Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

wyldfire 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> No one who speaks German can be an evil man.

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/566865

milchek 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Medium Setting!" - https://frinkiac.com/gif/S03E22/319309/322862/

The GIF generator works well. Nice work!

You could probably delete some of the frames that have credits shown over them - since you have plenty of material already anyway, for example: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S17E16/137763 or https://frinkiac.com/caption/S16E09/162162

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monkpit 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Frinkiac has been around for at least a decade :)

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reaperhulk 13 hours ago | parent [-]

We launched Feb 2, 2016 so almost a decade since then! Of course, we ran it for just ourselves a bit longer so it’s been slightly over a decade at this point.

	▲	MBCook 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Has it been that long? I remember having a ton of fun with it when it first launched. Great job.
	▲	hemmert 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Congratulations, really nice! I wasn’t aware of this.

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jasongill 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've always wished the GIF generator could embed the subtitle like the single frame "make a meme" feature can, but it does work surprisingly well

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ChrisKnott 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You can do this [0] just press Add Meme after Make GIF.

[0] https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E08/ZzAEDYhlQxZ5l2A8E5aowS1M82...

	▲	jasongill 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		doh!

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OisinMoran 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some funny related cultural trivia is that often Americans find the hardest thing about integrating into Irish culture is how much we reference the Simpsons in day to day life.

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ChrisKnott 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is literally my favourite website, I use it several times a week.

I do wish the search was a bit better; it could show the matching quote below the matching frame, and it doesn’t seem to support phrase queries.

A more advanced feature would be searching by speaking character too.

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GlumWoodpecker 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Surprised to find this on the front page today, I posted this four days ago (hovering over the post timestamp confirms this), yet the timestamp says "11 hours ago". Weird.

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zote 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Your post was chosen for the second-chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

	▲	GlumWoodpecker 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for the clarification!

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mparnisari 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love this website. I wish I could search it in Spanish. I grew up watching the Simpsons in Spanish and I sometimes struggle to find the right clip because I don't know the exact translation

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JeremyHerrman 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

shameless plug for a similar site which a friend built, but for dozens of TV shows and movies:

https://amphetamem.es/

	▲	AmbroseBierce 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No South park hum? But Rick and Morty is there so it's not a policy against foul-mouthed cartoons; Smiling friends is also missing but perhaps it's too unknown or too recent to be there.

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wyldfire 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Inflammable means flammable?

> What a country!

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S12E18/437896

	▲	paulsmith 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm glad you shared this because, in my head this Dr. Nick quote is so canonical it must be from the original golden 8 seasons, so it's nice to be reminded there are occasionally good things after! ;^)

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wyldfire 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Bake him away, toys"

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/1285083

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aizk 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very cool. Maybe add some image embeddings for additional metadata for the search results?

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horsellama 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

shameless plug to something similar (albeit less polished) I’ve been hobbying on for Fantozzi and PeepShow (still wip)

https://asdfasdf.fyi

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Zee2 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Seems like the search is based only on the transcript/dialogue - not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some CLIP/embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.

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petercooper 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agreed. If you search for Barney, say, none of the top ten picture him at all and is mostly people speaking to or about him. Even running them through a vision LLM for a list of keywords would yield better results than the subtitles, I suspect.

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adzm 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How would someone go about doing this, just curious?

	▲	wincy 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You’d just run every picture through CLIP, essentially you run an image generator backwards. Instead of text to image like most end users use when using something like stable diffusion (been awhile since I’ve done this), it can do the exact opposite and generate tokens (just words in this case) to describe the input image. I’d guess famous characters like Bart and Marge and other Simpsons characters would likely be known by the tokenizer so it’d be pretty easy. So then you’d be able to guess. Feel free to correct me on small details if anyone has this more fresh in their mind but I’m roughly correct here.

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dirtybirdnj an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The gif maker workflow is fantastic, amazing how smooth it was an the output is clean and crisp. Beautiful UX I practically tripped over this feature without even thinking about it and it worked great.

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dan-g 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

See also: https://morbotron.com/ for Futurama!

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Jordan-117 12 hours ago | parent [-]

And https://masterofallscience.com/ for Rick and Morty.

edit: Though it seems to be somewhat outdated.

	▲	evan_ 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		and https://funcooker.fun/ for 30 Rock. (I think the Frinkiac people used to run a different 30 Rock page but it went away at some point)

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martythemaniak 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For enjoyers of classic simpsons, I highly recommend /r/simpsonsshitposting, a delightful blend classic simpsons, absurdist/surrealist/dadaist art, multilayered inside jokes and often NSFW content. It could not exist without The Frinkiac.