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Anonymous United States
6/20/2025, 7:05:33 AM No.211917773
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I only laugh watching the Simpsons when there is a clever American cultural reference crowbared in or a quirky language pun. How do thridies enjoy this shit so much even though it is impossible to translate?
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Anonymous Mexico
6/20/2025, 7:07:07 AM No.211917794
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Anonymous Chile
6/20/2025, 7:07:45 AM No.211917800
>>211917773 (OP)
They replace it with a clever latinx reference or a unrelated quirky language pun. The Simpsons latinx dub is super liberally translated
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Anonymous France
6/20/2025, 7:10:50 AM No.211917843
>>211917773 (OP)
When we were kids we would laugh at the slapstick and typical two-tone ironic American humour. When we're adults, if we still watch the Simpsons, then we get the references. Reason is because we're educated. We learn about the world.
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Anonymous United States
6/20/2025, 7:12:56 AM No.211917874
>>211917843
>tf
>tp
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Anonymous France
6/20/2025, 7:13:25 AM No.211917880
>>211917874
I don't get it.
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Anonymous United States
6/20/2025, 7:14:47 AM No.211917900
>>211917880
French humor is notoriously low brow and slapstick.
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Anonymous United States
6/20/2025, 7:15:37 AM No.211917910
>>211917800
How do they replace the American references though, very few foreigners will get "inside" jokes that are meant for a local audience and you would need to re-animate a scene if there is supposed to be a visual que that goes along with it. Can you show any examples of how this works?
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Anonymous France
6/20/2025, 7:18:42 AM No.211917958
>>211917900
Used to be at least yeah. The Simpsons are 100% funny for this reason, the French dub is also legendary.
We never stop laughing at low-brow shit but also the American irony enriched our humour, French humour has changed a bit since my generation and that's thanks to the Simpsons. But when we grow up and learn about politics and history, we also laugh at the references.
Most French know who Nixon or even Jerry Ford are. And a bunch of stuff that happened during the 90s, etc.
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Anonymous United States
6/20/2025, 7:21:26 AM No.211917989
>>211917958
Do you all have any comedy cartoons that are kind of adult but also watchable by kids too like the Simpsons or do you just watch the American ones?
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Anonymous Chile
6/20/2025, 7:25:01 AM No.211918036
>>211917910
Oh no, the jokes with visual references stay. The super fans usually know enough about the USA that they will get them and laugh. Those who don't just don't get it and they usually think it's just a mid show at best.
Even people that are less educated may know quite a bit about the USA and its history/dynamics if they watch a lot of movies and tv shows.
Anonymous France
6/20/2025, 7:38:25 AM No.211918222
>>211917989
No, and there's a pretty complicated reason for that.
In the 80s/90s, our public TV channels would import a lot of shows from Japan. Then in the middle of the 90s there was an outcry from our politicians to ban violent Japanese cartoons like DBZ, Saint Seiya, etc. All that was left to provide quality shows was the private company Canal+ (which is an international media conglomerate that provides satellite and cable by the way).
Canal+ was mostly adult-oriented and it was the channel that, by the end of the 90s, introduced The Simpsons and the Looney Tunes and Tex Avery and all the classic American media. Problem, since it was adult-oriented, is apart from classic American media for children, they would mostly broadcast films and political shows (and most famously here: porn). So they had very few French animation shows to offer, apart from now cult but also experimental works (about urban culture and politics still, so again adult-oriented).
The Simpsons never caught on at first but were rediscovered in the middle of the 2000s on a sub-channel of another private channel that iss public-broadcasted (M6/W9, public/private because of our public funding system). So millions of kids like me were exposed to The Simpsons.

Now point is: I have no clue what kid-friendly adult show we could have here, because we either go full porn and gore or full baby googoogaga shit.
We have... like... Totally Spies I guess? Code Lyoko? That's children's cartoons.

France is an old people country. We fucking hate kids here.
Anonymous United States
6/20/2025, 7:40:21 AM No.211918246
>>211917800
>latinx
kys
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Anonymous Chile
6/20/2025, 7:42:25 AM No.211918273
>>211918246
already did through irony poisoning
Anonymous United States
6/20/2025, 9:29:13 AM No.211919677
>>211917773 (OP)
Ok