The Simpsons (Fox) TV Show • Page 20

Soooo Lisa's been getting flack by shitty people on twitter today

 

Y'all need a dedicated steamed hams thread.

 

There was an article from like HuffPo or Vox just absolutely trashing the entire show because it got appropriated by the assholes of the Republican party. Funny, because anyone who actually watched the show knows how much Groening would regularly gut the Republican party.

 

You’d have to be pretty fucking stupid to think this show leans republican.

 

Just gimme hibbert punching through the photo frame

 

This is it this is the best one.

 

so close, right as the best one is posted

 

steamed hams finally peaked
A 'Steamed Hams' Meme With Jeff Goldblum Is Gone Thanks To A Simpsons Writer

 

Well, shit. Turns out they had a response to the whole "Problem With Apu" thing, and they fucked it up. Most I've been let down by this show in forever

 

Like, no one would lose respect for the current Simpsons writers and showrunners if they acknowledged and owned up to the obvious issue here. Even making a meta joke of sorts would have been a million times better

Fuck this

 

Wonder if FOX had anything to do with this

 

I don't give them any benefit of a doubt, what a shitty, lazy, dismissive way to address legitimate criticism

 

The fact that it was Lisa saying it makes it that much worse

 

I don't know. I'm brown, I grew up with the show, I got called Apu etc. Never got mad at the show.

This is very different though. This bit is the show saying it's by white people, for white people, brown people go back to being the quiet model minority.

That sucks

 

That was very disingenuous and shitty of them to do that, I’m honestly truly disappointed as a fan that they did that.

 

What a shitty thing to force feed the most liberal character on the show. You could have done a zillion things to do this respectfully while still not axing the Apu character. Even that dumpster fire Roseanne could have played this off better.

 

They needed to fly in Matt and trey for this one

 

That was the first thing I thought when I saw the clip like...this is moving into the shitty south park territory of "we say it like it is because we're a bunch of basement trolls nyahhhh". Sad.

 

I've been watching King of the Hill a lot recently and man, Kahn is a pretty bad character in the same vein as Apu, right?

EDIT:
Reading more into it, I guess he does show up a lot to show the ignorance and stupidity of many of the white characters rather than simply being a punchline.

 

Lol just saw your edit...ya exactly he fucking hates everybody in Arlen and makes it known. Had he been the quiet laundromat guy...then ya. In one of the first episodes (the first episode?) they confront it when Dale thinks they kidnapped Ladybird to eat her only to find he's wrong...and then Minh getting grossed out that Peggy cooks rabbit stew.

However, I don't know who does Kahn's voice acting so that is always an issue.

I have a bigger issue with his relationship with Kahn Jr and her character fulfilling the stereotype. It fulfills a lot of the tropes white America thinks about Asian households and young Asian American students. At the same time, they poked fun at it in the episode where she wants some ivy league summer internship or something but she falls victim to "reverse racism" as the program has too many Asians. Actually, that episode really hits home for me looking back haha.

 

Can we keep talking about KOTH forever please?