ITT: The point where decided "Y'know, I really don't need to to watch the Simpsons anymore."

ITT: The point where decided "Y'know, I really don't need to to watch the Simpsons anymore."

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I can't tell you the exact one, but I can guarantee it was a Lisa episode.

Exactly this. Unfortunately also literally the exact episode after I finally said "You know, I like the Simpsons when I catch it. I should try to watch it regularly."

So...yeah. That episode gave me such bad whiplash I've still got a crick in my neck.

>Bart is a little brat
>Marge takes his side or tries to help him out
>Bart disappoints Marge
>Bart feels guilty and does something to restore status quo Hope
This has been done so many times and it's so predictable, Also another one where some character who has some specific gimmick undergoes some super important change only for him to back to normal by the end of the episode

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This

I dont get it thats not wildly out of character for Otto. As for me , i cant pinpoint the moment but i know it was around season 18. The movie should have been the finale

A racetrack actually let them take home a professional racing dog to be a pet. Seriously jumping the shark. Show over.

>A Racetrack
The dog was literally just abandoned by its owner.

The thing is, that episode wasn't even THAT bad until the jockey scene.

Most of the vacation episodes actually,they feel so fucking soulless even in the LA dub,I skip all of these when they air on TV

I actually loved that shit. It was so bad it's good. Still gets quoted around the family every time a triple crown comes around.

That episode where Homer became friends with Ray Romano, but everyone thought Homer was crazy because there was conveniently a black hole near Ray at all times that drained everybody else's perception of him.

It was still pretty bad even without the jocky elves.

I'd started feeling it was tired around Season 12-13, but still watched out of loyalty and because occasionally I'd really enjoy an episode or just find it fun if not funny. But The President Wore Pearls was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. It wasn't offensive, or stupid, it just plain wasn't funny; the dialogue was lazy ("Well, you're gay" "I am Iron Man doo doo doo doo vote for me!"), the ''evil plan'' song sucked, the ''Eva'' parody was pointless and Michael Moore's cameo was even more pointless. I realized that I just plain didn't enjoy watching the show anymore and it's little gimmicks like claiming Milhouse was going to leave forever or plot ideas that were pure Saturday Morning cartoon-tier just re-affirmed my feelings. My dad used to enjoy watching the show with me, but didn't anymore because it just felt like any other cartoon, most of my friends had become Adult Swim or South Park fans, I decided I may as well drop the show.

I've never regretted doing so.

The episode where they broke up Skinner and Krapapple was my "no more Simpsons" moment.

They took a running subplot that had made both Skinner and Edna into fully developed characters AND advanced Bart's character development and threw it entirely out the window, all because Al Jean was butt-hurt that the characters had evolved and had changed.

Worse, the god-awful stunt wedding between Edna and Flanders and Marcia Wallace's death, denied us seeing Skinner deal with Edna's death. Worse, we didn't even get a fucking episode dealing with her death and just a minute long tag at the end of the episode where Flander wakes up from a dream and tells the audience that Edna was dead.

17 years ago or something when they stopped boradcasting it in my country.

Then I rewatched it like 3 years ago or something and I distinctly remember dropping it at season 8. By that point it was just compilation of weak jokes appearing one by one throught the episode. I had a good comparison because I marathoned the whole thing, and from interesting little stories with just an addition of good jokes to them all that remained was the jokes and weak one as I mentioned.

When computer graphic starts and humor disappeared, 20 season

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Was Jean the one who was shocked that people were mad about the Principal and the Pauper and people caring about characters?

No. The guy who was shocked was Ken Keeler, who still thinks Principal and the Pauper was a good episode even though he's written better stuff on Futurama.

Season One is kind of off-putting to people I've found because the humor is simultaneously more subtle AND more cartoonish than it would later become. There's a lot of character episodes that have, like you said, a melancholic vibe (some of them bored me to tears when I was a dumb kid) that has aged surprisingly well, then you have episodes like ''Call of The Simpsons'' that feel like a (barely) edgier Saturday Morning cartoon.

But hey, every show feels weird in it's early seasons, so I forgive that. Also, while I don't always agree with Dead Homer Society, their debunking of the myth about how Season 3 saw a shift to Homer and more adult-themed episodes was spot-on.

sorry I double checked and I was wrong. Actually it was season 8 when I noticed the show going down with quality, mostly having meh episodes but some good ones too. The moment was season 11.

The episode Lisa became a Vegetarian. It was the start of a long series of moments where Lisa would become an "intellectual" mouthpiece who could do or say no wrong for both the show's writers and her voice actor, who are all insufferable, pseudo-intellectual twats, which only worsened once she became a Buddhist. Any moments where she acknowledges she was in the wrong are also instantly rendered meaningless because the party she offended forgives her anyway for some asinine reason, and her beliefs end up reinforced by the victim or a third party and she will have learned all of fucking NOTHING in the end.

It has nothing to do with the episode itself, it's just that I got fed up with HD Simpsons being so boring.

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Oh wow, I could've swore Sherry Bobbins was like the declining seasons like past 10.

when did the animation start to get so stiff and sterile?

>(some of them bored me to tears when I was a dumb kid)

You still are a dumb kid if you don't find that shit boring. Just the college-aged fart sniffing pseudo-intellectual flavor of dumb kid.

In the middle of season 20. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_My_Life,_Please

>that title
meta as fuck

The thing about S1 is that it was like nothing ever seen before on TV, let alone Western Animation.

In a retrospective viewing, it can be a bit off-putting in regards to early installment weirdness and the writers finding their footing and such. But stuff like the electroshock therapy sequence, Bart blowing up the school, Moaning Lisa Blues/Call of the Simpsons, was revolutionary and were the stuff that made it the talk of the school playground.

Don't know what a"Dead Homer Society" is, but the shift towards Homer/more adult character antics actually happened in Season Two. The commentary tracks for Bart Gets and F and Simpson and Delilah are frank and open with the fact that the show's writers wanted Homer and his antics to dominate the series as early as season two.

In particular, they wanted Simpson and Delilah (the episode where Homer buys hair tonic that grows his hair back) to be the season opener to reflect this directional shift. But Fox pretty much forced them at gun point to open the show with a Bart episode (Bart Gets An F). And that they are still bitter as fuck about it.

Early Simpsons was counter culture, then the counter culture became the culture so the guys who were shocking just fell into the same pattern all it's imitators did. Honestly the only way to be subversive these days is to actually have a strong family, that bicker for comedy but still get a long. And have close friends and people they care about without eye rolling sarcasm.

I wouldn't call early Simpsons counter-culture. It was certainly counter to the traditional form of entertainment at the time, but the point was that it was bring TV more in-line to the middle-class culture of the time. A culture that wanted a middle line between the low-brow Married... with Children garbage that insulted your intelligence and the prim-and-proper traditional entertainment which did nor represent the common man and his foibles.

I don't think it went against the values that common Americans had at the time; to the contrary, it was so well-accepted because it articulated the values so well.

I still don't like Life On The Fast Lane though.

Well it was enough of culture shock that it got leading politicians saying in early 90's that Simpsons are not good rolemodels.

Had to cut the budget to pay for the voice actors' princely salaries.

Keeler, Oakley, and Weinstein are the only people on the planet who defend that episode.

That episode was good though. The whole point was that it was wrong for Lisa to be pushing her own newfound beliefs on others

Holy moley this as well. I remember it vividly still, my family moved into a new house i was setting up my room eating pizza excited to see the new simpsons I watched this and it was like " yeah it's time to move on".

iirc Elon Musk crash lands out of space into the Simpsons back yard, everyone sucked his dick for about 10 minutes, and then I shut it off

Yeah, because people were attached to the idea of life's representation being sanitized by the powerful. Which, honestly, wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Sure, it was easily manipulated by traditionalists with ulterior motives. But do you really want 50% of the voting power going to those with sub 100 IQ?

Is it that bad of an episode though? Like if you watched seasons 10-13 with all that wacky shit and THIS is what broke the camels back... I’m just confused

They were the only showrunners who didn't participate in the movie. When asked, Bill Oakley said they simply weren't asked. It's rumored that someone else wasn't happy with their tenure as showrunners, possibly for PATP.

The point isn't that its out of character for otto. Its that the episode's story was written so poorly, that they had to end it with a lolsorandumb joke.

>But do you really want 50% of the voting power going to those with sub 100 IQ?
It's been that way for almost 200 years.

I certainly don’t want it going to the coasts who act like they know what’s best for everyone else

There were many bad episodes during seasons 10-16, but it wasnt until season 17 that I started finding no enjoyment at all with the majority of the season.

>The commentary tracks for Bart Gets and F and Simpson and Delilah are frank and open with the fact that the show's writers wanted Homer and his antics to dominate the series as early as season two.
They said Homer just offered more storyline possibilities than Bart. Early on when they hadn't quite figured things out, the show could have gone in a more Peanuts-like direction centered around the kid characters.

Season 17 had several good episodes in it including The Last of the Red Hat Mamas and My Fair Laddy.

That's the one for me too. Long before that I already lost interest and just watched whenever, but I distinctly remember the first episode I outright hated.

If it took until LGG to find an episode you physically could not stand watching, we have a problem.

It really hasn't. Just read the federalist papers.

Moron academics who coast on the idea of being well-regarded rather than a robust feedback loop of intelligent and learned people.... don't even get me started on that. That's pretty much the root of all evil there. How do you expect average Joes to have any faith in the institutions when the institutions have turned to shit? Both Church and Academia turned to absolute garbage in exact equal proportion in more-or-less equal timing and now here we are. A fucking free-for all led by celebrities who are popular for being popular.

Homer The Moe aka it was a good idea to have a fountain of blood gushing out of Homer's arm.

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Not true. It's just that the two-party system appears to lower the collective IQ of the mob. The 46% deep red and the 54% deep blue have been able to find common ground, but their respective parties intentionally refuse to. This is because they are not real political organizations, but corporate entities that make their business pretending to stand in contrast with each other while their representatives swindle and fleece both sides with impunity.

"And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."

>She's older than Maggie

Im not really upset that show has loose or weak continuity, I just they didn't go out of the way to contradict themselves.

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As I said, I had already been turned off from the series several seasons ago and I watch every last episode. Hell, I don't even recognize some the thumbnails ITT. Plenty of them were terrible up to that point, but the Gaga episode was where I remember dropping it for good.

*didn't watch

>the coasts who act like they know what’s best for everyone else
I find this complaint fascinating. Are you boasting that your political leaders simply don't know what's best, or are they purposefully doing what's WORSE for everyone?

I think Season 11 or 12 probably had the first episodes so bad I couldn't watch them. There are episodes from Seasons 15-18 that I haven't seen since they first aired.

That shit is small potatoes.

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Margical History Tour and Catch 'Em If You Can

Oh you mean when some writer self-inserted his wife's adopted Chinese baby into the show?

>Watch one of the newest episode not too long ago
>Bart gets a new teacher
>For some reasons the teacher act like a fucking psychopath to bart
>basically Sideshow Bob 2.0 but full on retard
>Also bob is back in prison except his family is nowhere to be seen

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Around season 16. That's when the God tier Latinamerica dub got replaced by soulless imitators because the original dub actors went on strike. And that's when the Simpsons ended for many people in this part of the world, myself included.

>A new character or guest star is weirdly over designed to greater resembling actual people while the others retain their cartoonish simplicity

Yeah, i liked that joke

>I am Iron Man doo doo doo doo vote for me
>Lazy
That is literally the point of the joke that he make something lame on the top of his head
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I feel like that's become too common a joke though. Like so much comedy these days is just lazy but quickly acknowledged as such by the show as if that makes it not.

Mein neggers.People constantly poo-poo everything past season 13 but i still maintain that it was genuinely entertaining .12/13 until season 17 is what i arbitraly define as Silver Age Simpsons.Not as good as 1-11 (which seems to be the consensus that 1-11 was peak Simpsons) but still deleivering good jokes

I get your point but honestly that didnt bothered me that much in this instance because IMO it's in character for Nelson

the brazil israel africa china or the old fashioned house big brother one episode

>that lenny sure had a crazy apartment...

coincidently also the first episode I saw when it newly came out and not as part of the endless syndication circuit

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this

I stopped watching it in 1993 when I moved to a remote area where only source of tv was via those big C-band sattelite dishes. Once the pirate codes stopped working, I stopped watching. In retrospect the timing was about right as i've seen some eps after that time and it seemed to have lost its original spark. I used to watch the 30 sec segment on the old Tracy Ullman Show.

I think they took it a bit too far in this episode

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why was this deleted?

What was it?

this image

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Ah

When you dish upon a star is always the episode I cite as being the final straw

that episode with the screaming worm

I think that's at the very least the point where celebrity cameos got out of hand

Panda rape.

I always think of it as being
>x celebrity playing x celebrity
Instead of
>x celebrity playing y character

I don't mind celebs playing themselves if they at least have a joke, like Bette Midlar or all those baseball guys.

came here to post this

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seriously the Bette Midler bit just cracks me up.

Simpsons had been on along decline for me but I'd say the tipping point was some episode where Bart tried to ram a train in the school.

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Better than when he tried to ram his dick in his sister

The quality of the show is
Tracy Ullman Shorts 7.5/10 - Pretty Good

Season 1 & 2 - 7/10 Good

Season 3 to 7 - 9/10 Very good ('Classic' Simpsons)

Season 8 & 9 - 7/10 Good

Season 10/11/12 - 4/10 Very Bad

Season 8 and Season 9 had some offensively shit episodes in them, people generally only give them a pass because it hasn't completely turned to shit, even though by that point the show had turned from a down to earth comedy with realistic characters to an absurdist, meta-humor filled trash fire.

I had already stopped watching it regularly at this point but I happened to catch this one and knew I didn't want to see any more.

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The great louse detective

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treehouse of horror xii was where i remember being disappointed by a simpsons episode for the first time. that sticks in my mind, solely for the harry potter section with that weird vomiting frog thing

The one where they go to that New England town and Homer becomes a fisherman. The entire episode was so devout of humor, like a sack of dry sand

I was online within minutes to register my disgust. I said it was just too off the wall and a few people came down hard on season 5 saying that this was the inevitable conclusion and the fans seemed pretty split. To he fair I think we all thought they only had 3-5 seasons left at most.

This was it for me.

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What was this?

>m surprised there's not so much noise about Sherry Bobbins getting sucked into a jet turbine.
I thought that was funny and to this day still think it's funny.

300th spectacular

Right about here...

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The one where they frame Homer for murder, put him in an electric chair, then reveal it was a "Punked" style TV show. Like, how can you watch that ending and not get mad?

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bro since when have politicians represented the average person?

I used to watch The Simpsons episodes out of order on TV as a teenager, and this one hit hard.

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It's more than after a certain point the episodes start off wacky then just keep going off the rails. The wacky shit needs to be introduced later in the episode so it can be juxtaposed with the somewhat grounded beginning

Considering one of the main jokes is a giant detailed open wound adsorbing a child's hand no wonder you never see it on repeat, same with the Stand By Me parody episode since it;s joke was 40+ second close up shot of a moldering corpse filled with worms crawling in and out of it's eyes and mouth while Homer screams. Remember that weird period in the mid-2000 when they went all in on gross-out

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Or when it's at least a cameo instead of a 30 minute blow job like the Elon Musk episode

:^D

But that leads to two of the best jokes in the episode
>Just a little airborne it's still good, it's still good
>I said I donate to the children's hospital when pigs fly

that's a big one for me. so much humour was gleaned from the animation in the good seasons and then it all turned to stiffly animated copy-pasted shit.

I realize before I type this that this is my "I wore an onion on my belt" moment, but...
I was in elementary school when the Simpsons exploded onto the scene. Shirts were everywhere and 99% centered on Bart being a little brat. "Eat My Shorts" and "Don't have a cow, man" dominated the playground. Parents were either watching the show with their kids to monitor it, or were flat-out not letting them watch. They were discussed on the news and in politics like Rock & Roll in the 50s, or how South Park would be in the late 90s/2000s - they were "corrupting" the youth.

They absolutely were "counterculture" for a moment in time.

I still have not watched this episode and still refuse to see it not a fan Gaga and I despise current Lisa making an episode with two of them together is just suicide.

>Bart finally finds something to do and is very good at it
>Lisa literally ruins her brothers drumming career because she got jealous and HE has to feel bad for her.
Absolutely the dumbest episode

When is the moment when Lisa became a bad character?

Don't forget the kicker
>A bunch of artists pitch in and throw a benefit concert for his surgery
>Bart gets guilt-tripped into giving Lisa the money for her crusade of the week
Because Lisa is always right.

Also all that money he earned sure went to a good cause but only because Lisa collected all those animals and had no idea what to do with them. This is also another episode where Bart sacrifices his potential so Lisa can get her way he has a turn around after getting a cop ride with Wiggum and the gang wants to become a cop, improves his grades, gets on good terms with Skinner, straighten the school out so even the bullies aren't acting up anymore gives it all up because Lisa was about to get caught for something she did wrong, which she did because of a mistaken grade that was fixed.

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That's the problem,i like absurdism

that one where Lisa gets a restraining order on Bart was worse

She literally didnt tho? Did you people even watch it?

She released a bunch of animals from a zoo or whatever, and the following stampede injured Bart.

Her actions led to the end of Bart's career, even if unintentionally.
And all Bart got was a half-hearted apology from her. She made no attempts to make things right, she just went right back to worrying about her own problems.

It’s not like she expected two otherwise unrelated plot lines to intersect though

i can't pinpoint a day that the quality of the show made me decide to stop watching.

More like, I bought a new TiVo and never bothered to program the new one to record the Simpsons.

and I just didn't care anymore.

like, I might have tuned in for Treehouse of Horror every year, or on the odd week... and it was usually fine.

i did see the Lady Gaga episode. I figured the Lady Gaga character as depicted there would have made a pretty good Adult Swim cartoon.

I remember watching this and thinking the simpsons stopped being culturally relevant

The black hole was just on the hardware store though

This whole episode is so out of place

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I like very vividly remember watching OP’s episode and feeling this sense of frustrated disinterest. I kept watching but I didn’t feel the same enthusiasm. It’s not even that bad (I think Al Jean’s later stuff is worse) but the tone is so Bleeegh.

This one was different though since their two stories in that episodes were not connected until the end, when Bart did a very loving,self-sacrificing gesture towards his sister.
It felt quite natural.

The episode where I was disgusted was when homer had sex with the rack of kebab meat and then the next morning rings it not to tell his wife.

Yeah, Im usually a Lisa defender, but this is just retarded. I watched the recent ToH and I couldn't believe, Lisa was the main character in all 3 segments

1, Lisa needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.
2, whenever Lisa's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking 'Where's Lisa?'

At this point I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they actually gave Lisa a time machine.

I stopped watching TS after the movie for several years and just now started going back to the show, only b/c I got nothing else to do on Sunday nights.

Ah yes the classic episode where the entire town drives Bart to try and kill himself and it’s just kinda played as a joke, then the episode ends

The entirety of Homerpalooza is such a slog.

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Apparently it was the finale of season 20.

But that has less to do with The Simpsons and more to do with the shit I was going through at that point in my life. That was the year I came closest to killing myself.

When i noticed the joke was just naming a list of stuff, type of cheese, music genres, etc.

You could READ A BOOK READ A BOOK READ A MOTHERFUCKING BOOK

This did it for me as well.
I kept on watching, but that scene made me realize that the show wasn't as good as I thought I should think it was.

I recently watched all the seasons up to 17 (because I find the point where "I" can stand the Simpsons anymore), and unironically i can say until 15 had a sense of quality, maybe with up and downs but still quality, season 16 was decent but it goes down from there.

For me the biggest irony is that despite all the blatant Lisa shilling from the writers's part, Lisa ends becoming part of the status quo, either by staying on Springfield or becoming an incompetent president, while Bart plays by his own rules and even show genuine artistic drive like the drums or graffiti so despite the writers bullshit; Bart is the real rebel while Lisa is just another cog in the system

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my god, exactly this

2000

>President Lisa bankrupts the country
I never really thought about it, but they really do like to present Lisa as ineffectual, if not incompetent, when she actually gets into a position of power.

Yeah, easily this one. Absolutely banal. How the fuck do you even write something like this.

The entire point of that episode was that Lisa was wrong for forcing her personal choice on others, dude.

I know it's hated because of what it represents but just in a vacuum, I kinda like it.

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>President Lisa bankrupts the country
She inherited the bankruptcy from Trump.

There are so many actually hateful “fuck the fans” episodes, especially due to Ian. Pauper isn’t that, it’s a misguided attempt at saying “Sitcom changes are so stupid”. They probably could have made it a dream or something, they Loved Skinner and weren’t trying to ruin him.

I'll never be able to see this episode as bad because I was always a huge Tony Hawk fanboy and this episode was a really big deal to me when it came out.

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That was one of my favourites actually
Mountain of Madness is my favourite out of them all

Really, what killed the Simpsons for me was the post-movie animation, and all those parody of current stuff at the time with no wit. Especially pic related.

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She inherited debt from Trumps.
Her policies made everything worse.

I gotta admit I haven't watched "new" Simpsons with any regularity almost ever (mainly catching syndicated reruns) but even I remember seeing that episode and thinking it was incredibly stupid. There was actually a mild "maybe the Simpsons really is out of ideas" response in some media outlets because of it

Why is it that The Simpsons used to use real brands but then later started using lazy fake ones? In that Lord of the Flies episode Bart told Martin to make a coconut Nintendo console. And I remember them referencing Harry Potter, Apple products and Star Wars by their real names but then switching up to shit like "Mapple" and "Cosmic Wars."

Speaking of, "Co-dependents day" was my fuck this I'm out point.
>Homer framing Marge for drunk-crashing
>No resoulution
>That retarded phantom menace first act.

>wow, it's ______ _________ from _________!

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That's literally the entire point of her character. It always has been. The "writer's pet amry sue" bullshit is just people who inject their shitty politics into everything. She's still a fucking Simpson at the end of the day

>That retarded phantom menace first act.
The absolute irony of Simpsons thrashing someone else for losing their way. At least George had the decency to bow out when he knew he had lost it.

I remember being baffled that it took them so long to do such a parody and how completely generic it was.

That's why for me. This and Rocket Power, I loved the pro Skater games and got into skating. Those were both so lame that 11 year old me wondered " am I a fag for thinking Tony Hawk is the coolest shit?"
I wasn't but I was for thinking Bam Margera

I think he just wanted money.

The last time i watched the simpsons was 2008, and i remember, was pure trash

That's just corporations playing softball with each other. The more conformist something becomes, the less likely they are to "call out" IRL brands by name.

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Show jumped the shark when Homer went into space

I didn't hate that episode as much as some people. Season 15 did have some other ones though that were peak rage.

I bet you try to win friends with salad

That one was ok.

Oh god no, take it away!

For some reason it was also the first time in a long time the show had some sort of continuity, since in a later episode Burns was still dealing with Musk's damage to the city.

>The point where decided "Y'know, I really don't need to to watch the Simpsons anymore."
it's called puberty

Horrible, horrible, horrible filler. The writing, voice acting, and animation were all as phoned-in as it could possibly get with the sole exception of Alec Baldwin, he was great.

This awful piece of shit.

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I had missed the Simpsons for years, basically from season 8, and felt I should try it again. This was my episode and I gave up on it, only to try again twice more. This episode each time. I'm okay not watching any more.

when Homer started regularly singing without any accompaniment I knew something was wrong

but I only just recently quit the series when Lisa started hating America. It sounds like that episode wasn't even that bad in the end, I checked in a little later on.. and I may have watched an episode since then, I forget, but I've definitely quit a few episodes this season
sucks because 2010-2016 wasn't that bad.

This one is just weird overall. It's a kind of somber episode until the very end, and it gets laced up way too neatly to make it feel like a satisfying end, considering the events that build up.

that's stupid

I love the song desu

A lot of people weren't allowed to watch the show until they were teens though...

I remember being a little tween shit and thinking "OMG THIS IS DBZ HORY SHIT"

Matt Groening likes to brag that Lisa is her favorite because she's going to leave Springfield behind. Probably he's implying Lisa is going to fulfill her potential (just like me XD) instead of spending her life on a shitty town full of losers (just like me XD). Also the writers stopped portraying Lisa as a preciocious little girl a long time ago but as a known-it-all college girl in miniature

"Missionary Impossible" for me. The Florida one as well since both ended on horrible endings that made the entire episode pointless.

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Well, of course! She's a progressive!

What kind of bullshit is this? We're trillions of dollars in the hole -- no one administration can wipe the board clean. Trump inherited debt from Obama, who inherited debt from Bush, who inherited debt from Clinton.

Missionary Impossible has one of my favorite Zombie Simpsons jokes at least.
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>sucks because 2010-2016 wasn't that bad

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It was in that period where Mike Scully decided to intentionally give a huge fuck you to Internet Simpsons fans.

It's always a great idea to insult your viewers. That will never come back to bite you.

>WAAAAH MUH INVESTMENT AS A FAN

It represents our inability to move from this shitty website

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I was literally about to ask what the fuck that thing beside Lisa was, and if it was some kind of episode where Lisa becomes a goth or learns that strippers are good people too or something, until I read some posts about it being Gaga.

Old Simpsons
>Guest character is a celebrity almost instantly recognizable by their voice
>Guest character is usually designed to look like just another everyday person in the Simpsons universe, character is original, has their own story, maybe throws a few nods toward the life of the celebrity guest in their lines
>Drawn in the iconic Simpsons style, to look like someone you might pass on the street,, often a surprise that they are the celebrity guest character

New Simpsons
>Guest character is a celebrity that no one would recognize by voice alone
>Guest character is designed to look exactly like the celebrity guest, character is the celebrity guest themselves, their story if usually just "guest celebrity came to town!", blatantly ham-fisted promotion of celebrity guest in lines
>Drawn in an almost jarringly unfitting style with the rest of the cast, usually hyper-realistic with a unique skin color and face design, supposed to be instantly recognizable as the celebrity guest for more easy ratings

>There are so many actually hateful “fuck the fans” episodes, especially due to Ian
I never figured out who ever thought they should hire a guy who admitted he'd never even watched an entire episode of the Simpsons and was a wannabe musical/Broadway writer.

Well well, look at the Ooarai slicker pulling up in her fancy German tank

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Oh boy this thread again
>WAAAHHHH JOKES BAD
>WAAHHHH FOX BAD
>WAAAAHHH SEASONS 1 THRU 536 GAJILLION ARE SHIT
>SNEED SNEED SNEED STEAMED HAMS SNEED

I feel like I need a bingo card to list all the identical posts.

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definitely this

even as a kid, this was the first time I looked at a show lose interest in a joke even before the punchline

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the free spacd would be this post, image and all lol

EPISODE 4.22 "KRUSTY GETS KANCELLED"

KRUSTY MEETS THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
KRUSTY MEETS BETTE MIDLER
IT'S FULL OF FUCKING CELEBRITY CAMEOS

FUCKING JOHNNY CARSON AND HUGH HEFNER GET FAWNED OVER LIKE THEY'RE LADY GAGA AND MICHAEL COCKSUCKING JACKSON

HOMER IS A MORON FOR NO REASON

GRANDPA IS SENILE BUT NOT FUNNY BECAUSE APPARENTLY THEY WERE SHORT ON JOKES THAT DAY

GABBO IS LITERALLY ONE JOKE REPEATED OVER AND OVER UNTIL YOU IMAGINE REMEMBERING THAT IT WAS FUNNY THE FIRST TIME

BUT LET'S NOT FORGET SEASON FOUR WAS FUCK FULL OF ELDERLY CELEBRITIES APPEARING AS THEMSELVES FOR NO REASON

FOR THE REAL MOMENT OF TRUTH WE MUST GO BACK FURTHER

BACK TO SEASON THREE AND 3.22 "THE OTTO SHOW" WHICH IS JUST AN 11 MINUTE AD FOR THE VHS OF "THIS IS SPINAL TAP" AND "BREAK LIKE THE WIND" THE ALBUM THAT THE MEMBERS OF FICTIONAL GROUP SPINAL TAP WERE TRYING TO SELL AT THE TIME THE EPISODE AIRED, INCLUDING HARRY "THE SIMPSONS REALLY WENT DOWNHILL WITH ALL THESE CROSSOVERS AND CELEBRITY CAMEOS" SHEARER WHO PLAYS DEREK SMALLS, A MEMBER OF SPINAL TAP

THE REST OF THE RUNNING TIME IS MADE UP OF FILLER SCENES AND UNFUNNY JOKES THAT ATTEMPT TO CALL BACK TO SPINAL TAP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

BUT WAIT

EPISODE 3.17 FEATURES NUMEROUS PRO ATHLETES AS THEMSELVES MAKING TOPICAL REFERENCES

EPISODE 3.13 FEATURES STING AS HIS UNFUNNY LEMON-EATING SELF IN A STORY THAT HINGES ON YOU HAVING SEEN FUCKING LIVE AID FIVE YEARS EARLIER

EPISODE 3.10 FEATURES NOTED DADROCKERS AEROSMITH FOR NO REASON FORESHADOWING THE APPEARANCE OF NOTED DADROCKERS THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS LATER IN THE SEASON

EPISODE 3.02 HAS LISA GOING TO WASHINGTON AND BRINGING DOWN A CORRUPT SENATOR IN A SINGLE WEEKEND

EPISODE 3.01 HAS MICHAEL "TOTES NOT ME U GUIS" JACKSON IN AN EPISODE THAT WAS TOTES NOT ADVERTISED AS FEATURING HUGE STAR MICHAEL JACKSON TOTES TOTES IT IS HIM THO TOTES SHHHH

HOMER IS SO STUPID AND SO IS EVERYONE ELSE THAT HE GOES TO A MENTAL ASYLUM FOR WEARING A SHIRT

WEARING A SHIRT EVERYBODY HOW HILARIOUS

Odd how this episode drove so many people away. “Strong Arms of the Ma”, which aired two weeks prior, seems like the more likely episode to cause mass exodus.

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Catch Em If You Can

That episode where they brought Lurleen Lumpkin back and Beverly D'Angelo sounded like a dying 80 year old.

>HOMER IS SO STUPID AND SO IS EVERYONE ELSE THAT HE GOES TO A MENTAL ASYLUM FOR WEARING A SHIRT
A much better reason to hate the episode than my dad's "I can't believe that everyone is acting like this guy's actually Michael Jackson even though it's only Homer that thinks that" explanation.

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This

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There was some episode where Rachel Maddow guest-starred. That was it for me.

Miracle on Evergreen Terrace was way worse than that.

Last time I tried doing a simpsons marathon I got combo'd by that episode where a hip new kid wants to do a school dance and the episode that starts with homer getting disemboweled by a wolverine

I was pretty done after that

Why is this on my Youtube recommendations?

Fucking thid. Old Simpsons' cameos were just extra jokes for the episode, now we have ENTIRE EPISODES about some fuck that goes to Springfield and the whole town revolves around this fuck.

that episode where Selma adopts some Chinese kid

Go to bed Ian Maxtone-Graham.

Why are they so obsessed with pushing this Marge Simpson: Cartoon Sex Symbol meme?

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it was about 20 or 30 years ago, user

i think the "poochie" episode came on just a little bit after i stopped watching - someone had it on while i was visiting them and i caught the gist of it

yawn

S11E5

Margical History Tour

Subtle.

What was the episode where Metallica or something guest starred?

This episode was the turning point. It's where the celeb cancer really started.

Errgh...

One good joke doesnt redeem an entire episode.

You never needed to watch it to begin with.
There was never a test.

>HAHA SNEED'S FEED AND SEEEEEEED

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> center the episode around keeping an obviously unfit screeching pest alive from the things that would naturally kill it

the plots and jokes that invovle the bug being dead rather than alive would've been much more interesting and much less annoying.

I have really distinct memories of the advertising blitz surrounding this one. It was the 300th episode, and for whatever reason, Fox decided to make a REALLY big deal out of that. Like most kids my age who had grown up with The Simpsons and hadn't quite run out of second chances to give the show, I bought into the hype... Only for the episode itself to turn out so mediocre. Aggressively so, even. Not out-and-out bad, like later episodes would be... Just dumb, and not in an entertaining way.

It was the moment that really made it clear to me how much of a shadow of itself the show had become. It also made me confront the fact that somewhere over the years, The Simpsons morphed from a successful TV show to a Lucrative Franchise, a Brand, to be milked at all costs. Just eight years previous, the show as taking pot-shots at ridiculous publicity stunts like this with their 138th Episode Spectacular, only to become exactly the kind of overproduced garbage it had been mocking for years.

"Barting Over" was my "Simpsons Go Calypso" moment, the moment that finally made me admit that it was getting out of hand and it was time to step away.

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The episode where the Simpsons go to the Springfield Googelplex Movie Theaters to see The Poke of Zorro. Afterwards, Homer, imitating Zorro, frightens Snake away by challenging him to a duel by slapping him with a glove when he insults Marge; he then uses his dueling glove to get anything he wants from people. When a gun-toting Southern colonel at the Kwik-E-Mart actually accepts Homer's "challenge", Homer finds himself bound to a duel at dawn the following day. The next morning, the colonel and his wife waited outside the house in their RV. The Simpsons sneak out with Homer clinging to an old Christmas tree and search for a temporary home. They find Grampa's old farmhouse on Rural Route 9 outside of Springfield, where, despite the land's poor reputation for growing crops, Homer becomes a farmer. After failing to grow a thing for a month, Homer calls Lenny and requests they send plutonium. The crops eventually grow, but since Homer had accidentally mixed the tomato seeds with the tobacco seeds, a new product is created. Homer calls the mutated crop "Tomacco," which tastes terrible, but is highly addictive. Homer and Marge set up a stall, Homer providing tomacco and Marge, fresh-baked mincemeat pie. While the pies do not sell well, the tomacco is such a success that executives from Laramie Cigarettes offer to buy the rights to Tomacco for $150 million. Lisa protests that the Simpsons cannot accept the tobacco executives' money, but Homer misinterprets this statement and rejects the offer as insulting, demanding $150 billion for tomacco, which they refuse. Dumped back at the farmhouse, the family sees tomacco-addicted animals from other farms eating their crops. With only one plant left, the family runs into the house, where Lisa urges Homer to destroy it, but Homer refuses until the livestock breaks in. He tosses the plant into the air and it lands in the hands of a Laramie executive.

I bet you 1,000% they wrote it better than you ever would have.

Go to bed Al Jean.

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What do you have against musclewomen fetishists? It's not MY fetish, but they deserve some pandering too.

what the fuck this happened? that's so bizarre
they allowed one character to age but nobody else?

Those aren't all the same character.

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No but My Big Fat Geek Wedding was so painfully bad and obviously some writer's self-insert wish fulfillment fantasy.

What the motherfucking fuck are you talking about

I gave up way later than any of the people in this thread.

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It looks like you mean earlier.

Man, I don't even remember what the episode was called but it's the 'Homer hangs out with Kim Basinger and Alec Ballwin all day' episode.

Even as a teenager I was like 'why does this matter that this married actor couple is just hanging out with Homer?' And even though they were big actors at the time, I felt like the only reason they were in a Simpsons episode together was because they currently had some big movies at the time. It felt dated the day it was shown.

But I was proven wrong about how dated they were because their relationship stayed stable and awesome forever and both Kim Basinger and Alec Ballwin have the same recongnition as equally famous actors to this day.

Alec Baldwin does a lot of voice acting so he's still quite actively busy and getting credits on stuff. His old lady though hasn't been relevant since the Clinton years.

That happens like once every 5 seasons

As we mentioned before, he's been back on the Simpsons a couple of times voicing characters rather than as himself.

This episode was offensively bad.

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Does Sideshow Bob still have his Italian family?

Apparently not.

FEED AND SEEDERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT

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Also, I think this was the ToH where they stopped even attempting to parody horror or attempt this to be horror.
They had a fucking parody of Avatar 2 years after Avatar came out.
Another where fucking Homer gets bit by a spider, and is paralyzed and can only communicate by farting and at the end of the episode, it turns out he can fart spider webs and becomes a spider-man parody that farts webs through his ass. I'm not making a single one of this up btw, this is all real.

What's the episode name?

Barting Over

>big C-band sattelite dishes.
My nigga. I loved getting the wild feeds of shows I couldn't catch in my area

This is copypasted from Reddit.

No.

I watched Season 29 and it was a whole new level of bad that I didn't even imagine could have been possible.

Nothing against them, but I assume that someone might be upset about Homer getting raped by Marge. Certainly not the highlight of their relationship.

didn't missionary impossible literally have no ending?

>They had a fucking parody of Avatar 2 years after Avatar came out.
They had a parody of Pokemon Go long after the hype died and a parody of Bakugan when the fad was nothing but a faint memory

Was the picture a reference to when he gave up or an illustration of his experience giving up late?

>Another where fucking Homer gets bit by a spider, and is paralyzed and can only communicate by farting
It almost sounds like a "Metamorphoses" parody.

They probably should have done that instead. More horror lit parodies like "The Raven" from one of the early ToH episodes.

It's fucking sad when shitposting based on a random joke in a random episode is funnier than anything the actual show has produced in 20 years.

It's actually a parody of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a biographical drama based on the book of the same name (Not a horror movie by a long shot as is the tradition of these new treehouse of horror episodes)

Hey user... tell me about the bulldozer

It felt like the former to me

I started overwhelmingly late from the episode where Mrs. Krabappel gets fired after Bart and his classmates slip alcohol into her coffee. I stopped after the Blockos gag(youtube.com/watch?v=Fcyva_ltKug). I don't remember what episode it was from, but I knew I had seen enough. Out of curiosity, what seasons should I start watching?

>They had a parody of Pokemon Go long after the hype died
That's the best they'll always be able to do, it takes way too long to complete a full episode of Simpsons. They can't pump them out in less than a week the way South Park does in order to respond to pop culture and news.

You start at 2, end official watching right around the time ned's first wife dies. if there's an episode from after that that interests you, go right ahead, but steer clear of literally anything else.

The show just wasn't the same anymore.

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Don't listen to If you want watch the show, start with the first season.

The family knew they were losers in season 1 and were trying their best to get out of it. Even the first ToH episode had the haunted house kill itself rather than put up with the Simpsons living in it after all. Starting with season 2 and beyond they sort of abandoned that concept as Homer started going on Space Shuttle missions, hobnobbing with famous baseball stars and other wacky adventures.

season 5?
this episode was in season 14

>"Y'know, I really don't need to to watch the Simpsons anymore."
Simpson Safari sums that up pretty well. I hadn't seen a new episode of Simpsons in a few years, and then I saw this piece of shit.

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this, season 1 is great and I don't understand the hate.

Another deliberate fuck you to the fans (watch the DVD commentary).

No , its shitposting. The adult is Comic Book Guy literal waifu from Japan, the baby is Selma adopted Chinese daughter

The Parent Rap

After the Movie.

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Jaws Wired Shut was absolutely horrendous.

How was it a fuck you? All I remember was one of the animators talking about how a lot of the scenery and story elements were insipired by his experiences from having visited Africa when he was young but not much more.

They said that several scenes including different parts of Africa all being jumbled into the same location were done on purpose to fuck with complaining Internet Simpsons fans.

So...Bob’s Burgers?

What is this

Based.

I don't understand the reasoning for that. There's a couple million people who would be watching the show every Sunday. Why would you purposely write shitty garbage because of ten people on Usenet? Like why does that matter?

Also what was Yeardley Smith doing on the DVD commentary when she hardly even does anything in the episode?

Name a good Simpsons episode that came out after Futurama started.

The first episode post movie.

Who the fuck thought this episode was not only funny but also a good idea?

Incompetent writers combined with a show that never ends makes for many bad episode ideas, all of which get made because they're in a constant state of desperation.

Context?

sneed

It was still stupid. It reviled way too hard in being irreverent to the point where it came off as a fuck you for expecting anything good original

Wasn't that from the same episode where the badger tore open his stomach and his organs were barely not hangin out

No.

>Ha ha fuck the fans for caring humour
>Shoe horned cameos, all by sports stars who can't act for shit
>Gore
>Big Lipped Alligator moments every 2 minutes
Jesus this was fucking check list of everything wrong with modern Simpsons

This, but in a good way. It had some great moments and felt like a proper send off.

Isn't that also the same one with the screaming shrimp?

>Marge makes Homer promise to curb his drinking
>He promises while drinking in the lobby of a rehabilitation centre
It just made Homer so unlikable and his drinking went from oafishness to out right uncomfortable

Caterpillar and yes.

Yeah pretty much this. It was one of the first episodes where instead of the guest star being part of the episode, they were all the episode was. The "New Simpsons" as put rather well.

A lot of people would point to The Principal and the Pauper but there were still good episodes after that. The 14th season was the true tipping point for me, with a fair helping a fatigue through the couple before it too. I remember it was also in the 'teen seasons that Lisa started her path to becoming simply unbearable.

Shorty after the Pokemon Go episode, they had a joke where Bart made Lisa play the screamer Maze game and filmed her reaction and said EPIC SISTER FAIL in 2017

The Bakugan episode even ripped off the ending of Chinpokomon where Bart stops liking them because Marge likes them

I don't remember anymore.

It's 2-7 actually.

Was bakugan ever a fad?

Was that the one with the burning man festival?

Absurd humor isn't bad per se.

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>Lisa becomes a goth
HAVE NO FEARS
WE GOT STORIES FOR YEARS

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Three Men and a Comic Book
Kamp Krusty
Lemon of Troy
Bart Sells His Soul
Bart on the Road

All excellent episodes about kids being kids. All episodes I'm very fond of. Was focusing on Homer a mistake after all?

That was the one that pissed me off, I could already tell what would happen

a cameo crossover

a certain hardworking business owner

I think part of why it stands out so much is because Fox was billing it as a big deal since it was the 300th episode.

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I knew when this beautiful scene was shown, anything after it would be a disappointment

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Yeah, that sounds like a you problem.