When did you stop watching it? Do you remember the season and episode? Are you some sort of freak that never stopped watching? I caught an episode the other day and the cast sounds so old now. Julie Kavner sounds like she's recording from her deathbed.
Anyway, I actually used to watch Simpsons with my family growing up. Though my moralizing blue collar dad didn't like it at first, he almost immediately identified with Homer and thought he was hilarious. When the show moved to Sundays we'd always watch it together.
That is, until Season 12's episode Simpsons Safari - the one where they go to Africa. The episodes had been pretty weak over the past few seasons and this one was the last straw and we just started doing our own thing on Sunday evenings. I know this is peak alienated consoooomer here but I take the decline of the show kind of personally as nothing really replaced our time together.
I started getting into it in the late 90s watching reruns then I saw ads saying new episodes aired on Sunday nights so I thought hey I'll watch that. It took a while for the lights to come on and me to realize that hey this isn't like before these episodes suck. I think the last one I watched was lisa and homer in isolation tanks which appears to be season 10 episode 16
Every season after The Simpsons movie was shit.
The movie was peak Simpsons and marked the end of an era.
the movie is shit
Bro the movie was very shitto
It was already pretty bad for years
Delusional zoomer moron, it had been terrible for years at that point
>The movie was peak Simpsons
I didn't know brainless people could live that long,let alone type
youll realize that simpson fans dont actually like the simpsons
>Sort of hopeful the movie will be good
>3 minutes in
>Green Day cameo
the movie was fricking ass, the "spider-pig" scene made me get up the couch and go do something else, the humor in the movie was really that fricking bad.
I probably stopped around season 12 too. The show wasn't bad, but it had started to lose some steam, and it just wasn't as enjoyable.
I do think that season 1 and season 2 are both very underrated, and that the show overall is pretty good until around S14.
Yeah I actually watched a random season 12 episode the other day (the one where Lisa is bullied by another girl) and I was kind of shocked by how much I enjoyed it.
that's not too surprising to me—I commented in the other thread, and also the other day, that S12 has 6 very good episodes, but after that the show takes a graceless nosedive off a cliff
Around the time of the movie is when I stopped watching new episodes I think. I can't remember the exact episode that made me disgusted enough to turn it off and never watch a new ep though.
The drop off after S8 is inarguable but I do include up to S14 on my random simpsons episodes playlist because I still do have some nostalgia for them.
>random X episoded playlist
How do I make one?
I just load all the eps into an MPC playlist and turn on shuffle.
Nostalgia boomers
Season 1 is dogshit
Season 12 is decent
I can't pin point when, as I didn't watch the show for years, college, work etc. it wasn't on when i was at home.
in the later 2000s I started pirating new episodes to catch up, I watched and episode The Burns and the Bees s20e08 and I thought man this episode is really bad. Since then, occasionally over the years watched episodes declining to no new episodes now. I have rewatched the early seasons since.
This was the last episode I ever watched. It was complete garbage.
Even as a fan of Westerns this episode was just complete terrible, lazy, and mean spirited.
Al Jean permanently taking over as showrunner destroyed the show. It's nuts that Fox and now Disney have let him run things for so long, when in the classic era a showrunner got no more than 4 seasons.
Yes it was already getting bad in the Scully era but it was still potentially salvageable.
>When did you stop watching it? Do you remember the season and episode?
The one where the Sneedsons go to Florida and *LE GASP!* IS THAT KID ROCK????
Even kid me knew the show was becoming unfunny, unrelatable garabage. Thankfully MiTM came around that time to save the day and fill the void.
When I was 11 or 12
I knew it was over when I saw the episode where Yellow Peter Griffin becomes a trucker and nonchalantly attempts to run over a granny to surprise Bort.
The Simpsons sucks and is for low-IQ groid brained morons
What season was "worst episode ever"? I watched a few more after that, but it seemed like they were trying to win a new children's audience and it just wasn't the same. Plus I moved out and didn't really have a tv. I think I never watched anything after seeing the movie.
I can’t say exactly but the last one I remember sitting with my family and watching was that Tony Hawk one in the early 2000s. We say the movie a few years later but it was around the time of that episode we kind of left it behind. We always kept up with it through the 90s.
I stopped around season 15. My hot take is that Scully was underrated and the show was better off with his edgelord stuff over the toothless Al Jean musical era to follow. I still checked out the treehouse episodes until the movie came and out and that was it for me.
Scully era at least had some hits even if there were plenty of misses. Jean era has been almost all misses.
HD Simpsons is when it became definitively "not mine". I can tell I don't want to watch it in a second.
Season 9, original run. Marge saves the family from a rampaging rhino using her Canyonero. I was in high school and immediately dropped the show.
Rewatched the series during lockdowns, still love 1-8, forced myself to continue from 9-32 or 33. Still a horrible show after season 8.
> forced myself to continue
That is what makes it so sad, the episodes become both forgettable and a chore to finish.
I don't remember much from the later seasons, I think I saw a clip or a gif recently and I had to reference which season and episode it was from and still couldn't remember it. There was a single later episode that I liked, in season 11 or 14 maybe, where Lisa gets mistaken for a college student, and still barely remember the plot. I think she becomes a gymnast or something.
Yeah, don't bother with the later seasons unless you have nothing to do during climate lockdowns.
>Yeah, don't bother with the later seasons unless you have nothing to do during climate lockdowns.
I mean did you notice any changes over time, different periods, anything at all you can extract from all that
also what are climate lockdowns is that like a european thing
> what are climate lockdowns
Something from the future when they suggest to us to stay home and stop the spread (of greenhouse gases). Except it won't be a suggestion.
I didn't take notes, best I can say now is the episodes are throwaways: forgettable, pointless -- no cohesive story or lesson. Lots of gimmicks, running with the current thing. As the show goes on, it feels entropic.
>forced myself to continue from 9-32 or 33. Still a horrible show after season 8.
wtf
got any takeaways you wish to share
>lying about watching 30 seasons of simpsons
why?
you were asked 3 times to provide ANY thoughts and you couldnt, thats like 100+ hours of simpsons you're talking about and you can't think of 1 actual tangeable thing to say about them?
I also didn't have any thoughts about WW84. Why would a bad >FORGETTABLE< entertainment product inspire me to have any thoughts other than, "this is bad," and "I wouldn't waste my time watching this if I wasn't stuck at home."
Why would anyone lie about wasting their time watching Simpsons? Maybe the term "simp" really did originate from this show.
You don't have very interesting thoughts
That's why I'm on this board
maybe lurk
Maybe have your remaining testicle removed
>Rewatched the series during lockdowns, still love 1-8, forced myself to continue from 9-32 or 33
I also did the same, had a great time up until like season 10 but around season 15 I went go for several episodes without laughing once so I stopped.
Incredible drop-off and I have no clue how it kept going
Maybe the 2007 movie, it was so long ago I don't remember
It was shit long before the movie
Lisa Goes Gaga. I had only been watching it out of habit before that, but that was the episode that broke the camel's back and turned me off to the show for good.
I had been watching it since season 2. It was a big part of my life growing up.
Same. Guest stars were getting more and more cringe but that was too far. And they brought back "pynchon" twice? Once was cool, twice was sad.
I was still watching for a while only because it was part of the animation domination lineup with Family Guy, King of the Hill and American Dad.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_vs._Dignity
AKA, the one where Homer gets raped by a Panda Bear. Such an awful, unfunny, mean spirited episode.
Wasn't there a KOTH episode where Hank gets raped by a Dolphin? Which came out first?
Yeah but that's a thing that actually happens
Plus the whole episode was about how much it traumatized him, it wasn't just a cheap gag
>That's a thing that actually happens
You know the dolphin rape caves thing is made up right? There are no recorded cases of dolphin on human rape ever.
>You know the dolphin rape caves thing is made up right? There are no recorded cases of dolphin on human rape ever.
I have no idea what reddit tier shit you are referring to but what happened to Hank happens all the time with those dolphin experiences, dolphins will literally frick anything
Mean spirited humor is the only good humor. I'm looking up this episode right now.
pussy
Yeah this actually, this was the exact point it was over for good
I don't even hate modern simpsons, I just hate the non stop cameos and the fact they haven't figured out a formula other than "current thing"
Episode where Maude dies.
>do you even have a job anymore?
>I think it's pretty obvious I don't.
why do they hate Ned so much
Because the writers hated Christians and he was used as a vehicle to mock them. They started to relax on it when they let him hook up with Edna and be a school teacher but after Edna's VA's death, he sort of went back to the background.
Yeah for me this was the jumping the shark moment.
It's kind of funny looking back that Simpsons changed from being an animated sitcom to being more gag-focused at about the same time Family Guy started. Then when Family Guy got cancelled and then returned it also got more gag-focused, only it actually got better by becoming gag-focused while Simpsons got way shittier from going that direction.
mike scully turned homer into an butthole and seth openly ripped him off. they are friends in real life, met in college or some shit iirc
That episode with Tony hawk. I was even a skate kid but it just felt so off and forced
I'm gonna be the third person to say this episode too. I loved Blink and the THPS games but it just felt very "how do you do fellow kids." I came back for the movie (I thought it mostly held up apart from Spider pig.)
Yeah same here. Even as a kid it wasn’t even funny just a “woah cool they got tony hawk” moment.
I tried to marathon the whole show once and stopped partway through season 13. The difference was just too stark and I wasn't enjoying myself. I have seen bits and pieces of later seasons and they were mostly pretty bad.
Watched a few episodes from the latest season and they were... okay. They feel exactly like how you'd imagine post-Disney acquisition. Improved animation but sanitized and full of nostalgia pandering. Watchable but not something you'd actually want to spend time watching.
>Improved animation
That happened before the Disney takeover.
Hell the latest season (from what I've watched) completely skips over the opening sequence, even the couch gags are gone.
I might watch more episodes later, the problem is that I don't have a lot of passion for it, and I have a lot of other shit I need to watch.
Did I read somewhere that this was a Matt G. autism call about the intro being too smoothly animated compared to the episodes? It's like established 2000s internet rumor canon but I have no source for it.
Groening has always been a moron complaining about animation being "too smooth". He had a spergout over the pilot and forced it to be reanimated because of how off-model and stretchy it was.
I don’t get it. this still looks way better than anything they had done up until that point on the Tracey Ullman show. Why would they be this mad about it?
I like how the doors wobbled when th2svthey slam shut.
>tfw you discover why your first captcha failed AND off by 1
This is part of the midas shit-touch of nu simpsons. everything about it is shit. even the jokes that should be funny are instead shit. the sterile animation is a big part of that.
>Marges benzo'd out stare
So fricking jarring next to her expressiveness in the old intro. Even something as small as that 1.5 second shot became soulless.
Yeah I don't know why they would change it
First time I’ve ever noticed they changed the color of the cashier in the new one
The newer seasons started trying to recreate that hand drawn motion style against, it definitely looks better now than in did from 2008-2015
>hurr muh intro
Have you even watched any of the recent episodes?
Why would I do that?
I saw an episode recently that had so much soul that it almost made me emotional thinking about what getting Conan and the older guys in the room for a tight 8-10 episode final season could potentially be. It's just Homer and Marge doing a naked and afraid parody, but the way they bounce off each other was sweet. I'd highly recommend it, it's called Pixelated and Afraid.
at one point they said the final would be marge leaving homer.
fed up of his antics.
what a spiteful frick you take a double ender at christmas dinner sort of ending that's probably what they'll do
I admit I watched zombie Simpsons for a while, but I think I gave up after watching Treehouse of Horror X.
>I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did
which was really more of a Weekend at Bernie's parody
>Desperately Xeeking Xena
>An X-ray machine scanning Halloween candy malfunctions and gives the ability to stretch any part of his body to Bart and super strength to Lisa. They become a superhero duo, calling themselves "Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl".
>Life's a Glitch, Then You Die
the Y2K episode where Bart and Homer escape Earth on a space ship and kill themselves to get away from Rosey O'Donnel and Andy Dick
Treehouse of Horror was always the best episode of any Simpsons season but this one was just too awful. Three stories that all had nothing to do with Halloween. Superheros and Y2K. Apparently newer Halloween episodes parody shit like Avatar.
Honestly I like the Comic Book Guy segment in that episode
I had this one one of those VHS collections. It was awful
I was born in '99 so I didn't watch it during it's peak, but I would catch some episodes that were on. There was an episode where Homer fantasized about Marge being a lesbian and my dad forbid me from seeing it after that. That didn't stop me of course.
Based 90's dad. Crazy how people used to fantasize about lesbians not knowing how moronic and insufferable they are irl
Around the time Futurama came out.
Everyone saying the show fell off after season 8 is correct, and there's a very good reason for that.
Brad Bird left the show, and he was a huge influence on the show's visual style and direction. You can immediately notice the difference after he left.
Interesting
it actually starts falling off after season 6. season 7 is still very good and you can make an argument to include it in the golden years, but it's not as good as seasons 3-6..... and season 8? still lots of great episodes, but it's not even as good as season 7.
Does anyone who actually sat through the later seasons know if there are any good episodes mixed in there? Are there any diamonds in the 20+ seasons of crap?
correcto
The movie was better than any episode I saw
Yeah. One with Ray Romano being a schizo dream sequence roofer that Homer swears exists, another one later on that was a Lego parody was good. Simple Simpson is stupid as frick but I like it a lot. The one where Nelson is basically adopted by Marge is great too.
I always felt Trilogy of Error in Season 12 was almost as good as Golden Era Simpsons.
The movie is the low point of the entire series
It's not the lowest point because crap like the lady gaga episode is way worse, but the movie is really bad and anyone saying it's good or "as good as classic simpsons" is mentally ill.
The movie is nowhere near as bad as the average zombie simpsons episode. For one it doesn't randomly jump around frantically trying to copy Family Guy. For two they put a little more effort in and removed the absolute lowest tier jokes. For three it actually has a halfway interesting plot unlike whatever terrible stuff they usually come out with
I find it entirely watchable unlike every nu episode
I didn't have Fox growing up so I never got to watch the Simpsons. Also my family was wholesome Americans and while my dad would make Homer Simpson jokes my parents would never let me watch it. We did get to go to the movie though. I think I was old enough then and my dad wanted to see it. Literally none of us laughed. It's like a bad Futurama episode. You almost feel embarrassed watching it
How do you not have fox? It had an affiliate station playing rerruns in ever state.
Early Direct TV. That shit would go out everytime it rained fml
>Brad Bird worked on The Simpsons at one point
I did not know that, huh.
Oakley and Weinstein had more influence as the show runners, but I credit Brad Bird for giving the show a lot of heart that was left vacant after he left.
So why is the show still on the air even? I can't imagine it gets the ratings to justify it's timeslot. I mean it says a lot that Sneed is one of the only notable things to come out of this show
It still does better numbers than its competition, and let's not forget MERCHANDISING.
>100% Sugar
Lol I never noticed that. Spaceballs rules.
Its also very popular overseas particularly in central and south america. They redub the voices and at this point they even rewrite a lot of the jokes.
I talked to a Latino recently about why they liked that and Family Guy so much and they said it's because they like to laugh at how stupid Americans are. Most little dick energy I've ever felt in my life.
It was sometime shortly after episode 300. I probably should have stopped sooner.
I stopped watching it as a kid, around Season 14. I did watch a few Halloween specials up to like Season 19 but then dropped it
Watched up until season 14 maybe. Downloaded up til season 10. Stopped being good at season 8 or 9.
Every Monday morning people were talking about the episode that aired the night before at work or school at the water cooler or in the cafeteria in the early to mid 90's. Good times.
Don't know when it was, but I stopped watching when it seemed like they were doing celebrity guest stars and some kind of gimmick or they were outside of Springfield every week. I just liked the core and recurring characters and regular "sets." All that other stuff was not enjoyable, but I guess they just ran out of ideas.
I was in 4th grade when The Simpsons started, I'm 43 now. I don't know when I stopped watching, somewhere around the movie. A few years ago I tried to watch every episode, and made it pretty damn far, I think I was on season 29. I took a break and haven't gone back and finished the last few seasons yet. It was getting really hard to make it through seasons, there are literally entire seasons in the 20's with zero decent episodes. And yeah, Julie Kavner's voice is extremely hard to listen to now.
I remember when I stopped watching new episodes there were ads showing the upcoming episode about fat tony's son or something
I dont know what year/season that was
Season 11 was when I realized that enough episodes were hard to watch that I no longer cared to be home watching TV on sunday nights. There are kind of a lot of stinkers in season 10, but it still felt like the show enough that I could really have fun watching.
The movie and the switch to digital made the show feel completely wrong.
I’ve never enjoyed shows like Family Guy/Rick & Morty etc so the Simpsons leaning into that style of comedy and animation was a fun killer for me.
>tonight on the Simpsons new season debut! Mel Gibson!
yep. that was the one. never tuned in for a broadcast airing again.
but the episode with Kim Bassinger and Some Baldwin where Homer is their assistant was the start... my cousins and i said enough is enough, turned off the t.v. half way between teh episode and the Simpsons became something i only heard about second hand whereas before i felt like the biggest loser for not memorizing the sunday episode jokes for school the next day.
i realize now season 1-5 were stone cold timeless. every episode was better than the last or at least attempted to.
>but the episode with Kim Bassinger and Some Baldwin where Homer is their assistant was the start
yeah, that episode stuck out in my mind as well. Homer just crashes into their house while parasailing and they become best friends. They weren't even big stars at the time.
I remember when Lisa the Vegetarian came out. At school the next day some friends and I copied the ‘you don’t win friends with salad’ bit in class and then we got shouted at by the teacher
Season 13 and it was already becoming unwatchable by then. Anyone who says any season after 9 is still entirely "good" is a no taste moron.
No taste moron here, 10-12 is good in an edgy attitude era proto Family Guy kinda way.
10 and 11 were the era of funny run off jokes, but characterization went off a cliff. By 12 the cadence and delivery of jokes and dialogue went to shit. Part of why seasons 5-8 and most of 9 is so heralded is because the direction and delivery was so effortless compared to the stilted forced reads that the show has been doing for 20 years now.
That's fair, I'm willing to sacrifice the character development and sentimentality for some moronic shit for a few seasons. I remember an episode with Krusty and his daughter being sweet from that era, so it still had enough soul to get by. Also, not sure why but I always caught a lot of season 9 to 13-14 episodes being rerun on cable. I think it's because the storylines are such bullshit that you can watch it whenever out of context.
I know right. Remember watching the shit tier episodes in idk 2000 maybe to 2005? Maybe earlier, being rebroadcasted over and over again.
This. Now that you mention it was the last episode I watched in its normal time slot before walking away.
Albert Brooks was usually a good guest. Tab Spangler had his moments.
>When did you stop watching it? Do you remember the season and episode?
Yep. He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs, episode 1 season 19, originally broadcast September 23, 2007. The quality had been going down for years at that point but it was still occasionally funny and there'd be at least one or two episodes a season that were pretty good. But that was the point where I just stopped finding new Simpsons funny and a few unfunny episodes later I stopped watching and never looked back.
This, it was pretty bad up until the switch to HD but after that it was the complete and utter end
>the show was a zombie?
I watched The Simpsons for the first time last year (didn't have cable or satellite TV growing up and was a teenager when the show was already well past its prime)
It's a very funny cartoon up until it takes a nosedive in quality around either season 10 or 11, I can't remember exactly, but whenever the animators switch from hand-drawn to digital is the big divide
>Do you remember the season and episode
I looked through IMDB to find the point where I stopped watching every episode and I stopped recognizing episodes at the start of Season 17. So the last one I remembered was the Season 16 finale from May, 2005 where Bart goes to Catholic school and Liam Neason voices a priest. Not a terrible episode, it has a 7.3 on IMDB, it was just the point where the show had been mediocre for so long that I gave up on it and stopped watching every episode.
That was 18 years ago and its still on the air.
this is a simpsons thread, everyone here is reddit
we used to have sneedposting to destroy garbage threads like this
i think around season 14, the episodes were just boring
i checked out episodes when they first went HD, some were ok but never must watch comedy
the latest Futurama episodes were good i thought
saw the movie at the theater and didn't laugh once. never went back.
I always felt like when side characters like Moe, Apu, Ned etc started to get their own storylines, that was when the show started going to shit, and eventually they're doing stories about characters related to side gag characters. Like holy shit, just fricking end it already.
Almost every Moecentric episode is kino though. The only weak ones are the one with the midget and the one where he becomes a poet.
yeah, that is a good point. I stopped watching the simpsons regularly nearly 25 years ago now lol, but I do remember flaming moe's being a really good episode. I still believe that it's indicative of a larger problem within the series though.
Trying to turn Moe and Nelson into sympathetic/pitiable characters is one of the worst things about zombie simpsons.
yeah frick you're right
That's been going on since Flaming Moe's back in season 3 though.
Moe used to be a bit of bad ass. He was banging his hot waitress in the episode you mentioned.
He often had goons in the backroom overseeing some shady operation, he hilariously abusive to his regulars. He ran across town with a knife to kill a serial prank caller.
>Fun's over, fellas. You wanna beat up my friend in my bar, it's a four drink minimum.
They did something similar with Skinner. His first appearance he's getting embarassed by his doddering mother who uses cutesy language with him not the psycho she turned into. He beat up the Disney guys at the carnival and his Vietnam flashbacks and brooding at the window was his best bit.
Okay but moe married the midge so there's still development at least
The best episodes aren't about the Simpsons family. The zombie season plots are always homer/lisa/bart meet flavor of month celebrity and ignore the side characters
Moe, Apu and Ned episodes are fine.... but then they went full moron and started giving dedicated episodes to third tier gag characters like Comicbook Guy, Cletus, and Duff Man
>Cletus
It at least gave us this
I watched it from the first special in 1989 to around 2002 consistently, then would catch them periodically. When the analog signal went off and rendered TVs without a box dead, I stopped watching for the most part. I have caught a few here and there from recent seasons and it is literally physically painful to watch. Like the digital color hurts my eyes and their voices are like nails on a chalkboard and so fricking soulless. The writing it pure shit and has been for over 20 years. It should have been put out to pasture after the movie at the very latest. Let it fricking die with some dignity. Nah, let's just run it into the ground even more and have Disney rape the corpse for the next 100 years with AI. "Never fear! We've got stories for years!"
>"Never fear! We've got stories for years!"
yeah, I always think of that song now when these threads come up. And you're right, AI could really make this monstrosity live forever.
>We've got stories for years
I distinctly remember seeing that when it aired and thinking, with intense clarity, that it was the final nail in the coffin
>tries to say "Don't have a cow, man"
>cums
2002? maybe 2003 at the latest. definitely noticed the quality going down quickly at that point. the few times i've caught a clip or two in the last 10 or so years, yeah the cast sounds rough and the episodes seem to have been written by chatgpt's predecessors.
I stopped watching right around the time where they got a tennis court in the backyard or they went to Africa somewhere around there
Can't remember a specific episode because I stopped watching it over twenty years ago.
I think it was the New York episode.
The annoying joke about Homer having to use the bathroom in the twin towers.
Also the Ron Howard Kim basinger episode. I vividly remember at the end if it realised I didn't laugh a single time
>Also the Ron Howard Kim basinger episode.
It pisses me off that this was the episode where they stopped trying with the character designs fitting the artstyle
The last one I remember watching when it was new was the one where there was some "play the song backwards and it brainwashes kids to join the Navy" or something plot. I don't think I actively hated the episode, but it's the last one I can remember and this was around the time online computer games came around so I never looked back
Like 1999
for me it was the kid rock and florida episode. nothing in it was funny. and though I dont watch regularly anymore, I did catch part of an episode where marge sings and it was like, damn, come on, the voice actress needs to retire.
What season does the woke start?
Season 1... its a liberal series dingus
Ok then explain the episode where Nelson says "Ha ha! The principal's a troony!"
Hating trannies was a bipartison thing amongst liberals (normies) before the overton window shift. Back then only full on marxists supported trans people
Season 14
1
I think it was around after the movie had came out. The episodes started to get less and less interesting.
I've seen some episodes of the newer seasons, but none of them have given me any reason to actively start watching it again.
Seasons 1-8 S Tier, peak comedy
Seasons 9-12 B Tier, South Park level consistancy
Seasons 13-movie Zombie Simpsons, Family Guy level consistancy
Havent watched anything post movie besides the Futurama crossover episode which was lame and predictable
>Seasons 13-movie Zombie Simpsons, Family Guy level consistancy
Family Guy is highly consistent episode to episode and season to season
consistently awful
Around 2008
sneed
Treehouse of Horror XV
sneed
Tagged off to Family Guy and South Park around the millennium. Last episode I remember sitting through was the twentieth iteration of some fricking Marge "Oh Homie!" Are-they-falling-out-of-love-with-one-another? story. Just couldn't do this anymore.
The episode with Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger was the point where I knew the show was starting to get bad. I stopped watching somewhere around season 12 I think. I still vaguely remember some of those episodes, but it was definitely way before the movie came out. I don't watch anything past season 9 anymore when I see it on TV.
Season 12.
I suggest not going past Season 10
chuck
I was watching it here and there through season 13. I didn't make a concious effort to stop, I just started forgetting that it was on. There were a few episodes as far back as even season 8 that I didn't really care for and I did notice generally the jokes were getting really lame and unfunny. It also annoyed me how vulgar the show was becoming when "penis" was first uttered. I was a kid at the time and thought it was extremely distasteful.
I legit haven't watched a single episode since at least 2005 and even then I was convinced it was time to put it in mausoleum for good. I don't have the slightest idea how in the good frick it's still going at this point. I almost feel bad for it tbh.
I remember my first episode was Mr. Plow. I don’t remember when the show started going downhill for me but the “Lisa creates an AI” and “Homer and Marge breaks up but it was all a dream” was when I realized the show was dead and would never recover
Lisa's Sax. I remember the line "always remember your daddy loves d'oh" and think "wow, that sucks". Last new episode I think I ever watched was the one where homer became a trucker.
I never really was into it but when i saw the movie i was kinda interrested in the series. But after a few episodes that shit gets boring so fricking quick
Everything you like about the show is due to John Swartzelder
We have the exact same history with the show, OP. Down from it being a weekly family tradition to the exact same episode where we quit. I still love seasons 3-8. Even season 9 has some great episodes like "Lisa the Simpson". I can even stomach seasons 1 and 2. 10 and on are dead to me.
Oh, I remember the exact breaking point, it was the musical about Lisa becoming students' representative. I cringed so hard I hard stopped watching the show all together. Only old reruns for me after that. I wasn't even that old, maybe like 15 when I saw it, but it was too much.
This one was the last straw for me. Literally ai written
Title: The Outrageous Odyssey of Otto
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(Opening scene: The Simpsons' living room. The family is watching "Itchy & Scratchy")
TV Announcer: "And now, back to the explosive conclusion of 'Itchy & Scratchy: Nitroglycerin Nightmares'."
(A typical gory Itchy & Scratchy episode plays. The family laughs heartily.)
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(Scene: Springfield Elementary. Bart's in class.)
Bart: (To Nelson) "Hey, Nelson. Want to see something hilarious?"
(Nelson nods. Bart pulls out a whoopee cushion. He puts it on Mrs. Krabappel's chair. When she sits, the cushion emits a loud farting sound. The class erupts in laughter.)
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(Scene: Otto's bus. Otto, the bus driver, is doing his usual erratic driving.)
Otto: (With a reckless grin) "Hey dudes, ready for a bumpy ride?"
(Otto swerves around, triggering a chorus of excited and terrified screams from the children.)
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(Scene: Moe's Tavern. Homer, Lenny, and Carl are hanging out.)
Homer: (In a solemn tone) "Friends, it's time I confess... I have an addiction."
Lenny: "Don't tell me it's Duff, Homer."
Homer: (Laughing) "No, silly. It's Moe's pickled eggs."
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(Scene: Back at the bus. Otto suddenly loses control and crashes into a tomato truck. Tomatoes fly everywhere.)
Otto: (Laughing nervously) "Oops! Guess we're having a ketchup party."
(The kids, splattered in tomato pulp, start laughing and throwing tomatoes at each other.)
---
(Scene: Principal Skinner's office. Bart is called in.)
Skinner: "Bart, your prank today was... disruptive. You are to help Groundskeeper Willie clean the school premises for a week."
Bart: (Groaning) "Man, this stinks worse than a dumpster."
---
(Throughout the episode, Bart learns the value of hard work, Otto learns to drive more carefully, and Homer... well, Homer just keeps eating pickled eggs. The family reconvenes at the end to enjoy a meal of Marge's lasagna.)
No idea which season or which episode, but definitely remember it was when literally every episode was ridiculous woke pandering, like when Grandpa turned out to be gay and Marge was cavorting with trannies. The last half decent episode I can remember was the one where Krusty was making a retro movie or something.
That sounds like an episode way past the moment it died.
I think I stopped after the movie. Same with Spongebob Squarepants. Is there a name for this phenomenon?
As far as I'm concerned, the moment a series has its own movie, it's pretty much over when it comes to any notion of showrunners willing to continue on or care enough with the simple TV series and from then on it's a no-turning-back moment. For me it happened with X-Files.
Haven't watched in years, I'm going to download the latest episode and report back brb
About 2011 I guess. Maybe even 2010.
The first 10 seasons is all you'll ever need
I was born in 1998, so it was already past it's prime when I started seeing episodes.
But I remember I was on a big Simpson's kick during summer break of 2007, and would watch it occasionally later in 2008 and 2009.
Granted I was a kid, so a lot of the jokes went over me, but I generally enjoyed it. I think most of the episodes I was where from Season 2 to Season 14, and I do remember watching the Sneed episode at some point.
Once on demand stuff started getting more common, I would rather watch Futurama over pretty much any Simpsons episode.
I remember being so sad when the Back To The Future Ride at Universal Studios burned down and got replaced with the Simpsons Ride. I only rode on the back to the future ride once, but I just felt that the Simpsons Ride never could live up to it and just didn't really amaze me.
ok, download "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass" S34E22 watching now
Well?
i'm done. that was enough 7 minutes and i'm deleting it holy shit watch it yourself and tell me what the frick i just watched
Yes. Around Season 11. The show had peaked a few years earlier and it had become the rare odd good episode that would show up, plus me ageing out (you could tolerate weaker episodes as a child).
for sure the Morrissey episode was the last straw
Around Season 11 or 12 is a good stopping point and about the time I stopped keeping up with the series.
As far as I'm concerned the movie is the series' spiritual finale.
season 14 i think is where I draw the line
Started watching during Season 21; I was already watching the Seth MacFarlane shows (obsessed with Family Guy in particular) during Animation Domination, so I thought why not add The Simpsons to the repertoire. I had seen the movie and was familiar with most of the characters through cultural saturation and having read some of the comics.
I've seen every episode since, and absolutely zero from before. Lol.
and what do you think of it
Somewhere in the mid teens probably somewhere between 13-15, it wasn't a sudden thing I remember usually watching it weekly and it slowly tapering off starting around season 10 or 11. I probably haven't seen any amount of an episode besides commercials past season 15.
season 20? i dont know, it was the episode with the fricking muslim kid and maybe some building exploded. thankfully i forgot it and the series all together. it wasn't anymore what it used to be
I was never a Simpsons fanatic so I can watch it with the same mild enjoyment I had decades ago. I never sought it out to watch by choice. Now it's just something I throw on at a hotel if there's no streaming. This is literally what it was designed for. To sell the bullshit at commercial time.
I miss Phil Hartman
i stopped watching in 2006 or so, when i was 14. i remember the last commercial i saw for an episode was homer becoming an ice cream man and the ice cream truck had hydraulics or something and i said frick it, i'm done. i realized that i hadn't enjoyed the show for a while and was watching out of habit at that point. i remember my brother and i had the dvd box sets of the first 5 or 6 seasons by then, so going from watching those episodes to the crappy ones that were on then wasn't exactly motivating. i also had Cinemaphile and world of warcraft at that point so i had much more entertaining shit to fill my time with than what the simpsons had become
>Maude dies
Well that was weird
>House sitting for Mr Burns
This isn't very funny anymore
>shrieking shrimp
Wow, this is shit
Stopped watching there but would see a new one now and then, first one I ever turned off in disgust was Angry Dad the Movie and will no longer tolerate anything after season 9
I am an esteemed Simpsonologist specializing in Early Simpsonian Thought. Season 7 episode 5 "Lisa the Vegetarian" is the first episode where you can see the nu-Simpsons rot set in. This proceeds until season 9, where the show becomes completely unsalvageable.
>Julie Kavner sounds like she's recording from her deathbed.
lol is that real? theyre still on SJWs? that was like 10 years ago now
yes, that episode is from 2021
that was an episode from american dad, now they just steal ideas.
They had a gamergate episode at some point where a woman named Quinn came to show Lisa that girls can be computer programmers too
For me S16 was when it got too shitty to casually watch. Saw the odd episode or snippet of later ones and its got nothing left.
I didn't read any of the thread. It was the one with Tony Hawk. I just remember sitting not laughing the entire runtime, and when it was over I thought "that was fricking GAY" and I never sat down for another premiere again.
Notice Cinemaphile says the show decreased in quality when they started mocking chuds
They really had Lisa retrieve bananas from that fat nigress's snatch?
I had to look at imdb but it appears that I lost all hope of the show getting better by S13. I recognize a couple of episodes from S14 and they're both shit (Rolling stones camp and the Gay Homer one).
I never ever intentionally watched it, I just returned from school and it aired between dragon ball and naruto, so it was just a way to kill time before naruto started, it's not something that I would ever watch in streaming
Why they do my homie homer dirty like this?
that's just insultingly evil on the part of these "writers", retcon and floating timeline or not.
women/gays are petty
That's how I felt about them making Morrissey a meat eater. See he was only a vegetarian because he was a dick in the past, and now he eats meat on stage because it's his new way of being a dick
Not that I care about meat but he has been strict in his principles his whole life and that was just lowdown of them
It feels like most new episodes are just projections from the writing staff now, rather than trying to make good characters and jokes.
let's not forget this either
🙁 why did they take away billies breasts
her breasts are too good looking, so obviously they couldn't be a part of the show, much like how they made lizzo a moderately overweight woman about homer's size instead of a disgusting landwhale
Homer getting pissed off at Lisa practicing has been the running gag from the start. He only replaced the saxophone because he was guilty about crushing it, he only sat on the bed to listen because he thought he was going to die, he only bought one in the first place because he was told an instrument was a cheap substitute for a decent education. I guarantee he would not have let her become introduced to it if he knew in advance what it would be like hearing her play upstairs when he's trying to watch television.
here's the daddy issues ungrateful little prostitute
jesus christ what the frick is wrong with you dude
is it possible to make Lisa even more of an ungrateful and disgraceful b***h?
screaming caterpillar episode
Before that I didn't even notice a decline really, I was always happy for new episodes.
How come the cat is fine?
9 lives
After the Simpsons movie. I watch here and there
I stopped sometime around 2009 or 2010 or so, I realized I didn't really like the new episodes and was just watching every Sunday out of habit. I still watch the Halloween episodes every year, the Death Note parody wasn't bad.
Around 2001/2002. I'm not sure which season, but I'm pretty sure the last episode I watched was the one where Bart gets his own apartment and turns it into a skate park.
i was hating on the show for a while but my last straw finally came in season 12 episode 14 'new kids on the blecch'
bart and friends form a boy band to sing subliminal songs about joining the navy CELEBRITY GUEST STARS NSYNC!!! (ugh)
the movie probably
When they replaced the original mexican dub casting
felt wrong, dirty and unpleasant, I straight up stopped watching, I didn't care anymore
I stopped watching the season right before 9/11. I only remember them having a celebrity cameo in every episode.
>that was over 30 years ago