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[cantsayidont]

THE HUNTING WIVES has a stupid title, but it's a rare modern show that dares to ask the really important questions, like, "What if you were trapped in fucking Texas, and MILFy bisexual Malin Åkerman wanted to get in your pants, but she was a right-wing megachurch-going gun nut who might frame you for Crimes?"

[vashti-refused]

[bulletinsertion]

Pursuit

[lesseraive]

SARAH JESSICA PARKER as CARRIE BRADSAW in SEX AND THE CITY / S01E03: Bay or Married Pigs

[wiz-zy]

Mr G spamton

Now we have our spamtenna

[bo-ulder-pusher]

roadkill x princess

hi its me and my beautiful boyfailure....... *foams at the mouth oh so cutely*

the aftermath:

[evilhorse]

Bug off, ya bucket o’ bolts!

(Justice League America #46)

[vertigoartgore]

Excerpt from the book Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How the Golden Era of The Simpsons Changed TV-and American-Forever (2025) :

"Swartzwelder's approach was slightly more...anarchic than Meyer's. Swartzwelder loved writing a joke that created so many logical problems that it was hard to pinpoint why the gag didn't make sense. The example Vitti used to explain this approach came in the third-season episode "Dog of Death", when the Simpsons are trying to win the lottery. Bart asks his father what he'd do if he hit the jackpot, and Homer starts daydreaming. Swartzwelder came up with the idea that Homer would imagine himself as a golden, jewel-encrusted giant. "I was like, "How would having money make him larger ?" Vitti says. And yet seeing a golden Homer towering over Springfield is funny. No matter how preposterous it was.

"It became an aspiration of everybody else to make something so stupid, it was kind of smart," Vitti adds. "You could create a moment that had five logical problems at once. But you just blow by it like it totally made sense."

Vitti also liked to ask Swartzwelder philosophical questions. No one in a writer's room full of sharp comedic minds thought about things quite like he did. His perspective was unique.

"Who do you write for ?" Vitti once asked him. "Who do you picture watching the show ?"

"I'm writing to what we like to think ourselves as having been," he replied. "I picture a smart kid."

Like usual, Swartzwelder was on to something. The Simpsons writers, consciously or not, were making a series that their cleverly impressionable younger shelves would've been obsessed with."