What was the joke?

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Humans are pig-chimp hybrids. This is knowledge obfuscated by the mystery schools for centuries. macroevolution.net

There was a small easter egg in the film that explains the joke. The joke is that the Pig is actually the owner of a Feed and Seed shop. His real name is Sneeder Porker.

>he hasn't listened to the critically acclaimed Pink Floyd album 'Animals'

well done sheep

what joke?

The joke is that marge's hair usually cleans the ceiling but he's going to get mud on her now

>normie may mays

Oh fuck that's a good reaction image

sensible kek

Chuck's Spider Pig

>This was 10 years ago
>The The Simpsons Movie is closer to classic Simpsons than we are to it

>>The The Simpsons Movie

>this is actually true and not one of those wacky exaggerations

>The simpsons has been shit for longer than it was good

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While we're on the subject, that videotape scene felt really sad considering the levity the film had established

>the majority of Sup Forums's userbase is too young to remember 9/11

their paycheck, goys

The fabled XD so random

I loved the Simpsons years ago. Now not so much.

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I never thought this was funny and I never understood why anyone thought it was.

>spider pig, spider pig, does whatever a spider pig does

How was this funny? Then later on he dresses him up as harry potter and says "now he's harry plopper." How does plopper connect with pig? It would have at least made sense if he called him harry piggy or something like that. I don't get it.

Then the movie steals a bit from the Leslie Nielson movie Wrongfully Accused with the wanted sign at the gas station, except it was way less funny.

this

Spiderman 3 came out around the same time. So people in the theater would see a Spiderman trailer followed by a Simpson's movie trailer. I lived it and people in the theater chuckled

While performing on Lake Springfield, music group Green Day perishes when the lake's pollution dissolves their barge, following an audience revolt after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong proposes an environmental discussion. At their memorial, Grampa Simpson foresees the destruction of the town, but only Marge takes this seriously. Later that day, Homer dares his son Bart to skateboard naked to Krusty Burger and Bart is arrested by Chief Wiggum. Bart considers their neighbor Ned Flanders a better father figure after Homer refuses to take responsibility for the incident. Lisa and a new Irish friend named Colin convince the entire town to clean their lake.

Meanwhile, Homer adopts a pig from Krusty Burger and names it "Spider Pig" (later "Harry Plopper", and simply "Plopper"), and stores the pig's feces (and some of his own) in a silo, until Marge tells him to safely dispose of the waste. Homer initially intends to take his silo to the waste management plant, but after Lenny calls to tell him that Lard Lad Donuts has been shut down due to health violations and is giving away free donuts, Homer impatiently dumps the silo straight into the lake, polluting it much worse than before. Moments later, a squirrel jumps into the lake and becomes severely mutated; Flanders and Bart (who bond after Homer humiliates Bart) discover the creature before the EPA captures it. Russ Cargill, head of the EPA, presents five "unthinkable" options to U.S. President Arnold Schwarzenegger to keep the town's pollution contained. The slow-witted president picks option 3 without reading it, and Springfield is enclosed in a large glass dome. When the police discover Homer's silo in the lake, and his responsibility for sealing Springfield in the dome, the townspeople of Springfield except for the Flanders family form an angry mob and advance on the Simpsons' home to kill Homer, but the family escapes the town through a sinkhole, which then destroys their house.

With the EPA on their trail, the Simpsons flee to Alaska. On the way, Homer tries to make some money at a carnival by riding a motorcycle around the inside of a metal cage.

After three months of futile escape attempts, Springfield's residents finally make a crack in the dome; pointing out the damage, Cargill manipulates Schwarzenegger into ordering the town's destruction. In Alaska, the Simpsons see an advertisement starring Tom Hanks for a new Grand Canyon on the site of Springfield; realizing the town is endangered, Marge and the children want to go back to save it, but Homer refuses to help the people who tried to kill him. After failing to talk Homer into it, his family eventually leave him for good. Alone, Homer is stranded on an iceberg and floats away. Meanwhile, Marge and the children are captured by the EPA after a conversation of theirs is overheard by the NSA. After a mysterious Inuit shaman saves him from a polar bear, Homer has an epiphany and decides to return to Springfield to save the town from danger.

As Homer arrives, a helicopter lowers a small but powerful bomb down a rope through a hole in the dome. While Homer climbs to the top of the dome, the townspeople attempt to climb the rope to escape through the still-opened hole, but Homer slides down the rope and knocks them off along with the bomb. After reconciling with Bart, Homer drives a motorcycle along the dome, inspired by the earlier carnival attraction. As a passenger of the motorcycle, Bart throws the bomb through the hole; seconds later it detonates, shattering the dome and freeing the town. Cargill arrives personally and prepares to shoot Homer with a shotgun, but Maggie knocks him unconscious with a boulder. The town finally praises and forgives Homer, who rides into the sun rise with Marge and Maggie, whereupon the townspeople restore Springfield to normal. As a symbol of their gratitude, the Simpsons and their friends begin to rebuild the family's house.

It's a reference to the pig in George Orwell's novella "Animal Farm." Homer believes he has free will and is smarter than the pig when really his whole life purpose is to care for and serve it. Homer's life is brainwashed to love his socialist pig overlord yet still think he has free will.

There's nothing good in the movie at all. It's dated and poorly aged, the characters are terrible.

And why is it president Schwarzanegger and not Wolfcastle?

Focus groups were casuals and didn't recognise him. The same reason Hank Scorpio was replaced by Russ Cargill