The show really has declined since the writers changed. The new episodes could never compare with the old but gold ones.
The only thing that is better is the picture quality but the plots have hit a dead end. Its like theyre not trying anymore
The Simpsons has been dead for over 20 years. The last mostly good season was Season 9 (1997-1998). Season 10 had a couple of good episodes. Everything after that is unwatchable.
shareI stopped watching it around the time they killed off Maud Flanders.
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Not only dead, but the golden age shows will be removed by the Cancer Cancel Culture soon. Any show with Apu, Barney, Burns, Rev Lovejoy, Groundskeeper Willie, Fat Tony, Moe, Flanders, etc. will be cancelled. Those are not good people: they all have their personal issues which are offensive.
As the great philosopher Alanis Morissette once said: isn't it ironic. The show that was once attacked by politicians, public figures and even the American president for being subversive and amoral is now going out of its way to be politically correct. Times sure have changed.
shareAn alleged philosopher who did not know the meaning of “ironic.” Now, THAT’S ironic.
Also, completely ignorant.
Yes very true, nowdays the characters must be perfect, to emulate real life, where everyone is perfect and have no issues.
Its as if, the cultivation of social media profiles that are detached from reality, became more important than individual self improvement, and overcoming personal issues to be a well rounded, effective, value delivering human being.
Then people forgot or don't even know its possible to actually improve, hence why they do cancel culture type things and get anything that's not perfect out of existence, because people can never change and its never the point to have "bad" characters in shows to showcase why you shouldn't be like those characters shown, making the world a better place.
I'm surprised they haven't decided to change the Simpsons color from yellow to normal skin tones. Asian people might be offended because in the past, it had negative connotations.
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Fortunately, software exists now where these offensive yellow casts can be properly excised from this disgusting show for future viewings. Further, I believe that all voices should be re-recorded by people who actually fit the characters - ie a simple minded dude doing Homer, a real cop doing Wiggam, a real minister doing Lovejoy, etc. All the actors who voiced them without shame should donate all the money they were paid for appropriating culture to appropriate charities.
If the Golden Age shows are removed by cancel culture, then the show will have deserved it. Changing attitudes are why shows should always quit while they're ahead. The reason why is that when future generations watch them in repeats, their sins tend to be forgiven as being "outdated" or a "product of their time." This fact of life is why no one really cares that Ralph on The Honeymooners threatened to beat up Alice or gets upset over Ricky Ricardo spanking Lucy. Everyone cringes but then they go, "Oh, it was the 1950s, so let's take it for what it was."
The morons over at The Simpsons want to keep the show going with its dated 1990s sensibilities with the arrogance of thinking that it's so timeless that it could never offend, bore or turn anyone off in the future. So, of course it's captured negative attention and the older shows are being looked at more closely. If it had ended in, say, 2010 or something, everyone would've just written the cringe factor in its reruns off as "1990s humor" and left it at that.
A decline in quality and in viewers but still they have pursued with this show so long past it's best. I'm not even sure I'd bother tuning in to the last ever episode, if that ever comes.
shareI'm not even sure I'd bother tuning in to the last ever episode, if that ever comes.
The picture is just stale and artificial nowadays. The old hand animation had infinitely more heart to it.
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