I watched MODERN SIMPSONS... And this is what happened
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- As much as I love The Simpsons, I haven't watched many of the modern episodes. Anything after season 20 is uneven territory. In this video, I delve into the unknown regions of this once beloved animated sitcom. With the focus being Season 33 Episode 04 - The Wayz We Were, we look at how much the show has changed in recent years. Looking specifically at character-related stories, it seems the showrunners have struggled to make progressive changes that would open up the show to more writing possibilities. Some are fine, but others are outright insults... Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Be sure to subscribe for more content.
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I think the newest episodes are the best episodes I do get them recorded from TV but I erase any episode that is older than like 2007.
very well made clip, so good to see Moe find happiness
I was shocked to find out they don't even have couch gags anymore.
THEY DONT!?
@@Klonoahedgehog Not always, it seems. Likely because more commercial time has crept in now and they need more time for the episode.
@@RocStarr913 What a fucking joke.
WUT
The last good one was the Rick & Morty couch gag.
Calling Krusty's dad a main character deserves all the ridicule possible.
Characters are called side characters for a reason
For real... it's very idiotic.
Part of the problem is the characters don’t fit in modern day. When the show started Homer & Marge we’re boomers, which made sense with Grandpa being a WWII veteran. Homer and Marge would be Millennials at this point which just feels wrong.
As a millennial this hits me. I grew up identifying with Bart and now I have identify with Homer.
Also with them being boomers somehow The Simpsons were considered almost poor. And if they're millennials now to me they're rich.
They were sort of depicted as Millennials in a more recent flash-back episode where Marge was part of a high school play about Y2K. And yes, it was as bad as you're imagining.
@@david_walker_esq 🤢 🤮
I always found it weird that they did not let them age, it didn't need to be every year but why not 1 year every 5 seasons? I have the same problem with Bobs burgers although that one is still a delight .
@@justcurious3653 I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought the floating timeline was an overused cliche in animation.
Anyone ever find it weird that Apu's kids aged up over time but Maggie hasn't
yeah. and worst of all. Apu's nephew. he was so young in a 90s episode, then he grew to his 20s.
@@SeyaDiakite7 Really? I guess I dipped before that happened lol
@@TheRealBlackarrot I stopped watching the show during the 2010s. Starting from 89
@@SeyaDiakite7 same here
You know, I keep telling myself it's only a cartoon and not let it bother me, but that is one detail I found really annoying.😅
I always said. The Simpsons needed (i say needed because i don't even want it now) a time skip event. Where both Bart and Lisa are going to highschool, while maggie has to go to elementary, not only you keep the elementary school setting with new kids. But you also can present new teachers at highschool while meeting familiar faces. Ironically this is the only panorame in the series that was never explored. We always got characters past university in the time skip episodes.
That would also create some new scenarios for Homer and Marge. New arcs for Maggie. Explore how the time skip changed Springfield beyond a one off episode.
This never happened, and will never, and honestly looking what the series turned into, i don't want this anymore, i just want the series to end.
Absolutely! That was the thing I've been thinking for YEARS! They would've tried with a two-part episode to see how that worked...but I fully agree with your whole comment.
That would be cool. Make Maggie a more central character as growing up in a new era.
No they needed to stay on form and not copy Family Guy
I think that’s a good solution, but look at King of the Hill and Bob’s Burgers. Those shows are known for their quality and consistency and hardly anything changes in them. There are character shake-ups in those shows, KOTH in particular has people aging up, characters dying, relationships ending or starting, but overall, things don’t change too much in those shows.
The Simpsons' decline in quality was caused by the fact that it ran way longer than it should have. FOX refuses to cancel it due to the fact it was once the most popular TV show during the early 1990s. Most Simpsons' fans only watch the first 8 or 10 seasons.
yeah i never go past season 8. After that its bad
Yep really no show ( regardless of type) should last longer than 10 seasons. South Park seems too be the exception too the rule and Bob's Burgers quality has remarkably held up despite being in its 12th season.
@@alexandru5369 South Park has gone downhill during the 20th season though.
I'd say the show stayed pretty good until around the death of Phil Hartman, whose final appearance was early on in Season 10. S10, while the decline in quality is apparent, was the last season where I think there was more good than bad.
and funny thing is that in the behind the laughter episode, homer says to the mixing guy " this is the last season we're making" and he nods, an inside joke that should have been a warning to end it all when it was still fun
If the show would've went along with real time, Bart would be about 41 years old😄
Simplest Simpsons Solution. Only watch the earlier series. Forget the new one's, it's notwithstanding the test of time. Think about it like this. 'If it were a car, it would now be a collectable antique type'! The former writers have moved on. SIMPSONS is over, apart from the previous old series.
True I was 9 when the show started same as Bart I am 41 now lol.
@@craigusselman546 Yep! I was eight. Same age as Lisa and I'm 39 going on 40😁😁
@@dalodo3511 Happy early birthday!!!
Congratulations you know how to count.
Trivia: What popular Simpsons character died in season 26?
If answered Hyman Krustofski, you're wrong. That character was never popular.
"I understood that reference."
Is it krusty's dad I think that was 26 or 27
@@locomotivetrainstation6053 McBain voice: "Dat's da joke."
Damn, I still miss those Lionel Hutz bits
@@jaylong4705" Yes, the Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts. Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable?"
I think they missed a trick not ageing everybody up. Bart going to middle and high school then getting a job. They could even be kinda meta and draw him almost like Homer when he starts a family. Homer should be the new Grandpa. Etc
Ikr! That would be pretty cool tbh
In a world of everyone growing up in the Simpsons, what would the fate of Barney be? Bearing in mind that the liver is the most forgiving organ in the body, would he have qualified for a transplant, been in and outta rehabilitation or be DEAD? I know that's dark, but isn't that the truth, no?
There have been future episodes like that. And I think that issue has been acknowledged at points.
True
@@disneyboy3030 the fact that the Future episodes are siloed off, contradict each other, and have no actual bearing on the rest of the story is, in fact, exactly why I said this.
The Future episodes clearly belie a desire on the writers’ part to do MORE with the characters (even if it’s just a costume change in the near-future segments), so the imminent reset button they always have leaves a sour taste in my mouth. The first 3 Future episodes were some of my most rewatched home tapings of the show, but it was always bittersweet because I knew none of it “really counted” for the characters. “What if time actually passed?” as an episode conceit just calls extra attention to the problems with the floating setup.
Other sitcoms dealt with the characters growing up just fine, without disturbing their setup too much as to become unrecognisable - The Simpsons should have done it too. Lisa and/or Bart would’ve had their own kids about 10 seasons ago and kept the wheel turning, we wouldn’t have lost any archetypes to tell the stories with.
Kids who watch the show today could even look back on the earlier episodes and have a moment of their minds blowing as The Father was once The Son, and it _actually happened_ and _actually mattered_ rather than simply being speculative.
I'm under the impression that The Simpsons don't want to lose their "longest running animated series" title. I don't think Family Guy and South Park will end until they have a shot at that title. They're all just gonna keep going until one of them decides to call it quits.
Trey and Matt said 'South Park' will most likely end around Season 30, or at least by the time they reach their 60s. They still enjoy writing, voicing and editing new episodes.
Japanese anime already beat them to it 🤣🤣🤣
Sazae-san has 7701 episodes!!!
Lmao have you seen anime? the simpsons will have to sit in its place
@@guileniam I'm obviously talking about american animation here lol but you're right
@JishinimaTidehoshi another example of quantity over quality
I absolutely love the golden age of the Simpsons and consider that time the most well-written comedy in television history. The show was my life as a kid. Then it just kept going, getting more bland and unwatchable with each passing season. I finally bailed out some time around 2005. Once in a while I'd try watching again, but I couldn't sit through an entire episode. In fact, the Homer as Kurt Cobain episode actually made my physically angry and disgusted. Seeing the Simpsons now is like seeing your funny uncle who shaped your entire sense of humor being kept alive on tubes so his family can take advantage of him. It's just tragic.
What seasons are the golden age of Simpson’s?
@@Jarod-te2bi 1-8
@@Jarod-te2bi 3-9
you got up to 2005?
@@Jarod-te2bi 2-8. Season Two is a little shaky, but has episodes like Lisa's Substitute and Three Men and a Comic Book that are undeniable classics. And I still remember the day the first episode of Season Nine (The City of New York vs Homer Simpson) premiered, recognizing unmistakably that the show had become something else.
To be honest, I don’t think it would matter if The Simpsons stuck rigidly to the same formula forever if it was at least consistently _funny._
Because that’s ultimately what we all loved about the show.
I suppose, but most of what was funny then is unacceptable today
@@andrewhogan6533 I don’t know about that. When I think back to some of my all time funniest Simpsons moments (Land of Chocolate, Boo-urns, Only WHO can prevent forest fires? Everything’s coming up Milhouse! See you in Hell candy boys… I could literally go on and on and on) I don’t see much that wouldn’t fly today.
Modern Family Guy is way more “un-PC” than classic Simpsons ever was.
@@shelbyvillerules9962 you’re from Shelbyville, anything you say from here on out is invalid.
All jokes aside, it doesn’t take much for people these days to find offense in something
@@andrewhogan6533 I can’t believe I didn’t mention my all time _favorite_ moment… when the guy eats the lemon! I don’t know how anyone could find that offensive.
I think one of the main reasons I always gravitated to Futurama over The Simpsons as Groening's better work was that Futurama had an over arching story line (Fry and Leela), whereas The Simpsons never really had that, and was really just a series of sketches.
Completely agree. Futurama is still my favourite animated sitcom for this very reason! :)
It started that way and then just became a sitcom whereas *Futurama* started as a sitcom.
Really, Futrama was an overarching storyline? I mean sure it references past events, but... I don’t know, things didn’t really experience changes until maybe the movie season, but defiantly the reboot series... And some people didn’t even like that apparently.
I just don’t see it.
@@hiddenflare6169 it was a love story between Fry and Leela, they meet, become friends, get together.
Futurama had very little but always welcome character development, Not only the dynamic between Fry and Leela change trough the episodes, every few episodes a new change was introduced in the show experimenting with how the characters would react to the new events.
While The simpsons have done this several times, it never really did to the main characters beyond the first season, maybe second if the writers remember Homer Heart condition.
Granpa is still alive. They still have the same cat despite the family often mentioning how often their cats die. Homer is still at 7 G. Apu had more character development than the main family trough the episodes.
A part of me feels like the reason they're giving so many characters a sense of finality these last several seasons is because the writers, on some level, understand that the show is on the verge of ending. Marge's voice actor is in her 70s now and the voice clearly is doing a number on her vocal chords. Bart and Homer's voice actors are in their mid 60s now, and with them not far behind in age, god knows how much longer we have left with them. Nancy Cartwright, who voices Bart, is the least likely to die any time soon, barring some horrific accident or surprise illness. But given that 3 of the 4 main characters' voice actors are nearing the end of their life, I doubt the show can go on much longer. Season 40 seems less and less likely to me as time passes, and Season 50 seems outright impossible.
The thing with voice actors is that they could get replaced if they really wanted to continue the show.
The second longest-running cartoon ended earlier this year - Arthur (25 years). And they did it nicely, coming full circle to the first episode. The Simpsons' time will come eventually, and I'm sure they could to the same with the final scene being driving to the Christmas pageant.
That is depressing but if they enjoying making episodes let them do it !
It's been on way too long, It should be rebooted to current day since it came out.
What if the entire time all the episodes that are based in the same timeline but change things around episodes to seasons, what if it was Honer in a cryogenic pod or life pod like in the Fallout games. The entire running time of all the episodes was a duration Homer was in a pod dreaming of better times and could manipulate his environment. Like meeting constant celebrities.
Be a plot twist that could be lazy writing or something more
60s and 70s aren't *that* old nowadays, not "god knows how much longer we have with them" old at any rate, but enough is definitely enough. Let poor Julie Kavner rest her damn voice.
I'm purely guessing, but it's possible that most viewers of the Simpsons (ie more than half) watch dubbed versions. To them, what happens to the English voices isn't important. And to the Anglosphere, a voice actor can be replaced without too much upset. They could probably find people who sound more like 90s Simpsons than the current actors do!
Imagine if the Simpsons are still on in 2050 and in that episode in the future I'm talking about in the actual future in real life 2050 and in one of the episodes during that time of The Simpsons seasons old grandpa Abe Simpson talks about how he got his first smartphone when he was just a little boy of 5 years old
As it's always been, naturally. What WWII history? He was always a Gen Z-er, and it was never anything otherwise.
Which was the style at the time
@@motherplayer everyone knows he fought in WWIII
Bruh it would have to be like 2070 he would be like 40 or so
@@toothpasteea2345 or Homer's age can change for him to be younger in the future episodes like Homer is 28 by the time Lisa is 8 and the reason why Homer is bald and fat because he tore the hair out when he realized he was going to have kids with his wife and he couldn't afford it and he also did stress eating because of it
Homer has not offered sincerity of this caliber in quite some time. It was a quality that made him endearing in the early seasons that later seasons forgot in favor of chaos. Hopefully this earnestness remains for a time.
Let's hope! His character does feel very "off" in some of the later episodes.
I really liked his last line in Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind from season 19 when Marge asks if he's gonna drink. And he simply says "No, I want to remember this moment." Gets me every time.
Homer in new episodes is almost always nothing but a gigantic asshole, and that's one of the reasons I stopped watching. One of many.
They need to age them up once and for all. Make Bart and Lisa middle-aged, Maggie 30-something, Homer and Marge seniors, etc. Let the voice actors sound the part again, and let the flashbacks actually be more in line with the classic onces Homer and Marge told taking place in the 70's and 80's, prior to the show.
No. That wouldn’t work at all.
Simpsons should have ended around 1999-2001 and basically pass the torch to Futurama
Definitely.
Futurama isn't as funny. King of the Hill was a better successor.
I beg to differ. A lot of the jokes are more subtle and go over your head. It has heart though. Some episodes are surprisingly emotional .
@@urbanyouths Matt Groening didn’t make King of the Hill
@@audiovisualcringe As in the better FOX cartoon other than The Simpsons.
I remember being obsessed with the Simpsons growing up, but I remember something just changing when my brother and I watched the 'fake Skinner' episode, and then later seeing the 'fat Tony replacement' episode, it just clicked off for both of us. I know everyone talks about the fake Skinner episode, so I was glad that you mentioned the Fat Tony episode because it was the final nail in the coffin for us.
For me it was the episode where they killed off Maude. They turned Homer into a total psychopath. They could've done it so many better ways. Why ruin Homer's character like that?
For me I think it was the lady gaga episode
It was the nsync episode for me. I remember as a kid feeling bored and it being totally unlike the simpsons i loved
I COMPLETELY AGREE- the fake Skinner episode is sooo stupid! Plus the episode when Homer is in college and gets into grunge when we all know that Homer was raised in the 60's-70's...
You read that opinion from Reddit and made it personal. Caring about the Principal and the Pauper is autistic as fuck.
Moe and Maya staying together actually makes me so happy
No it doesn't.
Yeah, a Relationship Sue with no real personality is a great partner for Moe.
@@dionst.michael1482 you a mind reader?
@@dionst.michael1482 you're one of those people that thinks everyone has to think like you huh?
@@KevinLuper99 Blah, blah, blah, blabbity blah-blah?! 🤣
My biggest issue with this episode is that Maya hasn't been seen or mentioned since. Which has me worried for Moe's future. She's not become like Kimiko, who's by her husband's side when he's out. And Moe hasn't brought her up once, even though he might be able to relate to Homer's married life more now.
The Simpsons today is advertising for the theme park no question about it
Marge sounds absolutely horrible now. It must be torture to voice someone like that for decades
Julie Kavner is in her seventies now she cant do it anymore let it go.
@@craigusselman546 she needs to just rest and rake in her royalties. But I guess you can't force her?? I don't know about contracts they have so who knows
Not quite torture. But still jarring, they should let her retire
It's sad that when the Simpsons eventually ends it won't be remembered for the golden era episodes , but remembered as they show that just refused to end. It has to end when the main VA's retire or eventually pass away. no one is going to remember the Simpsons fondly anymore and it's honestly so sad bc of how brilliant the show was.
Future-centric episodes were really fun and different when they first did them but I started to hate them over time. It's like listening to a person saying what they're going to do, yet never doing it. Never making the commitment and crossing the line, just perpetually saying what if. . . . homer passed away, what if, Bart grew up a dropout, what if, Lisa couldn't find true happiness.
Remember when they predicted the Trump presidency? Oh how could we forget.
@@Nightweaver1 I apologize if you're being sarcastic but there's a good video on TH-cam that show's how that actually never happened. It was a segment in a short that happened after Donald started talking about running for president. I think it was Big Joel, but I could be wrong.
Like professor farnsworths what if machine.
Actually they did predict Trump, but people always play the wrong clip. It was just a small line in an episode.
@@rmj8905 I think I know the line you mean, the recession after President Trump line?
It's the episode were Lisa is president, Bart is a Beach bum and Millhouse is Vice President or something.
Trumps been talking about running for President since 1987. Almost as long as the Simpsons were on air at the time.
This show legit needs to end. Real life actors have sadly died during the course of this series as well as characters in the show. 35 years is the amount if time it takes to grow up and have a family with 2 kids. It really should end at this point.
The problem isn't the lack of character progression or major changes. The problem is the writers of of the Simpsons in the past were fans of various older comedies and used that inspiration in their writing. But the current writers are fans of The Simpsons. It's has been such a cultural juggernaut that it's been devouring itself for years. Repeating storylines and resetting itself to repeat them again and again and again.
That and they don't age them. If they aged them from the beginning slowly it would mean still having character focused episodes instead of running out of material since everything has been done to death
Huh that’s something i never considered before
It's not just that. It's also the fact that the show has come to rely on abstract craziness instead of relatable situations.
I haven’t watched a new episode of ghe Simpsons in almost 20 years, I’m good with watching the older episodes when it still made sense, funny and wasn’t forced
I consider The Simpsons after 2004 to be an unauthorized fanfic. A poorly written one at that.
I wish, even really bad fanfiction can be entertaining. Modern Simpsons is just a flatline of nothingness.
What about the movie? I thought that was pretty good.
More like after 1998.
Modern Simpsons does still produce the laughs. In some senses, it can be pretty dense with "jokes". The Golden Age told cohesive stories and packed in the jokes, and it was consistent. I don't hate modern simpsons, I just don't ever feel compelled to watch it.
This is consequence of how they deal with the writing staff now.
Before they had a consistent writing staff with an ocassional guest and the episodes were worked on by the entire staff. But recent seasons are written by a single writer, and clearly there is no proofreading of some of the jokes. Because, some of them fail miserably.
it only produces cringe, nothing is funny because of moment but because they think that saying "oh marge you have toy soldier in your hair" is funny. if you find that funny, then no wonder they keep making shit like that
Also, most of the stories I've seen feel like boring retreads.
i agree I don't think its something thats terrible i mean not enough to waste time writing a whole paragraph on why its bad on yt haha but its ok and if its on its on
@@Zontar82 haha! It's funny because a toy soldier shouldn't be in a person's hair 🤣🤣 it should be in a child's toy box rofl 😂😂😂
Growing up in the 90s The Simpsons were appointment viewing for me and my family. After I graduated high school I kept up for a little while but stopped watching. Every so often I'd catch an episode here or there but the humor and characters just weren't the same any more and as the animation became more lifeless as they moved to digital animation I just stopped caring.
It kind of makes me sad that I went to seeing every episode for like 12 seasons or so to almost less than a 3rd.
Imagine if, instead of "Fit Tony" taking over, Louie became the Don of the Mafia instead. At least that would've been something different.
I deleted every wide-screen episode from my PC. This show isn't even worth pirating anymore.
Who else watches critic videos more than the new episodes? 🤣
I feel like the writers might end up ending “The Simpsons” but continuing the story of Springfield. There is a lot of weird people, lore, and history to go into with Springfield.
It would be an interesting dynamic, but I don’t know if many would be interested. I mean I’ve got to give credit where credit is due for these fan suggestions.
The Simpsons: stamping outdated humor on an outdated show
Modern Simpsons Marge voice is distractingly bad. I know the voice actress is getting old now..but still..
They did an episode to start Season 33 where they got a singer to sing Marges lines for the parts of the episode where she sings which was even more distracting. I'd rather have it be terrible and hard to listen to then straight up changing the voice actress for several scenes.
Doing the Marge voice had definitely messed up her vocal cords
So true
Well they did keep the permanent changes of Lisa the vegetarian Buddhist activist for goodness
this show should strongly consider indulging in a positive continuity by letting characters age.
I would genuinely start watching the show again if they did that (and made that permanent!)
Its Time for the Simpsons to have more Continuity because then the Show feels more fresh und new.
It's time for your to shuddup!
@@dionst.michael1482 Tf XD okay? Are you okay?
I can help the show by finding new ways to make fun of modern American society. It will be hard, but still a much easier and better to keep the show alive than ruining your character when you are out of ideas, because Flanders' Ladder is my least favorite The Simpsons episode of all time. Worst. Episode. Ever!
@@adamkalb1 :0
I stopped watching The Simpsons after season 19 episode Mona Leaves-a became my breaking point until I saw seasons 32 and 33 which I considered a little bit of an improvement that seems more from seasons 13-14. However I hate some gags or jokes that are still familiar from seasons 10-12 and Family Guy, examples includes the "identify gags" in this video.
Simpsons say they don't care. Simpsons say they're already rich.
I made it 3 episodes into season 29 (I hadn't sat through a whole season since 18ish) - it's nigh impossible.
I love the simpsons. The show will always have a special place in my heart. It was a big part of my childhood. But I haven't watched the simpsons in about a decade. I still watch the reruns on the regular. But like all shows the magic will end eventually especially with writers leaving and not coming up with good ideas. But I will say this when the simpsons does come to an end it will be a sad day for simpsons fans everywhere.
6:05 yeah the whole Fat Tony thing was *the* moment when the show went from being a bit tired and worn out to being just a bad joke that needed to die for me
The first 10 seasons are pretty much the gold standard for me. After that it goes up and down quite dramatically.
Now, i don't think The Simpson's will ever be a "bad" show...but you're in deep denial if you think it's just as funny and interesting as what it was in the 90's.
The final season NEEDS to bring back all the old writers for one last hurrah.
Write a letter to them about it. I am not being mean I am just saying that.
I gave up on The Simpsons after Season 15. The 14th season was still pretty good, and the last one which you could say was considered to be anywhere close to must see TV. That was despite it's prime being far behind in the rearview mirror by then, let alone now. But the 15th one was when I truly noticed a real major downturn in quality, and couldn't believe how I hardly recognized this once great, legendary show from it's peak way back in the early to mid 90's. Why they keep milking this cash cow bone dry, when it clearly should have ended a decade and a half or so ago as it became clear it was never going to become anywhere even close to what it once was, I'll never know. It's like if Michael Jordan was still playing basketball, but was reduced to being a bench player, who averaged less than double digit points a game, who only got by, and still had a job because of his once golden legacy.
I think the show was still enjoyable until about 2001. But even by the late 90s episodes became very hit or miss. There were episodes that would start out great, then go completely off the rails. Sometimes I'll put a recent episode on and read what it's going to be about. It'll sound like it might be good but after a couple of minutes I find it completely unwatchable.
But I have to give it credit because for me anyway the first eight years were the best television of all time. There is no sitcom that could make me laugh as much. Those years of absolute genius will always make me adore the show despite over twenty years of crap.
I’ve never watched an episode past season 10. Season 3 to 9 are the glory years! 👍🏻
The sound, animation, storyline, and most importantly the character consistency, for instance, Lisa sounds horrible, looks horrible, and her character arch sucks
I loved the show as well and even I can’t watch newer episodes!
I especially can't watch this show knowing that the black voice actors have been replaced because of issues behind the scenes
mo has always been one of my favorites and them actually giving him something good and not changing it at the end of the episode is so refreshing and satisfying.
I had surgery 2 weeks ago and laid up on the couch, I watched the most recent season of the Simpsons on Hulu. I did not laugh once. Ugh, through my early teens into my early 20s I loved this show. Now, nothing. I'll stick with seasons 3-12
the description text is a lie. The show is not uneven after season 20. Its pure garbage after season 10. They should have killed it when they started Futurama.
For me the Simpsons is a time capsul of my youth; I was barely in Elementary school when the show started and by the time I was in high school the show just didn't do it for me anymore. I can go back and watch seasons 1 through 10 and be thoroughly entertained, but after that the show just feel foreign to me. I certainly don't dislike the newer episodes for the Reddit level reasons many on the internet site, but for me it just has to do with my personal connection to the show.
I side with folks like you.
Like most people, I haven't watch any Simpsons past season 14 or maybe earlier. Maybe this is a sign that they'll be wrapping things up if even a character like Moe can end up happy. There's too many characters to provide closure for but ones like that are great for long time fans.
I think the show calling it a day
@@dogtownoon9791 maybe it needs a break.
You just earned a subscription good sir! You've also made me want to go through some classic Moe episodes
I think the Simpsons giving everyone happiness like this takes away from what made the show real back in the day and further into what it was originally made to be counter culture to in the first place.
Stopped caring for the Simpsons after season 9 which as far as I'm concerned is where the series well and truly finished.
1000% agree
I haven’t seen the Simpsons in years. I used love that show and would watch it every chance I got.
Homer eating everything in New Orleans is one of the best moments in modern Simpsons.
i dont think season 33 is particularly funny but i find it much more entertaining and well written in comparison to the other zombie seasons
I feel like at least 1 whole season where the Simpsons is set in the future would be really cool
I've known the simpsons since the first episode, and I haven't really bothered to keep up over the last 15 years... but the idea that Moe might actually (deservedly) find happiness has actually been written and realized fulfills a small and sympathetic hope I've had for the poor idiot for the last 30 years.
I agree. The Simpsons should have had ended in the 1990s. The show might have a few diamonds in the rust and some clever references to prior episodes and pop culture. It is annoying that they now focus on social media, iOS devices, Alexa, Siri, and other modern gadgets as plot points like also with its publicity stuns and celebrity voice overs that are now more shoe horned. Plus, it’s disappointing that season 33 threw away the couch gags and opening sequence for more commercials, when nowadays most people watching the show via streaming with little to none commercials necessarily required.
"Diamond in the rust" that's a new one!
Maybe you can ask them about the Couch Gag issue.
I watched the show regularly up until around season 13 or 14 cause I felt the quality starting to go down. Tried watching again a few seasons later and just couldn't get into it anymore. I specifically remember watching "The Italian Bob" episode from season 17 and it being the first time I saw a Sideshow Bob episode that I didn't like. Honestly didn't like the movie all that much either but the Family Guy crossover was actually pretty enjoyable and I don't even watch Family Guy. I still stream the early seasons of the show which were absolute genius. The writing and humor were at its peak then and are still hilarious to this day. Sad to see how badly a show that was once my favorite has declined.
I think after being on the air into 3 decades now, The Simpsons can and should change up the status quo and develop the characters to give them some kind of ending. The show cannot stay on forever, so if they can move characters along to an end-point and real development then when the day comes that it is finally over, we got closure on things. It would be sad just having Moe being a perpetually depressed and suicidal joke with no hope at all. I like they gave him a win for once, he needed it.
I honestly feel bad for Moe, The writers seem to use him as a punching bag and I would've loved to seen them give him some kind of character development.
I watched a single episode after years of not watching it. They had Lizzo as an Elf rapping about how Homer never solved any of his problems, it was all Marge in the background doing it in secret, keeping it hidden so she didn't hurt Homer's "fragile male ego".
Okay, that 9:28 gas joke was genuinelly funny.
The Simpsons hasn’t been funny since 1997
Best Simpsons story in the last decade that I’m aware of. And I love that they made Maya very cute, just small!
realizing that Homer and Marge are boomers really hit me hard
It's like Saturday Night Live, it too, has not been any good for years, and the only thing keep it alive is its history. Same with the Simpsons.
In 1990, the Simpsons slapped the mainstream about. In 2022, the Simpsons are now of the mainstream they once slapped about.
I gave up on regularly viewing the show but I may watch some episodes a couple of times a year, Treehouse of Horror included.
I remember coming home after school and waiting to watch the Simpsons. I don't know why I stopped watching it, but it was probably because I gravitated towards shows like Family Guy, Futuruma, and King of the Hill. I haven't watched an episode of the Simpsons probably since the early 2000s!! The viewership of this show is at rock bottom and I'm shocked it wasn't pulled years ago.
Moe and Comic Book Guy finding their soul mates is the best part of modern Simpsons for me - Moe and Maya are my favourites! I still hope for Smithers to get over Mr Burns and get a proper boyfriend!
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@@ciscornBIG"oh, be nice!"
Many of my favorite modern episodes are those that expand on the side characters. The relationships and character deaths are interesting but honestly can only take it so far. Simpsons always does these things so half heartedly like they want to please those that want change and those that don't. You end up with big changes that really don't amount to anything past "Oh, did you know this happened?". They really should pick a lane and stick to it.
Alright, I have the solution that will fix zombie Simpsons. Ready? Multiverse Simpsons. Check it out:
The show wants to be episodic, the audience wants change, why not have both? Have Professor Frink invent a device that accidentally tears a hole in space-time and causes a rift to open. Homer enters it, thinking it's a donut shop, and ends up in season one simpsons. Same art, same 80's/90's aesthetic, you have dark skin Smithers, Bleeding Gums Murphy, the whole shebang.
This intro to the multiverse will prime the audience for future episodes to take place in older sinpsons setting as well as new universes with fresh ideas that the writers can play with. Any bad ideas gets shoved into the bad universes and the good ones appear more, some remain episodic while others progress naturally. The cross-over potential is enormous, like an episode I'll call "A Clown Car of Bobs" where Sideshow Bob teams up with other versions of himself to take down Bart.
It's not perfect and is basically an admission that they're out of ideas but, hey, at least they can go out with a few good episodes.
The simpsons was a show that reflected the 80-90s America lifestyle and culture, albeit with a good dose of humor.
From this they created events that provided the basis for the story, such as Lisa and bart going on a summer camp. Stories that felt down-to-earth while still offering funny moments.
Modern simpsons is like a remake of a video game that was created in the 90s,. A remake that consists entirely of modern trends, while at the same time proclain to be like the original.. Example they create an remake of pac-man, that are in 3d, Feature an 50h campain, Have lootcrates, You got battle royale, Mitrotransatctions, and the enemies can shoot you.
a short response to 2:43 onwards:
They have been trying to do just that since Season 23 starting with Krusty's Father dying, that one lego episode they made a year or two later, and various other ways. They even re-explored the tracey ullman look a few times through gags & the such. The show has been doing all of these things for years, it's just that they go about it in all the wrong ways.
It's ironic how Marge Simpson says it's good for a show to go off the air before it becomes stale and repetitive, upon looking at Family Guy & SpongeBob SquarePants.
Family Guy is insufferable now. I hate it.
The Simpsons & Family Guy are awful now, and even South Park is going downhill. They just don't know when to quit.
@@SpareSomeChange8080 Either way, I'm still watching South Park and the last season had me laughing so I'm happy. Like I said, there ate a lot of Simpsons and Family Guy followers who won't "quit" on their shows.
I'm still waiting for hank Azaria to apologize to me for voicing a bartender despite not being a bartender in real life.
I liked the Fit Tony becoming Fat Tony story line. He's the Schrodinger's Cat of The Simpsons... 😅😂
I refuse to wach later seasons of the simpsons because I like the sincere version of these characters and want to see the zombified versions. I'v heard they did away with Homer's defining character trait which is that he loves his family
Not true, he loves his family still, is just that nowadays Homer's regular behavior is of a bad parent whereas in the 90's they saw that more as normal. But I have yet to see an episode where Homer hates his family and the ones I can think are closer to the golden era.
@@fixedfunshow what are they.
@@disneyboy3030 How I Spent My Strummer Vacation is Season 14, in this episode Homer while drunk says he hates his family. The Cartridge Family, Homer gets a gun in spite Marge not liking the idea, they actually split. What about Secrets of a Successful Marriage? Homer tells all the dirt about his family making even the kids hate him.
I’m almost 42 years old….. Bart Is I my age!. I stopped watching in 2000
Problem is, they're scared of upsetting people with characters played by people who aren't of the faith/belief/colour, but then theyre ok with making fun of belief/colour/faith ...
the objects in mirror gag was kinda funny funny to me lol
There's almost 700 episodes now. I could live with show being scaled back to six episodes, like Matt & Trey did with South Park this past season - obviously including a Treehouse Of Horror and a Christmas Special. Or even better, just do "Treehouse" and Christmas and keep it moving. Given that the family's voices are all getting on in years (all four are in their 60s or 70s), I think it's time they start phasing in new voice talents - like Mel Blanc slowly started doing before he passed away.
If the series had ended at like season 12 it would have gone down as one of the greatest show of all time. Now with 33 seasons, only about 1/3 of the series was truly great (outside of a few episodes), and that is just horribly sad.
I was dreading the moment where you'd go, "Then the episode fucks it up and Moe goes back to being miserable"
Relieved that such moment a moment didn't happen lol
I'm glad to hear they finally gave Moe a break. (Reminds me of when Bill Dauterive met Kahn's mom in King of the Hill.)
4:27 When they made that decision, nobody knew the show was going to run for years. That kind of format is what made the series fell stale the long it went.
I hadn’t watched in a long long time. I would binge seasons 1-10 and I’d just stop there and never go further….until one day I did. My biggest gripe is the modernization of the characters. Homer and Marge now being basically part of my generation feels….wrong on so many levels considering the series best years had them more of my parents age and era. The destruction of Marge’s VA’s voice is so noticeable that it’s sad to listen to her talk as she sounds like she’s in pain. The jokes lack that sharp and constant wit that the golden age was known for. Those years had banger after banger just one after another and all of them landed exquisitely. It’s honestly sad to see what one of my favorite series has become, it’s sad to see that it’s so hollow and unfunny. I suppose the only silver lining is that we always have the Golden years….until Disney decides those years were problematic for “modern sensibilities” and shoves them into the vault.
When I think of some of my favourite comedy shows, I think of It Crowd, Black Adder, Inbetweeners, Fawlty Towers and Father Ted. They average about 3 series each, and not one of them outstayed their welcome. Also as they are British shows, they only have 6 episodes a series anyway, meaning Blackadder has 4 series but only 24 episodes. And it is made better for it. I'm always left wanting more. The jokes are all crammed into 6 30minute episodes instead of spaced out across 20+ episodes a season. And they rarely repeat storylines or gags. Every episode of all of these shows are perfect. I would have added Arrested Development to the list. The only difference between AD and the other shows are it's American, so 20 odd episodes a series and it came back which is what led me not to include it. It had 3 perfect series then stopped. And then when it came back, it was terrible. It's not quite the same as the Simpsons because it did take a break. But having 2 new series has ruined the overall show, because they were crap. We got too much of a good thing and I wish it had never returned. Meanwhile, I look at Simpsons as well as shows like Family Guy and American Dad and I think none of these are as good as they were. They all peaked and then continued, making episodes which only lessen the overall show. If Simpsons stopped 10 years ago, I would have so much more respect for it. Even in movies it happens. And not just comedies. I'm tired of Marvel which has definitely outstayed it's welcome. Should have ended as Endgame. And Pirates of the Carribbean should have remained a trilogy. 4 & 5 were so much worse and they bring the whole series down. Meanwhile a good series.of films which knew when to stop was the Cornetto Trilogy. Toy Story would have ended perfectly at 3 but 4 came out and just ruined the ending for me. Meanwhile sticking with Pixar, Monsters Inc works great staying at just 2 movies. Don't risk it Pixar. Overall, I think knowing when to stop is the best sign of a good writer. Leave people wanting more, not resenting you for making more.
The reset you talk about makes me think of the Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler movie 50 First Dates. As time passes, we start each day/episode in the same place, regardless of how much things around us have changed
Who even watches it anymore
Episodes dont make sense and characters dont act like themselves and human. It's bad writing that's the problem not how long it's been on
When even the treehouse of horror episodes feel hollow you know its getting bad.
Series 1-8, beyond that its meh.
I feel like they are gearing up to end it for good 😅 everyone is getting a happy ending basically, ever lone character is finding someone, even moe found someone now. I always said when moe gets settled down the end is near lol