ITT: Tell us the moment when the Simpsons became dead to you
Stop making this thread everyday.
Tennis the Menace, Bart making Homer scream a symphony by adjusting the kitchen sink to fuck with the shower temperature.
I had an extremely high tolerance of the show; but Mr.Bergstrom in that new episode completely crossed the line, even if I knew the show was total shit by like season 18
>>64511641
>Tax & Spend! Tax & Spend!
Ah, the days when the republicans weren't a chuckle fuck of warring factions and the democrats pretended to be a bulwark against government overreach.
>>64512521
>and the democrats pretended to be a bulwark against government overreach
"The ultimate aim of all political factions regardless of orientation is to use government to persecute everyone they don't like."
When they announced Family Guy's un-cancellation.
Because then I knew it'd turn into a desperate scramble to stay relevant and popular as audiences slowly migrated to MacFarlane shows.
>>64511641
When it stopped making beautifully crafted "so bad its good" type ridiculous episodes, and mostly stuck to celebrity dicksucking and boring episodes when it came to bad eps.
I dunno. When was the last time there was an actual plot in an episode outside of "The Simpsons meet [insert celebrity guest here]?"
>>64511641
When Homer went from the
>Caring father who tried his best with hilarious results
to
>The mentally retarded character
>>64512678
The episode where Jimbo's gf shows Bart her tits - she was just voiced by Tress MacNeille instead of a guest star.
>>64511641
I won't eat anything that casts a shadow
or maybe the movie, although it's arguable that the extra length allowed it to become the watermark/swan song for what would come after.
>Lisa: Yes. I'm thrilled. We've regained our family honor, and we're 1/64th black.
>>64513123
disgusting
>>64513123
Wasn't this the first plot that the Simpsons actually stole from Family Guy rather than the other way around?
The Tony Hawk episode really sticks with me for some reason.
>>64513664
Simpsons stole "father becomes grim reaper" from family guy in a TTHoH before that.
>>64512521
You don't know what the Republicans are really supposed to stand for, do you?
>>64513845
Me too. Maybe because they emphasized it being the 300th episode so much and focused on having Tony Hawk rather than jokes. The plot isn't too bad it's just excessively boring
Anything after 30 minutes over Tokyo, I don't even remember the next episode I think that's why everything remarkable about this show died for me.
>>64512405
>a silly little gag
>made you quit watching
Like...that's the tipping point for you?
When the Simpsons started turning into a fucking kids show.
>sideshowbobhasfacerippedoffbymaggie.png
Seriously who watches new Simpsons? What sad pathetic loser still thinks this shit is funny?
>omg lady gaga on the Simpsons!
>>64515755
>Seriously who watches new Simpsons?
People who want to fuck the characters.
>>64515583
Except strong arms of the ma was the 300 episode.
When they broke up Krabappel and Skinner.
Their love affair was one of the ultra-few bright spots of the Scully era and wanted to see them live happily ever after. But NOOOOOO! They got broken up and in the worst possible way in one if not THE worst episodes ever.......
That was the episode that broke me from being a lifelong, obsessive fan
The last episode of season 12
>>64515520
After turtle-boy in congress filibustered his own bill I'm not sure even republicans know what they stand for.
>we're...
>small government
>big state
>localist
>state rightist
>anti-immigrant
>pro-cuban-exile
>anti-drug
>anti-abortion
>anti-pregnancy
>pro-viagra
>populist
>voter disenfranchising
>freedom loving
>mass surveilling
>pro-law&order
>pro-gun
>anti-tax
>anti-deficit
>pro-prison
>anti-crime
>pro-death penalty
>pro-lifers
>and we WILL filibuster bills that we ourselves introduce if we don't give ourselves whatever it is we finally decide we want in that bill.
Honestly, everything after the movie. Like the movie, pumped to see what the new episodes would be like.
Even 14 year old me was like: "What the fuck is this shit?"
This video
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YNrn-7zjmYw
>>64515808
I know it's not technically the 300th episode but didn't they emphasize it being the "300th episode" anyway?
>>64516159
Yes. They were wrong but the people who knew better and corrected them are just smelly internet neckbeard virgins anyway, lel.
>>64516066
I'm starting to hate casuals
>>64516159
>>64516206
What caused the miscounting? What were they not counting as "an episode"?
>>64511641
Between that horrible cartoon dry spell era of 2003-2010 i would consume mounds of Family Guy and The Simpsons and having little access to the internet didn't help much, i had to watch what was on TV so i tolerated the show for a long time.
The moment i said nope was when they started having actual brands from real life and going as far as zooming in on the logos.
>>64515780
I understand all the celebrity cameos, but really, Joker?
HD opening. Now I can instantly recognize episodes as not muh Simpsons.
>>64515780
Wow, that's Family Guy tier. Fuck. Double dead to me.
>>64516734
This made me laugh.
>>64516836
Oh boy you shure told him
>>64516739
Did you know that Sky TV in Britain started showing new episodes with the old 480i intro because people would change the channel as soon as they saw the HD one?
>>64516968
I don't know if that's clever or just sad.
>>64513705
A lot of liberals kiss black ass even after they've been culturally enriched by a bunch of niggers
When Selma adopted that Asian kid.
>>64519893
It's too bad they never made any merch of her because it would be so cute to have a plushie of her and Maggie on your desk.
>>64519979
No.
>>64520254
Who is Jake and the Ice King?
>>64519979
What might be wrong with that pray tell?
>>64520398
Many, many reasons. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyH72ClNheA
Among many others before that
>>64520740
Oh god, it hurts, it hurts!
>>64520755
It always can get worse anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNrn-7zjmYw
>>64519979
Yeah, fuck that shit. I wouldn't mind however to have plushies of Lisa, Jessica Lovejoy, Allison, and Gina with removable outfits you could swap and stuff.
>>64520831
Could their outfits also include panties? Just for completeness sake.
>>64520740
It's a stupid fucking idea but at least the execution was pretty good.
>>64520806
What the fuck was that even a parody of?
I love all these "this is stupid", and "Simpsons is dead" comments, cause most of them aren't complete sentences. If you want to say why it is dumb, and or dead ok but you have to explain, otherwise you aren't expressing an opinion you are just giving a 5 year old's reason for not wanting to do something. -_-
>>64515594
The weirdest part is that the episode wasn't even that bad, it's just that everything after it was.
>>64516734
The Joker was actually in an early episode.
The iPhones.
Has product placement always been this bad?
>>64515780
This was literally the last episode of the show I ever watched. I just couldn't stand it anymore.
I can't pinpoint where exactly I started to dislike them, but I remember a lot of people being "upset" on S16-19, where the VA's for the dub where changed, and everyone but Bart sounded like shit (especially Homer and Lisa). I was around 12 when that happened so it wasn't a complete deal breaker back then, but I now I just can't stand those episodes, and pretty all other stuff people have said (because Apple being cancer irl just wasn't enough).
>>64521408
you know, I watched it for the first time on a rerun, and just before it there was an episode about Lisa protesting against the use of genetically modified foods, I died a little inside.
the only not-retarded thing I can remember of that episode is that Edna was removed from the show
Semi-related but this shit is hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng6ue_vw7V0
Does anyone else do shit like this?
>>64516296Dead Bart
>>64512761
Speaking of Tress, my disgust for the Simpsons is almost parallel with her level of involvement in the show. Lindsay Naegle is one of the worst, most grating characters I've ever seen on primetime TV and there was a stretch where she appeared like every other week to get some sort of shitty plot rolling. That one with the cell phone towers was brutal.
Maude's death was when I knew the golden age was over for good. I stopped catching new episodes around S13, stopped watching entirely around S15. Have seen exactly one episode in the last four seasons.
>>64521264
No because they used to make fun of the products.
>here are the butter fingers sir
> not even the fire wants them
I really forget what episode was my last and the one where I decided I was done with the show.
Maybe because it wasn't any one thing. Maybe it's just that the show became so bad and so -boring- that I forgot to watch it anymore.
>>64523310
Yes I do.
>>64524972
Uh, circumcised. Not quite sure how that one happened.
>>64521028
The Harlem Shake. I can't even say you are a basement dweller who lives on the internet, because that was all over the internet.
>Remplazar a Humberto Vélez
>ever
>>64525171
Never heard of it. I'm sorry. What the hell was it?
>>64525212
Just look it up.
>>64525212
Youtubeshit.
>>64525212
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Shake_(meme)
>>64525230
That shit is dumb.
>>64511641
The episode after they get that dog for Christmas. Seriously, adding a show stealing pet to the family dynamic degrades the interpersonal relationships between the main characters. But, no ratings are down. Must add fresh life to the our primary cash cow says Grand Overlord FOX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-t61mrPdpo
NEW SIMPSUMS
>thread got derailed by /pol/ shit
>some even say those kind of threads are nothing but /pol/ switch and bait
>mods delete the racist posts
Based mods, doing their work, at least
also
>old Simpson vs new Simpsons thread
>>64525309
Agreed. Homer's voice was immediately turned into a cartoonish parody of itself, and there was nary a frosty chocolate milkshake excursion to be had.
>>64525400
Moderation has been quite good today. I even saw shitposts deleted from /v/.It might just be janitors, though.
>>64515520
>You don't know what the Republicans are really supposed to stand for, do you?
Apparently, neither do they.
>>64525395
Is this an actual episode of The Simpsons? The plot, I mean. Is this a summary of an actual Zombie Simpsons plot? I don't want to believe it. It's not fucking true.
>>64525395
>>64525672
"'TIS!" replied Aunt HELga.
>>64512741
>mentally retarded character
Eh, I can tolerate this
>complete asshole who antagonizes people for no reason and laughs like a psychopath
what the fuck
>>64525589
Ha! Zing!
its great
HILARIOUS RUNNING JOKE
>Talk about how bad the Simpsons have become
>Wow anon, will nothing meet your ridiculous standards! The Simpsons are still good, you are just older now!
I just fucking can't stand my family.
>>64515780
so so so sooooooo glad I don't watch anymore
When all the dark humor disappeared.
>Watched the King of the Hill and had nightmares of dying like C.W. McAllister.
looking back on it the episode was hilarious.
>>64511641
I don't know when I first sensed something was off, but I gave up when "Frank Grimes" came back, except it was his son. It was perfect as a stand alone episode. It should never have happened.
>>64529518
This and Arnim Tanzarian is what sorta made me lose interest
>>64529722
Maybe I'm a hypocrite for loving one and hating the other. If the show was already terrible by the time Armin Tamzarian, I didn't know it. So I forgave it.
It was a unique enough idea. At least it wasn't merely a shitty, inexplicable excuse for a dead character to show up again.
>>64529815
There were still good episodes after Arnim Tanzarian, but you could definitely tell the quality shifted.
Seasons 2 through 8 are god-tier. 9 and 10 are good watch. Especially The City of New York vs Homer Simpson
>>64529930
>The City of New York vs Homer Simpson
One of my favorite episodes, if not my number one. And not because of events that followed.
I stopped watching regularly after season 13. The only reason I kept watching before that was the Weird Al cameo episode that otherwise was terrible.
It wasn't obvious for me until the movie. I had been watching it out of habit for a while and not realizing it.
>>64517359
because they want it in the ass genius, for liberals, blacks are penises whit legs.
Season 9 is when I cannot watch any longer. Which is ironic because this is when I began working for snpp.com. But Seasons 1-3 are the only ones I really respond to. I was the same age as Bart when the show debuted and his impact on kids back then was significant.
>>64516247
>starting
>>64525395
Just watched, I'm fucking dying. Someone hire that guy.
>>64525754
I love you Joe
>>64531711
SECONDED!
>>64532523
<3
>>64532597
How long does it take to make a Simpsums?
>>64520806
>>64520740
I like it.
I'm a life long fan it seems.
>>64532656
I dunno. I mean, for a while there I was managing to get them done weekly, but I've gotten crazier with all the FX and editing so now it's a little longer.
Obviously it doesn't take a full week anyway. In terms of actual TIME allotted to working on them... ummm... I don't really know. Hours?! A number of hours. I imagine anywhere from 5 to 12 hours, which isn't very specific. I obviously don't keep track. Maybe I'll try keeping track one time and see...
But I can just generally say that the writing takes barely any time, I basically do it simultaneously while watching the episode. And the audio recording also only takes 15 minutes at most. It's just the audio and video editing and drawing bad art. That's just oodles of time spaced out over the evenings of a week or so.
Whenever the fuck it was I stopped giving a shit about THoH
I would be hyped for them every year and want with all my might But I think I missed and didn't care for the first time at whichever one that was after Cat Marge
OH the Simpsons became dead to me (even though I keep watching it :( ) at multiple times. The panda rape was one because it was a panda rape. And then, oddly, two of the others were with Marge.
One was It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge where she tries to kill a woman with a giant broken glass ice cream cone. I think it just stuck out as Marge's character being completely destroyed. Before she was a lame, overly moralistic mother and now she was an insane person trying to murder somebody in an ice cream shop.
And then the other one is the one where she decides to work out and get all musclely because the inciting incident is Snake mugs her and takes her pearls. That scene is so fucking weird and handled in a completely serious and dramatic fashion that just made me think the people making the show no longer had any idea what the tone of the show they were making was supposed to be.
Also, although it wasn't DEAD to me yet, before all that I just remember the Sherry Bobbins episode being disappointing. It was just the first episode I was like "Weird... that wasn't very funny..."
>>64532867
>Most of the time is spent on drawing/editing
This is exactly why I admire your work and why I know I could never do it. I can't draw or edit it for shit and it seems like so much fucking work compared to your actual written material.
>>64533152
>she tries to kill a woman with a giant broken glass ice cream cone
Weren't they copying some movie?
>>64533255
haha I can't draw either. That's the most nightmarish part by far. Every time I have to draw a new character I avoid it for as long as I can and try to think of ways to get out of it, like I just made Luann out of Marge and Milhouse combined and I was so happy when I thought of doing that.
Editing I like! But it does get a bit fucking old after a while.
>>64533302
Is it? I can't find anything about it. It definitely went over my head if it was. It just made Marge look absolutely batshit to me.
>>64525754
>see this reply
>don't realize this is the actual maker of Simpsums until much later
>the maker of these glorious videos replied to me and I didn't get to appreciate it
;_;
>>64516066
>Throwback Thursday: Never forget ... the Homer Shake.
Are you fucking kidding me
>>64516066
Wait, shit.
Bartman is still on the show?
>>64533612
That's what you get for not spending every night on /co/ anon
>>64533612
Please, please. Take all the time you need.
Seriously, though, I'm really thankful you guys enjoy them. /co/ are easily still my biggest supporters.
>>64533443
Seems it's loosely copied from The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, but I was thinking there was a specific inspiration for the ice cream cone bit. No, it's just crazy...
>>64515780
The fuck, context?
>>64533939
His face is made out of corn of something.
I don't know.
Not really the stopping point but I saw this scene when flipping through cable
> Bart and homer are in counselling to be better to each other
> counselor makes homer FUCKING TRY TO KILL HIMSELF so Bart can save him, so they can appreciate each other I don't know
> Bart sits there and texts while homer is literally struggling for his life in the background
I mean, fuck.
>>64533933
Ah, yes! Crazy, yes.
>>64533939
>>64533974
The previous Sideshow Bob episode had a gross Face/Off-ish plot where Bob cut his face off and put on someone else's. This is just a callback to that episode, that his face is still on all loose, I guess...
>>64533994
Yes, this was another really horrible moment that stuck out to me. Awful.
>>64533825
I'd known that was his trip before, but forgot until I reopened the thread a few minutes ago.
>>64533916
Thank you for sitting through the visual and aural rape of one of the greatest cartoons ever just to provide us with entertainment.What's worse, watching zombie SpongeBob or zombie Simpsons?
>>64533994
http://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Love_Is_a_Many-Strangled_Thing
Here's the link if anybody is wondering
>>64534061
>Bob cut his face off and put on someone else's
Simpsons really is pathetic now, isn't it?
>>64534070
I always liked Spongebob but never watched it with consistency so I don't know firsthand about this. But it is a show I am amazed to know is still on and I'm sure that can't be good for it.
>>64534153
It's totally destroyed. It barely even feels like a show. Just collections of strange ideas.
>>64534254
Oh, you've seen all the episodes, right? I vaguely remember a Christmas themed episode about Abe telling war stories or something like that.
Does anyone know what that is?
>>64534301
I have seen all of them but I have so much trouble recalling specific episodes because they just blur together.
It seems to be one called "Simpsons Christmas Stories" from the 17th season. It's one of those ones where they just tell three stories and have some stuff vaguely connecting them. Grandpa's story is one of the three.
Reading the synopsis of it on Wikipedia I remember NOTHING.
>>64534600
The first three seasons of SpongeBob are hilarious and witty as fuck, and only got better as it went along.
Then the movie happened. Season 4 was meh, seasons 5 and beyond are new-Simpsons tier compared to old SpongeBob.
Family Guy and SpongeBob:
>Premiered in 1999
>Seasons 4 and beyond, which began airing in 2005, are given much lower reception than what came before it
>>64534676
I saw the movie in theaters actually. I remember it was... fine??
I should watch older Spongebob. The few things I saw had jokes that still stick with me. Like when Spongebob is ugly and Patrick keeps shouting "LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT IT! YOUUU LOOK AT IT!" Also, "Can't see my forehead."
I remember a really dark joke that made fun of the day-to-day grind. Some fish guy 's boring life shown in a quick montage. I hadn't seen much of the show and it was a bit mindblowing. I was like OH I didn't realize the humor went to THESE kinds of places.
>>64534802
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP2jErXpNS4
The movie was good, but it was a last hurrah.
>>64534980
Yes, this! Awesome, thank you.
>>64511641
fuck if I even remember, I haven't seen the show since before people figured out eggs are edible. I know one of the last episodes I watched had bart joining a boyband and recording subliminal brainwashing songs for the government, but i was only watching very intermittently by that point so I couldn't give you a hard cut-off date or anything.
>>64513123
>1/64th
The hell?
With Marge and her sisters (and mother) thick curly hair; they could've done much better than this.
>>64525395
>C0DA
/v/ery clever
>>64534600
I remember wondering if all this shit with Santa and Abe's long-lost brother was supposed to be canon or not as it was the only outlandish story of the three.
I can actually pin point the exact line that killed it for me.
Bart says he wants to do something. Marge says "Get back, Honky cat!"
I don't know why, but that line ruined the Simpsons for me, every episode I watched after it just felt so fucking lifeless and forced.
>>64525589
Thats the issue when you try to bring in minority factions that actually oppose your politics just to get some more voters.
>>64511641
The season 10 or so episode where Lisa uses a bus to go to a museum alone and Homer has to go find her or something like that. There were still some good episodes later on, but that was the first episode where I knew things were just wrong.
>>64536057
That might be in character if she was just repeating it bc she thought it was "cool". Or is that what the writers were trying to do.
hey man you look tasty
>>64536202
It was at the start of an episode and she just said it out of no where, no context as to why she said it.
It was the writers.
The episode when they kill Mona. You'd expect something overly emotional, sad and yet happy when Homer tries to climb a mountain so he could free her ashes to the wind and what do I receive? A fucking James Bond parody where it's implied she was only using Homer to stop one of Mr. Burns' hidden factories. Everything and everyone felt so out of character it made me feel there would never be a good Simpson episode anymore. And how right I was.
>>64536196
That was a season 9 episode, and how in the fuck was that an indicator that things went wrong?
Its probably my favourite episode of that season.
I actually had a moment with the Simpson's where if it was a new episode and it focused on Lisa, I would just turn it off.
Weekend at Burnsey's
>The 4/20 medical weed episode
>Homer driving high
>Homer basically abusing it and becoming a stoner hippy
>Marge and Lisa don't even scold him for it
>It was just stupid propaganda done very poorly
>The message literally was "It'd be legal if you were sober"
>2002
The show was declining very hardcore around this time
>>64536838
>Its probably my favourite episode of that season.
I know, right?
it's also one of the very few episodes about Lisa that don't make me want to punch her
>>64524314
S13 was when I stopped watching too. Show stopped being funny, I noticed KOTH and Malcolm actually made me laugh and Simpsons just didn't anymore.
I still like The Simpsons. It has its ups and downs nowadays, but there's always at least one good joke in each episode that makes it still worth checking in.
>>64536838
It's kinda boring, has few good jokes and no real memorable lines. The russians joke I remember.
The one other thing I remember is Homer getting his head trapped in the bridge, which was too much for me. It was cartoon humor but dunno, even then I expected a little more from The Simpsons.
>>64529930
Season 10 is an interesting season. Some episodes, like Lisa Gets an "A", feel very much at home with the classic era, but others, like Kidney Trouble and When You Dish Upon a Star, were a harbinger of the show's destruction.
>>64537027
Not to mention the second half of the episode stops being about weed entirely.
Season Two Episode 4
No denying.
The episode where Maggie made a poopy in her diaper and then the dog ate it and then licked the diaper and her fanny clean and then she put the diaper back on.
>>64511641
When they killed off Fat Tony, and replaced him with his cousin, and then pretended nothing ever happened.
I mean, I can forgive that with Snowball 2. But Fat Tony was an actual character.
At least Principal and the Pauper didnt kill anyone.
that episode when lisa gets addicted to nicotine
>>64511641
Whacking Day.
Season 4 showed some bad signs before it like Lisa getting drunk, and Monkeys on typewriters. But Whacking Day was just pure rubbish.
>>64538803
>Fat Tony was an actual character
Yes, paper thin flanderizations are "characters"
>>64536062
The irony being that Democrat policies have caused more harm to minorities than anything.
>>64524228
That was a Scully thing; he was obsessed with Lindsay Naegle for some reason. Of course, Al Jean is obsessed with other annoying characters like Yes Guy and Crazy Cat Woman, so...
>>64530372
>>64537463
>Implying a half hour of your time is worth ONE good joke
>>64524228
>That one with the cell phone towers was brutal.
I like that one.
>You don't know Fonzie? He freed the squares!
>Get out of Archie Bunker's chair! NOW!
>the pen clicking race
There are plenty more good jokes in that episode. It's not the best the Simpsons ever was, but it was still good.
I think really, after the movie was when it became Zombie Simpsons. You can see as late as Seasons 17-18, there were still some ok episodes in there and they still put it at least a smidgen of effort, but I think after the movie, everyone just completely phoned it in.
>>64538220
I chuckled anon. At least Simpsons isn't Family Guy-tier.
>>64520806
>make him say his catch phrase the entire time so people know it's him!
>those poses at the very end
Oh man.
>>64533152
Marge was always the least interesting of the family and you notice in the classic seasons she gets the fewest episodes centered around here. Even Julie Kavner has said Patty and Selma are her favorite characters.
>>64521264
I miss when the product/brand parodies were funny and had a point to the,. Now they're just lazy.
>>64539474
Err...
>>64540003
>Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.
>>64537839
When You Dish Upon a Star was only really bad in the final act, IMO.
First two acts had some decent laughs.
>>64537027
But I enjoyed that one.
>Flanders reading Homer the entire Bible cover-to-cover
Guess it depends on your pain threshold. I gave up just before the HD switch.
>>64525589
>neither do they
>>64539822
But they haven't been vocal about it, that makes all the difference.
>>64540548
Vocal about what?
>>64536838
>>64537832
I've never been a praying man, but if you're up there, SAVE ME, SUPERMAN!
>>64536560
It's okay. She appeared more times after that. Like the Inception parody that came out like two years late, where the plot was they had to figure out why Homer kept pissing the bed.
>>64540649
It was in a dream, though. She's still dead.
>>64511641
I've always seen Seasons 10-16 as more hit and miss rather than mostly bad. It wasnt until season 17 (specifically, when it went into the HABF run) that I felt the show became mostly bad from that point onwards.
>>64539925
Man, that's why I can't watch Family Guy. That's just too much shit to go through to get to the corn.
For me, it was when Lisa went vegetarian. Really, if you decide to change your eating habits for your own personal reasons, that's fine. If you don't like it when people make fun of your lifestyle choices, that's perfectly understandable.
What's NOT okay is forcing your lifestyle choices on others, or going so far as to ruin your father's barbecue by throwing the goddamn pig into the freeway, then try and cast blame on him for your bullshit.
>>64541378
But that was the entire point of the episode. That you can do things for your own reasons but don't be a cunt about it to other people. The fact that Lisa fucked up Homers BBQ was a bad thing and a fault of the character that she had to work through.
For me it was when the german voice actor of Marge died and she was replaced by some mediocre comedy parvenu who tried way too hard to immitate the english voice, even though the german voice of Marge was completely different until that point, and extremely well done and iconic at that.
It was somewhere around the 19th or 20th season I think, and that was when I realized how downhill the quality went. I know most people think Simpsons was only good until season 14 or 15, I think, but I grew up with most of the episodes after that and consider them good. Though I haven't seen most of them in a long time.I'm 20 and soon there will be more bad Simpsons episodes than good that premiered in my lifetime.
>>64541559
But she didn't. She was the one that drove the damn lawnmower through the barbecue, jacked the pig, and got it tossed into traffic. Whether she learned her lesson or not is irrelevant, because she verbally slaps her father in the face by backpedaling and saying what had happened was his fault as well.
And she only got worse as a character from there.
>>64541671
...but that's the whole point. You are being silly.
These things you dislike Lisa for in that episode were written especially for this reason, so that you dislike Lisa for them.
Yeah, her character got worse after she became a vegetarian and a buddhist and shit, but the episode itself is rather well done.
>>64541671
>> Troy McClure starring in Meat and You
>> Not god tier episode
http://videosift.com/video/Troy-McClure-stars-in-MEAT-YOU
>>64538908
>Whacking Day
>Season 4
>bad
>>64511641
When Lisa said that she was a Wiccan, in addition to being a Buddhist.
I could put up with her being a Buddhist for superficial reasons (vegetarianism isn't one of the Buddha's actual fucking teachings, it's not a precept or anything close to that) but throwing neo-paganism on top of that was too much.
Also, she was tipping her fedora pretty hard in that episode with the angel fossil. Isn't Lisa supposed to be "spiritual?" Then why was she being such a condescending bitch towards her own mother for believing in angels?
So like, is Lisa a real Buddhist? Is she a neo-pagan? Is she a trendy new-ager who takes bits and pieces of whatever religion is coolest at the time? Or is she an atheist who treats people with disdain for their belief in spirits? She can't be all of that at the same time.
>>64511641
When Neds wife died, 300th episode I think it was? Anyway, haven't seen it since
>>64541889
I really didn't like WD, but otherwise I think that's a troll post.
The show I felt had some marked improvement in Seasons 14-15 versus the Scully era, but after 16 and especially the movie it just totally collapsed into a pile of shit.
The HD switch was the end for me. God, I hate the new animation.
>>64541897
She's an agnostic contrarian.
I have a feeling this show should've never had a floating timeline. It should've been stuck in the early 90's.
>>64541947
Soon there will be yet another episode rewriting Homer's and Marge' past, this time Homer will find out on early myspace that Marge is pregnant with Bart, and hillarity ensues from there.
>>64542001
Exactly, this show should've had a set in stone timeline, nothing more, nothing else. Anyone else feels really weird when they see flatscreen TVs and smartphones in The Simpsons?
>>64542001
And Skinner, or "Tanzenarian" or whatever his name is supposed to be now, will become a Gulf War vet.
>>64542012
What irks me the most is the art style of new characters completely clashing with the simplistic art style of the Simpsons. Lisa, Bart, Marge, they all have one solid colour as their clothing without any details, but in episodes like the one where Homer is a helicopter parent and Lisa has new "popular" friends they all look so absolutely terrible, since they are drawn as "hip" and "up to date" and "cool", and are just overloaded with shitty details. This "modern" crap, and yes, smartphones are a part of that, just doesn't fit the simplistic timelessness of the old Simpsons.
>>64542016
I actually liked that episode.
But remember when Burns was a veteran of the Krim war? (Which took place in the 19th century.) Or maybe that was just a comic, since it makes no sense anyway.
Also, in the earlier seasons Burns was only like 88 or something, wasn't he? Now he's 106.
I can't wait for an episode about the Nahasapemapetilan-octuplets in their late teens when Bart is still stuck in 4th grade.
>>64542064
>>64542012
Yeah, the problem is that the Simpsons tried to be always up to date, in a time like the 2000s where a lot of shit was changing very quickly. Remember that episode where Homer gets a cellphone, and it's something special because not everyone had a cellphone at the time that episode aired? It was completely ridiculous and unbelievable only about 3 or 4 years later. Simpsons episodes started to age a lot faster than the older ones, which still remain, well, timeless.
>>64513664
>>64513856
>episode where Lois becomes martial art expert and rapes Peter
>episode where Marge becomes buff as hell and rapes Homer
Everyone forgets that one.
>>64542064
>I actually liked that episode.
Heretic!
Summon the inquisitors!
>>64540003
It's really not funny to change one letter. That doesn't make it a parody.
Zii
Mapple
Mixar
Fucking lazy.
>>64511641
The Simpsons slowly suffocated to death, it didn't die instantly.
>Making episodes where the timeline moves forward
>Grandpa still served in WW2
>Skinner is a Vietnam vet
>>64542211
Wasn't that all explained away in that one meta episode (Behind the Laughter or something) where they are just actors eating anti-aging hormones?
Kinda like the Super Mario characters are just a group of actors, as shown in Super Mario Bros 3.
The voice actors and producers of Simpsons sicken me since they know that Simpsons needs to stop and say great things about new seasons. They won't stop because it's easy millions. Any one of them could just stop and retire and live the rest of their lives with the money they have or get another voice job on a show that isn't shit.
>>64542232
Well the joke was Homer was feeding Lisa them to extend the life of the show.
>>64542255
>or get another voice job on a show that isn't shit.
No show pays as well as the Simpsons.
Also, if you get money, you become greedy and want more money. It's human nature.
>>64511641
The moment my parents caught me watching it even though I had been told not to and they got rid of our cable.
>>64542012
Pisses me off. Looks super wrong. Also, I know this was never THAT locked down and fell away even during the show's better years,but at one point the Simpsons were supposed to be sort of lower-middle class, occasionally dealing with money issues and now they just have shit all the time. They have loads of tablets and a flatscreen and just whatever the shit the writers want them to have at any given point and it bugs me.
>>64542346
Yes, I can see where you are coming from. Homer constantly has money for some reason. There was one example where this was extremely apparent, but I can't pinpoint it in my memory.
>>64542346
This also brings me to another issue, wasn't The Simpsons originally just something like "hey life sucks but at least we can laugh at it"? I don't remember seeing a lot of that in the newer episodes.
The movie
>>64542064
>Also, in the earlier seasons Burns was only like 88 or something
In Simpson & Delilah, Burns claims to be 81 but that was in just this one early episode and the line was also cut in syndication.
Lady Gaga. I had still been watching it every week at that point, but during that episode, i just turned it off and never looked back
>>64542346
But how else would they work Mapple Mypads and Instagrandma into the show?
Remember that time Ned said "Skype" and "double-click"? Hahaha, so good.
>>64542545
>the line was also cut in syndication.
What? I remember hearing it in the UK?
Was it removed?
>>64542582
>Was it removed?
Yes - you can look at the episode capsules on SNPP which mark syndication cuts.
>>64542598
I guess it ruined their "Burns is 200 years old" jokes.
>>64542432
Yeah, I'd say it was about rising above poverty and mundanity and dysfunctionality to laugh at and appreciate the glimmers of goodness in life. Now it's about... gay horses...? And stuff...?
>>64542572
Hey, when you're right, you're right, pal.
>>64519979
Why exactly does /co/ hate this incredibly minor character?
>>64542649
There was that one episode where the subplot was that Homer had some Baby Safety company that worked extremely well, but when babies didn't get hurt anymore many other people lost their jobs, so Homer ran down Evergreen Terrace, screaming that babies should hurt themselves again, ending the subplot.
Even when I watched that as a kid, I found it weird and I thought the channel just didn't broadcast the full episode and some scenes were cut out, so I got angry at the channel for showing to many commercials or something.
>>64542705
Didn't mean to quote.
I want Dead Homer Society to leave.
>>64542689
>muh diversity
or something.
>>64542731
We have nothing against the Asian baby, but we do strongly object to the Evil One.
Catch Em If You Can. Hard to get much worse than that episode.
>>64542762
>Hard to get much worse than that episode.
Oh boy have you missed out.
>>64542641
To be fair, it says he's 104 in Who Shot Mr. Burns. And if we're debating the continuity of the "good seasons," I'd say WSMB wins out because it seems more widely regarded as a better episode.
Also a 104-year-old guy having the entire town in a stranglehold just sounds funnier than him being in his early 80s.
>>64542797
Okokok you're right. The same season as CEIYC also had Margical History Tour and The President Wore Pearls.
I used to watch it first on BBC2 and then on C4 which seemed to never progress over the 10th series at the time. I haven't watch a single episode past the 12th excluding the movie
>>64542810
>I haven't watch a single episode past the 12th excluding the movie
Not even Weekend At Burnsies?
Hey, chill out, guise. At least you know that Lisa Goes Gaga was the lowest that the show will ever sink and it can never possibly be worse than that.
the change was too gradual to pinpoint an specific moment, but I think it was in season 15, it still had a lot of good episodes but some of them were terrible, then season 16 had a lot of terrible episodes and a few good ones, it all went downhill from there
>>64542862
Season 15 was surprisingly good for the most part which makes the duds like >>64542809 stand out more.
>>64542862
>>64542874
scratch that, I think it was Bonfire of the Manatees, fuck that episode, that's the moment in which I actually started to feel bad for Homer and Marge's relationship in a non-comedic way
>>64542862
hey, guys, remember that time homer got drunk and crashed the car, so he framed marge for it?
>>64542908
That was such a sad filler episode.
>>64511641
Elf Jockeys is the moment when the show died after slowly perishing.
the first eppisode I really remember as not being funny was the one where they go to new orleans and kill an aligator or something.
>>64542976
>>64542991
>people thinking Season 11 had the worst episodes ever
You can't even begin to know just how much worse it gets after that.
>>64541999
but /pol/chan, he only does it because it pays well, to the point where he marries people and ojects.
Isn't that what you guys are always saying it leads to?
If i remember it correctly, the one where Bart shows talent for drumming and gets into a jazz band and Lisa gets jealous so she starts hoarding animals and then one of the animals attacks Bart stopping his promising career in jazz because Bart, instead of using the money for his surgery he gives it to Lisa because ??????
I don't even know man..
When you dish upon a star is when i gave up on it. even though there were some good jokes. It was just werking off celebrities.
>>64543029
As I said, >>64543011
>>64543029
What episode was that again?
>>64543011
For me, Elf Jockeys was like the first time someone with lung cancer coughs up blood
>>64542976
that episode was intentionally terrible though, funny how most modern episodes are actually like it
>>64543102
Alec Baldwin, Kim Bassinger and the ginger from happy days, i forget his name.
>>64543015
He didn't even use the money to buy the fucking TV.
>>64543103
>>64543011
Saddlesore Galactica was supposed to be a satire of poor derivative writing in shows
Little did they know of the future of their own show
>>64543111
Ron Howard?
