The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Shadfan666xxx000 said:
Either way, this show is just staying on because people think it should. It's honestly baffling how Fox never thought to line up replacements at this point or if they have, it's entirely too late to capitalise on.
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So long as The Simpsons remains profitable, there's no reason to think about a replacement.

At least, that's how the airheads running Fox think.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Is 30 years not long enough?
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Like I said, "Behind the Laughter" could've made a good last one. Also which one was it with that "have no fears we have stories for years" song? That one could've been a last episode too.

30 years with the same cast is very odd for a show. Imagine if another show from the late 80s lasted that long. With same cast.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Like I said, "Behind the Laughter" could've made a good last one. Also which one was it with that "have no fears we have stories for years" song? That one could've been a last episode too.

30 years with the same cast is very odd for a show. Imagine if another show from the late 80s lasted that long. With same cast.
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That's what I said, that the early 2000s would have been the best time to end it.

When I heard they were making a movie I thought for sure that was going to act as a finale, but now over a decade after the movie, it's still going.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
They could've done something like Star Trek and made different series based on the original. But nope -- it has to be the same cast and show. I guess we'll see how long it can go on and decay.
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It would have been interesting to have a sort of "Simpsons: The Next Generation" and have timeskips to say a grown up Bart and Lisa etc, which they already toyed with the idea for singular episodes, I don't know why they decided to just stick with the status quo for so long.

I guess they could still do that though?
 
Dom Cruise said:
It would have been interesting to have a sort of "Simpsons: The Next Generation"
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And that way, they could've kept Skinner a 'Nam veteran, Bart and Lisa as kids of the late 20th century, etc. Instead of this mysterious Garfield-esque "never aging as times change" thing.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
And that way, they could've kept Skinner a 'Nam veteran, Bart and Lisa as kids of the late 20th century, etc. Instead of this mysterious Garfield-esque "never aging as times change" thing.
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If they do end it I'd like to see them address that somehow, say Springfield is stuck in a time warp or something, get weird and existential with it.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
And that way, they could've kept Skinner a 'Nam veteran, Bart and Lisa as kids of the late 20th century, etc. Instead of this mysterious Garfield-esque "never aging as times change" thing.
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We went from Homer taking Bart and Lisa to Lolapalooza to meet Smashing Pumpkins to Bart saying "The 90's? Never heard of it!"

The way I see it at some stage it basically turned into a crappy modern remake just with the same cast. I'd say it was around the time they had to change the intro to update the technology i.e. The Simpson's TV.
 
So, Russi Taylor (voice of Martin Prince, Sherri and Terri, and several minor characters) died at the age of 75 recently.

Why does FOX keep having new seasons greenlit? Everyone knows the Simpsons have gone downhill for a very long time and I'd say irreversibly so in the post-movie era of the late 2000's and 2010's.

And now they have an aging cast that's dropping like flies. We've lost Marcia Wallace and now Russi Taylor.

Julie Kavner and Harry Shearer are in the same age group as Taylor and are both rumored to be in very bad health in addition to their advanced age (especially Kavner) but unlike Wallace (who only voiced Mrs. Krabbapel) and Russi Taylor (who mostly voiced various school children at Springfield Elementary) Julie Kavner is the voice of Marge Simpson (plus Patty and Selma) and Harry Shearer voices a good chunk of the major characters.

Dan Castellaneta is also fairly old and he's the voice of both the show's most famous and popular character, but also many major characters as well.

Why does FOX keep doing this?

I mean, part of it is due to the value of the IP for merchandising (especially overseas) but I get this feeling that a lot of it has to do with Al Jean having some messed-up sense of hubris considering he's been the show runner since the early 2000's and played a major role in the show jumping the shark as badly as it did.

I've heard rumors that Matt Groening hates Al Jean, along with several of the old show runners and writers and even Harry Shearer (which could explain why he almost walked out on the show and records his lines at home instead of at the FOX studios)

With The Simpsons finally going to streaming this year, we're finally at a point where people can enjoy the good years of the show without having to buy multiple sets of DVD's (some of which are out of print) or trying to catch a rerun on FXX or the local FOX affiliate, I think we're at the point where Disney can finally end The Simpsons and just profit off of the IP.

TL;DR-Fuck Al Jean for ruining The Simpsons and literally working the cast to death.
 
Devil's Advocate: is it Al's fault? Realistically speaking could anyone have kept the show at the same level of quality as the early seasons for all this time? Hell no. I place the blame squarely at Fox.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Devil's Advocate: is it Al's fault? Realistically speaking could anyone have kept the show at the same level of quality as the early seasons for all this time? Hell no. I place the blame squarely at Fox.
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Yeah, but I'm sure Al couldve at the very least rotated out as showrunner...give the show new flare as it runs into the ground. I mean he does that with Matt Selman, but I think he should do that with other writers.
 
TBH the Behind the Music parody would have been enough of an ending. It was when the show finally went and became meta, shattered the wall, hsad the characters as actors playing their roles.
 
Sayon said:
TBH the Behind the Music parody would have been enough of an ending. It was when the show finally went and became meta, shattered the wall, hsad the characters as actors playing their roles.
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There is one little joke I do like that benefitted from the show sticking around. It was when they're "producing" an episode. Marge is exclaiming the family is going to Delaware and the kids are excited about the mundane things they'll do such as visiting a screen door factory. Homer turns and says, "This will be the last season."

Come the season 12 finale and it starts out with that exact exchange. Would have been even funnier if the show ended there, but as it is it almost seems like an admission the writing was going downhill, something you aren't going to get from modern Simpsons.
 
The Simpsons is already excessively self-congratulatory and nostalgic. I'm not sure what you'd want from a "finale" that hasn't already been done a dozen times before.

It reminds me of Community, a show in which every season finale was a series finale where the writers jerked themselves off over how great the show and characters were. Its a fucking sitcom, not Game of Thrones. I didn't need closure on Abed's Associate's Degree and I certainly don't need closure on The Simpsons.
 
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