Does anyone know when the last webisode of The Critic aired? All I can find is that it aired in September 2001 and I am trying to find out if it aired before or after 9/11 and if they kept the twin towers in the opening shot for or despite 9/11.
The Critic
Robert Foster
Brayden Russell
It was also the last episode so does that mean 9/11 killed The Critic? Was Jay Sherman in the twin towers?
Jackson Lewis
Why did Jay have to get a girlfriend guys? It made s2 really stupid. The s1 opening was also way better.
Charles Richardson
Part of me thinks it was to lighten things up a little. Have SOMEONE who likes Jay and doesn’t belittle him.
I liked it, myself, I thought Alice was a good addition.
Christopher Cooper
You didn't look very hard. It's listed on IMDB as the 14th of September and the episode is on YouTube, showing that yes, the Twin Towers were still in the OP.
Dylan Lewis
Well I did see the episode I did not see the actual air date. Still do you think they had to have a meeting on pulling the plug or replacing the opening last minute?
Robert Kelly
Probably not. It was a web show in 2001, no-one was watching it. Most normalfags barely even knew what the internet was.
Jackson Price
Probably not, because it was a webisode to an already cancelled show. The format was really new and the whole thing is still fairly obscure (web season I mean)
Isaiah Martin
Everyone knew what the internet was in 2001 and most people could at least access it in their libraries if they didn't have a home computer, it was just slow as shit and the idea of an internet cartoon series was completely novel.
Christopher Gutierrez
>barely even knew what the internet was
You weren’t around back then were you
Nathan Collins
Normalfags used the internet in the 90s/early 00s for email and mostly just that. It was nerds and those in research that used it for other things like chat rooms or porn or forums.
Isaiah Gray
I've been using the internet since 1998 m8.
internetworldstats.com
>August, 2001
>number of users: 513 million
>8.6 % of the population
>Mar 2019
>number of users: 4,346 millions
>56.1 % of the population
This change has not been for the better.
Levi Davis
Social media ruined the internet.
Elijah Martinez
Smart phones becoming popular at the same time as social media became popular ruined the internet.
William Mitchell
YouTube ruined the internet.
Christian Hernandez
That's my guess as well. Season 1 was really cynical (which made it an awful follow-up to Home Improvement). Everyone shits on Jay; every girl Jay dates is evil (I'm sure this has nothing to do with Al Jean going through a divorce), and his show is always on the verge on being canceled.
Season two is more cheerful and cartoony. Jay isn't shit on that much; Alice is there to offer moral support, and the stories aren't just "Jay's life sucks."
Nicholas Rivera
That depends on whether you want to consider his appearances on the Simpsons as canon.
Kayden Perry
Maybe a little but not to the extent that Twitter has
Jason Torres
>Not Facebook
David Johnson
You're all right, but you're also all wrong.
It's not the platforms themselves that ruined the Internet. It was letting people onto those platforms that did it in.
Nolan Watson
Ethan Phillips
your % of population figures are % of the world population though. By 2001, 5% of the US population had broadband - let alone just internet access.
The US, English-speaking commonwealth and to a lesser degree Europe are the most influential places. It didn't really make a difference that nobody in India or China was online.
Connor White
Better question, are the original flash files anywhere or are they lost?
David Gomez
that happened after 9/11?
seemed much earlier to me
Angel Williams
Andrew Jackson
I was saying boo-urns.
Juan Rivera
Most likely lost.
Mason Edwards
Adding Alice kept the "Jay as the world's punching bag" setup from getting stale. Her dynamic with Jay was fine and she didn't hijack the show or anything.
Ayden Morgan
It would've cost money to change the opening shot. As Jay says in one of the webisodes, "it's the internet, we have no money!"
Ayden Howard
>jay never became a semi regular on the show
I know that zombie Simpsons ruins everything but I would've loved more of him back when the show was good and maybe even having his segments on the TV occasionally showing.
Leo Thompson
Alice was a good friend to Jay. The chick in the webisodes was lame though and led to the tired old "schlub trying to impress a hot chick" routine.
Nathan Clark
He didn't meant to insult no one with his critics.