I can’t believe RealJims didn’t even go through the history of lobsters in animated media and their wacky dynamics before the actual comparison. This is an upfront to animated Lobsters everywhere.
Larry, Pinchy, Therm, Sebastian, Tomatoa, Mr. Krabs and his relatives-am I missing any notable animated crustaceans? Edit: Jacques (Finding Nemo) Crusty (The Incredible Mr. Limpet) Iraq Lobster (Family Guy)
Can't believe the cartoon meant for younger kids had the more clever lobster named of "Therm", from the dish lobster thermidor while the one for adult just went with Pinchy
i'd like to point out that Jon is apparently successful enough to afford 3 seats on a flight to Maine at the drop of a hat. Dude must be one hell of a cartoonist. I bet he draws some kind of snarky animal show or something.
I honestly like this new series and hope it’s not a one off joke. It’s fun seeing you expand into different shows while still talking about the Simpsons.
Peeking beyond the veil of carnism was a hard sell then and still is. I think the only reason that Lisa the Vegetarian was able to ride was bc she's the butt of a joke in pretty much every scene. It wouldn't work in this one bc Homer sees Pinchy as a living, sentient being too so he wouldn't be able to poke fun at her.
This is actually a really good video for demonstrating that two different things having similar stories doesn't mean that one is a ripoff of the other. (Most people would us the 'Cat Concerto/Rhapsody Rabbit' example, but it was cool to see a different one!)
First off Marge had no reason to want to eat Pinchy. She's allergic to shellfish according to the episode 'New Kid on the Block'. I guess she just keeps a constant stash of epipens.
This is probably the closest we've ever get,tho it stops at season 4 and only 3 of the specials and you can only see trough the playlists th-cam.com/play/PLzjk2Rk6zXmVHw4uOyLRDMTl1fltjVv7O.html
as someone who still often watches garfield and friends on saturday mornings, like I did as a small child, and someone who has watched the first 20 seasons of the Simpsons countless times... I deeply appreciate this content. Well done.
The zigzag shirt is actually a reference to an obscure show, and November 22 being the anniversary of JFK means... the person who really shot Mr Burns... is Charlie Brown
The whole tone of this video had me laughing. Jumped straight into facetious satirical conspiracy mode, and your voice really sold it: a mix of anger and boredom.
Not an entire episode, but both Simpsons and Family Guy had a joke about a character mispronouncing the word "wind" and then explaining that they've "only seen it written".
If I saw this video when I was 13, I would be so completely, wildly blinded by rage, I would type up a massive essay about how this doesn't make sense. Good thing I'm 18 now. This video is iconic.
A pretty interesting idea for a series. I'm definitely interested in seeing you talk about Spongebob especially with how similiar it is to the Simpsons in some ways. An extremely popular cartoon about a yellow character where the early seasons where seen as the golden era, the middle seasons being seen as the dark ages, and he most recent seasons being seen as a bit of revival of the franchise.
It's always funny when two shows share one eerily specific plot beat, like that night where I watched both an episode of Galaxy High School and an episode of Futurama in which a cavalier Captain Kirk parody is tasked with towing an entire city across the solar system over an infectious disease outbreak.
@TheRealJims You should check out the Garfield episode "Binky Goes Bad" where Binky the Clown is framed for armed robbery and Garfield has to clear his name. They did this before The Simpsons did.
the plot of "binky gets cancelled" isn't much like "krusty gets kancelled", but there is an ep called "binky goes bad" which literally has the same premise as "krusty gets busted" like 4 months before the ep came out :0
I generally like dark humor a lot, but the Pichy episode is always painful to me, for some reason his death REALLY gets to me to the point I can't even watch the episode at all and I couldn't say why 😥
The way he tears up eating it could go either way I'm sure it leaned into funny as hell territory but some episodes hit me in unsettling ways I can't watch the one where homers eyes crust from refusing eyedrops 🤢🤮🤮🤮
The fact that he kept Pinchy as a pet but then ate him after he died. Yeah, he was sad to do it, which is darkly funny on paper, but it feels like betrayal. You don't treat livestock like pets and you don't treat pets like livestock.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio It's interesting studying history in college and different cultures I would say this actually depends and it can be a fine line between pets and livestock in some cases, and eating your pet might not seem weird at all. I like how this simpsons episode is kind of poking at this cultural distinction in a provocative way and making the audience interrogate the arbitrary nature and values we put on animals life depending on their relationship to society
I am a big Garfield and friends fan as much of a simpsons fan, I just recently watched that Garfield episode by complete coincidence. And I can definitely say that I never even thought of The Simpsons episode with Pinchy. It's an example of when you have a unique idea that no one has thought of, but not so unique that someone else has never thought of it or tried it. If you watch the episode they only seem similar by looks, there's a lot of differences.
I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm going to speculate that Garfield was so creatively bankrupt that they used a time machine to steal from a future episode of The Simpsons.
"Friends are there", the first version of the garfield theme song, I don't think it's boring. That's actually my favorite version of the theme song, mainly because of how many memories it brings back.
TheRealJims actually stole my joke. Three hours before I thought of it. Just like Garfield & Friends stole the lobster episode 9 years before the Simpsons did it.
I'm glad someone finally said it, good work Jims. Also, I've been waiting for a new video that was relevant to make this suggestion so hope it's ok on this one, I was thinking it'd be neat in a future Simpsons Histories or maybe something else as it's not about a character specifically if you might do something slightly different and go over the vehicles in the show that were in Hit and Run (I guess there's Road Rage too but that'd make the scope even bigger), or if that's too broad maybe just the family car given it's been an element of the show for years (and prominent in a fair few videogames) but I don't think has ever had much focus beyond being gotten rid of (which I think has happened to it a lot despite it always coming back.) If you can't tell I've been thinking of Hit and Run lately... Anyway, your content's always great to watch looking forward to what you do next.
If this becomes a series I’d like to see the family Guy episode ‘Death is A Bitch’ and the treehouse of horror segment ‘Reaper Madness’ compared and contrasted
Damn right it was, and so yet remains. Seems my childhood was entirely made up of so called "loser" cartoons (to coin a certain reference) that everybody somehow always loves when actually learning they exist. Check out a show called Bump In The Night, and the animated show for Beetlejuice from the nineties. They've tried to wash over that one with a modern sort of redoing of JUST his character out of context weirdly, but trust me, the actual show is GOLD. Plus his voice was a lot better done there as well.
The theme song has been lodged in my brain for decades. (To be clear, I'm talking about the second, far superior version. It's apparently not the one in this lobster episode.)
That shirt pattern is what settles it for me, though I wish you brought up the Ellen lobster episode from 1996 where they both fly it to Maine to set it free AND it dies due to negligence which further muddles this mystery.
An important factor you missed is that it is heavily implied in the Simpsons that Pinchy is a Maine Lobster, while it is outright stated in Garfield and Friends that Therm is a Canadian lobster. While it may seem like the two overlap, that is a conclusion only an ignoramus would make. The differences are vast and many, with things like name and nomenclature being a few of the many differences between these two very different creatures. It's such an oversimplification to even refer to these two animals as mere "lobsters". Homer has a pink car. JFK was assassinated in a car while sitting beside a woman in pink. Are we to assume that Homer Simpson is therefore a reference to the JFK assassination? What a silly point. Why am i even subscribed? Why would you try to convince me that Matt Groening was involved in the killing of our beloved President? Your ideas are intriguing, and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
It's also worth mentioning that taking care of something, usually an animal, as part of a selfish goal only to grow attached when the time comes to actually go through with the plan to achieve that goal is a very common stock plot. Just off the top of my head, there's an American Dad episode, where Steve and Snot raise clone girls so they can have sex with them once that grow into teenagers, but when the time comes, can't bring themselves to do it because they've grown attached to them. There's probably a million Simpsons episodes alone with that basic premise. These two episodes just happen to use the same animal. And seeing as lobsters are one of the most common animals that humans it, it makes perfect sense to make said animal a lobster
I don't know in other places, but here I have heard multiple anecdotes of people bringing farm animals (specially chicks) home to eat when they have grown a little, and the children of the house growing attached.
I'd argue that itchy and scratchy and friends is not specifically a Garfield reference because "And Friends" has always been a often used title, you got stuff like Rocky And His Friends which for reruns and home releases gets renamed Rocky And Bullwinkle And Friends, you've got Amigo And Friends, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Fred Flintstone and Friends, Ect, Ect.
Garfield and friends is one of my all time favorites! And even though I know this was just for goofy fun, I really enjoyed it! I think you did a good job analyzing both. 👍
I've long felt that The Simpsons was inspired by Garfield and Friends. The "animated sitcom that satirizes sitcom conventions" was a trend in the late 80s and 90s (Taz-Mania and Goof Troop were also great examples of this, Animaniacs and Tiny Toons were sort of this as well). Personally, I see nothing wrong with The Simpsons being inspired by Garfield and Friends. It kind of set the template for the "90s animated sitcom" fad. "Krusty Gets Busted" in 1990 seems inspired by "Binky Goes Bad" in 1989. I've also noticed many similarities between Krusty and Binky despite them being opposites, but they're both deconstructions of the unironic clown while still being examples themselves.
This is a really cool idea for a new series. A good idea for a future video would be family guy doing a main character becomes death plot with Peter before the simpsons did it with Homer.
I have no evidence for this, but I feel like someone buying a live lobster to cook, but someone in the household objects, and they end up trying to keep it as a pet ... that MUST have happened to somebody at some point.
theres a few youtube videos somewhere, its been years since i watched them so i dont know what it was titled, of a guy buying one from a supermarket and attempting to restore its health.
3:28 - the shirt pattern is totally unique and unknown...if you forget about a certain obscure comic strip character named Charlie Brown! I feel so old now that its no longer instantly recognizable. Peanuts was huge when I was a kid in the 80s.
If I remember right, Homer had a fake lobster on a leash in the season 6 episode, Itchy and Scratchy Land..one of my favorite Simpsons episodes if I may add
...I don't suppose you could talk more about Garfield & Friends on this channel? In all seriousness, this feels like a fun idea for a new series, comparing plotlines that have been done before The Simpsons did it, in a kind of inverse of the joke South Park mad popular.
The end of that Simpsons episode was so funny when he was eating a lobster cuz you could tell he was really enjoying it while at the same time mourning the death of that 🦞🦞🦞
3:27 This shirt, if i'm not mistaken, is from Charlie Brown. I don't know the context of the Simspons scenes you are showcasing here, but i would bet they're references to it rather this very obscure Garfield moment.
I would give it three Butters personally, it seems to similar to be a coincidence and of course you wouldn't do the exact same story even if you are aware of it.
It is very strange that I've just recently started watching Garfield and friends for the first time on TH-cam, and now I've been given this video. Even more strange because I just saw the lobster episode yesterday...
As a kid, I found the ending of the Pinchy episode horrific and not funny. Accidentally killing a family pet and then eating its corpse was too dark for me, even with all the cartoon absurdity.
@@floyd2386 The whole show isn't on it, but some seasons and all of the specials are. Those seasons and specials, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and Violent Night don't deserve to be on the same service that has life-based reality shows on it.
Here's another example. Family Guy's Death is a Bitch vs The Treehouse of Horror Segment Reaper Madness. Both feature the main character becoming death. Funnily enough, the Family Guy episode came out first, though I personally thought Reaper Madness was funnier.
Lobsters are bottom feeders. You can literally feed them anything. I have self-cloning blue crawfish, i give them old fruit and veggie cuttings and they love it lol
Just based on the thumbnail and the title i think you either confused the april fools dates or you wanted to do this since the season 10 top 10. I'm not sure if this a really late april fools or this series is seriously going to have 47 comparisons because you hate season 17 so much or something.
The wrong cartoon lobster died
Damn that sucks like for real
"The wrong Lobster died!"
I agree...Pinchy deserved better
😢😢😢😢😢😢
Pass the butter
😢😢😢😢😢😢
@@dannyinoakpark9095 😥OOHHH DAMN THATS GOOD! 😥
the phrase "Lisa, the Simpson's Odie equivalent" is a terrifying one
I was also going to comment about that
When I wrote that line, I giggled for like 5 minutes at how offhandedly silly the comparison is. I had to keep it in 🤣
My favourite Simpsons running gag is when Bart kicks Lisa off the table.
@@TheRealJims That just makes it even better hahaha.
that's the funniest part of the video
Underrated character.
Whenever Pinchy is off the screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Pinchy?"
At least killing off that character tastes better than a dog.
I can’t believe RealJims didn’t even go through the history of lobsters in animated media and their wacky dynamics before the actual comparison. This is an upfront to animated Lobsters everywhere.
I know right? Genuinely disgusting act on TheRealJims part
Dang
Truly shows this man doesn't care about lobster representation...
I agree. We deserve better.
Larry, Pinchy, Therm, Sebastian, Tomatoa, Mr. Krabs and his relatives-am I missing any notable animated crustaceans?
Edit:
Jacques (Finding Nemo)
Crusty (The Incredible Mr. Limpet)
Iraq Lobster (Family Guy)
I really wish every single episode of this series proves that Garfield actually did everything first.
Garfield and US Acres are terrible comic, but fantastic cartoons.
Quinton is that you?
@@Kylora2112 nah, garfields pretty epic
I want a south park episode about the simpsons going through a long list of things garfield already did.
I’m pretty sure Garfield did Garfield first
Can't believe the cartoon meant for younger kids had the more clever lobster named of "Therm", from the dish lobster thermidor while the one for adult just went with Pinchy
Garfield had better writers
@@ClassicGamer1983 One was named by Homer.
Garfield is a highbrow civilizational hallmark of art.
Butters as a rating system is something I never knew I needed.
Justice for Pinchy
Thats Butter's!
@@mentalphilanthropist35 No his name is littarly Butters
i'd like to point out that Jon is apparently successful enough to afford 3 seats on a flight to Maine at the drop of a hat. Dude must be one hell of a cartoonist. I bet he draws some kind of snarky animal show or something.
dude def draws furry porn
He picked third class "with the rest of the slime". :P
He draws furry p*rn, he can afford buying whole plane
its money from pimping out lyman
@@GayFurryFromROA I didn't know Jon worked in IT with all the other furries haha
I wish the getting a lobster as a pet was stock episode premise that every cartoon did like beach episodes or Fantastic Voyage shrinking episodes.
Dragonball Z only had giant crabs. Maybe a cultural thing in Japan.
Fantastic voyage sucks. Only one of those I like is the archer one
Family Guy did it too - dancing to Rock Lobster.
@@dcarbs2979 that wasn’t a whole episode though
tbf a lot of shows have episodes where a character gets an unconventional pet and shenanigans ensue. It’s just usually not a lobster lol
I honestly like this new series and hope it’s not a one off joke. It’s fun seeing you expand into different shows while still talking about the Simpsons.
It almost felt like a half joking, half serious April Fools video.
its a trick, hes putting off reviewing s17.
Riveting, controversial, shocking, and brave are just a few of the words that describe this groundbreaking reporting.
I am awaiting my Pulitzer
I give this video 5 Butters
Spine tingling gemmy
We love how excited he sounds to be covering cartoon lobsters
Normally yes but he sounds tired in this one tbh
@@Solid_Hank that's the joke lol
Larry and Sebastian must be next
Lisa being annoyed that they are not eating the lobster will always be the ironic thing in this episode.
maybe if Pinchy was cuter she would have felt different
Peeking beyond the veil of carnism was a hard sell then and still is. I think the only reason that Lisa the Vegetarian was able to ride was bc she's the butt of a joke in pretty much every scene. It wouldn't work in this one bc Homer sees Pinchy as a living, sentient being too so he wouldn't be able to poke fun at her.
This could be an interesting series.
"Simpsons did it!" series comparisons from other animated shows
Garfield and Friends is a classic in its own right. RIP Lorenzo Music.
No, you don't understand. It's not a belated April Fools Joke. Jim is always like this.
I have transcended the notion of April Fools
This is actually a really good video for demonstrating that two different things having similar stories doesn't mean that one is a ripoff of the other. (Most people would us the 'Cat Concerto/Rhapsody Rabbit' example, but it was cool to see a different one!)
First off Marge had no reason to want to eat Pinchy. She's allergic to shellfish according to the episode 'New Kid on the Block'. I guess she just keeps a constant stash of epipens.
love this, but now i'm sad there isn't a channel that does in depth retrospectives for Garfield and Friends 💀
This is probably the closest we've ever get,tho it stops at season 4 and only 3 of the specials and you can only see trough the playlists th-cam.com/play/PLzjk2Rk6zXmVHw4uOyLRDMTl1fltjVv7O.html
@@mrpiccionedivino5598 I miss garf gab so muchhh I wish wyatt duncan came back to youtube
as someone who still often watches garfield and friends on saturday mornings, like I did as a small child, and someone who has watched the first 20 seasons of the Simpsons countless times... I deeply appreciate this content. Well done.
Garfield and Friends is such a classic, and the art style is fantastic.
It's really is animated comics
Considering how people have reimagined Garfield as a lovecraftian monster now I want to see a Cthulu like Therm
Homer walking Pinchy on beach is my most favourite Simpsons moment.
No joke.
The zigzag shirt is actually a reference to an obscure show, and November 22 being the anniversary of JFK means... the person who really shot Mr Burns... is Charlie Brown
Actually maybe it was Lucy because she's meaner.
The whole tone of this video had me laughing. Jumped straight into facetious satirical conspiracy mode, and your voice really sold it: a mix of anger and boredom.
Garfield is simply the origin of everything, it isn't the Simpsons fault
I don't know how but The "Frolicking With A Pet Lobster" Phase is a metric that desperately needs to be used more
Not an entire episode, but both Simpsons and Family Guy had a joke about a character mispronouncing the word "wind" and then explaining that they've "only seen it written".
You ain't fooling anyone. TheRealJimDavis
If I saw this video when I was 13, I would be so completely, wildly blinded by rage, I would type up a massive essay about how this doesn't make sense. Good thing I'm 18 now. This video is iconic.
A pretty interesting idea for a series. I'm definitely interested in seeing you talk about Spongebob especially with how similiar it is to the Simpsons in some ways. An extremely popular cartoon about a yellow character where the early seasons where seen as the golden era, the middle seasons being seen as the dark ages, and he most recent seasons being seen as a bit of revival of the franchise.
I love the running bit in these Pinchy videos of presenting Marge as a dastardly villain
I really love the idea for this series! ^v^ Would definitely love to see more "Simpsons Did It???" videos in the future!
Me too!
But which cartoon did SelMoe first?
It's always funny when two shows share one eerily specific plot beat, like that night where I watched both an episode of Galaxy High School and an episode of Futurama in which a cavalier Captain Kirk parody is tasked with towing an entire city across the solar system over an infectious disease outbreak.
@@BagOfMagicFood Interesting. That's a very specific plot. What were the episode names.
@@mandelabutterfly9162 "Martian Mumps" and "Cold Warriors"
Netflix: "Are you still watching?"
Someone's daughter on a Friday night: 3:45
@TheRealJims You should check out the Garfield episode "Binky Goes Bad" where Binky the Clown is framed for armed robbery and Garfield has to clear his name. They did this before The Simpsons did.
the plot of "binky gets cancelled" isn't much like "krusty gets kancelled", but there is an ep called "binky goes bad" which literally has the same premise as "krusty gets busted" like 4 months before the ep came out :0
I generally like dark humor a lot, but the Pichy episode is always painful to me, for some reason his death REALLY gets to me to the point I can't even watch the episode at all and I couldn't say why 😥
Dan Castellaneta's acting, perhaps?
The way he tears up eating it could go either way I'm sure it leaned into funny as hell territory but some episodes hit me in unsettling ways I can't watch the one where homers eyes crust from refusing eyedrops 🤢🤮🤮🤮
@@christopherwall2121 Actually I've only ever seen it in the mexican dub so it's not Castellaneta's acting specifically (he's great though!)
The fact that he kept Pinchy as a pet but then ate him after he died. Yeah, he was sad to do it, which is darkly funny on paper, but it feels like betrayal. You don't treat livestock like pets and you don't treat pets like livestock.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio It's interesting studying history in college and different cultures I would say this actually depends and it can be a fine line between pets and livestock in some cases, and eating your pet might not seem weird at all. I like how this simpsons episode is kind of poking at this cultural distinction in a provocative way and making the audience interrogate the arbitrary nature and values we put on animals life depending on their relationship to society
I am a big Garfield and friends fan as much of a simpsons fan, I just recently watched that Garfield episode by complete coincidence.
And I can definitely say that I never even thought of The Simpsons episode with Pinchy.
It's an example of when you have a unique idea that no one has thought of, but not so unique that someone else has never thought of it or tried it.
If you watch the episode they only seem similar by looks, there's a lot of differences.
I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm going to speculate that Garfield was so creatively bankrupt that they used a time machine to steal from a future episode of The Simpsons.
"Friends are there", the first version of the garfield theme song, I don't think it's boring. That's actually my favorite version of the theme song, mainly because of how many memories it brings back.
I'll always remember that Garfield episode where Odie shoots Mr Burns
I prefer the fan theory where Nermal did it
TheRealJims actually stole my joke. Three hours before I thought of it. Just like Garfield & Friends stole the lobster episode 9 years before the Simpsons did it.
Maybe Heathcliff or Riff Raff (Catillac Cats) shot Mr. Burns...
I'm glad someone finally said it, good work Jims. Also, I've been waiting for a new video that was relevant to make this suggestion so hope it's ok on this one, I was thinking it'd be neat in a future Simpsons Histories or maybe something else as it's not about a character specifically if you might do something slightly different and go over the vehicles in the show that were in Hit and Run (I guess there's Road Rage too but that'd make the scope even bigger), or if that's too broad maybe just the family car given it's been an element of the show for years (and prominent in a fair few videogames) but I don't think has ever had much focus beyond being gotten rid of (which I think has happened to it a lot despite it always coming back.) If you can't tell I've been thinking of Hit and Run lately... Anyway, your content's always great to watch looking forward to what you do next.
If this becomes a series I’d like to see the family Guy episode ‘Death is A Bitch’ and the treehouse of horror segment ‘Reaper Madness’ compared and contrasted
“Even Lisa, The Simpson’s Odie equivalent” is such a wild thing to say
Garfield was a underrated cartoon 💯
that's what i've always been saying!!!
For as terrible the comic strips are, the cartoon was AMAZING.
You're an underrated cartoon!
Damn right it was, and so yet remains. Seems my childhood was entirely made up of so called "loser" cartoons (to coin a certain reference) that everybody somehow always loves when actually learning they exist.
Check out a show called Bump In The Night, and the animated show for Beetlejuice from the nineties.
They've tried to wash over that one with a modern sort of redoing of JUST his character out of context weirdly, but trust me, the actual show is GOLD. Plus his voice was a lot better done there as well.
The theme song has been lodged in my brain for decades. (To be clear, I'm talking about the second, far superior version. It's apparently not the one in this lobster episode.)
As a kid, I used to have nightmares about marge wanting to throw me I to a boiling pot.
That shirt pattern is what settles it for me, though I wish you brought up the Ellen lobster episode from 1996 where they both fly it to Maine to set it free AND it dies due to negligence which further muddles this mystery.
The shirt pattern is very clearly from Charlie Brown which predates both shows substantially.
@@OptimusSubPr1me If that's true, then where's Charlie Brown's pet lobster?
Truely the high quality investigative journalism in essay format I crave!
An important factor you missed is that it is heavily implied in the Simpsons that Pinchy is a Maine Lobster, while it is outright stated in Garfield and Friends that Therm is a Canadian lobster. While it may seem like the two overlap, that is a conclusion only an ignoramus would make. The differences are vast and many, with things like name and nomenclature being a few of the many differences between these two very different creatures. It's such an oversimplification to even refer to these two animals as mere "lobsters". Homer has a pink car. JFK was assassinated in a car while sitting beside a woman in pink. Are we to assume that Homer Simpson is therefore a reference to the JFK assassination? What a silly point. Why am i even subscribed? Why would you try to convince me that Matt Groening was involved in the killing of our beloved President? Your ideas are intriguing, and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Reading that was a rollercoaster.
Alright I lost it when you made Lisa the "Odie equivalent", hahaha. This channel is amazing.
This is a great idea for a series, reminds me of my other favourite from this channel, Simpsons Mysteries. Super excited to see more!
It's also worth mentioning that taking care of something, usually an animal, as part of a selfish goal only to grow attached when the time comes to actually go through with the plan to achieve that goal is a very common stock plot. Just off the top of my head, there's an American Dad episode, where Steve and Snot raise clone girls so they can have sex with them once that grow into teenagers, but when the time comes, can't bring themselves to do it because they've grown attached to them. There's probably a million Simpsons episodes alone with that basic premise. These two episodes just happen to use the same animal. And seeing as lobsters are one of the most common animals that humans it, it makes perfect sense to make said animal a lobster
I don't know in other places, but here I have heard multiple anecdotes of people bringing farm animals (specially chicks) home to eat when they have grown a little, and the children of the house growing attached.
I'd argue that itchy and scratchy and friends is not specifically a Garfield reference because "And Friends" has always been a often used title, you got stuff like Rocky And His Friends which for reruns and home releases gets renamed Rocky And Bullwinkle And Friends, you've got Amigo And Friends, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Fred Flintstone and Friends, Ect, Ect.
Garfield and friends is one of my all time favorites! And even though I know this was just for goofy fun, I really enjoyed it! I think you did a good job analyzing both. 👍
Garfield and friends “ The Bear Facts “
The simpsons “ The Call Of Simpsons”
Huh, I never realized it until now, but TheRealJims sounds a lot like Garfield from the cartoon.
I've long felt that The Simpsons was inspired by Garfield and Friends. The "animated sitcom that satirizes sitcom conventions" was a trend in the late 80s and 90s (Taz-Mania and Goof Troop were also great examples of this, Animaniacs and Tiny Toons were sort of this as well). Personally, I see nothing wrong with The Simpsons being inspired by Garfield and Friends. It kind of set the template for the "90s animated sitcom" fad. "Krusty Gets Busted" in 1990 seems inspired by "Binky Goes Bad" in 1989. I've also noticed many similarities between Krusty and Binky despite them being opposites, but they're both deconstructions of the unironic clown while still being examples themselves.
This is a really cool idea for a new series. A good idea for a future video would be family guy doing a main character becomes death plot with Peter before the simpsons did it with Homer.
"Is this an out-of-season April Fools Joke?"
I have no evidence for this, but I feel like someone buying a live lobster to cook, but someone in the household objects, and they end up trying to keep it as a pet ... that MUST have happened to somebody at some point.
theres a few youtube videos somewhere, its been years since i watched them so i dont know what it was titled, of a guy buying one from a supermarket and attempting to restore its health.
@@jonmahashintina The channel is Brady Brandwood and Leon the lobster is still alive!
drawing in comparisons of tragedy/comedy was a stroke of genius
3:28 - the shirt pattern is totally unique and unknown...if you forget about a certain obscure comic strip character named Charlie Brown! I feel so old now that its no longer instantly recognizable. Peanuts was huge when I was a kid in the 80s.
Extremely good timing on this video for me personally as just yesterday I rewatched Super Eyepatch Wolf's Garfield video.
They should have given Pinchy his own spin-off.
Pinchy deserved more.
Pinchy died on the way back to his home planet.
@@jb888888888 they pinch, they cinch! They pinch, they cinch! Pinch pinch pinch, cinch cinch cinch!
If I remember right, Homer had a fake lobster on a leash in the season 6 episode, Itchy and Scratchy Land..one of my favorite Simpsons episodes if I may add
Of course Jims wouldn’t side with the episode where the lobster stays alive the entire time. The entire time! The lobster stays alive the entire time!
Alive, the entire time the lobster was.
...I don't suppose you could talk more about Garfield & Friends on this channel?
In all seriousness, this feels like a fun idea for a new series, comparing plotlines that have been done before The Simpsons did it, in a kind of inverse of the joke South Park mad popular.
When I was a kid Garfield and Friends was the lead-in for The Simpsons, so there’s a chance these episodes ran back-to-back
6:38 Now that you mention that "certain yellow sponge". There's a similar joke to the Guy Incognito one in the episode "The Slumber Party".
The beginning of Jerkass Marge
Nice video. this episode is quite a good exemple for writting tip on how story with a same premise can be totally different with their exectution.
The end of that Simpsons episode was so funny when he was eating a lobster cuz you could tell he was really enjoying it while at the same time mourning the death of that 🦞🦞🦞
That lobster did look good!
3:27
This shirt, if i'm not mistaken, is from Charlie Brown. I don't know the context of the Simspons scenes you are showcasing here, but i would bet they're references to it rather this very obscure Garfield moment.
Love this. I’m a big fan of Garfield and Friends content. Hope to see you review it again someday.
We can definitely say Star Wars copied Garfield by doing a similar naming pun of "Therm Scissorpunch"
I would give it three Butters personally, it seems to similar to be a coincidence and of course you wouldn't do the exact same story even if you are aware of it.
Def a close call between two and three Butters
I will not accept this slander for the Seasons 1-2 Garfield and Friends theme song. You’ve made a powerful enemy today, Jim
Oh, I get it. Lisa and Odie are equivalents because Lisa enjoys the smell of lobster and as a dog, Odie would have an enhanced sense of smell. Clever.
5:57 This was an issue that we as a community were strong enough to ignore.
This is the best Simpsons Showdown hands down.
Mmmm, two butters
Good idea for a series, maybe look into the SHOCKING similarities of Cape Fear and the simpsons episode Cape Feare
I wonder if ToonrifficTariq can shed some light on that mystery shirt pattern seen in both shows…
Thank you for this hard hitting content, Jims.
You are welcome
It is very strange that I've just recently started watching Garfield and friends for the first time on TH-cam, and now I've been given this video. Even more strange because I just saw the lobster episode yesterday...
Spooky
How dare you call the original Garfield and friends theme song "boring" !
Garfield and Friends also did an episode about Binky The Clown being framed for Robbery a full year before Krusty Gets Busted.
As a kid, I found the ending of the Pinchy episode horrific and not funny. Accidentally killing a family pet and then eating its corpse was too dark for me, even with all the cartoon absurdity.
Gotta love Flim Roman. They don’t need a big ad, or even correct spelling!
The Garfield specials in particular are suffering huge back problems from carrying Peacock.
I didn't know Garfield was on Peacock. Thanks!
@@floyd2386 The whole show isn't on it, but some seasons and all of the specials are. Those seasons and specials, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and Violent Night don't deserve to be on the same service that has life-based reality shows on it.
Here's another example. Family Guy's Death is a Bitch vs The Treehouse of Horror Segment Reaper Madness. Both feature the main character becoming death. Funnily enough, the Family Guy episode came out first, though I personally thought Reaper Madness was funnier.
There definitely needs to be more Garfield in this channel
"Lisa, the Simpsons' Odie equivalent"
What a great line.
Family Guy doing an episode about Peter becoming death Before the Simpsons did a Treehouse of Horror segments about Homer becoming death
Also lois r*ping peter before marge r*ping homer
@@mrpiccionedivino5598 let's not go there
Family Guy being unfunny before the Simpsons was unfunny 😳
this channel just keeps getting better
How do you expect us to peacefully wait for the other 46 parts???!?!!?
TheRealJims channel transitioned into a Garfield and Friends analysis series so gradually I didn't even notice
And within the next few years, he'll be doing Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats.
Lobsters are bottom feeders.
You can literally feed them anything.
I have self-cloning blue crawfish, i give them old fruit and veggie cuttings and they love it lol
The pinchy episode always made me want to have a pet lobster ❤❤
Same
Get a small pool for him as well lol
There's still time. Pretty good low maintenance but you do have to expect it to probably outlive you.
We really need a Simpsons mystery on that strange and never seen before shirt pattern
Just based on the thumbnail and the title i think you either confused the april fools dates or you wanted to do this since the season 10 top 10.
I'm not sure if this a really late april fools or this series is seriously going to have 47 comparisons because you hate season 17 so much or something.
I assume it was an April Fools thing, possibly released a few days after April Fools, so people don't just skip it.