{"id":837,"date":"2007-05-20T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/20\/can-sign-contracts-but-can-it-make-me-laugh\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T18:51:39","slug":"can-sign-contracts-but-can-it-make-me-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Can Sign Contracts.  But Can It Make Me Laugh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Simpsons<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/459\/story\/1190924.html\">running episode 400<\/a> tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let the trivia geeks have their day in the sun!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The part I think is the coolest:\u00a0 the show has literally been around for a generation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got writers now who are so young that they grew up watching the show,&#8221; [creator Matt] Groening said. &#8220;They&#8217;re always reminding those of us who have been around longer that we&#8217;ve already done a joke that somebody is pitching.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His sitcom, &#8220;The Simpsons,&#8221; presents its 400th episode tonight, capping 18 seasons with no finish line in sight.<\/p>\n<p>And the characters may just be hitting their stride.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By &#8220;hitting their stride&#8221;, does the writer mean &#8220;the show doesn&#8217;t suck anymore&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Because I think it&#8217;s been a couple of years since the show was actually funny.<\/p>\n<p>Please advise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simpsons is running episode 400 tonight.\u00a0 Let the trivia geeks have their day in the sun! \u00a0The part I think is the coolest:\u00a0 the show has literally been around for a generation: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got writers now who are so young that they grew up watching the show,&#8221; [creator Matt] Groening said. &#8220;They&#8217;re always reminding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}