By Robert Scucci
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When Simpsons Led in 1989, he changed the sitcoms forever with his unique joke format which now seems lost in time because he was age since the series saw his golden era. In direct contempt with healthy family sitcoms like Family ties And WaltonsAmong countless other series that have used the configuration / punchline format have encountered canned laughs that are still used to date, Simpsons Sunoned so well with the public because of his desire to deliver jokes at such an alarming pace thanks to a combination of dialogue and visual gags that there was simply no room so that laughter tells the public when they were supposed to think that something was funny.
In fact, episodes of Simpsons’ The Golden era would undergo dozens and dozens of revisions to ensure that no second of execution time was wasted, which led to the single joke format which raised the series to the legendary status because humor was so dense and unknown at the time when each episode of this time can be revised indefinitely without ever aging.
The joke format of the golden era
YouTube Creator Super Eyepatch Wolf brilliantly decomposes the joke format that made Simpsons From yesteryear so special with his video, “The Fall of the Simpsons: How It Hithed”, which is a must for any unconditional fan of the Simpson clan.
Using “Bart sells his soul” as the main example of the execution of this joke format, we testify why Simpsons Would be ruined by the canned laughter which was so widespread in the sitcoms live of the time, and why this type of fast delivery landed so well when no other spectacle did it at the time.
When Bart Simpson finds himself experiencing an existential crisis after having sold his soul to Milhouse for five dollars, he takes things in hand by driving his bike to recover what is his.
In a question of 15 seconds, five jokes take place which are so implaced that you must simply see it to believe it.
During this period, Bart’s bike is overthrown by a streetweeper, leading the spectator to believe that his bike was destroyed (joke one). Bart is relieved to discover that the streetweeper simply shone his bike and that no damage occurred (joke two), only before the bike collapsed because it was destroyed (joke three). After hearing the maniac ricking leading the streetweeper, Bart learns that the man was aimed at destroying this bike for his own fun (joke four), only before driving the vehicle in a stairwell from the metro station and exploding (joke five).
This climbing exercise Simpsons is indicative of a joke format which is too complex to be executed with a single draft for each episode because it happens so many things.
Competitor The sitcoms did not have the opportunity
Change the comedy forever with its unique joke format which is dotted throughout its golden time, Simpsons Offered a new path that would make all the other competing sitcoms that seem disappointing in comparison.
My favorite instance which shows how popular this joke structure was widespread Simpsons’ The Golden era can be found in “Bart On The Road” of season 7, when Lisa told Homer that Bart bought a false identity document, rented a car and driven with his friends at the world exhibition in Knoxville, Tennessee, to be blocked without any way to return home after spending all her money.
In another astonishing sequence of events of fifteen seconds, Homer’s face becomes defeated by the darkness, he apologizes, throws a Hazmat’s millet helmet, the cries until he advances, calmly puts the helmet where he belongs, and says to Lisa that he will go up the money to recover Bart so that he can kill him. The “punchline” in this case is an upset Lisa deplores that if her father murdered her brother, then her brother will be able to silence him. Again, this joke format contains an unthinkable amount of humor in a very short time, leaving no room for preserves because of its frantic pace.
So the next time you look SimpsonsKeep this format of joke at the front of your mind because it not only separates the era of the series of its more modern iterations (read: mediocre), but it absolutely exploded its contemporaries because no other public spectacle offered jokes like this at the time.
