I'm talking subjectively, because even after Principal and The Pauper or Lisa Goes Gaga people still tuned in the show.
What was the episode that killed YOUR interest on The Simpsons and why?
What was the episode that killed The Simpsons
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Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire because it made me realize this show was never good
Something in season 14 that’s when it stopped being a weekly watch for me. I’m currently watching through season 12 and up to see if I can find exactly when I would’ve stopped. I stopped watching the tree house of horror three or four years ago though
Same here, but I remember the exact episode. Bart VS Lisa VS The Third Grade. I didn't even smile at a single attempt at a joke during that episode. I knew they had been on life-support for some time prior to that, but that was the day I knew they had finally bottomed out.
Nah, that episode had some funny bits.
>"Hey, I thought you never talked."
>"I didn't mean to, it just slipped out...oh god, now Penn is gonna beat me."
>"Hahahaha, folks, its all part of the act!"
>"No it isn't! Don't leave me alone with him!"
>"You've ruined the act, I'm gonna kill you!"
>"He'll do it! I'm not the first Teller."
That's just lazy
This one, I also consider Behind the Laughter the perfect episode to stop watching the show
The follow-up to The Future of Christmases Past.
The Future of Christmases Past feels like a series finale, and is a great send-off for the show.
Then they returned to that future, and ruined it, and showed that the Simpsons aren't characters, they're factory produced mascots, whose adventures will be written by AI, and go on forever, with no growth and a declining return on the effectiveness of jokes.
Bonfire of the Manatees, one of if not the worst basic bitch nothing burger marriage on the rocks episodes.
>Bonfire of the Manatees was repurposed from an idea for a movie
What were they thinking with that?
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder. It just doesn't compare to the one that preceded it.
The Tony Hawk ep. Ep 300. I dunno if it was directly after or before the movie but you could tell something was off because it was shifting away from wacky stories and a celeb of the week jack off half hour.
For me it was the Gaga episode. I had drifted away a bit because they kept pre-empting new episodes for sports, so I tended to play games a lot so I wasn't wasting time. Then I tuned into that episode and disliked it, and didn't try to watch it for a while. Next time I tuned in months later, it was that episode again. This repeated twice more, so four exposures to that episode made me decide that was the end, since nothing new happened afterwards.
At some point I started having deja vu when watching new episodes; I could predict most of the endings, and the overused jokes weren't helping.
The one where Homer gets raped by a panda
not as bad as homer getting raped by buff marge
Annoying how adult cartoons always seem to do that shitty plot where the wife becomes hyper dominant and emasculates the male.
when they switched to HD it just looked too weird to me. never really bothered to catch it after that.
While not where I stopped watching the show, Brother from the Same Planet. The showrunners were more interested in breaking conventions then keeping what worked so well for the first three seasons.
Personally I'd say "Homer vs the city of New York"
Out of the whole first 8 seasons, barring the clip show episodes, Homer vs NYC is the first one I skip.
And then the rest of the reason is filled with character degradation and flanderization and is just less funny than seasons 3 through 8. Maybe it's more funny than 1 or 2. But those had their own unique charm which made them stand out.
Dude, Where's My Ranch?
The gollum bit and Maggie dancing to Britney Spears. I thought "the show can't get much worse than this."
Seems kinda quaint beliving that now.
I was born in '97, so I mostly watched the show via reruns of earlier episodes and have no clue which episode was the first new episode I ever watched live, but I can say that I definitely tuned in every sunday following the movie's release because I thought "well, if the movie managed to be good, surely the show itself is still passable."
This made me curious about WHY I actually dropped the show, since the last episode I remember watching live was something involving Krusty and his daughter, but that was after a long period of intermittent viewing.
Seasons 18-21, I definitely saw every episode.
Seasons 22-24 I only seem to remember the later half of both seasons.
And the seasons 25 onward I can't tell if it's my memory of watching it or my memory of TheRealJims' "60 second simpsons".
I think I apparently just dropped the show from a simple lack of interest, coupled with the zeitgeist's tiredness of gimmick plots merely to grab attention (celebrity guests, character deaths, Ned's relationship, Brick Like Me, etc).
Or perhaps it was a rerun of a particularly terrible episode from the Mike Scully era, Sunday Cruddy Sunday. I really hated how the A-plot was just Homer, Bart, and the Guest Star being shit on for the entire second half of the episode, and the B-plot with Lisa & Marge doing that Vincent Price egg-kit was a bit too out there in how inconsequential it was. I happened to see this episode on tv just shortly after marathonning the first 6 seasons on dvd and reading the supplemental material from the book in pic related.
More that I think about it, this book coming out when it did really cemented the reputation of the first 8 seasons being the "untouchable golden era" and everything after being only a silver medal at best.
the lady gaga one
for me it's the frank grimes episode simply because it established homer as a competent retard rather than an naive man.
the one where maggie saves homer from drowning in water.
There's surreal comedy, and theres... that.
My main issue with stuff like this is that it's better when it doesn't matter. Having the plot or current circumstance be affected by a random gag-tier thing is shitty.
Uhhh, maybe the one where lisa becomes wiccan or whatever treehouse of horror where homer becomes a blob