Please Stop Making Me Hate The Simpsons

[KP Shadow]

I only watch the TV Show every once in a while. At the moment, the comics are, in my opinion, a lot better than the TV Show. That, and it's a lot easier to go back and enjoy the comics again and again. Sure, they're not canon to the TV show, but the writers work with that to do insane stuff that the show could never get away with. Like an issue about how the world would change if the Comic Book Guy were to die.

 

[someotherguy]

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I think your misunderstanding the influance of the mainstream on TV. The Simspons might seem unfunny to you after all this time, but then agin your here on "The Escapist". Odddly I think you overestimate the everyman. Ask yourself how things like Pro-Wrestling continue on, and they have been around longer than "The Simpsons".

"The Simpsons" is one of those rare productions that hits solidly in that 'sweet spot' for the everyman. It's simple, uncomplicated, and can make your typical person chuckle and think themselves clever. It takes someone outside the mainstream to really look at it and go "you know this is really pretty insipid".

On top of that the series has become iconic. "The Simpsons" have spawned a merchandising empire and become as well known as Disney characters and the like. What's more you'll notice that "Universal Studios" has a pretty substantial ride and an area built up around it as one of their attractions to compete with Disney.

Personally I don't think anyone thinks they're clever by getting a joke on The simpsons.
Though I do agree with everyone can find it funny.

 

[Unhappy Crow]

To me, it seems that Fox isn't big on keeping their shows. Some of them I find funny end up being cancelled with only 1 to 2 seasons. The last show I remember on Fox that got cancelled was Sit Down and Shut Up. It was okay, but I only watched cause Kenan voiced the principal.

 

[ace_of_something]

But, if the Tick had done better we might not have the venture bros. and I would rather have that.

Kind of funny that I have all the shows on DVD.

 

[Redratson]

The grand dad Simpson
The father Family guy
The son American dad

Futurama wierd uncle

OT: I did enjoy the simpsons back in the day but I agree their humor is a bit dry, I'll still watch them though and probably will jsut to see how they bring the show to a close.

 

[Redd the Sock]

Yeah, Fox is a bunch of dolts. Family Guy has pulled that "list as many fox shows that have been canceled" bit twice now and is probably looking for a third sometime soon.

Looking back, I'm not even sure Simpsons was ever really that funny, Rather just unique and given a lot of nostalgic points. Maybe it was the 2 times a day seven days a week syndication, but I'm really tired of even the early stuff I used to enjoy. (for the record, the same happened to futurama. After so many season, it struggles to come up with anything new to do. Describing a recent episode to a friend I basically said it was Bart's lastest run-in with Nelson and Lisa's annual identity crisis. The shows still good for a few eipsodes a season, but tow are usually the halloween episode and the short story episode with one or two good ones snuck in between. In fairness, Family Guy and South Park suffer the same problem with less garuntee of a good episode and Seth McFarlane's other two shows don't even get that.

Of course we all know when the Simpsons will end: The day when they are faced with replacing one of those half dozen voice actors that do dozens of characters. They can't last forever.

 

[Scrythe]

I really hope that live-action clip of was posted by accident, because there is no way in hell anyone enjoyed that tripe over the hilariously superior cartoon; the live-action Tick came off as a cheeky and sad parody of itself, as if the franchise became self-aware and decided to spontaneously combust itself in favor of Steve Martin-esque piss-and-fart jokes.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

How many Arrested Development fans who complain about it getting cancelled actually watched it when it first aired? How many of those fans are currently watching either The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret or Running Wilde? If you don't watch either of those two shows, then you have absolutely no right to complain.

And why no mention of Andy Richter Controls The Universe? That show was genius.

 

[Elizabeth Grunewald]

I always hated Fox after cancelling Keen Eddie and John Doe. Man those were two awesome gems of the television, yet, they lasted little to nothing. I forgave Titus, because I knew what was going on ont the background, and even if Fox were to blame, it was business alright. But those 3 series should lasted longer and The simpsons had to end long ago, I stopped watching it around the 5th.

 

[Dr.Susse]

I'm with you.

Fox was insane for cancelling the critic I still watch the dvd regularly and have the theme as my ringtone.

IT STINKS!

 

[Wakefield]

Firefly... Great. Now I'm sad. Thanks Escapist!

PS I love you. </3

 

[RoBi3.0]

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.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

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.

 

[Logic 0]

It just seems like the simpsons are more of a time capsule because no matter how much things change the simpsons will never die.

 

[MowDownJoe]

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.

 

[Jsnoopy]

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.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

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.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

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.

 

[Weaver]

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.

 

[MB202]

Fox is run by idiots, simple as that. You can tell by the way they keep sucking up to Seth MacFarlane and The Simpsons, canceling good shows like you said (I'm reminded of Futurama in particular) and heck, even watching their news.