It was consistently good up until around 2014, then it became a real crap shoot. Sometimes the new ones are so terrible, I swear I'll never watch the show again, but some of them are still funny, it's just that they're not memorable and probably not worth rewatching.
I remember watching the "300th episode" (actually the 302nd episode but hyped up by Fox as the 300th because it had the big guest star) when I was like 9 and immediately realizing my older brother, who had quit watching a year or two before after the internet had told him it was bad, was right all along.
i seem to remember some episode where homer got a hipster grill. there's a chance the johnny cash song "ive been everywhere man" played in it. i also remember the episode where they go to italy with sideshow bob. season 15 i think. thats when i stopped watching
In the chapter when Bart showed his ass in front of the american flag. Then the chapter ended in a prision boat (I don't remember if it was a prison, a boat or both). Shit chapter, zero logic and zero reason to watch the next chapters.
>MUH MUH GAGA
Kys morons, Metallicash was even awful and people praised a chapter that no one remember
2007ish before season 20, but it wasn't good for a while, i watched it with my parents up until early highschool occasionally. Before finally thinking it was too shit even to watch with family, and my parents agreed.
I remember being young and watching that fake skinner episode, and my parents being confused at why they would make such a terrible episode.
Barting It Over or some Sunday, Cruddy Sunny, episode at the superbowl. The episode where they have kids would be acceptable, or when the episode which appears to be a alternate ending on how all the simpson characters die as well. Marge fricks Flanders. :p
season 1: not that great, but it's worth watching just to see a primordial version of The Simpsons
2-9: best seasons
10-13: hit or miss, still watchable for the most part
14+: don't bother
I grew up watching the Simpsons. when I was a kid I had a banner that had Bart on it . It had 'what the hell, man!' written on it My grandma took a pencil and drew a k in so it said 'what the helk'
Anyways, I stopped watching when adult swim started gaining more traction. Edgy shows where on the rise and started to bring competition. Simpsons used to be one of a kind, but soon as other shows like it started coming out, and they started trimming down on the writers is when I stopped watching. think around season 10ish
the last new airing episode I remember watching was the one with fat tony's son. I dont remember much but I just never watched a new episode again after that
>I kind of want to check out the newer episodes for schlock-kino, but never get to it.
Believe me, since I stopped watching it regularly I check in every year to see if it's any better, and it's unwatchable now. You've saved yourself.
Not trying to be part of the echo chamber, but they’re not even worth checking out out of curiosity. They’re awful. The plots are moronic and the characters are flat, and all the characters personalities interchange. It makes so sense and just isn’t the Simpsons anymore. You could overlay any other cartoon family models over the Simpsons and it wouldn’t change anything.
I'm a Zoomer who was raised by a pair of Gen-X parents who religiously watched the series until the Bart becomes a feminist episode.
Personally, I think the show is kino up until S9E2, but there are some gems after that up until the movie/animation change. It almost entirely goes to unwatchable bilge afterwards.
I remember I stopped watching new episodes around season 10 for the most part. My folks got divorced and watching new episodes was always me and my dad’s thing. But in general I don’t go past “Behind The Laughter”. Seems like a good stopping point based on some of the season 12 and onward shit I’ve seen
I have the first ten seasons as box sets. Of those I usually watch seasons 3-6 the most. I've heard some of the more recent episodes are pretty good but i will never ever watch them.
theres an episode where Bart meets his twin and its a rip off the prince and the pauper. that episode seems to stick out to me when I stopped caring to watch the simpsons
No, there's a Halloween episode where there's an evil Bart twin in the attic (the one where Dr. Hibbert punches him through the picture frame).
But there's also a regular episode where Bart and a doppelganger rich kid switch lives; the real Bart quickly grows tired of his rich life (also his half-siblings try and murder him to get more inheritance money) while the fake Bart quite enjoys living with a poorer yet more loving family.
The episode "Tennis the Menace" with the William sisters. I just remember the ending has Lisa agreeing there was no point or moral lesson and they just sat down apathetically and that was the moment it seemed the Simpsons were past their prime and no more good episodes would come out like the older seasons. It would be years before even returning to the show.
I was too young to watch the original run so I watched them out of order throughout my childhood during the early 2000s without knowing what was new or old, and I think I continued watching actual new episodes until around the time of the movie or just after. It had been shit for a while but I went on with it out of habit and positive association for a few years before giving up entirely.
With the benefit of hindsight and adult perspective, I rarely if ever watch anything past s8. There are a few decent episodes after that but the quality drop even from 8 to 9 is noticeable.
Saw a clip from the latest season of the show.
All the voice acting sounds wrong. The voice actors are now too old. Both Julie Kavner and Harry Shearer sounds like they got one foot in the grave
The weird thing about Marge is that she is still written as a youngish woman but she literally sounds like Grandma Bouvier from the classic era. It makes the scenes simply bizarre to watch.
It's somewhat ironic that Shearer has become too old to be able to properly voice decrepit centenarian Mr Burns.
Kavner is just utterly dire as Marge now, I get that the cast are in ironclad contracts but can't they just politely ask her to stick to Patty, Selma and their mother and get a soundalike as Marge? I bet there's dozens of perfect impressionists that Fox could pay peanuts to do it.
I stopped watching consistently around season 23. The only episodes I've seen since then were the Futurama/Family Guy crossovers, the LEGO episode and the yearly Treehouse of Horrors.
My local tv channel plays 6 episodes of simpsons twice a day. I usually catch about 3 episodes. The first 15 seasons are an easy watch. After season 20, i set a 5 minute timer at the beginning of an episode. If it fails to make me laugh until the timer ends, I get up and do something else. So I guess that's my answer - after 5 minutes
probably some season in the mid-teens, I've seen episodes playing on TV that were definitely later than that, but those were in a 'the TV was just on and I'm not actually watching it' kind of situation.
I bought all the DVDs up to season 17, which was 2005-06.
Had I known S18 would be the last one to get a DVD release I would have bought that one too, but in practice I couldn't imagine watching it more than once (for reference).
Anyonein here that was still watching past season 12 and thinking it was still good just confirm my suspicions why so many people like the fallout tv show.
What was the episode with the badger? It's about 20 years ago now at least. I was already losing interest but that was the first time I remember consciously thinking how shit this show had become.
i stopped watching after the tracey ullman show ended
oh you special c**t
2002ish I think
After the gaga episode
This
I don't know how you could even make it to that episode.
>MUH 9 PERFECT SEASONARINOS
It was consistently good up until around 2014, then it became a real crap shoot. Sometimes the new ones are so terrible, I swear I'll never watch the show again, but some of them are still funny, it's just that they're not memorable and probably not worth rewatching.
I think the last good episode was the squirt and the whale, season 21.
If it's funny, then the plot isn't really that important. The bad ones are either loaded with songs or it's just terrible jokes.
It was one of those sentiment episodes but I enjoyed it.
>2014
Ok moron
It was only good in the 20th century, you fricking troglodyte.
Do cartoons really anger you this much?
Do people having a popular and majority opinion make you feel that inadequate?
Shut the frick up contrarian gay
I remember watching the "300th episode" (actually the 302nd episode but hyped up by Fox as the 300th because it had the big guest star) when I was like 9 and immediately realizing my older brother, who had quit watching a year or two before after the internet had told him it was bad, was right all along.
Yeah I stopped watching there too. I don't know exactly why, but it just lost all of its appeal.
Tony Hawk couldn't save the Simpsons.
season 11 episode 6
i seem to remember some episode where homer got a hipster grill. there's a chance the johnny cash song "ive been everywhere man" played in it. i also remember the episode where they go to italy with sideshow bob. season 15 i think. thats when i stopped watching
Around 2011.
In the chapter when Bart showed his ass in front of the american flag. Then the chapter ended in a prision boat (I don't remember if it was a prison, a boat or both). Shit chapter, zero logic and zero reason to watch the next chapters.
>MUH MUH GAGA
Kys morons, Metallicash was even awful and people praised a chapter that no one remember
>chapter
Good morning Saars! Sampsons very good show Apu my favorite character represent India very good!
2007ish before season 20, but it wasn't good for a while, i watched it with my parents up until early highschool occasionally. Before finally thinking it was too shit even to watch with family, and my parents agreed.
I remember being young and watching that fake skinner episode, and my parents being confused at why they would make such a terrible episode.
Simpsons became dogshit a decade even before the rest of media got shitty
Barting It Over or some Sunday, Cruddy Sunny, episode at the superbowl. The episode where they have kids would be acceptable, or when the episode which appears to be a alternate ending on how all the simpson characters die as well. Marge fricks Flanders. :p
right after season 11 episode 5
After revealing Matt used time travel to steal Family Guy's idea. Shameful.
2007, when I was 17. Can't remember the exact episode, but I finally had enough. Not sure why I stuck with it that long tbqh
season 1: not that great, but it's worth watching just to see a primordial version of The Simpsons
2-9: best seasons
10-13: hit or miss, still watchable for the most part
14+: don't bother
I grew up watching the Simpsons. when I was a kid I had a banner that had Bart on it . It had 'what the hell, man!' written on it My grandma took a pencil and drew a k in so it said 'what the helk'
Anyways, I stopped watching when adult swim started gaining more traction. Edgy shows where on the rise and started to bring competition. Simpsons used to be one of a kind, but soon as other shows like it started coming out, and they started trimming down on the writers is when I stopped watching. think around season 10ish
the last new airing episode I remember watching was the one with fat tony's son. I dont remember much but I just never watched a new episode again after that
Last Simpsons thing I saw was the movie back in 2006 or 2007. I kind of want to check out the newer episodes for schlock-kino, but never get to it.
>I kind of want to check out the newer episodes for schlock-kino, but never get to it.
Believe me, since I stopped watching it regularly I check in every year to see if it's any better, and it's unwatchable now. You've saved yourself.
Not trying to be part of the echo chamber, but they’re not even worth checking out out of curiosity. They’re awful. The plots are moronic and the characters are flat, and all the characters personalities interchange. It makes so sense and just isn’t the Simpsons anymore. You could overlay any other cartoon family models over the Simpsons and it wouldn’t change anything.
I'm a Zoomer who was raised by a pair of Gen-X parents who religiously watched the series until the Bart becomes a feminist episode.
Personally, I think the show is kino up until S9E2, but there are some gems after that up until the movie/animation change. It almost entirely goes to unwatchable bilge afterwards.
I remember I stopped watching new episodes around season 10 for the most part. My folks got divorced and watching new episodes was always me and my dad’s thing. But in general I don’t go past “Behind The Laughter”. Seems like a good stopping point based on some of the season 12 and onward shit I’ve seen
In the 2000s, the movie was the last thing.
1 - Proto-The Simpsons
2-8 - Golden Age The Simpson
9 - MAY DAY! MAY DAY! WE'RE GOING DOWN!
10+ - Soulless The Simpsons AKA Zombie Simpsons
Season 1 is pretty comfy honestly. Not super sharp writing but it's sweet without being saccharine.
It feels very liminal and comfy as a result.
It was also the peak of Klasky-Csupo influence on the artstyle.
It’s so fricking comfy. I love that you can always hear the crickets during the nighttime scenes.
I have never seen a full Simpsons episode.
Never stopped. I only watch the new episodes once. It's nowhere near as memorable or funny as it used to be. It's still watchable and funny.
No it isn't fricking homosexual shill
ew
>Apu my favorite character represent India very good!
Most of the insufferable terminally online Jeets from India feel the opposite way
A couple of years before the movie. Even as a pre-teen I knew it was going to shit.
I have the first ten seasons as box sets. Of those I usually watch seasons 3-6 the most. I've heard some of the more recent episodes are pretty good but i will never ever watch them.
I’ve watched one episode my entire life.
I’ve watched up to halfway through the third season, when does this get good?
All hope is lost for you my child
Season 3 is probably one of the best. If you end up not enjoy it at all I would say give up.
theres an episode where Bart meets his twin and its a rip off the prince and the pauper. that episode seems to stick out to me when I stopped caring to watch the simpsons
isnt that an early(/ish) halloween special?
No, there's a Halloween episode where there's an evil Bart twin in the attic (the one where Dr. Hibbert punches him through the picture frame).
But there's also a regular episode where Bart and a doppelganger rich kid switch lives; the real Bart quickly grows tired of his rich life (also his half-siblings try and murder him to get more inheritance money) while the fake Bart quite enjoys living with a poorer yet more loving family.
I can't. I watched the newest episode yesterday
The episode "Tennis the Menace" with the William sisters. I just remember the ending has Lisa agreeing there was no point or moral lesson and they just sat down apathetically and that was the moment it seemed the Simpsons were past their prime and no more good episodes would come out like the older seasons. It would be years before even returning to the show.
I think it was a clip show. Homer was dressed up like Gump and that's all I remember.
Probably around 2007, but I used to rewatch the episodes when I owned the DVDs.
I was too young to watch the original run so I watched them out of order throughout my childhood during the early 2000s without knowing what was new or old, and I think I continued watching actual new episodes until around the time of the movie or just after. It had been shit for a while but I went on with it out of habit and positive association for a few years before giving up entirely.
With the benefit of hindsight and adult perspective, I rarely if ever watch anything past s8. There are a few decent episodes after that but the quality drop even from 8 to 9 is noticeable.
Saw a clip from the latest season of the show.
All the voice acting sounds wrong. The voice actors are now too old. Both Julie Kavner and Harry Shearer sounds like they got one foot in the grave
They kill off Larry but his friend Sam doesn't show up for whatever reason.
Which was bizarre as I always thought Sam was the much more memorable one.
The weird thing about Marge is that she is still written as a youngish woman but she literally sounds like Grandma Bouvier from the classic era. It makes the scenes simply bizarre to watch.
It's somewhat ironic that Shearer has become too old to be able to properly voice decrepit centenarian Mr Burns.
Kavner is just utterly dire as Marge now, I get that the cast are in ironclad contracts but can't they just politely ask her to stick to Patty, Selma and their mother and get a soundalike as Marge? I bet there's dozens of perfect impressionists that Fox could pay peanuts to do it.
I stopped watching consistently around season 23. The only episodes I've seen since then were the Futurama/Family Guy crossovers, the LEGO episode and the yearly Treehouse of Horrors.
I didn't even watch the movie because they actually used Arnold instead of Renier Wolfcastle.
My local tv channel plays 6 episodes of simpsons twice a day. I usually catch about 3 episodes. The first 15 seasons are an easy watch. After season 20, i set a 5 minute timer at the beginning of an episode. If it fails to make me laugh until the timer ends, I get up and do something else. So I guess that's my answer - after 5 minutes
I think somewhere in season 17 so 2005-2006.
I reckon that Sideshow Bob in Italy one low key turned me off the show.
is it worth downloading the latest episode? I think i quit around 2001
The latest one is about Homer excessively tipping - I thought it had enough funny lines.
ok i'll try it thanks downloading now
probably some season in the mid-teens, I've seen episodes playing on TV that were definitely later than that, but those were in a 'the TV was just on and I'm not actually watching it' kind of situation.
I bought all the DVDs up to season 17, which was 2005-06.
Had I known S18 would be the last one to get a DVD release I would have bought that one too, but in practice I couldn't imagine watching it more than once (for reference).
2009.
Season 9 episode 2
Anyonein here that was still watching past season 12 and thinking it was still good just confirm my suspicions why so many people like the fallout tv show.
2008. It just was not worth the time anymore. Went from laughing multiple times per episode, to once or twice, to not at all.
i still rewatch seasons 2-12. one of best shows ever made
The last episode I remember watching was the one where Krustys father showed up.
What was the episode with the badger? It's about 20 years ago now at least. I was already losing interest but that was the first time I remember consciously thinking how shit this show had become.
I literally started recently watching from episode 1, couldn't stomach anything from beyond mid season 9.
I had stopped way before the movie came out.
Baskin Roberts
Why did you photoshop Weird Matt out of this poster