The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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I thought the movie was honestly pretty good. A 7 out of 10. The big problem is the 2nd act drags. And what was up with that bit with Schwarzenegger as president?
 
2odastream said:
Understandable, then again with a Simpsons Movie you've got to be "safe" to not piss off the '90s audience you're banking off of.
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It's the fucking Simpsons in theatres. Millions of people would've already watched it based on that fact alone, everything else be damned.
 
I got on board The Simpsons train fairly early. I think I watched "Do The Bartman"'s music video before I even saw the show. Fortunately this was conveniently around the time they entered the Golden Age where everything they wrote was comedy genius, so I watched it every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (as the TV station dictated) for years. When i eventually got cable they had 5-episode specials every weekend, and I'd watch all those too.

My enthusiasm for the show started to die - like most Simpsons fans - around Season 10. It was obvious by "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", but I held on thinking that the show would recover and I could go back to my usual obsessive binge-watching of it. Alas, "Saddlesore Galactica" of Season 11 sealed my disdain for the show with its overt idiocies and abandonment of all continuity. I gave up watching The Simpsons after that, and haven't watched anything that was after Season 9 for almost two decades. I still regard the earlier seasons as some of the best cartoon comedy material ever made (and will eventually get around to buying them), but I hate what the show became (and presumably still is).
 
That Chris Guy said:
I got on board The Simpsons train fairly early. I think I watched "Do The Bartman"'s music video before I even saw the show. Fortunately this was conveniently around the time they entered the Golden Age where everything they wrote was comedy genius, so I watched it every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (as the TV station dictated) for years. When i eventually got cable they had 5-episode specials every weekend, and I'd watch all those too.

My enthusiasm for the show started to die - like most Simpsons fans - around Season 10. It was obvious by "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", but I held on thinking that the show would recover and I could go back to my usual obsessive binge-watching of it. Alas, "Saddlesore Galactica" of Season 11 sealed my disdain for the show with its overt idiocies and abandonment of all continuity. I gave up watching The Simpsons after that, and haven't watched anything that was after Season 9 for almost two decades. I still regard the earlier seasons as some of the best cartoon comedy material ever made (and will eventually get around to buying them), but I hate what the show became (and presumably still is).
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I remember thinking as a kid the episodes Lisa's Wedding and Bart Sells his Soul were indications that it was winding down and going to end soon.

How naive I was.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I remember thinking as a kid the episodes Lisa's Wedding and Bart Sells his Soul were indications that it was winding down and going to end soon.

How naive I was.
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And the funny thing is that those episodes are considered classics now (and for good reason). I don't think the Simpsons is going to end until one of the core four voice actors kick the bucket or quit.
 
My parents always get me The Simpsons DVDs every year as my Christmas gift from them. I think last year they didn't have a season out so I never got one. They just gave me Season 18 and it's pretty cringy like the last few seasons I watched. At least the art on the discs and cover are nice.
 
Quijibo69 said:
My parents always get me The Simpsons DVDs every year as my Christmas gift from them. I think last year they didn't have a season out so I never got one. They just gave me Season 18 and it's pretty cringy like the last few seasons I watched. At least the art on the discs and cover are nice.
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Sometimes you just put up with slightly bad gifts because they're a tradition. It's, like, a law of Christmas, I think.
 
vertexwindi said:
I did when I first saw it but then again I was like eleven at the time. I find it unwatchable these days, it's such a schizophrenic and safe movie.
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If a movie goes through rewrites for two decades of courde it's gonna be a fucking mess.
 
So this last weekend I saw this episode from S15, this travesty:
"Marge vs Singles, seniors -" fuck it, "Marge vs everyone" S15 E8
Good lord it was fucking abysmal. The nonsensical plot (babies lose their shit over the concert getting cancelled and thus Springfield decides to say fuck families? the hell? and what was up with that joke of Luigi getting deported? the fuck was that all about?), bad jokes, just terrible stuff overall.
And people bitch about S10? that shit was nowhere as dumb as S15, and keep in mind S10 had the Kidney Trouble episode. (notable for being one of the earliest instances of Jerkass Homer showing up)
S11 already went downhill for me (it was the point I stopped watching the show), by killing off Maude in the dumbest way possible + the abomination that was Saddlesore Galactica, but somehow it got worse. I regret ever watching this pile of shit.
 
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I haven't watched The Simpsons in years, I stopped owning a tv so it fell off my radar. It would be dishonest to say that The Simpsons were wholly bad after a certain season. There have always been hits and misses, maybe more misses nowadays, seems subjective.

I can't help but wonder if people aren't meant to watch a show for almost 30 years. I'd imagine that as I get older, the more I get sick of tried sitcom tropes/jokes, where a newer audience is fine with it. For example, a newer episode has a Bart smoking story, with a e-cigarette instead of conventional. Is that actually dumb or have I just seen that done a million times
It would be great to know what a younger audience thinks of The Simpsons, without being exposed to the nostalgic extremists.

Maybe T.V. shows have a natural depreciation, where the characters become boiled down caricatures because there's only so many stories you can tell with certain types of characters.
 
Fleeb said:
I haven't watched The Simpsons in years, I stopped owning a tv so it fell off my radar. It would be dishonest to say that The Simpsons were wholly bad after a certain season. There have always been hits and misses, maybe more misses nowadays, seems subjective.

I can't help but wonder if people aren't meant to watch a show for almost 30 years. I'd imagine that as I get older, the more I get sick of tried sitcom tropes/jokes, where a newer audience is fine with it. For example, a newer episode has a Bart smoking story, with a e-cigarette instead of conventional. Is that actually dumb or have I just seen that done a million times
It would be great to know what a younger audience thinks of The Simpsons, without being exposed to the nostalgic extremists.

Maybe T.V. shows have a natural depreciation, where the characters become boiled down caricatures because there's only so many stories you can tell with certain types of characters.
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I feel like I have more of a tolerance of the middle seasons than most people, watching the show as a kid they basically aired anything pre-HD on Channel 4. So I got exposed to a wider range of episodes than people who watched it week by week. Had a great bumper though:
 
2odastream said:
I feel like I have more of a tolerance of the middle seasons than most people, watching the show as a kid they basically aired anything pre-HD on Channel 4. So I got exposed to a wider range of episodes than people who watched it week by week. Had a great bumper though:https://youtube.com/watch?v=XTKtyBupoHE
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Babby alert!

When I was a kid the Simpsons were being shown on BBC2!
 
There were a few good episodes here and then in the "bad" seasons, I suppose. That episode in season 10 where Lisa gets the flu and Homer buys a lobster is a pretty good and harmless one, I think.
 
RIP_SANITY said:
So this last weekend I saw this episode from S15, this travesty:
"Marge vs Singles, seniors -" fuck it, "Marge vs everyone" S15 E8
Good lord it was fucking abysmal. The nonsensical plot (babies lose their shit over the concert getting cancelled and thus Springfield decides to say fuck families? the hell? and what was up with that joke of Luigi getting deported? the fuck was that all about?), bad jokes, just terrible stuff overall.
And people bitch about S10? that shit was nowhere as dumb as S15, and keep in mind S10 had the Kidney Trouble episode. (notable for being one of the earliest instances of Jerkass Homer showing up)
S11 already went downhill for me (it was the point I stopped watching the show), by killing off Maude in the dumbest way possible + the abomination that was Saddlesore Galactica, but somehow it got worse. I regret ever watching this pile of shit.
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What was the point of that episode anyway? "People without kids are awful?"
 
friedshrimp said:
There were a few good episodes here and then in the "bad" seasons, I suppose. That episode in season 10 where Lisa gets the flu and Homer buys a lobster is a pretty good and harmless one, I think.
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I really wouldn't say S10 was bad IMO.
It did have its issues and was definitely the start of the decline in quality (Kidney Trouble episode I think was the worst one, which actually could have been far better if they just removed Homer escaping from the hospital at the end and the Bart kidney joke and maybe placed more emphasis on Homer being scared of dying or something. That way he wouldn't have come across as such a jerk in the episode) but compared to the trash that came immediately afterwards, it's light years ahead in terms of quality.
 
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