put them on right now

then what?

just put on the d*mn clothes

they don't match though

ugh

I can enjoy up to around season 17. After that, it’s a wasteland.

do you have any corduroy clothes?

This one popped in to my head over the weekend. I used to to quote Simpsons daily but haven't in years.



For me the cream was seasons 3-10

My girlfriend is a Simpsons fanatic, but, like a lot of Argentines, she grew up watching the Spanish-dubbed version and refuses to watch the original. As a result, I've been re-watching the classic episodes in Spanish. A lot of the jokes and references are not merely translated, but completely re-written. It's like a whole other show.

Any specific examples you can think of? Are we talking cultural reference, idioms, or just completely different directions for the dialogue?

I'll write down some specific examples next time I see an episode; I just remember a lot of instances where I went "wait a minute, that's not how I remember that joke," where the dialogue was significantly re-written because the joke didn't work when translated directly. And sometimes the references to American media are switched to references to Latin American pop culture, which makes sense. Other times, the references are changed to media figures that the translators thought Latin audiences would be more familiar with. For example, the episode where Homer wakes up from a dream screaming "Marge! I think I hate Ted Koppel! No, wait... I find him informative and witty." was changed to "Marge! I think I hate Michael Jackson! No, he is a good performer and person." Confusingly, the episode where Luke Perry made an appearance on Krusty's show, he was referred to as "Robert Redford".

Here's a video about the voice actor who plays Latin Homer, which touches a bit on some of the differences in characterization and dialogue (though I don't agree with the video's central premise that the show is funnier in Spanish)

Does Bumblebee Man speak Spanish?

Yes. And his Spanish is translated into less-broken Spanish (because the Spanish he speaks in the original version is pretty bad, probably deliberately). But I think he is viewed less as a Mexican caricature and more like a parody of El Chapulin Colorado, the character he is actually based on.

What about the Argentinian Hitler joke? What was that like in that version?

I don't remember... probably the same, though, as the dubbing is done in Mexico and not in Argentina

I call the big one “Bitey”