At what season should I stop watching?

FPBP

Whenever you stop laughing at it.

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>It never becomes a bad show
t. I didn't watch Season 29

The show has gotten to new levels of horrible I didn't even imagine were possible.

Seriously, what the fuck. I know she's getting old and has been at this for decades, but she sounds like just...dear god no.

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I've noticed some episodes Marge sounds better than other ones. I don't think it's solely Julie's voice, there are probably other factors like post-production mixing and cleanup. Like for example Mel Blanc often sounded like shit in his later years because the sound crews didn't mix or adjust his vocal tracks properly.

Yeah I doubt they put a lot of effort into the audio mixing or for that matter any element of the show anymore.

There are some episodes where it's tough to listen to Marge speak and sometimes she doesn't have the right inflection at all (like in Gal of Constant Sorrow where she says "It was pretty sexy pretending you were Toolsy")

Yeah pretty much. I was going to say the season finale of Behind the Laughter, but there's a bunch of garbage between the Tomacco episode and it. Especially Saddlesore Galactica.

Oh quit exaggerating.

Fuck off Boco.

Not him. And some recent episodes have been not that bad.

Me, I think Nancy Cartwright is awful now. She doesn't even really try to do Bart's voice anymore, it's just her normal speaking voice. Maybe Ralph and Nelson are better? IDK, I never paid much attention to them or gave it much thought.

Dan Castallaneta is still pretty good, he hasn't changed that much.

Yeardley doesn't really have that girly intonation anymore but she's okay.

Hank Azaria isn't that bad, it helps that he still actively cares about the show, but that generic male incidental character voice he uses is annoying.

Harry Shearer stopped giving a shit a long time ago. He literally phones in his lines and that's pretty much all I can say.

Literally nobody on the fucking planet defends the current state of the show other than Boco, Cordless, that Lisa feet fetish guy, and Al Jean.

It must be hard to stay interested and motivated when you're fed such bland, lifeless scripts. That can really suck the energy from an actor.

Whenever you start to hate it.

Homer is kind of meh, Dan's other characters still sound fine. Grampa particularly still sounds pretty much spot on. I agree Nancy and Julie sound like complete garbage. Harry Shearer doesn't really try anymore, although his characters still sound ok.

In the preview of Clown in the Dumps she sounded horrendous but the actual episode was much improved apparently after they did a retake.

Oh, and Agnes Skinner, the one character Tress MacNeille still did well, began to sound _horrible_ around Season 22 or 23. I'm serious. The first episode I noticed this in was Boy Meets Curl. Her voice actually makes my head hurt now.

Tress's incidental/background characters also all sound the same now while she used to have a wide range of voices. This isn't just the Simpsons, it's anything else she does voiceovers in.

>Harry Shearer doesn't really try anymore, although his characters still sound ok.
Generally yes, but Otto sounds really, really different now.

Yes, unfortunately

I blame more Homer's overall vocal "evolution" from Season 2 on and whoever does voice direction these days (if there IS anyone), than I do Dan's actual performance.

Voice directors cost money and they won't even pay for music anymore.

yeah Marge sounds like shiiiit now
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It is officially a bad show once the number of good episodes outnumber the bad.

We hit that point a while ago.

>that one retard in the comment section who says he doesn't notice much difference

>Me, I think Nancy Cartwright is awful now. She doesn't even really try to do Bart's voice anymore, it's just her normal speaking voice.
She stopped trying to do the voice properly since about Season 13. Bart sounded progressively squeakier and lost that boyish, bratty intonation.

I don't see the point of this show existing anymore. It's all sneed this and chuck that.

doing a smoker voice for nearly 30 years now must be seriously painful; i'm surprised the woman's voice hasn't totally given out yet

If she does ever die/quit, good luck ever finding a replacement because I've never heard a Marge impersonator who sounded even remotely accurate.

It depends on what you mean.

Is The Simpsons now a bad show? Yes, absolutely and to hell to anyone who says differently.

Does the averaged-out quality of the Simpsons detract from the quality and significance of the original 8-13 seasons (wherever you want to draw the line)? Only if your options are between watching a random episode of the Simpsons and watching no episodes of the Simpsons. (which is, unfortunately, the option presented with many newcomers)

>I don't see the point of this show existing anymore
It's just a Scientology money-laundering scheme now.

Why would Scientology need to launder money? They don't pay any taxes because they're a church.

>he didn't even know Nancy Cartwright donates most of her salary to the COS

They owe money all over town, including to known pornographers and that's cool, that's cool, but they have to feed the monkey, you know... hasn't that ever occurred to you?

I think that for those born after 1990, even classic Simpsons doesn't speak to them as much as those born before 1990 and is merely "ok". They grew up in a time when crazier comedies like South park and Family guy came along and made classic Simpsons look dull.

all things considered 200 episodes of great content is more than most shows could ask for

there are still some decent moments from 00s Simpsons
but i can't think of a single watchable episode from the 10s

Thanks, Reddit.

and Moviebob
and South Americans

>and South Americans
No we don't.

just keep going until you can't take anymore like the rest of us did

13 is the absolute limit

yes we di

The movie.

I agree. The HD seasons don't feel like the Simpsons anymore.

I really didn't enjoy Homer's season 0-2 voice, it was too deep an slightly off compared to where I'd say is the golden age of the voice which was Season 7.

Marge is still recognizable, at least. Listen to her Patty/Selma voice.

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Simpsons right now has 0 joke layers, everything is taken at face value and isn't clever or has any thought put into it.
Ex:

Homer is in the airport with the family, and there is a loud speaker announcement that “boarding has commenced for women, children and fat men.”

Homer replies “That’s me!”

Then the joke is over and they move on to another point.

We are half expecting a studio round of applause and for Homer to turn round and bow to the camera.

This is a joke from a recent Simpsons episode. If it was from an earlier Simpsons episode it would have played out differently.

When the announcement came over the loud speaker “boarding has commenced for women, children and fat men”, I believe the Homer character would have ignored it and carried on in blissful ignorance, possibly whilst eating a donut. Shortly afterwards a member of airport staff would inform him that as a fat man he should in fact be boarding, before the camera pans round to see a line of very fat men wheezing in the queue followed by a disappointed “doh” from Homer.

As everyone undoubtedly knows, Dan was trying to sound like Walter Matthau in the very early days (ie. the fwasty chawkwat milkshake voice).

"Behind the Laughter" should be the last episode you see, some people may argue about the show is bad after season 9, but there are some good episodes scattered up to season 11

Nonono. The very worst of all was when they had Marge's mother in a recent episode.

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Oh god, she was the most ragged of all of them when the show was good!

The cast hadn't quite gotten their voices down at that early point, but they also had some pretty shitty recording facilities back then.

They stopped using Marge's mother after Lady Bouvier's Lover because she wasn't an interesting character and Julie didn't like doing the voice.

I actually think a robot writes the scripts now, not actual humans.

>Hank Azaria isn't that bad, it helps that he still actively cares about the show, but that generic male incidental character voice he uses is annoying.
He seems like he completely forgot how Moe is supposed to sound though.

1-8 even though 8 is weak at times. For me Simpsons died with S9E2.

9 is where it starts to lose quality, 10 is roughly on par with 9, 11 is a step down from 10, but it's still not awful yet. 11 ends with Behind the Laughter, which serves pretty well as a series finale, so I'd say watch up to that, but if you feel an episode from those last three seasons is going to shit feel free to skip it.

Simpsons officially became bad when Maude Flanders died. Good thing the Sneed episode came before it.

When you stop liking it. Don't rely on others to tell you how to watch things.

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>even this copy past is a few years old.

Think of post-10 Simpsons as being a completely different show that's aping off the the setting and characters of the original show. It's a day-night difference in terms of humor and heart.

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google a "best simpsons" episode list and watch the specific episodes then retire the series

this skips the filler and gets you what you want out of it. since there's no real ongoing plotline (not a relevant one at least) you can treat each episode as its own universe

I've always seen between Season 10 to 12 where you should stop. It's surreal that The Simpsons has been bad longer then it's been good now.

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After the Sneed episode

golden age it's until 7, it's still good until 12, it becomes something else but it's fine up to 20 or so, it's borderline intolerable beyond that.

Dinnertime!

I've seen every episode, man. They become boring but never offensively bad or anything.

yes, we all saw that youtuber's video.

Spic here. Even we realized this show could not be saved anymore. It didn’t helped almost all of the dub voice actors left 10 years ago so it does not feel the same.