When did you stop watching Simpsons /co/?
>>151027355Sometime around '97 or '98. The "chew through my ballsack" joke felt odd and out of place for The Simpsons.
Sneed
I can count the number of episodes of the Simpsons I've seen on one hand. Not because I thought it was bad or anything, it was just never really on in my house growing up.
>>151027355Probably before /co/ was made.
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>>151027355I'm a late millennial so my primary experience with the simpsons was syndicated reruns in the 00s, I'd watch it 5 nites a week on the local fox station, from what I remember the farthest the reruns ever extended into the episode count were the scully seasons so I was pretty ignorant of what current day simpsons was when I was watching. I'd occasionally tune in on sunday nights but I never cared for it, even then I was aware of there being a difference between the old simpsons and new simpsons. I fell out of it around the movie when I entered highschool, didn't have time to watch it daily anymore.
>>151027355I still watch every new episode
>>151027355What happened in S06E03? lol
>>1510273552005, season 17 opened with a real dude and I walked away.
>>151028091Clip show.I had to look up the season finale for 23 too and it’s the Lady Gaga ep
>>151027355We're on season 37 now. In all honesty an updated chart could see a rebound. At least away from mostly red.
Flicking through an episode list I can remember every episode through to the end of season 9 and the odd episode through to the end of 12, and nothing afterwards.
>>151027355Probably around season 11 or 12, though even those seasons were less something actually entertaining and moreso just 'something to have on tv' while you were having dinner or chatting with friends or some shit and didn't need to pay attention that much.
>>151028206Simpsons fandom got lazy
People who claim modern Simpsons 'got better' aren't sincere. You can't convince me that anyone with taste still watches the show or unironically enjoys the last ~15 years. I assume that RealJims guy just has Stockholm Syndrome. Either that or he has to pretend to like it for his audience.
>>151027355Wow, this chart is quite sobering. The Simpsons hasn't just been bad for longer than it's been good, it's been bad for longer than when it was just mediocre.
>>151027355I think after the movie, i didnt watched every episode. But sometimes i catched an episode here and there.
>>151028206>>151028531Blame Covid.
>>151027355For me the Alec Baldwin episode Its when I came to realise that they ran out of ideas and started pushing for more celebrity cameos.
>>151027355>IMDb ratingsYou can go back and rate the first few seasons as great and then rate any new season as bad without ever watching a single episode. People do this shit all the time for the “culture.”
>>151027355I started watching it less and less over the years. It got really got old for me when every celebrity under the sun wanted to be on it, (I fucking hated the early gay Michael Jackson episode), but I distinctly remember the final straw:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_and_Ned%27s_Hail_Mary_PassI already hated the rote way they'd introduce the celebrity-of-the-week because you'd never recognise who they were supposed to be otherwise and they were increasingly D-list fags I didn't give a fuck about, but they had some silver medalist ice skater just ham-fistedly show up out of nowhere for no reason with the rote introduction and it just totally killed it for me. Michelle Kwan.
>>151028912The celebrity cameo shit pisses me off in multiple series, but this is the one that did that shit first. Where it's not done for any purpose but the people making the series using the popularity of the cartoon to get to meet their favourite celebrities, then that turns into an endless self-fellating conveyor belt of other celebs wanting to be on it, and them being desperately accommodated at the expense of the show.Anyone making a series they don't want going prematurely stale should have a rule against it.
>>151027355The first new episode indidnt watch was the one where bart tries to kill himself
>>151027355I never fully got into it. Unlike Family Guy and South Park they never had cable reruns and as a zoomer kid born way after the show premiered I never had a way to really access it. Reruns were on in the afternoon in the 2000s and I was usually eating dinner or doing homework. I knew it aired on FOX and I liked Homer but I never got very far into the show even though I tried. Now I watch the occasional new episode on FOX because there's nothing ever on at 7pm, before I watch my drama shows on AMC/HBO at 8. The last one about Chalmers was kind of fun.
>>151027355Good episodes in the past and bad episodes in the present.D'OH!
>>151027374Imagine being so offended by a line so objectively hilarious, that you stop watching the most iconic cartoon ever made, and continue to avoid it for decades and decades.Are you on Bluesky?
>>151031220He was spared the greatest fall off in TV history, his logic was correct in this instance.
>>151030797The problem is celebrity guest stars only work if you know how to utilize them.If you got Vincent Price back in the day , you got him to do something comedically spooky. Mr. T was also a master of this, he knew the score. If he's the guest star on anything, his job is to go up and be a shitpost version of his own macho image.In general, older "washed-up" celebrities typically make for the best guest stars since they're not as worried about tarnishing their brands. Just look at Arnold and Sly now, they make fun of themselves all the time because Terminator and Rocky are already cemented pop culture icons
>>151031253But then he missed Bart vs. Itchy and Scratchy, the greatest episode of them all.I can still hear the sensitive little broflakes on IMDb squealing.
Season 16
>>151028817>Show makes fun of its decline with dreadful pitches like "Moe gets a cell phone" and "Selma marrying grampa">Selma marries grampa>Moe gets a cell phoneHeh.
>>151028666That pic now applies to family guyThe cycle continues >I say this as a guy who loves both
I remember many years ago Dan Castañedaneta addressing the "Simpsons dipped in quality" claim by saying it was "as good as ever"
>>151027355>That 10 in season 11Well done, OP
>>151027355I never stopped, unfortunately.
Most people claim it was the Armin Tamzarian episode where it went to shit. For me, it was the Screamapillar episode with Carmen Electra.
>>151027355I stopped regularly watching probably around the episode where they had a whole "if you work for a franchise, the franchise doesn't care about you" message. it felt lazy as hell and was emblematic of a lot of the problems i've had with simpsons over the past few decadesI completely dropped the show when they had an episode with lena dunham. any show that stars her is immediately not worth watching
>>151027355Season 11, Episode 5 AKA the absolute peak. I knew in my heart, that nothing would ever top it
I hate when the classic intro plays and it's a modern episode
>>151028817>November 11th, 2001: The definitive moment when the show went from "Bad Simpsons" to "Bad Television"This date refers to the episode "The Parent Rap", which I remember thinking was a bit goofy but not terrible. The return of Judge Snyder right as Judge Harm was gonna send Bart to Juvie is a great gag: "The clown is down."
>>151027355The episode where Bart starts losing his child like antics was my last watch? It was a season or two after cat Marge and big boob Marge. Coincidentally that's when I got a slave wage job and worked every Sunday night. However it was when Tony Hawk and Green Day guest starred I realized the show was going downhill.Goats.
>>151027355When I realized even "golden era" Simpsons was full of Lisa wank. Seriously, every third episode of The Simpsons in its first seven or ten seasons or whatever is a Lisa episode.
>>151027355I never stopped. Of course the quality went down decades ago, but I felt that way about pretty much every animated program I watched, which coincidentally happened as I entered High School twenty years ago.
Can't exactly remember when buyt the one episode that made me thing "well, that's it" was the Buddhist Lisa one.I still fap to Lisa though.
>>151031400You know people can skip the bad episodes and only watch the good ones, right?
>>151027355>>151027355The latest full episode I have ever seen was "Husbands and Knives" Season 19 for the Alan Moore/Spiegleman/Clowes appearances but I do remember trying to watch the horrible Fountainhead episode in season 20 and saying wtf is this crap. I think around those years was an era of people saying "The simpsons is still good" after the movie so I watched a few episodes but stopped watching every one in the late 90s.
