I love The Simpsons with all my heart, but the fact is that it has 700 episodes ruins the entire show. I stopped after few seasons because of this and decided to wait until they'll end this show, but it seems it never ends. I don't know anyone who still watch it. I almost lost my interest in this show.
shareWhen people realize that none of the actors who do the Simpson's voices have yellow skin or 4 fingers per hand. Now I'm off to tear down a statue of Jebediah Springfield.
shareI hope they keep making it for as long as possible, once or twice a year I watch a couple of new episodes, not as good as the first 8 seasons, but it's still nice to know The Simpsons are still around... maybe several years ago I would have wanted the show to end in a way like to 'respect' so many "home runs", classic era, etc... that's over now, I just want them to keep making it.
shareThe last 2 episodes, the 2 part "A Serious Flanders" were some of the best episodes from the series and can hold up to any episode during its heyday.
shareThey ended it in the late 90s, what you see now is just the zombie version of a television show.
shareI still watch it with my kids, who are now about the same age I was when I started watching it.
shareThere's no reason to watch it anymore. In the beginning it aimed its satire at anybody, regardless of which political party they'd been duped into rooting for. Now it's so one-sided it's like a car driving down the road on two wheels because a giant hippo is sitting on the passenger side.
shareIt's quite phenomenal, how they just keep vomiting more episodes into existence.
It wouldn't be even remarkable, if the show had started this way and kept the quality (such as it is) consistent. However, starting as an almost anarchistic, controversial, downright iconoclastic slap in the face of the hypocrite, soulless, stale and 'safe' TV culture of the time, as well as the corporations and 'powers-that-be', and THEN ending up as the 'establishment' is quite astonishing.
At this point, it's like a quadraplegic coma patient on life support. There's nothing there, but somehow the 'show must still go on'.
Where's the rebelliousnes against the comfortable, safe and clean boredom that TV used to be? The Simpsons is SO bland these days, it would've made the late 1980s and early 1990s TV look shockingly daring.
With this being the case, I would recommend to ONLY consider the first maybe eight seasons and a few random 'quality episodes' after that as 'The Simpsons', and the rest just some kind of weird 'zombie show' that has nothing to dow ith 'The Simpsons' regardless of the similar name.
There are some videos somewhere that analyze the whole thing and explain the difference between writing in the golden days and writing later on. Something like 'The Fall of the Simpsons' - I can't remember the title, but I am sure anyone can easily find it.
No point in waiting, just watch the good episodes, disregard the rest, and enjoy a good show.