The other day somebody posted a Simpsons clip in which Burns visited Yale and retired his funding due to the woke there.
I couldn't avoid but notice the whole thing was bland and toothless. While still ostensibly following the Simpsons aesthetics -And that's, I think, why some people might be fooled about 'returns to form'- and similar to the sort of stuff the Simpsons used to do, it was severely lacking.
Now, I had stopped watching the Simpsons long ago, and I identified that there is a certain sense of continuity. This clip is actually like a degraded form of a 2000s era gag, seasons roughly 9 to 11, where The Simpsons was deep into the "We're still relevant, damnit" era yet still managed to be funny.
For many, many years (I think during the tenure of Scully), the Simpsons would abandon any attempt at actual social commentary and put the characters in a bubble, only to occasionally flirt with referencing real life stuff. This is the period best known as the jerkass Homer era.
Noticeably, this period lacks any sort of direct mention to then current president George W. Bush when previously presidents would be regularly mocked and make appearances. I think George ". Bush is only mentioned one during the "Here's me fighting former President Bush, he's me fighting current President Bush" gag.
Criticism of the Bush administration was also quite bizarre and esoteric, and one has to wonder if this exercise of political restraint was somehow enforced.
If I recall correctly, Obama and politics were mostly absent during the Obama years and they never really mentioned him or his administration or really go into anything too much political except for that one episode with Michelle Obama. It makes me wonder.
Now, with Trump they went full retard, full woke and full on politics in a manner they've never been before. They recovered a style of satire from the late Clinton years that was, and still is to this day by some Simpsons fundamentalist, considered a jumping of the shark at the time.
Needless to say, the horrible, souless, high definition, kitschy and excessively detailed with excessively bright colours animation, the exhausted, aged up characters, the constantly dying cast and the talentless writers don't help.
TL;DR - Current Simpsons style of comedy isn't all that new, it's a degrad rehash of late stage classic Simpsons brand of comedy that was already considered to be excessively random access humor fueled, goofy, nonsensical and childish back in the day. That's what some people that really want to like this 'progressive, made for modern audiences' Simpsons would probably call a return to form. They don't want, nor can, recreate the sort of comedy that made seasons 2 to 7.
I'm going to echo the sentiment that if they ended the series with the movie, they would've gone out on top.
The movie was quite underwhelming and choke full of the sort of shit I described above, and I had already lost interest in newer seasons by the time it came out. They woudn't have gone exactly out on top, but certainly they would have died with dignity.
Just have him not realize it’s Homer until the very end, and then as soon as he does immediately calls everything off and apologizes to Homer like he accidentally took Homer’s car keys or something.
That would have been amazing but:
a) It would have never been green lighted
b) They already didn't have writers able to pull it off
He's also openly talked about age of consent with gay men as well. Then there was that time he got extra grabby with a guy's dick on the Howard Stern Show.
What's wrong with Hollywood fags? They're like even more of a degenerate than pleb fags
"Bart loses his mind [Full Scene]" - RP
Strange, I cannot remember this.
The Simpsons was created as a response to the wholesome family values that 1980’s sitcoms provided and what Reagan’s America wanted. It worked well, but by the late 1990’s, Reagan’s influence wasn’t as prominent as once was. The Simpsons didn’t get the memo, and continued pushing this rebellious attitude.
And as much as I like 90s Simpsons, I think they did a great harm. They set a trend of dysfunctional behaviour showcased on TV that has only gotten worse and worse.
Much to my chagrin, and as much as I think Bart's antics at the height of the backlash were exceptionally tame, especially considering he was conceived by somebody who thought Dennis the Menace was really tame and harmless and wanted to write an actual problematic child, the moral guardians of the 90s were right about everything and the Helen Lovejoys of the world should have been listened to.
Now he's followed it up with total trash, I suspect he just made up a "Hot Take" because by his own admission it's a good clickbait title that he lifted from some blog.
SEW is so scared to say the wrong thing and offend somebody or getting the slightest heat on social media that a Republican Senator being blackmailed with pictures of himself smoking crack as he gets his cock sucked by an underage twink while drinking vodka with Vladimir Putin and George Soros while browsing the Kiwi Farms would appear a sensible, calm, collected and in-control individual by comparison.
Soap Operas for Deeply Closeted Gay Men (Pro Wrestling)
Pro Wrestling is totally straight, bro!
SEW, LS Mark and RealJims
The triad of Youtube Autistic Manchildren.
Shitting on your fanbase that no longer watches the show is not proof youve made a comeback
Looks like Disney ownership is starting to show.
But they decided to wait until now to start applying their usual MCU/Pixar promotional strategies on The Simpsons
Yes, definitely the Disney playbook.
Never change, Iger.
I think the show might be better than it was a decade ago
See above.
