The Day The Simpsons Died

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the Simpsons died on the same day as this guy.

It's not like the episode are made sequentially years apart. They make whole seasons at once. Season 8 was the last top quality one. Seasons 9-13 were the failure points, with every season getting worse than the last.

>>80787719

I don't know. I like the Phil Hartman idea. The episode that made me personally say "why am I watching this shite?" and watch no more new ones, was the one where they do bible stories.

>>80787719
nah.

I didn't even realise people thought it was a bad episode until I was on sites like this.

Season 9 was good. Season 10 was shakey but would still be considered ok if simpsons had ended there.

It was downhill rapidly, at about season 14/15 I realised it just wasn't the same show anymore and stopped.

>>80787719
Why the fuck didn't they end it with the movie? It had gone downhill before that, but at least then they could have gone out with a bang.

seasons 9 and 10 are still pretty good, 11 and 12 there are noticeable problems, the show is unwatchable after that

>>80787719
wow amazing intro

we wont have catchy music or just a title , lets get the sound of a retarded animal with a demonic yelp. bravo

>>80789197
$$$$$

No, what a stupid meme.

It's a good episode and they had done same type of shit since the beginning. Literally no difference to B-Sharps. Simpsons died a slow death when the good writers left and Scully and Jean became showrunners.

Simpsons was never funny and is purely run on nostalgia, grow the fuck up

It died with the Baldwin/Basinger ep.

>>80789197
because of dannyboytbh types who still find it hilarious

>>80789197
this and people after the movie, just took everything from the movie and butt raped it until it was dead

>>80787889
I used to like that trilogy of bible stories - until The Simpsons abused the concept of trilogy stories, and produced some absolute garbage

>>80787719
The problem with that episode is that it is directly preceded by "The City of New York vs Homer Simpson" which is one of the finest episodes they ever made.

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>>80787888
>Seasons 9-13 were the failure points, with every season getting worse than the last.

>The episode where Homer meets Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin
>The episde where Homer kills Maude
>Krusty's episode

Those are like a guide to every "zombie simpson" episode that came after the last good seasons.

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>>80793612
>>Krusty's episode

I meant Krusty's daughter episode

>>80787719
I always felt the show went down the toilet in terms of quality after Season 10 but it wasn't completely dead to me. Until I saw "Lisa Goes Gaga"

>lisa episode
>featuring lady gaga
>no good jokes
>filled with shitty musical numbers
>lady gaga shilling for twenty-three minutes
>no interesting subplots
>no subplots at all, actually
>shitty deus ex machina ending
>shitty animation like the last eight seasons
>no memorable lines


Easily the worst Simpsons episode ever written. No contest. Nothing compares in shit-factor to Lisa Goes Gaga.

I don't know exacrly when it died but this definitely made me realize it was dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8r5fCsln6M

There are many periods to the simpson prosperity and quality. As I can recognize the true golden age of it, I still do enjoy watching some of the newer episodes. As user >>80794147
mentions, this is where there is a dark pit of never ever again, right along lisa fucks young hemingway and Grandpa is gay episodes. I still do derive pleasure from episodes like >>80793612
mentions, even though they aren't up to the quality check most of us got used to. Even later, the Simpsons as an animated show still was better than 90% of adult television in 2010ish

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>>80792676
no only beaners watch simpsons now

>>80794479
>user
get the fuck back to where ever you came from

>>80787889
the one where the episode ends with it being the actual rapture?

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>Kamp Krustier
>s28e12
>When Bart and Lisa return home abruptly after a traumatic incident at Kamp Krusty, they put an end to Homer and Marge's romantic encounters. Without sex to distract him, Homer becomes a more productive worker and caring husband, but Marge misses the old Homer. Then, Bart and Lisa return to camp to confront the source of their trauma

>Title Screen gag: The Air Force One flies across the screen, followed by Vladimir Putin on a Pegasus.

Name one (1) plotline that The Simpsons hasn't done yet.

>>80794668
The writer's current reliance on "MUH SEX" is an uncomfortable reminder of how far the show has drifted from its initial intention to parody and satirize the modern concept of family.

>>80794981
How many modern simpsons episodes DON'T rely on a "marge and homer's marriage is on the rocks" plot in some form?

Frank Grimes episode should've been the last one

>>80795026
Any that are celebrity guest jerks off in your face for 24 minutes episodes, those are the 2 options

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>>80794197
I can't even make it 5 seconds into that video without cringing

>>80794951
Mother-son or Father-daughter incest

season 9 is still great, with a few noticeable blunders.

Season 10 still has some genuine classics, but starts has a lot more weak and mediocre episodes.

Season 11 and 12 are perfectly watchable and even great at certain points but has no real classics and is past its prime.

Beyond that it's not worth watching at all and just gets worse and worse. I'm probably being generous saying to watch up to season 12 but I maintain that there's still top notch Simpsons all the way up to season 10.

>watched a new episode recently

>marge's voice actress sounds like she struggles to speak now, but they force her to keep working until she dies any way

>28 seasons

are they just going to milk this show until every last voice actor is dead?

>>80796139
>Season 10 still has some genuine classics
Name one. I often see people saying 'Skinner's Sense of Snow' is good but it really isn't.

>>80794479
>Grandpa is gay episodes
That didn't happen you braindead retard.

>>80796211
Disregard, that was season 12 I was thinking of.

>>80796192
how sad, "forced" to make half assed voices in her garage for half a million per episode

>>80796192
I bet they already have episodes made where they kill off main characters for good that they'll air whenever the voice actors inevitably kick the bucket.

Desu now that I look at it I'd say Homer to the Max is the only genuine classic in season 10.

>>80796302
of course it's not forced but she sounds like fucking shit

If you don't like modern Simpsons, then you're not a fan of the Simpsons. It's literally that simple.

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>>80787719
>there is maybe a dozen episodes with actual continuity and consequences that follow through to other episodes
>meanwhile the other 600 episodes are allowed to establish and then change shit without further thought
Why is this one picked on so hard? Every other episode is allowed to reset back to normal. Homer never actually slows down on drinking, Bart never learns a lesson, Lisa always comes back just as self-righteous, Krusty will always be a forgetful dick

I liked the episode at least.

I love it when people say the simpsons died with the Principle and the Pauper, this is the signal that tells me they don't know shit about The Simpsons and are total retards that can't think for themself and don't actually like The Simpsons.

If you think the simpsons died with that episode you should kill yourself/ go to reddit (baiscally the same thing).

>>80796517
This. Don't try to fucking meme and say "DURRR I LOVE DA SIMPSONS" and then completely disparage over a decade of the product you are claiming to be a fanatic of.

The Simpsons is still one of the best shows on TV.

>>80787719
The simpsons died when it stopped being about issues a family might realtistically face, or exaggerated caricatures of them.

>>80787719
died... for you

I think the last season hasn't been all that bad. It's something else, but not bad.

HAVE NO FEARS WE'VE GOT STORIES FOR YEARS

>>80796515
Because they had never completely rebooted a character so hard before. The fact that they reset to normal doesn't really mean much when you completely pick apart the background of an extremely well-established character. Plus, even for a cartoon about yellow people, the idea that Skinner could just fool the other guy's mom for decades is dumb and lazy.

And then once you dip into that well once it encourages the writers to do it again and again. It basically became the backbone of the series from seasons 11-15 until it fell into the "LE MEME CELEBRITY OF THE WEEK" trap.

I re-watched the series in this past few weeks and you can really tell that the problem is marge and lisa. They became literally perfect while homer and bart went completely mentally retarded.

>>80797230
>Rebooted
The Simpsons isn't really that type of show and it never tried to be in those years. That crap about canon, non-canon etc really just comes with obsessive retards who can't enjoy something for what it is.

>>80789197
What does /tv/ think about the Simpsons movie? Just as shitty as the newer seasons? Just curious

>>80797462
Okay chief then what would you call narrative consistency? I'm not sperging over Simpsons novel or Simpsons wiki canon. I'm just saying the writers spent 8 seasons building up the backstory of Skinner through brief but hilarious insights into his past in Vietnam and his weird relationship with his mom, and then tossed 95% of it out the window for a throwaway episode with a weak central joke, just so they could briefly portray Skinner as the motorcycle driving badass who tells kids to fuck off. It felt like weak and rushed writing, for a show that previously was a towering achievement in terms of its writing.

>>80797543
I really like the movie.

But then it is now 10 years old...

>>80797543
I liked it. They were smart enough to bring back many of the old writers and some of the gags are pretty good.

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>all the male relatives of Homer are dumb as rocks and losers
>all the women have high IQs and amazing jobs

What did they mean by this?

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>>80797782
>The Simpsons movie is 10 years old

>>80797693
They weren't building anything. As you say it was just brief gags of him in Vietnam. In this episode we are still told that he went to vietnam but with a different name. The brilliant part of this episode it just how surreal is it, but I suppose you think the writers are thick enough to actually just try to have Skinner change into a "badass" while it's clear how ackward he looks in that role. It also helps when they clearly told everyone that "no one is ti mention these events" to prevent cannon faggs sperging out.

>>80796321
you're probably right, I'd say edna krebapples voice actress dying woke them up to that fact.

>>80797543
it kinda sucked. I mean, it's "watchable season 13+ episode" tier at best.
I'd take any golden age episode in a heartbeat. As a matter of fact, i watch the first 11 seasons in shuffle everynight and i haven't seen the simpsons movie again since it's release.

>>80787719
What will they call this? "Tanzarianed?" Our generation's "Jumped the shark."

>>80797813
someone needs to tell marges sisters to marry herbert.

Ya I don't see the big deal about this episode, if you're looking for continuity and canon in the Simpsons you're watching the show wrong anyways. Plus the episode was actually funny.

There were way worse episodes that season but it took another couple of years before the show was unwatchable.

>>80796770
So about season 3 or 4.

Whats the name of that guy that does the crappy video summery of newer episodes?

Its called 'the Sampsins' or something? but i cant find it

>>80787719
After that episode it was only a vessel for jokes, no reason to care about the characters after that.

>>80797869
Yeah this, I keep seeing that one "building backstory" line in regards to Skinner, it probably originated on that Zombies Simpsons site.

Are you meant to watch next week knowing, as Skinner disciplines Bart and recalls back to Vietnam, that "THIS IS ALL A SHAM, WE KNOW THE REAL YOU, WHY ISN'T BART CALLING YOU OUT?"

Na. It's the fucking Simpsons. Besides a random death for marketing purposes there is no 'build up', no story. Just gags.

>>80794668
>Without sex to distract him, Homer becomes a more productive worker and caring husband

seinfeld did it

>>80797813
>all the Simpson males are retarded!
>oh Homer just had a crayon in his brain the whole team he was smart the whole time

Really bozzles my nozzles.

>>80797462
>That crap about canon, non-canon etc really just comes with obsessive retards who can't enjoy something for what it is.
naeh

>>80797986
+1 to this
please i need to watch

IT ANGERS

>>80797230
>the idea that Skinner could just fool the other guy's mom for decades is dumb and lazy.
I thought she knew all along that Armin wasn't her actual son.

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>You are lisa simpson
>Bart gets an F
>Homer's mother leaves him
>You are a good friend
>Do it for her
What are some other sad simpsons kino?

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>>80794668
>When Bart and Lisa return home abruptly after a traumatic incident at Kamp Krusty...
Wait. Didnt they make kamp krusty episode in 4th season, where kamp krusty was like a concentration camp?

>>80787845
I would love to get into a what if machine and see the episodes of Futurama they made with him as Zap. I bet they'd be fucking GOAT.

>>80798283
yes. except now writers used kamp krusty as a "we watch the show too guys!" reference. They can't come up with anything new that doesn't suck as much as this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-t61mrPdpo

>>80798158
>>80797986
there's the link

>>80798221
it aint me

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>>80796370
this one was still great

>>80787719
>fall in love for the first time
>krabappel
someone forget he proposed to patty?

>>80797230
Well there is that part where you can see her realization and acceptance, she just wants a son

>>80798561
It's a good song but telling that I don't even remember what episode that's from.

>>80798710
The one where Krusty becomes a stand up comic.

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>>80798710
The one with Jay Leno, Steven Wright and other comics. Also Krusty does a racist chinese impression which is funny as fuck They could never do that today

>>80798728
He does that?

>>80798746
Yeah, he becomes an edgy stand up, then ends up selling out and advertising the car.

I've seen a handful of episodes after season 12.
what does Skinner do now that Edna IRL died?

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>>80789197

Here's a clue

>>80794147
THIS, I remember when I was like 12 I usually only like the old (charmingly bad quality episodes) then one day I decided to watch one of the new ones....

>starring Lady Gaga? well, they did have famous celebrities from the past, maybe they manages to include the new in a fun way

Had to stop at the 5 minute mark. I realized the simpson was going to be shit with this episode and the one where lisa plays with homer the da vinci code

>>80799071
>lady gaga episode
>12

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE KIDS OUT

>>80787719
Correct me if im wrong but didnt the writes, around season 17, just posted on social media "give us themes for episodes and we will create them" and thats how lady gaga episode happened?

Behind the Laughter was a good episode, and that was from Season 11.

>>80799133
i was between 11-15 cant remember when I watched that shit, my brain prevents me from reliving the pain

>>80798279
Marge Be Not Proud

>>80798279
No one caring that bleeding gums died is made infinitely more sad by knowing that they only made the ep because the VA for bleeding gums died.

>>80799351
Shittiest character. Good riddance.

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>>80794668
Will sequels to old classic episodes be next simpsons thing?
>who shot burns 2
>Lisas first word again but different!
>homers mom lives?
>stonecutters again
>you are lisa simpson teacher returns
That would give them couple of episodes

>>80797869
Obviously the entire mechanic of the fucking joke is that Skinner suddenly becoming badass is awkward and therefore funny. Since you're so hung up on canon can you at least appreciate that it's a lazy plot and weak joke to base an entire episode off of in comparison to the previous 7 seasons?

>>80798087
>all the male simpsons have a tendency to shove stuff up their noses, and they're really all smart, homer's just the rare one that got his removed for awhile

>>80799413
>you are lisa simpson teacher returns

that happened in a throwaway joke or something

What's the golden age of Futurama? And don't say it's the entirety of the first five seasons

>>80800165
The entirety of the first four seasons.

>>80800165
Entirety of the first run.

>>80800165
It really picks up after episode 3 in season 1 and is consistently good until The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings.
then they took a long break, made 4...okay movies, and then another break, and too much changed, season 6 and 7 aren't funny. They try too hard to make you feel feelings and care about something stupid. Retconning actual emotions so you feel cheated.

>>80787719
>Did the Simpsons really die when Principal and the Pauper aired?
I liked this episode. What a total exaggeration. It wasn't serious and even makes a joke that we should forget all about what happened at the end.

I hate new Simpsons but there are some good ones post 97. The season with the Max Power episode was the last good series IMO.

>>80789197
The movie was pretty bad too.

When they went to Africa, that was it for me. I mean I watched the Gervais episode because SkyOne were promoting the shit out of it but all it did was confirm I made the right decision.

>>80800421
bender's big score was pretty great but the rest were just okay

>>80800421
Season 7 is great.

>>80797462
>That crap about canon, non-canon etc really just comes with obsessive retards who can't enjoy something for what it is.
I like how you try to group the people who got bothered by it in some fringe, small group yet the episode being so widely hated proves otherwise, and in fact regular people do care about characters that they spent 8 seasons growing up with.

Same reason people complain about shameless cash-ins on old beloved series like Transformers or TMNT.

>>80801769
I've been to that site, it's just filled with liberal cucks. They all whine about clinton being the true president and how trump is not my prez. It's a sad circle jerk.

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>>80801769
JAJAJAJAJAJAJJA

>>80801829
>>80801769
And tranny shit, like why do I care about "transfluid gender propers" or whatever when i'm tryna watch cartoons ffs

>>80799133
I recorded season 1 on vcr when it first aired. Stopped watching entirely after season 9.

>>80801812
small group of internet autists are the only ones who hate that episode you stupid faggot

>>80796192
>forced

Its those greedy, no-integrity fucks who refuse to take a stand and quit this shitshow who are the reason it hasnt been canceled yet.

>>80787719
Principal and the Pauper was a leftover episode from the season 8 production cycle and one of the last episodes made by the outgoing showrunners. Even if you hated it, it had nothing to do with the team who made season 9.

It's just the kind of thing Oakley & Weinstein did with the George Bush episode and Homer's Enemy, having a "normal" person come to Springfield and shake things up. None of those episodes were very popular at the time.

But Mike Scully's Simpsons was nothing like that, it was more about Homer being a complete jackass and getting away with it. "Trash of the Titans" was probably where Scully's approach completely went off the rails or at least where it was clear what his approach was. Homer just acts like the worst person on earth for 22 minutes and nobody cares, and then there's gross-out humor and an ending that doesn't even pretend to make sense, and a celebrity cameo and a wasted guest voice (Steve Martin).

The fact that Scully picked that to be the 200th episode and was therefore proud of it, was the clue to the fact that he had a juvenile approach to writing the show.

>>80798279
>You are a good friend
I don't even remember this one

>>80797230
She knew, just didn't want to accept it because she's batshit

>>80797230
It's not like Skinner was out of character though. It actually provided background for why he became such a stick-in-the-mud and a mama's boy (she wasn't his real mom and they both knew it, and he always wanted a mom).

It wasn't a great episode but part of the joke is that this big revelation didn't actually change anything we knew about the character.

>>80789750
Hello there contrarian poster, are you having a nice day today?

Simpsons

Season 3 - Season 8

X-Files

Season 1 - 5

>>80801202
Seasons 6 and 7 are both very hit-and-miss.

always hated "All Singing, All Dancing"
"behind the laughter" was awful too in that it officially broke the 4th wall and shit was never the same after

>>80787719
not but it was a key sign that they'd run out of ideas.

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>>80796139
You are right on the money as far as I'm concerned.

10 is where it starts to stray a bit as far as consistency goes but still is very watchable and has its moments, beats the vast majority of modern TV by a mile.

11 & 12 is where the decline becomes much more apparent but is still as you said watchable.

13 is the point of no return, while 13-movie are "watchable" they are so far from the formula and running gags that made the golden age what it was.

The movie and everything past it is just filler to play between commercials.

Why does the entire Aurora Borealis scene never fail to make me laugh the hardest?

Which season is it with the Canyanero episode, 11? I think that's about the last season I can bear to watch and enjoy.

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>>80797230
I love this episode, mainly because I take it as a parody of the sitcom/TV drama trope of the rebooted character as well as taking a shot at themselves and others for the "everything is back to normal" at the end of the episode device.

>>80804316
because its fucking amazing

>>80787719
No, they died after the Frank Grimes episode.

>>80789197
The movie was fucking trash, Behind the Laughter would be the GOAT ending

>>80804767
>inb4 behind the laughter2
Homer becomes a millionare through making apps for lazy people
Marge divorces Homer and is a Senator or shit
Bart lost all his money in parties with the latest celebrities (cameo with Bojack Horseman)
Lisa goes to Harvard...as a Gender Politics teacher, is a single mom
Maggie is still a baby

The Simpsons is still as good as it ever was

posted from my Mapple uPod

Principal and the Pauper is a really good episode and I don't understand why it gets all the hate.

The show dying came with that lazy fucking "Behind the Laughter" bollocks. As soon as The Simpsons started crashing through the fourth wall and not just nodding at it occasionally, all subtlety was lost and it gave the writers an excuse to just write hacky nonsense.

>>80797782
>>80797831

WHAT THE FUCK

I coulda swore the movie was like 4/5 years old tops

Stopped watching around season 10.

I watched Zombie Simpsons for the first time about 3 years ago on an 11 hour flight from London to San Francisco. The episode was more painful than the 11 hour flight.

I don't know what season it was and I don't care. It was a bunch of random characters like Homer, Professor Frink and others getting together to try and write a teen novel and make money

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>>80787719

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>>80803940

>>80803311
>Homer has a midlife crisis
>Remember his spic friend from childhood
>Spic friend named Eduardo comes to Springfield
>Tries to make Homer happy by fulfilling his dreams from when he was a child
>They manage to do everything on list, Homer is a happy man
Ends like this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUzqyBh5Yw

>>80805806
>season 25
that explains it, I haven't watched any new simpsons in the past decade

>>80805806
that shit was nowhere near the level of the others listed

>>80789197
>gone out with a bang
>spiderpig

as a latino, to me they died when they changed the voices

"When you dish upon a star" is the first episode where there is more focus on celebrity cameos than the Simpsons/citizens of Springfield and is where the show dies.

I really hate the episodes where they just take a random character and then make up a backstory for them. Like when it turns out Carl is Icelandic, or the Crazy Cat Lady used to be a lawyer. It's as if they're not only content with running the quality of the show into the ground, they also want to retroactively ruin all the characters.

No. The show began to decline in season 9 and was still watchable for a season or two after.

>>80787719
The episode where homer kills Maud

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Go here we got simpsons going on right now on #ankh

So Who shot Mr burns?

>>80808449
why? the chat is fucking cringy as fuck

It wasn't the cause but I stopped watching the Simpsons around the time Phil Hartman died

>>80799597
Nah I found it quite funny.

>>80805619
If you like it, you also enjoy Fry image macros and posting on the reddit about how epic that pwnage was.