Two distinct eras of television

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• clearleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Simpsons, Trailer Park Boys, and SpongeBob are three shows where you know what you’re getting based on the aspect ratio.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh no did they dirty my boy spongebob

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ricky falling is probably my favorite joke in TPB

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Simpsons turned to crap long before they changed the aspect ratio.

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Damn, the top one doesn’t even really look like a modern TV, either. It’s like they tried to update it while trying to do it in a way that most people didn’t notice. What a cop out.

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  • Notorious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It actually just looks like a pre-flat, wide-screen TV to me.

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  • ma11en@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looks more like a rear projection set.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah yeah, that’s what I was thinking of when I said plasma. Although typically those were much bigger than the Simpsons could afford.

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    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The picture.on those things was horrible compared to Carts, I don’t understand why anyone bought one. Must have tapped into that American attitude of “bigger is better even if it’s shit”. Same reason we keep Texas around.

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  • Jesus_666@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even if we take it to be a modern TV: How the hell did they manage to put a VCR on that thing?

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There was a weird transition era where some flat screens still weren’t super skinny.

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    • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Could be a DVD player.

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• antidote101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rumor has it that season 33 has some good episodes, and season 34 in generally considered a minor come back of the series.

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• snownyte@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'll take today's Simpsons over today's Family Guy. Family Guy today is just being used as someone's soapbox.

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  • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I find it hard to believe Family Guy is still on. It stopped being funny like 15 years ago.

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    • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I read simmering a while ago that McFarlane wanted to stop the show years ago because it had run its course but the studio threw a ton of money at him to keep going so he did.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cost to produce it < money it makes

      As long as that holds true.

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  • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    someone’s soapbox

    That’s been Lisa Simpson since like season 3

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• sagrotan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s called “Simpsoning” or “Groening” in the entertaining industry: do something really great, then do it for so long and get worse and worse for so long, that people actually forget that it was great at some point in time.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The clarity and lack of phosphor glow is depressing

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