"We are a town of lowbrows, no brows and ignorami. We have eight malls, but no symphony. Thirty two bars, but no alternative theater. Thirteen stores that begin with "Le Sex." I write this letter not to nag or whine, but to prod. We can better ourselves."
"Yee ha!"
"Well, most of us."
>implying nudity is lowbrow
What about the ancient Greeks and Romans, Lisa?
Ancient Greeks and Romans were just a bunch of bimbos and himbos.
Bart>Lisa
>inb4 hey what if Lisa were riding naked on a pig instead LOL wouldn't that be so funneh XD
I mean, I get you're not trying to nag... but that is pretty naggy
Agreed.
You can just tell this was some asshurt writer who wanted to vent his spleen on the small town he grew up in.
I don't nudity funny at all. I don't know why they keep going back to that well.
Lisa in her entirety is an asshurt writer venting
The amusing thing is that ignorami is an incorrect plurlaization. Ignoramus is derived from a plural Latin verb "we are ignorant". The i pluralization is used for nouns derived from Latin because that's how Latin pluralized it. Of course knowing the Simpsons writers of that period they probably knew that when making the joke.
Matt Selman is credited as the writer but episode scripts are team efforts so who knows who actually wrote this part?
Well, they find nudity funny only with specific characters.
S11E5
You don’t want people to be better, you just want them to cater to your tastes, cunt
Yeah if you want San Fagcisco, then move to San Fagcisco.
>symphony
Most cities don't have symphonies. But Springfield has a theater.
>no alternative theater
The fuck is that?
>Thirteen stores that begin with "Le Sex."
A very successful sex shop if it has 13 stores.
So who's going to Photoshop Lisa's head onto his body?
What's that quote? "Everyone in Springfield is stupid, including Lisa."
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I'd be kinda terrified of the small town that can support 8 malls, 32 bars, and 13 porno shops. Plus you're ignoring the fact that the intellectuals in the episode are uniformly presented just as arrogant, self-absorbed, and obtuse as the rest of town.
an alternative theater is one of theaters where they put on pretentious productions written by pricks who think they're being clever for people who think they're better than everyone else.
Too bad Zombie Simpsons is written by people who wanted to be in alternative theater but never made it.
>Springfield
>Small Town
Tell me what Small Towns in real life have their own University, Waterfront, Downtown, and Harbor. Lisa is just a dumb brat who think it's small because it's not New York City.
S11E05
I was referring in context of user's post. Springfield has always had the size and features needed for the plot/jokes.
They had clothes
Stephen Hawking's appearance is the only thing worth mentioning. The episode itself was unbelievably dull.
Springfield is a land of contrasts.
The more I hear about the american mid-west the more I firmly believe it is a source of unbridled moral and intellectual degeneracy and needs to be firebombed straight to hell by an international coalition.
What a no brow?
Another painfully overrated episode. It's boring and has an unsubstantial subplot (though funnier than the plot). It raises a similar matter to Lisa The Simpson, but in a one dimensional way. Also the introduction of the MENSA association is bad, forced and unnecessary. Its members couldn't be more random: Skinner, Lindsay Nagle, Frink, CBC, etc.
#FEEL THE BERN
We don't really know that much about Lindsay Nagle (but goddamn was she so annoying and overused in the Scully seasons) so she could possibly be a genius, but I find CBG being MENSA-tier a real stretch. Knowing a lot about comic books and pop culture doesn't make you a genius. Also no Martin Prince? Surely he should have qualified if anyone
Well small towns are honestly garbage despite what the movies say.
>t. dumbass who didn't understand an alternative play
t. wannabe playwrite now working at Starbucks with $150k in unpaid student loans
By season 10 standards it was a good episode. Homer was likable/earnest for once and not the "center of everything maniac superhero" like in the other s10 episodes.
Bitch, if you don't like it here, fucking MOVE! Nobody's forcing you to live in Springfield!
You're not completely off base but that's a bit genocidal, m8.
I think a lot of you are missing that the episode is ragging on Mensa pretty hard. It's a social club whose only requisite for membership is an IQ threshold. Not only are members seen at the gross-out contest at the start of the show, they put CBG, a man who essentially focuses all his intellect on pop culture trivia, on par with Dr. Hibbert, a medical doctor, simply because of his IQ. They're shown to be just as petty and small-minded as the rest of Springfield, the only difference is a sense of self-importance.
Mensa members come from fairly diverse backgrounds and careers so that at least made sense
noopingas
This. Depending on the person, small towns can be absolute garbage,especially if you're not normie as fuck.
Your only choices of entertainment is clubs,bars, other outdoor social activities. Most of the time your neighbors are old people as well. Shit like comics and games are all doomed to fail within months.
I know an arcade opened here and closed down for good the very same year. Didnt even last 6 months.
Depends on how you define "small town" and the local context. The town I grew up in has 8k people and can barely keep a bar open, but supports a bowling alley with an arcade. My current town has 22k people, supports half a dozen bars, but there is zero shit to do outside drinking.
>Homer was likable/earnest for once and not the "center of everything maniac superhero" like in the other s10 episodes.
Also Lisa, while a bit elitist, wasn't too bad and didn't feel preachy.
All Lisa episodes are overrated.
She's good when paired up with Bart. Homer/Lisa is ok, I don't like solo Lisa plots very much.
lisa is a midwit
The episode has some good satire on the anti-intellectualism of mainstream society, but even better is its satire on people who think they are so smart that they can run everyone's lives better than they can. No one is that smart and whenever that's tried, it is doomed to failure, just like any kind of engineered "utopian" society. On the other hand, the ending with Stephen Hawking is kind of odd, and it wasn't necessary at all.
>Thirteen stores that begin with "Le Sex.
I have the hardest time believing there is even one store with that name
Hello Movieblob
That's just regular theater.
>Its members couldn't be more random: Skinner, Lindsay Nagle, Frink, CBC, etc.
That's hardly random.
Despite how zany and out of nowhere it was, I liked the Stephen Hawking ending
>but not alternative theater
you speak of that like it's a bad thing
nobody wants to see your shitty ass "play" about "the modern world"
say that's similar to something we're working on
Go on....
Is he circumcised.