Maude's death is a timestamp on the decline of The Simpsons in a way that not even The Principal and the Pauper is, since it is made canon unlike the latter.
Also, do you feel the classic episodes still hold up well in 2023 or are they too dated?
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>Also, do you feel the classic episodes still hold up well in 2023 or are they too dated?
I don't think most of them aged like a fine wine, but some of them aged like sour milk. Like I know most people consider Stark Raving Dad as a classic but for me it contains almost all the downfalls of a modern episode. Likewise, the episode where Bush moves in across the street feels like it would lose a lot of meaning if aired now. Dennis the Menace has practically no cultural relevance anymore, Bush dates the episode hard, and it really just isn't funny.
>I don't think most of them aged like a fine wine
crap I meant I think most of them. Don't was a typo.
That whole thing was incredible, every line out of Bush's mouth is quotable. I laughed my ass off and I can damn near quote the whole thing.
Stark Raving Dad is, at worst, dull. but it has some great insanity-adjacent jokes. You have a point about it predicting the "Everyone in springfield is into this actually-pretty-niche-in-real-life piece of pop culture" but I think that's how people actually thought MJ was back then. Me, my house, my friends, we thought he was lame.
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>Like I know most people consider Stark Raving Dad as a classic but for me it contains almost all the downfalls of a modern episode.
How so? Even though it was later confirmed to actually be MJ, the whole point of the episode was that it wasn't him. It's very different than the modern "Wow, Billie Eilish, what are YOU doing in Springfield?!" crap.
>Dennis the Menace has practically no cultural relevance anymore, Bush dates the episode hard, and it really just isn't funny.
I don't think so. Just the idea of Homer feuding with a former President as if they were a sitcom character is funny, you don't need to know about Bush specifically.
>Likewise, the episode where Bush moves in across the street feels like it would lose a lot of meaning if aired now.
Mate the entire episode was intentionally outdated at the time it aired, the whole point was that instead of satirizing a currently active politician they went and made a petty personal attack with little actual politics against a retired former president because they had a axe to grind from earlier on.
Of I remember right the reason the character got killed was because her voice actress demanded more money, because she lived incredibly far from the voice studio, studio said no, and she tried to warn the studio she would quit if they didnt meet expectations, naturally the studio didn't give a damn, and prefer to kill the character, to get rid of her
She didn't even necessarily want more money. She wanted what amounted to travel pay or for the show to pay for her travel.
Maude's death wasn't even written fully out of spite, it started out as a lolsorandumb joke and then snowballed into something serious. Definitely a Scully moment.
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As a zillenial that watched the golden age episodes, I found most of them sensible chuckle worthy with few giving actually laughs. When I go look at clips on YouTube tho people are saying how genius and hilarious certain lines are, which I think are usually just ok. I feel like Simpsons humor is more often clever then it is actually funny
One problem is that The Simpsons was so influential that everything is colored by it now, so it may be hard to appreciate how great it was when it was fresh and unique.
Anyone else wanna know how her and the devil ended up knocking boots?
The writers have zero class.
the old show holds up. i rewatch it all the time
each time i'm never sure how to feel about season 9. it always feels kinda weird yet.. has some obvious classics in it.
considering how simpsons season 1 had the ugly klasky csupo episodes' order rearranged so they didn't start the show off, I feel like that happens a lot.. so a season can be 'bad' but have good episodes, or good but have bad episodes, that were meant for another season
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Some of the references might not hold up, especially since kids aren't raised on reruns of old movies now, but I watched seasons 1-8 in the past couple years and thought they were mostly golden.
>Some of the references might not hold up,
But even when the episodes were new they'd reference old movies and TV and things that kids in the 90s wouldn't know. That was kind of the best part, watching a movie later and realizing The Simpsons had been riffing on it. I think one of the big reasons the show declined is because it stopped trusting the audience like that and had to make everything digestible and simple.
If the writers keep ignoring The Principal and the Pauper, why can’t they just bring back Maude and pretend nothing happened?