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“The Simpsons” was a beloved animated sitcom that ran for ten legendary seasons and concluded in 1999. The show was celebrated for what was widely perceived as a near perfect run that wrapped before it wore out its concept and overstayed its welcome. Creator Matt Groening and showrunner James L. Brooks famously decided to bring the show to a conclusion after experiencing the negative audience reaction to the season 9 episode “The Principal and the Pauper,” in which it was revealed that the school’s principal was actually an impostor who had stolen the real Seymour Skinner’s identity. Brooks did not want to sully the show’s legacy by doing a bunch of weird episodes as the franchise slid into mediocrity and cultural irrelevance, so the writers and cast decided instead to go out on top and end things on a high note. However, because of its centrality in 90s pop culture, a long-running Internet joke is to pretend “The Simpsons” is still on the air, a premise that gets more absurd and deranged with each passing year. If this show were still producing new episodes, it would be in its 38th season now, and most of the voice cast would be in their 80s. The joke is to imagine how distorted this charming show would have become if it had been stretched out to more than 800 episodes. Comedy posters on “weird Twitter” used to try to top each other by making up terrible ideas for what modern episodes of the show might be like. For example, a viral 2012 tweet imagined an episode where Lady Gaga helps Lisa Simpson with her self esteem. In 2019, popular shitposter Megan Amram originated the premise of Bart Simpson becoming a men’s rights activist to protest a gender-swapped reboot of “Itchy and Scratchy.” But perhaps the most elaborate Internet “Simpsons” joke was a 2017 YouTube mockumentary “The Problem With Apu,” in which the comedian Hari Kondabolu ironically pretended to be offended by the charming and innocuous convenience store owner character Apu. Everyone thought this was hilarious, especially since the show had been off the air for nearly two decades when the mockumentary was released. So, Twitter ran with the joke by pretending to “cancel” Apu, and the viral gag memorably resulted in the character’s voice actor, Hank Azaria, recognizing the meme by promising never to perform the character again, which everybody thought was really funny since Azaria had been retired for years. Now, nearly a decade later, fans are pretending that the show — which has now been off the air longer than most people tweeting about it have been alive— has brought back the “cancelled” character with a new racially-appropriate voice actor. I actually don’t think this is that funny, and I kind of think the gag of pretending “The Simpsons” is still airing new episodes has overstayed its welcome, a mistake the actual show “The Simpsons” would never have made. If you haven’t seen this 1990s classic, which — and I cannot emphasize this enough — ended after 10 seasons in 1999, you can watch all the episodes on Disney+ (except the one with Michael Jackson that got pulled from streaming).

Han pasado cosas últimamente, cosas que quiero contaros a los que aún quedéis aquí. Desde el día 8 de octubre está en todas las librerías Lar, mi segunda novela, editada por @AlfaguaraES

RT @RGMaldo: Muy bueno Arcadi sobre el gigantesco Simenon.

Si todo es terrorismo, nada es terrorismo... ¿Por qué UK tiene tantos problemas con la libertad de expresión en los últimos años?

Qué puto asco de gobierno

«Siempre he querido ser individualista y competitivo. Pero la escritura me lleva a ser colectivo y colaborativo por no sé qué intuición...» @_adriangrant sustrato.io/textos/escribir-…

Madrid-Ginebra en 4 días para ver la tumba de Borges.

sabéis si don josé luis ábalos meco se presenta a las elecciones para representar a la clase enamorada??? porque entonces tiene mi voto

You heard the Pope, using AI makes you ugly, ontologically hollow, and worst of all, Protestant

Ayer me di de baja como autónomo. La vida puede ser maravillosa.

Hemos terminado el mes con dos presentaciones estupendas: las cartas y la voda de Giacomo Leopardi a cargo de Diego Garrido (@AnagramaEditor) y «Contra», la nueva novela de @_adriangrant (@EdicionesPeB).

El acto político más importante --qué digo más importante, fundacional-- de un escritor es defender la pluralidad de ideas y la libertad de expresión. Luego ya puede escribir así o asao, mal o bien, woke o barroco. Porque las ideas se combaten con ideas, no acallando al otro.

Ojalá esto lo detenga el Congreso. De lo contrario, será un completo desastre y solo aumentará la crisis de los alquileres, con poca oferta y los precios disparados.

Welcome back

¡Esto es hoy!

-A ver si me entero, no quieres echar a 10 millones de inmigrantes. -No. -Ok pero tampoco quieres construir vivienda. -Tampoco -Y tu idea no es vivir en Soria sino en el Retiro por 300€ al mes ¿es así? -Es así. -Y expropiar -Y expropiar, sí, a todo dios.

La nota de la comunidad 😅

«La historia ocurre dos veces: la primera vez como una gran tragedia y la segunda como una miserable farsa» —Karl Marx

Otra vez el quince eme