# The Simpsons 19th season premiere (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239 "2007-09-23T23:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/1 "2007-09-23T23:59:39Z")
“I will not wait another 20 years to make a movie”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/2 "2007-09-24T00:02:31Z")
Worst. Opening. Ever. I kid, I really liked the movie references. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/3 "2007-09-24T00:02:47Z")
Spooky: Stephen Colbert is tonights guest star! I am recording it, I have The War on PBS. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/4 "2007-09-24T00:46:04Z")
I liked Stephen Colbert’s character. Very much in his style. “You’re forgetting DNC- Don’t Not Concentrate.” I liked all the Chicago jokes, reminds me of the old-style jokes from the past that pissed off cities and places like New Orleans, East St. Louis, and Brazil. I’m sure Chicago will be angry, too, but it’s worth it. “Wrigley Field, Home of the Chicago Cubs, 1908 World Champions” “Wherever The White Sox Play” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/5 "2007-09-24T00:47:06Z")
That episode was a lot like the plane flight at the end: started off prety well (including some classic Simpsons action), and then almost crashed (Homer suddenly not having the job was confusing instead of dramatic, and the scene where we see why he didn’t get the job failed to pay off). Some good jokes, though. And I may be the first person ever to say the following: has Homer gotten smarter this season? He aced the placemat maze. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/6 "2007-09-24T00:48:39Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Some good jokes, though. And I may be the first person ever to say the following: has Homer gotten smarter this season? He aced the placemat maze. [/QUOTE] I never thought about that- there was one episode a long time ago where Homer kept screwing up a placemat maze. Maybe it was the bowling shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/7 "2007-09-24T01:02:29Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] I never thought about that- there was one episode a long time ago where Homer kept screwing up a placemat maze. Maybe it was the bowling shoes. [/QUOTE] It’s gotta be the shoes. Either way, he always does those mazes with the utmost dignity, that’s the great thing. They did turn two recent-Simpsons things on their heads in this one: Homer gets a job without quitting his old one or anyone checking if he knows how to do the new one, and Marge finds out about Homer lying about… something. Alas, the end also meant there wasn’t much of a payoff. The best parts were the slamming of Chicago - they got a lot done in a hurry - Colbert’s character saving the day while sitting pathetically with his pants off and eating a TV dinner (while refusing to name Emory University), and Homer driving the plane off the cliff. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/8 "2007-09-24T02:44:52Z")
“Sorry I had to lie about all this, but thanks for letting me use the plane.” “Anything for a fellow Marine.” “Semper fudge!” “Did you just say ‘semper fudge?’” “No, I said the right thing.” ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/9 "2007-09-24T04:03:56Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] refusing to name Emory University [/QUOTE] Why do you assume it’s Emory he didn’t name? He could have been not naming Rice or Tulane. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/10 "2007-09-24T04:21:58Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] I liked Stephen Colbert’s character. Very much in his style. “You’re forgetting DNC- Don’t Not Concentrate.” [/QUOTE] I thought it was _NDC: Never Don’t Concentrate_. I must not have been concentrating. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/11 "2007-09-24T04:30:34Z")
The season premiere was tonight? Dammit. Did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/12 "2007-09-24T04:32:58Z")
The palate had whaty looked like some new greens. The animation had a bit of what I can only describe as a mechanical feel–when the plane went over the cliff, I had a little Futurama flashback. I also thought the timing was off in a few places. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/13 "2007-09-24T05:31:05Z")
Loved it. It had Lionel Richie so that already made it awesome. As a current Chicago native I almost lost it at “while you were here we felt like New York”. Greast episode. My summer love. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/14 "2007-09-24T08:24:04Z")
“Homer, you don’t know how to fly a jet!” “I’ve driven a car off a cliff. How much different can it be?” ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/15 "2007-09-24T11:51:37Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] “I will not wait another 20 years to make a movie”. [/QUOTE] I missed the whole opening sequence. Stupid FOX affiliate ran a bunch of commercials at the end of a football game, cut to the last two seconds of the intro, then went to MORE COMMERCIALS! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/16 "2007-09-24T11:57:39Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] The palate had whaty looked like some new greens. The animation had a bit of what I can only describe as a mechanical feel–when the plane went over the cliff, I had a little Futurama flashback. I also thought the timing was off in a few places. [/QUOTE] Right, it had that computer-generated look. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/17 "2007-09-24T12:27:37Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] Why do you assume it’s Emory he didn’t name? He could have been not naming Rice or Tulane. [/QUOTE] When I was applying to colleges I heard Emory referred to as “the Harvard of the South.” (And maybe I should’ve applied, since the Harvard of the North had no interest in me.) I know it’s one of those “we’re not saying who we mean” jokes, but I thought Emory was the most likely candidate. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/18 "2007-09-24T13:43:39Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] Right, it had that computer-generated look. [/QUOTE] The plane landing, etc definitely was CG. They used to avoid that at all cost… and there are plenty of poorly drawn camera movements in the past that would have benefited from it. I guess they used it on the movie and kinda liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/19 "2007-09-24T14:37:09Z")
[QUOTE=Lochdale] …It had Lionel Richie so that already made it awesome… [/QUOTE] “Beer beer, beer beer! Beer beer beer… wait, I forgot the words.” Loved seeing them cleaning up pieces of the dome, and rebuilding Springfield, in the opening sequence. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239/20 "2007-09-24T15:36:19Z")
I have to say, I thought the episode was weak as hell. I was looking forward to Stephen Colbert’s character, but he did nothing for me. The only time I laughed was when Homer taxied the plane into the water. Disappointing as hell. Maybe next week’s will be better. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-19th-season-premiere-spoilers/420239.md?page=2)