Please Stop Making Me Hate The Simpsons
- Thread starter Elizabeth Grunewald
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I knew that Firefly was going to make this list. 
I would also like to bring up Kitchen Confidential. That show is by far one of my favorite TV show that very quite made it thanks to FOX. I still pop in my copy of the complete serious every now and then when it is late at night and I don't feel like gaming.
I would also like to bring up Kitchen Confidential. That show is by far one of my favorite TV show that very quite made it thanks to FOX. I still pop in my copy of the complete serious every now and then when it is late at night and I don't feel like gaming.
Rant incoming: Heres the thing, Fox is a Republican network and to paraphrase Peter Griffon: A Republican is a big fat white guy who is afraid of change. Anything new, exciting or original will always be canceled in favour of the same old tried and (no longer) true.
Don't forgive them Elizabeth, it will only make them think they continue to get away with it as long as there is one brief (occasional) gem in a sea of sludge.
Don't forgive them Elizabeth, it will only make them think they continue to get away with it as long as there is one brief (occasional) gem in a sea of sludge.
ANDY RICHTER CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE
I loved that show. Did wonders for ol' Andy in my opinion. Never watched Conan at that time in my life, but I just found that show clever and refreshing.
Ah, well... he still has late night.
I loved that show. Did wonders for ol' Andy in my opinion. Never watched Conan at that time in my life, but I just found that show clever and refreshing.
Ah, well... he still has late night.
I agree, the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" is one of the best examples of animation storytelling. I remember watching that episode when it was first aired when I was younger and how powerfully bittersweet the ending was. I decided to watch it a couple months ago thinking that it might've lost some of the magic that made it so special, but no, it still hit me pretty hard and is still one of my alltime favorite episodes of any show.
I actually really enjoy The Simpsons still. Is it not as good as it was? A million times worse, of course. But compared to the entirety of mainstream television, The Simpsons remain, even if only slightly so, light-hearted, enjoyable, and colourful.
If they stopped it 12 years ago, it would be remembered as the best show ever to grace our screens. But even as it declines more and more in originality and humour with each passing season, it is still a damn good show, and I'm glad it's still on TV.
If they stopped it 12 years ago, it would be remembered as the best show ever to grace our screens. But even as it declines more and more in originality and humour with each passing season, it is still a damn good show, and I'm glad it's still on TV.
Oh wow, with the exception of that second show (which I'd actually never even heard of until just now), I find myself in 100% agreement on each and every one of those shows Fox unceremoniously canceled, whilst keeping The Simpsons on long past the point where it was consistently funny (or funny at all depending on the episode). The Tick alone was so funny it hurt!
I weep for what might have been.
I weep for what might have been.
I personally despised Arrested Development as well as the live action "the tick" (as the cartoons were so amazing!). However, I do concede that the Simpsons has been running MUCH too long, the episodes are beyond stale at this point.
I was honestly a bit disappointed with firefly. I saw it a lot later than everyone else, after years of my friends telling me several times a week to watch it. To the show's credit it basically needed to re-define my very notion of cinema to even remotely live up to the unreachable expectations my friends bestowed upon it, so I was thus let down.
I was honestly a bit disappointed with firefly. I saw it a lot later than everyone else, after years of my friends telling me several times a week to watch it. To the show's credit it basically needed to re-define my very notion of cinema to even remotely live up to the unreachable expectations my friends bestowed upon it, so I was thus let down.
The Simpsons is a brilliant, influential and masterful piece of work. And now, like all good things must, it's time for it to be euthanized for its own good. Funny, I was just having ths conversation right before I found this article.
Perhaps if we all ask Matt Groening to not pick up the Simpsons for a new season he'll instead focus on Futurama, or make an even better new show.
On a tangential note, I liked this article, but I've never seen most of the aforementioned shows. That's mostly due to the fact that I rarely watch TV, though.
Perhaps if we all ask Matt Groening to not pick up the Simpsons for a new season he'll instead focus on Futurama, or make an even better new show.
On a tangential note, I liked this article, but I've never seen most of the aforementioned shows. That's mostly due to the fact that I rarely watch TV, though.
While I agree that the seasons being shown recently on TV are pretty dire (17 and 18) I did pick up 20 on blu-ray and was pleasantly surprised. At least it's still kinda funny. Unlike Family Guy which as soon as it was brought back was terrible
And I REALLY don't see what people saw in Firefly. At all.
And I REALLY don't see what people saw in Firefly. At all.
Get over it. Simpsons is a great show. Your opinionated little rant changes nothing about that, thankfully. They also won't cancel it because of you, which is another bonus.
Why you'd waste your time watching and writing about something which you clearly can't stand anymore is mind boggling. It isn't like it's a new show at the escapist you're giving a go, which takes you by surprise at how good/bad it is. Nah, you've had SEASONS to stop wasting your time and yet here you are.
"Meh" seems an appropriate word.
Why you'd waste your time watching and writing about something which you clearly can't stand anymore is mind boggling. It isn't like it's a new show at the escapist you're giving a go, which takes you by surprise at how good/bad it is. Nah, you've had SEASONS to stop wasting your time and yet here you are.
"Meh" seems an appropriate word.
Why would you want to kill free programming? Most simpson episodes are terrible but there are a few good ones and it's worth keeping the show around for the few diamonds that come about. Obviously enough people like the show since they are allowing to make more seasons of it and I don't really care if some retard that doesn't know how to switch a tv off when he isn't enjoying himself want's to write an article bitching about it still being on