Please Stop Making Me Hate The Simpsons

[PeePantz]

I really miss The Tick...thanks for reminding me. Futurama is back and I never cared for any of those other shows...how about Greg the Bunny!?

Are we talking Unhappily Ever After?

There was a show called Greg the Bunny. Unhappily Ever After was a terrible show that was like Married With Children, but had a stuffed animal, played by Bobcat Goldwaith, that only the father could talk to and hear.

Grey the Bunny, which I found hilarious, was a satire of Sesame Street. It portrayed the puppets as real and who were just actors on a show. The puppets were pretty fucked up and I remember one who had a drug problem.

 

[Wolfram23]

Everyone, start watching Community. AWESOME show.
Here's a couple examples, these are just from short skits they do at the end of the episodes, usually completely unrelated to anything.
(yes, that's Chevy Chase )

 

[SilverUchiha]

The series was great all the way to season 10. It dropped in quality after that (gradually at first) but then certain episodes (like that crappy Brazil episode) managed to make the show awful. It has a few good moments now and then, but it's gotten pretty bad. I think the root of it all is how they've changed Homer since it all started. He seems to be stupid, more violent, and just downright annoying. I remember he used to be just ignorant and not flat out dumb as a brick. I remember when he wasn't such a violent maniac (I forgive the Shining Parody moment though because that is classic).

Plus, focus seemed to shift from the small down of Springfield to bigger places. It's sort of what South Park is doing now, and probably suffering for. Notice how South Park doesn't use any more of the old recurring characters we all used to love watching? (chef is excusable for obvious reasons). Simpsons did that first and when they seemed to notice it was a problem, they tried to fix it by incorporating those supporting characters into bigger roles in the bigger places. Unfortunately they flopped too.

I'll say this, I'm upset about Arrested Development. Futurama came back and I wasn't too upset by its leaving because Simpsons was still good at the time (and I think I was starting to get into anime at the time anyway so I was distracted). But Arrested Developement just seems like Fox was lazy or something. The other canceled shows can go to hell for all I care. AD was great. Futurama too. Simpsons can be great if the writers look back at what the old episodes did and try to recapture some of the creativity and heartfelt moments from back in the day. (Lisa's Sax and Lisa's First Word are two great episodes that prove my point).

Maybe we should have the characters actually grow up? It's been 22 damn years. I wouldn't oppose to seeing Bart & Lisa in High School. I wouldn't oppose to seeing Maggie as a kid and not a baby. Anything to change the established formula so it shows you're trying something. Christ.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

The simpsons are a hell of allot more interesting and informative then this drivel you wrote.

I agree, (i didn't read all of it, only up to the part where its first mentioned about season 10) this is just another person bitching and whining that "it was only good till a certain season". That just really pisses me off, what would you rather have? Less Simpsons and more Family Guy? No thank you!!!

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

The simpsons are a hell of allot more interesting and informative then this drivel you wrote.

Allow me to summarize:

"Boo hoo. Shows I like got cancelled. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!"

Yes, we all know that Fox is run by morons, but most of the morons are the viewers who tune out on the good shows, so blame lies there as well. However, liking the obscure show does not mean your taste is any better than someone else's, just different.

 

[headphonegirl]

I don't dislike the simpsons, its just getting to the point where all the characters are becoming exageratted stereotypes, i mean look at ned flanders, in the earlier simpsons he was a dedicated member of the church, in the latest seasons he's become a preachy little so&so , just look at "To Surveil With Love"

 

[Trucken]

Please Stop Making Me Hate The Simpsons

Explain to me why everything good gets canceled, and the now-unfunny Simpsons marches on.

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Since Fox still has three seasons to apologize for, I give you the show that someone should be smacked in the head for cancelling:

Titus.

This show, that so many seem to have missed, had three seasons of comedy excellence. It was evil, raw, honest and outright hilarious. It didn't pull any punches ("Of course Erin can get pretty angry. She's got that Irish temper. But, she's Northern Irish, so we don't fight, she just puts a bomb in my car.") and offended everybody ("You built me a cop magnet! I might as well be a black guy driving a large powdered doughnut!"). But damn it, it was hilarious while doing so.

This ^ I freaking loved this show does anyone know if it's out on dvd?

Yeah, it's available on DVD, I bought it a few years ago.

 

[Imat]

Please Stop Making Me Hate The Simpsons

Explain to me why everything good gets canceled, and the now-unfunny Simpsons marches on.

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Since Fox still has three seasons to apologize for, I give you the show that someone should be smacked in the head for cancelling:

Titus.

This show, that so many seem to have missed, had three seasons of comedy excellence. It was evil, raw, honest and outright hilarious. It didn't pull any punches ("Of course Erin can get pretty angry. She's got that Irish temper. But, she's Northern Irish, so we don't fight, she just puts a bomb in my car.") and offended everybody ("You built me a cop magnet! I might as well be a black guy driving a large powdered doughnut!"). But damn it, it was hilarious while doing so.

I agree. Titus was, and still is, incredible.

And those other shows were also simply amazing. Especially Firefly/Arrested Development. Although I think Arrested Dev did end in a logical fashion which arguably made the show better than if it had continued, rather than cutting off with huge mysteries unsolved (What is Book's relationship with the Alliance?!?!?). Serenity was a nice addition to the series, but still left me hanging on several points.

 

[WorldCritic]

The Simpsons: Should have been cancelled 12 years ago.
Family Guy: Should be cancelled soon.
Firefly: Shouldn't have been cancelled for another five years or so.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

These "Simpsons aren't as good as they used to be" diatribes (from this site as well as many others) really mean that the writer doesn't really watch new episodes of The Simpsons, but instead catches a rerun or two in syndication which are usually rotating seasons 13 through 18. I'll admit that the quality really seemed to sag those years, but season 20 onward after the movie came out have really improved. I'd say about 70 to 80 percent of the episodes from the last two or three years qualify as pretty good and certainly much better than most programming on TV.

Honestly, I don't even feel I can make a fair assessment of the "dark period" until I get ahold of all the DVD sets. So much of The Simpsons lore is steeped in nostalgia and maturity level that it's really unfair to hold a okay cartoon against that one story that you genuinely loved and shrieked at as a child, not mention the ever changing writing staff. Also, The Critic isn't nearly as good as you remember it being. Rewatch some of those first episodes and see that much of the humor is flat and dated, not to mention the animation looks like garbage. I still liked the show, but you're telling me that "The Cockroach King" is funnier than Nazi Dumbo last week?

And Futurama is still on and many people hate the new shows (because they're wrong and completely lack perspective). What was that Mayor Quimby quote again?
"You people are nothing but a pack of fickle mush-heads!"
"He's right!"
"Give us hell, Quimby!"

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

Was talking about Firefly and such earlier, discussing cancelled shows and ones that should of been canned. I should point him in this direction.

"Jurassic Bark." - Man I loved that episode...

 

[Nurb]

I was a simpsons fan that knew everything about the show, and watched every episode since day one in '89, but then it started to suck, and then it got worse... and worse... and oh yet another episode completely written around a celebrity instead of just being a voice actor for a character.

The show ended for me when Marge got buff and raped Homer.

Yet Arrested Developent got the axe instead. RIP.

 

[Angnor]

I agree, (i didn't read all of it, only up to the part where its first mentioned about season 10) this is just another person bitching and whining that "it was only good till a certain season". That just really pisses me off, what would you rather have? Less Simpsons and more Family Guy? No thank you!!!

Considering the article's author very specifically listed shows she'd rather have, I find your 'Family Guy' comment a little odd. And considering how you will find 'Family Guy', 'The Cleveland Show', and 'American Dad' all following the Simpsons, we already have far more 'Family Guy' than we need, really.

Or are we going to argue those three shows are distinct and unique entities?

That said, good article, and I enjoyed it. My one thought on it? While The Simpsons are cerrtainly past their prime Fox is guilty of far worse shows that continue to air. I'd cancel anything Reality before the Simspons.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I can't speak for all of the shows listed in the article as I haven't been a serious TV watcher for ages, but I agree that the Simpsons has seriously gone downhill. I've been watching some of this season's episodes and they are just terrible. I don't know if it's even correct to label a show a comedy if you're lucky to get one decent laugh per episode, never mind consistent laughter or at least a single really good laugh.

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

I'm really ticked off the Fox canceled King of the Hill, I loved that show to death. ;_;

 

[2ndblackjedi]

I liked Drive. I thought it was pretty cool.

>.>

That's all I got.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Jurassic Bark made me cry whilst watching it, and kept my previously anti-cartoon step-father glued throughout. A brilliant episode, by all accounts.

I hate to be one of the people saying this, because it sounds kind of desperate, but the most recent season of the simpsons has actually been good, in a move that shocked me and many others.
Although it's blown away by the new season of futurama...

 

[spectrenihlus]

The simpsons are fine. I think more hate should be placed on Glee.

I cannot stand that show.