21 comments

  • wyldfire8 hours ago
    &gt; No one who speaks German can be an evil man.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S05E02&#x2F;566865" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S05E02&#x2F;566865</a>
  • milchek13 hours ago
    &quot;Medium Setting!&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;gif&#x2F;S03E22&#x2F;319309&#x2F;322862&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;gif&#x2F;S03E22&#x2F;319309&#x2F;322862&#x2F;</a><p>The GIF generator works well. Nice work!<p>You could probably delete some of the frames that have credits shown over them - since you have plenty of material already anyway, for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S17E16&#x2F;137763" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S17E16&#x2F;137763</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S16E09&#x2F;162162" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S16E09&#x2F;162162</a>
    • monkpit13 hours ago
      Frinkiac has been around for at least a decade :)
      • reaperhulk12 hours ago
        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.
        • MBCook11 hours ago
          Has it been that long? I remember having a ton of fun with it when it first launched.<p>Great job.
        • hemmert11 hours ago
          Congratulations, really nice! I wasn’t aware of this.
    • jasongill11 hours ago
      I&#x27;ve always wished the GIF generator could embed the subtitle like the single frame &quot;make a meme&quot; feature can, but it does work surprisingly well
      • ChrisKnott4 hours ago
        You can do this [0] just press Add Meme after Make GIF.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;S06E08&#x2F;ZzAEDYhlQxZ5l2A8E5aowS1M82I=.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;S06E08&#x2F;ZzAEDYhlQxZ5l2A8E5aowS1M82...</a>
  • OisinMoran2 hours ago
    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.
  • GlumWoodpecker3 hours ago
    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 &quot;11 hours ago&quot;. Weird.
    • zote2 hours ago
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  • ChrisKnott4 hours ago
    This is literally my favourite website, I use it several times a week.<p>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.<p>A more advanced feature would be searching by speaking character too.
  • JeremyHerrman4 hours ago
    shameless plug for a similar site which a friend built, but for dozens of TV shows and movies:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amphetamem.es&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amphetamem.es&#x2F;</a>
    • AmbroseBierce3 hours ago
      No South park hum? But Rick and Morty is there so it&#x27;s not a policy against foul-mouthed cartoons; Smiling friends is also missing but perhaps it&#x27;s too unknown or too recent to be there.
  • mparnisari9 hours ago
    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&#x27;t know the exact translation
  • dirtybirdnj1 hour ago
    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.
  • wyldfire8 hours ago
    &gt; Inflammable means flammable?<p>&gt; What a country!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S12E18&#x2F;437896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S12E18&#x2F;437896</a>
  • wyldfire8 hours ago
    &quot;Bake him away, toys&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S05E02&#x2F;1285083" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S05E02&#x2F;1285083</a>
  • aizk11 hours ago
    Very cool. Maybe add some image embeddings for additional metadata for the search results?
  • horsellama4 hours ago
    shameless plug to something similar (albeit less polished) I’ve been hobbying on for Fantozzi and PeepShow (still wip)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asdfasdf.fyi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asdfasdf.fyi</a>
  • Zee211 hours ago
    Seems like the search is based only on the transcript&#x2F;dialogue - not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some CLIP&#x2F;embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.
    • petercooper1 hour ago
      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.
    • adzm10 hours ago
      How would someone go about doing this, just curious?
      • wincy9 hours ago
        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.<p>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.<p>Feel free to correct me on small details if anyone has this more fresh in their mind but I’m roughly correct here.
  • dan-g12 hours ago
    See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morbotron.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morbotron.com&#x2F;</a> for Futurama!
    • Jordan-11711 hours ago
      And <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;masterofallscience.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;masterofallscience.com&#x2F;</a> for Rick and Morty.<p>edit: Though it seems to be somewhat outdated.
      • evan_9 hours ago
        and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;funcooker.fun&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;funcooker.fun&#x2F;</a> for 30 Rock. (I think the Frinkiac people used to run a different 30 Rock page but it went away at some point)
  • martythemaniak10 hours ago
    For enjoyers of classic simpsons, I highly recommend &#x2F;r&#x2F;simpsonsshitposting, a delightful blend classic simpsons, absurdist&#x2F;surrealist&#x2F;dadaist art, multilayered inside jokes and often NSFW content. It could not exist without The Frinkiac.
    • UncleSlacky1 hour ago
      Also &#x2F;r&#x2F;The_Leftorium...
    • uza807 hours ago
      My primary news source.
  • balls18711 hours ago
    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S05E16&#x2F;277226" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;caption&#x2F;S05E16&#x2F;277226</a><p>LOL
  • greekrich929 hours ago
    Possibly the best and most important website on the internet
  • j459 hours ago
    &quot;Max Power&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;S10E13&#x2F;wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAEc=.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;S10E13&#x2F;wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE...</a><p>Can&#x27;t find other clips by quote.<p>Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is important.<p>It would be great to add the meme mode to the gif rendering so it was captioned.
  • j459 hours ago
    Very cool.<p>&quot;Max Power&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;S10E13&#x2F;wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAEc=.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frinkiac.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;S10E13&#x2F;wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE...</a><p>Can&#x27;t find other clips by quote.<p>Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is important.
  • TYPE_FASTER11 hours ago
    mmmmm cromulent
  • TZubiri11 hours ago
    You know, I tried to look for source code or a downloadable database, to play with a local fork, but I haven&#x27;t found much.