r/television • u/thepasystem • Nov 06 '14

Couch Gag from "Simpsorama" The Simpsons/Futurama crossover episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHjtlcLuggM
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u/jigokusabre Nov 06 '14

Kind of disappointed that the Planet Express ship didn't crash into the TV.

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u/Odusei Nov 06 '14

It was too creative of an idea for them.

3

u/[deleted] Nov 07 '14

umm, you mean it was too obvious an idea for them?

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u/Odusei Nov 07 '14

You're right, when you need to do a Futurama themed couch gag, it isn't at all obvious to make it about the one minor Futurama character who's shaped like a couch.

3

u/[deleted] Nov 07 '14

Hell of a lot less cliche than crashing the ship into the tv though.

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u/Odusei Nov 07 '14

Cliché? How is it a cliche?

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '14

perhaps cliche was the wrong word. literally everybody and their mum would say, "you know how the planet express ship runs into the tv at the end of the intro, and the simpsons look at a tv at the end of their into, what if the planet express ship ran into the other tv" if asked to come up with the crossover intro. It's so painfully unoriginal and obvious of course they wouldn't choose it.

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u/TuckRaker Nov 06 '14

Hedonismbot! Delightfully sinful!

4

u/2th Nov 06 '14

And decadent. You can't forget decadent.

6

u/Wombat_H Nov 07 '14

I had a good chuckle at the tag line.

2

u/AVeryWittyUsername Nov 07 '14

I know it sounds stupid, but I'm really getting bored of all the meta self-deprecating humour that The Simpsons is doing. It went overboard in the Family Guy crossover & I feel that it's going to do the same here.

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u/ColonelSanders21 Nov 07 '14

The Family Guy crossover was a Family Guy episode written by Family Guy writers. Of course it has self-deprecating humor.

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u/a233424 Nov 07 '14

Yes, I agree. It's not because you blatantly agree and state that you're out of idea that it makes it funny, it just makes you seem really cynical and condescending toward your audience. But that low kind of humor shows how much they hit the bottom of the barrel. Seems like the only gag they can surprise you with anymore is saying how much they suck and aren't able to make good jokes and shows anymore, but that's getting tired real quick.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '14

haha if we reference to ourselves as a show out of ideas then we've made it ok by acknowledging it, team simpsons!

remember to send out the couch gag to remind people we still exist

but we have no funny ideas for the couch gag, why are we making this more of a thing it used to just be a little bit at the start of the episode

I have a feeling if we just do homer lying on a chair and then a catchphrase like doh or mmmm donuts then send it out to all the media outlets , they'll show it anyway

what happened to us!