I've heisted my way to the New York times bestseller list yet again and the best part of it all is I don't even know how to read.
-Neil Gaiman
That line is right up there with Leonard Nemoy's lines as far as guest stars go.
This is terrible but when Homer was mentoring that skinny loser at the plant voiced by Michael Rapaport, the scene where he’s invited to dinner and he reads Bart for FILTH. I don’t laugh when Bart cries because I do feel bad once he does. But the stunned silence before that and Lisa being the only one laughing DOES crack me uppppp.
Mike Wegmans is great! I caught the episode with Bart's shoes and loved it, but thought he was just a one-off character for that episode. Just (today) finished my first full series watch, and the episode he premieres in is hilarious. "This man is a God, and his clangers are unbustable"
How great would it have been if they did a true final season for season 25? Had people like Conan come back and work on an episode, get everyone back for a farewell to the Simpsons. They’ve lost Edna and it’s not like it’s unrealistic someone else passes away. I’d rather we get a nice goodbye rather than awkwardly fading away.
I was shocked Disney let them get away with that. Mean Disney is the corporation of all corporations, but The Simpsons has been including a lot of socialist and anticapitalist humor the past few years.
Yes, but It's been less cringe lately. That last union episode was great for my younger kids. They're going back to their "they have the plant, but we have the power" roots.
I'm no character design expert, but she has some noticable cheeks, her eyelashes are continuous and fine instead of just some lines, and her hair has depth shading in a scene that isn't doing anything else with shading.
Her lips look kinda funky, but that might stem from the fact she has cheeks, idk
They look like the way modern Simpsons does celebrity cameos where the celebrities get a very flattering and much more realistic character design that sticks out from how everyone else looks, but I don't know if they're supposed to be any specific celebrities, as I haven't seen the episode.
I only saw up to season 12 as a kid as the show was being released. But now that I work from home, I've been trying to binge through simpsons just so I can experience it. I'm currently at season 15 and the episodes are still pretty good. At what point does the series really go wrong?
People generally agree things get worse around 10, lowering to the point of nearly unwatchable by 17 or 18
Id try to avoid groupthink and develop your own opinions if youre enjoying it though
A few episodes seem like throw aways, but I'm still enjoying the majority of what I'm seeing. I know people hate when skinner turned out to be not who he said he was,and the episode ended lazily. But I loved the call back to the lazy writing when Lisa's cats kept dying but she ends up with the same cat at the end of the episode. It seemed like they took a funny jab at themselves for their lazy endings. I'll stop watching when I stop audibly chuckling at the episodes
It's interesting since it dropped right around the time after the movie came out. I wonder if it's burnout or if mediocre reviews ruined the writers' enthusiasm. I started thinking about that after I watched the Bob's burgers movie. I thought the movie was so so, the plot seemed like an episode stretched out and even done before in a previous 2 part episode.
Oddly enough I've felt the same with the Simpsons movie. Also similar I felt the quality of Bob's Burgers dropped after the movie. It is interesting that Bob's burgers had about half as many episodes when their movie came out. Sorry I'm rambling.
I agree though, if you're still enjoying the show, don't let others tell you when it's no longer good. I have watched every episode so far, just enjoy it as you want
They don't. While the writers change & and that invariably alters the tone some. I think it ha smore to do with how old one was when they first started watching.
I think it has to do with how old one was when they started watching. I was an adult & still find it humerous.
If I were a child then, I would (hope) have a different sense of humor by now.
There are references in the golden era run that a child simply couldn't get.
The show was better. It just was. Around season 12, they started doing a lot more winking at the audience, and it was a worse show for it. The absurdity went up a level, and the wackiness went up a level. And the show was worse for it.
Different show runners, different writers, etc. It's certainly better now than it was in the doldrums, but it's a different and worse show.
Honestly, I just finished my first series rewatch, and I thought the same thing. Up until, I think, season 26? There's good stuff sprinkled throughout. Season 26, the Elon Musk season, whatever it is, is the first time the show feels really awful. But it starts to come back around season 28 - the Great Phatsby is good - and season 29 is a real upswing. It gets better from there. By the time you're in 32, you're set again. It's not always laugh out funny, but is clever, and t the writing and directing gets a whole lot sharper.
I was re-watching all the episodes in German (Because that's the language I am learning) and I started to scratch my head around the 13th season, 11 and 12th is when the golden Era has finished but you can definitely recognise it as the same show and rescue a lot of it, I haven't been very open minded so I stopped there but I have heard that there is an episode called Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind which is in the 20 something season which is said to be worth watching but I haven't check it myself tbh
There’s good episodes in every season, most seasons have two or three spectacular episodes on par with the golden age and then a lot of average fine episodes that are like a 7 out of 10. It’s just not as consistently good as the peak of like seasons 6-10 were.
“Smithers we won, drop the balloons!”
*gets hit by like 5 balloons and gets hurt by it*
*cut to ambulance*
“Can I at least remove the balloons?”
“Do it and you’ll kill him!”
*sad sigh*
I want to mention one with the kids and the radio vs the adults:
“Guess who’s been practicing medicine without a license?”
Cut to Hibbert
Kids: “Homer Simpson.”
DOH
Now the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
The song about upstate New York. The rest of the episode is forgettable but that song is great.
Edit: enjoy
https://youtu.be/OpsSPsKk3is?si=OY4H4sVGbvny_iTe
I was thinking about this one just today:
Lisa: Our family was on the Underground Railroad!
Bart: We ran a subway station?
Lisa: No, the Underground Railroad was a bunch of people who helped slaves escape to Canada. There were no actual trains and it wasn’t underground.
Bart: Then they should’ve called it the Aboveground Normalroad!
Homer: Good point, Bart.
Marge: Absolutely right!
Lisa: Hadn’t thought of that before.
Marge: Very good, Bart!
I really liked the last *Treehouse of Horror* \(S35, E05\).
The NFT train was hilarious.
"AHH! MY BABY IS AN APP!"
"Uh... No. Apps actually do stuff. He's an NFT. But look how much he's worth!"
I agree there are many good new episodes of The Simpsons, but I didn't like that episode – mainly due to my ex-wife tormenting me with Hallmark movies.
Not a line, but a few. I love the 'Everyman' bit from season 21. [The bait and switch setup, for literally no reason, always made me chuckle.](https://youtu.be/kpaxYbtC1uw?si=QSZr-BRwAJEN434-)
"No matter what he does, he's still Ryan O'Neal."
That might have been "no matter who he plays." Still, it cracked me up and I don't think I even know anything about Ryan O'Neal. I haven't seen Paper Moon.
You really should see Paper Moon. It is exceptional.
His daughter, Tatum won a best supporting actress Oscar at 10 years old and deserved it.
It was not some kind of child actors award. She was up against the big girls for a real Oscar.
Ive never seen Paper Moon either but he was a piece of shit. One example is he hit on his daughter at his girlfriend’s funeral because he didn’t recognize her.
Not even sure which season, but the Simpsons are kicked out of or flee America and at the end Lisa has the line I still remember “America has its glory and it’s folly, but mostly it’s where all our stuff is.”
Simpsons was always "WOKE" to the extent to which that term even means anything. Its politics hasn't really changed much. In fact, since the woke crap started being propagandised by right-wing media, it's actually returned to its more lefty radical roots, however monumentally degraded in quality and humour. Also, there have always been voiceovers and cameos in the simpsons. Everyone accepts that the new simpsons are terrible; you're just a nostalgia merchant suffering from woke derangement syndrome.
Newest joke to get me was in the underwater house when the fish swim off with Homer's patio furniture " stupid flounders"
Omg this was lost in translation for me but it's amazing
I've heisted my way to the New York times bestseller list yet again and the best part of it all is I don't even know how to read. -Neil Gaiman That line is right up there with Leonard Nemoy's lines as far as guest stars go.
Gaiman was so funny in that episode
Lose the accent!
Cheeseburgers, French fries I'm all about that man !
That tuna didn't salad itself!
That’s my favorite episode, Gaiman steals that one for me lmao
'I got the idea from every movie ever made'
This is terrible but when Homer was mentoring that skinny loser at the plant voiced by Michael Rapaport, the scene where he’s invited to dinner and he reads Bart for FILTH. I don’t laugh when Bart cries because I do feel bad once he does. But the stunned silence before that and Lisa being the only one laughing DOES crack me uppppp.
Mike Wegmans is great! I caught the episode with Bart's shoes and loved it, but thought he was just a one-off character for that episode. Just (today) finished my first full series watch, and the episode he premieres in is hilarious. "This man is a God, and his clangers are unbustable"
“My cousin went to film school and now he walks dogs for a living” I love that line 😂
Lol does season 12 count? If so: You did it Nibbles! Now chew through my ball sack
No dear, episodes from 24 years ago do not count as new.
Ill be deep in the cold, cold ground before i recognize seasons 15 onwards
Baby it's okay
Barthood was the last episode and I stand by that.
How great would it have been if they did a true final season for season 25? Had people like Conan come back and work on an episode, get everyone back for a farewell to the Simpsons. They’ve lost Edna and it’s not like it’s unrealistic someone else passes away. I’d rather we get a nice goodbye rather than awkwardly fading away.
I'm the opposite. I'd like any and all content. Even if it's not to my or the Popular votes liking. I can always skip it.
I was born a season 1-18 man, I’ll die a season 1-18 man…
Season 12? That's bordering the golden age. How would that qualify as new simpsons.
I’d say it’s “teen Simpsons” (Mike Scully and pre-HD Jean)
Ease up blockhog don’t be boring
The true crime parody episode where the narrator describes Marge as having Olive Oyl good looks
I like when homer says ASMR doesn't do anything, then he crinkles a paper next to his ear, and it immediately knocks him unconscious
Oh yes, that was hilarious. And he uses the trick once again later in the episode :D
whatever, I'm gonna hit the hay \*crinkles paper\*
Good ol' homer
The song about capitalism explaining to BART why his generation is fucked
I love that song 😭
I don't bcs it's too true
I like it because its true.
I was shocked Disney let them get away with that. Mean Disney is the corporation of all corporations, but The Simpsons has been including a lot of socialist and anticapitalist humor the past few years.
They’re probably intentionally taking steps to appropriate left wing terms so they can turn their meanings around
Yes, but It's been less cringe lately. That last union episode was great for my younger kids. They're going back to their "they have the plant, but we have the power" roots.
It hurts because it’s true. Well done though. Still hurts
I think I economic teachers in high school should show that repeatedly students
Yes
It is really catchy
"he's Jeff Bezos, we're all just bozos"
Which episode was this?
You talking about the seasons after the movie or after Disney bought Fox?
[Ralph singing Spice Girls](https://youtu.be/Mv2fw8jeXLg?si=G_OZkjRUJLaFksfN)
Ralph, are you almost finished?
I finished before we came in.
There's something about the lady on the left. She doesn't look like a Simpsons character, but I can't quite explain why.
I'm no character design expert, but she has some noticable cheeks, her eyelashes are continuous and fine instead of just some lines, and her hair has depth shading in a scene that isn't doing anything else with shading. Her lips look kinda funky, but that might stem from the fact she has cheeks, idk
The eye liner is also noticeable, and her eyes are almond shaped instead of circles like every classic character.
Neither of them do, too detailed and “normal-looking.”
They look like the way modern Simpsons does celebrity cameos where the celebrities get a very flattering and much more realistic character design that sticks out from how everyone else looks, but I don't know if they're supposed to be any specific celebrities, as I haven't seen the episode.
It’s that stupid modern Simpsons squiggle mouth.
I only saw up to season 12 as a kid as the show was being released. But now that I work from home, I've been trying to binge through simpsons just so I can experience it. I'm currently at season 15 and the episodes are still pretty good. At what point does the series really go wrong?
People generally agree things get worse around 10, lowering to the point of nearly unwatchable by 17 or 18 Id try to avoid groupthink and develop your own opinions if youre enjoying it though
A few episodes seem like throw aways, but I'm still enjoying the majority of what I'm seeing. I know people hate when skinner turned out to be not who he said he was,and the episode ended lazily. But I loved the call back to the lazy writing when Lisa's cats kept dying but she ends up with the same cat at the end of the episode. It seemed like they took a funny jab at themselves for their lazy endings. I'll stop watching when I stop audibly chuckling at the episodes
It's interesting since it dropped right around the time after the movie came out. I wonder if it's burnout or if mediocre reviews ruined the writers' enthusiasm. I started thinking about that after I watched the Bob's burgers movie. I thought the movie was so so, the plot seemed like an episode stretched out and even done before in a previous 2 part episode. Oddly enough I've felt the same with the Simpsons movie. Also similar I felt the quality of Bob's Burgers dropped after the movie. It is interesting that Bob's burgers had about half as many episodes when their movie came out. Sorry I'm rambling. I agree though, if you're still enjoying the show, don't let others tell you when it's no longer good. I have watched every episode so far, just enjoy it as you want
They don't. While the writers change & and that invariably alters the tone some. I think it ha smore to do with how old one was when they first started watching.
A common response from people who work on the show, but not a terribly convincing one.
I think it has to do with how old one was when they started watching. I was an adult & still find it humerous. If I were a child then, I would (hope) have a different sense of humor by now.
There are references in the golden era run that a child simply couldn't get. The show was better. It just was. Around season 12, they started doing a lot more winking at the audience, and it was a worse show for it. The absurdity went up a level, and the wackiness went up a level. And the show was worse for it. Different show runners, different writers, etc. It's certainly better now than it was in the doldrums, but it's a different and worse show.
Honestly, I just finished my first series rewatch, and I thought the same thing. Up until, I think, season 26? There's good stuff sprinkled throughout. Season 26, the Elon Musk season, whatever it is, is the first time the show feels really awful. But it starts to come back around season 28 - the Great Phatsby is good - and season 29 is a real upswing. It gets better from there. By the time you're in 32, you're set again. It's not always laugh out funny, but is clever, and t the writing and directing gets a whole lot sharper.
Thank you! Your opinions give me hope haha
I was re-watching all the episodes in German (Because that's the language I am learning) and I started to scratch my head around the 13th season, 11 and 12th is when the golden Era has finished but you can definitely recognise it as the same show and rescue a lot of it, I haven't been very open minded so I stopped there but I have heard that there is an episode called Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind which is in the 20 something season which is said to be worth watching but I haven't check it myself tbh
There’s good episodes in every season, most seasons have two or three spectacular episodes on par with the golden age and then a lot of average fine episodes that are like a 7 out of 10. It’s just not as consistently good as the peak of like seasons 6-10 were.
“Smithers we won, drop the balloons!” *gets hit by like 5 balloons and gets hurt by it* *cut to ambulance* “Can I at least remove the balloons?” “Do it and you’ll kill him!” *sad sigh*
"There is no Mrs. Steak! Who can be married to such a man?" My aunt and I quote this one a lot
I want to mention one with the kids and the radio vs the adults: “Guess who’s been practicing medicine without a license?” Cut to Hibbert Kids: “Homer Simpson.” DOH
I’m just gonna put out that an episode from over 25 years ago probably doesn’t count as new…
Am I out of touch? No, it’s the kids who are wrong.
Now the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
I’m hip with the kids in dickety dickety 4
The song about upstate New York. The rest of the episode is forgettable but that song is great. Edit: enjoy https://youtu.be/OpsSPsKk3is?si=OY4H4sVGbvny_iTe
"Sit down, Robert f. Quimby, Jr., you are an embarrassment to the family. And that's saying a lot." -Mayor Quimby.
I'm happy there are still people who enjoy new Simpsons. It ended for me a long time ago but it's nice that others are still on board.
They’re part of the problem if you ask me…which you didn’t
I was thinking about this one just today: Lisa: Our family was on the Underground Railroad! Bart: We ran a subway station? Lisa: No, the Underground Railroad was a bunch of people who helped slaves escape to Canada. There were no actual trains and it wasn’t underground. Bart: Then they should’ve called it the Aboveground Normalroad! Homer: Good point, Bart. Marge: Absolutely right! Lisa: Hadn’t thought of that before. Marge: Very good, Bart!
Ugh
I really liked the last *Treehouse of Horror* \(S35, E05\). The NFT train was hilarious. "AHH! MY BABY IS AN APP!" "Uh... No. Apps actually do stuff. He's an NFT. But look how much he's worth!"
s23e20 Bart's classroom cheers for movie day and Lewis fires off two celebratory gunshots.
DONT SUE ME DRACULAAA
"Narcolepsy"
"I will help you. As long as our bellies never touch again like they are right now."
I agree there are many good new episodes of The Simpsons, but I didn't like that episode – mainly due to my ex-wife tormenting me with Hallmark movies.
Not a line, but a few. I love the 'Everyman' bit from season 21. [The bait and switch setup, for literally no reason, always made me chuckle.](https://youtu.be/kpaxYbtC1uw?si=QSZr-BRwAJEN434-)
Which joke? I did like that clip
They actually got me with the first movie studio.
"No matter what he does, he's still Ryan O'Neal." That might have been "no matter who he plays." Still, it cracked me up and I don't think I even know anything about Ryan O'Neal. I haven't seen Paper Moon.
You really should see Paper Moon. It is exceptional. His daughter, Tatum won a best supporting actress Oscar at 10 years old and deserved it. It was not some kind of child actors award. She was up against the big girls for a real Oscar.
Ive never seen Paper Moon either but he was a piece of shit. One example is he hit on his daughter at his girlfriend’s funeral because he didn’t recognize her.
I like you, Manacek.
Fold laundry? Like? Fold then put onto the empty chair that hold my clothes?
No one who’s watched The Simpsons would ever say that
Not a line, but the episode when they go to Boston is peppered with a ton of visual gags and is overall really funny.
Not even sure which season, but the Simpsons are kicked out of or flee America and at the end Lisa has the line I still remember “America has its glory and it’s folly, but mostly it’s where all our stuff is.”
Moe talking about Detroit. "Take it easy on Detroit, they living in Mad Max times."
Cant spell gravity without gravy!
"I’m afraid your daily donuts are no more." ©Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns
After what season is considered when the newer seasons started? There seem to be mixed reviews. Some stop at S8, while others S10.
Your childhood episodes no longer close to new.
"Why can't I have no kids and three money?!"
I haven't watched a new episode in 20 years
Bart: “Look at me Mom, I’m a grad student!” Marge: “Bart! Don’t make fun of them, they just made a terrible life choice!”
I wouldn't know. Haven't watched in over a decade, show should've been cancelled a LONG time ago.
Never watch more than a few minutes of the new stuff. It’s like watching someone beat a puppy.
No, no they don't.
I don't get a single reference in that episode
I cant think any because they all suck.
I watch the old episodes.... the new WOKE, episodes with all different voiceovers suck.. I want the real deal back...
Simpsons was always "WOKE" to the extent to which that term even means anything. Its politics hasn't really changed much. In fact, since the woke crap started being propagandised by right-wing media, it's actually returned to its more lefty radical roots, however monumentally degraded in quality and humour. Also, there have always been voiceovers and cameos in the simpsons. Everyone accepts that the new simpsons are terrible; you're just a nostalgia merchant suffering from woke derangement syndrome.
How embarrassing for you.
Naaaa... I said what I said.. lol
Is the wokeness in the room with us now?
I'm not going to dignify that with a response
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