• BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    The big turning point for me was when the guest celebrities were no longer characters on the show and just played themselves. Just small ads for celebrity du jour.

    Celebrities are the worst part of any media.

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      19 days ago

      Every time a celebrity isn’t on-screen, everyone should be saying where’s celebrity?

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      19 days ago

      ? There were many Simpson celebrities in the 90’s that played themselves. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Wade Boggs, Bob Hope, Leonard Nemoy…

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            Not every time. Those mentioned were mostly the exceptions. Tons of people were on the show not as themselves. Daniel Radcliffe wasn’t himself or Harry Potter on the show. He played a character that was a parody of Twilight. It had a somewhat decent enough joke and wasn’t just hey look at this famous person we got. Look how cool they are. Ooohhhhh ahhhhhhh

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              It does depend on how they are written into the show. Leonard Nimoy in the Monorsil episode is a caricature of himself and it works well.

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        And those were the exceptions and not an every episode occurrence. Some of those also had good points to make like Lisa going vegan. Very much not how the modern cameos go.

        Somewhere around the point of Lady Gaga driving into Springfield on a magical train it became celebrity ads.

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      19 days ago

      I think I recall the Alex Baldwin and Kim Basinger being the first episode that pushed me off the Simpsons … it felt like celebrity pandering or something and I just stopped watching

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        Absolutely. I was watching the series sequentially for the first time in ages and that episode stood out as a definite turning point. The celebrity appearances just got more frequent and more insufferable from then on.