Mr. Enter has a point about Lisa being a miserable person. I watched this one episode from one of the newer seasons, where Bart has a job at a golf club and the only expression Lisa had during the entire episode, was that of a bored, cynical, unimpressed person. She really gave off the feeling that she didn't like the fact that Bart was happy with his new job.
Precisely, I hate that they write Lisa as being miserable, and not seeming to care about others, such as in one of the future episodes, where she basically tells Bart to suck up being in her shadow.
Bart can never succeed at anything because Lisa cannot accept her "loser brother" can surpass her in any way. Take the Drumming episode where Lisa becomes miserable because Bart becomes a talented drummer and a Jazz band takes interest in him. This destroys Lisa because Bart is "stealing" Jazz from her. The episode ends with Lisa indirectly crippling Bart so he can never play the drums again - Marge then guilt trips Bart into giving up the money he raises so he can get the surgery to play the drums again, to house the animals Lisa stole (which crippled him in the first place.). This is treated as a happy ending. God forbid Lisa be sad if Bart gets to actually succeed at something.
@@Zacman1123 It's not hard to see, she's very hard to like since she has a massive ego and cannot tolerate anyone challenging her. Multiple episodes show her coming up against competition and she tries to sabotage them at the slightest sign of struggle. Lisa doesn't just want to be good, she wants to be the best, her massive ego will not allow anything less.
Wasn't there an episode where it turned out Homer was dumb because of a crayon he stuck up his nose at some point and poked his brain? Removing it made him an intellectual and the episode concluded with him putting it back in to resume the idiot father role? And I never got the impression Bart was stupid, just not academically inclined. He consistently demonstrates cleverness in his daily life and problem solving skills.
With the crayon removed, Homer's IQ jumped up to 105. Barely above average, but everyone else in Springfield had been flanderized over the years to all being idiots too.
Yep! The "Homer is really a genius with brain damage" episode actually came out AFTER Lisa The Simpson and a Simpsons comic book story with the exact same plot came out before it.
I have a small gripe. Bart WAS shown to have been good at school. He wanted to go to school. We see it in Lisa's Sax. It's just his awful kindergarten teacher verbally crushed his enthusiam out of him. Ironically, that still makes this episode look bad, just for a different reason!
Even as a child, I really loathed the moral behind the episode. Sure, the "Dumb" gene only effects the Simpson Men, not the women, so Lisa has nothing to fret about. But they contradict previous episodes, where Herb Powell is a successful inventor, despite being a Simpson, and Abe is competent on the battlefield. Both Bart and Homer are smart in their own ways too.
Besides, Bart has outsmarted Sideshow Bob on multiple occasions before this episode. And in Bart Gets an F it's clearly shown that he is smart, but has a short attention span.
@@HunterX05 That one is after the golden age but yes, I'll pretend this is the true answer to Homer's stupidity because HOMR is actually a good episode.
Lets also not forget homer is a super genius like ok lisa but wanted to willing because a ret***d so he could enjoy his life again the stupidest person was the smartest made dumb by a accident choose to be dumb over smart because he was happy and stupid then smart and miserable pretty much the antithesis to this entire thing ironically
One of my greatest frustrations with simpsons (especially "future" simpsons) episodes, are the future episodes that imply that Bart is a 100% failure, while Lisa is a 100% success. I don't buy that for a second. First of all, these episodes never seem to really "advance" the characters, just to be clear. So they are the same characters at 8/10 as they are at 24/26. ANyway Lisa... in no way, if she remains as she is now personality wise, would be a success. She is smart, sure. Good at absorbing information. But shedoes it all as a reward. She does it to be aknowledged, she does it to be better. The second she would exit college (no doubt straight A-s top of her class) she is fucked: She would enter a workfield that wouldn't give a fuck about her acomplishments and she would not be able to impact her working space for months, if not years. She would break appart out of frustration, and quit so many positions because "she didn't have enough impact" and so on. She also completely lack social understanding, is slow to adapt and can't take criticism very well. bart on the other hand has shown, voer and over again to be EXTREMELY adaptive. Able to grasp a job and excell at it extremely quickly. He is multi lingual and can pick up speech incredibly quickly. And he is extremely manipulative and a people person. Honestly, if anything, Bart is the more likely one to become president, not Lisa.
I would love to see an future episode where Bart is the president. Also I think that why I like Lisa wedding the most. It explain why Bart doing those jobs. He wants to make sure nothing can ruin his time in law school, that including himself. He recognize he is his worst enemy when it comes to school.
Lisa simpson is the type of character who will thrive in childhood, but in adulthood will struggle because she was never properly challenged. Every challenge she encounters is someone either A. Doing something before she did. (Marge publishing a book) B. Being happy doing something she thinks she should be doing (Bart as a drummer in a jazz band) C. Seeing her "lessers" doing something and being happy (Bart getting a job at a golf course.) We even see her challenge Maggie when everyone thought she was smart enough to get into that coveted daycare. It was shown that Lisa was helping Maggie, but at the end when Maggie shows musical talent all Lisa can say is, "Not for babies." in an attempt to stifle her talent which fails because we see Maggie become a rockstar in multiple episodes. Lisa will not succeed in life. She was thrive in Elementary, Middle, and High school because she is the smartest person in a town full of idiots. In college she will crash hard and will never understand why. She will constantly try to belittle those around her. Bart will succeed because he works through everything. The only roadblock in his life is ultimately Lisa. We've seen Bart become a construction worker, police officer, and finally a member of the supreme court. Lisa has no social experience and the idea of her making it in life without any social experience or any kind of aggressive attitude except that in which she wants to sabotage others by using people to do her dirty work makes any future episode about her being a successful woman in any political or social field fucking laughable. Lisa will end up as one of those waitresses at Starbucks with nothing more than a degree in Art, Jazz, and Poetry while everyone else tries their best to move on with their life. It's not that she isn't appreciated for her gifts, but appreciation only goes so far. Lisa has become more of a villain than Mr. Burns constantly trying to drag those around her down or trying sabotage those who are better than her. For example in Lisa's Rival someone is far better than her and she tries to sabotage her school project. The difference between then Lisa and now Lisa is that then Lisa learned her lesson and was able to overcome the fact that she was not better than Alison, but the two remained friends. Or maybe not, because Alison doesn't appear in any future episodes. So I guess Lisa killed her or something. Sorry for the rant, but I went from liking Lisa as a character to outright seeing her as one of the worst villains of the show. So, mission accomplished I guess.
I think there is an episode too when she goes up a grade but end up going back because she likes being the smartest of her year. Bart just lives his life, Lisa complains about her life and Maggie becomes the star though I think Maggie’s is more a joke because we never hear her and she becomes famous for her voice
"Lisa, ordinarily I'd say you should stand up for what you believe in....but you've been doing that an awful lot lately"-Marge, every single Simpsons fan
The worst part about this episode is that it places so much importance on intelligence and acts as though anyone less intelligent than Lisa is also less important and less worthwhile as a person. It's kind of insulting. Basically, the message comes across as "if you aren't a genius, you're worthless".
Personal hypothesis: There is no gene; the men are just accident-prone (which might be the ACTUAL gene, if it exists), or they get bonked on the head too often. Homer has the added flaws of the crayon in his nose, excessive drinking and smoking, and working in a rundown power plant.
Homer was born a genius but suffered brain damage, his half brother is also a genius, Bart has ADHD but can at times, be just as smart as Lisa and his future sons are also straight A students just like Lisa. Really, I think there's no gene that makes the men in the Simpsons family stupid. If anything, they just seem to all be really unlucky.
One of the things that bothers me about this particular episode is something that the writers don't even know they are exploring: Lisa has trouble with a brain teaser. A group of her male schoolmates find the solution no problem while she can't see the big picture. Not a single other character in the scene that figures it out is female. Studies have shown that male and female brains tend to think differently, and take different approaches when it comes to memory and problem solving. I don't blame Lisa for lacking the self-awareness to even consider that to begin with. I don't even blame the writers of this particular episode. I blame decades of lazy Hollywood writing that seems to believe in only a singular, correct omni-intelligence in which a character knows everything about everything and lacks for any kind of deficiencies except for like... sports and being cool. It's why I hate the classic blockbuster omni-scientist that is just as talented in mechanical engineering as they are programming, chemistry, physics, medicine, and genetics.
This is giving me flashbacks to the "Only the males of the Simpson line are destined to be dumb" garbage they use to make Lisa not feel she's destined to be dumb like Homer and Bart....despite the fact she's made her own dumb decisions despite her "genius" Frankly I feel they should stop with that gender crap. They weren't good at it even before it became such a huge focus as it is now and they still aren't good at it!
To be fair, Bart did cheat at that puzzle by just re-using the notepad that Milhouse already showed Martin. If anything, the scene could imply that only the Simpsons were unable to figure out the puzzle.
@@paulman34340 Personally, I find Lisa to be at her best when she's just joining Bart and Homer on their silly antics and having fun....... which makes it all the more disheartening when episodes like this and other "Lisa pity party" episodes have Lisa TRYING to have fun with them, only to realize that she's above such foolishness.
Seeing the show shuffle around as a zombie of itself is pretty darn sad. As for the episode, it really is a dead end. So many characters made and gone in an instant. Probably wouldn't have happened if Lisa had managed to solve the kid's puzzle since the consequences seem muted.
A better ending to this episode would be Lisa learning that there are different types of intelligence. The Simpson gene only effects her type of intelligence specifically. It doesn't make her stupid it makes her smart in a different way
Or maybe if they wanted to make about gender she can come back to school and notice only the boys solve it, than she learn boys and girls don't solve the problem the same way
Or that it was just a myth passed down from generation to generation, likely called something different before the discovery of genetics. Homer was affected because Abe was mentally/emotionally abusive at times, which crushed Homer's desire to try. Bart was raised by Homer, who already wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box. Lisa was simply having an off day until Abe told her about the "gene". Lisa started displaying symptoms of the gene until the women in the family told her it only "affected" men. Bart likely started getting even stupider after this episode thanks to the "nocebo effect". Basically, that means Bart got worse because he thought he was getting worse.
"It was like watching a Klingon and a Vogon collaboration to create human entertainment." Honestly that sounds kind of cool...and probably better than modern Simpsons...
Wait...did they also have Lisa be born in 1992 in "Lisa's First Word"? And Enter's right; sucess, and fame are worldly things in both Christianity (what the Simpson family believes) and Bhuddism (what Lisa believes). Remember, Siddartha Gautuma was born a prince and basically a child prodigy but was still unhappy to the point he left his wife and their newborn son to seek enlightment in the outside world.
Another big thing that I hate about this episode is that we now see that Lisa's intelligence isn't due to the fact that she tries hard or works hard, it's because she was naturally born with it because she's a woman.
Because Hollyweird is obsessed abiout Mary Sues in stories. Especially these days. Magically better than anyone else for no reason, no real struggles or problems to overcome.
I watched the 1980s shorts and they wrote her like she was an actual 8 year old it was great she had a personality outside of being a cynic she was still the smart one but she also liked to play and have fun like a child would. I wish Lisa stayed like that.
The thing about smart people that the writers on the simpsons don't seem to undetermined is: Actual smart people display their intelligence through means other than just saying it or being an over opinionated miseryguts like lisa is. Actual smart people are usually able too know when to just shut up and listen so they can observe and learn, they also tend to be humble enough too understand that not everyone thinks the way they do.
Lisa's intelligence has become secondary to her clawing Ego. Every single time her ego is challenged she collapses in on herself. Even the hated "Lisa Goes Gaga" episode is kicked off by Lisa creating a sock puppet online account "Truth Teller" to give herself biased praise because she is unpopular at schoo.
You didn't even mention the continuity-breaking episode where it was shown that Homer's not even dumb, he's only like that because he shoved a bunch of crayons up his nose and one got stuck in his brain. When they took it out, he was actually quite smart. That not only contradicts the "Simpson gene", but it also counters Bart being "doomed" to being dumb, which means he _could_ be as smart as Lisa and Homer if he tried, especially since simply removing the crayon made Homer instantly smart (which was a reference to _Flowers for Algernon_ but is still canon nonetheless).
Abe Simpson's senility fluctuates anyways. The perfect example is from "Who shot Mr Burns" when he gets his gun back, and pretends to be senile to avoid being found out. I swear, that old man is smarter than he lets on. 😂
You made a REALLY good point about Homer's half- brother Herb being contradictory to the "Male Simpson gene" BS. And, don't forget, Herb eventually was able to become rich and successful again, with the only real help he needed being a loan to get things off the ground. Bottom line, Herb is an intelligent, inventive, ambitious, and charismatic man, all things that the "Male Simpson gene" should have rendered impossible.
After watching some Older Simpsons Episodes I noticed a few things with two of the 3 Simpsons kids. Bart usually got into things that were Cool like Comics, Video Games and Skate Boarding. Lisa while she had her Hobbies/Talents mostly got caught up in New Age Progressive stuff like Veganism, Feminism and Protesting. Well, it wasn't long before I found Lisa Annoying
@@Black_Revue Yeah, because Lisa gets into things that are niche and she feels elevate her over her peers. She's the quintessenial "Poser Millenial" archetype.
@@PlanetZoidstar she predates millennials having opinions. She supposed to represent liberals that are all talk and no change, which every generation has to a degree
@@msjkramey Thing is I'm not sure the writers realise that Lisa's flaws as you state them, are flaws. She's often the victim of society and bad people who don't want her to succeed. The writers of The Simpsons are very Liberal so they wouldn't want Lisa, their political mouthpiece, to be seen as flawed.
Therapy my friend. I used to have panic attacks so bad that I felt like I was dying, but mix of emergency medicine and coping skills fixed me right up (it was work of course, too). I'm sure a good therapist could help you learn how to detach in a healthy way
Christianity and Buddhism aren't as dissimilar as people think. Catholicism even less so. Both fundamentally conclude that suffering is a universal phenomenon caused by desire, and that meditation can offset this desire, and thus suffering, to a degree. Catholics and Buddhists even share a propensity for incense and prayer beads. They're like the brothers from different mothers of world religions.
@@draketheduelist There are, of course, some very important differences. Catholicism doesn't condemn desire as such, but disordered desires. Sadly, because of The Fall, a great majority of our desires are disordered.
Haemophilia and baldness are not on the Y chromosome but the X chromosome, both of those conditions are X-linked recessive. The reason men are affected more is because they have only one X chromosome, while women have two, and only one unaffected copy is needed to avoid a recessive condition (i.e. women have a backup in case they get one affected X, men don't). A Y-linked condition would affect everyone who comes from an unbroken line of men beginning with the first person to have it (i.e. if Abe had a Y-linked condition, Homer is guaranteed to get it, and so would Bart, and any of Bart's sons, and so on, if Herb is Abe's son, he would also be guaranteed to get it, and Abbie would be guaranteed to *not* get it. But she clearly has the Simpson gene. Therefore it isn't Y-linked). Also it could be autosomal (on a numbered chromosome rather than X or Y), most likely dominant from what I've seen (Abe has it, he transmitted it to Homer and Abbie, Marge doesn't have it, Bart got Homer's affected copy, Lisa and Maggie got Homer's unaffected copy, and Marge had nothing but unaffected copies to give)
Women are mainly not affected by baldness because it also a hormonal issue, dihydrotestosterone is the main culprit. Thats why Women with PCOS and Trans Men can get it too. Which is also why many men are not affected despite their genes because they have overall low testosterone.
What worries the most about this episode is that it tries to make Bart as dumb as his male brethren, when it's clearly shown that he's intelligent in his own way (for example, with pranks) and he is just uninterested in school. Also, I think the most intelligent characters of the show get criticized and even mistreated on it, not just Lisa. Remember that episode in which she joins a group with the most intelligent persons from Springfield (Skinner, the comics guy, Frink, and Lindsay Naegle), the episode revolves around "oh, they are intelligent, let's make them kind of mistreated by other characters"
What incentive does he have to do well in school? The principal has it in for him and the teachers are actively rooting for him to fail along with most of their other students, and they are only in it for a paycheck. Meanwhile, it was “bad Lisa“ from the season 3 episode “Separate Vocations” who exposed how lost the teachers are without their textbooks. That was the first sign she could be sneaky and conniving, but at least then it was because her aptitude test said she should be a homemaker and because a music teacher says her fingers are too stubby to be a musician. At least then, there was dramatic motivation for her behavior. At least then, she exposed a serious flaw in the educational system in which she used to succeed. Even then, there was a morose and cynical joylessness to her thumbing her nose at the authority. When Bart does it, he revels in it. He raises it to an art form. Even Lisa herself acknowledges how he used to be the rebellious one when he catches her with all the teachers’ editions in her locker.
I JUST want Julie Kavner (Marge's VA) to be able to retire already. That poor woman's voice is absolutely SHREDDED and you can hear how much it hurts her to do Marge's voice. Hell even Nancy Cartwright is starting to sound like she's straining to do Bart and Nelson nowadays.
Nancy is able to get other voice roles. Heck she took over as Chuckie in Rugrats once the original voice actress sadly passed away, Dan Castellaneta took on the role of Genie in Return Of Jafar once Robin William's feud with Disney over promoting his role in Aladdin caused them to have a small fallout along with Roles in the Earthworm Jim cartoon and Back To The Future cartoon, Hank Azaria can do liveaction movies and Harry Shearer could return to Spinal Tap. It isnt if a lot of the voice cast need rely on Springfield for a paycheck
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Minor correction: Christine Cavanaugh (Chuckie's original VA) quit voice acting over a decade before her death, and Nancy Cartwright took over back then
@@Soufriere84 Cavanaugh retired in 2001 then Cartwright immediately was touted ad her successor for Chuckie as was Candi Milo for Dexter around the same time
Lisa isn't smarter than everyone in Springfield, she's smarter than everyone in the audience. Lisa is a vegetarian? *So is Matt Groening.* She's clearly his self-insert. He just doesn't seem to realize how unlikable his ideas of the "right way to be" are.
He's also been quoted as saying Lisa is his favourite character and he goes out of his way to make her not look bad. The vegetarian thing is Paul McCartney's fault though. He said he'd ONLY cameo in the Lisa The Vegetarian episode if Lisa NEVER went back to eating meat for the rest of the show's run.
@@PlanetZoidstar ironically, apu in that episode gave a moral about not forcing others into your own beliefs or maybe that was a subtle critic towards mccartney
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Even dumb fights from those episodes like the "cooties" from Teen Titans Go end up having to get translated for release across the world, despite it only being a U.S. thing in origin.
@@Thomasmemoryscentral At least Spongebob did it in a coded way, with sea critters vs. land critters. And both sides come to the conclusion that, "Everyone's best at something, but no-one's best at everything."
I hated Lisa the Simpson because honestly, it was Lisa getting a get-out-of-stupid-free card, which pissed me off because Lisa just gives up. Normally, Lisa would have figured out the defective simpsons gene was actually a placebo effect where they just give up.
There's a popular theory that the "Simpsons Gene" was just a myth created to explain why the Simpson men were so stupid and that the Simpson women weren't "affected" because they took steps to fight it. The men, meanwhile, either accepted their fate (how do you fight genetics) or didn't learn about the "gene" until it was too late and they had already allowed their brains to atrophy.
Lisa: The smartest character on the show but is also the most lonely, aggravated, cynical and depressed characters on the show who can never make a friendship last more than an episode. Ralph: The dumbest character in the show who while is an idiot is still a friendly and sociable kid and seems to be the only character on the show who is truly happy.
Watch out, 'dem Lisa stans be after you! Seriously though, I honestly haven't been keeping up with Simpsons (or Family Guy) anyways. With how long they've been going, I just feel pure apathy for them at this point.
Home Improvement actually defies a lot of the conventions of 90s sitcoms you've listed. Yes, Tim is egotistical, accident-prone, and generally stereotypically overly-masculine, but it makes it clear that not all men are like that with the characters of Tim's co-host Al, who's very respectful of women and constantly frustrated with Tim's antics, and Wilson, who is a wise intellectual who is able to set Tim straight in just about every episode. Also, the show does go out of its way to address Jill's faults, and have her acknowledge when she's wrong. And while Tim IS the stereotypical sitcom dad in a lot of ways, he is shown to be in the right at times and it's established that Jill fell in love with him because he does have a soft spot in him (one episode, she states that the moment she fell in love with him was when he was crying at the end of a chick flick, to which Tim's response is simply that the movie was pretty sad, not trying to cover up his emotions or anything).
Oh thank god I thoguht I was the only one who HATES this episode. Look I GET that it’s supposed to heartwarming Lisa wont be affected the Simpson gene but Barts is basically screwed due to no real fault of his own and what were supposed to be ok with that?! This is one of the times where I hate Lisa, because it all about her suffering, her future and the show has done this time and time again where we the audience are supposed to feel sorry for Lisa because she had to go through something tough or has no friends. The problem is Lisa keeps freaking wining. She’s the smartest kid in school and is almost always right, and her viewpoint is almost always correct. Sorry but after a while I stopped having sympathy for her as she keeps coming out on top! And the sheer stupidity of the idea that the Simpsons gene only affects males, what about homer brother herb who was pretty successful, yeah, his life was ruined but not cause of the Simpsons gene it was cause homers and idiot! What about grandpa, yeah, his life is a mess, but the man fought in the world war, any joke is more about how the family doesn’t want to spend time with him is not cause the gene it’s because he can be exacerbating to be around. Hell like the other comments are saying even Bart has his moments, he outsmart sideshow bob every time bob tries to kill him, and is a bad kid be design and NOT BECAUSE OF A GENE. His future can by bad, but it has to be because of his own choices! HECK he bcame the CHEIF freaking judge on SUPERME COURT ,I know theres a ton of future episodes so most likely theres no real “cannon” one but still 2:51 oh my god someone finnaly says it! wow...were makeing a LOT of the same points..
One theory is that the "Simpsons Gene" was a myth. Homer and Bart were "affected" because they didn't have the best influences. Abe was borderline mentally/emotionally abusive at times while Homer wasn't exactly the sharpest crayon in the box. Bart also had the disadvantage of going to Springfield Elementary. Herb wasn't affected because he grew up in a different family and, thus, had better influences. Lisa also avoided the fate because she took up interests that required a lot of mental activity.
Mr. Enter here being one of the few based people in the animation community. Ok no offense to any other animation reviewer, respect to their views, but Mr. Enter is one of the few to point out the double standard on male characters being stereotyped and written questionably. Yes female character did as well, you can say both, but why do most people only seem to point out the female character issues when it was both?! It is something worth talking about. PS: I still think Simpsons didn’t get bad until sometime after the HD era, not just like season 8 or something. Just saying.
I agree about HD era simpsons. The cracks were forming up until then, but the HD era is when it really started to go downhill hard. Before then you can dig up a gem every now and again
@@inovakovsky Bruh I don't always agree with Mr. Enter on things, I literally disagree with him in my original comment on not just the first few seasons being 'the only good ones'. I can disagree with him on things like that and the pandemic stuff, but also agree on the whole gender issue thing, as pointed out that few like him has addressed it (from what I can see at least) and everyone else only focused on one side and not the other. Simply put, one opinion of his does not cancel out his other opinions.
@@hiddenflare6169 Most of his opinions on issues outside of aside from basic plot and characterization writing are not that great. His take on gender is silly when Lois is disliked by other characters in Malcolm in the Middle and most 90s sitcomes were meant to subvert 35+ years of Father Knows Best family patriarch, which is a characterization that does not even try to be humourous, but at least he is not a The Quartering wannabe.
@@inovakovsky You say that as if Lois was the first 'Woman of the house' type character. Viola Smith from Fresh Prince, Roseanne from.... Well Roseanne, and more, but these are just the sitcoms mothers from 90s or before from the top of my head..... Also Lois does not count for this subversion of 90s sitcom because Malcom actually aired started airing in the 2000s. While I will say Malcom in the Middle is one of the first 'dark sitcoms' in a way, I do think it has not aged in the best in liking characters, as it was more out to show how dark things were and show the lives of 'bad people' in an amusing ways... Sadly some of it's cast isn't likeable as a result, Lois is one because she is just a... Jerk, yet gets her way most of the time (especially in the end). We have gotten off topic. I think worrying about why Mr. Enter doesn't like Lois is not a big deal.
Lisa: "As intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down. In fact, I made a graph about it. I make a lot of graphs." That's from "HOMR" in Season 12. Also, I don't think Bart is really stupid. He's book dumb, but in early seasons, even around this time, he was actually proved to be pretty smart. He didn't do well in school, but he was bright and could pick up on subtle points.
I feel that Bart is genuinely cunning and specially as he had foiled dangerous plans from SIdeshow bob and took the initiative. IT is just that between the issues in school and not a lot of people expecting more from him, he just doesn't bother to do better in school
@@sagesixparties7217 Exactly. He really knew enough details abuot Krusty the clown to suspect the foul play and it paid off by him solving the mystery.
@@lsebastian9086 Although I would point out that Lisa was the one who pointed out that Krusty wouldn't have been using a microwave with his pacemaker and he couldn't have been reading a magazine if he can't read. Bart only figured out it was Sideshow Bob because of his feet. Krusty's feet were tiny, but the robber complained when Homer stepped on his toes in huge shoes. And Bart figuring it out was actually Bob describing himself as having "big shoes to fill".
Well, to be fair, in Malcolm in the Middle, it's shown that people in the town despise Lois and actually like Hal. This is revealed in one episode where Lois has mono but they think Hal's on the verge of divorce with her, and the neighborhood takes him in with open arms.
As they should. What little bit I know about Lois given that I haven't watched the series aside from a few clips absolutely infuriates me. What the hell were they even thinking in the series finale? I fear for the generation raised by people who think she was in the right.
5:46 One of the best pieces of animation associated with the Simpsons in the last decade was a couch gag drawn by Don Hertzfeldt that leans on the existential horror that The Simpsons must exist in as a result of them staying in the same place while Time moves forward. This is a complaint from the same place. 6:24 The flashback episode where Lisa gets her first Saxaphone hints at something similar, though it's not linked to some kind of stupidity gene by any implication. The episode premise isn't stupid - as one of the many burnouts that grew up being told I was 'smart'' the idea of losing the one thing that seemed to make me valuable would have seriously fucked with me as a kid. It's the explanation behind it and the cop-out at the end that really fuck the whole thing up. 8:36 Married with Children? I don't remember anyone in that show being singled out as dumb, but it's been a very long time.
married with children everyone sucks and the father is the straight man cause while he isn't the best guy he's the best in the house given he's a shoe salesman whilst his wife has a crippling fear of employment and he gets alot of good lines
I just fear that Fox or Disney are gonna keep taking advantage of Julie Kavner voicing Marge until she dies seeing as though they just don’t care about healths of people like her or even how Russi Taylor and Marcia Wallace died while the show was growing sour because of the network’s scumming-ness. It too saddens me to hear about Kavner’s damaged vocal cords as how she is still working while making me feel like she should quit and move on. Poor Julie. :’( P.S. say what you will with your opinion on this episode, I mostly enjoyed it just for the pot and pan headbutt scenes.
They could end the show once and for all before she bare minimum gets too sick. Marge isnt someone you can just replace that easily. You can write off the minor ones such as Bleeding Gums Murphy and the supporting ones such as Edna if you have to because the roles xant be recasted but the main family losing that important member is game over. You cannot return from that loss.
I don’t think I’ve watched a single episode of The Simpsons all the way through and I have no idea Lisa was a Buddhist. From my second hand on Homer is my favorite character.
Lisa became a Buddhist due to the Springfield Church being plastered with product placement due to an accident and using funding from some corporations from my fuzzy memory assisted in the fixing.
I'm convinced none of the writers are Buddhist. If any of them were, they would have written her conversion to that faith better. As is Lisa is a in-name-only Buddhist.
What’s really sad was that this episode could have been one of the best episodes in all of animation. This episode could have been something very insightful, deep and profound. But it fell hard because of the joke twist.
Your speech at the end about smart people wasting their potential really hit home. Sometimes I think back over the mistakes I made and how much more I could have done and feel I’m drowning in lack of potential, even though I don’t waste time. Thanks for saying it, I’m glad someone said what I’ve been thinking for a long, long time.
I think, to be fair, for this show to keep going as long as it has, it had to make a choice: either age the characters up to create new story arcs (growing up with its audience) or play fast and loose with the continuity to explain why these people have stayed the same age since the late 80s/early 90s. It chose the latter, probably because during the first ten seasons, they didn't expect it to be going on to Season 34. The big downside, of course, means things mostly remain static. It's harder to have a more emotional investment in this family and the town when anything about their backstories can be changed, they seem to have dozens of different futures and the status quo is God. On the flip side of the coint, Bob's Burgers mostly sticks to the status quo, but I think they pull it off better by not dating themselves too much like the Simpsons does.
They also didn't want to be bound to a strict continuity in the event an idea turned out to be bad. They also wanted a show where a viewer could start at any episode, or even just skip entire seasons, and not be completely lost.
There was an episode recently where Marge was in high school in the 90s. I'm like "weird, I thought Marge was married with 3 children back in the 90s."
Actually, the thing about male-pattern baldness is that it exists on the X chromosome. The reason that it presents in men is because the Y chromosome doesn't work to cancel it out so men express the one version of that gene we get. Women can also express it as well, but they need to have two copies of the gene.
Giving Home Improvement credit we at least had smart characters like Al (as eccentric as he was) and Wilson, along with Tim's boss that we'd see in the fifth season. Which is also the only one I have on DVD because I can't find others. I dunno why. Maybe I'm tryin to remind myself of a show I'd rather watch than modern Simpsons
It also helps that tim might've been a bit soft in the head but he cared so much about his family that he was willing too forego things he wanted for their happiness.
@@Hammerhead547 Exactly. Also the guy was competent enough to work on cars and stuff, it's not that some of the weird things he put together like a security system for his house DIDN'T work, just kinda backfiring/worked a bit too well. He's a lot more competent than given credit for, just kinda situational
@@ratchetmechani2002 Home Improvement really was the last sit-com that did the whole "bumbling father who genuinely cares about his family" trope right. He might be vulgar uncouth unworldly and have simple unsophisticated tastes but the things he's best at are the things that actually matter the most, like taking care of their kids and being a good husband and he always gave it 110%. Pretty much every sitcom with a character like tim that's come out in the last 20 years has either had the father be an abrasive asshole who constantly needs to be "put in his place" by his shrew of a wife (Ray Romano in EBLR) or they're so clueless that you wonder if they're actually mentally retarded.
Funny thing is that Lisa's preachiness was already being called out at least as early as Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy, back in season 5. For those who don't recall, that episode had a scene where Marge just straight-up says "you've been doing that a lot lately" in response to Lisa getting overly confrontational over how the Malibu Stacy doll (a parody of Barbie) reinforces negative stereotypes. It's like, back when the show was still good, even the writers were self-aware enough to know that Lisa's focus episodes were getting to be a bit too formulaic, and were willing to at least TRY to portray her as being in the wrong sometimes to help balance things out...... which makes it all the more sad that the "Lisa pity party" genre became a thing.
@@MrJoeyWheeler Oh wow, that's actually a good point. Though, I wouldn't say that the company had a good atmosphere, at least not the production line. But I guess the joke there was how badly the low-skill assemply workers clashed with the company's general image.
She's also a massive hypocrite. When she tried to expose Bart's lie in the episode where he faked a kidnapping but everyone benefitted from it, even Kirk who was set up. She claims, "The truth can't be swept under the rug" This argument is immediately undone when you remember she did the same thing with "Hans Sprungfeld."
Bart was clearly intelligent if he went to Law School. Personally I feel Bart just couldn't be bothered with schoolwork due to his ADHD getting in the way. (Also why am i making a headcanon about a show I haven't watched since the movie)
The "Lisa's First Word" episode established that Bart had his school hopes crushed by a critical and jaded kindergarden teacher. Citing him doing one extra clap during a class song as "not college material" and how his inability to cite his ABCs would doom him to many "F"s in his future.
Hell, one of the things that showed this was the episode where Bart pulled one too many pranks, and as a punishment, his father destroyed his ticket for the Itchy and Scratchy movie (which even Lisa found to be excessive) and went out of his way to ensure Bart never saw it, because Homer wanted to show his son that he needed to be disciplined, and by doing so without violence (something very rare of Homer to do), the punishment worked and the lesson stuck with Bart. By the time he was able to finally see the movie, Bartholomew James Simpson was a Supreme Court Justice.
"When the left tries to parody right-wing people, they create Ron Swanson, the most likeable, relatable, decent person on their show. When the left makes a left-wing character and plays it completely straight, you get Lisa Simpson, a character that everyone, in and out of universe, can’t stand."
I am not familiar with the show Parks and Recreation. I had to look up what show he was on (here on RUclips). However, I do agree that Lisa Simpson is as tolerable as a terrible commercial. For example, the Cars for Kids commercial. Listen to a little bit of that jingle, and it's just as bad as Lisa.
Joe Swanson‘s son Kevin was a military deserter. Any opportunity to make soldiers look bad while behind the scenes kissing up to the oligarchs who actually sent them off to war.
The Simpsons were all about using typical stereotypes and living habits in the United States and then making fun of it during a time when the world looked different (80s-90s) However, when the series began to copy other series ways to create humor (Family guy / South park) in combination with following modern trend / Tech, much of what made Simpsons so special disappeared. Such as turning character in 2 dimensional characters, Having Pointless celebrities, saying noob or just the fact that thet use an touch iphone.
They were also about being the opposite of what the typical sitcom was in the 80s and early 90s. Back then, there was no Family Guy or South Park. Most sitcoms were similar to the Cosby Show with completely functional families with a father that was competent at his job, both parents were great role models, and the show tried to teach the viewer an important lesson, ie "Don't skip class", "listen to your parents", etc.
Simpson characters having to use tablets or iPhones really brought home the fact of them needing to be hip and up to dare so painfully obvious. Spongebob and his friends didnt get that technology in that decade. In fact, they seemed to remain in the 2000a since they sometimes use old flip phones but not tablets or iPhones in Bikini bottom. As bad as the show got post first film, they never had to constantly upgrade to new devices to continue
Renember episodes like Lisa the Beauty Queen, Lisa's Rival or I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can when Lisa could NOT always be the best? An actual good moral that a lot of people can relate with, instead of the "Lisa is special" (not you, LISA) moral. Also I hate when they treat Bart like an idiot and a failure. He can be even better than Lisa when is about something he is really interested.
I mean several episodes show he could be a TV producer, a Cop, a Scoutmaster, a Farmer, a Sailor, a Lawyer, a small business owner, a pro athlete, a pop star, or even just a Fry Boy and he’d excel and be happy with any of them and more.
The most realistic thing for Lisa’s character is her becoming an unhinged Light Yagami knight Templar who kills everyone she thinks is wrong in the latest Halloween special.
My favorite part was the Westworld parody. The characters are all soulless automatons going through the motions of being real. It's a perfect metaphor for the show now. (And notice all the references were to 90s episodes.)
Great video and I agree, Lisa will be always that character who always feels different from everyone so she will never feel "normal" herself, she always comes across as a contrarian for the sake to be contrarian. I miss the Lisa that was the voice of reason, this character gets worse and worse written as the seasons passes, are The Simpsons going to be eternal? They even repeat the same tropes they did in the past with worse execution over and over again. Remember when this character was relatable? That was soo long ago!
The whole "twist" at the end could've been prevented if they just introduced homers mom and also herb, two simpsons mainstay characters (multiple episodes) who are smart and are simpsons, and the whole ending could be lisa realizing that "the simpsons gene" is a hoax and stupid.
I remember loathing this episode when I watched it because something about it just felt off to me. And then you brought up She of Little Faith and I'm just so annoyed now and wishing the movie was the last thing from it.
Love this video! such a good review man, great work!!!!! And love the part at the end about being smart and unhappy, or being dumb and happy. it was brilliant! One thing though. I thought this was just some random meme picture when scrolling by, and almost didn't watch the video until the notification came up 😅.
I know that the Simpsons loves to dump on Bart for being “dumb”, but he used to be extremely intelligent in other ways aside from academics; he could speak French and learn languages quickly. He could be (and still is) manipulative and able to quickly problem-solve. I hope it becomes canon that he ends up going into law, he’d make an amazing lawyer.
Honestly what job could Lisa have besides trying (and most likely failing) to be president? Bart has shown in several episodes he could be a successful TV producer, could be a Scoutmaster of the Jr Campers, he could be a farmer or a sailor, he could run a small business shop, he could be a pro athlete in baseball, golf, or hokey, or even be a pop star.
Additionally he really isn’t dumb he just doesn’t care about school and finds it boring. If you give him a prank or something he can put together a clever plan because that actually interests him. They even did an episode on this idea where superintendent chambers had to teach Bart and he was able to get him to learn a lot about teddy Roosevelt because his story was actually very interesting to Bart or in another episode Bart was playing a video game about destroying the capitals of each state and it was able to somewhat teach him about them
Did this episode air before the episode that stated Homer was only dumb because he shoved a crayon up his nose when he was a kid and when said crayon was removed he became intelligent? They couldn't even keep that going for long could they?
and the crazy thing is years before that episode there was a comic story that was basically the same plot, where homer became smarter after an experiment by Professor Frink but he just ends up miserable
This episode is completely pointless. They created a non-issue with a resolution that, also, doesn't mean anything. And as for male Simpsons getting dumber, didn't Homer sacrifice his dream of running his own bowling alley for the sake of his children and went back to his abusive boss and a job that he clearly did not enjoy because it paid more? A dumb person wouldn't do that, not even for their kids. Homer also got a College Degree in one episode, and yeah, he did burn down his house, getting a College degree is no easy feat. The "Simpsons gene" was just created for the sole purpose of saying "Guys are dumb, Girls are smart" and that's about it. As for using Bart as an example, Bart isn't a dumbass, he just doesn't care about his studies enough to make good grades in school. He probably wouldn't be as smart as Lisa, but he be smart enough to get by with what talent he got. Plus, the law school thing and all. Also, how is Bart doing dumb things with his dad in this episode makes him dumb? With how bad the two are towards each other why is it a sin that the two are doing something together that they enjoy? 🤨
This is why inconsistent continuity is a problem in shows like this. Shows could be episodic while also referencing past events, but if you're not consistent then it will lead to previously established instances being forgotten or ignored for something convenient to the episode it's in, family Guy does this a lot too.
A spanish youtuber called max power has already addressed the whole "simspons continuity" problem. he showed screenshots of one of the simpsons writers twitter account. tim long's specifically, with said writer saying stuff like "continuity is kind of a hassle, so we just ignore it when we want to tell a specific story" (not the exact text but it iskinda the spirit)
Watching this video I couldn't help but think back to an episode that decided to explain Homer's stupidity. When he was a kid he shoved a crayon so far up his nose it got stuck in his brain, after having it removed he was shown to be intelligent but miserable so he shoved one back in. Any one else remember that episode?
I remember the days when Homer is not stupid per say but does stupid things due to anger, arrogance, not thinking thoroughly, and/or being drunk. The writers could have continued to use those simple reasons, but decided to do stupid things instead such as genes and crayons up the nose.
Well, the crayon stuck in his brain, his lifestyle as a drinker, smoking, militar experiment, the nuclear plant and many of his accidents took a toll on Homer's brain.
Just because someone is happy doesn't mean that they're doing good,much less a good person A person can be happy smashing certain sentient small creatures,even newborn ones
Talking about sitcoms being sexist, I personally saw three different sitcoms from the 90s or early 2000s base their plot around forcing/guilt tripping the male lead into getting a vasectomy. Because their wives wanted to continue boinking, but it was the guys who had to have their junk cut up in surgery, and it was implied heavily they were being *selfish* for not wanting to. Just the ones I've seen do this: Home Improvement, According to Jim and Modern Family
@@AkameGaKillfan777 Yep, there was a whole episode where Phil was being pressured into a vasectomy he clearly did not want, and everyone basically acted like he just has to go through with it, no matter what. The episode even framed him running away from the hospital as "being cowardly" in a "comedic" way.
@@WeirdWonderful It is kind of selfish to still want to risk embregnating your wife when vasectomy is way easier than getting tubes tied. Vesectomies are not cheap either so it would make sense to refuse to avoid credit card debt. If money is not an issue, what kind of guy does not want to get a vasectomy?
The whole episode was based on Lisa throwing a pity party and dragging everyone else into it because she couldn’t immediately solve a puzzle. That’s it. She has an existential crisis because she isn’t the smartest person in the room for once in her life. All because of a puzzle.
The whole "Simpsons curse" was kind of stupid. Herbert was a very smart character who get ruined by homer's car. He build his fame and entreprise throught hard-work over the years.
One episode in season 2 featured Bart trying to do better in school to avoid repeating 4th grade. He struggled with concentrating on schoolwork. So he might have ADHD, ADD, or something that needs managing.
The message in "Lisa Goes Gaga" is really confusing. She makes up a fake persona to give herself exaggerated praise at all times, which is somehow not seen as a bad thing, and then ends up being rewarded for vainly stroking her own ego in a ploy to make herself popular, by singing a duet with one of the most famous singers of the present day, with lyrics specifically tailor made for her to sing about how awesome she is. If any other character did this, it would be framed as a bad thing.
If The Simpsons is so good at predicting the future e.g. 9/11, COVID, why didn't they do anything about them instead of doing the same shit for over 30 years??
Last night I watched a modern episode. I don’t know how new it was, but it was definitely recent. The plot centered around Krusty getting fired and his assets being seized because a businessman showed up claiming revenge. We find out that the old businessman actually founded Krusty burger alongside Grandpa Simpson, but Krusty stole everything from their small burger joint after they fired him. Abe is made a company executive with his old friend, whose children are also in the company. A rich powerful woman manipulates Lisa (the only one smart enough to help Abe) into backdooring the company. Turns out the old man only hired Abe because he was senile and would give him corporate power. Then Lisa and Abe just leave. The episode pandered, had useless references, and actively just added a bunch of shit to lore which would have certainly been mentioned before. Topping it off was Lisa’s annoying pretentiousness and sudden change of heart at the end to thinking her grandfather wasn’t actually that dumb. The episode literally began with her giving him a competency test.
You're talking about Meat is Murder from Season 33. I agree it's a horrible episode. Don't forget about the pointless appearance of the Tiktoker Charli D'amelo 😖
apparently the writers forgot about the crayon shoved in homers nostril. He made himself stupid by choice, not because a gene turned him into one. this episode honestly felt like a "they're doomed to be stupid because insert vague genetic disability" it felt so ignorant because 1. THE CRAYON BRUH 2. Stereotypes~
My guess is that the writers view it as a new age religion an have taken a somewhat mystical view of it. It’s kind of like how some anime use Catholic imagery.
@@ahatt96 I think she is buddhist for being "spiritual but not religious" in a way that justifies her dabbling vegetarianism. That and Buddhism is perceived to be the most compatible to a social liberal.
This episode was the first time I noticed a contradiction in the series's writing. In the episode HOMR, it is shown that the only reason Homer is dumb is because there is a crayon stuck in his brain, and after having it removed, he becomes intelligent.
That episode contained a sweet ending where Homer returned to his stupidity and left Lisa a letter saying he'd rather return to his original role as her father before the operation. The episode showcased no one enjoys a know it all ruining it for everyone and he got conked out twice for it. Once at Moe's by a friend of his because his nuclear report to burns got them all fired and then the second time at the movies by a rando because he guessed the ending of the film spoiling it. Once he got kicked out, he found no happiness with a lack of smart outlets and decided he'd rather be a lovable oaf then a smart jerk
I just can’t stand Lisa Simpson anymore, she was tolerable in the early seasons. But she’s the biggest woke hypocrite, she pushes her stupid beliefs on other people and not realize she’s just selfish! Also the actress Yeardley Smith is a woke actress just like Lisa, she is just like the stubborn lady from Maximum Overdrive she also portrayed!
"The Principal and the Pauper" is the most controversial episode to come from the 9th season of The Simpsons. But this episode, which is contrived, sexist and just plain stupid, at least in my personal opinion, takes the cake as *the worst season 9 episode.*
damn bro your whole speech at the end about smart people really just kinda hurt. like its something I already knew and I've tried to make peace with it long ago but still ouch. I think it'd be interesting if we got an episode just exploring that for Lisa like I know it was sorta touched on in HOMR but nothing in depth for me personally. just cuz its what I know how about just as a quick scene a wall of all of Lisa's awards and achievements she's earned all throughout the show. we watch her trying and studying yet again for a really important statewide test very important top 5 get a scholarship and a trophy maybe. we watch her throughout the episode doing her day to day thing reading, in class, practice her sax, studying that kinda stuff. but closer attention would show you its more than that. the book she's reading something long and complex that's a masterpiece most people are haunted by years after reading it, while in class she makes perfect 100s on everything with remarks and stickers from multiple teachers and skinner, the piece she's practicing on her sax Mozart or the jazz equivalent, the stuff she's studying college level classes everything from philosophy to physics. hell you could even have her do something not brainy to really hammer it in like as an example from my life running 10 miles or so on the treadmill in their basement for a few hours. at the end of the episode she of course lands the top spot and is the highest scorer on the test winning the scholarship and the trophy. later after the festivities and stuff are through she places the trophy on the shelf and just looks at it. no real reaction no or at least very low sense of pride just a feeling of ok that's done now what? pretty much showing that everything Lisa does is just to check it off on a list. she does this stuff because well its something to do and while she's very driven and not at all lazy and actually might still find some enjoyment out of those things at the end of the day it just dosen't mean anything to her its just a task something she does because well why not?
I was there at the first episode of Simpsons. My parents wondered about it, saw a bit of it, turned off the TV and said it was banned in the house. I never watched it again and went back to shows my 5 or 6 year old mind would rather see: Tranformers, G.I.Joe, TMNT, Gummi Bears, He-Man, Dino-Riders, etc. Years later I went back to see what the show is about and I honestly don't see the appeal at all.
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I thought that was a bit lmao, sat there like an idiot waiting for the joke to be over
Thanks mate ^^
We might need a transcript. There is only about an hour before the copyright police show up
Thanks, I wasn't sure if it was my hearing or a joke!
Are you gonna do the top of the worst "Oh Yeah Cartoons!" shorts you promised back then?
Mr. Enter has a point about Lisa being a miserable person. I watched this one episode from one of the newer seasons, where Bart has a job at a golf club and the only expression Lisa had during the entire episode, was that of a bored, cynical, unimpressed person. She really gave off the feeling that she didn't like the fact that Bart was happy with his new job.
Precisely, I hate that they write Lisa as being miserable, and not seeming to care about others, such as in one of the future episodes, where she basically tells Bart to suck up being in her shadow.
@@trinaq Which episode was that again?
Bart can never succeed at anything because Lisa cannot accept her "loser brother" can surpass her in any way. Take the Drumming episode where Lisa becomes miserable because Bart becomes a talented drummer and a Jazz band takes interest in him. This destroys Lisa because Bart is "stealing" Jazz from her. The episode ends with Lisa indirectly crippling Bart so he can never play the drums again - Marge then guilt trips Bart into giving up the money he raises so he can get the surgery to play the drums again, to house the animals Lisa stole (which crippled him in the first place.).
This is treated as a happy ending. God forbid Lisa be sad if Bart gets to actually succeed at something.
@@PlanetZoidstar and people wonder why I don't like Lisa.
@@Zacman1123 It's not hard to see, she's very hard to like since she has a massive ego and cannot tolerate anyone challenging her. Multiple episodes show her coming up against competition and she tries to sabotage them at the slightest sign of struggle.
Lisa doesn't just want to be good, she wants to be the best, her massive ego will not allow anything less.
"Lisa is the type of person who will never be happy in life"
Hearing that cheers me up
Wasn't there an episode where it turned out Homer was dumb because of a crayon he stuck up his nose at some point and poked his brain? Removing it made him an intellectual and the episode concluded with him putting it back in to resume the idiot father role? And I never got the impression Bart was stupid, just not academically inclined. He consistently demonstrates cleverness in his daily life and problem solving skills.
With the crayon removed, Homer's IQ jumped up to 105. Barely above average, but everyone else in Springfield had been flanderized over the years to all being idiots too.
Yep! The "Homer is really a genius with brain damage" episode actually came out AFTER Lisa The Simpson and a Simpsons comic book story with the exact same plot came out before it.
There's canonically so many reasons Homer is dumb that I'm shocked he isn't a vegetable yet.
Homer's stupidity is said to be for various reasons.
Not getting good grades doesn’t make Bart dumb. He’s street smart.
I have a small gripe. Bart WAS shown to have been good at school. He wanted to go to school. We see it in Lisa's Sax. It's just his awful kindergarten teacher verbally crushed his enthusiam out of him.
Ironically, that still makes this episode look bad, just for a different reason!
Even as a child, I really loathed the moral behind the episode. Sure, the "Dumb" gene only effects the Simpson Men, not the women, so Lisa has nothing to fret about. But they contradict previous episodes, where Herb Powell is a successful inventor, despite being a Simpson, and Abe is competent on the battlefield. Both Bart and Homer are smart in their own ways too.
Besides, Bart has outsmarted Sideshow Bob on multiple occasions before this episode. And in Bart Gets an F it's clearly shown that he is smart, but has a short attention span.
Also gets contradicted in a later episode as well when it's revealed that Homer is dumb because he literally has a crayon lodged in his brain
@@HunterX05 That one is after the golden age but yes, I'll pretend this is the true answer to Homer's stupidity because HOMR is actually a good episode.
Lets also not forget homer is a super genius like ok lisa but wanted to willing because a ret***d so he could enjoy his life again the stupidest person was the smartest made dumb by a accident choose to be dumb over smart because he was happy and stupid then smart and miserable pretty much the antithesis to this entire thing ironically
@@WarCrimeGaming Not just a short attention span, but ADHD.
One of my greatest frustrations with simpsons (especially "future" simpsons) episodes, are the future episodes that imply that Bart is a 100% failure, while Lisa is a 100% success.
I don't buy that for a second.
First of all, these episodes never seem to really "advance" the characters, just to be clear. So they are the same characters at 8/10 as they are at 24/26.
ANyway
Lisa... in no way, if she remains as she is now personality wise, would be a success.
She is smart, sure. Good at absorbing information.
But shedoes it all as a reward. She does it to be aknowledged, she does it to be better.
The second she would exit college (no doubt straight A-s top of her class) she is fucked:
She would enter a workfield that wouldn't give a fuck about her acomplishments and she would not be able to impact her working space for months, if not years.
She would break appart out of frustration, and quit so many positions because "she didn't have enough impact" and so on.
She also completely lack social understanding, is slow to adapt and can't take criticism very well.
bart on the other hand has shown, voer and over again to be EXTREMELY adaptive. Able to grasp a job and excell at it extremely quickly. He is multi lingual and can pick up speech incredibly quickly. And he is extremely manipulative and a people person.
Honestly, if anything, Bart is the more likely one to become president, not Lisa.
I would love to see an future episode where Bart is the president.
Also I think that why I like Lisa wedding the most. It explain why Bart doing those jobs. He wants to make sure nothing can ruin his time in law school, that including himself. He recognize he is his worst enemy when it comes to school.
@@AliceHobbes I mean, isn't it revealed at least in one future that Bart ends up becoming a Supreme Court Justice?
@@KhaosAdmiral yeah but at least they add that part to Lisa Wedding. Back when they used to connect stories
@@MrDj232 also he was the best hall monitor the school had.
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Lisa simpson is the type of character who will thrive in childhood, but in adulthood will struggle because she was never properly challenged. Every challenge she encounters is someone either
A. Doing something before she did. (Marge publishing a book)
B. Being happy doing something she thinks she should be doing (Bart as a drummer in a jazz band)
C. Seeing her "lessers" doing something and being happy (Bart getting a job at a golf course.)
We even see her challenge Maggie when everyone thought she was smart enough to get into that coveted daycare. It was shown that Lisa was helping Maggie, but at the end when Maggie shows musical talent all Lisa can say is, "Not for babies." in an attempt to stifle her talent which fails because we see Maggie become a rockstar in multiple episodes.
Lisa will not succeed in life. She was thrive in Elementary, Middle, and High school because she is the smartest person in a town full of idiots. In college she will crash hard and will never understand why. She will constantly try to belittle those around her. Bart will succeed because he works through everything. The only roadblock in his life is ultimately Lisa. We've seen Bart become a construction worker, police officer, and finally a member of the supreme court.
Lisa has no social experience and the idea of her making it in life without any social experience or any kind of aggressive attitude except that in which she wants to sabotage others by using people to do her dirty work makes any future episode about her being a successful woman in any political or social field fucking laughable. Lisa will end up as one of those waitresses at Starbucks with nothing more than a degree in Art, Jazz, and Poetry while everyone else tries their best to move on with their life. It's not that she isn't appreciated for her gifts, but appreciation only goes so far.
Lisa has become more of a villain than Mr. Burns constantly trying to drag those around her down or trying sabotage those who are better than her. For example in Lisa's Rival someone is far better than her and she tries to sabotage her school project. The difference between then Lisa and now Lisa is that then Lisa learned her lesson and was able to overcome the fact that she was not better than Alison, but the two remained friends.
Or maybe not, because Alison doesn't appear in any future episodes. So I guess Lisa killed her or something.
Sorry for the rant, but I went from liking Lisa as a character to outright seeing her as one of the worst villains of the show. So, mission accomplished I guess.
Alison still appears in the show here and there, but she's not shown to talk to Lisa anymore. Safe to say their friendship did not continue.
I can see adult Lisa being a massive Karen. The kind who thinks she's better than everybody because she's well educated.
I believe Bart and Ralph could become president, not Lisa
I think there is an episode too when she goes up a grade but end up going back because she likes being the smartest of her year. Bart just lives his life, Lisa complains about her life and Maggie becomes the star though I think Maggie’s is more a joke because we never hear her and she becomes famous for her voice
I wish I could give you more than one like.
"Lisa, ordinarily I'd say you should stand up for what you believe in....but you've been doing that an awful lot lately"-Marge, every single Simpsons fan
She got her father fired.
Like Ned said. S P R I N G F I E L D S A N S W E R T O A Q U E S T I O N N O O N E A S K E D !
The worst part about this episode is that it places so much importance on intelligence and acts as though anyone less intelligent than Lisa is also less important and less worthwhile as a person. It's kind of insulting. Basically, the message comes across as "if you aren't a genius, you're worthless".
To be fair morons tend to ruin everything look at the world now lol
That’s borderline eugenics propaganda.
Personal hypothesis:
There is no gene; the men are just accident-prone (which might be the ACTUAL gene, if it exists), or they get bonked on the head too often. Homer has the added flaws of the crayon in his nose, excessive drinking and smoking, and working in a rundown power plant.
I can support that theory.
Don't forget the government experiment.
Homer was born a genius but suffered brain damage, his half brother is also a genius, Bart has ADHD but can at times, be just as smart as Lisa and his future sons are also straight A students just like Lisa. Really, I think there's no gene that makes the men in the Simpsons family stupid. If anything, they just seem to all be really unlucky.
rather one is risk averse and one is more active toto take risks.
@Dork Also, Bart has telepathy.
One of the things that bothers me about this particular episode is something that the writers don't even know they are exploring:
Lisa has trouble with a brain teaser. A group of her male schoolmates find the solution no problem while she can't see the big picture. Not a single other character in the scene that figures it out is female.
Studies have shown that male and female brains tend to think differently, and take different approaches when it comes to memory and problem solving. I don't blame Lisa for lacking the self-awareness to even consider that to begin with. I don't even blame the writers of this particular episode. I blame decades of lazy Hollywood writing that seems to believe in only a singular, correct omni-intelligence in which a character knows everything about everything and lacks for any kind of deficiencies except for like... sports and being cool.
It's why I hate the classic blockbuster omni-scientist that is just as talented in mechanical engineering as they are programming, chemistry, physics, medicine, and genetics.
This is giving me flashbacks to the "Only the males of the Simpson line are destined to be dumb" garbage they use to make Lisa not feel she's destined to be dumb like Homer and Bart....despite the fact she's made her own dumb decisions despite her "genius"
Frankly I feel they should stop with that gender crap. They weren't good at it even before it became such a huge focus as it is now and they still aren't good at it!
To be fair, Bart did cheat at that puzzle by just re-using the notepad that Milhouse already showed Martin. If anything, the scene could imply that only the Simpsons were unable to figure out the puzzle.
@@paulman34340 Personally, I find Lisa to be at her best when she's just joining Bart and Homer on their silly antics and having fun....... which makes it all the more disheartening when episodes like this and other "Lisa pity party" episodes have Lisa TRYING to have fun with them, only to realize that she's above such foolishness.
@@YamatoFukkatsu Yeah I agree
Exactly. It seemed that all intelligent people had to be polymaths.
Seeing the show shuffle around as a zombie of itself is pretty darn sad.
As for the episode, it really is a dead end. So many characters made and gone in an instant. Probably wouldn't have happened if Lisa had managed to solve the kid's puzzle since the consequences seem muted.
A better ending to this episode would be Lisa learning that there are different types of intelligence. The Simpson gene only effects her type of intelligence specifically. It doesn't make her stupid it makes her smart in a different way
The writers aren't that smart.
Or maybe if they wanted to make about gender she can come back to school and notice only the boys solve it, than she learn boys and girls don't solve the problem the same way
Or that it was just a myth passed down from generation to generation, likely called something different before the discovery of genetics. Homer was affected because Abe was mentally/emotionally abusive at times, which crushed Homer's desire to try. Bart was raised by Homer, who already wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box.
Lisa was simply having an off day until Abe told her about the "gene". Lisa started displaying symptoms of the gene until the women in the family told her it only "affected" men. Bart likely started getting even stupider after this episode thanks to the "nocebo effect". Basically, that means Bart got worse because he thought he was getting worse.
@@foxymetroid mind blown, I kinda wished the episode turned out that way because that's actually possible
And that genetics don't define everything just some things, as long as she keeps studying she will be fine, just don't be too lazy
"It was like watching a Klingon and a Vogon collaboration to create human entertainment."
Honestly that sounds kind of cool...and probably better than modern Simpsons...
I dunno, if I critiqued their poetry they may throw me out an airlock...
@@JeremyBelpoisX To be fair, they'd throw you out anyway.
Enter is an Trekkie comfimed
Wait...did they also have Lisa be born in 1992 in "Lisa's First Word"? And Enter's right; sucess, and fame are worldly things in both Christianity (what the Simpson family believes) and Bhuddism (what Lisa believes). Remember, Siddartha Gautuma was born a prince and basically a child prodigy but was still unhappy to the point he left his wife and their newborn son to seek enlightment in the outside world.
1983
@@silveryote1 It's weird, I could've sworn "Lisa's First Word" said 1992...My memory's so off right now...
Leaving your wife and newborn son is not enlightenment. It’s being a deadbeat dad.
@@Attmay ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾
@@jenneacubero1036 - The episode is from 1992, the story they were telling took place in the 80s.
Another big thing that I hate about this episode is that we now see that Lisa's intelligence isn't due to the fact that she tries hard or works hard, it's because she was naturally born with it because she's a woman.
Because Hollyweird is obsessed abiout Mary Sues in stories. Especially these days. Magically better than anyone else for no reason, no real struggles or problems to overcome.
I mean, intelligence is an inborn trait in real life.
I watched the 1980s shorts and they wrote her like she was an actual 8 year old it was great she had a personality outside of being a cynic she was still the smart one but she also liked to play and have fun like a child would.
I wish Lisa stayed like that.
@@pinkdiamond1847 most entertainment is like that, honestly it seems only dos games are safe lol
It was funny when she kept comparing herself to Killary, who still never accomplished anything in her life besides the murders.
The thing about smart people that the writers on the simpsons don't seem to undetermined is:
Actual smart people display their intelligence through means other than just saying it or being an over opinionated miseryguts like lisa is.
Actual smart people are usually able too know when to just shut up and listen so they can observe and learn, they also tend to be humble enough too understand that not everyone thinks the way they do.
Lisa's intelligence has become secondary to her clawing Ego. Every single time her ego is challenged she collapses in on herself. Even the hated "Lisa Goes Gaga" episode is kicked off by Lisa creating a sock puppet online account "Truth Teller" to give herself biased praise because she is unpopular at schoo.
You didn't even mention the continuity-breaking episode where it was shown that Homer's not even dumb, he's only like that because he shoved a bunch of crayons up his nose and one got stuck in his brain. When they took it out, he was actually quite smart. That not only contradicts the "Simpson gene", but it also counters Bart being "doomed" to being dumb, which means he _could_ be as smart as Lisa and Homer if he tried, especially since simply removing the crayon made Homer instantly smart (which was a reference to _Flowers for Algernon_ but is still canon nonetheless).
Abe Simpson's senility fluctuates anyways. The perfect example is from "Who shot Mr Burns" when he gets his gun back, and pretends to be senile to avoid being found out. I swear, that old man is smarter than he lets on. 😂
he likes making senile jokes course he does he loves trolling his family
"Are you stalling? Or just senile?"
"A little of column A, a little pf column B"
Actually being a little bit senile lets you pretend to be senile when you're lucid.
Like Sensei in Advance Wars.
You made a REALLY good point about Homer's half- brother Herb being contradictory to the "Male Simpson gene" BS. And, don't forget, Herb eventually was able to become rich and successful again, with the only real help he needed being a loan to get things off the ground.
Bottom line, Herb is an intelligent, inventive, ambitious, and charismatic man, all things that the "Male Simpson gene" should have rendered impossible.
After watching some Older Simpsons Episodes I noticed a few things with two of the 3 Simpsons kids. Bart usually got into things that were Cool like Comics, Video Games and Skate Boarding. Lisa while she had her Hobbies/Talents mostly got caught up in New Age Progressive stuff like Veganism, Feminism and Protesting.
Well, it wasn't long before I found Lisa Annoying
That’s, when I realize always watch mostly the homer and Bart episodes and always skip the Lisa ones.
@@goldylover1000 There are Good Lisa Episodes, the Problem is How they Use Lisa the makes a Bad Lisa Episode
@@Black_Revue Yeah, because Lisa gets into things that are niche and she feels elevate her over her peers. She's the quintessenial "Poser Millenial" archetype.
@@PlanetZoidstar she predates millennials having opinions. She supposed to represent liberals that are all talk and no change, which every generation has to a degree
@@msjkramey Thing is I'm not sure the writers realise that Lisa's flaws as you state them, are flaws. She's often the victim of society and bad people who don't want her to succeed. The writers of The Simpsons are very Liberal so they wouldn't want Lisa, their political mouthpiece, to be seen as flawed.
I'm Catholic, but I strongly respect Buddhist philosophy. I wish I could detach myself from worldly concerns. Then I might not be a nervous wreck
Therapy my friend. I used to have panic attacks so bad that I felt like I was dying, but mix of emergency medicine and coping skills fixed me right up (it was work of course, too). I'm sure a good therapist could help you learn how to detach in a healthy way
Catholicism actually preaches that we should detach ourselves from worldly desires and concerns and embrace that which is eternal.
Christianity and Buddhism aren't as dissimilar as people think. Catholicism even less so. Both fundamentally conclude that suffering is a universal phenomenon caused by desire, and that meditation can offset this desire, and thus suffering, to a degree. Catholics and Buddhists even share a propensity for incense and prayer beads. They're like the brothers from different mothers of world religions.
Read the life of San Anthony or San Francis of Assis my brother.
It may enlight you.
@@draketheduelist There are, of course, some very important differences. Catholicism doesn't condemn desire as such, but disordered desires. Sadly, because of The Fall, a great majority of our desires are disordered.
Haemophilia and baldness are not on the Y chromosome but the X chromosome, both of those conditions are X-linked recessive. The reason men are affected more is because they have only one X chromosome, while women have two, and only one unaffected copy is needed to avoid a recessive condition (i.e. women have a backup in case they get one affected X, men don't). A Y-linked condition would affect everyone who comes from an unbroken line of men beginning with the first person to have it (i.e. if Abe had a Y-linked condition, Homer is guaranteed to get it, and so would Bart, and any of Bart's sons, and so on, if Herb is Abe's son, he would also be guaranteed to get it, and Abbie would be guaranteed to *not* get it. But she clearly has the Simpson gene. Therefore it isn't Y-linked). Also it could be autosomal (on a numbered chromosome rather than X or Y), most likely dominant from what I've seen (Abe has it, he transmitted it to Homer and Abbie, Marge doesn't have it, Bart got Homer's affected copy, Lisa and Maggie got Homer's unaffected copy, and Marge had nothing but unaffected copies to give)
Women are mainly not affected by baldness because it also a hormonal issue, dihydrotestosterone is the main culprit. Thats why Women with PCOS and Trans Men can get it too.
Which is also why many men are not affected despite their genes because they have overall low testosterone.
What worries the most about this episode is that it tries to make Bart as dumb as his male brethren, when it's clearly shown that he's intelligent in his own way (for example, with pranks) and he is just uninterested in school.
Also, I think the most intelligent characters of the show get criticized and even mistreated on it, not just Lisa. Remember that episode in which she joins a group with the most intelligent persons from Springfield (Skinner, the comics guy, Frink, and Lindsay Naegle), the episode revolves around "oh, they are intelligent, let's make them kind of mistreated by other characters"
What incentive does he have to do well in school? The principal has it in for him and the teachers are actively rooting for him to fail along with most of their other students, and they are only in it for a paycheck.
Meanwhile, it was “bad Lisa“ from the season 3 episode “Separate Vocations” who exposed how lost the teachers are without their textbooks. That was the first sign she could be sneaky and conniving, but at least then it was because her aptitude test said she should be a homemaker and because a music teacher says her fingers are too stubby to be a musician. At least then, there was dramatic motivation for her behavior. At least then, she exposed a serious flaw in the educational system in which she used to succeed. Even then, there was a morose and cynical joylessness to her thumbing her nose at the authority. When Bart does it, he revels in it. He raises it to an art form. Even Lisa herself acknowledges how he used to be the rebellious one when he catches her with all the teachers’ editions in her locker.
@Attmay as I recall there was an episode on which Bart was getting homeshcooled. He thrived and did extremely well academically.
@@cultreader9751There was also the catholic school. Even chalmers was a better teacher
I JUST want Julie Kavner (Marge's VA) to be able to retire already. That poor woman's voice is absolutely SHREDDED and you can hear how much it hurts her to do Marge's voice. Hell even Nancy Cartwright is starting to sound like she's straining to do Bart and Nelson nowadays.
Nancy is able to get other voice roles. Heck she took over as Chuckie in Rugrats once the original voice actress sadly passed away, Dan Castellaneta took on the role of Genie in Return Of Jafar once Robin William's feud with Disney over promoting his role in Aladdin caused them to have a small fallout along with Roles in the Earthworm Jim cartoon and Back To The Future cartoon, Hank Azaria can do liveaction movies and Harry Shearer could return to Spinal Tap.
It isnt if a lot of the voice cast need rely on Springfield for a paycheck
Not until she dies and the inevitable recast of mage Simpson she doesn’t
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Minor correction: Christine Cavanaugh (Chuckie's original VA) quit voice acting over a decade before her death, and Nancy Cartwright took over back then
@@Soufriere84 Cavanaugh retired in 2001 then Cartwright immediately was touted ad her successor for Chuckie as was Candi Milo for Dexter around the same time
@@rodolforodriguez4447 look at how long its taken Disney to secure and announce a successor to Russi Taylor since her passing in 2019
Let's not forget that whenever Bart does something right, she will do everything to bring him down.
I saw a 41-year old woman on OKCupid who described herself as being a mix between Lisa Simpson and Daria Morgendorfer. I swiped left.
At least you have to appreciate the fair warning.
@@maxxam3590 Daria I probably wouldn't mind. Lisa is so gonna need to save up for wine and catfood, though.
Lisa isn't smarter than everyone in Springfield, she's smarter than everyone in the audience. Lisa is a vegetarian? *So is Matt Groening.* She's clearly his self-insert. He just doesn't seem to realize how unlikable his ideas of the "right way to be" are.
He's also been quoted as saying Lisa is his favourite character and he goes out of his way to make her not look bad.
The vegetarian thing is Paul McCartney's fault though. He said he'd ONLY cameo in the Lisa The Vegetarian episode if Lisa NEVER went back to eating meat for the rest of the show's run.
@@PlanetZoidstar ironically, apu in that episode gave a moral about not forcing others into your own beliefs
or maybe that was a subtle critic towards mccartney
@@ianr.navahuber2195 It's possible but the writers (and Matt Groening) still let Paul walk all over them because he's famous.
Like Brian Griffin :D
Though I actually like Lisa way more than Brian
@@PlanetZoidstar Nobody tell Paul McCartney about the episode where Lisa tries to rationalize eating insects.
That trope of girls always being smarter and boys being dumber and hornier still lurks in my head to this day.
It's why stories such as the boys vs girls plot needs to be dropped. You cant win there
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Even dumb fights from those episodes like the "cooties" from Teen Titans Go end up having to get translated for release across the world, despite it only being a U.S. thing in origin.
@@Thomasmemoryscentral At least Spongebob did it in a coded way, with sea critters vs. land critters. And both sides come to the conclusion that, "Everyone's best at something, but no-one's best at everything."
@@Thomasmemoryscentralmost of them are biased towards women anyway
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Some of the boys vs girls storylines could work if done right like how men and women approach the same problem differently.
I hated Lisa the Simpson because honestly, it was Lisa getting a get-out-of-stupid-free card, which pissed me off because Lisa just gives up. Normally, Lisa would have figured out the defective simpsons gene was actually a placebo effect where they just give up.
the episode HOMR vastly improves on this episodes plot and is the superior episode
Agreed. That episode is amazing and one of the best after the golden age.
There's a popular theory that the "Simpsons Gene" was just a myth created to explain why the Simpson men were so stupid and that the Simpson women weren't "affected" because they took steps to fight it. The men, meanwhile, either accepted their fate (how do you fight genetics) or didn't learn about the "gene" until it was too late and they had already allowed their brains to atrophy.
Oh yeah, HOMR is unironically a hidden gem of an episode.
Lisa: The smartest character on the show but is also the most lonely, aggravated, cynical and depressed characters on the show who can never make a friendship last more than an episode.
Ralph: The dumbest character in the show who while is an idiot is still a friendly and sociable kid and seems to be the only character on the show who is truly happy.
One of the few cases where I’ve seen you prefer a Zombie Era Explanation(HOMR) to a classic era explanation (this, produced in S8 and aired in S9)
HOMR?
Watch out, 'dem Lisa stans be after you!
Seriously though, I honestly haven't been keeping up with Simpsons (or Family Guy) anyways. With how long they've been going, I just feel pure apathy for them at this point.
Home Improvement actually defies a lot of the conventions of 90s sitcoms you've listed. Yes, Tim is egotistical, accident-prone, and generally stereotypically overly-masculine, but it makes it clear that not all men are like that with the characters of Tim's co-host Al, who's very respectful of women and constantly frustrated with Tim's antics, and Wilson, who is a wise intellectual who is able to set Tim straight in just about every episode. Also, the show does go out of its way to address Jill's faults, and have her acknowledge when she's wrong. And while Tim IS the stereotypical sitcom dad in a lot of ways, he is shown to be in the right at times and it's established that Jill fell in love with him because he does have a soft spot in him (one episode, she states that the moment she fell in love with him was when he was crying at the end of a chick flick, to which Tim's response is simply that the movie was pretty sad, not trying to cover up his emotions or anything).
I don’t see why you should specify that he’s respectful to women. Just leave it at he’s respectful to people
Dan Castlanetta (probably spelled his last name wrong, he’s the voice actor for Homer) has said before that he doesn’t like voicing Homer anymore
@Freesmart Probably the latter. Homer screaming can be annoying on the vocal cords.
Well, being stuck in the same cycle for way longer than it should is going to take a heavy toll on anyone.
Oh thank god I thoguht I was the only one who HATES this episode. Look I GET that it’s supposed to heartwarming Lisa wont be affected the Simpson gene but Barts is basically screwed due to no real fault of his own and what were supposed to be ok with that?! This is one of the times where I hate Lisa, because it all about her suffering, her future and the show has done this time and time again where we the audience are supposed to feel sorry for Lisa because she had to go through something tough or has no friends. The problem is Lisa keeps freaking wining. She’s the smartest kid in school and is almost always right, and her viewpoint is almost always correct. Sorry but after a while I stopped having sympathy for her as she keeps coming out on top!
And the sheer stupidity of the idea that the Simpsons gene only affects males, what about homer brother herb who was pretty successful, yeah, his life was ruined but not cause of the Simpsons gene it was cause homers and idiot! What about grandpa, yeah, his life is a mess, but the man fought in the world war, any joke is more about how the family doesn’t want to spend time with him is not cause the gene it’s because he can be exacerbating to be around. Hell like the other comments are saying even Bart has his moments, he outsmart sideshow bob every time bob tries to kill him, and is a bad kid be design and NOT BECAUSE OF A GENE. His future can by bad, but it has to be because of his own choices! HECK he bcame the CHEIF freaking judge on SUPERME COURT ,I know theres a ton of future episodes so most likely theres no real “cannon” one but still
2:51 oh my god someone finnaly says it!
wow...were makeing a LOT of the same points..
One theory is that the "Simpsons Gene" was a myth. Homer and Bart were "affected" because they didn't have the best influences. Abe was borderline mentally/emotionally abusive at times while Homer wasn't exactly the sharpest crayon in the box. Bart also had the disadvantage of going to Springfield Elementary. Herb wasn't affected because he grew up in a different family and, thus, had better influences. Lisa also avoided the fate because she took up interests that required a lot of mental activity.
I always confuse this title with “Lisa’s Substitute” and I was really expecting enter to get flamed again for calling that an atrocity 😂
It would be done best as an Admirable as it explored some good themes and Dustin Hoffman was a good guest star.
Mr. Enter here being one of the few based people in the animation community.
Ok no offense to any other animation reviewer, respect to their views, but Mr. Enter is one of the few to point out the double standard on male characters being stereotyped and written questionably. Yes female character did as well, you can say both, but why do most people only seem to point out the female character issues when it was both?! It is something worth talking about.
PS: I still think Simpsons didn’t get bad until sometime after the HD era, not just like season 8 or something. Just saying.
I agree about HD era simpsons. The cracks were forming up until then, but the HD era is when it really started to go downhill hard. Before then you can dig up a gem every now and again
Enter is not based for his Twitter melt-down, anti-pandemic measure stances, and being incoherent on his vid on doversofying diversity.
@@inovakovsky Bruh I don't always agree with Mr. Enter on things, I literally disagree with him in my original comment on not just the first few seasons being 'the only good ones'. I can disagree with him on things like that and the pandemic stuff, but also agree on the whole gender issue thing, as pointed out that few like him has addressed it (from what I can see at least) and everyone else only focused on one side and not the other.
Simply put, one opinion of his does not cancel out his other opinions.
@@hiddenflare6169 Most of his opinions on issues outside of aside from basic plot and characterization writing are not that great.
His take on gender is silly when Lois is disliked by other characters in Malcolm in the Middle and most 90s sitcomes were meant to subvert 35+ years of Father Knows Best family patriarch, which is a characterization that does not even try to be humourous, but at least he is not a The Quartering wannabe.
@@inovakovsky You say that as if Lois was the first 'Woman of the house' type character. Viola Smith from Fresh Prince, Roseanne from.... Well Roseanne, and more, but these are just the sitcoms mothers from 90s or before from the top of my head..... Also Lois does not count for this subversion of 90s sitcom because Malcom actually aired started airing in the 2000s.
While I will say Malcom in the Middle is one of the first 'dark sitcoms' in a way, I do think it has not aged in the best in liking characters, as it was more out to show how dark things were and show the lives of 'bad people' in an amusing ways... Sadly some of it's cast isn't likeable as a result, Lois is one because she is just a... Jerk, yet gets her way most of the time (especially in the end).
We have gotten off topic. I think worrying about why Mr. Enter doesn't like Lois is not a big deal.
Lisa: "As intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down. In fact, I made a graph about it. I make a lot of graphs."
That's from "HOMR" in Season 12.
Also, I don't think Bart is really stupid. He's book dumb, but in early seasons, even around this time, he was actually proved to be pretty smart. He didn't do well in school, but he was bright and could pick up on subtle points.
I feel that Bart is genuinely cunning and specially as he had foiled dangerous plans from SIdeshow bob and took the initiative. IT is just that between the issues in school and not a lot of people expecting more from him, he just doesn't bother to do better in school
@@lsebastian9086 he connected the dots and found it was Side show Bob
@@sagesixparties7217 Exactly. He really knew enough details abuot Krusty the clown to suspect the foul play and it paid off by him solving the mystery.
Compare how happy Lisa is to how happy Ralph is, all the proof you need.
@@lsebastian9086 Although I would point out that Lisa was the one who pointed out that Krusty wouldn't have been using a microwave with his pacemaker and he couldn't have been reading a magazine if he can't read. Bart only figured out it was Sideshow Bob because of his feet. Krusty's feet were tiny, but the robber complained when Homer stepped on his toes in huge shoes. And Bart figuring it out was actually Bob describing himself as having "big shoes to fill".
Well, to be fair, in Malcolm in the Middle, it's shown that people in the town despise Lois and actually like Hal. This is revealed in one episode where Lois has mono but they think Hal's on the verge of divorce with her, and the neighborhood takes him in with open arms.
As they should. What little bit I know about Lois given that I haven't watched the series aside from a few clips absolutely infuriates me. What the hell were they even thinking in the series finale? I fear for the generation raised by people who think she was in the right.
"Lisa The Simpson"
Well meet my OCs; Bart *The* Simpson and Graggle!
My OC is a villain named Marge The Ugly Simpson! She’s mean and freaking ugly!
5:46
One of the best pieces of animation associated with the Simpsons in the last decade was a couch gag drawn by Don Hertzfeldt that leans on the existential horror that The Simpsons must exist in as a result of them staying in the same place while Time moves forward.
This is a complaint from the same place.
6:24
The flashback episode where Lisa gets her first Saxaphone hints at something similar, though it's not linked to some kind of stupidity gene by any implication.
The episode premise isn't stupid - as one of the many burnouts that grew up being told I was 'smart'' the idea of losing the one thing that seemed to make me valuable would have seriously fucked with me as a kid.
It's the explanation behind it and the cop-out at the end that really fuck the whole thing up.
8:36
Married with Children?
I don't remember anyone in that show being singled out as dumb, but it's been a very long time.
married with children everyone sucks and the father is the straight man cause while he isn't the best guy he's the best in the house given he's a shoe salesman whilst his wife has a crippling fear of employment and he gets alot of good lines
Also, ironically, the daughter of the house was the idiot. Al himself wasn't exactly Einstein either.
I just fear that Fox or Disney are gonna keep taking advantage of Julie Kavner voicing Marge until she dies seeing as though they just don’t care about healths of people like her or even how Russi Taylor and Marcia Wallace died while the show was growing sour because of the network’s scumming-ness.
It too saddens me to hear about Kavner’s damaged vocal cords as how she is still working while making me feel like she should quit and move on. Poor Julie. :’(
P.S. say what you will with your opinion on this episode, I mostly enjoyed it just for the pot and pan headbutt scenes.
They could end the show once and for all before she bare minimum gets too sick. Marge isnt someone you can just replace that easily.
You can write off the minor ones such as Bleeding Gums Murphy and the supporting ones such as Edna if you have to because the roles xant be recasted but the main family losing that important member is game over. You cannot return from that loss.
This episode infuriates me with how it completely spits on Bart Gets an F.
Troy Maclure said it the best: "The Simpsons will go on from now until the show become unprofitable."
I don’t think I’ve watched a single episode of The Simpsons all the way through and I have no idea Lisa was a Buddhist.
From my second hand on Homer is my favorite character.
Lisa became a Buddhist due to the Springfield Church being plastered with product placement due to an accident and using funding from some corporations from my fuzzy memory assisted in the fixing.
I'm convinced none of the writers are Buddhist. If any of them were, they would have written her conversion to that faith better. As is Lisa is a in-name-only Buddhist.
So you haven't watched a full episode of this show.
@@andykishore Not that I can think of I never got into Adult cartoons besides Furtarama
@@BrawlSnorlax That's fair, I've seen reviews and there's some people who like or prefer Futurama more than Simpsons.
What’s really sad was that this episode could have been one of the best episodes in all of animation.
This episode could have been something very insightful, deep and profound. But it fell hard because of the joke twist.
Your speech at the end about smart people wasting their potential really hit home. Sometimes I think back over the mistakes I made and how much more I could have done and feel I’m drowning in lack of potential, even though I don’t waste time. Thanks for saying it, I’m glad someone said what I’ve been thinking for a long, long time.
Here’s proof, even in canon, compare Lisa’s happiness to Ralph’s
At first I assumed this episode's title was a reference to the _Lisa_ games, but apparently it predates the entire series by about 14 years. Weird.
I think, to be fair, for this show to keep going as long as it has, it had to make a choice: either age the characters up to create new story arcs (growing up with its audience) or play fast and loose with the continuity to explain why these people have stayed the same age since the late 80s/early 90s.
It chose the latter, probably because during the first ten seasons, they didn't expect it to be going on to Season 34. The big downside, of course, means things mostly remain static. It's harder to have a more emotional investment in this family and the town when anything about their backstories can be changed, they seem to have dozens of different futures and the status quo is God.
On the flip side of the coint, Bob's Burgers mostly sticks to the status quo, but I think they pull it off better by not dating themselves too much like the Simpsons does.
They also didn't want to be bound to a strict continuity in the event an idea turned out to be bad. They also wanted a show where a viewer could start at any episode, or even just skip entire seasons, and not be completely lost.
There was an episode recently where Marge was in high school in the 90s. I'm like "weird, I thought Marge was married with 3 children back in the 90s."
Actually, the thing about male-pattern baldness is that it exists on the X chromosome. The reason that it presents in men is because the Y chromosome doesn't work to cancel it out so men express the one version of that gene we get. Women can also express it as well, but they need to have two copies of the gene.
Giving Home Improvement credit we at least had smart characters like Al (as eccentric as he was) and Wilson, along with Tim's boss that we'd see in the fifth season. Which is also the only one I have on DVD because I can't find others. I dunno why. Maybe I'm tryin to remind myself of a show I'd rather watch than modern Simpsons
It also helps that tim might've been a bit soft in the head but he cared so much about his family that he was willing too forego things he wanted for their happiness.
@@Hammerhead547 Exactly. Also the guy was competent enough to work on cars and stuff, it's not that some of the weird things he put together like a security system for his house DIDN'T work, just kinda backfiring/worked a bit too well. He's a lot more competent than given credit for, just kinda situational
@@ratchetmechani2002
Home Improvement really was the last sit-com that did the whole "bumbling father who genuinely cares about his family" trope right.
He might be vulgar uncouth unworldly and have simple unsophisticated tastes but the things he's best at are the things that actually matter the most, like taking care of their kids and being a good husband and he always gave it 110%.
Pretty much every sitcom with a character like tim that's come out in the last 20 years has either had the father be an abrasive asshole who constantly needs to be "put in his place" by his shrew of a wife (Ray Romano in EBLR) or they're so clueless that you wonder if they're actually mentally retarded.
Funny thing is that Lisa's preachiness was already being called out at least as early as Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy, back in season 5. For those who don't recall, that episode had a scene where Marge just straight-up says "you've been doing that a lot lately" in response to Lisa getting overly confrontational over how the Malibu Stacy doll (a parody of Barbie) reinforces negative stereotypes. It's like, back when the show was still good, even the writers were self-aware enough to know that Lisa's focus episodes were getting to be a bit too formulaic, and were willing to at least TRY to portray her as being in the wrong sometimes to help balance things out...... which makes it all the more sad that the "Lisa pity party" genre became a thing.
@@MrJoeyWheeler Oh wow, that's actually a good point. Though, I wouldn't say that the company had a good atmosphere, at least not the production line. But I guess the joke there was how badly the low-skill assemply workers clashed with the company's general image.
@@MrJoeyWheeler "Don't ask me, I'm just a girl! Heeh-heeh! Heeh-Heeh!"
@@MrJoeyWheeler Still a classic episode.
She's also a massive hypocrite. When she tried to expose Bart's lie in the episode where he faked a kidnapping but everyone benefitted from it, even Kirk who was set up. She claims, "The truth can't be swept under the rug"
This argument is immediately undone when you remember she did the same thing with "Hans Sprungfeld."
Family Guy didn’t go sour, it went rotten XD
It didn't just go rotten. It became roadkill mixed with 80 year old gasoline & 57 year old milk.
@@ExtremeWreck Ooo! Good one! XD
Hell even the show's own creator admits that the show is long past its glory days.
I am enjoying these smaller reviews you’ve been making lately.
Bart was clearly intelligent if he went to Law School. Personally I feel Bart just couldn't be bothered with schoolwork due to his ADHD getting in the way. (Also why am i making a headcanon about a show I haven't watched since the movie)
The "Lisa's First Word" episode established that Bart had his school hopes crushed by a critical and jaded kindergarden teacher. Citing him doing one extra clap during a class song as "not college material" and how his inability to cite his ABCs would doom him to many "F"s in his future.
Hell, one of the things that showed this was the episode where Bart pulled one too many pranks, and as a punishment, his father destroyed his ticket for the Itchy and Scratchy movie (which even Lisa found to be excessive) and went out of his way to ensure Bart never saw it, because Homer wanted to show his son that he needed to be disciplined, and by doing so without violence (something very rare of Homer to do), the punishment worked and the lesson stuck with Bart. By the time he was able to finally see the movie, Bartholomew James Simpson was a Supreme Court Justice.
The thumbnail being a Lisa meme made me laugh harder than I thought.
As Bennet the sage once said: "Time isn't a flat circle, it's a middle finger"
"When the left tries to parody right-wing people, they create Ron Swanson, the most likeable, relatable, decent person on their show. When the left makes a left-wing character and plays it completely straight, you get Lisa Simpson, a character that everyone, in and out of universe, can’t stand."
You can thank them for the fact that the writers are mainly in the 4 big states.
I am not familiar with the show Parks and Recreation. I had to look up what show he was on (here on RUclips). However, I do agree that Lisa Simpson is as tolerable as a terrible commercial. For example, the Cars for Kids commercial. Listen to a little bit of that jingle, and it's just as bad as Lisa.
Where is that quote from?
@@easter9393 just grabbed it from tumblr
Joe Swanson‘s son Kevin was a military deserter. Any opportunity to make soldiers look bad while behind the scenes kissing up to the oligarchs who actually sent them off to war.
The Simpsons were all about using typical stereotypes and living habits in the United States and then making fun of it during a time when the world looked different (80s-90s)
However, when the series began to copy other series ways to create humor (Family guy / South park) in combination with following modern trend / Tech, much of what made Simpsons so special disappeared.
Such as turning character in 2 dimensional characters, Having Pointless celebrities, saying noob or just the fact that thet use an touch iphone.
They were also about being the opposite of what the typical sitcom was in the 80s and early 90s. Back then, there was no Family Guy or South Park. Most sitcoms were similar to the Cosby Show with completely functional families with a father that was competent at his job, both parents were great role models, and the show tried to teach the viewer an important lesson, ie "Don't skip class", "listen to your parents", etc.
@@foxymetroid Reminds me of the Family Guy crossover episode with Stewie being fascinated by Bart's simple life.
Simpson characters having to use tablets or iPhones really brought home the fact of them needing to be hip and up to dare so painfully obvious.
Spongebob and his friends didnt get that technology in that decade. In fact, they seemed to remain in the 2000a since they sometimes use old flip phones but not tablets or iPhones in Bikini bottom. As bad as the show got post first film, they never had to constantly upgrade to new devices to continue
There’s no such thing as smart people. Nobody knows anything.
Except Xavier Renegade Angel. He had his brains together. You should watch it!
Renember episodes like Lisa the Beauty Queen, Lisa's Rival or I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can when Lisa could NOT always be the best? An actual good moral that a lot of people can relate with, instead of the "Lisa is special" (not you, LISA) moral.
Also I hate when they treat Bart like an idiot and a failure. He can be even better than Lisa when is about something he is really interested.
I mean several episodes show he could be a TV producer, a Cop, a Scoutmaster, a Farmer, a Sailor, a Lawyer, a small business owner, a pro athlete, a pop star, or even just a Fry Boy and he’d excel and be happy with any of them and more.
The most realistic thing for Lisa’s character is her becoming an unhinged Light Yagami knight Templar who kills everyone she thinks is wrong in the latest Halloween special.
My favorite part was the Westworld parody. The characters are all soulless automatons going through the motions of being real. It's a perfect metaphor for the show now. (And notice all the references were to 90s episodes.)
Remember when people wanted more lisa episodes. Back around season 8. Also that 70s show is getting a spin off called the that 90s show
"Remember when people wanted more lisa episodes." That's a reality in Japan.
Great video and I agree, Lisa will be always that character who always feels different from everyone so she will never feel "normal" herself, she always comes across as a contrarian for the sake to be contrarian. I miss the Lisa that was the voice of reason, this character gets worse and worse written as the seasons passes, are The Simpsons going to be eternal? They even repeat the same tropes they did in the past with worse execution over and over again. Remember when this character was relatable? That was soo long ago!
The whole "twist" at the end could've been prevented if they just introduced homers mom and also herb, two simpsons mainstay characters (multiple episodes) who are smart and are simpsons, and the whole ending could be lisa realizing that "the simpsons gene" is a hoax and stupid.
I remember loathing this episode when I watched it because something about it just felt off to me.
And then you brought up She of Little Faith and I'm just so annoyed now and wishing the movie was the last thing from it.
Love this video! such a good review man, great work!!!!! And love the part at the end about being smart and unhappy, or being dumb and happy. it was brilliant!
One thing though. I thought this was just some random meme picture when scrolling by, and almost didn't watch the video until the notification came up 😅.
This was very well put together! Great job to you and the team with this one!
I know that the Simpsons loves to dump on Bart for being “dumb”, but he used to be extremely intelligent in other ways aside from academics; he could speak French and learn languages quickly. He could be (and still is) manipulative and able to quickly problem-solve. I hope it becomes canon that he ends up going into law, he’d make an amazing lawyer.
Honestly what job could Lisa have besides trying (and most likely failing) to be president? Bart has shown in several episodes he could be a successful TV producer, could be a Scoutmaster of the Jr Campers, he could be a farmer or a sailor, he could run a small business shop, he could be a pro athlete in baseball, golf, or hokey, or even be a pop star.
Additionally he really isn’t dumb he just doesn’t care about school and finds it boring. If you give him a prank or something he can put together a clever plan because that actually interests him. They even did an episode on this idea where superintendent chambers had to teach Bart and he was able to get him to learn a lot about teddy Roosevelt because his story was actually very interesting to Bart or in another episode Bart was playing a video game about destroying the capitals of each state and it was able to somewhat teach him about them
Yeah, he should be. I mean, could you imagine a world without lawyers? *Shudders*
Did this episode air before the episode that stated Homer was only dumb because he shoved a crayon up his nose when he was a kid and when said crayon was removed he became intelligent? They couldn't even keep that going for long could they?
and the crazy thing is years before that episode there was a comic story that was basically the same plot, where homer became smarter after an experiment by Professor Frink but he just ends up miserable
Yes, this one was three seasons earlier. And it was actually supposed to be from Season 8, but got held over.
This episode is completely pointless. They created a non-issue with a resolution that, also, doesn't mean anything. And as for male Simpsons getting dumber, didn't Homer sacrifice his dream of running his own bowling alley for the sake of his children and went back to his abusive boss and a job that he clearly did not enjoy because it paid more? A dumb person wouldn't do that, not even for their kids. Homer also got a College Degree in one episode, and yeah, he did burn down his house, getting a College degree is no easy feat. The "Simpsons gene" was just created for the sole purpose of saying "Guys are dumb, Girls are smart" and that's about it. As for using Bart as an example, Bart isn't a dumbass, he just doesn't care about his studies enough to make good grades in school. He probably wouldn't be as smart as Lisa, but he be smart enough to get by with what talent he got. Plus, the law school thing and all. Also, how is Bart doing dumb things with his dad in this episode makes him dumb? With how bad the two are towards each other why is it a sin that the two are doing something together that they enjoy? 🤨
This is why inconsistent continuity is a problem in shows like this. Shows could be episodic while also referencing past events, but if you're not consistent then it will lead to previously established instances being forgotten or ignored for something convenient to the episode it's in, family Guy does this a lot too.
A spanish youtuber called max power has already addressed the whole "simspons continuity" problem.
he showed screenshots of one of the simpsons writers twitter account. tim long's specifically, with said writer saying stuff like "continuity is kind of a hassle, so we just ignore it when we want to tell a specific story" (not the exact text but it iskinda the spirit)
Continuity doesn't exist in the Simpsons...until it's needed for the latest episode.
Watching this video I couldn't help but think back to an episode that decided to explain Homer's stupidity.
When he was a kid he shoved a crayon so far up his nose it got stuck in his brain, after having it removed he was shown to be intelligent but miserable so he shoved one back in. Any one else remember that episode?
I remember the days when Homer is not stupid per say but does stupid things due to anger, arrogance, not thinking thoroughly, and/or being drunk. The writers could have continued to use those simple reasons, but decided to do stupid things instead such as genes and crayons up the nose.
Lisa stated in that episode that intelligence going up often makes happiness go down.
Well, the crayon stuck in his brain, his lifestyle as a drinker, smoking, militar experiment, the nuclear plant and many of his accidents took a toll on Homer's brain.
I like how it might actually be at 40 by the time this review is 2 years old
Just because someone is happy doesn't mean that they're doing good,much less a good person
A person can be happy smashing certain sentient small creatures,even newborn ones
This is one of the best times you could have made that statement.
True, but from what I’ve seen, I’d much rather be friends with Ralph than Lisa, he’s dumb but the only nice kid at the school
I have to say, I do enjoy these videos where you talk about the episodes over when you just go scene by scene. Hope to see more!
Talking about sitcoms being sexist, I personally saw three different sitcoms from the 90s or early 2000s base their plot around forcing/guilt tripping the male lead into getting a vasectomy. Because their wives wanted to continue boinking, but it was the guys who had to have their junk cut up in surgery, and it was implied heavily they were being *selfish* for not wanting to.
Just the ones I've seen do this: Home Improvement, According to Jim and Modern Family
Modern Family?
Scrubs did it too.
@@AkameGaKillfan777 Yep, there was a whole episode where Phil was being pressured into a vasectomy he clearly did not want, and everyone basically acted like he just has to go through with it, no matter what.
The episode even framed him running away from the hospital as "being cowardly" in a "comedic" way.
@@WeirdWonderful It is kind of selfish to still want to risk embregnating your wife when vasectomy is way easier than getting tubes tied. Vesectomies are not cheap either so it would make sense to refuse to avoid credit card debt. If money is not an issue, what kind of guy does not want to get a vasectomy?
@@inovakovsky Me, for example.
The whole episode was based on Lisa throwing a pity party and dragging everyone else into it because she couldn’t immediately solve a puzzle. That’s it. She has an existential crisis because she isn’t the smartest person in the room for once in her life.
All because of a puzzle.
The whole "Simpsons curse" was kind of stupid.
Herbert was a very smart character who get ruined by homer's car.
He build his fame and entreprise throught hard-work over the years.
One episode in season 2 featured Bart trying to do better in school to avoid repeating 4th grade. He struggled with concentrating on schoolwork. So he might have ADHD, ADD, or something that needs managing.
The message in "Lisa Goes Gaga" is really confusing. She makes up a fake persona to give herself exaggerated praise at all times, which is somehow not seen as a bad thing, and then ends up being rewarded for vainly stroking her own ego in a ploy to make herself popular, by singing a duet with one of the most famous singers of the present day, with lyrics specifically tailor made for her to sing about how awesome she is.
If any other character did this, it would be framed as a bad thing.
She cares more about making a statement more than the actual statement.
the perfect example for modern feminist women and so called activists.
If we're going by when The Simpsons were the Tracey Ullman shorts, Bart would've been born in 1977 and Lisa in 1979.
If The Simpsons is so good at predicting the future e.g. 9/11, COVID, why didn't they do anything about them instead of doing the same shit for over 30 years??
Last night I watched a modern episode. I don’t know how new it was, but it was definitely recent. The plot centered around Krusty getting fired and his assets being seized because a businessman showed up claiming revenge. We find out that the old businessman actually founded Krusty burger alongside Grandpa Simpson, but Krusty stole everything from their small burger joint after they fired him. Abe is made a company executive with his old friend, whose children are also in the company. A rich powerful woman manipulates Lisa (the only one smart enough to help Abe) into backdooring the company. Turns out the old man only hired Abe because he was senile and would give him corporate power. Then Lisa and Abe just leave.
The episode pandered, had useless references, and actively just added a bunch of shit to lore which would have certainly been mentioned before. Topping it off was Lisa’s annoying pretentiousness and sudden change of heart at the end to thinking her grandfather wasn’t actually that dumb. The episode literally began with her giving him a competency test.
You're talking about Meat is Murder from Season 33. I agree it's a horrible episode. Don't forget about the pointless appearance of the Tiktoker Charli D'amelo 😖
apparently the writers forgot about the crayon shoved in homers nostril.
He made himself stupid by choice, not because a gene turned him into one.
this episode honestly felt like a "they're doomed to be stupid because insert vague genetic disability"
it felt so ignorant because
1. THE CRAYON BRUH
2. Stereotypes~
as someone else pointed out this episode actually pre-dates that episode
@@wolfekupo5651 Yes, so if the writers forgot anything, it was this episode, not HOMR (crayon ep)
I don't even know why they made Lisa a Buddist when she's the show's biggest Karen at times.
My guess is that the writers view it as a new age religion an have taken a somewhat mystical view of it. It’s kind of like how some anime use Catholic imagery.
@@ahatt96 I think she is buddhist for being "spiritual but not religious" in a way that justifies her dabbling vegetarianism. That and Buddhism is perceived to be the most compatible to a social liberal.
@@inovakovsky Sounds about right.
Two words: virtue signaling
This episode was the first time I noticed a contradiction in the series's writing. In the episode HOMR, it is shown that the only reason Homer is dumb is because there is a crayon stuck in his brain, and after having it removed, he becomes intelligent.
That episode contained a sweet ending where Homer returned to his stupidity and left Lisa a letter saying he'd rather return to his original role as her father before the operation. The episode showcased no one enjoys a know it all ruining it for everyone and he got conked out twice for it. Once at Moe's by a friend of his because his nuclear report to burns got them all fired and then the second time at the movies by a rando because he guessed the ending of the film spoiling it. Once he got kicked out, he found no happiness with a lack of smart outlets and decided he'd rather be a lovable oaf then a smart jerk
5:35 That was a Treehouse of Horror episode. You know, one of the ones that has no continuity to the rest of the series.
1:05 I saw people commenting in another one of your Simpsons reviews about Marge's voice actor getting old.
The dumb Simpson gene thing is make irrelevant by the fact that Bart becomes chief justice. That takes smarts
I just can’t stand Lisa Simpson anymore, she was tolerable in the early seasons. But she’s the biggest woke hypocrite, she pushes her stupid beliefs on other people and not realize she’s just selfish! Also the actress Yeardley Smith is a woke actress just like Lisa, she is just like the stubborn lady from Maximum Overdrive she also portrayed!
Unlike the other voice actors on the show, she only does Lisa Simpson and no other characters.
@@Attmay she only voices Lisa and some of the minor characters that are mostly random kids in Springfield!
"Milhouse?? Are ya dead??"
@@SuperWolsey even Milhouse is a better character than Lisa!
"The Principal and the Pauper" is the most controversial episode to come from the 9th season of The Simpsons.
But this episode, which is contrived, sexist and just plain stupid, at least in my personal opinion, takes the cake as *the worst season 9 episode.*
damn bro your whole speech at the end about smart people really just kinda hurt. like its something I already knew and I've tried to make peace with it long ago but still ouch. I think it'd be interesting if we got an episode just exploring that for Lisa like I know it was sorta touched on in HOMR but nothing in depth for me personally. just cuz its what I know how about just as a quick scene a wall of all of Lisa's awards and achievements she's earned all throughout the show. we watch her trying and studying yet again for a really important statewide test very important top 5 get a scholarship and a trophy maybe. we watch her throughout the episode doing her day to day thing reading, in class, practice her sax, studying that kinda stuff. but closer attention would show you its more than that. the book she's reading something long and complex that's a masterpiece most people are haunted by years after reading it, while in class she makes perfect 100s on everything with remarks and stickers from multiple teachers and skinner, the piece she's practicing on her sax Mozart or the jazz equivalent, the stuff she's studying college level classes everything from philosophy to physics. hell you could even have her do something not brainy to really hammer it in like as an example from my life running 10 miles or so on the treadmill in their basement for a few hours. at the end of the episode she of course lands the top spot and is the highest scorer on the test winning the scholarship and the trophy. later after the festivities and stuff are through she places the trophy on the shelf and just looks at it. no real reaction no or at least very low sense of pride just a feeling of ok that's done now what? pretty much showing that everything Lisa does is just to check it off on a list. she does this stuff because well its something to do and while she's very driven and not at all lazy and actually might still find some enjoyment out of those things at the end of the day it just dosen't mean anything to her its just a task something she does because well why not?
I was there at the first episode of Simpsons. My parents wondered about it, saw a bit of it, turned off the TV and said it was banned in the house. I never watched it again and went back to shows my 5 or 6 year old mind would rather see: Tranformers, G.I.Joe, TMNT, Gummi Bears, He-Man, Dino-Riders, etc. Years later I went back to see what the show is about and I honestly don't see the appeal at all.
I think it was because before The Simpsons sitcoms were usually flat, bland affairs with adorable children haphazardly stuffed in them.
Yeah Tiny Toon Adventures was funnier, so was Animaniacs.