I don't care what O'Reilly says, that may just be the funniest thing the Simpsons have put out since the 90s.
Does Bill O'Reilly Think The Simpsons Are Real?
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Bill. Bill.
You might want to complain to your parents, Bill. They raised you a moron.
The Simpsons has always made jibes about Fox. It's good natured. They do it because, being ON Fox, they can get away with it.
If they mocked another network, especially in the earlier years, it would be a potential lawsuit. And it wouldn't be quite as funny.
This is like self-depreciative humour.
Do you need me to explain that, Bill? I know, some of those words are very big. They have two syllables sometimes!
Man, this guy making an idiot of himself is not even news anymore. Why do conservatives think putting their idiots in the public eye is a good idea, anyway.
You might want to complain to your parents, Bill. They raised you a moron.
The Simpsons has always made jibes about Fox. It's good natured. They do it because, being ON Fox, they can get away with it.
If they mocked another network, especially in the earlier years, it would be a potential lawsuit. And it wouldn't be quite as funny.
This is like self-depreciative humour.
Do you need me to explain that, Bill? I know, some of those words are very big. They have two syllables sometimes!
Man, this guy making an idiot of himself is not even news anymore. Why do conservatives think putting their idiots in the public eye is a good idea, anyway.
A dangling participle! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM] oOFronzel said:
On topic: O'Reilly clearly has no sense of humor and an attrocious way of expressing that, which makes the situation only funnier IMHO.
edit: embedding the vid was disabled, go follow the link
edit2: Thanks for the spelling correction
I think O'Reilly took the term "The Characters write for themselves" A weee bit too seriously. But really, check yourself out before you argue your point across, then you won't feel silly before the end of it.
It is a a stylistic device, a figure of speech, a metaphor, and one that is clearly understandable. There are many things that are wrong with Fox News and Bill O'Reilly, but this is not even the least bit peculiar.Elizabeth Grunewald said:
Ascribing autonomous behaviour to fictional characters is rather common, and has used to refer to characters in both tv shows, literature, movies, computer games and comics for the past 20-100 years (depending on the media in question).
The real news is that Bill O'Reilly is speaking out against The Simpsons as a tv show, and the way the writers of the Simpsons joke about, and, in so doing criticize, Fox. Perhaps that should have been reflected in the title instead.
To me, this seems instead to be a very thinly stretched attempt at making fun of something that would have been much more pertinent as a piece of relevant social commentary.
I think your stretching to make fun of O'Reilly here. He's not my favorite guy in the world (despite being pretty right wing) but I easily understood what he was saying.
I think his point was that Fox is not holding it's cartoonists to any standards, and that if he blasted his bosses on the air like that, he'd be fired. I can see his point.
I can get that Fox's animated shows are largely done by liberals, and Fox, or at least the news portion, doesn't lean as far left as they would like. There are still things they shouldn't be doing.
To put it bluntly if I worked there, and the guys doing "The Simpsons" did that without someone being fired, I'd be POed myself. That's like a guy from another department insulting you on the billboard or whatever, except this isn't even just "in house" it's in front of a national audience. Whether you agree with what is being said in the cartoon here (and don't like Fox News) that isn't really what this is about. If I worked for these guys and someone did something like that, and my bosses didn't do something about it, I'd be pretty POed. "Joke" aside, it would tell me I wasn't valued. If I'm getting O'Reilly's response here I don't think this was something the Fox News team was "in" on.
I think his point was that Fox is not holding it's cartoonists to any standards, and that if he blasted his bosses on the air like that, he'd be fired. I can see his point.
I can get that Fox's animated shows are largely done by liberals, and Fox, or at least the news portion, doesn't lean as far left as they would like. There are still things they shouldn't be doing.
To put it bluntly if I worked there, and the guys doing "The Simpsons" did that without someone being fired, I'd be POed myself. That's like a guy from another department insulting you on the billboard or whatever, except this isn't even just "in house" it's in front of a national audience. Whether you agree with what is being said in the cartoon here (and don't like Fox News) that isn't really what this is about. If I worked for these guys and someone did something like that, and my bosses didn't do something about it, I'd be pretty POed. "Joke" aside, it would tell me I wasn't valued. If I'm getting O'Reilly's response here I don't think this was something the Fox News team was "in" on.
Um... isn't Fox really only around because Simpsons made them so damn popular when they started? Technically, isn't Bill biting the hand that fed the network that feeds him... or something?
Pinhead.