>On Sunday night, “The Simpsons” fell below the magic number of 1 million viewers for the first time ever in its 33 year history.
>Last week’s show scored 1,095,000 and that was the second week in a row of low numbers. Ratings for “The Simpsons” are usually around 1.5 million although sometimes it’s double that amount. Six times this season the total number of viewers has been up to 4 million.
>But Sunday night brought just 950,000 fans. It was a drop of over 100,000 and a significant fall from the season opener last September of 3.5 million viewers.
>Don’t worry, “The Simpsons” won’t be cancelled any time soon. It’s a low budget show with so many other revenue streams– merchandise, etc — that Fox isn’t even close to saying goodbye. But the sudden drop is a little worrisome.
>The episode on Sunday, The Sound of Bleeding Gums, was no different than the last several hundred. Little Lisa, who plays the sax, meets a jazz legend. Maybe it was too arcane. But aren’t all “Simpsons” episodes like that?
>It’s a low budget show How much do the actors make again?
Justin Bailey
It’s made for braindead liberal gen xers like Mike Stoklasa
Jonathan Richardson
For me it's a combination of nostalgia, character investment, and perhaps a bit if Sunken Costs. They do occasionally do something sweet with characters long time fans care about, like Moe finally finding happiness.
Easton Bell
Anything in the HD widescreen years is shit.
Camden Gutierrez
>character investment They've literally completely rewritten the characters at least 6 times now dude. How can you be invested in that
John Walker
Have no fear, they have stories for years.
Jayden Taylor
I've never watched the Simpsons, but I recently learned that Homer was now canonically in high school in the early 2000s. I find that pretty funny.
Ryan Peterson
Ha, he used to graduate the same year as my Dad, in 1974.
Jordan Sanders
>It’s a low budget show But doesn't the VA get millions at every episode?
last I heard he had teenage band in the 90s called...sadgasm?
Ian Bell
>>Don’t worry, “The Simpsons” won’t be cancelled any time soon.
Just let it die. Is it an American thing to run a show into the ground well beyond its glory days? Do other countries milk their favorite shows to death and keep trodding the corpses out for literal decades?
Bart in season 1 (10 years old, so born 1979) would be older in 2022 than current season Homer (who’s 38, meaning he’d be born in 1984). And I’m now realizing Homer’s a millennial.
Lincoln Evans
I was in 4th grade when the Simpsons started. I'm 42 now. Put this decrepit shell of a show out of it's misery.
Isaiah Harris
True. Okaasan to Issho started in 1959 and still airs today.
Joshua Sanchez
No tits is a huge compliment.
Xavier Long
In just 4 years, season 1 Maggie will be older than current season Homer and Marge
Noah Robinson
This show is now more shit than it was ever good
Ethan Carter
The simpsons has had many points where it could be considered a proper ending. Some people who hate zombie simpsons consider the early episodes with the simpsons in the future to be acceptable endings.
Hunter Powell
>Don’t worry, “The Simpsons” won’t be cancelled any time soon.
It's funny, people thought I was gay for not being into sports and now sports are gay
Gavin Ross
The fact there's still a million fucking circumcised golem mutts watching this is astonishing.
Jacob Robinson
HAVE NO FEARS, WE'VE GOT STORIES FOR YEARS
Ryder Taylor
But it never did, whereas Doctor Who was finished, properly finished. Even in the lore he had reached the maximum number of regenerations and it was decades before they raped its' corpse