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TheSameIdiot said:
As such, we didn't watch The Simpsons growing up. We're not watching all 850+ episodes, but we are watching a hand-picked list of the best episodes
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I'm left kind of wondering... why, though? What's the impetus for someone with no connection to a show like The Simpsons to decide to just pick it up and watch some episodes. I grew up on it, myself. I watched longer than I would have if it hadn't become rote behaviour. And honestly, I have no desire to ever watch it again after being out of it for the last... 7 or 8 years, at least.
 
Damien said:
I'm left kind of wondering... why, though? What's the impetus for someone with no connection to a show like The Simpsons to decide to just pick it up and watch some episodes.
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When we're not watching anything current, my wife and I like to pair an old drama with an old comedy. The Simpsons is our comedy right now.

It has a massive cultural footprint. While there's not enough time in one lifetime (or three) for us to justify watching 850 episodes, picking 15 or 20 episodes gives us a sense of the show, its characters, and some points of reference without committing a huge amount of time or energy. I did the same thing with Star Trek: TOS in college.

As a pop culture obsessive, I hate blindspots. I can't hear about something in or around my wheelhouse without wanting to give it a shot. Battlestar Galactica. Buffy. Twin Peaks. They're all on our drama shortlist. We'll watch those from start to finish, but you don't really need to do that with a sitcom.

We're also getting to the point that we're running out of great stuff to watch.

Now you're making me feel like my rationale is thin...
 
My wife is a huge Buffy fan. I hate the show so much.
 
I just finished watching Scavengers Reign on HBOMax, and I'll just say... maybe don't.

It's constant anxiety until an unintelligible non-ending.
 
Damien said:
My wife is a huge Buffy fan. I hate the show so much.
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Buffy is at the very bottom of my priority list. I tried it a decade ago and gave up after a handful of episodes.

I'm admittedly a Joss Whedon fan. Ashamedly now, but a fan nonetheless. Firefly rocks.
Fletch said:
I just finished watching Scavengers Reign on HBOMax, and I'll just say... maybe don't.

It's constant anxiety until an unintelligible non-ending.
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Damn. One of my favorite shows of the last five years.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Buffy is at the very bottom of my priority list. I tried it a decade ago and gave up after a handful of episodes.

I'm admittedly a Joss Whedon fan. Ashamedly now, but a fan nonetheless. Firefly rocks.
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Firefly is one of my favorite shows of all time.
Buffy is an entire show of an 80-year-old man in a 30-year-old man's body trying to write dialogue for 20-year-olds playing 16-year-olds. It's fucking trash.
The only two good Buffy episodes are the silent one (big surprise) and the musical one. Don't even bother watching the rest.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Buffy is at the very bottom of my priority list. I tried it a decade ago and gave up after a handful of episodes.
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I tried it ages ago, after Firefly, because of Firefly, and couldn't get into it
TheSameIdiot said:
I'm admittedly a Joss Whedon fan. Ashamedly now, but a fan nonetheless. Firefly rocks.
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Same, entirely. Firefly is still one of my top three shows of all time. I love the shit out of Serenity.

Damien said:
Firefly is one of my favorite shows of all time.
Buffy is an entire show of an 80-year-old man in a 30-year-old man's body trying to write dialogue for 20-year-olds playing 16-year-olds. It's fucking trash.
The only two good Buffy episodes are the silent one (big surprise) and the musical one. Don't even bother watching the rest.
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And now they're doing a reboot, which I admit I'm curious about but more to have something to possibly watch with my kids.
 
I have nostalgia for Buffy because my brother and I watched it religiously together, which looking back is hilarious, two absolute THUGS sitting down every Tuesday night and refusing to do anything until the episode was over. But I also haven't watched it since it aired live. I've got that weird almost photographic memory for story so I don't really want to rewatch the whole thing but it's been what, thirty years? I could stand to rewatch a few episodes and see if I remember it as well as I think I do.
 
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