At what point did you drop the Simpsons?

about 15 years ago

When Phil Hartman died

>>79622880

What season had Homer mauled by the badger or when Bart befriended the old, western movie star? That's when I stopped giving a shit as it was coming out on a weekly basis.

I miss the old and moody realism stories the early seasons had. Now it just seems to be nothing but pop culture references or latching onto the latest trend.

Never. Guess what? In it's current state its still better than 80% of current tv

Cape Feare

you could tell the old writers stopped giving a shit at that point and the new ones weren't much good...

>>79622880
The precise moment all of you should have

>The Principal and the Pauper Season 9 Episode 2.

>>79622947
that episode was great

>>79622921
>moody realism
>If I don't buy Lisa a pony she'll hate me forever!

wow how grounded

>>79622880

The first episode I really didn't enjoy was the one where Homer predicts the rapture, then I slowly started to hate the show. I haven't bothered watching the last few seasons because the HD era is a whole new level of lazy.

>>79622947
>the gun episode is bad
>Bart playing american football episode is bad
>angel episode is bad

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>>79622880
Never picked it up. Not a bad source for reaction images, though.

i stopped taping them around 12th season and watched it ocassionaly only.
havent watched a new episode since about season 21.

Someone asked me this the other day, I had to check episode guides.

Turns out I stopped watching after Season 10.

I did not recognise a single episode in Season 11 and to think they're on Season 28 now is mind boggling.

There are hundreds of hours of Simpsons I will never ever watch

>>79622947
this

>>79622976
>>79622991
Season 3-7 is as good as it gets.

>>79622880
Season 10

>>79622880

The episode where Homer takes over moes tavern.

>>79622880
Principal and the Pauper

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I still watch it just for this part. It's one of the few things that hasn't changed over time. Same logo, same late 80s/early 90s synth piano jingle.

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>>79622880
What are these things supposed to be?

>>79623026
shh

>>79622976
>that episode was great

The episode is the epitome of Zombie Simpsons

>>79623011
but half of season 9 are very good episodes. Not saying they're the best, but far from the point of dropping

>>79623043
Niggers in theaters should take a hint from this shit.

>>79623049
I don't really disagree with you, but I think Season 9 was the beginning of the end.

>>79623045
no, it's actually funny and well written

when i grew up and stopped watching cartoons.

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>>79623077
>he thinks cartoons are for children

>>79623077
>grew up
>browses a Greek welfare board

>>79623037
you're joking, right? External HD's.

Most Lisa focused episodes or anything past season 11 is too much for me, 4-8 are the best imo, maybe 3 tbqh

>>79623072
> it's actually funny and well written

The only people who think this watch the Zombie Simpsons still.
Throwing out canon, caricatures acting braindead, joke writing relying on le random.

It IS everything that is wrong with the zombie simpsons.
Itd be a good family guy episode.

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>>79623065

>>79622880
that episode is clearly parody

>>79622904
this

>>79622910

same, this is when simpsons when to absolute shit

>>79623159
>Throwing out canon
that was the joke, idiot

>>79623077

animated tv/movies are just plain better than humans acting.

My DVR still records the Simpsons, but I haven't watched a new one in about a year

>>79623182
Being self deprecating about how the simpsons writing had gone to shit doesnt make it a funny joke.

>>79623188
If you're autistic it's easier to understand emotion from drawings then it is from an actual face

>>79622910

mah niggah

end of Season 10, although seasons 11 and 12 have some semi decent stuff.

>>79623208
what? No, the joke that Skinner was actually a badass street rat all along. Yeah, the plot's a little "out there", but that's been the mark of golden age simpsons that set it apart from the first few seasons. You could argue that it was a tipping point of some kind, but it's hardly a "zombie simpsons" episode

>>79623235

I at least got a chuckle out of Homer's movie idea and Ron stealing it at the end. But this was the downfall of The Simpsons and where they decided to force celebrities in for no reason now.

>>79623132
>>79623138
>>79623188

emotionally stunted overgrownchildren

>>79623299
Yes we are, brother. Yes we are.

>>79623251
>Yeah, the plot's a little "out there", but that's been the mark of golden age simpsons that set it apart from the first few seasons.

The mark of golden era simpsons was very well written wit built upon the backs of a relatable average family who isnt perfect. Real life situations that everyone has seen happen in their friends or their own life built up with a bit of humorous hyperbole.

Let me guess, homer shoving the crayon up his nose was pretty funny too?

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>>79622880
I don't even know what the fuck they were going for with this episode. Somehow, Lisa accidentally makes a sentient AI then frees him. It was so absurd and stupid but not in a whacky, funny way. Like the first half of the episode I wasn't even sure if they were going for a "girls can be hackers and coders too!" or if it was some kind of anti-feminist statement against the female coders acting like cunts, but then it completely abandons that idea in the second half.

It was a complete mess, like if 10 different writers worked on the episode, and then they tried their best to include everybody's ideas.

>>79622921
>coming out on a weekly basis
>moody realism stories

your retarded

>>79623344
>wit
>relatable

Simpsons was realistic in the first two seasons at best

>>79623439
I didnt say realistic, I said repeatable with hyperbole.

The overarching stories hit on everyday situations and problems that everyone has faced.
There is a reason that a fucking cartoon got so many families watching and loving it. And its not because it was so randumb (years before randumb humor was popular)

Are you not old enough to recognize how relevant most of the stories were?

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"insane Clown Poppy" is when I realized the Simpsons was just shit now, "The Italian Bob" is when I gave it up altogether.

>>79623654
>its a sideshow Bob helps Homer find his attempted killer which turns out to be his ex co worker's son who is somehow an adult

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It still has it's moments

>>79622904
Best answer. No reason to stick around after he was gone.

>>79623149
What is a "HD"?

Just put everything in the cloud :^)

>>79622904
This is the correct answer.

It was already in the beginning stages of decline at that point, but that just sealed the deal.

>>79622880
Sometime around 1996

>>79623707
No. It doesn't.

>>79622880
about 6 years ago and then I was only watching season 4 on dvd anyway

The one with Mel Gibson

I'm 24 and seen maybe 5 episodes in my life and I don't feel like I've missed anything.

>>79623678
>Frank Grimes seems like he could be in his early to mid-40's
>Junior seems like he's in his early 20's

>>79623816
That one wasn't so bad.

Around season 11 or 12 is when I gave up on it.

>>79623825
I don't blame you with that age. You weren't really old enough (or alive) to see the best stuff. During the majority of your lifetime the show has been complete shit.

In my mind, I think it's great, but that cuts off around 97-98. It's hard to grasp that, in reality, the vast majority of the series has existed after that time frame and has been complete shit.

>>79623859
>Frank Grimes early to mid 40s
not really

>>79623825
>I'm 24 and seen maybe 5 episodes in my life

wierd

>>79622892
This.

Panda rape.

Hell, I think rape jokes are hilarious but this just wasn't funny and it was a hard-turn from the sort of humor that Simpsons was known for.

let's discuss zombie simpsons AGAIN

Some episode where Homer started screaming nonstop because a repressed memory of finding a Mr. Smither's father's dead body as a child came back. Sounds like a creepypasta but really just a shitty episode. Finally said fuck it I'm done with this show.

>>79622880
long long long before whatever this is

>watching the simpsons after conan o'brien stopped writing

Not even once.

The Great Louse Detective was the last straw for me.

>>79623045
What, according to that shitty essay that claims the voice of the lunchlady dying was one of the major reasons the show started to suck? Give me a break.

>>79623873
Lemme axe u somefin, does mentioning the name "Armin Tanzarian" result in you autisiticly screeching?

>>79623951
he wrote like 3 episodes, some of the best, but he wasn't around that long

>>79623994
Exactly. The rest was shit.

Watching season 9 in its entirety definitely made me give up. The episodes aren't bad, but a lot of them just aren't funny or even engaging. Homer drowns Springfield in garbage? Homer almost starts a war with a nuclear submarine? Homer helps Burns flee to Cuba? What the christ.

>>79622880
which episode is that

>>79622910

I can't pin point a episode but episodes like this and the more over the top plots and obvious changes to Homer's character is when I stopped

>>79622910
I stop every rewatch on this episode. This is the patricians end to the simpsons.

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Post simpsons-kino moments

>simultaneously making a man losing his faith funny and heartbreaking

>>79623990
>austisticly

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>>79624127
"I thought I dreamed that kiss."

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>>79624127

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>>79624127

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Right around this tryhard joke

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>>79624127

the one where maude dies.

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>>79624127
Send in...the clowns

>>79622880
2002ish

I still watch it. It's never going to be as good as it used to be but I still enjoy it for what it is.

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>>79624319
THEY'RE. ALREADY. HEEEEERE!

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>>79622880
this episode right here

>>79624251
Remember when the guest stars actually did a performance?

>>79624036
I like a lot of the wacky episodes of that period, the jokes are still mainly good and it's got a fair dose of nostalgia for me.

But there was definitely a sea change in their approach to story in the writing in season 9 that turned a lot of people off, and moved away from the schmaltzy "heart" the early show was based upon (which you can only mine so often before it gets stale).

They had to either get crazier, or start ageing the characters, or they would have run out of material. Given the money the show was making stopping was unthinkable.

>>79624444
Quad-Quads confirm, what was it about this episode in particular? was it because they hyped up the milestone?

>>79624480
300th episode

Lisa it's your birthday
God bless you this day
You gave me the gift of a little sister and
I'm proud of you today

Lisa It's your birthday
Happy birthday Lisa

Back when the guests were more interested in having some artistic integrity than just appearing in a popular show

>>79624480
Yes.

I remember it being hyped beyond belief before it aired on television.

Who /chubchub/ here?

>>79624526
but but but..... MJ didn't even sing his parts.

>>79622880
>>79622880
About 1997. It used to have phenomenal writing, much like Bob's Burgers today, it was witty and it had an edge but it also had a compelling narrative. Now it has neither. And it hasn't for about 20 years. It is a husk of it's former glory....

From the 2nd season through to about the 9th it was phenomenol. It started out as cheap badly drawn shock humor that hasn't aged well, but it very quickly ironed that out and became clever.... but this only lasted like one or two batches of writers and then it turned into mediocre safe humor for grandmas.

Either that or other shows that were taking off like Beavis and Butthead or South Park, in particular, which pushed the envelope further and made Simpsons obsolete.

Now, I have no idea who still watches it. Most fans dropped off at like '97 with maybe a few lingering till after the millenium. I don't know anyone that watches it anymore. Most have moved on to Family Guy, Bob's Burgers (best of these comedy shows), American Dad, or South Park (also a shadow of it's former glory, good and watchable still though, just not legendary like it once was).

>>79624552

He still wrote and did the voice acting

>>79624526
LISA, HER TEETH ARE BIG AND GREEN

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>>79624560
Bobs Burgers is just tumblr lolsorandumXD with coach mcguirk

Jenny Slate's cute tho

>>79624639

>think the wifes voice is kinda hot
>voiced by a guy

kill me

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You see here in latin america, Simpsons were always dubbed in Mexican spanish. the actors making the voices were ridiculously famous for their iconic roles, the're loved all over south america, there's a real love and care towards the voices. you just dont watch the Simpsons in english, it's not natural

until 2005, actors had an internal strike with their studio, the problem was not resolved, and fox ordered that they just hired other actors.
the result: the show dropped quality to the ground people was just disgusted to hear another voice, it was just not the same

that's when they died for me

Tennis the Menace was my breaking point.

There were probably lots of episodes before it that did it, but it stood out to me as being the first episode to shoehorn a ridiculous amount of guest cameos for zero plot gain.

>>79622880
Soon after the switch to HD.

>>79622904
Spbp

Pretty much after the movie, for many different reason...I remember watching in the 2009-2010 the episode when Moe dates the midget girl and feeling literally disgusted after that

>>79623344
Yeah who hasn't gone to a theme park to fuck up some robots

End of S13

My brother and I noticed the decline during that fucking awful episode where Bart kills a bird but we stuck with it

To be fair the Mr X and Max Power episodes are still among some of my favorites, but they were rare outliers

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>>79622904
>>79623168
>>79623710
>>79623768
>>79625082
remember when they paid Andy Dick to do a cameo, just a few years later?

>>79624560
Imagine comparing fucking Bob's Burgers to golden age Simpson's. Fucking hell

08-13-97

when lisa gets restraining order against bart

When i stopped eating dinner with my family and ate alone in my room. Around 15 maybe.

>>79625159
Wait, they PAY them to do the cameos?

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>>79624825
>latin america
>simpsons

UNA VELA

>>79622880
when they switched to HD
you can visibly see the decrease in animation quality, and there's just no soul in the show any more. sometimes it's still funny but it's just a lifeless echo of what it once was

>>79624267
I don't get it

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>>79625246
I love this stuff

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>>79625246

When I was growing up, the episode where Maud died was so bad I stopped watching new episodes, and I was 11 so it was probably shit long before that.

>>79625300
>chucks fuck and suck

>>79624825
I'm >>79625090
Also this, I'm not south american but in my country too almost all the major voice actors of the Simpsons left or died, so for sure it's not the same thing

>>79624825
it's the first time I've seen it put into words. Beto Velez was GOAT and the dubbing could get so meta
case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c73zxzZRUSg

>>79625159
I will never not be mad

>>79625187
The blank space between seasons 8 and 9, is that meant to be deep?

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>>79625332
>>79625320

JAJAJAJA mi droga preferida

>>79625396
>literally sounds like a star wars alien
>mucha chaka paka

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>>79625475

>>79625396
Explain how this is meta?

UNA VELA

>>79625159
Post the gif of Jay Sherman smashing his head against the counter.

I stopped watching at that episode which just consisted of Flanders raping Lisa

>>79622980
No diferent from buying a car so your daughter loves you and if you are paranoid she will hate you.

>>79623242
same for me.. maybe even held on till season 13 or 14 but most of the episodes were crap since s11

>>79625600

>Implying Kiddy Fiddly Diddly wasn't the GOAT episode

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>>79622880
2003ish I think.

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>>79625488

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Stopped watching after this episode

>>79625667
patrician

>>79625667
Sure you did.

>>79625488
The fact the you'll never get to enjoy it is a bit sad actually

>>79625667
I bet you hated the Frank grimes episode too, didn't you?

>>79625667
>You've lived quite a life Tanzarian
>It's your life I just kept it warm for you.

>Skinner having to say goodbye to his surrogate mother

That episode was great, everyone got butthurt as if skinner was some sacred character?

>>79624060
Personally I think the best ending point is the New York episode, even though a few memorable ones come afterwards, principally because it ended with them driving off into the sunset, returning to Springfield, but it's also good because it's a story focusing entirely on the main cast and the jokes work without extensive knowledge of the characters.
Pre 9-11 nostalgia and the affectionate but not ass-licking portrayal of New York also made the episode a stand-out, much better than the other "travel episodes".

>>79622880
I stopped watching at season 1. The show is only in it purist form when it was shorts on the Tracey Ullman show, anything after that is commercial garbage

>>79625533
Do you speak Spanish?

>>79625757
UNA VELA JAJAJAJAJAJA

I'm not missing out on anything

>>79625783
>Dad, what is the mind I mean is it something tangible?
>What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. BWAHAHAHAA

Fucking Kino.

>>79623994

I really feel saying "CONAN EPISODES ARE THE ONLY GOOD ONES" is such a reddit meme. It's just that they find out that piece of trivia and instead of figuring out which seasons began the decline, they use a lazy metric to measure quality.

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>>79625571

>>79623026
Idk why this is so comfy to me? I grew up watching the Simpsons and it reminds me of when I was a kid.

>>79625533
They probably change the name from Langdon Alger to reference one of the Mexican VA's or some shit and this guy thinks localisation is somehow metafiction

>>79624444

Yep. I remember telling myself that this episode better live up to hype that Fox was giving it. And not to mention, I adored Tony Hawk so I expected something decent.

Nope. It was total shit especially for a 300th episode.

>>79625862
>that musical episode where Snake tells them to shut up

>>79623654
I was about to post this. Holy fuck this episode was awful

>>79624560
>Most fans dropped off at like '97

lolno

And you compared kino Simpsons with Bob's Burgers. What a shit opinion.

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>episodes everyone loves but you hate

>>79623026
that scene is comfy as fuck

>>79625832
Especially considering it was season 4 (with I think a holdover episode aired in 5) so it was years before any decline. Also Conan came up with the name "Chub-Chub" and found it bizarrely hilarious (as in would disrupt writing sessions from laughing so hard his own "joke") so there's that

>>79625910
>>79623654
VENDETTA VENDETTA xD

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Could have been a great series finale
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CLXDCBJvr-4

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this episode breaks me every time
im too pure for this cruel world

>>79623026

It's more Depressing than comfy, because the fun just ended and the harsh reality took it's place again

>>79625788
una vela is a line from a song and has nothing to do with the Simpsons outside of /int/ and their shitty memes

>>79623026
This has the same feeling as the castle rock logo

>>79626015
The ending is really sweet though and also the behind the scenes anecdotes about laurence tierney are fucking 10/10

>>79623707
Homer sitting like "Crippled America" cover.

maybe during Season 9 (1997–98)

I remember the new york episode, but that's about it.

>>79624036
>Homer helps Burns flee to Cuba?
That one was great. The only shitty Burns episode was the one where Lisa helps him get back on his feet, and that's only because of the ending

Stopped after 16. Found it was sort of a struggle to watch after 12 though but I did so out of boredom a few months ago.

>>79625919
t. Grimes

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>>79626023
MUY LOCO

>>79623011
>Season 3-7 is as good as it gets.
This but I like first two seasons as well

>>79626142
IT'S FULL OF WHAT?

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A little after the turn of the millennium, Behind the Laughter should've been the finale

>>79626243
STORIES FOR YEARS

Does anyone else like the tone of season 1? All those night-time scenes on bridges and streets. All of Some Enchanted Evening. Springfield had a very different feeling back then probably because most of the characters don't exist yet, so it's not familiar

>>79623654
I liked this episode but I've realised that the Bob's son makes no sense, like the chinese child of Selma

>>79622880
Before I got my first pube.

>>79625862
That's called "nostalgia", frienderino.

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>>79626095
really does capture bart being an actual kid more than any other episode i've seen, because it takes it from his perspective and with a lot of strong emotions involved. it's so relatable and believable when you watch it young.
i just can't bring myself to rewatch it when the memory's so crisp and strong. quality episode, season 7 is a good boy.

>>79623344
Yeah I remember the time my dad went into space or that time I met the hobo who actually invented Mickey Mouse and bankrupted Disney.

>>79623043
I wonder if the person who voiced that "Shhh" gets paid residuals from the show?

Don't think I've watched any episodes that aired after about 2007 or 2008 but has it got worse? Back then it was all about repeating the same slapstick gags and hammering home the DUDE HOMER IS DUMB LMAO shit, with a forced celebrity cameo.

Has it got better or worse since?

>>79626395
>really does capture bart being an actual kid more than any other episode i've seen, because it takes it from his perspective and with a lot of strong emotions involved.
Lemon of Troy also does a great job capturing being a kid

>>79623299
He posted, on /tv/

When they changed almost all latino voice actors.

>>79625367
BR? I dropped when the old Homer voice died.

>>79622904
>the last episode Hartman did was the one where Bart finds those bird eating lizards and raises them
Simpsons was already shit at that point though.

>>79623825
That's unfortunate. Because us Britbongs are poverty stricken ITV used to show repeats of the Simpsons in the late 90s-mid 00s and it was solely the golden age stuff from the early 90s. That meant it never felt like many of us had missed out on it despite not having been born in the 80s.

Season 12 is the last season that I own. Premiere of season 21 is the last new episode that I've seen.

I'd divide them like this

1-2 old style
3 transition
4-6 golden age
7 transition
8-10 more good than bad, starting to show cracks
11-12 noticeable decline

>>79626559
Yeah, it's strange but The Simpsons has a much stronger cultural presence in Britain, Ireland & Australia because those golden episodes were aired over and over again on a daily basis

The episode where bart farted at marge and she said "well that certainly shut me up." I don't remember even trying to get home on time to watch it on sunday after that.

>>79623798
The Boyhood parody was great

>>79622910
Ron Howard was still great in this episode

>>79624825
>Spain Simpsons dub
>translation/dubbing director, who also performed as Homer's voice passed away mid season 11
>not only the series started going to shit, the translation/dubbing quality also plummeted
>new Homer voice was also shit in comparison
I'm kinda glad he never got to experience zombie-simpsons though.

The one where Homer was raped by the panda.

>>79623132

That image

>HOW DARE YOU
Has always been stuck in my memory ever since I was a kid, and I don't think I've ever seen that image on this site before. Funny how some things just stick with you

>>79626601

Seems about right.

>>79622880
After Simpsons movie, but didn't watch too many new episodes for years before. I mostly watched 6pm Simpsons on channel 10 when I was growing up and that showed classic episodes mostly.

>>79625448
its the day southpark premiered

Remember when the creators said an important character would die and in the end it was just Krusty's literal who father?

>>79626991
Remember when they said Homer and Marge would split up and then it was all a dream on a tattoo?

>>79626991
They pulled the same shit with Maude

>>79626541
Its an okay episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc

This scene is the highlight for me

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>>79625761
Well to be fair skinner pos traumatic skits were one of the best.

>>79624267
Can I get a quick rundown on this joke?

>>79626559
>endless Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes being put in the Simpsons timeslot after Channel 4 got the timeslot

christ what a bleak time

>>79627163
Chuck was a well-liked writer for the show who was later replaced by a man named Sneed.

>>79626925
But South Park was aimed at a completely different demographic, It wasn't a replacement from The Simpsons

>>79625667
>therealdondraperisaliveandshowsupatscdp.jpg

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>>79626278
I dont know why people from season 2 onwards dont like season 1, its a great season that its maybe not as comedy focused but still has many great emotional and funny momments.

>>79627096
Exactly, that doesn't change because he's still a vietnam vet

>>79626670
Lucky you didnt see the "farting homer" episode.

pure cringe.

>>79625788
>una vela
>sudaca memes when talking about based mexican spanish voice acting

>>79622926
>Never. Guess what? In it's current state its still better than 80% of current tv

No it's not.

>>79627255
Doesnt that episode retcons that he was captured and kept captive at Nam?

>>79626524
Italy, even here the homer's voice actor died

>>79627071

That episode was worth it for that joke imo

>>79627303
nah there's still plenty of opportunity for Skinner to be a POW besides, it's a cartoon. Homer's had how many jobs now??

>>79627026
>remember the ads for that episode
>kept showing shots of maggie, marge, lenny and maude
>they show the clip of lenny surviving the tire

It was so fucking obvious even as a 12 year old I saw it coming.

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>>79624127

>>79627363
A better question is how many jobs Marge has had.

Aniways i do agree that episode is blown out of proportion.

>>79627071
>last scene of the episode is the only good scene

>>79624825
this

>>79627229
Season 1 has a really odd feeling because of how realistic and dark it feels compared to the almost Looney Tunes levels of silliness the later seasons entail

The Great Outdoors is the closest we get to Wacky Simpsons with the whole Maggie living with the Bears and Homer being Bigfoot

>>79622880
I recall watching episodes from season 14 and a few from season 15 when they first aired. So I'm guessing season 15 is when I stopped.

>>79624639
>Bobs Burgers is just tumblr lolsorandumXD with coach mcguirk
None of what you said made any sense.

The Ricky Gervais episode was one of the most awful thing I have ever saw on television

>>79627495
The christmass and the model family episodes werent that dark.

The rest? I agree.

>>79627526
sorry you were never taught basic reading comprehension.

unless you just didnt understand the memes and pop culture reference, and in that case i envy you.

>>79627495
>It's a Homer attempts suicide episode
>It's a Lisa has depression episode
>It's a family go to group therapy episode
>It's a home invader assaults the children episode
>It's a Marge has an affair episode
>It's a Homer's treatment of a stripper negatively affects Bart's outlook on women episode

>>79627730
Homer struggling to make sure his family have a happy Christmas is fairly daunting

It always surprises me that the CANYONERO episode was in the S10

>>79627817
The whole santa stuff doesnt really drives well the point, maybe with a hardest job.

>>79627689
A reminder that the Simpsons staff writers were mainly responsible for that abortion not Ricky

>>79627900
It could've been a holdover from Season 9

Was "Marge Gamer" the last good episode?

>>79624563
top kek

>>79627986
(you)

>>79627787
>It's a Bart is kept as a slave in a foreign country episode

>>79628148
I preferred the b-plot where Homer aids a foreign terrorist

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Season 4 is where it started going to shit

>>79628357
>Marge vs the Monorail
>I don't think so, bro

>>79627759
I have never seen BB ever refer to a meme and barely pop culture. Sorry you've been conditioned by this shithole.

>>79623149
I thought they're little desktop PC's LOL

>>79622880
That 300th episode where Bart leaves home and Tony Hawk and Blink 182 guest star for no reason.

>>79623026
>>79623043
*Shriek of terror*

>>79624194
Why are you chopping onions anon? Get the fuck out of here.

>>79622910
Christ that episode is so bad

completely unrecognizable to the previous season even

>>79628692
this

>>79625824
The abruptness of that laugh gets me every time

>>79627218
99.9% of the simpson's profile was from how it would occasionally, in a completely light and toothless fashion, criticize modern mainstream culture. Also how it would use the animated format to lightly rub up against the boundaries of humor.

So, yes, southpark was a complete and total replacement of the simpsons.

>>79623825
That's weird, I'm the same age but I saw all of the older episodes (seasons 1-9) in middle school and loved them.
I remember watching my season 6 dvds during long car rides.

>>79622880
season 11, i think

>>79622910
While I don't like the episode overall, the bit where Ron Howard jumps off the car is gold.

When Family guy started. Same shit, but funnier

>>79625292
This applies to most animation really

>>79629068
The Simpsons was being watched by kids and their parents, South Park was being watched by teenagers who were "too cool" for the simpsons at that point

>>79622880
I can't say I've ever dropped it because I'm not sure if I can say I ever watched it to begin with, as in I've never made it a point to watch and keep up with the latest episodes. I watched it if it just so happened to be on and continue to do so today.

>>79629163
This, I kek every time

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>>79624825
This.

And actually it goes beyond there, cause before that the quality of the show dropped. I can't stand the last episodes of the original mexican actors, but they made it bearable.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNrn-7zjmYw

>>79624444

Same

Probably they should have made them grow and not just for a Christmas Special.

I hate the new episodes focuses on recurrent characters that aren't interesting.

>>79624825
This, fuck the new simpsons

>>79622880
>that one woman who brought their iMac and didn't actually plug in the keyboard

>>79626243
Holy fuck it should have been.
Why are we here? Just to suffer?

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>>79622880
It really wasn't a single episode. I think it was around 2003/2004, the free fall in quality was already in full effect so I just gradually withdrew from it. I'd catch the odd episode here and there over the years, but never in the consistent fashion as I had done since the late 90s when I was a kid.

But there was a point where I turned a corner and decided to never watch a 'new' episode again. That was the 'grunge' episode. For something I hadn't really been a fan of for over a decade, seeing that episode alone made me so angry.

>>79622880
Time traveler here, it gets good again in season 315

>>79622880
10 years ago, the movie was my head canon finale for the show

>>79622880
>he fell for the CS meme

>>79622910
I actually like this episode

>>79623654
my gf's mother had this episode on once and she was talking to me about something so I couldn't escape. And she's deaf as a post, too, so imagine having to endure VENDETTA, VENDETTA, VENDETTA almost full volume while pretending to be nice to someone you don't even like but have to put up with.

Remember when you get to see barts dick in the movie?

>>79629633
why did I press play?...

>>79622980
>moody realism

You should know about the dead Bart episode

>>79624825
Same, t. Argie.

homer get ipad

>>79629633
Didn't this literally kill the Harlem Shake? It was popular until this came out.

Which one is worse?
post cancelation family guy or zombie simpsons?

>>79631133
No, what?

>>79622880
matt groening probably hates himself

the one with gary coleman

>>79631564
Nah, He's been making billions for doing nothing the past 30 years

>>79624267
WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY MEAN BY THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

lady gaga episode

>>79631310
>killed the harlem shake
At least zombie simpsons is capable of doing some good in the world.

>>79622910
Yep. When FXX did that marathon of every episode I knew it was over at this exact one.

after season ten

>>79624444
I remember this was one of the last episodes I ever saw.

>>79631653
yeah but his creation is a shell of its former self
it's a hollow victory

Rewatching season 10 at the moment, this is less funny than I remember. 9 was still good though, if noticeably worse than 8.

>>79631765
This, first time I ever NOPED out of an episode.

>>79622910
Homer getting into bed with Hollywood

Whoa so symbolic really makes me think

Like 2003 when every episode was uhhh they go to Toronto or Brazil

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>tfw your country never got a golden era Simpons episode like the Aussie or French episodes.

>tfw you just got some zombie simpsons shit crammed full of celebrities with a nonsensical plot and no jokes.

>>79628692
>>79625887
>>79624444
This is the one I remember as feeling really 'off' even as a fairly young kid

The story just had a really horrible tone, and the guest stars were awful

Terrible

>>79634478
Ugh, that was terrible. One of worst examples of "Hey look, it's (celebrity)!" writing

>>79634604
>how many times has your father done something stupid like this?
>it's 300 mom

>>79622947
Nah, that's the first zombie-esque episode but it's an outlier, those episodes didn't become the norm for another couple of seasons

>>79623070
3-8 are the golden age, 9 and 10 are the twilight period, and after that it's dead.

>>79622880
After season 9

After season 12. I loved the show and didnt want to let it go

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>>79634478
at least it's not the Italian episode

>>79625832
I actually thought the monorail episode was kind of shit.

which season had the first episode with a scene in the beginning, where the family drives in the car, and homer goes off a bridge or something/in the river, and drives on the bottom of the waters, by some eels and comical clams or some shit? Maybe even a mermaid? It was like in the first minute I think.

We used to watch simpsons in the family, and I remember when I saw this episode of the new season, I felt the style, the jokes, the feel, the type of humor, everything was totally different. Its like watching a bad Impy & Chipy episode, nothing made sense anymore, the characters personality totally changed.
There were a lot of bs before that season, but it still had good Simpsons moment and solid humor. But this was unbearable.
Funny how the old Simpsons episode make a lot of fun of things like the new Simpsons episodes.

>>79635682
This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mudzFzILXNc

Beyond Blunderdome

>>79635847
exactly... oh another pointless episode with a celeb thrown in, ugh. I mean many people will say episode 10 already was bad, but there where episodes I genuinely liked. Both story and jokes.
But this declince in quality to the next season was just brutal.

>>79635988
meant season 10

>>79635682
>>79635847
>>79635988

>marge unironically farts for a cheap joke in the first two minutes

I have watched every single episode of the Simpsons, as they premiered on Fox.
Never missed an episode.
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