The show HAS to end at some point, right?
if dubs simpsons gets renewed for 10 more seasons
>>68762391
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope
>>68762409
Need dubs?
>>68762391
Not until one of the core Simpson family actors dies.
>>68762438
At this point even if Homer's VA dies they'll just recast him and carry on.
They'll never stop the Simpsons.
It wasn't a promise, it was a warning.
>>68762391
You can't have a constant stream of new merchandise without the show around.
It won't end until one of the main voice actors die, and even then it may continue.
>>68762450
They probably could just use all the lines already recorded to make new episodes
>>68762391
not really. Mickey mouse still has cartoons and shit after like 115 years, dosn't he?
They could honestly milk the simpsons forever. Bart is as iconic as mickey by now.
al jean said they want season 30 to be the final one
but we've heard that before
>>68762438
Happened in germany with the voice of Marge and recently Homer. They just replaced them with a shittier one
>>68762484
You're right, he's probably said every word and phrase that can plausibly exist by now.
>Aliens will watch new episodes of The Simpsons
>>68762450
And Grandpa, and Krusty, and Groundskeeper Willie, and Sideshow Mel. and Mayor Quimby, and Hans Moleman, and....
It's more than just "oh well, Homer died," but I'm sure they are already already prepared for any of the major VA's dying.
>>68762438
Not until Castellaneta dies, or maybe Cartwright. I would expect them to replace Julie Kavner or Yeardley Smith without batting an eyelid.
Of course, then it'd be a question of whether the other VAs would even want to continue. Surely, they have secured their pensions tenfold at this point.
WE'LL NEVER END THE SIMPSONS
>>68762391
>it's like watching my grandmother dying from cancer
They will do an Ex Machina spoof where Marge literally becomes a robot
>>68762505
>Julie Kavner dies
>New VA brought in for Marge
>Nobody notices since Kavner hasn't sounded like Marge for 20 years.
>>68762531
>slowly
>>68762521
I was aware the same VA voiced multiple characters, I just forgot his name.
>>68762505
Damn, I totally missed that Gastell died.
>>68762391
Krusty's pained/confused expression is appropriate.
>>68762484
>zombie simpsons becomes frankenstein simpsons
cthulu take this planet
NEVER FEAR, WE'VE GOT STORIES FOR YEARS
This clip came into mind immediately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxfbLXeCa5Y
It'll probably run even longer once the stars are dead.
Those faggots get like half a million per episode, even Marge's VA.
You can find twenty schlubs who can do a good Homer on the street, so once Dan's dead, they can hire like five people to do his voices for a fraction of the price of the original.
Hell, I'll bet you dollars to D'OHnuts that the only reason Fox hasn't fired them is because of the outrage it'd cause.
\>Or how about a crazy wedding? Where something happens and doot doo doot
>Seasons later, they did an episode where Abe marries Selma
I want to get off Mr. Jean's wild ride.
>>68762531
>>68762562
/thread
Stop this madness and end the show
>>68762595
Hasn't Harry Shearer quit? How does that even work? Do they just not use his characters anymore?
>>68762618
can you imagine how many impersonators are pissed because this didnt happen like 16 years ago.
>>68762618
At least Kavner sometimes has to do Patty and Selma.
I can't believe how much Smith makes. Granted, Lisa is her fucking voice and that shit makes her a freak of nature, but it doesn't seem fair, perse.
>>68762687
he just said that to try to get more money and they said no
With the amount of recordings for each character there's no way there isn't software that could accurately recite in-voice for anything written
The only problem is inflection differences
>there are twice as many bad simpson seasons as good ones
>>68762424
>2424
Nice
>>68762711
I said Marge, because Lisa is essentially half the cast at this point.
>>68762653
Has marge become a robot yet?
>>68762391
No it doesn't anon, they could justify another 20 years just because of merchandise.
I have younger brothers and sisters and the Simpsons is basically background noise now.
I remember getting hyped to see them on BBC2 at 6pm every day, when I was younger.
>>68762843
more like syndication
like seinfeld because of global markets and syndication that shit makes billions
>>68762843
why did they never make a second movie or another hit and run game
>>68762711
>perse.
Are you that same nigger from yesterday but now you've looked up how to spell it but not how to use it?
>>68762752
I could see them employing a mixture of recorded sound bits, a good impersonator and some autotune-esque voice modulator to make one's voice sound more like Homer Simpson's and blend it all together.
>>68762462
Dude, what Simpson merchandise? You rarely see merchandise for the show nowadays
>zombie simpsons
I... what? Is this actually a thing?
>>68762890
Because no one cares about making good licensed games anymore when they can make mobile shit that retards pour money into.
>>68762933
>>68762752
There might be a legality problem with actor union guild with this
What with the whole Back to the Future shit with Crispin Glover
>>68762889
The merchandise makes several times as much money as that brought in by the actual show.
Has Moe ever owned a cell phone?
I know they did a story with Bart and a phone but I wonder about Moe.
So what things from the prophetic song?
>Crazy wedding
Abe and Selma were almost a thing once IIRC
>Bart owning a bear
I guess that episode where Homer fights the bear counts
>>68762484
This could totally work. South Park did the same thing with Chef after Issac Hayes left/died
>>68762935
where do you live nigger? there's official simpson toys like never before.
Hell, i've seen toys for "football coach homer" and "duffman" so im sure they have one for every single character in every single costume.
There's also donuts and cookiies with the simpsons faces attached to them. IceCream shaped like bart..
And that's just on top of my head. And i'm not even american!
>>68763092
i have not seen simpsons merchandise, bar shirts, since the movie
>>68763092
>And i'm not even american
>not american
Well yeah I live in the US and don't see a lot of Simpson merchandise. Maybe there's a ton of shit in Europe.
>>68763092
>There's also donuts and cookiies with the simpsons faces attached to them. IceCream shaped like bart..
fuck dude you just trigged a 20 year old memory of bakeries selling simpsons shaped cakes
>>68762391
>even krusty looks concerned about how long the show's been going for
>>68762484
That's going to be the next gimmick episode after the live one.
>Seasons have gotten so bad
>People have resorted to Simpsons Shitposting
>>68762795
homer did in one of the recent future timeline episodes
>>68762531
More like dying with dementia slowly growing on with a big force though. The person you once loved turned into something you can't relate to anymore and soon you'll get past the point when not even the nostalgia hits you when you look at her and you'll just see a weird person sitting on a porch in a rocking chair.
She no longer exists, you can do nothing but to browse through albums.
>>68763017
They have shown moe with a mobile phone just like they have everyone else in the show because mobile phones are universally owned at this point in time
Just like the simpsons have a widescreen TV and they all have computers in their room and own ipads and shit like that because it's all commonplace these days
>>68763189
>>68763199
maybe america is done with the simpsons but the rest of the world isn't.
There's also a big brand of teen girl clothing that has hoodies with "bart heads" like in tiles all over them.
They're literally selling the simpsons to every brand that is willing to throw some money at them.
I've also seen 90s simpsons looking shirts. Like with the old drawing style and bart saying "eat my shorts, man!" or something
During the 90s I was a huge Simpsons fan, as I'm sure a lot anons here were, I would never miss an new episode. Every Sunday night I made sure my ass was sitting in front of the TV at 8pm. Nowadays I can't imagine anyone having that same level of excitement for new Simpsons episodes. Who are these people who keep watching every Sunday night? Who are these people who keep the ratings high enough that the series keeps getting renewed? Has anyone been to a Simpsons message board? What are the fans like? What happens when you tell fans the show should have ended a decade ago?
>>68763324
>the live one.
The what now
>>68763452
New homework find simpsons message board, and ask
>>68763452
they are called children and people keep making new ones with shit taste every year.
>>68763425
remember when in season 1 bart took a walkman to church and marge was like "you have one of those portable stereos, you were gonna listen to rock music in church??"
now they have cellphones and ipads in every single scene of every episode
>>68763455
http://www.thewrap.com/the-simpsons-to-air-live-episode-al-jean-tells-us-how-theyll-pull-it-off/
>>68763431
>maybe america is done with the simpsons but the rest of the world isn't.
So its the rest of the world that's keep this show alive. Goddamit Yuropoors let this shit die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYKbKgTEDVM&ab_channel=SatCp3
Reminder that this was a thing.
>>68763528
Just when I thought the show couldn't pull any more gimmicks out of its hat in an effort to stay relevant.
>>68763601
kill me
>>68763528
WHAT ARE WE GONNA ASK HOMER?
we gotta raid that shit with fun questions, because we know everyone else will ask bullshit.
my suggestions
>did you fuck mandy?
>Have you ever put your dick on a donut hole? do you think you would fit?
>Would you like to be put out of your misery already?
>didn't you have a job in the nuclear plant? didn't bart used to skateboard?
>how big is ned's cock? in that one scene YOU (homer) recorded, it seemed to be like 18 inches
>>68763561
Pretty sure that South America is just as invested as Europe is. Maybe even more.
>>68762391
They're on until at least season 30. I doubt very much they'll stop there, but I can't see them hitting 40.
>>68763601
How you want your show?
>>68763490
It can't be children. I've never heard kids talk about or reference The Simpsons. I've heard plenty of kids reference South Park and Family Guy, but never The Simpsons. The people who still watch the show have got to be over 30 years old
>Simpsons finally ends
>one year later it's remade/rebooted/re-imagined
>>68763719
Kek
>>68763452
>Has anyone been to a Simpsons message board?
I have. Most people there shit on the show just like people shit on it here. But there you will have the occasional defender who will try to explain to you why the Simpsons aren't any worse than they used to be, or maybe even better than ever.
To answer your question as to who keeps the ratings up though: Children.
>>68763324
Wouldn't that place a terrible strain on the animators wrists?
>>68763528
How the fuck are they going to pull this off? Motion capture to 2D animation? Or is it going to be 3D cel shaded?
>>68763704
so long as the television is turned on it counts. maybe parents just turn it on cause its relatively safe and harmless for kids.
>like our parents in the 90s did
>>68763719
>they give it a watershed slot for more 'adult' situations so it becomes more like family guy
>they age up bart a few years so they can make puberty jokes and have subplots about masturbation
>lisa comes out as a lesbian
>>68763641
>Did Homer fuck Mindy
Would actually love to see how they respond to thus under pressure but yes, as soon as this goes live on the air I can see it definitely getting raided. It will be glorious. We need to formulate a plan or something.
>>68763784
dude you can do that shit with webcam software where you talk thru a cat photo or something.
Of course they can make homer talk and move his arm a little in real time
>>68763528
I love the simpsons...but this...is....I don't know anymore.
>>68763641
>>didn't you have a job in the nuclear plant? didn't bart used to skateboard?
Wait Homer doesn't work at the Nuclear Plant anymore? Bart skateboarded in the movie does he no longer skateboard in the TV series?
So what is their greatest episode?
>we are closer to Season 40 than the Mindy episode
>>68763877
You Only Move Twice
>>68763816
Aging up the characters permanently seems like it would be a last-ditch effort to up the ratings and squeeze the last bit of money out of this franchise.
Once they do that, you can be certain that the show will be off the air within 2 or 3 years.
>>68763833
you remember that skit with the comic book guy and the voice artist questions right?
this is what youve become.
>>68763816
lisa already became a lesbian "in the future"
>>68763863
as far as i've seen homer is never in the nuclear plant anymore.. and you never see bart skateboard, play videogames, or do little punk stuff anymore. He's a pussy with girlfriend plots mostly.
>>68763927
The difference is that Castellaneta is actually heavily involved in the writing of the show at this point.
He's not just some guy who just does some voice.
>The number of bad Simpson's seasons outnumber the amount of good seasons
Stop, stop, they're already dead!
>>68763719
You just know they'll do a spin-off with Bart raising his own family. Bart will be bumbling father just like Homer and have a wife similar to Marge. Lisa and Millhouse will be a couple that's financially better off than Bart's family but also be a little less dysfunctional.
Is it bad cause we're getting older and the shtick doesn't hit us anymore? I swear my younger brother/sister love the new seasons
>>68764052
Possibly. My younger brother used to love it a few years ago, but now he doesn't care anymore either. Coincidentally around the same age I stopped caring back then.
nothing can stop them now
because they don't care
anymore
>>68764052
Kids will watch any fucking shit you sit them in front of.
>>68764139
That's not true. I tried to show barry lyndon to an eleven year old and that didn't work at all.
>>68764139
No I tried to get them to watch animaniacs but didn't stick
>>68764052
It's like what happened to Family Guy and to a lesser extent Futurama. They had to come up with new situations to get the characters in and they became increasingly shittier. Not to mention the characters themselves are husks of the characters they used to be.
Also dunno if it's just me but only Hank Azaria's performance seems to have not fallen off. Homer and Marge to me sound really lazily done nowadays.
I heard that they're seriously considering bringing Poochie back as a regular.
>>68764052
When was the last time you've seen something similar to this one in zombie simpsons? This is what I loved seeing when I was growing up next to Simpsons and still love these moments to this day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQVWpyhiAz4
I don't know how to call these though...I guess the whole warm family comfy feeling is just gone. Simpsons are nothing but an empty shells now.
In my dimension, The Simpsons ended after season 3. Since then, we only have 2 to 4 special episodes a year (Halloween, Christmas, sometimes Valentine's Day, etc.)
>First post wasn't "STORIES FOR YEARS"
One job, /tv/
>>68764052
i would think the simpsons would piss kids off since they're always a year behind on what's popular
>>68764453
I hate how all we ever get are cross-dimensional shitposts. Never any cross-dimensional porn.
>>68762438
>>68762450
It's been established that it will take 2 of the core to leave or die, but really what people mean when they say this is it has to be Azara + either Castallaneta or Shearer. Smith and Kavner will be replaced.
>>68764487
>complaining that we're not using reddit phrasespamming
fuck off
>>68764428
They threw the characters, and Homer in particular, in a lot of strange situations starting where you would get jokes like this.
The problem simply is that it has been done to death. They just can't be funny anymore: Either they try to come up with new even zanier stuff that's not funny, or they recycle old jokes that used to be funny but aren't funny anymore when reused.
What do they care though. The show still generates money, all the VAs who are still on board are phoning it in and collect their paycheck.
>>68764548
Grow up, kid. I bet this is your first year on 4chan.
>>68762391
They're just concerned with creating an unbeatable record.
>>68764615
True 4chan humor relies on transformative appropriation of a core idea - see baneposting, where the script of a scene from TDKR gets appropriated to make it apply to a completely different context
Reddit memes lack any creativity and instead rely purely on repeating the same phrases over and over, or trying to create one known and repeated phrase over a series of comments (eg 'woah hey guys'). These memes are not funny, almost always die out very quickly due to lack of creativity, and should stay on reddit
>>68764708
What record though? The longest turd?
>>68764759
Holy hell, look at all that nonsense.
at this point you should want simpsons to stay alive forever
>>68763719
>1 second after ends
>300 online petitions to bring it back
>threaten to end every year so people stop bitching.
>>68764759
fuck off
>>68764759
>transformation of a core idea
>baneposting
For you xD
>>68764831
That's reddit's corruption of baneposting as it falls under the 'mindless repetition' category
True baneposting is when quotes of the scene (or even the entire scene) are rewritten to make the narrative fit a different scenario
>>68764892
Big guy xD
>>68762505
;_;
>>68765018
yeah dude, respect baneposting! it transcended reality and made a plane crash in real life haha
>>68762531
Except your Grandma is probably a nice person who you don't wish to die, while simpsons is that useless nigger everyone wishes would finally die off.
>>68763877
Homer Bad Man
>>68762391
If they do have a final season, they should do a continuous storyline and have major shit happen to every character.
>>68764708
At this point, The Simpsons has that record sealed for a good fifteen years. They could stop now, and maybe only Modern Family might reach it in that time.
>>68765105
ghaha epic
>>68762391
Even when it does end it will probably just be rebooted with a new cast anyway, maybe as a series of 3D animated movies. No series is allowed to die anymore, particularly not one as big as the Simpsons.
>>68765144
this so much, but I somehow doubt that it will happen
>>68765144
If they are fully aware that they are making the final season as they are producing it, it could probably turn out to be one of the best seasons because everyone will put 110% into it to make it as good as possible.
However, I'm with >>68765217 because I think the Simpsons will end abruptly due to somebody dying or FOX simply pulling the plug.
>>68765144
Like the last season of Forever Knight?
;_;
>>68762391
I think they're going for the record which is currently held by Gunsmoke with 635 episodes.
The Simpsons is on 593. They just need to beat that and they might stop. It's two more years, maybe three.
But once they beat that I think they'll have a reason to stop. You don't quit when you've made it this far, just finish it, break the record and gloat forever.
>>68762520
>>68765672
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon_%281979_anime%29
fuck your shit
>>68762897
No.
>>68763381
It's weird that they have one consistent future timeline they keep going to now. I know Holidays of Future Passed was good, but it wasn't that good.
>>68766029
Not even close, but still pretty impressive with 946 episodes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense_(radio_drama)
>>68766069
Holidays of future passed was decent and had a self contained story. Then they tried to continue that future timeline and completely fucked it up, going full futurama: yellow edition on it and having homer die in the 'present' when bart and lisa were 10 and 8 still. I was surprised that it was written by the same guy because the tone is completely different and way shittier
>>68766220
+260 tv episodes
>>68762391
At some point of the simpsons will become so lucrative that ending the show would be equivalent to crashing an economy.
>>68766029
I was more focused on American TV.
>It's a Carl rediscovers his Icelandic heritage episode
>>68766220
>Radio Drama
>>68766319
So... the Simpsons will become the (in-universe) Dethklok media empire?
>>68764183
>Animaniacs doesn't "reach" new kids
>Minions and new Simpsons does
I wanna wake up
>2k16
>not drinking Flaming Moe's energy drinkkill me
>>68766561
can you set it on fire?
>ywn see a Simpsons episode written by this group of people ever again
How does that make you feel /tv/?
>be me
>be Bart's age when Simpsons premiers
>meet Matt Groening at radio show
>he signs a black and white print of Bart for me
>wear a black t-shirt with Bart riding a skateboard saying "Eat my shorts!"
>people point at my shirt and ask me if I'm a bad kid
>I basically am. I don't hurt anyone but I don't do my homework and I break a bunch of other rules.
>wonder what my future will be like
>what would Bart's future be like
>three decades later, start watching the Simpsons again
>see Bart watching cartoons in a cheap run down area getting fat
>feel like it's awfully familiar
>mfw
>>68766658
>Conan looks so happy and full of hope
It hurts
>>68766658
While their episodes were really good, they are the reason The Simpsons became what it is now. They turned a comedy series about a family into a parody of movies/tvshows series.
>>68763601
J U S T
>>68763877
The first episode in the Tracy Ulman show
>>68766561
what kind of cough syrup they use?
>>68766868
If they didn't you know damn well The Simpsons wouldn't have lasted more than 5 or 6 seasons
They would have been just like The Critic a 90s experimental cartoon that everyone forgot about
>>68763767
Underrated as fuck
>>68766251
>>68766069
>Liking Holidays of future passed
Get the fuck out of here. That episode was fucking garbage.
Simpsons never ends.
>>68766029
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san
>>68763877
>You only move twice
>Duffless
>Homer's Enemy
>The Mysterious Voyage of Homer
>>68764052
If that were the case it would be impossible for us to go back and enjoy the episodes we used to laugh at. And yet, we crave for them.
>>68763877
Lisa Goes Gaga
>>68765157
>Modern Family
Not after Ariel Winter botched her tits.
>>68767868
Fuck off
>>68767750
that things cover looked so weird i wasnt sure if i should count it as an animation without watching.
>>68767406
Shit taste
>>68768196
>liking zombie simpsons
>anything
>liking poorly written future episode
Fuck off and die, faggot.
>>68762438
They could always get Ted Cruz to take over.
>>68762957
>mobile
>games
nice one
