Kinda fought with Season 10 when writing this review. I don't personally vibe with this season that well, it's not the style I gravitate toward with comedies. But at the same time, I feel like Season 10 is criticized too much for some of the stuff that came later. There's a lot of foreshadowing in Season 10, but by and large, it's not that over the top about it. So I tried to at least be diplomatic with some of the critiques here.
I often can’t tell by how much I’ve watched the Simpsons that I genuinely like seasons past the golden age or that I’ve watched them so much I’m familiar with them. I think the case that the need to try new things is a good point, but they somehow further typecasted and flanderized a lot and we’re only beginning to see that in season 10. It’s interesting to watch. There’s new situations, but characters react increasingly in patterned and tired ways or with one line quips. Anywho, great vid. It’s like a Monday morning watercooler talk with all my Simpson homies.
I look at season 10 as the true end of classic era Simpsons. Bart essentially becoming Homer's sidekick, more absurd plots, a lot of stuff that we would see in future seasons started here. And of course the beginning of "Jerkass" Homer. This isn't a bad season, but it feels like the end of what The Simpsons once was.
Series 10 is also the final series which had Phil Hartman as a regular guest star before his untimely death. It wasn't just Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz that we lost, but a major part of Classic Simpsons itself.
I think that is perfectly symptomatic of the season. It had Troy McClure but lacked Lionel Hutz, meaning it had less than previous seasons, but more than the following seasons.
Season 10 was a mixed bag, but I'm glad that Phil Hartman's last work on the show, was in probably the best episode of the season, either that or "Lisa Gets An A".
I'm just realizing that Season 10 is extremely weird for me. Half of these episodes I thought happen way later in the series, and half of them feel like earlier entries... I don't know why.
Season 9 does that to me as well. The Powersauce bar mountain climbing one feels way more like a season 11-12 outing, but meanwhile Duffman feels like he had always been in the show. Such a strange mix.
@@Descriptor413 In season 10, some of them like Mayored to the Mob and Lisa Gets an A feels more the classic era, others like When You Dish Upon a Star and 30 Minutes Over Tokyo feel more like "Middle Simpsons".
I'm not gonna lie: this is where those retrospectives are getting especially interesting to me. I've always been pretty interested in trying to determine if the Simpson had certain "eras", certain "trends", in short the equivalent to "ages" over the years... but whenever you ask fans about that, they just toss the entire discussion aside and reduce it to "everything after season X sucks". So I'm very glad that Jims is actually providing an in-depth season-by-season analysis here, and I hope he keeps doing so :)
And this is a reason I hate a lot of the fanbase, they just jerk the same seasons over and over and refuse to say anything else about the later seasons other than "NOT MY SIMPSONS" or "it sucks".
@@aarontheperson6867 You kid, but even though many people consider season 1 practically a different show since they were still figuring out the characters, I may like it even better than “golden era” Simpsons. I go back to the first season over an over because I lovr it so much
I agree with you im a fan that has Stuck with the Simpsons even now ... and well they havebt become really bad in my eyes right now they have a second golden age and by the way a lot episodes after season 12 are my favourites .. there is a lot good stuff still coming
This season I find interesting because this was the first season where the show had real competition. This season started airing in 1998 and King of The Hill and South Park had come out the year prior and were both big. Especially South Park. Meanwhile halfway through the season, Family Guy premiered. I feel like the reason this season was more raunchy was because they wanted to compete with all the new more edgy shows coming out at the time.
It's funny how the show's perception in the early years was, in some circles, "Let's see what crazy antics Bart gets up to this week!", but then literally turned into "Let's see what crazy antics Homer gets up to this week!". I was in my second year of high school when Season 10 aired, and people described episodes as "the one where Homer becomes a..." or "the one where Homer does ". It was starting to lose its edge though, given South Park was new at the time.
Yeah i wish RealJims did more comparisons of what the competition was doing at the time. Especially "now" with South Park, Futurama, King of the Hill and Family Guy now airing.
@@FreyaEinde The writers were working on Futurama during this season. Uter wears a Futurama shirt in "Mayored to the Mob", even though Futurama wouldn't be airing until next year.
The focus used to be on how unbalanced and dysfunctional the whole family was. The focus on Homer takes away from that a lot @marylandbrony I also attribute the change of the show's tone to the competition. It felt like Simpsons tried to be more "edgy" like South Park but cannot do it as well.
@@stradify1 for me seasons 1-8 all range from 8/10-9/10. Season 9 is a 7/10 and season 10 is about 6.5/10. If we're including the later seasons I've seen seasons 11-15 are about 5-5.5/10
Mike Reiss always said the the rule for how stupid Homer could get was "He can never forget his own name." They don't think twice about breaking that during the Loch Ness monster episode. "What's your name, young man?" "I don't know,; just give me the money!"
I'd always interpreted that joke as meaning that Homer is so focused on and so desperate to have the dollar that he isn't listening to what Arthur Fortune is asking him and just wants Arthur to give him the money.
@@Horsley-Green I agree with that. That's also how I interpreted the joke, although it could have much more clearly been phrased as "I don't _care,_ just give me the money!".
This is the season I remember watching as a kid. Dunno why this season in particular, but I remember a ton of these episodes. The Bible stories one was probably my favorite, the ending to Bart's Dream sequence still cracks me up.
As you can see, the real deal with Bart Simpson is that he's Homer Simpson's assistant. He's in his early 10s, is unmarried and currently resides in Springfield. Thanks for writing!
Back in the days I had the entire season 10 recorded on VHS. I didn't have much else so I just rewatched this season again and again so this season definitely means a lot to me.
I'd say seasons 9 and 10 are right at the edge of classic Simpsons where some of the missteps for the series started to seep in, but they were overall still great and classic episodes. And as I recall, season 11 is where the shift to a new era really took hold. I still liked much of the early teens season's episodes, but they definitely were outside of the classic era and things would definitely start going more and more downhill.
Yeah I think those two seasons were where the later problems were REALLY starting to kick in, more mean spiritedness and on-the-nose cartoony gags, but there still often seems this one toe trying to firmly stay planted down to earth and keep that old earnest Simpsons magic still around here and there. Season 11 I'd argue it was finally fully lifted away, likely because it was now trying to compete with Family Guy and South Park and even their sister show Futurama.
I always consider the Mike Scully era as a really important 'Silver Age Simpsons' (or if you prefer, the 'it's still good, it's still good' era), worth at least partially including with a rewatch of the show's best years. There's some genuine classic episodes in all those seasons, as well as some big historical episodes that changed the show (season 10's light on those, but it's still got the Vegas and curfew episodes, and we're on the doorstep of Barney going sober), moments that you'd do a disservice to the show by ignoring. But at the same time, it's an era that clearly showcases the problems the show would go on to suffer heavily from, at levels where it's still just 'a bad episode among a good crop' rather than an epidemic.
This video’s ending really got me thinking about the episode “Sunday Cruddy Sunday” because it’s an episode that you could see as an absolute mess due to it’s desire to do so much stuff in so little time and on top of that has an egg plot that literally adds nothing. But on the other hand, it’s so much fun to watch the episode just do whatever it feels like that I’m compelled to say that it’s one of my favourites of the season. If you can look past the really fast pacing and some of the most strange jokes the show has done, then you get a really entertaining episode that goes to so many interesting places in so little time.
I look at season 10 as the true end of classic era Simpsons. Bart essentially becoming Homer's sidekick, more absurd plots, a lot of stuff that we would see in future seasons started here. And of course the beginning of "Jerkass" Homer. This isn't a bad season, but it feels like the end of what The Simpsons once was.
That seems fair. The show peaked in Seasons 5-6-7.. the drop off was not that bad in 8-9 which were about on par with season 2-3-4....Season 10.. yeah I would rather watch season 1. Show didn’t know what it wanted to be anymore.
Same really. It still has a bit of old earnest magic tying it all together and keeping it a little charming, but this was definitely a point the meaner more cartoony antics were starting to take over, with Season 11 being the culmination. By then nearly all the plots are wacky and the characters lack any sincerity to them anymore.
@ToonReel001 Yeah, that's the biggest problem with what this show became, it just turned into a cartoon, I felt the absurdity reached it's peak in season 11.
I think this season is where I started watching the Simpsons less and less, not worried about missing a new episode when it would come out. I think this was also when I started buying Simpsons DVDs so I could watch the earlier seasons.
@@j04370859 yep, the first DVD player was.. IIRC late 96 in Japan and early 97 in the west. So by 99 it was still fairly uncommon but had come down from “home theatre enthusiast” price down to mid-range level. Certainly still an indulgence over VHS but not so completely stratospherically expensive as it was at first.
Season 10 is a transition and sort of bridge between what the show was and what it has become. Some episodes feel like season 9 episodes (Lard of the dance, The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, Bart the Mother, Lisa Gets an 'A', Mayored to the Mob, Wild Barts Can't Be Broken) while some of the episodes seem to come from the future season 11 (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo, Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble', When You Dish Upon a Star, Monty Can't Buy Me Love, Viva Ned Flanders, The Old Man and the 'C' Student). Wild Barts Can't Be Broken is the last episode with classic flavour. By the end of Season 10 it was a different show. Less satirical and more absurd.
Season 10 is probably the most conflicted I’ve ever been with a Simpsons season, it also happens to be the season that I just can’t decide on what era it’s in, because while it doesn’t reach the jump the shark moments of seasons 11/12, it’s edge and lack of even the most forced heart distances it from seasons 8/9
Personally I consider it post classic, even if it's probably the last season to have some episodes with a classic era flavour. For me it's ever more clear that season 9 was the exact point in time in which classic and post classic are mixed together. Season 10 isn't horrible or anything but it's definetely post classic for me.
It's the first season where it's relatively bad by Simpsons standards, but still great by TV standards. Like, we complain here, but I know every single one of us would rather watch a season 10 episode than Dr. Phil or Maury while bored in a waiting room at the dentist or something.
To me, the only bad episodes of this season, was the kidney episode and the one that featured Alec Baldwin and his wife, the rest were either good or average. Now season 11 on the other hand 👎👎👎👎
Season 10, while considered out of the Golden Age™, is one of my favorite seasons, but that's largely based on some strange nostalgia. My buddy had a tape of a ton of season 10 episodes that we'd watch religiously in our shitty duplex in northern Wisconsin, and the tape came with me when I moved to Milwaukee, where it was still watched with much frequency. My friends would refer to it as "the tape", and at the end of long nights someone would surely suggest "just throw on The Tape". I don't really have any favorite episodes from it, but I do still watch it from time to time.
Ironically for me, this season is the earliest one that I have the fewest memories of, since it and season 9 were the only ones of the good years that I didn't have on DVD. Some of these episodes are a complete blank for me. It's funny how much access to a show could burn it into your brain or not back then. I guess that's part of why they had clipshows.
This was clearly Gil's season because it's the only one where he actually managed to get a win: sell the Coleco's to the only ones dumb enough to buy it, Springfield Elementary
This was the real beginning of the end for the simpsons. It wasn't horrible, but it definitely wasn't great, and the simpsons never reached the heights of seasons 8-9 again.
Season 10 has pretty consistent quality though, I think 11 or 14 is the real end of the Simpsons. As the Scully years go on. Jean is just irredeemable.
After season 30whatareweonnow it is a bit hard for me to accept that season 10 was the beginning of the end of it. Sure, you might not like it now, but enough people do that it is still running.
in revisiting the show since disney+, halfway through season 10 i noticed a steep dropoff in quality in the show, specifically at the alec baldwin episode. i agree that theres probably some base level of entertainment there that stays around after this point, but the drop is too real for me, and i personally just stick to watching 1 thru ~9 over and over again
Can you a Simpsons Histories on Lindsey Naeagle next please? After learning about her past in the latest episode of season 32, I think she deserves one.
Spoiler: I feel like The Simpsons needs to explore more this devious aspect of Lindsey Naegle and what she's going to do because they left that last episode on a cliffhanger for her character after being caught stealing everyone's jewelry. I think she's going to hire that gaggle of lawyers Mr. Burns uses and get off scot-free, or probably be seen in future episodes as if nothing happened.
Not really. Her character was meant to be "generic corporate executive", and then they put her in all over the place as "generic rich woman". I know the most recent episode has the more devout people feeling there's hope there's more to her, but I don't think so.
Agreed. That episode changed the way I think about Lindsey Naegle forever. I might even have to get my Lindsey Naegle tattoo altered to reflect her jewel-thief past.
Season 10 is a very good season. Some of my favorites are in it- "Mom and Pop Art", "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", "Lisa Gets An 'A'", "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", "Make Room For Lisa", and "Bart the Mother". It has its ups and downs but is definitely worth a watch.
Season 10 is a very Swartzwelder heavy season. He wrote 5 of the episodes that season. It feels like without Oakley and Weinstein to reel him in, Scully just let him go wild.
This season was his decline, he wrote 5 episodes and I only loved "The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace", and liked "Maximum Homerdrive", all the others were meh, can't believe he even wrote that awful Kidney episode.
I love how there are 2 episodes that include Groundskeeper Willie crawling in a vent, and grease. The first is in season 5 episode 19 "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", and the second is in season 10's "Lard of the Dance". The writers must have just loved putting a greased-up Willie into a vent for some reason.
I think he'd be happy to continue. He's always been open about his belief that no Simpsons season is fully bad. It'd also be a nice way to show off some modern gems.
"Cold-hearted Homer, ditching his wife, while ancient Ned runs for his life." "Chips of red and blue and white, but we decide wh-" "Can the poems, it's ass-whooping time!" "I want fatty!"
I was in middle school when these episodes came out, and this is when people started saying how the series was dead. Looking back, there are still a bunch of awesome episodes in here! Max power, homer driving the rig.... Its just that the show seemed to change so quickly that people were turned off.
I'm only just finding out about these season retrospectives you're doing and they're great - superb, entertaining and on-the-nose analysis. Keep up the great work!
I rewatched S10 a couple years back, expecting it to be cringe af. But I had a surprisingly enjoyable time. It was leaning hard into the wacky and extreme, but there were also a lot of gags and jokes that were essentially memes between me n friends, at the time and through the years. Super Nintendo Chalmers? MAX POWER full name monogrammed? I don't know if I liked it more than S9 when I rewatched it, but both were a lot stronger than I expected.
For it to be perfect it would have had to end at 9. But if it ended at 10 it would still be seen as an incredible series with a last season that isn't as strong but it's still decent.
This is where the series should have ended in my opinion 1: it would have stayed in the 90s 2: had the last appearance of Phil Hartman 3: also I would say Thirty minutes over Tokyo would have been a nice climax for the season not for the series but hey maybe they could have done the movie after this.
The only issue with keeping it in the 90s means you no longer have new trends to use as plots, no new tech to reek havoc, no modern references etc. It wouldn't fix the issues people have with the following seasons either.
@@NirateGoel Well, they could've made a separate show at the end of the 90's set in the future to critique changing trends and technology. Call it "Futuretopia", or something.
I think Behind The Laughter, would've been a great way to end the show, I just wish it was the Season 10 final, instead of the 11th one, that Season was really when the show died, even though 10 was a decline, I would rather it be the final season.
The episode where Lisa stays home from school was one of my favorites growing up. I was like her and NEVER stayed home (I always had to make sure I got straight A's) -- and my sister was like Bart (faking a fever so often our mom stopped believing her). One day, I was terribly sick for 2 school days (Wed and Thurs) but better by Fri. I faked still being sick the next morning in order to get a 3 day weekend. It was awesome. Thankfully, no test to worry about the following Monday... xD
Season 10 was the last lingering bit of magic in the show for me. It has all the clear warning signs now, a few too many mean spirited or gimmicky episodes, over abundance of guest stars and wacky hijinks, but there's still a bit of earnest charm sandwiched in it all. By Season 11 it was pretty much all gone.
This is my exact thoughts. Season 10 felt like the turning point for this show, but it still had some gems. By the 11th Season, the show was officially no longer Simpsons.
I've been REALLY anticipating this from you Jim, and it was worth the wait. As always I love your approach to these season retrospectives, and it was great to hear what you have to say. Season 10 can be all over the place most of the time, but it does have some episodes I really enjoy such as Bart the Mother, Treehouse of Horror 9, Mayored to the Mob, Wild Barts Can't Be Broken, Viva Ned Flanders, and Marge Simpson in Screaming Yellow Honkers. I think this season had the last really good Halloween episode for a few years as I felt the next couple were quite lacking, but they started to get better again in Seasons 13 and 14. While this is the rise of the Jerkass Homer problem as well as the more weird, outlandish plot elements that started to become a problem later I agree that this season was only a preview for those problems, and it wasn't until Season 11 when they really started to bring the show down more. This season was still mostly consistent with being at least fun to watch most of the time with truly bad episodes still being few and far between for the most part. I think the good aspects of this season are sometimes overlooked for the complaints many have, and that it gets unfairly judged by some people. It's not one of my favorite seasons, but I still think it deserves a bit more credit than some give it. Great job as always Jim, and I look forward to your Top 10 for this season. I hope some of the episodes I mentioned above make it in.
When people ask me which seasons of the Simpsons are the good ones I say 1-10. I think after that, it's more about finding individual episodes that are good rather than happily binge a season
Two observations I have noticed about Season 10: 1. This season had some of the most creative end credit sequences (guess they really wanted a break from just having yellow text on a black background). For instance, "Sunday Cruddy Sunday" had homer waiting on his car, "Viva Ned Flanders" had the theater-style credits, "The Old Man and the C student" had the "Bart Day's Night" background, and "30 Minutes Over Tokyo" had "Battling Seizure Robots." 2. For some strange reason, when this season was in syndication on local channels, many of these episodes were TV-G, despite the content being about the same as the other PG-rated seasons. These two things are how I knew this season was taking the show in a completely new direction, when watching the reruns in the early 00's.
I always liked how that Dolly Parton scene made absolutely no sense when you stop and think about it. If she's headlining the Super Bowl Half Time show, why is she the one wearing the Snoopy head?
On top of that she isn’t even seen singing in the episode, despite the fact that she’s one of the most successful country singers of all time. They even lampshade it at the end!
Great video as always! I was very curious to see your stance on Season 10, since that’s where I wouldn’t say I fell off the show, but I will say that I started getting tired of the show.
Season 10 has a unique feel, it’s clearly changing into something more modern and hip. It doesn’t entirely work in the context of the whole show but it’s a great season for me, I love rewatching it for some reason.
I like what you said about how the show had to be a bit more experimental, and that we would've had a video essay of you complaining that the show played it safe. It's true that these episodes are rarely anybody's favourites, but there are some great moments in them and I personally love some of these stories.
Mayored to the Mob is my number one. I say I prefer celebrities voicing characters, then contradict myself by loving Hammil in it. Talk about Star Wars!
This seems to be a big travel season. Tokyo, Las Vegas, Superbowl, the truck driver road trip, the exploding kidneys road trip, Scotland....and in Old Man and the "C" Student, Bart takes the seniors on a boat trip. A lot less focus on Springfield as a setting.
The weirdest thing about season 10 is it has a lot of the one liners or dialogue bits I remember. Like: "Le grille what the hell is that?!" "We agree to cat or higher!" And "Do you have any grease woman? "Yes" "Then grease me up!" "Okie-dokie"
Some people wanted the show to retain its classic family sitcom format, while others feel it got better when it started getting really wild. Personally I don't think it got bad until Homer morphed from well-meaning simpleton to selfish jerk.
I don't know why people dislike this season, it's one of my favorite seasons of the Simpsons and it has some of the most memorable moments of the entire series
The show was starting to become too wacky, Simpsons went from a realistic relatable show to a gag cartoon, too many celebrity guests, and jerkass Homer. I thought this season was alright, actually, but you can see a lot of the modern bad stuff in this show starting. It just got really worse by the next.
because EVERYTHING after the arbitrary point where popular basement dweller TH-cam calls Zombie Simpsons/I grew up and stopped caring about the show is absolutely AWFUL.
Woe, I just realised that season 10 was the first time I started seeing commercials of the show. Particularly the episode when they go to Japan and get attacked by godzilla on the plane
Season 10 makes me believe that someone saw Homers Enemy and completely missed the point about Homers place in the series and in the minds/heart of viewers.
It scares me how many people bash Frank Grimes as if his resentment of Homer and his eventual mental break were unjustified. Apparently a lot of people do have some sort of disease that they can't see Homer's an idiot who doesn't deserve what he has.
@Palace of Wisdom eh I still think Frank was a bit of an asshole in that episode. Homer was in the wrong too and Grimes didn’t deserve to die, but he certainly wasn’t a saint. And it’s not a disease to have a different opinion about an episode.
I actually like it better when celebrities play themselves. The Simpsons always referenced pop culture. Also when they make up new characters for them that new character is less likely to come back than if someone from the regular cast voiced them. When is the last time you saw Jessica Lovejoy? She was pretty funny. She probably isn't back because Meryl Streep is too expensive or busy.
@@manuellagos659 I can't think of any other tv show that has celebrities show up this frequently. Except for maybe SNL or the Muppet Show. In other shows, it's only done on occasion. For example on Suite Life of Zack and Cody Jessie McCartney showed up once and they only did cameos every so often.
Kinda fought with Season 10 when writing this review. I don't personally vibe with this season that well, it's not the style I gravitate toward with comedies. But at the same time, I feel like Season 10 is criticized too much for some of the stuff that came later. There's a lot of foreshadowing in Season 10, but by and large, it's not that over the top about it. So I tried to at least be diplomatic with some of the critiques here.
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No worries Jimbo, the video is fantastic and your opinions are totally valid.
I often can’t tell by how much I’ve watched the Simpsons that I genuinely like seasons past the golden age or that I’ve watched them so much I’m familiar with them. I think the case that the need to try new things is a good point, but they somehow further typecasted and flanderized a lot and we’re only beginning to see that in season 10. It’s interesting to watch. There’s new situations, but characters react increasingly in patterned and tired ways or with one line quips. Anywho, great vid. It’s like a Monday morning watercooler talk with all my Simpson homies.
You were talking about how violent season 10 was, but I'm pretty sure this is the first season homer doesn't strangle bart at all.
I look at season 10 as the true end of classic era Simpsons. Bart essentially becoming Homer's sidekick, more absurd plots, a lot of stuff that we would see in future seasons started here. And of course the beginning of "Jerkass" Homer. This isn't a bad season, but it feels like the end of what The Simpsons once was.
Series 10 is also the final series which had Phil Hartman as a regular guest star before his untimely death. It wasn't just Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz that we lost, but a major part of Classic Simpsons itself.
That’s why I consider 10 as the last Classic season for that reason.
It was the last with him period.
I think that is perfectly symptomatic of the season. It had Troy McClure but lacked Lionel Hutz, meaning it had less than previous seasons, but more than the following seasons.
Season 10 was a mixed bag, but I'm glad that Phil Hartman's last work on the show, was in probably the best episode of the season, either that or "Lisa Gets An A".
That's kinda why I love the first 10 seasons the most. If it wasn't for Phil Hartmans characters the first 10 seasons wouldn't have been complete.
"The biggest winner of Season 10 is Gil"
The most ironic statement in Simpsons History.
Gil got the win this season
Ol Gil
"Simpsons Histories on Gil" when?
Max Powers doesn’t snuggle with anyone, you strap yourself in and Feel The Gs!!!
I always thought Homer said Feel the Cheese lol
Oh lord.
I never got this joke as a kid, but Dan Castellaneta's delivery was so good I always laughed.
Who is Max "Powers"?
There's three ways to do things- the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way.
Isn't that the wrong way?
But faster!
Season 10, looking at season 7:
"Ah, that's a fine looking season."
...
"WHY DOESN'T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT!?!?"
I think every season don't need replicate each other they can be enjoyed in their own way
I'm just realizing that Season 10 is extremely weird for me.
Half of these episodes I thought happen way later in the series, and half of them feel like earlier entries... I don't know why.
Yep, that's how I felt.
Same. I figure it's due to the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" approach on this one
IMO its due to how many of the episodes would fit right in the later "zombie simpsons" era.
Season 9 does that to me as well. The Powersauce bar mountain climbing one feels way more like a season 11-12 outing, but meanwhile Duffman feels like he had always been in the show. Such a strange mix.
@@Descriptor413 In season 10, some of them like Mayored to the Mob and Lisa Gets an A feels more the classic era, others like When You Dish Upon a Star and 30 Minutes Over Tokyo feel more like "Middle Simpsons".
Am I the only one who watches these multiple times randomly
If you mean the realjims videos not the Simpsons episodes then no. I do that too.
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Yes. Therealjims has a nice voice to listen to.
I listen to these at work
“I got a question for that gross thing, whatever it is.”
“Homer.”
No the green dude
@@levv7258 If you're that baby's daddy, where you been at? *Audience cheers and claps* Somebody should learn your green ass some responsibility!
@@BmanTheChamp *She gets laser'd*
This season was the consequence of Homer stealing Willie’s retirement grease
Season 10 does have my favorite Homer moment of him trying to build the bbq.
That shriek at the end is so perfect.
@@BleydTorvall le grill
Haha the 2 comments above are my 2 fav moments “Le Grille? What the hell is that?!?”
Stupid Lisa!
Agreed, It's honestly very notable how some scenes that are ofter regarded as classic Simpsons gags come from "later" seasons.
I'm not gonna lie: this is where those retrospectives are getting especially interesting to me. I've always been pretty interested in trying to determine if the Simpson had certain "eras", certain "trends", in short the equivalent to "ages" over the years... but whenever you ask fans about that, they just toss the entire discussion aside and reduce it to "everything after season X sucks". So I'm very glad that Jims is actually providing an in-depth season-by-season analysis here, and I hope he keeps doing so :)
And this is a reason I hate a lot of the fanbase, they just jerk the same seasons over and over and refuse to say anything else about the later seasons other than "NOT MY SIMPSONS" or "it sucks".
everyone knows that everything after the first christmas special was crap!!!
@@aarontheperson6867 You kid, but even though many people consider season 1 practically a different show since they were still figuring out the characters, I may like it even better than “golden era” Simpsons. I go back to the first season over an over because I lovr it so much
I agree with you im a fan that has Stuck with the Simpsons even now ... and well they havebt become really bad in my eyes right now they have a second golden age and by the way a lot episodes after season 12 are my favourites .. there is a lot good stuff still coming
@@ChiefMedicPururu Well a lot of the later seasons suck sure there were some gems but still.
This season I find interesting because this was the first season where the show had real competition. This season started airing in 1998 and King of The Hill and South Park had come out the year prior and were both big. Especially South Park. Meanwhile halfway through the season, Family Guy premiered. I feel like the reason this season was more raunchy was because they wanted to compete with all the new more edgy shows coming out at the time.
Futurama came out in the middle of season 10 you didn't mention that
@@maganhassan2627 Yeah, it aired on the same day as the episode from this season, "Maximum Homerdrive".
@@maganhassan2627 but futurama wasn't as big as the others i
@@t_man7259 Neither was Family Guy
@@alchemistofsteel8099 I could be wrong but I think family guy did slightly better than futurama by comparison
"Sorry, the guys kinda made a mess of your bathroom"
"What bathroom???"
Homer made mess of two bathrooms (at least) that year.
It's funny how the show's perception in the early years was, in some circles, "Let's see what crazy antics Bart gets up to this week!", but then literally turned into "Let's see what crazy antics Homer gets up to this week!".
I was in my second year of high school when Season 10 aired, and people described episodes as "the one where Homer becomes a..." or "the one where Homer does ". It was starting to lose its edge though, given South Park was new at the time.
Yeah i wish RealJims did more comparisons of what the competition was doing at the time. Especially "now" with South Park, Futurama, King of the Hill and Family Guy now airing.
Isn't this around the time a lot of the writers migrated over to Futurama as well? Or is that a bit later?
@@FreyaEinde The writers were working on Futurama during this season. Uter wears a Futurama shirt in "Mayored to the Mob", even though Futurama wouldn't be airing until next year.
The focus used to be on how unbalanced and dysfunctional the whole family was. The focus on Homer takes away from that a lot
@marylandbrony I also attribute the change of the show's tone to the competition. It felt like Simpsons tried to be more "edgy" like South Park but cannot do it as well.
@@ccricers South Park was never good though. Simpsons beats it any day. SP is just preachy and annoying.
"Everything's coming up Milhouse!"
I actually used "my feet are soaked, but my cuffs are bone dry!" the other day.
Wait that was from this season?
“Le grile what the hell is that”
🤷♂️
Bart the Mother. Rest in Peace Phil Hartman
it sure is Billy, it sure is.
R.I.P. Phil Hartman!!!!! :( D:
It was a great episode to go out on. He will be missed 😞
Tbh this is a good time to do a top 10 Simpsons seasons
For me it will go something like: 6>7>3>4>5>8>2>1>9>10
7>6>4>5>3>8>2>1>9>10
Off the top of my head: 5>4>6>3>7>8>9>2>1>10
Not sure what my ranking would be but one thing's for sure: y'all are underrating season 2
@@stradify1 for me seasons 1-8 all range from 8/10-9/10. Season 9 is a 7/10 and season 10 is about 6.5/10.
If we're including the later seasons I've seen seasons 11-15 are about 5-5.5/10
My favourite will always be "la grille", "hi apu" and " you killed Ron Howard"
Mike Reiss always said the the rule for how stupid Homer could get was "He can never forget his own name." They don't think twice about breaking that during the Loch Ness monster episode. "What's your name, young man?" "I don't know,; just give me the money!"
I'd always interpreted that joke as meaning that Homer is so focused on and so desperate to have the dollar that he isn't listening to what Arthur Fortune is asking him and just wants Arthur to give him the money.
@@Horsley-Green I agree with that. That's also how I interpreted the joke, although it could have much more clearly been phrased as "I don't _care,_ just give me the money!".
This is the season I remember watching as a kid. Dunno why this season in particular, but I remember a ton of these episodes. The Bible stories one was probably my favorite, the ending to Bart's Dream sequence still cracks me up.
Yeah I remember before watching the first 5 seasons of the show that a lot of episodes from this season repeated a lot on tv for some reason
"you liked Rashomon."
"That's not how I remember it."
Biggest brain joke.
Lol.
If that had appeared around S3-5, it’d have more appreciation.
@@rayvenkman2087 definitely seemed like it could have been from “Streetcar Named Marge”.
As you can see, the real deal with Bart Simpson is that he's Homer Simpson's assistant. He's in his early 10s, is unmarried and currently resides in Springfield. Thanks for writing!
Back in the days I had the entire season 10 recorded on VHS. I didn't have much else so I just rewatched this season again and again so this season definitely means a lot to me.
I had the first five along with this season and S17 ugh all on DVD at one point than I lost of some of them and gave away the latter
I'd say seasons 9 and 10 are right at the edge of classic Simpsons where some of the missteps for the series started to seep in, but they were overall still great and classic episodes. And as I recall, season 11 is where the shift to a new era really took hold. I still liked much of the early teens season's episodes, but they definitely were outside of the classic era and things would definitely start going more and more downhill.
I think 8 was the last great classic season, 9 was the last good, 10 was alright, then after that, it really died.
Yeah I think those two seasons were where the later problems were REALLY starting to kick in, more mean spiritedness and on-the-nose cartoony gags, but there still often seems this one toe trying to firmly stay planted down to earth and keep that old earnest Simpsons magic still around here and there. Season 11 I'd argue it was finally fully lifted away, likely because it was now trying to compete with Family Guy and South Park and even their sister show Futurama.
I always consider the Mike Scully era as a really important 'Silver Age Simpsons' (or if you prefer, the 'it's still good, it's still good' era), worth at least partially including with a rewatch of the show's best years. There's some genuine classic episodes in all those seasons, as well as some big historical episodes that changed the show (season 10's light on those, but it's still got the Vegas and curfew episodes, and we're on the doorstep of Barney going sober), moments that you'd do a disservice to the show by ignoring. But at the same time, it's an era that clearly showcases the problems the show would go on to suffer heavily from, at levels where it's still just 'a bad episode among a good crop' rather than an epidemic.
This video’s ending really got me thinking about the episode “Sunday Cruddy Sunday” because it’s an episode that you could see as an absolute mess due to it’s desire to do so much stuff in so little time and on top of that has an egg plot that literally adds nothing. But on the other hand, it’s so much fun to watch the episode just do whatever it feels like that I’m compelled to say that it’s one of my favourites of the season. If you can look past the really fast pacing and some of the most strange jokes the show has done, then you get a really entertaining episode that goes to so many interesting places in so little time.
maybe it would of worked better as a 2-part episode, that way they could have expanded the plots and paced it a little better.
"Stop eating the tickets!"
I like that episode because it has some good jokes and nostalgia
"All right, just go ahead and sue me! The average settlement is $68,000!"
I look at season 10 as the true end of classic era Simpsons. Bart essentially becoming Homer's sidekick, more absurd plots, a lot of stuff that we would see in future seasons started here. And of course the beginning of "Jerkass" Homer. This isn't a bad season, but it feels like the end of what The Simpsons once was.
That seems fair. The show peaked in Seasons 5-6-7.. the drop off was not that bad in 8-9 which were about on par with season 2-3-4....Season 10.. yeah I would rather watch season 1. Show didn’t know what it wanted to be anymore.
Same really. It still has a bit of old earnest magic tying it all together and keeping it a little charming, but this was definitely a point the meaner more cartoony antics were starting to take over, with Season 11 being the culmination. By then nearly all the plots are wacky and the characters lack any sincerity to them anymore.
@ToonReel001 Yeah, that's the biggest problem with what this show became, it just turned into a cartoon, I felt the absurdity reached it's peak in season 11.
Lard of The Dance always felt like a season nine leftover. It's also a great episode.
It is a Season 9 leftover
@@KingYou2002 Seriously?
@@j04370859 yeaahhh so is wizard of evergreen, bart the mother, and when you dish upon a star
@@melhanlol Great, I enjoyed all those episodes, except "When You Dish Upon A Star".
@@melhanlol The idea and plot was for Season 9, but the writing process was during the production of Season 10.
The king is back with another absolute banger🙏🏼
Season 10 had all the weaknesses of new Simpsons but was still very very funny.
I think this season is where I started watching the Simpsons less and less, not worried about missing a new episode when it would come out. I think this was also when I started buying Simpsons DVDs so I could watch the earlier seasons.
DVD's existed in 1998/1999?
@@j04370859 yep, the first DVD player was.. IIRC late 96 in Japan and early 97 in the west. So by 99 it was still fairly uncommon but had come down from “home theatre enthusiast” price down to mid-range level. Certainly still an indulgence over VHS but not so completely stratospherically expensive as it was at first.
The Japan episode always sticks out to me in this season. I think its because of the Homer Toilet scene and Seizure Robots
Knife goes in, guts come out 🎵
I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!
Seizure Robots was a parody of the Porygon episode of Pokemon
Season 10 is a transition and sort of bridge between what the show was and what it has become. Some episodes feel like season 9 episodes (Lard of the dance, The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, Bart the Mother, Lisa Gets an 'A', Mayored to the Mob, Wild Barts Can't Be Broken) while some of the episodes seem to come from the future season 11 (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo, Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble', When You Dish Upon a Star, Monty Can't Buy Me Love, Viva Ned Flanders, The Old Man and the 'C' Student). Wild Barts Can't Be Broken is the last episode with classic flavour. By the end of Season 10 it was a different show. Less satirical and more absurd.
Lard Of The Dance and The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace were originally thought of during Season 9.
Season 10 is probably the most conflicted I’ve ever been with a Simpsons season, it also happens to be the season that I just can’t decide on what era it’s in, because while it doesn’t reach the jump the shark moments of seasons 11/12, it’s edge and lack of even the most forced heart distances it from seasons 8/9
Personally I consider it post classic, even if it's probably the last season to have some episodes with a classic era flavour.
For me it's ever more clear that season 9 was the exact point in time in which classic and post classic are mixed together.
Season 10 isn't horrible or anything but it's definetely post classic for me.
It's the first season where it's relatively bad by Simpsons standards, but still great by TV standards.
Like, we complain here, but I know every single one of us would rather watch a season 10 episode than Dr. Phil or Maury while bored in a waiting room at the dentist or something.
@@ohnoitschris lol true
To me, the only bad episodes of this season, was the kidney episode and the one that featured Alec Baldwin and his wife, the rest were either good or average.
Now season 11 on the other hand 👎👎👎👎
Season 11 is the guilty pleasure season for me.
Season 10, while considered out of the Golden Age™, is one of my favorite seasons, but that's largely based on some strange nostalgia. My buddy had a tape of a ton of season 10 episodes that we'd watch religiously in our shitty duplex in northern Wisconsin, and the tape came with me when I moved to Milwaukee, where it was still watched with much frequency. My friends would refer to it as "the tape", and at the end of long nights someone would surely suggest "just throw on The Tape". I don't really have any favorite episodes from it, but I do still watch it from time to time.
Ironically for me, this season is the earliest one that I have the fewest memories of, since it and season 9 were the only ones of the good years that I didn't have on DVD. Some of these episodes are a complete blank for me. It's funny how much access to a show could burn it into your brain or not back then. I guess that's part of why they had clipshows.
We have officially left the golden era. Will zombie Simpsons break TheRealJims?
He’ll probably try to resist but he will break eventually
(I’m waiting for him to)
It turns out Jim was Bruce Willis the whole time. Unbreakable.
No we haven't
@@matriaxpunk its not gonna get as god as the first few seasons but the later ones might be still good but it goes down hill
@@Galvatronover that's true, I just think this later seasons still have some of the best episodes of the show.
1/3 of the way!!!! Let’s gooooo!
Technically 10/32nds of the way!
I’m having a really bad day... and this upload just made it a bit better. Thank you RealJims :)
There's always a better day. Stay safe, friend
do you feel better
@@francescomanzo3939 I do!
Alright, See you in 2-3 months on season 11.
Season 10? I’m outraged! You promised me season 7 or higher!
This was clearly Gil's season because it's the only one where he actually managed to get a win: sell the Coleco's to the only ones dumb enough to buy it, Springfield Elementary
This was the real beginning of the end for the simpsons. It wasn't horrible, but it definitely wasn't great, and the simpsons never reached the heights of seasons 8-9 again.
Season 10 has pretty consistent quality though, I think 11 or 14 is the real end of the Simpsons. As the Scully years go on. Jean is just irredeemable.
Nah, it's not.
After season 30whatareweonnow it is a bit hard for me to accept that season 10 was the beginning of the end of it. Sure, you might not like it now, but enough people do that it is still running.
Nah, you are wrong.
in revisiting the show since disney+, halfway through season 10 i noticed a steep dropoff in quality in the show, specifically at the alec baldwin episode. i agree that theres probably some base level of entertainment there that stays around after this point, but the drop is too real for me, and i personally just stick to watching 1 thru ~9 over and over again
Season 10 is a tough one to write about. Glad to see you put in the work to comprehensively convey what set it apart. Great work as always.
Can you a Simpsons Histories on Lindsey Naeagle next please? After learning about her past in the latest episode of season 32, I think she deserves one.
Yes! I second this, I always found Lindsey Naeagle an interesting character and would love to have Jims do an in-depth character analysis.
I third this! I've been asking for this for ages!
Spoiler: I feel like The Simpsons needs to explore more this devious aspect of Lindsey Naegle and what she's going to do because they left that last episode on a cliffhanger for her character after being caught stealing everyone's jewelry. I think she's going to hire that gaggle of lawyers Mr. Burns uses and get off scot-free, or probably be seen in future episodes as if nothing happened.
Not really. Her character was meant to be "generic corporate executive", and then they put her in all over the place as "generic rich woman". I know the most recent episode has the more devout people feeling there's hope there's more to her, but I don't think so.
Agreed. That episode changed the way I think about Lindsey Naegle forever. I might even have to get my Lindsey Naegle tattoo altered to reflect her jewel-thief past.
"le grille?! WHAT THE HECK IS THAT"? will always crack me up... ugh lol
"So... is this your school?"
"It was."
Season 10 is a very good season. Some of my favorites are in it- "Mom and Pop Art", "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", "Lisa Gets An 'A'", "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", "Make Room For Lisa", and "Bart the Mother". It has its ups and downs but is definitely worth a watch.
Make Room For Lisa is terrible but I love the rest
The Treehouse Of Horror episode also.
@@j04370859 I liked The Terror of Tiny Toon but the other two were just okay.
I feel like season 10 is a strong reasoning for the theory that Simpsons episodes are all during one day but just severely out of order
Season 10 is a very Swartzwelder heavy season. He wrote 5 of the episodes that season. It feels like without Oakley and Weinstein to reel him in, Scully just let him go wild.
This season was his decline, he wrote 5 episodes and I only loved "The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace", and liked "Maximum Homerdrive", all the others were meh, can't believe he even wrote that awful Kidney episode.
@@j04370859 Wait, that was Swartzwelder? Jeez, that's heartbreaking...
Season 8,9, and 10 was the main seasons I grew up with ever week day at 6:30pm after Malcom in the middle. I can remember each episode verbatim
I love how there are 2 episodes that include Groundskeeper Willie crawling in a vent, and grease.
The first is in season 5 episode 19 "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", and the second is in season 10's "Lard of the Dance".
The writers must have just loved putting a greased-up Willie into a vent for some reason.
Never really noticed how the seasons have their own different themes
At this point I'm wondering how far you're willing to go.
I’m really curious to hear his more in-depth thoughts on 2000s era Simpsons
2032: The Simpsons Season 28 Retrospective
I think he'd be happy to continue. He's always been open about his belief that no Simpsons season is fully bad. It'd also be a nice way to show off some modern gems.
You don't want to know how far he is preapred to go !
I'm most curious on his expert opinion on how to possibly differentiate the newer seasons.
"Cold-hearted Homer, ditching his wife, while ancient Ned runs for his life."
"Chips of red and blue and white, but we decide wh-"
"Can the poems, it's ass-whooping time!"
"I want fatty!"
😂
Season 10 is wonderful, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it
I was in middle school when these episodes came out, and this is when people started saying how the series was dead. Looking back, there are still a bunch of awesome episodes in here! Max power, homer driving the rig.... Its just that the show seemed to change so quickly that people were turned off.
I'm only just finding out about these season retrospectives you're doing and they're great - superb, entertaining and on-the-nose analysis. Keep up the great work!
I rewatched S10 a couple years back, expecting it to be cringe af. But I had a surprisingly enjoyable time. It was leaning hard into the wacky and extreme, but there were also a lot of gags and jokes that were essentially memes between me n friends, at the time and through the years. Super Nintendo Chalmers? MAX POWER full name monogrammed? I don't know if I liked it more than S9 when I rewatched it, but both were a lot stronger than I expected.
Yeah a lot of people said that if they had ended the Simpsons at season 10 it would have been considered a perfect show.
For me, they should have ended at season 7....I take that back. Season 6
Personally I would be fine if they ended it at S13 or the movie
For it to be perfect it would have had to end at 9. But if it ended at 10 it would still be seen as an incredible series with a last season that isn't as strong but it's still decent.
@@atticus5106 Huh? Season 7 was great.
This is where the series should have ended in my opinion
1: it would have stayed in the 90s
2: had the last appearance of Phil Hartman
3: also I would say Thirty minutes over Tokyo would have been a nice climax for the season not for the series but hey maybe they could have done the movie after this.
The only issue with keeping it in the 90s means you no longer have new trends to use as plots, no new tech to reek havoc, no modern references etc. It wouldn't fix the issues people have with the following seasons either.
@@NirateGoel Well, they could've made a separate show at the end of the 90's set in the future to critique changing trends and technology. Call it "Futuretopia", or something.
I think Behind The Laughter, would've been a great way to end the show, I just wish it was the Season 10 final, instead of the 11th one, that Season was really when the show died, even though 10 was a decline, I would rather it be the final season.
The episode where Lisa stays home from school was one of my favorites growing up. I was like her and NEVER stayed home (I always had to make sure I got straight A's) -- and my sister was like Bart (faking a fever so often our mom stopped believing her). One day, I was terribly sick for 2 school days (Wed and Thurs) but better by Fri. I faked still being sick the next morning in order to get a 3 day weekend. It was awesome. Thankfully, no test to worry about the following Monday... xD
I loved that episode
Why did you have to write straight A's but your sibling did not?
@@sunwukong5518Because they were different people
Season 10 has some really great episodes IMO
Season 10 was the last lingering bit of magic in the show for me. It has all the clear warning signs now, a few too many mean spirited or gimmicky episodes, over abundance of guest stars and wacky hijinks, but there's still a bit of earnest charm sandwiched in it all. By Season 11 it was pretty much all gone.
This is my exact thoughts. Season 10 felt like the turning point for this show, but it still had some gems. By the 11th Season, the show was officially no longer Simpsons.
I've been REALLY anticipating this from you Jim, and it was worth the wait. As always I love your approach to these season retrospectives, and it was great to hear what you have to say. Season 10 can be all over the place most of the time, but it does have some episodes I really enjoy such as Bart the Mother, Treehouse of Horror 9, Mayored to the Mob, Wild Barts Can't Be Broken, Viva Ned Flanders, and Marge Simpson in Screaming Yellow Honkers. I think this season had the last really good Halloween episode for a few years as I felt the next couple were quite lacking, but they started to get better again in Seasons 13 and 14. While this is the rise of the Jerkass Homer problem as well as the more weird, outlandish plot elements that started to become a problem later I agree that this season was only a preview for those problems, and it wasn't until Season 11 when they really started to bring the show down more. This season was still mostly consistent with being at least fun to watch most of the time with truly bad episodes still being few and far between for the most part. I think the good aspects of this season are sometimes overlooked for the complaints many have, and that it gets unfairly judged by some people. It's not one of my favorite seasons, but I still think it deserves a bit more credit than some give it. Great job as always Jim, and I look forward to your Top 10 for this season. I hope some of the episodes I mentioned above make it in.
Me when I get to my season 10 - 13 DVD's: "Ooh, Now We're Into The Dregs"
When people ask me which seasons of the Simpsons are the good ones I say 1-10. I think after that, it's more about finding individual episodes that are good rather than happily binge a season
No season w/ "Luke Be a Jedi Tonight" can be a bad one.
Another great vid mate! Love ya work. You definitely stand out from the rest of the pack! Keep em coming!
Season 10 was still in the golden era for me. Hate me if you want
I won't, I'm not petty.
My sister and I always look forward to these videos. Thank you!!!
Seasons 11-33 looking at seasons 1-10: "Aahh those are some fine looking seasons.....WHY DONT OURS LOOK LIKE THAT!!!!!!
It is getting better with 33 and 34 not as good as the classics but better
@samuel-wankenobi well I guess that's true. Lydia over on the simpsons theory says that actually. If she says it's good then it must be.
Two observations I have noticed about Season 10:
1. This season had some of the most creative end credit sequences (guess they really wanted a break from just having yellow text on a black background). For instance, "Sunday Cruddy Sunday" had homer waiting on his car, "Viva Ned Flanders" had the theater-style credits, "The Old Man and the C student" had the "Bart Day's Night" background, and "30 Minutes Over Tokyo" had "Battling Seizure Robots."
2. For some strange reason, when this season was in syndication on local channels, many of these episodes were TV-G, despite the content being about the same as the other PG-rated seasons.
These two things are how I knew this season was taking the show in a completely new direction, when watching the reruns in the early 00's.
"Look, Skinner, we haven't got all day. Kill the horrid beasts... and do away with their lizards."
I always liked how that Dolly Parton scene made absolutely no sense when you stop and think about it. If she's headlining the Super Bowl Half Time show, why is she the one wearing the Snoopy head?
On top of that she isn’t even seen singing in the episode, despite the fact that she’s one of the most successful country singers of all time. They even lampshade it at the end!
Great video as always! I was very curious to see your stance on Season 10, since that’s where I wouldn’t say I fell off the show, but I will say that I started getting tired of the show.
Still an incredible season. Some wonderful moments. I think about Rosie O'Donnel and Spike Lee being on the sun bound spaceship on a daily basis.
That was Season 11.
I love season 10! Probably because it came out when I was just old enough to remember the show. I grew up on the late 90s/early 2000s era Simpsons
I'm a simple man. I see a new video from TheRealJims, I open it and leave it in a tab until I have enough time to watch it.
Season 10 has a unique feel, it’s clearly changing into something more modern and hip. It doesn’t entirely work in the context of the whole show but it’s a great season for me, I love rewatching it for some reason.
I like what you said about how the show had to be a bit more experimental, and that we would've had a video essay of you complaining that the show played it safe. It's true that these episodes are rarely anybody's favourites, but there are some great moments in them and I personally love some of these stories.
Mayored to the Mob is my number one. I say I prefer celebrities voicing characters, then contradict myself by loving Hammil in it. Talk about Star Wars!
This seems to be a big travel season. Tokyo, Las Vegas, Superbowl, the truck driver road trip, the exploding kidneys road trip, Scotland....and in Old Man and the "C" Student, Bart takes the seniors on a boat trip. A lot less focus on Springfield as a setting.
"not cutting away constantly to some fantasy sequence"
realjims family guy retrospective when? :^))))))))))))))
The weirdest thing about season 10 is it has a lot of the one liners or dialogue bits I remember. Like:
"Le grille what the hell is that?!"
"We agree to cat or higher!"
And
"Do you have any grease woman?
"Yes"
"Then grease me up!"
"Okie-dokie"
Anything that can go into a Dankmus track is classic Simpsons imo. (Kinda half joking)
I was just binging your videos because I felt it was ✨time✨
babe, wake up, new therealjims retrospective just dropped
I loved these Episodes. People say they wished Simpsons Ended in 1996. Not me 😕
Never heard 1996. More like 1998.
@@manuellagos659 the 96-98 time period Pretty Much
Some people wanted the show to retain its classic family sitcom format, while others feel it got better when it started getting really wild. Personally I don't think it got bad until Homer morphed from well-meaning simpleton to selfish jerk.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 For me Simpsons shudda ended latest 2003
Season 10, to me, feels like a prelude to what's coming next. It's not there yet, but it would tell me what to expect from Season 11 (*shudder*).
I don't know why people dislike this season, it's one of my favorite seasons of the Simpsons and it has some of the most memorable moments of the entire series
The show was starting to become too wacky, Simpsons went from a realistic relatable show to a gag cartoon, too many celebrity guests, and jerkass Homer. I thought this season was alright, actually, but you can see a lot of the modern bad stuff in this show starting. It just got really worse by the next.
because EVERYTHING after the arbitrary point where popular basement dweller TH-cam calls Zombie Simpsons/I grew up and stopped caring about the show is absolutely AWFUL.
Gotta say, you hit the nail on the head for me with this one
Woe, I just realised that season 10 was the first time I started seeing commercials of the show. Particularly the episode when they go to Japan and get attacked by godzilla on the plane
you are by far my fave youtuber you are simply the best and ur vidoes give me lots of serotonin
This was the season I watched the most as a kid, since my friend had the DVD so I have nostalgia for it
Thank you for the new vid, Real Jims! A fan from Czechia 🙂
Season 10 makes me believe that someone saw Homers Enemy and completely missed the point about Homers place in the series and in the minds/heart of viewers.
It scares me how many people bash Frank Grimes as if his resentment of Homer and his eventual mental break were unjustified. Apparently a lot of people do have some sort of disease that they can't see Homer's an idiot who doesn't deserve what he has.
What I call a Wrath of Khanism.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 including Schwartzeld who wrote it! He said Frank had it coming the whole episode or something like that.
@Palace of Wisdom eh I still think Frank was a bit of an asshole in that episode. Homer was in the wrong too and Grimes didn’t deserve to die, but he certainly wasn’t a saint.
And it’s not a disease to have a different opinion about an episode.
I actually like it better when celebrities play themselves. The Simpsons always referenced pop culture. Also when they make up new characters for them that new character is less likely to come back than if someone from the regular cast voiced them. When is the last time you saw Jessica Lovejoy? She was pretty funny. She probably isn't back because Meryl Streep is too expensive or busy.
The Simpsons used to be the exact opposite of celebrity centric culture. Once that was broken it became just another TV show.
@@manuellagos659 I can't think of any other tv show that has celebrities show up this frequently. Except for maybe SNL or the Muppet Show. In other shows, it's only done on occasion. For example on Suite Life of Zack and Cody Jessie McCartney showed up once and they only did cameos every so often.
Im addicted to ur videos rn. They are so good
You know what would be interesting, a video about the deleted scenes of this show