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Jeff Albertson (Comic book guy) is the first extra they've developed beyond a running-gag; it'd be good for the show if they start doing something with all the other extras (Mexican Bumblebee-man, Captain McCallister, sideshow Mel, Miss Hoover, Raphael the sarcastic clerk, etc.)
@@charlesburns7391That doesn’t mean they cannot be expanded upon? In fact there were episodes devoted to side characters. In that context, they were ‘main characters’. Huckleberry Fin was a side character in Tom Sawyer. The sequel decided to focus on Huckleberry who became more likeable than Tom. This shit happens all the time in stories. The comment section is pure aids.
Part of the problem is the characters don’t fit in modern day. When the show started Homer & Marge we’re boomers, which made sense with Grandpa being a WWII veteran. Homer and Marge would be Millennials at this point which just feels wrong.
As a millennial this hits me. I grew up identifying with Bart and now I have identify with Homer. Also with them being boomers somehow The Simpsons were considered almost poor. And if they're millennials now to me they're rich.
They were sort of depicted as Millennials in a more recent flash-back episode where Marge was part of a high school play about Y2K. And yes, it was as bad as you're imagining.
I always found it weird that they did not let them age, it didn't need to be every year but why not 1 year every 5 seasons? I have the same problem with Bobs burgers although that one is still a delight .
@@jaylong4705" Yes, the Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts. Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable?"
I always said. The Simpsons needed (i say needed because i don't even want it now) a time skip event. Where both Bart and Lisa are going to highschool, while maggie has to go to elementary, not only you keep the elementary school setting with new kids. But you also can present new teachers at highschool while meeting familiar faces. Ironically this is the only panorame in the series that was never explored. We always got characters past university in the time skip episodes. That would also create some new scenarios for Homer and Marge. New arcs for Maggie. Explore how the time skip changed Springfield beyond a one off episode. This never happened, and will never, and honestly looking what the series turned into, i don't want this anymore, i just want the series to end.
Absolutely! That was the thing I've been thinking for YEARS! They would've tried with a two-part episode to see how that worked...but I fully agree with your whole comment.
I think that’s a good solution, but look at King of the Hill and Bob’s Burgers. Those shows are known for their quality and consistency and hardly anything changes in them. There are character shake-ups in those shows, KOTH in particular has people aging up, characters dying, relationships ending or starting, but overall, things don’t change too much in those shows.
The Simpsons' decline in quality was caused by the fact that it ran way longer than it should have. FOX refuses to cancel it due to the fact it was once the most popular TV show during the early 1990s. Most Simpsons' fans only watch the first 8 or 10 seasons.
Yep really no show ( regardless of type) should last longer than 10 seasons. South Park seems too be the exception too the rule and Bob's Burgers quality has remarkably held up despite being in its 12th season.
I'd say the show stayed pretty good until around the death of Phil Hartman, whose final appearance was early on in Season 10. S10, while the decline in quality is apparent, was the last season where I think there was more good than bad.
and funny thing is that in the behind the laughter episode, homer says to the mixing guy " this is the last season we're making" and he nods, an inside joke that should have been a warning to end it all when it was still fun
Simplest Simpsons Solution. Only watch the earlier series. Forget the new one's, it's notwithstanding the test of time. Think about it like this. 'If it were a car, it would now be a collectable antique type'! The former writers have moved on. SIMPSONS is over, apart from the previous old series.
I think they missed a trick not ageing everybody up. Bart going to middle and high school then getting a job. They could even be kinda meta and draw him almost like Homer when he starts a family. Homer should be the new Grandpa. Etc
In a world of everyone growing up in the Simpsons, what would the fate of Barney be? Bearing in mind that the liver is the most forgiving organ in the body, would he have qualified for a transplant, been in and outta rehabilitation or be DEAD? I know that's dark, but isn't that the truth, no?
@@disneyboy3030 the fact that the Future episodes are siloed off, contradict each other, and have no actual bearing on the rest of the story is, in fact, exactly why I said this. The Future episodes clearly belie a desire on the writers’ part to do MORE with the characters (even if it’s just a costume change in the near-future segments), so the imminent reset button they always have leaves a sour taste in my mouth. The first 3 Future episodes were some of my most rewatched home tapings of the show, but it was always bittersweet because I knew none of it “really counted” for the characters. “What if time actually passed?” as an episode conceit just calls extra attention to the problems with the floating setup. Other sitcoms dealt with the characters growing up just fine, without disturbing their setup too much as to become unrecognisable - The Simpsons should have done it too. Lisa and/or Bart would’ve had their own kids about 10 seasons ago and kept the wheel turning, we wouldn’t have lost any archetypes to tell the stories with. Kids who watch the show today could even look back on the earlier episodes and have a moment of their minds blowing as The Father was once The Son, and it _actually happened_ and _actually mattered_ rather than simply being speculative.
I'm under the impression that The Simpsons don't want to lose their "longest running animated series" title. I don't think Family Guy and South Park will end until they have a shot at that title. They're all just gonna keep going until one of them decides to call it quits.
Trey and Matt said 'South Park' will most likely end around Season 30, or at least by the time they reach their 60s. They still enjoy writing, voicing and editing new episodes.
A part of me feels like the reason they're giving so many characters a sense of finality these last several seasons is because the writers, on some level, understand that the show is on the verge of ending. Marge's voice actor is in her 70s now and the voice clearly is doing a number on her vocal chords. Bart and Homer's voice actors are in their mid 60s now, and with them not far behind in age, god knows how much longer we have left with them. Nancy Cartwright, who voices Bart, is the least likely to die any time soon, barring some horrific accident or surprise illness. But given that 3 of the 4 main characters' voice actors are nearing the end of their life, I doubt the show can go on much longer. Season 40 seems less and less likely to me as time passes, and Season 50 seems outright impossible.
The second longest-running cartoon ended earlier this year - Arthur (25 years). And they did it nicely, coming full circle to the first episode. The Simpsons' time will come eventually, and I'm sure they could to the same with the final scene being driving to the Christmas pageant.
That is depressing but if they enjoying making episodes let them do it ! It's been on way too long, It should be rebooted to current day since it came out. What if the entire time all the episodes that are based in the same timeline but change things around episodes to seasons, what if it was Honer in a cryogenic pod or life pod like in the Fallout games. The entire running time of all the episodes was a duration Homer was in a pod dreaming of better times and could manipulate his environment. Like meeting constant celebrities. Be a plot twist that could be lazy writing or something more
60s and 70s aren't *that* old nowadays, not "god knows how much longer we have with them" old at any rate, but enough is definitely enough. Let poor Julie Kavner rest her damn voice.
I'm purely guessing, but it's possible that most viewers of the Simpsons (ie more than half) watch dubbed versions. To them, what happens to the English voices isn't important. And to the Anglosphere, a voice actor can be replaced without too much upset. They could probably find people who sound more like 90s Simpsons than the current actors do!
I absolutely love the golden age of the Simpsons and consider that time the most well-written comedy in television history. The show was my life as a kid. Then it just kept going, getting more bland and unwatchable with each passing season. I finally bailed out some time around 2005. Once in a while I'd try watching again, but I couldn't sit through an entire episode. In fact, the Homer as Kurt Cobain episode actually made my physically angry and disgusted. Seeing the Simpsons now is like seeing your funny uncle who shaped your entire sense of humor being kept alive on tubes so his family can take advantage of him. It's just tragic.
@@Jarod-te2bi 2-8. Season Two is a little shaky, but has episodes like Lisa's Substitute and Three Men and a Comic Book that are undeniable classics. And I still remember the day the first episode of Season Nine (The City of New York vs Homer Simpson) premiered, recognizing unmistakably that the show had become something else.
To be honest, I don’t think it would matter if The Simpsons stuck rigidly to the same formula forever if it was at least consistently _funny._ Because that’s ultimately what we all loved about the show.
@@andrewhogan6533 I don’t know about that. When I think back to some of my all time funniest Simpsons moments (Land of Chocolate, Boo-urns, Only WHO can prevent forest fires? Everything’s coming up Milhouse! See you in Hell candy boys… I could literally go on and on and on) I don’t see much that wouldn’t fly today. Modern Family Guy is way more “un-PC” than classic Simpsons ever was.
@@andrewhogan6533 I can’t believe I didn’t mention my all time _favorite_ moment… when the guy eats the lemon! I don’t know how anyone could find that offensive.
I think one of the main reasons I always gravitated to Futurama over The Simpsons as Groening's better work was that Futurama had an over arching story line (Fry and Leela), whereas The Simpsons never really had that, and was really just a series of sketches.
Really, Futrama was an overarching storyline? I mean sure it references past events, but... I don’t know, things didn’t really experience changes until maybe the movie season, but defiantly the reboot series... And some people didn’t even like that apparently. I just don’t see it.
Futurama had very little but always welcome character development, Not only the dynamic between Fry and Leela change trough the episodes, every few episodes a new change was introduced in the show experimenting with how the characters would react to the new events. While The simpsons have done this several times, it never really did to the main characters beyond the first season, maybe second if the writers remember Homer Heart condition. Granpa is still alive. They still have the same cat despite the family often mentioning how often their cats die. Homer is still at 7 G. Apu had more character development than the main family trough the episodes.
Imagine if the Simpsons are still on in 2050 and in that episode in the future I'm talking about in the actual future in real life 2050 and in one of the episodes during that time of The Simpsons seasons old grandpa Abe Simpson talks about how he got his first smartphone when he was just a little boy of 5 years old
@@toothpasteea2345 or Homer's age can change for him to be younger in the future episodes like Homer is 28 by the time Lisa is 8 and the reason why Homer is bald and fat because he tore the hair out when he realized he was going to have kids with his wife and he couldn't afford it and he also did stress eating because of it
It's sad that when the Simpsons eventually ends it won't be remembered for the golden era episodes , but remembered as they show that just refused to end. It has to end when the main VA's retire or eventually pass away. no one is going to remember the Simpsons fondly anymore and it's honestly so sad bc of how brilliant the show was.
Homer has not offered sincerity of this caliber in quite some time. It was a quality that made him endearing in the early seasons that later seasons forgot in favor of chaos. Hopefully this earnestness remains for a time.
I really liked his last line in Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind from season 19 when Marge asks if he's gonna drink. And he simply says "No, I want to remember this moment." Gets me every time.
They need to age them up once and for all. Make Bart and Lisa middle-aged, Maggie 30-something, Homer and Marge seniors, etc. Let the voice actors sound the part again, and let the flashbacks actually be more in line with the classic onces Homer and Marge told taking place in the 70's and 80's, prior to the show.
The Simpsonsbare a relic of the 1990's where they should have stayed. Many of the concepts like Homer being able to buy a house and a car and still have 3 kids are completely disconnected from the reality of the average dude at his age in this era.
The Simpsons today is advertising for the theme park no question about it Marge sounds absolutely horrible now. It must be torture to voice someone like that for decades
@@craigusselman546 she needs to just rest and rake in her royalties. But I guess you can't force her?? I don't know about contracts they have so who knows
Modern Simpsons does still produce the laughs. In some senses, it can be pretty dense with "jokes". The Golden Age told cohesive stories and packed in the jokes, and it was consistent. I don't hate modern simpsons, I just don't ever feel compelled to watch it.
This is consequence of how they deal with the writing staff now. Before they had a consistent writing staff with an ocassional guest and the episodes were worked on by the entire staff. But recent seasons are written by a single writer, and clearly there is no proofreading of some of the jokes. Because, some of them fail miserably.
it only produces cringe, nothing is funny because of moment but because they think that saying "oh marge you have toy soldier in your hair" is funny. if you find that funny, then no wonder they keep making shit like that
i agree I don't think its something thats terrible i mean not enough to waste time writing a whole paragraph on why its bad on yt haha but its ok and if its on its on
Future-centric episodes were really fun and different when they first did them but I started to hate them over time. It's like listening to a person saying what they're going to do, yet never doing it. Never making the commitment and crossing the line, just perpetually saying what if. . . . homer passed away, what if, Bart grew up a dropout, what if, Lisa couldn't find true happiness.
@@Nightweaver1 I apologize if you're being sarcastic but there's a good video on RUclips that show's how that actually never happened. It was a segment in a short that happened after Donald started talking about running for president. I think it was Big Joel, but I could be wrong.
@@rmj8905 I think I know the line you mean, the recession after President Trump line? It's the episode were Lisa is president, Bart is a Beach bum and Millhouse is Vice President or something. Trumps been talking about running for President since 1987. Almost as long as the Simpsons were on air at the time.
The problem isn't the lack of character progression or major changes. The problem is the writers of of the Simpsons in the past were fans of various older comedies and used that inspiration in their writing. But the current writers are fans of The Simpsons. It's has been such a cultural juggernaut that it's been devouring itself for years. Repeating storylines and resetting itself to repeat them again and again and again.
That and they don't age them. If they aged them from the beginning slowly it would mean still having character focused episodes instead of running out of material since everything has been done to death
Growing up in the 90s The Simpsons were appointment viewing for me and my family. After I graduated high school I kept up for a little while but stopped watching. Every so often I'd catch an episode here or there but the humor and characters just weren't the same any more and as the animation became more lifeless as they moved to digital animation I just stopped caring. It kind of makes me sad that I went to seeing every episode for like 12 seasons or so to almost less than a 3rd.
I remember being obsessed with the Simpsons growing up, but I remember something just changing when my brother and I watched the 'fake Skinner' episode, and then later seeing the 'fat Tony replacement' episode, it just clicked off for both of us. I know everyone talks about the fake Skinner episode, so I was glad that you mentioned the Fat Tony episode because it was the final nail in the coffin for us.
For me it was the episode where they killed off Maude. They turned Homer into a total psychopath. They could've done it so many better ways. Why ruin Homer's character like that?
I COMPLETELY AGREE- the fake Skinner episode is sooo stupid! Plus the episode when Homer is in college and gets into grunge when we all know that Homer was raised in the 60's-70's...
This show legit needs to end. Real life actors have sadly died during the course of this series as well as characters in the show. 35 years is the amount if time it takes to grow up and have a family with 2 kids. It really should end at this point.
My biggest issue with this episode is that Maya hasn't been seen or mentioned since. Which has me worried for Moe's future. She's not become like Kimiko, who's by her husband's side when he's out. And Moe hasn't brought her up once, even though he might be able to relate to Homer's married life more now.
I haven’t watched a new episode of ghe Simpsons in almost 20 years, I’m good with watching the older episodes when it still made sense, funny and wasn’t forced
They did an episode to start Season 33 where they got a singer to sing Marges lines for the parts of the episode where she sings which was even more distracting. I'd rather have it be terrible and hard to listen to then straight up changing the voice actress for several scenes.
the description text is a lie. The show is not uneven after season 20. Its pure garbage after season 10. They should have killed it when they started Futurama.
this show should strongly consider indulging in a positive continuity by letting characters age. I would genuinely start watching the show again if they did that (and made that permanent!)
It feels so weird when originally Homer was born in the mid fifties, his dad was a ww2 veteran, skiner was a Vietnam war veteran etc - and now Homer is influencer , they have modern electronics like flatscreens smart tvs etc, when you think about it, grandpa should be around 100 years , Homer in his seventies and kids around 30-40 , this just feels weird to me
I feel like the writers might end up ending “The Simpsons” but continuing the story of Springfield. There is a lot of weird people, lore, and history to go into with Springfield.
It would be an interesting dynamic, but I don’t know if many would be interested. I mean I’ve got to give credit where credit is due for these fan suggestions.
I can help the show by finding new ways to make fun of modern American society. It will be hard, but still a much easier and better to keep the show alive than ruining your character when you are out of ideas, because Flanders' Ladder is my least favorite The Simpsons episode of all time. Worst. Episode. Ever!
I think the Simpsons giving everyone happiness like this takes away from what made the show real back in the day and further into what it was originally made to be counter culture to in the first place.
I love the simpsons. The show will always have a special place in my heart. It was a big part of my childhood. But I haven't watched the simpsons in about a decade. I still watch the reruns on the regular. But like all shows the magic will end eventually especially with writers leaving and not coming up with good ideas. But I will say this when the simpsons does come to an end it will be a sad day for simpsons fans everywhere.
The sound, animation, storyline, and most importantly the character consistency, for instance, Lisa sounds horrible, looks horrible, and her character arch sucks
The first 10 seasons are pretty much the gold standard for me. After that it goes up and down quite dramatically. Now, i don't think The Simpson's will ever be a "bad" show...but you're in deep denial if you think it's just as funny and interesting as what it was in the 90's.
I stopped watching The Simpsons after season 19 episode Mona Leaves-a became my breaking point until I saw seasons 32 and 33 which I considered a little bit of an improvement that seems more from seasons 13-14. However I hate some gags or jokes that are still familiar from seasons 10-12 and Family Guy, examples includes the "identify gags" in this video.
The worst newer episodes are the ones that feature modern pop stars. I really have no desire to see Billie Eilish or any other fad pop music celebrity on The Simpsons. Those kinds of episodes usually aren't even funny. They're cringe.
I think the show was still enjoyable until about 2001. But even by the late 90s episodes became very hit or miss. There were episodes that would start out great, then go completely off the rails. Sometimes I'll put a recent episode on and read what it's going to be about. It'll sound like it might be good but after a couple of minutes I find it completely unwatchable. But I have to give it credit because for me anyway the first eight years were the best television of all time. There is no sitcom that could make me laugh as much. Those years of absolute genius will always make me adore the show despite over twenty years of crap.
6:05 yeah the whole Fat Tony thing was *the* moment when the show went from being a bit tired and worn out to being just a bad joke that needed to die for me
I had surgery 2 weeks ago and laid up on the couch, I watched the most recent season of the Simpsons on Hulu. I did not laugh once. Ugh, through my early teens into my early 20s I loved this show. Now, nothing. I'll stick with seasons 3-12
I remember how in the 90's, absolutely everyone in my school talked about the show and quotes it constantly. Everyone went "D'oh!", which would usually spark a fun conversation about the show. Goes to show what atmosphere a good show can make when enough effort is put into it. Early Spongebob was the exact same way.
I agree. The Simpsons should have had ended in the 1990s. The show might have a few diamonds in the rust and some clever references to prior episodes and pop culture. It is annoying that they now focus on social media, iOS devices, Alexa, Siri, and other modern gadgets as plot points like also with its publicity stuns and celebrity voice overs that are now more shoe horned. Plus, it’s disappointing that season 33 threw away the couch gags and opening sequence for more commercials, when nowadays most people watching the show via streaming with little to none commercials necessarily required.
I honestly feel bad for Moe, The writers seem to use him as a punching bag and I would've loved to seen them give him some kind of character development.
I watched a single episode after years of not watching it. They had Lizzo as an Elf rapping about how Homer never solved any of his problems, it was all Marge in the background doing it in secret, keeping it hidden so she didn't hurt Homer's "fragile male ego".
For me the Simpsons is a time capsul of my youth; I was barely in Elementary school when the show started and by the time I was in high school the show just didn't do it for me anymore. I can go back and watch seasons 1 through 10 and be thoroughly entertained, but after that the show just feel foreign to me. I certainly don't dislike the newer episodes for the Reddit level reasons many on the internet site, but for me it just has to do with my personal connection to the show.
Alright, I have the solution that will fix zombie Simpsons. Ready? Multiverse Simpsons. Check it out: The show wants to be episodic, the audience wants change, why not have both? Have Professor Frink invent a device that accidentally tears a hole in space-time and causes a rift to open. Homer enters it, thinking it's a donut shop, and ends up in season one simpsons. Same art, same 80's/90's aesthetic, you have dark skin Smithers, Bleeding Gums Murphy, the whole shebang. This intro to the multiverse will prime the audience for future episodes to take place in older sinpsons setting as well as new universes with fresh ideas that the writers can play with. Any bad ideas gets shoved into the bad universes and the good ones appear more, some remain episodic while others progress naturally. The cross-over potential is enormous, like an episode I'll call "A Clown Car of Bobs" where Sideshow Bob teams up with other versions of himself to take down Bart. It's not perfect and is basically an admission that they're out of ideas but, hey, at least they can go out with a few good episodes.
I was dreading the moment where you'd go, "Then the episode fucks it up and Moe goes back to being miserable" Relieved that such moment a moment didn't happen lol
Like most people, I haven't watch any Simpsons past season 14 or maybe earlier. Maybe this is a sign that they'll be wrapping things up if even a character like Moe can end up happy. There's too many characters to provide closure for but ones like that are great for long time fans.
I've known the simpsons since the first episode, and I haven't really bothered to keep up over the last 15 years... but the idea that Moe might actually (deservedly) find happiness has actually been written and realized fulfills a small and sympathetic hope I've had for the poor idiot for the last 30 years.
a short response to 2:43 onwards: They have been trying to do just that since Season 23 starting with Krusty's Father dying, that one lego episode they made a year or two later, and various other ways. They even re-explored the tracey ullman look a few times through gags & the such. The show has been doing all of these things for years, it's just that they go about it in all the wrong ways.
It's ironic how Marge Simpson says it's good for a show to go off the air before it becomes stale and repetitive, upon looking at Family Guy & SpongeBob SquarePants.
@@SpareSomeChange8080 Either way, I'm still watching South Park and the last season had me laughing so I'm happy. Like I said, there ate a lot of Simpsons and Family Guy followers who won't "quit" on their shows.
This is cool! Thanks for covering this. It actually makes me want to give modern Simpsons a try. Sounds like the first well written episode in a long time. Great video!
The simpsons was a show that reflected the 80-90s America lifestyle and culture, albeit with a good dose of humor. From this they created events that provided the basis for the story, such as Lisa and bart going on a summer camp. Stories that felt down-to-earth while still offering funny moments. Modern simpsons is like a remake of a video game that was created in the 90s,. A remake that consists entirely of modern trends, while at the same time proclain to be like the original.. Example they create an remake of pac-man, that are in 3d, Feature an 50h campain, Have lootcrates, You got battle royale, Mitrotransatctions, and the enemies can shoot you.
I think after being on the air into 3 decades now, The Simpsons can and should change up the status quo and develop the characters to give them some kind of ending. The show cannot stay on forever, so if they can move characters along to an end-point and real development then when the day comes that it is finally over, we got closure on things. It would be sad just having Moe being a perpetually depressed and suicidal joke with no hope at all. I like they gave him a win for once, he needed it.
It's like Saturday Night Live, it too, has not been any good for years, and the only thing keep it alive is its history. Same with the Simpsons. In 1990, the Simpsons slapped the mainstream about. In 2022, the Simpsons are now of the mainstream they once slapped about.
Problem is, they're scared of upsetting people with characters played by people who aren't of the faith/belief/colour, but then theyre ok with making fun of belief/colour/faith ...
Normally I would praise the writers/showrunners of The Simpsons for the choice to make Lisa go vegetarian, especially at a time when it wasn't really taken seriously and seen more as a joke... ...Except they only made the change permenant because Paul McCartney would refuse to have a cameo in the episode unless Lisa stayed vegetarian forever. I don't like the idea of a high profile celebrity flexing their clout and status to pressure writers on a show into pushing their political/lifestyle ideals while portraying everyone who doesn't adhere to that lifestyle/political view as close-minded and ignorant.
I watched the show regularly up until around season 13 or 14 cause I felt the quality starting to go down. Tried watching again a few seasons later and just couldn't get into it anymore. I specifically remember watching "The Italian Bob" episode from season 17 and it being the first time I saw a Sideshow Bob episode that I didn't like. Honestly didn't like the movie all that much either but the Family Guy crossover was actually pretty enjoyable and I don't even watch Family Guy. I still stream the early seasons of the show which were absolute genius. The writing and humor were at its peak then and are still hilarious to this day. Sad to see how badly a show that was once my favorite has declined.
I remember coming home after school and waiting to watch the Simpsons. I don't know why I stopped watching it, but it was probably because I gravitated towards shows like Family Guy, Futuruma, and King of the Hill. I haven't watched an episode of the Simpsons probably since the early 2000s!! The viewership of this show is at rock bottom and I'm shocked it wasn't pulled years ago.
I got so annoyed when it came to the election episode. Of course Lisa Simpson is a hardcore Democrat, but she is still a very young child and the fact that she has such hardcore political beliefs, not to mention how it feels like it's being forced on the audience, it's so annoying.
@@KevinLuper99 it's not about voting, it's the fact, the fact, that The Simpsons now feel obligated to push Democratic ideology On To Us, by using one of the Main and beloved characters. If Homer Simpson was, I don't know, fired from the nuclear power plant due to the mayor enacting a bunch of new policies, and he protested it and tried to tell everybody to vote for Donald Trump, every influencer, reporter, commentator and their mothers would be complaining and accusing The Simpsons of trying to force an agenda.
Even as a kid, I noticed the quality decline around season 9 or 10 and gradually lost interest by season 15. What they say about it “losing its soul” is so true. The characters were no longer the same and the joke style got much more silly. I can’t believe there’s been another 20+ seasons since I stopped watching.
4:27 When they made that decision, nobody knew the show was going to run for years. That kind of format is what made the series fell stale the long it went.
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I think the newest episodes are the best episodes I do get them recorded from TV but I erase any episode that is older than like 2007.
very well made clip, so good to see Moe find happiness
I was shocked to find out they don't even have couch gags anymore.
THEY DONT!?
@@Klonoahedgehog Not always, it seems. Likely because more commercial time has crept in now and they need more time for the episode.
@@RocStarr913 What a fucking joke.
WUT
The last good one was the Rick & Morty couch gag.
Calling Krusty's dad a main character deserves all the ridicule possible.
Characters are called side characters for a reason
For real... it's very idiotic.
Jeff Albertson (Comic book guy) is the first extra they've developed beyond a running-gag; it'd be good for the show if they start doing something with all the other extras (Mexican Bumblebee-man, Captain McCallister, sideshow Mel, Miss Hoover, Raphael the sarcastic clerk, etc.)
@@charlesburns7391That doesn’t mean they cannot be expanded upon? In fact there were episodes devoted to side characters. In that context, they were ‘main characters’.
Huckleberry Fin was a side character in Tom Sawyer. The sequel decided to focus on Huckleberry who became more likeable than Tom.
This shit happens all the time in stories.
The comment section is pure aids.
Anyone ever find it weird that Apu's kids aged up over time but Maggie hasn't
yeah. and worst of all. Apu's nephew. he was so young in a 90s episode, then he grew to his 20s.
@@SeyaDiakite7 Really? I guess I dipped before that happened lol
@@TheRealBlackarrot I stopped watching the show during the 2010s. Starting from 89
@@SeyaDiakite7 same here
You know, I keep telling myself it's only a cartoon and not let it bother me, but that is one detail I found really annoying.😅
Part of the problem is the characters don’t fit in modern day. When the show started Homer & Marge we’re boomers, which made sense with Grandpa being a WWII veteran. Homer and Marge would be Millennials at this point which just feels wrong.
As a millennial this hits me. I grew up identifying with Bart and now I have identify with Homer.
Also with them being boomers somehow The Simpsons were considered almost poor. And if they're millennials now to me they're rich.
They were sort of depicted as Millennials in a more recent flash-back episode where Marge was part of a high school play about Y2K. And yes, it was as bad as you're imagining.
@@david_walker_esq 🤢 🤮
I always found it weird that they did not let them age, it didn't need to be every year but why not 1 year every 5 seasons? I have the same problem with Bobs burgers although that one is still a delight .
@@justcurious3653 I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought the floating timeline was an overused cliche in animation.
Trivia: What popular Simpsons character died in season 26?
If answered Hyman Krustofski, you're wrong. That character was never popular.
"I understood that reference."
Is it krusty's dad I think that was 26 or 27
@@locomotivetrainstation6053 McBain voice: "Dat's da joke."
Damn, I still miss those Lionel Hutz bits
@@jaylong4705" Yes, the Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts. Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable?"
I always said. The Simpsons needed (i say needed because i don't even want it now) a time skip event. Where both Bart and Lisa are going to highschool, while maggie has to go to elementary, not only you keep the elementary school setting with new kids. But you also can present new teachers at highschool while meeting familiar faces. Ironically this is the only panorame in the series that was never explored. We always got characters past university in the time skip episodes.
That would also create some new scenarios for Homer and Marge. New arcs for Maggie. Explore how the time skip changed Springfield beyond a one off episode.
This never happened, and will never, and honestly looking what the series turned into, i don't want this anymore, i just want the series to end.
Absolutely! That was the thing I've been thinking for YEARS! They would've tried with a two-part episode to see how that worked...but I fully agree with your whole comment.
That would be cool. Make Maggie a more central character as growing up in a new era.
No they needed to stay on form and not copy Family Guy
I think that’s a good solution, but look at King of the Hill and Bob’s Burgers. Those shows are known for their quality and consistency and hardly anything changes in them. There are character shake-ups in those shows, KOTH in particular has people aging up, characters dying, relationships ending or starting, but overall, things don’t change too much in those shows.
Think there’s a fan comic exploring that concept… and it was reference in a couch gag.
The Simpsons' decline in quality was caused by the fact that it ran way longer than it should have. FOX refuses to cancel it due to the fact it was once the most popular TV show during the early 1990s. Most Simpsons' fans only watch the first 8 or 10 seasons.
yeah i never go past season 8. After that its bad
Yep really no show ( regardless of type) should last longer than 10 seasons. South Park seems too be the exception too the rule and Bob's Burgers quality has remarkably held up despite being in its 12th season.
@@alexandru5369 South Park has gone downhill during the 20th season though.
I'd say the show stayed pretty good until around the death of Phil Hartman, whose final appearance was early on in Season 10. S10, while the decline in quality is apparent, was the last season where I think there was more good than bad.
and funny thing is that in the behind the laughter episode, homer says to the mixing guy " this is the last season we're making" and he nods, an inside joke that should have been a warning to end it all when it was still fun
If the show would've went along with real time, Bart would be about 41 years old😄
Simplest Simpsons Solution. Only watch the earlier series. Forget the new one's, it's notwithstanding the test of time. Think about it like this. 'If it were a car, it would now be a collectable antique type'! The former writers have moved on. SIMPSONS is over, apart from the previous old series.
True I was 9 when the show started same as Bart I am 41 now lol.
@@craigusselman546 Yep! I was eight. Same age as Lisa and I'm 39 going on 40😁😁
@@dalodo3511 Happy early birthday!!!
Congratulations you know how to count.
I think they missed a trick not ageing everybody up. Bart going to middle and high school then getting a job. They could even be kinda meta and draw him almost like Homer when he starts a family. Homer should be the new Grandpa. Etc
Ikr! That would be pretty cool tbh
In a world of everyone growing up in the Simpsons, what would the fate of Barney be? Bearing in mind that the liver is the most forgiving organ in the body, would he have qualified for a transplant, been in and outta rehabilitation or be DEAD? I know that's dark, but isn't that the truth, no?
There have been future episodes like that. And I think that issue has been acknowledged at points.
True
@@disneyboy3030 the fact that the Future episodes are siloed off, contradict each other, and have no actual bearing on the rest of the story is, in fact, exactly why I said this.
The Future episodes clearly belie a desire on the writers’ part to do MORE with the characters (even if it’s just a costume change in the near-future segments), so the imminent reset button they always have leaves a sour taste in my mouth. The first 3 Future episodes were some of my most rewatched home tapings of the show, but it was always bittersweet because I knew none of it “really counted” for the characters. “What if time actually passed?” as an episode conceit just calls extra attention to the problems with the floating setup.
Other sitcoms dealt with the characters growing up just fine, without disturbing their setup too much as to become unrecognisable - The Simpsons should have done it too. Lisa and/or Bart would’ve had their own kids about 10 seasons ago and kept the wheel turning, we wouldn’t have lost any archetypes to tell the stories with.
Kids who watch the show today could even look back on the earlier episodes and have a moment of their minds blowing as The Father was once The Son, and it _actually happened_ and _actually mattered_ rather than simply being speculative.
I'm under the impression that The Simpsons don't want to lose their "longest running animated series" title. I don't think Family Guy and South Park will end until they have a shot at that title. They're all just gonna keep going until one of them decides to call it quits.
Trey and Matt said 'South Park' will most likely end around Season 30, or at least by the time they reach their 60s. They still enjoy writing, voicing and editing new episodes.
Japanese anime already beat them to it 🤣🤣🤣
Sazae-san has 7701 episodes!!!
Lmao have you seen anime? the simpsons will have to sit in its place
@@guileniam I'm obviously talking about american animation here lol but you're right
@JishinimaTidehoshi another example of quantity over quality
A part of me feels like the reason they're giving so many characters a sense of finality these last several seasons is because the writers, on some level, understand that the show is on the verge of ending. Marge's voice actor is in her 70s now and the voice clearly is doing a number on her vocal chords. Bart and Homer's voice actors are in their mid 60s now, and with them not far behind in age, god knows how much longer we have left with them. Nancy Cartwright, who voices Bart, is the least likely to die any time soon, barring some horrific accident or surprise illness. But given that 3 of the 4 main characters' voice actors are nearing the end of their life, I doubt the show can go on much longer. Season 40 seems less and less likely to me as time passes, and Season 50 seems outright impossible.
The thing with voice actors is that they could get replaced if they really wanted to continue the show.
The second longest-running cartoon ended earlier this year - Arthur (25 years). And they did it nicely, coming full circle to the first episode. The Simpsons' time will come eventually, and I'm sure they could to the same with the final scene being driving to the Christmas pageant.
That is depressing but if they enjoying making episodes let them do it !
It's been on way too long, It should be rebooted to current day since it came out.
What if the entire time all the episodes that are based in the same timeline but change things around episodes to seasons, what if it was Honer in a cryogenic pod or life pod like in the Fallout games. The entire running time of all the episodes was a duration Homer was in a pod dreaming of better times and could manipulate his environment. Like meeting constant celebrities.
Be a plot twist that could be lazy writing or something more
60s and 70s aren't *that* old nowadays, not "god knows how much longer we have with them" old at any rate, but enough is definitely enough. Let poor Julie Kavner rest her damn voice.
I'm purely guessing, but it's possible that most viewers of the Simpsons (ie more than half) watch dubbed versions. To them, what happens to the English voices isn't important. And to the Anglosphere, a voice actor can be replaced without too much upset. They could probably find people who sound more like 90s Simpsons than the current actors do!
I absolutely love the golden age of the Simpsons and consider that time the most well-written comedy in television history. The show was my life as a kid. Then it just kept going, getting more bland and unwatchable with each passing season. I finally bailed out some time around 2005. Once in a while I'd try watching again, but I couldn't sit through an entire episode. In fact, the Homer as Kurt Cobain episode actually made my physically angry and disgusted. Seeing the Simpsons now is like seeing your funny uncle who shaped your entire sense of humor being kept alive on tubes so his family can take advantage of him. It's just tragic.
What seasons are the golden age of Simpson’s?
@@Jarod-te2bi 1-8
@@Jarod-te2bi 3-9
you got up to 2005?
@@Jarod-te2bi 2-8. Season Two is a little shaky, but has episodes like Lisa's Substitute and Three Men and a Comic Book that are undeniable classics. And I still remember the day the first episode of Season Nine (The City of New York vs Homer Simpson) premiered, recognizing unmistakably that the show had become something else.
To be honest, I don’t think it would matter if The Simpsons stuck rigidly to the same formula forever if it was at least consistently _funny._
Because that’s ultimately what we all loved about the show.
I suppose, but most of what was funny then is unacceptable today
@@andrewhogan6533 I don’t know about that. When I think back to some of my all time funniest Simpsons moments (Land of Chocolate, Boo-urns, Only WHO can prevent forest fires? Everything’s coming up Milhouse! See you in Hell candy boys… I could literally go on and on and on) I don’t see much that wouldn’t fly today.
Modern Family Guy is way more “un-PC” than classic Simpsons ever was.
@@shelbyvillerules9962 you’re from Shelbyville, anything you say from here on out is invalid.
All jokes aside, it doesn’t take much for people these days to find offense in something
@@andrewhogan6533 I can’t believe I didn’t mention my all time _favorite_ moment… when the guy eats the lemon! I don’t know how anyone could find that offensive.
I think one of the main reasons I always gravitated to Futurama over The Simpsons as Groening's better work was that Futurama had an over arching story line (Fry and Leela), whereas The Simpsons never really had that, and was really just a series of sketches.
Completely agree. Futurama is still my favourite animated sitcom for this very reason! :)
It started that way and then just became a sitcom whereas *Futurama* started as a sitcom.
Really, Futrama was an overarching storyline? I mean sure it references past events, but... I don’t know, things didn’t really experience changes until maybe the movie season, but defiantly the reboot series... And some people didn’t even like that apparently.
I just don’t see it.
@@hiddenflare6169 it was a love story between Fry and Leela, they meet, become friends, get together.
Futurama had very little but always welcome character development, Not only the dynamic between Fry and Leela change trough the episodes, every few episodes a new change was introduced in the show experimenting with how the characters would react to the new events.
While The simpsons have done this several times, it never really did to the main characters beyond the first season, maybe second if the writers remember Homer Heart condition.
Granpa is still alive. They still have the same cat despite the family often mentioning how often their cats die. Homer is still at 7 G. Apu had more character development than the main family trough the episodes.
Simpsons should have ended around 1999-2001 and basically pass the torch to Futurama
Definitely.
I beg to differ. A lot of the jokes are more subtle and go over your head. It has heart though. Some episodes are surprisingly emotional .
@Urban Youth Matt Groening didn’t make King of the Hill
Imagine if the Simpsons are still on in 2050 and in that episode in the future I'm talking about in the actual future in real life 2050 and in one of the episodes during that time of The Simpsons seasons old grandpa Abe Simpson talks about how he got his first smartphone when he was just a little boy of 5 years old
As it's always been, naturally. What WWII history? He was always a Gen Z-er, and it was never anything otherwise.
Which was the style at the time
@@motherplayer everyone knows he fought in WWIII
Bruh it would have to be like 2070 he would be like 40 or so
@@toothpasteea2345 or Homer's age can change for him to be younger in the future episodes like Homer is 28 by the time Lisa is 8 and the reason why Homer is bald and fat because he tore the hair out when he realized he was going to have kids with his wife and he couldn't afford it and he also did stress eating because of it
It's sad that when the Simpsons eventually ends it won't be remembered for the golden era episodes , but remembered as they show that just refused to end. It has to end when the main VA's retire or eventually pass away. no one is going to remember the Simpsons fondly anymore and it's honestly so sad bc of how brilliant the show was.
Homer has not offered sincerity of this caliber in quite some time. It was a quality that made him endearing in the early seasons that later seasons forgot in favor of chaos. Hopefully this earnestness remains for a time.
Let's hope! His character does feel very "off" in some of the later episodes.
I really liked his last line in Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind from season 19 when Marge asks if he's gonna drink. And he simply says "No, I want to remember this moment." Gets me every time.
Homer in new episodes is almost always nothing but a gigantic asshole, and that's one of the reasons I stopped watching. One of many.
They need to age them up once and for all. Make Bart and Lisa middle-aged, Maggie 30-something, Homer and Marge seniors, etc. Let the voice actors sound the part again, and let the flashbacks actually be more in line with the classic onces Homer and Marge told taking place in the 70's and 80's, prior to the show.
No. That wouldn’t work at all.
Lisa in college would work better than being middle aged
Moe and Maya staying together actually makes me so happy
No it doesn't.
Yeah, a Relationship Sue with no real personality is a great partner for Moe.
@@dionst.michael1482 you a mind reader?
@@dionst.michael1482 you're one of those people that thinks everyone has to think like you huh?
@@KevinLuper99 Blah, blah, blah, blabbity blah-blah?! 🤣
I consider The Simpsons after 2004 to be an unauthorized fanfic. A poorly written one at that.
I wish, even really bad fanfiction can be entertaining. Modern Simpsons is just a flatline of nothingness.
What about the movie? I thought that was pretty good.
I deleted every wide-screen episode from my PC. This show isn't even worth pirating anymore.
The Simpsonsbare a relic of the 1990's where they should have stayed.
Many of the concepts like Homer being able to buy a house and a car and still have 3 kids are completely disconnected from the reality of the average dude at his age in this era.
Okay Zoomer.
The Simpsons today is advertising for the theme park no question about it
Marge sounds absolutely horrible now. It must be torture to voice someone like that for decades
Julie Kavner is in her seventies now she cant do it anymore let it go.
@@craigusselman546 she needs to just rest and rake in her royalties. But I guess you can't force her?? I don't know about contracts they have so who knows
Not quite torture. But still jarring, they should let her retire
Modern Simpsons does still produce the laughs. In some senses, it can be pretty dense with "jokes". The Golden Age told cohesive stories and packed in the jokes, and it was consistent. I don't hate modern simpsons, I just don't ever feel compelled to watch it.
This is consequence of how they deal with the writing staff now.
Before they had a consistent writing staff with an ocassional guest and the episodes were worked on by the entire staff. But recent seasons are written by a single writer, and clearly there is no proofreading of some of the jokes. Because, some of them fail miserably.
it only produces cringe, nothing is funny because of moment but because they think that saying "oh marge you have toy soldier in your hair" is funny. if you find that funny, then no wonder they keep making shit like that
Also, most of the stories I've seen feel like boring retreads.
i agree I don't think its something thats terrible i mean not enough to waste time writing a whole paragraph on why its bad on yt haha but its ok and if its on its on
@@Zontar82 haha! It's funny because a toy soldier shouldn't be in a person's hair 🤣🤣 it should be in a child's toy box rofl 😂😂😂
Future-centric episodes were really fun and different when they first did them but I started to hate them over time. It's like listening to a person saying what they're going to do, yet never doing it. Never making the commitment and crossing the line, just perpetually saying what if. . . . homer passed away, what if, Bart grew up a dropout, what if, Lisa couldn't find true happiness.
Remember when they predicted the Trump presidency? Oh how could we forget.
@@Nightweaver1 I apologize if you're being sarcastic but there's a good video on RUclips that show's how that actually never happened. It was a segment in a short that happened after Donald started talking about running for president. I think it was Big Joel, but I could be wrong.
Like professor farnsworths what if machine.
Actually they did predict Trump, but people always play the wrong clip. It was just a small line in an episode.
@@rmj8905 I think I know the line you mean, the recession after President Trump line?
It's the episode were Lisa is president, Bart is a Beach bum and Millhouse is Vice President or something.
Trumps been talking about running for President since 1987. Almost as long as the Simpsons were on air at the time.
The problem isn't the lack of character progression or major changes. The problem is the writers of of the Simpsons in the past were fans of various older comedies and used that inspiration in their writing. But the current writers are fans of The Simpsons. It's has been such a cultural juggernaut that it's been devouring itself for years. Repeating storylines and resetting itself to repeat them again and again and again.
That and they don't age them. If they aged them from the beginning slowly it would mean still having character focused episodes instead of running out of material since everything has been done to death
Huh that’s something i never considered before
It's not just that. It's also the fact that the show has come to rely on abstract craziness instead of relatable situations.
Growing up in the 90s The Simpsons were appointment viewing for me and my family. After I graduated high school I kept up for a little while but stopped watching. Every so often I'd catch an episode here or there but the humor and characters just weren't the same any more and as the animation became more lifeless as they moved to digital animation I just stopped caring.
It kind of makes me sad that I went to seeing every episode for like 12 seasons or so to almost less than a 3rd.
I remember being obsessed with the Simpsons growing up, but I remember something just changing when my brother and I watched the 'fake Skinner' episode, and then later seeing the 'fat Tony replacement' episode, it just clicked off for both of us. I know everyone talks about the fake Skinner episode, so I was glad that you mentioned the Fat Tony episode because it was the final nail in the coffin for us.
For me it was the episode where they killed off Maude. They turned Homer into a total psychopath. They could've done it so many better ways. Why ruin Homer's character like that?
For me I think it was the lady gaga episode
It was the nsync episode for me. I remember as a kid feeling bored and it being totally unlike the simpsons i loved
I COMPLETELY AGREE- the fake Skinner episode is sooo stupid! Plus the episode when Homer is in college and gets into grunge when we all know that Homer was raised in the 60's-70's...
You read that opinion from Reddit and made it personal. Caring about the Principal and the Pauper is autistic as fuck.
This show legit needs to end. Real life actors have sadly died during the course of this series as well as characters in the show. 35 years is the amount if time it takes to grow up and have a family with 2 kids. It really should end at this point.
Who else watches critic videos more than the new episodes? 🤣
Imagine if, instead of "Fit Tony" taking over, Louie became the Don of the Mafia instead. At least that would've been something different.
My biggest issue with this episode is that Maya hasn't been seen or mentioned since. Which has me worried for Moe's future. She's not become like Kimiko, who's by her husband's side when he's out. And Moe hasn't brought her up once, even though he might be able to relate to Homer's married life more now.
It has been confirmed that Maya will indeed show back up again in Season 36 😊
The Simpsons: stamping outdated humor on an outdated show
I haven’t watched a new episode of ghe Simpsons in almost 20 years, I’m good with watching the older episodes when it still made sense, funny and wasn’t forced
Modern Simpsons Marge voice is distractingly bad. I know the voice actress is getting old now..but still..
They did an episode to start Season 33 where they got a singer to sing Marges lines for the parts of the episode where she sings which was even more distracting. I'd rather have it be terrible and hard to listen to then straight up changing the voice actress for several scenes.
Doing the Marge voice had definitely messed up her vocal cords
So true
Who even watches it anymore
the description text is a lie. The show is not uneven after season 20. Its pure garbage after season 10. They should have killed it when they started Futurama.
this show should strongly consider indulging in a positive continuity by letting characters age.
I would genuinely start watching the show again if they did that (and made that permanent!)
It feels so weird when originally Homer was born in the mid fifties, his dad was a ww2 veteran, skiner was a Vietnam war veteran etc - and now Homer is influencer , they have modern electronics like flatscreens smart tvs etc, when you think about it, grandpa should be around 100 years , Homer in his seventies and kids around 30-40 , this just feels weird to me
The final season NEEDS to bring back all the old writers for one last hurrah.
Write a letter to them about it. I am not being mean I am just saying that.
I feel like the writers might end up ending “The Simpsons” but continuing the story of Springfield. There is a lot of weird people, lore, and history to go into with Springfield.
It would be an interesting dynamic, but I don’t know if many would be interested. I mean I’ve got to give credit where credit is due for these fan suggestions.
Its Time for the Simpsons to have more Continuity because then the Show feels more fresh und new.
It's time for your to shuddup!
@@dionst.michael1482 Tf XD okay? Are you okay?
I can help the show by finding new ways to make fun of modern American society. It will be hard, but still a much easier and better to keep the show alive than ruining your character when you are out of ideas, because Flanders' Ladder is my least favorite The Simpsons episode of all time. Worst. Episode. Ever!
@@adampkalb :0
I think the Simpsons giving everyone happiness like this takes away from what made the show real back in the day and further into what it was originally made to be counter culture to in the first place.
I love the simpsons. The show will always have a special place in my heart. It was a big part of my childhood. But I haven't watched the simpsons in about a decade. I still watch the reruns on the regular. But like all shows the magic will end eventually especially with writers leaving and not coming up with good ideas. But I will say this when the simpsons does come to an end it will be a sad day for simpsons fans everywhere.
The sound, animation, storyline, and most importantly the character consistency, for instance, Lisa sounds horrible, looks horrible, and her character arch sucks
Stopped caring for the Simpsons after season 9 which as far as I'm concerned is where the series well and truly finished.
1000% agree
The first 10 seasons are pretty much the gold standard for me. After that it goes up and down quite dramatically.
Now, i don't think The Simpson's will ever be a "bad" show...but you're in deep denial if you think it's just as funny and interesting as what it was in the 90's.
I stopped watching The Simpsons after season 19 episode Mona Leaves-a became my breaking point until I saw seasons 32 and 33 which I considered a little bit of an improvement that seems more from seasons 13-14. However I hate some gags or jokes that are still familiar from seasons 10-12 and Family Guy, examples includes the "identify gags" in this video.
Simpsons say they don't care. Simpsons say they're already rich.
I made it 3 episodes into season 29 (I hadn't sat through a whole season since 18ish) - it's nigh impossible.
The worst newer episodes are the ones that feature modern pop stars. I really have no desire to see Billie Eilish or any other fad pop music celebrity on The Simpsons. Those kinds of episodes usually aren't even funny. They're cringe.
I think the show was still enjoyable until about 2001. But even by the late 90s episodes became very hit or miss. There were episodes that would start out great, then go completely off the rails. Sometimes I'll put a recent episode on and read what it's going to be about. It'll sound like it might be good but after a couple of minutes I find it completely unwatchable.
But I have to give it credit because for me anyway the first eight years were the best television of all time. There is no sitcom that could make me laugh as much. Those years of absolute genius will always make me adore the show despite over twenty years of crap.
realizing that Homer and Marge are boomers really hit me hard
6:05 yeah the whole Fat Tony thing was *the* moment when the show went from being a bit tired and worn out to being just a bad joke that needed to die for me
I love how you’re treating the title like it’s the ultimate challenge that no man has ever gone across before.
I had surgery 2 weeks ago and laid up on the couch, I watched the most recent season of the Simpsons on Hulu. I did not laugh once. Ugh, through my early teens into my early 20s I loved this show. Now, nothing. I'll stick with seasons 3-12
I remember how in the 90's, absolutely everyone in my school talked about the show and quotes it constantly. Everyone went "D'oh!", which would usually spark a fun conversation about the show. Goes to show what atmosphere a good show can make when enough effort is put into it. Early Spongebob was the exact same way.
The Simpsons hasn’t been funny since 1997
I agree. The Simpsons should have had ended in the 1990s. The show might have a few diamonds in the rust and some clever references to prior episodes and pop culture. It is annoying that they now focus on social media, iOS devices, Alexa, Siri, and other modern gadgets as plot points like also with its publicity stuns and celebrity voice overs that are now more shoe horned. Plus, it’s disappointing that season 33 threw away the couch gags and opening sequence for more commercials, when nowadays most people watching the show via streaming with little to none commercials necessarily required.
"Diamond in the rust" that's a new one!
Maybe you can ask them about the Couch Gag issue.
I feel like at least 1 whole season where the Simpsons is set in the future would be really cool
I honestly feel bad for Moe, The writers seem to use him as a punching bag and I would've loved to seen them give him some kind of character development.
I watched a single episode after years of not watching it. They had Lizzo as an Elf rapping about how Homer never solved any of his problems, it was all Marge in the background doing it in secret, keeping it hidden so she didn't hurt Homer's "fragile male ego".
I loved the show as well and even I can’t watch newer episodes!
I especially can't watch this show knowing that the black voice actors have been replaced because of issues behind the scenes
For me the Simpsons is a time capsul of my youth; I was barely in Elementary school when the show started and by the time I was in high school the show just didn't do it for me anymore. I can go back and watch seasons 1 through 10 and be thoroughly entertained, but after that the show just feel foreign to me. I certainly don't dislike the newer episodes for the Reddit level reasons many on the internet site, but for me it just has to do with my personal connection to the show.
I side with folks like you.
I’ve never watched an episode past season 10. Season 3 to 9 are the glory years! 👍🏻
Homer eating everything in New Orleans is one of the best moments in modern Simpsons.
Which is kind of sad since he fid it better in the chili cookoff episode where the peppers make him hallucinate.
The Simpsons still exists to give comedy writers from Harvard a free first job fresh out of school
Alright, I have the solution that will fix zombie Simpsons. Ready? Multiverse Simpsons. Check it out:
The show wants to be episodic, the audience wants change, why not have both? Have Professor Frink invent a device that accidentally tears a hole in space-time and causes a rift to open. Homer enters it, thinking it's a donut shop, and ends up in season one simpsons. Same art, same 80's/90's aesthetic, you have dark skin Smithers, Bleeding Gums Murphy, the whole shebang.
This intro to the multiverse will prime the audience for future episodes to take place in older sinpsons setting as well as new universes with fresh ideas that the writers can play with. Any bad ideas gets shoved into the bad universes and the good ones appear more, some remain episodic while others progress naturally. The cross-over potential is enormous, like an episode I'll call "A Clown Car of Bobs" where Sideshow Bob teams up with other versions of himself to take down Bart.
It's not perfect and is basically an admission that they're out of ideas but, hey, at least they can go out with a few good episodes.
I was dreading the moment where you'd go, "Then the episode fucks it up and Moe goes back to being miserable"
Relieved that such moment a moment didn't happen lol
Like most people, I haven't watch any Simpsons past season 14 or maybe earlier. Maybe this is a sign that they'll be wrapping things up if even a character like Moe can end up happy. There's too many characters to provide closure for but ones like that are great for long time fans.
I think the show calling it a day
@@dogtownoon9791 maybe it needs a break.
I've known the simpsons since the first episode, and I haven't really bothered to keep up over the last 15 years... but the idea that Moe might actually (deservedly) find happiness has actually been written and realized fulfills a small and sympathetic hope I've had for the poor idiot for the last 30 years.
i dont think season 33 is particularly funny but i find it much more entertaining and well written in comparison to the other zombie seasons
a short response to 2:43 onwards:
They have been trying to do just that since Season 23 starting with Krusty's Father dying, that one lego episode they made a year or two later, and various other ways. They even re-explored the tracey ullman look a few times through gags & the such. The show has been doing all of these things for years, it's just that they go about it in all the wrong ways.
It's ironic how Marge Simpson says it's good for a show to go off the air before it becomes stale and repetitive, upon looking at Family Guy & SpongeBob SquarePants.
Family Guy is insufferable now. I hate it.
The Simpsons & Family Guy are awful now, and even South Park is going downhill. They just don't know when to quit.
@@SpareSomeChange8080 Either way, I'm still watching South Park and the last season had me laughing so I'm happy. Like I said, there ate a lot of Simpsons and Family Guy followers who won't "quit" on their shows.
This is cool! Thanks for covering this. It actually makes me want to give modern Simpsons a try. Sounds like the first well written episode in a long time. Great video!
I haven’t seen the Simpsons in years. I used love that show and would watch it every chance I got.
The simpsons was a show that reflected the 80-90s America lifestyle and culture, albeit with a good dose of humor.
From this they created events that provided the basis for the story, such as Lisa and bart going on a summer camp. Stories that felt down-to-earth while still offering funny moments.
Modern simpsons is like a remake of a video game that was created in the 90s,. A remake that consists entirely of modern trends, while at the same time proclain to be like the original.. Example they create an remake of pac-man, that are in 3d, Feature an 50h campain, Have lootcrates, You got battle royale, Mitrotransatctions, and the enemies can shoot you.
I think after being on the air into 3 decades now, The Simpsons can and should change up the status quo and develop the characters to give them some kind of ending. The show cannot stay on forever, so if they can move characters along to an end-point and real development then when the day comes that it is finally over, we got closure on things. It would be sad just having Moe being a perpetually depressed and suicidal joke with no hope at all. I like they gave him a win for once, he needed it.
Fat Tony and Fit Tony thing is not that weird. We all remember what happened to the real Mr. Skinner.
It's like Saturday Night Live, it too, has not been any good for years, and the only thing keep it alive is its history. Same with the Simpsons.
In 1990, the Simpsons slapped the mainstream about. In 2022, the Simpsons are now of the mainstream they once slapped about.
I liked the Fit Tony becoming Fat Tony story line. He's the Schrodinger's Cat of The Simpsons... 😅😂
I’m almost 42 years old….. Bart Is I my age!. I stopped watching in 2000
The comic book guy getting married? No thanks. This show died in the 90s.
South Park jumped the shark too. It’s so lazy and bizarre now, it’s hard to figure out why it’s still on besides money.
Problem is, they're scared of upsetting people with characters played by people who aren't of the faith/belief/colour, but then theyre ok with making fun of belief/colour/faith ...
Well they did keep the permanent changes of Lisa the vegetarian Buddhist activist for goodness
NGL the Maggie Mr burns joke was pretty good
Episodes dont make sense and characters dont act like themselves and human. It's bad writing that's the problem not how long it's been on
You just earned a subscription good sir! You've also made me want to go through some classic Moe episodes
I'm still waiting for hank Azaria to apologize to me for voicing a bartender despite not being a bartender in real life.
It was an animated sitcom, now it’s a cartoon, like itchy and scratchy.
Normally I would praise the writers/showrunners of The Simpsons for the choice to make Lisa go vegetarian, especially at a time when it wasn't really taken seriously and seen more as a joke...
...Except they only made the change permenant because Paul McCartney would refuse to have a cameo in the episode unless Lisa stayed vegetarian forever.
I don't like the idea of a high profile celebrity flexing their clout and status to pressure writers on a show into pushing their political/lifestyle ideals while portraying everyone who doesn't adhere to that lifestyle/political view as close-minded and ignorant.
I haven’t tuned into the Simpsons since the movie. I can't believe it's still going
Best Simpsons story in the last decade that I’m aware of. And I love that they made Maya very cute, just small!
My ex girlfriend once said new Simpsons is better than older Simpsons because they have "iPhones and stuff now"
Oh boy... I notice you say "ex girlfriend"...
@@dvdreviewsstudios yes I left her immediately
@@Geehbee22good call
I watched the show regularly up until around season 13 or 14 cause I felt the quality starting to go down. Tried watching again a few seasons later and just couldn't get into it anymore. I specifically remember watching "The Italian Bob" episode from season 17 and it being the first time I saw a Sideshow Bob episode that I didn't like. Honestly didn't like the movie all that much either but the Family Guy crossover was actually pretty enjoyable and I don't even watch Family Guy. I still stream the early seasons of the show which were absolute genius. The writing and humor were at its peak then and are still hilarious to this day. Sad to see how badly a show that was once my favorite has declined.
I remember coming home after school and waiting to watch the Simpsons. I don't know why I stopped watching it, but it was probably because I gravitated towards shows like Family Guy, Futuruma, and King of the Hill. I haven't watched an episode of the Simpsons probably since the early 2000s!! The viewership of this show is at rock bottom and I'm shocked it wasn't pulled years ago.
I got so annoyed when it came to the election episode. Of course Lisa Simpson is a hardcore Democrat, but she is still a very young child and the fact that she has such hardcore political beliefs, not to mention how it feels like it's being forced on the audience, it's so annoying.
She unintentionally displays much of what is wrong with the modern extreme left.
I think I know who you both voted for..
@@KevinLuper99 it's not about voting, it's the fact, the fact, that The Simpsons now feel obligated to push Democratic ideology On To Us, by using one of the Main and beloved characters.
If Homer Simpson was, I don't know, fired from the nuclear power plant due to the mayor enacting a bunch of new policies, and he protested it and tried to tell everybody to vote for Donald Trump, every influencer, reporter, commentator and their mothers would be complaining and accusing The Simpsons of trying to force an agenda.
@@KevinLuper99 In 2021? Nobody. The mayor in my town ran unopposed.
It’s always been that way lmao
Even as a kid, I noticed the quality decline around season 9 or 10 and gradually lost interest by season 15. What they say about it “losing its soul” is so true. The characters were no longer the same and the joke style got much more silly. I can’t believe there’s been another 20+ seasons since I stopped watching.
4:27 When they made that decision, nobody knew the show was going to run for years. That kind of format is what made the series fell stale the long it went.