There may not be contiuity of events in The Simpsons, but there had been continuity of CHARACTER. This episode is incompatible with the character Skinner had been all along. How can he be a repressed manchild who's never gotten out from under his "mother's" thumb if he didn't meet this woman until well into his 20s and freely decide to "adopt" her?
I actually remembering liking the episode as a kid. Was surprised when somebody reacted with disgust to me referencing it years later. I can see why people hated the twist, especially since Skinner is one of the best characters on the show. But ignoring that element, the episode itself is decent.
>A mountain out of a molehill.
This.
While the moment itself is rightfully bad it's not the sudden car crash into a wall 'this is where Simpsons died and was buried' some people will say. It WAS where everything did start to fall apart and they just did whatever the frick because they were running out of ideas.
It was the beginning of the end, not the end itself.
The show had been bad for years when this aired and I was only watching it out of habit at that point, but that is the episode that finally made me give up on the Simpsons and I haven't seen an episode of it since
This. It's like Jar Jar, it's the lightning rod. The bad idea so obvious anyone can point to it without having to explain all the other bad ideas around it.
It's just a dumb idea. They obviously never planned it, threw it in for no reason, and status quo'd themselves so the big character twist had zero future story potential. What was the point?
If you want seethe listen to the commentary for the episode with the writer Ken Keeler. The other people get uncomfortable while he rants about the fans not understanding his art.
I am 37 years old and this episode never bothered me.
Rewatching it as an adult, the worst thing I can say about it is that it is a little drab. Like, the main complaint I can muster is "eh, it's not particularly exciting OR funny."
It wasn’t that bad
Never happened
He's right, you heard what Synder said.
You know nothing of our seething.
South Park is very popular. Please understand.
Why are so many Cinemaphile homosexuals obsessed with age. There will always be people older and younger than you, welcome to life.
Yeah I never got why this episode was so controversial.
I grant that it's not a particularly good episode, but it's far from the personal insult that critics seemed to treat it as.
There may not be contiuity of events in The Simpsons, but there had been continuity of CHARACTER. This episode is incompatible with the character Skinner had been all along. How can he be a repressed manchild who's never gotten out from under his "mother's" thumb if he didn't meet this woman until well into his 20s and freely decide to "adopt" her?
I actually remembering liking the episode as a kid. Was surprised when somebody reacted with disgust to me referencing it years later. I can see why people hated the twist, especially since Skinner is one of the best characters on the show. But ignoring that element, the episode itself is decent.
A mountain out of a molehill. Anyone claiming this episode the antichrist looks particularly silly given the Scully era was right afterwards
>A mountain out of a molehill.
This.
While the moment itself is rightfully bad it's not the sudden car crash into a wall 'this is where Simpsons died and was buried' some people will say. It WAS where everything did start to fall apart and they just did whatever the frick because they were running out of ideas.
It was the beginning of the end, not the end itself.
For me was the GaGa-Lisa episode
The show had been bad for years when this aired and I was only watching it out of habit at that point, but that is the episode that finally made me give up on the Simpsons and I haven't seen an episode of it since
This. It's like Jar Jar, it's the lightning rod. The bad idea so obvious anyone can point to it without having to explain all the other bad ideas around it.
>beginning of season 9
>bad for years beforehand
lol try not to out yourself as tourist scum
It was a funny episode but taking an established character and retconning him was a bad idea
*a extremely bad idea
ftfy
Up yours children
I didn't even know about this episode's controversy until years later.
Kinda ruined the character forever in retrospect.
he's been dead for 12 years who cares
Was it one of the Simpons writers who said the episode "punished the audience for paying attention"?
Has skinner showed up again?
SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
damn, he actually says "SEEEEEEEEYMORE!!!!"
i always forget.
It's just a dumb idea. They obviously never planned it, threw it in for no reason, and status quo'd themselves so the big character twist had zero future story potential. What was the point?
If you want seethe listen to the commentary for the episode with the writer Ken Keeler. The other people get uncomfortable while he rants about the fans not understanding his art.
They did it again with Fat Tony.
Not like Fat Tony was an important character to begin with though
He still had the few episodes dedicated to him though.
You now remember he had a son who has his uncle parading around as his dad
>this made Simpsons Fans seethe and rage with anger
I WISH this was as bad as the series got. If a season nowadays was nothing but episodes of this caliber it'd be considered the best one in decades.
I am 37 years old and this episode never bothered me.
Rewatching it as an adult, the worst thing I can say about it is that it is a little drab. Like, the main complaint I can muster is "eh, it's not particularly exciting OR funny."