Man, this TV show, I think, has jumped the shark.
the last “new” episodes I’ve watched are horrid!
not funny, not even close to original. The one tonight I caught was Bart finding an old subway car, and boy was it horrible. Lisa makes a “Bart and Millhouse are gay” joke when Marge takes Bart’s temp rectally. It doesn’t even feel like the Simpsons anymore. The jokes are terrible, the story lines are stupid. Maybe since Conan is it out of work now, maybe he’ll freelance for them and the Simpson’s will return to glory.
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grmpysmrf
I cant remember the last time sat down and watched an episode of The Simpsons. Even as a kid never really liked it, it was just something to watch.
It’s not the show, you’ve just got bad taste.
Either I’ve woken up in some strange alternate universe where up is down and left is seven or I’m mellowing in my old age because I agree 100% with Grmpy’s observation.
The Simpsons is utterly horrid. It’s as if the creative writing and script departments have been taken over by the cast of How I Met Your Mother.
The wit and social observation and dry, black humour has vanished only to be replaced by vapid slapstick, forced and lazy pop culture references and stupid celebrity cameos.
Surely it can’t go on. That awful Simpsons movie was the last straw.
Where have you guys been? The Simpsons has been awful for YEARS now.
The most recent and all around worst Simpsons episode I’ve seen is the one in which the Simpsons discover their black ancestry. Yes, it’s basically a ripoff of an old Family Guy episode, but less funny.
There are a million things wrong The Simpsons at present and it should have stopped over a decade ago but I saw a recent episode where Homer gives Lisa anti-depressants and she is off her face for much of the episode seeing smiley faces everywhere. I smiled at least.
It jumped the shark when they let Dan Castelleneta and his wife write an episode in which Barney stops drinking.
yeah simpson’s been weak for awhile now. i prefer futurama. tho it got kinda sappy at the end, but first and third movies were good, second was ok, and fourth just sucked.
It really started to suck when Paul Barker stopped writing the show
where up is down and left is seven
I could not stop chuckling at this. “Left is seven” LOL
The wit and social observation and dry, black humour has vanished only to be replaced by vapid slapstick, forced and lazy pop culture references and stupid celebrity cameos.
I don’t even think there is any slapstick in there. but your right the wit is just gone, no black humor to speak of, and the pop culture references are stale.
Surely it can’t go on. That awful Simpsons movie was the last straw.
I don’t think the movie was that awful in comparison to the current output. At least the movie had a few spikey bit of jokes, the “don’t look where I’m pointing” and homer putting the hammer in his eye still gets a chuckle out of me.
As far as Dan Castelleneta writing an episode, I had no idea. I have seen that one where Barney Drys out, it wasn’t exceptional but still better than the current output! Which is amazing because I have Dan’s “Comedy” cd and it is horrid!
I’ve just barely started watching Futurama I like it, it’s witty and does okay.
As far as Simpsons being bad for a while now, they generally have their slumps but they’ve never been this bad for this long. They usually rebound decently.
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grmpysmrf
well it’s not like it’s the same writers as when the show first started. (hey sounds like a band I know)
BTW new south park season starts this week with mr tiger woods as the first guest star.
BTW new south park season starts this week with mr tiger woods as the first guest star.
That’s another show that hasn’t been good in about 3 years. I think the “Naggers” Show was the last funny one. since then they seem really lazy in their writing. perhaps maybe the huffing cat pee episode was decent but seriously South park is shitty now too!
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grmpysmrf
[reply]BTW new south park season starts this week with mr tiger woods as the first guest star.
That’s another show that hasn’t been good in about 3 years. I think the “Naggers” Show was the last funny one. since then they seem really lazy in their writing. perhaps maybe the huffing cat pee episode was decent but seriously South park is shitty now too!
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grmpysmrf[/reply]
Last couple seasons have been hit or miss. 12th season was meh with a few good ones. I liked most of last season. Last season seemed to make up for the one before it. They seem to do better with witty social commentary than just farting around. I sometimes thing they just ran out of ideas.
well I think they more or less just throw some shows together at the last minute, and unless something big is going on in the media that they can make fun of, comment on, or spoof, then they gotta dig into that bag of nonsensical episode stuff. Still, i’m looking forward to it. It’s not like there’s THAT many good shows on anymore. Otherwise i usually will just wind up putting on history or something. Though i found this cartoon channel called Boom, which is like all the old hannah barbara shows, snorks, dexter, pink panther episodes and whatnot. basically what the cartoon network was before adult swim came and made them hip. But back to the simpsons. I think they’ve just evolved with the times. The older episodes where it’d be a whole story that slowly unfolded like getting santas lil helper or organizing the kidss against nelson, wouldn’'t work today. It’s almost like hyperactive in that it’s got to be joke joke joke. every beat either a visual and spoken joke. Everybody says family guy is so amazing and much better. and i’m not argueing that it’s not a good show, but all it is, is just non-sequitars thrown together. Even south park commented on it.
King of the Hill > Fururama > Simpsons > Family Guy.
The wit and social observation and dry, black humour has vanished only to be replaced by vapid slapstick, forced and lazy pop culture references and stupid celebrity cameos.
100% this. I stopped watching somewhere around the 98-99 years. Sad to hear it has got progressively worse, it used to be a great show.
Sad to see you guys so immersed in mediocrity and the idiot box. Complete waste of time. And I work in television.
Sad to see you guys so immersed in mediocrity and the idiot box. Complete waste of time. And I work in television.
I don’t know about any of you, but I don’t think I actually ever sit down and JUST watch tv. I usually just have it on as background noise while i’m online, or doing something or other… unless i put it on and go to sleep.
Sad to see you guys so immersed in mediocrity and the idiot box. Complete waste of time. And I work in television.
“TV sucks”
“What do you do?”
“I work in TV”
(Punch to cock)
Great contribution there.