~15 million viewers per episode on average down to mere thousands?https://youtu.be/b53Mx_CAGSY
>>214992631Shows like The Simpsons and SNL confuse me. Is corporate inertia so great that the bosses won't cancel shows that are "institutions"?
>>214992631I never understood these numbers15 million viewers? How the fuck did they figure that? Because some box people volunteered for?I never had a boxI don't figure into these numbersI don't believe these numbersSomeone please explain how the fuck the science and math behind this shit works and why people believe it?
>>214992631So the most watched episode (With 33 million viewers) is "Bart Gets An F", which aired on October 11th 1990, so The Simpsons peaked almost 35 years ago to the date.
>>214992770Son. Didn't you ever go to school? If 50% of a representative sample does a thing, then you can extrapolate that 50% of the whole group will do that thing. The only catch is that the sample has to be:Large enough to reduce individual bias.Accurately representative of the whole.The Nielsen boys are crazy about solving those two issues. Ratings are as accurate as we can get.
>>214992631Sad
>>214992854That's not true at all thoughI didn't do itTherefore it's wrong
>>214992631Are there really almost 800 episodes?
>>214992903maybe you didn't, but I didso it's all right
>>214992678The Simpsons is still selling tons of merch, and I think it's still somewhat popular in South America. And NBC still runs SNL because it's still a platform for publicists to parade their clients (which they pay for)
damn that's an exponential downfall
>>214992678Network TV is dead, anything like this that gets consistent viewers is better than rolling the dice on something new
>>214993087>I think it's still somewhat popular in South AmericaBecause of old season episodes playing constantly on free networks, they couldve stopped making new episodes and networks here would keep paying for the right to play it regardless.
>>214992770>Because some box people volunteered for?You don't voulenteer. A couple years ago i was selected as a nielson family and a lady with a badge from the fcc showed up at mydoor because i never responded to them.
>>214992631I wonder how a graphic like that one would look for South Park.
What episode is this?
>>214992631What are the global numbers?
>>214992678sneedsons still gets higher ratings than south park and is still one of the highest rated shows in television. it's not going anywhere. i think it's entirely propped up by mexicans and south americans
>>214992854And observational biases? What of them? If I had a Nielsen box I’d be trolling the shit out of them
Imagine living in an era where an Asmongold video gets more views than the Simpsons
>>214994978Unsure. Looks about 340 which is around S16E5
The switch starting about season 5 where Springfield expands & the show isn't really about the Simpsons themselves, as in their immediate family issues, and more about the insanity of the times.Kind of feel that the answer was truly ending it at Behind the Laughter and doing the movie and calling it quits after that, which was somehow 20 years ago in itself.
>>214995085>have no fear, we’ve got stories for years >like Marge becomes a robot What did they mean by this?
>>214995120They were talking about how stale it already was...23 years ago. It blows my mind less that the show keeps going, but more that so does Family Guy, so does American Dad, so does Futurama, so does South Park, so does Bob's Burgers. They all have to be ripping off each other outside of South Park for obvious reasons.
>>214994978E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
>>214995244That’s my point. The writers were explicitly telling the audience that they’d exhausted the original premise and that it’d just become more ludicrous and banal at the same time
>>214992678other than live sports who is watching cable tv at a specific time each week? elderly people are the only people still regularly watching cable that is not sports.
>>214992781Most things peaked 35 years ago
>>214995366Romance in the time of Mighty Kids Meals
>>214993087>>214993969>>214995016>>214995335Why are they still making new episodes though?
>>214995431because they still get some of the highest numbers on cable. it's also way cheaper to produce an episode these days
>>214994978>>214995082I think it's Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass, season 16, episode 8>After Homer inadvertently performs a wild crowd-pleasing dance at a local carnival, he is hired by several sports figures to teach them how to showboat. Seeing his popularity, he is hired to produce the Super Bowl halftime show. Meanwhile, Flanders creates ultra-violent, ultra-gory Bible movies à la Passion of the Christ. It is not well received to his dismay. When Homer is unable to think of an idea for his show, he recruits Ned to recreate a Biblical story, which is not well received because it is seen as forcing Christianity on the country.>The episode is a Super Bowl-themed episode that was broadcast after Super Bowl XXXIX, followed by the premiere of American Dad!
>>214994978As one Anon said, S16E08, it did more than 23 million viewers.
>>214995667>>214995713Thanks. That makes sense. It was just people not turning off their TV after watching the super bowl lol
>>214995828Super Bowl lead out is the most powerful force in TV.
>>214995085Starts to go downhill at s11, still some good ones by 13 but after that it's a shitshow
>>214994106This. El Chavo del Ocho ended 33 years ago and some networks still pay for the rights. Hell, one of the networks in my country has been airing Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics every saturday morning since 1990 almost without interruption.
>>214992678At this point it's just a club where people get paid based on who they know and are friends with rather than on performance. Look at when Stephen Colbert was cancelled and only 20 people turned up to protest, nobody gave a fuck apart from his media clique.Kimmel was the same but he's obviously got more connections than Colbert so his dead show limps on.
>>214992631What's with that little bump at around 250? Seems like it falls back on the previous trend after that. It's around S11 I think
Simpson is still very funny and cool. Most of the people on this site are bitter.
>>214992678>Is corporate inertia so great that the bosses won't cancel shows that are "institutions"?yes
>>214996253They still air El Zorro here in Argentina. And 20 years ago they'd still air Get Smart, The Three Stooges, even McGyver IIRC.
>>214992631family guy is superior in every possible way
>>214998169McGyver rules man
