If The Simpsons all of a sudden hired a bunch of god-tier writers and had a drastic increase in quality, would people acknowledge that The Simpsons made a comeback or even notice in the first place, or is it just too cool to automatically hate The Simpsons now?
I honestly can't think of a single person I know right now that actually watches the new simpsons episodes.
If the simpsons actually got back on point and had decent episodes again instead of being another staple of american television that just exists in the background I'm sure we'd hear about it from media sources first and then people would embrace the show again.
Otherwise everyone will be doing what they are now- watching all the good episodes on FX.
>>67871964
you'd need to fix the animation too
basically the whole things needs to be overhauled
I'd notice it and acknowledge it, but it wouldn't happen overnight. The few who still watch regularly would notice it and try to convince others, but if the overall public perception of new Simpsons changed it would sadly probably be the result from social media bullshit or reddit posts of the "now-funny-again" Simpsons.
>>67871964
Didn't they bring back one of the original writers to male an epispde for this season?
There was a brief period several years ago when I tried watching the show again, and I was surprised to see that it had actually gotten fairly decent and I told a few people about it at the time... I think it only lasted every other episode for like a season or so though.
I tried watching again last year but it was mind-numbingly painful garbage.
I think at this point they would need to fire absolutely everyone except the voice actors... and even they would need to be retrained for like a year or more.
It would be better to just bury the dead horse.
>>67871964
the haters would continue ignoring any evidence that the show is still occasionally funny, so yes, it's just too cool to automatically hate any Simpsons past season 8.
>>67871964
The only people that still watch The Simpsons are beaners, and by beaners I mean illegal immigrant mexicans, their anchor babies, and mexican-americans.
>>67874534
>...niggers, and by niggers i mean niggers, their nigglets, and nigger-americans.
thanks for clarifying
I don't think that could be possible anymore.
They've done EVERYTHING at this point. Good or bad, stupid or smart. There's nothing left but more stupidity. And Bart getting another girlfriend.
you'd need swartzwelder back, and he ain't coming back.
>>67874530
Barthood (S27 E09)
Seriously, you see nothing quite like this in the old seasons. They are very sporadic, but still really bright sparks.
>>67874718
is that the one where homer and wiggum are smoking pot and wiggum tries to "fly" out the window because hes "so stoned'?
>>67871964
Early simpsons really sucked
Then somewhere between 1994-2000 it was really good. Some time after 2001 or 2002 is when it went to real shit. I'm not sure what writers or directors they lost. But even the voice-actors in it weren't the same anymore.
I went back to it just recently last season & this season and it had some decent episodes. Better than 2004 or w/e quality. But it's still not where it was.
LEMON TREE
>>67874825
kill yourself
>>67874826
>Early simpsons really sucked
>>67874844
im gonna do it now i hope your happy
>>67874844
>judging the episode for one scene
How autistic are you?
This isn't /a/ OP
>>67874935
its the only one i saw, some faggot posted a gif/webm on here a few days ago.
and im autistic enough to not waste any of my fucking time on that shit show when i can spend it jerking off on 4chan, or streaming old episodes of the Nanny.
>>67875020
you must be new here
>>67874612
Hire a team to move his restaurant booth back into the writer's room while he's asleep and leave a trail of cigarettes and bullet casings leading from there to his bed. It'll take a few days for him to get there, but by god afterward you'll have two black eyes and the best damn season of the simpsons you've ever seen on your hands to worry about
>>67874904
The ones with the completely shit drawing and bad comedic timing you faggot
>>67875022
>its the only one i saw, some faggot posted a gif/webm on here a few days ago.
>therefore my opinion on that episode is worth a shit
Wow. Just wow.
>>67875065
How many fucking Simpsons reaction pics do you have
>>67874826
>Early simpsons really sucked
Love this meme
>>67875114
You can cry all you want but you're not getting out of the trash.
>>67875119
>i like new simpsons episodes
>therefore my opinion is valid
See reply above.
Best celebrity cameo on the Simpsons?
I really liked the Michael Jackson one, I think it was a nice inversion to how badly they use celebrities on the show now.
>>67875127
about 250 or so.. not counting all the slight variations and star trek memes I accidentally saved in the wrong folder.
>>67875361
>>67875394
is that a lot?
>>67875341
i thought michael jackson was white because of this episode.
>>67875341
Lovitz just for beating the shit out of dick later in life.
>>67875457
>250
>or so
>is that a lot?
What are some god tier seasons/episodes I should go watch?
Its honestly been fucking years since I watched a single one.
>>67875855
Every single episode in Season 4 is good, just pick one.
The clip show episode might be the weakest, but that's because it's a clip show.
>>67875855
$pringfeild is my favorite, Mr. Plow is a classic i always recommend, You Only Move Twice is the one I think is the funniest but it lacks a bit of the older Simpson charm.
You literally have millions of families tuning in every week for this shit. Ten years of utter tripe and they still have a generation enthralled.
They don't ever have to worry about the show's quality again. It wouldn't make a difference.
>>67875855
Homer vs New York is peak Simspons for me.
>>67875855
Homer at the bat.
>>67872219
>you'd need to fix the animation too
I don't even know if they CAN do good 2D animation anymore to be honest.
>>67875855
Gabbo episode is an example of a cameo-based episode that works
>>67871964
classic simsons stream at (first letter of the alphabet)NKHSTREAM
then click on BAIT channel cus default channel is something else
>>67877405
godfuck that walking animation at the very start makes me want to vomit
i've made better looking things in online animation creator flash game things on websites for children's television networks
I'm going to say something provocative.
The simpsons never declined.
Go rewatch the early simpsons, and see how many times you laugh. Then watch the later simpsons and notice, it's similar jokes, but neither really are "funny". Overall the simpsons aren't that funny as a show. They didn't decline, people just got bored with animation.
The uniqueness of a animated tv show that acted like a real show, that had plot, situations and "comedy" is what sold the Simpsons, BUT Simpsons were never as funny as we remember them. It was just a unique way to tell the same jokes.
Futurama, south park and even family guy started ACTUALLY telling jokes, and using the full range of humor that some shows have done, but the Simpsons just were an animated show that showed a bad boy on television. Novel at the time, but worthless now.
>>67878486
Def not true. Writing was so much better.
>>67878486
>Go rewatch the early simpsons, and see how many times you laugh.
I watch an early simpsons episode every single day and to this day I still laugh about the jokes.
>>67877499
probaly not
even Disney people have lost the tiouch
>>67878486
I still regularly rewatch the old episodes and they're still both funny and sweet.
So fuck off with your shit opinions.
>>67874444
do you remember what episode was it? the one that made you think the show was good again
>>67874592
yea
the cow has been milked dry
>>67878486
its not provocative. it just proves your at most 18.
>>67878924
nope, i think it was pre-20th season though.
>>67871964
The problem with the Simpsons, as I've come to see it, is that they've basically wrung out everything the premise/setting has to offer.
Even with better writers who actually gave a damn about the end product, there would only be so much they could do to make fresh material without having to rehash old plots (like the show has been doing for however many seasons), try to use topical humor to provide new content (which the show has already been doing), or going straight into post-modern Grant Morrison bullshit. No, the show is screwed, one way or another.
>>67878367
>>67877405
Who the fuck just kill this show already. God damn that OG writers circle about Simpsons for not absolutely shitting on the new Simpsons. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>67874718
Is this the one that took 12 years to make?
>>67875127
>copy paste panel
western comics, not even once
>>67878367
Daily reminder that Lisa getting DPed by lesbians with dildos is literally cannon.
>>67878367
>>67871964
>/tv/ is so contrarian they'll stick up for the Simpsons
>>67880413
I am okay with this.
>>67880413
What episode was that?
>>67880413
The dyke on the left is totally a freak in the bedroom, the one on the right is just some hippy from a commune.
>>67871964
Only if they reverted back to the animation quality of the early years too.
>>67878367
>>67878486
>Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag is not funny
go fuck yourself
>>67878519
>>67878562
>>67878868
t. Nostalgia
>>67871964
>it made a comeback
it was never gone, i hate this shit meme
it's been averaging 5 mil viewers for over 10 years now
>>67877499
Just run the animation through some kind of instagram filter. They can make HD video look like VHS video. All they need to do is make 2016 Simpsons look like 1996 Simpsons.
>>67879493
Bit cynical to be honest.
The biggest difference I see in current Simpsons as opposed to the old is a complete lack of realistic and meaningful character development. See that early episode about Krabapple as an example.
>>67883293
You're right. Popular things are objectively good. Did you hear the McRib is coming back?
>>67883220
So animation that had heart and soul (as evidenced by the tons of screen caps on this board), characters that weren't cardboard cutouts of their former selves, and jokes and storylines that weren't just le edgy pop culture shit of the months is "nostaglic"?
Take this millennial shit somewhere else you raging faggot.
>>67883422
>meaningful character development.
>Simpsons
>>67883490
>heart and soul
Explain this shitty buzzword you picked up from somebody else to explain "le golden age"
The jokes and storylines in the early simpsons are all copied storylines and references from the 90's and and 80's.
You seem to not even know that you're arguing for
One of my friends told me the newest episodes have "genius writing".
I haven't seen them so I couldn't argue the point.
To those who've seen, how wrong is he?
>>67883544
>Explain this shitty buzzword you picked up from somebody else to explain "le golden age"
Here's what it mean:
The old animation was hand drawn and colored. This led to natural idiosyncrasies, and an overall more organic viewing, not to mention overall quality as pen and paper always trumps computer shit (same way models in movies > cgi).
>The jokes and storylines in the early simpsons are all copied storylines and references from the 90's and and 80's.
No they weren't, stupid. How does Mr. Burns signing up major beleaguers for his company softball team compare today's "Lisa becomes friends with lesbian programmers" or "Bart mades a pop culture joke about twitter".
>You seem to not even know that you're arguing for
I'm arguing that the old formula worked. The new one doesn't.
Only an under 21 like you wouldn't understand.
>>67883764
>No they weren't, stupid. How does Mr. Burns signing up major beleaguers for his company softball team
You're just to young to get the references, just google/wiki the episode and you will see
>>67884002
Uh, REFERENCES are storylines/jokes, moron.
There's a way to WEAVE pop culture/history/whatever into storylines/jokes without having it be the actual storyline/joke. Millennial twats like you wouldn't understand such things as Simpsons nowadays hits you over the head with everything.
>>67884106
>Uh, REFERENCES are storylines/jokes, moron.
*Uh, REFERENCES areN'T storylines/jokes, moron.
>>67878367
There's like 600 episodes. What you can achieve with the characters is finished. Every character and side character went through a million arcs, it's finished.
>>67877499
They can't. I've been listening to the commentaries lately and they say one of the reasons they changed it was because traditional animation was a dying artform and they were simply running out animators who could do the job.
>>67884138
you can very much reference a real world event as basis for a story.
Peter Shaffer read about a boy in the paper who stabbed six horses in the eyes with a hoof pick. He wondered why, so he wrote a story about it, called Equus. It won the Tony for best play.
So what I'm saying is you're a faggot.
>>67878367
>>67883293
>it's been averaging 5 mil viewers for over 10 years now
That's not very impressive when the viewership was so much higher during the golden years.
>>67885034
>you can very much reference a real world event as basis for a story.
But has the Simpsons done that, retard?
Usually they just have the typical A,B plots with jokes, and some references thrown in.
Christ, you're a fucking moron. Bringing up a Shaffer play when discussing the Simpsons. Autistic faggot.
>>67878486
0/10
>>67883220
t. Shitty Trolling
>>67885500
>I can't handle differing opinions so I just say troll and call it a day
>>67874444
Season 18 was surprisingly decent
>>67874530
>the haters
Yeah, if anyone says anything negative them he's a "hater" and his opinion is invalid
>>67883685
>that pic
muh fucking dick.
I'd love to be inbetween these uh...twin....peaks.
>>67875696
Newsradio predicted that. It also predicted Phil Hartman getting shot (there's a scene where Dave Foley's character hears Phil Hartman's character getting in a scuffle with the cops over the phone and then says "Bill's been shot" to the others in the room)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx1GBx9pUGo
Newsradio writers were psychic
>>67878396
>i've made better looking things in online animation creator flash game things on websites for children's television networks
So oddly specific
>67875696
lovitz played a bunch of early simpsons characters, just like hartman.
art teacher, musical director, artie ziff.
then he came back as the critic.
>>67878367
No one I know watches it, but what is more damning is that it doesn't produce any 'memes' where funny quotes or reactions get to the internet. The new episodes produce nothing of merit.
>>67886819
It does produce memes, but only ones that are specifically designed and forced by the writers to be memes like spider pig. And I think that's the only one that really caught on.
>>67886956
>You are now aware the Simpsons movie was ten years ago
>>67886956
They invented the Harlem Shake though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNrn-7zjmYw
>>67887109
>They invented the Harlem Shake though
I can't even tell if this is meant to be bait.
>>67875341
what if i told you that it wasnt actually michael jacksons voice
>>67887185
not him but i'd demand proof
>>67878367
>>67887238
ok i remembered it wrong, it was his talking voie, BUT not his singing voice...apparently
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2014/04/16/tv-legends-revealed-did-michael-jackson-actually-sing-on-the-simpsons/
This has both recordings on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVxCIoKmjcQ
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2014/04/16/tv-legends-revealed-did-michael-jackson-actually-sing-on-the-simpsons/
>>67887545
The weirdest thing is Michael Jackson wouldn't tell the Simpsons staff why he brought in a sound-alike to do his singing, and when asked just insisted that it was an inside joke for his brothers.
>>67887944
It's because any song he sings is licensed to the record company
>>67878367
>>67871964
No because as bad as the writing is there is as big a problem with the animation. When it moved to hd it lost all of its charm, it had to respond to that aand failed. It should have ended seventeen years ago and there's nothing else to it.
>>67874826
You're a fucking retard bro, off yourself.
>>67871964
They need to correct the balance between wackiness and sentimentality
>>67878396
surely that must be some sort of weird problem with the gif it couldnt look that shit
>>67878486
Don't flatter yourself that that's provocative you thick cunt, it's just a pure reddit opinion that you think makes you smart and you don't realise how wrong it is because you're a moron, it's like a mentally handicapped person having a 'provocative' opinion on geopolitics.
>>67878486
General comedies dont age that well, that's why it might be less funny now then at the time it came out. But I'm completely confused how you could not see a decline in quality of the show from something like season 6 to now. What metric of storytelling could there possibly be that you would come to the conclusion that they're about the same quality?
>family guy and futurama use a wider range of comedy
This one actually hurts my soul, because it's the exact reason why the Simpsons is great. The range of comedy in the early Simpsons was huge. From the episode storylines (the difference between a Oakley, Conan, or swartzwelder episode) to the variety of jokes within an episode (absurdist, observational, slapstick). Most sitcoms tell a few jokes well and basically repackage it in different ways, that's why shows get stale. But the Simpsons was extremely versatile and inventive.
>>67878486
>Go rewatch the early simpsons, and see how many times you laugh
fucking throughout, they're consistently comedy gold
