:17:55Z")
Um, you know that’s not the end of the show, right? That simply the premise. I haven’t seen the show either, I just read the episode description. Am I to understand that describing what an episode is simply about constitutes a spoiler? ---
**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/9 "2004-01-11T22:30:10Z")
If Snowball dies in the first scene, **whitetho** , will the next 29 m be spoiled, too? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/10 "2004-01-11T22:31:05Z")
Apparently. I’m getting flashbacks to the Hans Moleman–Apu exchange in “22 Short Films About Springfield.” “You just stole five minutes of my life, and I want them back…Never mind, I’d probably waste them anyway.” You guys are starting to worry me. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/11 "2004-01-11T23:12:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Am I to understand that describing what an episode is simply about constitutes a spoiler? Um, yeah, that would in fact be a spoiler. Not a major spoiler but a spoiler nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/12 "2004-01-11T23:35:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whitetho \* > \*\*Which I haven’t seen. Thanks for spoiling the show. \*\* Why would you care? The show is absolute shit now. It’s depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/13 "2004-01-11T23:46:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Soapbox Monkey \* > \*\*Why would you care? The show is absolute shit now. It’s depressing. \*\* Well, it only took eleven posts for someone to say this. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/14 "2004-01-11T23:55:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Soapbox Monkey \* > \*\*Why would you care? The show is absolute shit now. It’s depressing. \*\* Dude. It’s not as great as it was in it’s glory days, but it’s hardly Just Shoot Me. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/15 "2004-01-12T00:24:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*Um, yeah, that would in fact be a spoiler. Not a major spoiler but a spoiler nonetheless. \*\* You mean you cannot even know what a show is about before you watch it, and if you do it is spoiled for you? Wow. Everybody of course has the right to have their own idea what constitutes a spoiler, but don’t expect everybody to conform to your standards. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mullets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@John\_Mullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mullets)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/16 "2004-01-12T00:51:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gadfly \* > \*\*Dude. It’s not as great as it was in it’s glory days, but it’s hardly Just Shoot Me. \*\* You’ve gotta be kidding me. The Simpsons went past Just Shoot Me a couple seasons ago, now the enjoyment rating is somewhere between eating luke-warm dog shit and watching your family brutally butchered in front of your eyes. I’m suprised anyone can stand the shitty show anymore. It’s positively awful now. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/17 "2004-01-12T01:05:00Z")
It never was as funny as it used be. ---
**Author:** ![Sauroposeidon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sauroposeidon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauroposeidon)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/18 "2004-01-12T01:20:43Z")
A truly horrible show is football. That’s why _The Simpsons_ still hasn’t started here, at 8:22. ☹ The only description I’ve read about tonight’s episode is that it involves Homer fighting robots. Is it the same episode? ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/19 "2004-01-12T01:44:57Z")
So many dead cats. That’s not funny, it’s depressing. What the hell were they thinking? ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-rip-snowball-ii/224042/20 "2004-01-12T01:45:58Z")
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