Would you have been fine with the characters aging every year?

Would you have been fine with the characters aging every year?

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every year past season 10, yes

This shit should've died in the mid 90s

Yes, that would have made the show immensely better if handled well.

Emphasis on "if".

I mean, we already have a whole bunch of future episodes to see just how "well" they'd handle it.

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No. I’d rather not see them struggle with the death of grandpa, their pets, Selma/Patty from lung cancer, etc

Dont we get enough of that in real life?

No, Sneed would be dead.

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They're all just spamming the same stale jokes from Lisa's Wedding.

Raw nerve touched?

>inb4 Cordless advertising his...
Oh no you don't.

They'd only fuck it up anyway.

Considering Bart and Lisa are already written like teens, yes.

Based Sneedposter

On the DVD commentary for Lisa's Date With Density, Bill Oakley said it was a pretty big problem how the show lacks teen and 20-something characters to do dating stories with.

Or for that matter all the episodes where Lisa acts like a mini-campus activist. If they actually had a college aged character to do them with...

Is there a show where they aged the characters and it didn't go to shit?

Yeah it would have been great. it's definitely what they should have done. They could still do little kid stories as Maggie aged into them. They could still do baby stories because Bart would probably be a teenage dad.

Why have none of the other adult cartoons even tried this? Family Guy, American Dad, Bob's Burgers, South Park, any of them could have tried it.

Family Guy and South Park have done that thing where they sneak them forward a grade or a year once every 10 years so that they can do a terrible episode about Meg turning 18 or whatever.

meanwhile Adventure Time has a character growing up.

Ehh, I think something closer to comic book time would be better. One year passes every 4 years. One season simply doesn't give us enough time to emotionally attach.

I believe that would cause instantaneous death, user.

Bart now would be older than Marge when the show started if they all aged normally.

No.

>season 40
>Homer does a flashback to 2004
>he tells the story of a nu-metal band he started in high school
>he posts about it on livejournal
>there's a joke about how they'll be out of Iraq by Christmas, which is ten years funnier than it would be today because we will still have troops there

>posts about it on livejournal
Oh, I don't know user. That would conflict with the stereotype that old people have no idea what a terabyte is.

>season 60
>all the original voice actors are dead
>Homer is too young to remember 9/11
>Bart and Lisa are in a generation yet to be born, much less named.
>there's a joke about how they'll be out of Iraq by Christmas, which is thirty years funnier than it would be today because we will still have troops there

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I like how Homer just looks like he wants this all to end.

not really

Boy meets World was top tier because they kept the same wise teacher around. It also made me feel better about going back to college at my mid 30s to get a masters degree.

would have been fine if Marge kept the breast implants

not every year, but let's say a year every 2 to 4 seasons* would probably work out fine

*so somewhere between 7 and 15 years have passed in universe(so Bart would be somewhere between 17 and 25, Lisa would be between 15 and 23, and Maggie would be between 8 and 16)

in a version of the show with more of an actual ongoing continuity, yeah she probably would have kept those, and/or kept at least some of her gains from Strong Arms of The Ma

They should've ended it at Holidays of Future Passed.

Not every year but at least every few years like South Park does. One year up for every five seems good to me. Not letting Bart and Lisa become teens was a mistake since they started writing them as teens anyways.

It would have made the show a lot shorter, so yes.

>Not letting Bart and Lisa become teens was a mistake since they started writing them as teens anyways
Except the whole thing falls apart when you try to do teen romance stories with the, but they're still 8 and 10 so you can't show them having sex or anything like that.

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Formerly Alive

At least post something with a less ghasty color scheme.

>season 100
>the entire US economy is dedicated to two things: the Iraq War, and keeping the Simpsons on the air.

2004 called and it wants its joke back.

>2004 called and it wants its joke back.
you can have it back when the war's over

In some technical sense, Operation Desert Storm actually extended all the way up to Operation Iraqi Freedom. I had friends who joined the army and got combat pay for that reason and no other. Also remember the occasional Clinton-era sprinkling of bombs on Saddam's Iraq due to some no-fly-zone violation.

American wars are like American franchises: just remember, they're here forever.

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This is an inane quote. The war machine in any period has always been astronomically more expensive than what the soldier makes in comparison.

No, nobody likes For Better or Worse.

conspiracy theory:

the Simpsons is kept on the air by conservatives who want to make sure that every American's first exposure to liberalism is an annoying little girl playing the know-it-all. She can't grow up because she might garner some more attention or respect if she had boobs.

the entire Fox network when it was founded was lots of propaganda that favored conservatives:
>America's Most Wanted warned people every week that murderers were at large, made them afraid and comfortable with increased police powers.
>Married with Children depicted a world where traditional marriage was under attack by lazy housewives that don't serve their husbands, and by shrill feminists that emasculate their husbands.

counterpoint: It's Garry Shandling's Show was postmodern as hell, but I don't think that had political connotations yet.

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Letting Bart become a teen would be a mistake because the pranks and shit he does is cute when a kid does it but would land him in jail if he were older. A teen Bart tricking the city into believing someone was trapped in a well would certainly have consequences.

That's a live action show though

Imagine being this bluepilled.

Isn't Lisa always right these days ?
Sure she's annoying, but she's constantly proven right and her cause to be just even when she's told to fuck off by real activists.

That'd be correct for season 10 or so when she lost sometimes

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>the Simpsons is kept on the air by conservatives who want to make sure that every American's first exposure to liberalism is an annoying little girl playing the know-it-all. She can't grow up because she might garner some more attention or respect if she had boobs.

people still want to fuck lisa as-is

>"people"

I'm willing to believe simpsons rule34 is generated by a primitive AI

Yes, actually, that would have been awesome.

Then again, I think shows without continuity are fucking dogshit and it's pointless to even keep watching after a certain point.

To be fair to Lisa, in her world all men ARE complete fuck ups and dumbasses and all the women are extremely intelligent geniuses held down by da man. Even Marge is supposed to be extremely intelligent and is portrayed as being held back from her potential because of her dumbass husband.

Yes, and in fact my proposal for "how to end The Simpsons AND keep making The Simpsons" has been "fuck it, timeskip" for several years now.

underrated

I'm pretty sure that would alienate whatever fanbase is left.
At this point the Simpsons must have an economic model like webcomics or those mobile waifu games, with a handful of screeching retards providing 80% of the revenue/viewership and a vast majority of people sticking for maybe 5 episodes while they wait for the next season of archer or something.

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Most likely it's just a Scientology funding scheme at this point (Nancy Cartwright donates a huge chunk of her salary to them).

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Teen Bart would likely be more like a stoner burnout like teen Homer.