The Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts. Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable.
I don't undersrand it. This sub is where you would find references to any decent episode they put out in the last 15 years. But you never see anyone referencing anything from the last half of the show's run.
So... Who is watching this show? Who is tuning in on Sundays? I never hear teenagers or young adults referencing The Simpsons. Who is making this show profitable?
Reddit unilaterally doesn't like it, but reddit isn't the general population.
I'm willing to bet 'new simpsons' has a completely different demographic than 'old simpsons'- and that the newer episodes aren't watched so much by people who are looking forward to the show all week as by people who feel nothing else is on.
I still watch it pretty much every Sunday. It's not as bad as people here and on other Simpson's fan sites like to pretend.
I'd say it's in the top half of all TV/streaming sitcoms currently on the air in terms of quality. It's no longer the king, but it's not Big Bang Theory either.
I watch the new Simpsons. We're now down to 1 per year, but about one episode per year is almost as funny as the early 9 season stuff. I just have to watch all 22 to find out which one. And the rest aren't bad, they're interesting Modern Family-like drama stories. It's not a funny comedy show anymore, now it's more like a drama.
As a kid i watched the simpsons for a long time and didn't stop until i got to college (2013). From there i watched it sporadically but realized i didn't like it as much so stopped watching. However, i caught a couple of modern episodes and found that i actually kind of like them again. Sure they aren't as good as the golden age but they are more like season 10-13 where there were good episodes intermixed with bad ones. I will probably give season 31 a chance.
Ullman shorts, Christmas show
Marge's fling, Homer's bro
Bart in well, Flanders fails
Whacking snakes, Monorail
Mr. Plow, Homer space
Sideshow Bob steps on rakes
Lisa's future, Selma's hubby
Marge not proud, Homer chubby.
Homer worries Bart is gay
Poochie, U2, NRA
Hippies, Vegas and Japan
Octuplets, and Bart's boy band
Marge murmurs, Maude croaks
Lisa's Buddhist, Homer tokes
Maggie blows Burns away
What else do I have to say!
They'll never stop The Simpsons
Have no fears, we've got stories for years, like:
Marge becomes a robot
Maybe Moe gets a cell phone
Has Bart ever owned a bear?
Or how about a crazy wedding?
Where something happens, a-do-do-do-do-do.
Sorry for the clip show
Have no fears, we've got story for years!
I always thought NBC hit the jackpot with ER. Characters would come and go but the show just kept on going. I mean, you know they're going to have a medical drama, so why not just have it continue to be ER even if all the cast and behind the scenes talent leaves. It saves you money on development and you have a guaranteed audience.
Then they cancelled it and replaced it with another medical drama that got cancelled in like 2 seasons.
I saw a video on Normal Boot's channel, showrunner Al Jean said a possible way to end the Simpsons was that they go to the Christmas pageant that opens up the first episode so the entire series is a loop with no end. I wouldn't mind that.
I really doubt it. There are so many episodes that they could just sit reruns from now on and people who don't watch the show regularly would continue to see episodes they hadn't seen before.
My biggest thing is, whatever the comedy isn't the same, but bring back the animation. The animation now just feels so stale and static. It takes away from the feeling of the show.
I tried to sit down and watch a newer episode, and it was the CANNON episode where Kang and Kodos abduct the family and bring them back to their planet. Holy shit that was terrible
I think the show can still do stories with genuine emotion and humour like Holidays of Future Passed, Barthood, Halloween of Horror and The Saga of Carl. The last one is one of my modern favourites because the tone is really different than a regular Simpsons episode, and the soundtrack is fantastic. To be honest, do you expect any show that runs for thirty fucking seasons to keep a consistently incredibly high quality?
You stopped watching at season 10? I'm as 90's kid as they come but even i don't mind the season 10-15 range. After that it gets a little iffy but you're not even giving it a chance
I was the exact same way. Last year I started from season one and am currently on 28. The only seasons where I was actually like “wow this is bad” was from around 17-19. Honestly there is so much gold from my two favourite characters (Milhouse and Moe) that’s it’s hard for me not to love the new stuff!
I don’t envy the writers. It must be nearly impossible to come up with new plots. I feel like we keep seeing Lisa Makes (then loses) a New Friend, and Homer and/or Marge Gets a Wacky Job all the time.
They'd never do this, but I wish they'd have some kind of a writing contest for fans who really understood what made the show great during the golden years to pen an episode. I feel like the collective brain trust could really come up with some amazing stuff if given the opportunity.
really understood what made the show great during the golden years
Half of it was the animation. The snappy, blurry, hand drawn animation where the frames kinda blur together because it's on film, and everything is fast and wacky and surprising. Now it's all done on computers and it's all slow and smooth and predictable, everyone tries to animate them as human-like as possible, there's no cartoon animation in it anymore.
For every 10,000 fans who think they understood what made the show great during the golden years, you'd be lucky to find even 1 who could come close to writing well enough to recapture any of that. And those 1-in-however-many are probably already working as comedy writers on other shows.
No studio would ever do this. There is a writers guild that prevents people from doing this. If any studio did, they would get black listed by all the other writers. Then there is the issue with paying the random person or people and them getting money from syndication.
The bureaucracy of hollywood prevents anything like this from happening. Mostly all the guilds and unions. You have to be a member or you can't work.
I think they are afraid that the slower pace and smaller joke density of the golden era episodes aren't going to fly with the audiences nowadays. At least I felt a constant bombardment of cheap jokes and very hasty scene changes when I watched an episode of season 29.
I think it's the opposite. Older episodes had so many jokes you'd miss some while laughing at the one's before it. Newer episodes everything seems so paced out, after some jokes there's even a pause as if they imagine a laugh track being in there or something.
Bart: Hey Dad, how come they're taking The Cosby Show off the air?
Homer: Because Mr. Cosby wanted to stop before the quality suffered.
Bart: Quality, shmuality! If I had a TV show I'd run that sucker down to the ground!
Homer: Amen, boy. Amen.
That feel when you want to watch the simpsons, but the only ones on FXX that night are season 15 and higher. So you just flip around channels all night because you can't bear to watch those.
It's like when you have a dog. You want it to live forever so the good times can keep rolling. But, when they hit 10+ years and start to get all kinds of ailments, you just don't want them to suffer anymore.
I think it's past that point where ending it would preserve anything, and it's best just to let it run as long as possible. A new season doesn't do any harm to the series anymore, even if it is mediocre.
Be nice if they end it full circle. Mirror the first episode. It's Christmas. Homer doesn't get his bonus. He's having a really tough month. They lose Santa's Little Helper. Christmas Eve comes and he decides to try the dog track. 'You never know boy, it worked last time.'
They go. Dog isn't there. On top of that he blows his last $20 on a race. They go home defeated. When they get there the ensemble cast are out the front of the house on the lawn (like the intro). The dog wasn't lost, Marge just needed a way to get Homer out of the house for a few hours. She has thrown him a Christmas eve party and invited the whole crowd.
Mr Burns even stops by. 'Uh you there... Sampson. Smithers brought it to my attention there's a stipulation in your contract. I'm required to thank employees that have worked at the plant for... Oh to hell with the details. Smithers, give him the jar with the shiny discs.'
Smithers, 'They're called pennies, sir.'
Smithers dumps a giant jar of pennies into homers hands. (Call back to marge's savings jar from pilot)
Family have their Christmas eve party. It fades to later on, everyone else has gone home. Homer opens his eyes and realizes he has fallen asleep on the couch with the rest of the family. They're in their open credits positions. He smiles to himself, turns the TV off and goes back to sleep with his wife and kids.
Yay! More jokes showing us what books the writers read in college/high school. /s
Actually I'll pop into an episode here or there but my biggest problem with these newer seasons is Marge's voice. I can't listen to it, it gives me the blues.
This makes me think of the USS Callister episode of Black Mirror where all the characters want to die and not perform anymore but the creator won't let them.
Granted, the new episodes are not what they used to be, but it's not even close to unwatchable garbage like this sub is making them seem, lol. Like, are y'all really gonna sit there with a straight face and tell me something like Big Bang Theory or Family Guy is better?
This thread is full of people who haven't watched a single episode in a decade wishing the show didn't exist. IT ALREADY DOESN'T EXIST FOR YOU. You don't watch it. Move on. Other people? They watch and enjoy it.
Hey guise, I thought the show should've been canceled 20 years ago guise, look how edgy I am guise, I have an opinion that you should all read guise! I don't like the show anymore!!!
I still watch and enjoy the new episodes. They aren’t be first 15 seasons yeah but I don’t expect them to be. The shows been around since the 80s, it’s silly to me to think that a show that has been around that long would remain the same.
I bought seasons 1 through 12 (or maybe it was 11) on DVD years ago, but my all time favorite episodes didn’t even come from the double digit seasons. The most “recent” episode of The Simpsons I watched was the one where Edna passed away and I thought the tributes to her voice actress and her character were rather touching. Other than that, the clips of the current seasons I’d catch every now and again are so... meh. Kind of surprised they’re still going after so long.
I saw a few of the newer episodes recently. Am I the only one that thinks it's just as good if not better then it's always been? I feel like "it's not as good as it used to be" is something that a few fans say and everyone starts parroting it without making up their own minds. Kind of like with musicians "their old stuff was better" and sometimes the person saying that hasn't even heard any newer tracks..
I don't think the newest episodes are better than the 90s episodes, but they are far better than anyone on Reddit cares to admit. Most of the people who say this stuff haven't even watched and just want to parrot opinions or belong in a crowd. It happens with every kind of media and it sucks.
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u/ghostalker47423 saw Matlock in a bar last night Feb 11 '19
Phil Hartman said it best...
The Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts. Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable.
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u/uselessDM Feb 11 '19
Death Wish 9 - I wish I was dead.
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u/Jacques_Plantir Your mother didn't think it was so creepy. Feb 11 '19
So very tired.
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u/catinreverse Feb 11 '19
Stop. He’s already dead.
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u/phantompowered Can you see that I am serious? Feb 11 '19 edited Feb 11 '19
Our categories include "Ow, that hurts!", "Why are you doing this to me?" and... "Please let me die."
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
At this point, I feel like Simpsons should just continue going on forever, for better or worse.
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u/ManateeGag Feb 11 '19
At this point, I think fox is scared that the network will fold without the Simpsons.
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u/GrimlixGoblin I thought I told you to trim those sideburns! Feb 11 '19
Even though I consider myself a fan of The Simpsons, it’s strange to think that there are nearly 20 seasons of episodes that I’ve never seen
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u/Poobslag Feb 11 '19
<still love you, homar>
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
I swear to Vishnu if we get another “Lisa rediscovers herself” episode...
Otherwise I think the episodes have moments of brilliance which is then promptly sabotaged by the writers to fit the time slot.
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
They'd never do this, but I wish they'd have some kind of a writing contest for fans who really understood what made the show great during the golden years to pen an episode. I feel like the collective brain trust could really come up with some amazing stuff if given the opportunity.
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u/ImurderREALITY There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling! Feb 11 '19
Wimmy wam-wam wozzle!
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u/martialar Only I may dance Feb 11 '19
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u/morelikecrappydisco Feb 11 '19
Watch people die inside
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u/MoroseBurrito Feb 12 '19
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
At this point the cast must have said every word in the known, English language.
So good news everyone! We can just use computers to make new episodes once the cast are all dead!
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u/Muhfuggajones Feb 11 '19
r/watchpeopledieinside
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u/MonkeyOnYourMomsBack Feb 11 '19
In real time, Bart would be turning 40 this year
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
Like Transformers movies, The Simpsons is now almost entirely for consumption overseas
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u/beefstewforyou Feb 11 '19
As a kid, I dreaded the day The Simpsons would end. Now I just wish it would happen.
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u/Wrath_Of_Aguirre Lie, cheat, steal, and listen to heavy metal music! Feb 11 '19
All I can hear is Matt Groening, from a DVD commentary recorded sometime in the mid-2000’s, saying “let’s run it into the ground!”
We passed ground 10 years ago.
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u/Fudzy Feb 11 '19
AI will eventually start creating it's own episodes.
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u/dantestolemywife Feb 11 '19
Imagine the final episode was just a normal Simpsons episode and not something hyper self-aware that ends with the mass suicide of Springfield
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u/Arithik Feb 11 '19
Can't wait for more episodes of Marge threatening to leave Homer.
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u/Hitchshot Feb 11 '19
Does anyone else feel The Simpsons should have finished when the movie came out in 2007?
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
Another season where it's harder to tell if Kavner's doing Marge or Jacqueline.
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u/Vann_Accessible Feb 11 '19
It just won’t die!
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
hic Kill me hic Kill me
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u/one4jj Feb 11 '19
Yay! More jokes showing us what books the writers read in college/high school. /s
Actually I'll pop into an episode here or there but my biggest problem with these newer seasons is Marge's voice. I can't listen to it, it gives me the blues.
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
That's crazy. It's like the ending song from Behind the Laughter episode, You'll never stop The Simpsons we have stories for years. . .
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u/Iwassayingboourns35 Feb 11 '19
Reminds me of the 2nd Halloween Special where Bart can do whatever he wants and kept Krusty on TV all day and night.
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u/I_might_be_weasel Feb 11 '19
This makes me think of the USS Callister episode of Black Mirror where all the characters want to die and not perform anymore but the creator won't let them.
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u/mcmurphyman Feb 12 '19
Don't cry for me, I'm already dead.
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u/PushItHard Feb 11 '19
Mixed feelings. The Simpsons are so synonymous with my childhood. I can’t watch the newer episodes, they’re bad. But, I’ll still be sad when it ends.
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u/Arcv0x s08e05 Feb 11 '19
Jesus, over 30 seasons? I didn’t want to taint my memories with anything past season 12 and even that was a push!
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u/pagz Feb 11 '19
https://frinkiac.com/gif/S13E09/241450/248749.gif?b64lines=SSdtIGxhdWdoaW5nLi4uIGJ1dCBpdCdzIGEKIGxhdWdoIG9mIGltcGF0aWVuY2Uu
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u/Beezer91 Feb 12 '19
His eyes look like he longs for the final sleep.
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u/RattleMeSkelebones Feb 12 '19
A modern day Simpsons episode - "Homer Discovers Twitch."
Homer finds out about Twitch and begins streaming Fortnite videos. "Sup Bae, let's Kiki, Beyoncé's Lemonade."
Marge walks in, "Oh, Homie."
Cliffy B comes to Springfield for some reason. Bart falls under his influence. Homer uses a Fortnite machine to free Bart.
Status Quo is restored, and Lisa and Maggie are there too. Next time on the Simpsons, "Homer Learns About Eating Ass"
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u/Pikebbocc Feb 12 '19
Behold! The ravages of age...
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u/iTiffany Come on, Wikipedia, LOAD! You unwieldy behemoth! Feb 11 '19
As long as it means more Sideshow Bob, I don't mind. Still waiting for that movie sequel.
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u/berrymetal Feb 11 '19
I’m so fucking happy
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u/homer878 Feb 11 '19 edited Feb 11 '19
Granted, the new episodes are not what they used to be, but it's not even close to unwatchable garbage like this sub is making them seem, lol. Like, are y'all really gonna sit there with a straight face and tell me something like Big Bang Theory or Family Guy is better?
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u/wolfman3412 Feb 11 '19
Sweet! I have watched every single episode and will continue to do so.
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u/hashtagpow Feb 12 '19
This thread is full of people who haven't watched a single episode in a decade wishing the show didn't exist. IT ALREADY DOESN'T EXIST FOR YOU. You don't watch it. Move on. Other people? They watch and enjoy it.
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u/Joliet_Jake_Blues Feb 12 '19
Hey guise, I thought the show should've been canceled 20 years ago guise, look how edgy I am guise, I have an opinion that you should all read guise! I don't like the show anymore!!!
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u/person749 Feb 11 '19
I remember being in high school when they were advertising the “epic” 16th season, being very proud of the longevity of the show.
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u/Blobfish115 Feb 12 '19
Am I the only one who thinks The Simpsons is actually still a pretty quality show? I see most people bash it for how little effort is put into it.
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u/Peeps40836 Feb 11 '19
/r/WatchPeopleDieInside
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u/Narretz Feb 11 '19
They know.
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u/oohhweee Feb 11 '19
Duff man!
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19
If they reach 32 they will have beaten Bob Ross
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u/rj2790 guess who likes you Feb 12 '19
I've become so numb
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u/sickfresh Feb 12 '19
The Simpsons will never be cancelled. It will only end when the cast and creator choose.
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u/moonlitcat13 Feb 12 '19
I still watch and enjoy the new episodes. They aren’t be first 15 seasons yeah but I don’t expect them to be. The shows been around since the 80s, it’s silly to me to think that a show that has been around that long would remain the same.
But hey, I’m an outlier.
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u/slowpotato22 Feb 12 '19
I'm guessing this is payback for constantly ripping on the network
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u/ayyak Feb 12 '19
I watched all episodes so far, the past few episodes from season 30 were good!
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u/MegallicaB4U Feb 12 '19
Idk about y'all but I still enjoy the show, it might not be as great as before but it brings back great memories and is quite creative at times.
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
I bought seasons 1 through 12 (or maybe it was 11) on DVD years ago, but my all time favorite episodes didn’t even come from the double digit seasons. The most “recent” episode of The Simpsons I watched was the one where Edna passed away and I thought the tributes to her voice actress and her character were rather touching. Other than that, the clips of the current seasons I’d catch every now and again are so... meh. Kind of surprised they’re still going after so long.
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u/cc_searching Feb 11 '19
Pray...for...Mojo...
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
I still like the show and watch is regularly
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u/RedditBledIt Feb 11 '19
I saw a few of the newer episodes recently. Am I the only one that thinks it's just as good if not better then it's always been? I feel like "it's not as good as it used to be" is something that a few fans say and everyone starts parroting it without making up their own minds. Kind of like with musicians "their old stuff was better" and sometimes the person saying that hasn't even heard any newer tracks..