Simpsons: Why won't you just STOP?

[Goofguy]

Episode 15 of this season was quite possibly the worst episode I've seen in the show's almost 22 season long run. However, I find that there are still great episodes put out from time to time, they're just fewer and more far between than they were 10+ years ago.

I guess I'd say that I wouldn't want it canceled but that's only because I desperately hope we'll get a season on par with the older stuff (silly me, I know).

 

[manaman]

The show died on Season 19. All it is now is a zombie.
No show has ever lived for 21 years, and it's long enough time for a show to run completely out of ideas. The technological advancements in making the episodes made the show lost its cartoony flexibility and freedom, it's too real now.

Matt Groening, FOX, put the show to rest. It's gone through enough.

What about Doctor Who?

It has being run for a fair bit longer than 21 years.
And it most certainly not run out of ideas.

Except that show has not run continuously, and has little continuity between the incarnations. Unlike the simpsons which has 21 seasons with the same characters, no breaks, and twice as many episodes a season.

 

[Gitty101]

There's nothing funnier then 'Classic' Simpsons.

However, the new stuff is utter crap. I've stopped warching, just to preserve the good memories I have of that show.

*Sigh* Why Fox, why?

 

[Nemu]

Been watching the show since it started, and while it certainly has had its atrocious years, it's not as bad as the folks who routinely ***** about it like to make us all believe.
Sure it was better back in the day, but I'd still take it over 95% of network television[footnote]Granted, I don't watch network television, but there's a reason for that...[/footnote].

Folks just like to gripe about something, and since The Simpsons is still popular, it has a big target. *shrug*

 

[Sprinal]

-snip-

What about Doctor Who?

It has being run for a fair bit longer than 21 years.
And it most certainly not run out of ideas.

Except that show has not run continuously, and has little continuity between the incarnations. Unlike the simpsons which has 21 seasons with the same characters, no breaks, and twice as many episodes a season.

I will give you that.

It's just you did say that nothing can last 21 seasons.
No more specifics....

Anyway How does the Simpsons have much continuity? There have been over 400 episodes where most of them cover a longer period than one day. So should Bart at least be in the 5th grade by now? So continuity...

But simpsons is dead you are right. Yet it still stands and earns cash. Where good series get the boot and fall apart

 

[Lilani]

WHY, Simpsons?! Why are you letting this show go down into crap? Why can't you just end the show NOW, with whatever dignity it has left?!

Four words: It still makes money.

Networks and producers don't like to cut outrageously popular franchises, especially for the sake of artistic integrity. Quite frankly, they don't even know the meaning of the word "integrity." As long as it makes them money, they're going to bleed it dry.

And the reason the Simpsons has lasted so much longer than other outrageously popular franchises (like say, Lost) is because The Simpsons doesn't have some overarching plot that requires a definite end. But hey, look at Friends! It lasted a while, but it finally ended and it was still popular when it ended! But Friends wasn't animated. Animated characters aren't subject to things such as aging or appearance changes--unless their creators want them to.

Also, voice acting is much less involved than live acting. Voice actors tend to have much more spare time and can pursue many other goals while still being a full-time character on a syndicated TV show. Live actors...not so much. I guess you could say it's easier for live actors to get "burnt out" than voice actors.

In other words, The Simpsons has the perfect format for being a long-term franchise. So, until the fan outrage hits a level that is too difficult to ignore, or its creators have some sort of epiphany, it will keep doing what it's doing until Judgment Day.

 

[Nazulu]

Hehe, its funny how people like to think that their personal feelings matter.

Too bad its all about the green (or whatever colour a country's money is. The Simpsons are marketable. Either:
1)Shut the hell up about it and get used it to it, cause no one wants to hear you have a pity party.
2)Shut the hell up about it and stop watching it, cause no one wants to hear you have a pity party.

Your the reason we hate the show even more than usual and the reason we ignore the people with low standards, so go take your own medicine ya jerk! Seriously, do you think telling people to shut the hell up is going to work? It's more likely to piss us of more.

maybe its just that you are growing up and your tastes are changing. like you said most people under 20 propably grew up watching the simpsons. name another activity or show that you liked when you were 5 or 10 and still like now? nothing comes to my mind. i still find the simpsons funny and ill watch them but if i have anything else to do at the time ill record and watch it later.

No, no, no and no. It's an artistic standard thing, we still find the old episodes hilarious and really clever, nothing to with nostalgia at all (well, maybe some). Fuck, I can still watch most of the old shows I used to watch (and I do).

Why do you think there are so many people criticising the new seasons and wanting it stop? You probably think of it as a different opinion (and it is), but it has mostly to do with the quality plummeting.

I know this doesn't prove anything but it's not our tastes changing.

 

[Small Waves]

I have no clue why I have been seeing more Simpsons hate now than I have been in the past few years. After an extremely bumpy start (three Lisa episodes? Seriously?), the episodes for this season kick the living shit out of the last three or four we had. This is the first time in YEARS where I have been looking forward to new episodes instead of tuning in at 8 PM on Sunday's begrudgingly with low expectations that turn out not to be low enough to avoid disappointment.

 

[Rayne870]

Because if they did stop Seth Mcfarline would run out of jokes and plots.

 

[Rad Party God]

Speaking of continuity with The Simpsons in the same line is almost baffling. It's the same show that made one of it's flashback episodes about the nineties... Yes, it kinda keeps it's continuity, but really, it's a shambling corpse right now.

I don't have the luxurity of hearing the same voices in the past 20 years. There was I time when I was really proud of having amazing voice actors for the mexican dubbing for The Simpsons, they were even handpicked by Matt Groening himself, but since season 15, there was a strike with the original actors and they quitted, naturally, they were replaced and for me, the show simply plummeted.

When I watch some of the new episodes, I don't laugh at all, not even a grin and even sometimes I watch the show with disgust and I simply turn the TV off.

There are reruns of older seasons and I still laugh quite hard, when it still had the original cast of actors.

I agree, we need to take that stick from FOX so that they no longer are hitting a dead, rotten horse. That, or simply stop watching it.

 

[manaman]

-snip-

What about Doctor Who?

It has being run for a fair bit longer than 21 years.
And it most certainly not run out of ideas.

Except that show has not run continuously, and has little continuity between the incarnations. Unlike the simpsons which has 21 seasons with the same characters, no breaks, and twice as many episodes a season.

I will give you that.

It's just you did say that nothing can last 21 seasons.
No more specifics....

Anyway How does the Simpsons have much continuity? There have been over 400 episodes where most of them cover a longer period than one day. So should Bart at least be in the 5th grade by now? So continuity...

But simpsons is dead you are right. Yet it still stands and earns cash. Where good series get the boot and fall apart

I didn't say no show could last 21 seasons, obviously a show can as the simpsons has done it. The person that said that is whoever you responded too.

So what if the show isn't as good as it once was to some people. It's obviously good enough for enough people to keep the show going.

 

[MercurySteam]

I'm sticking to Family Guy and American Dad. That's still funny.

 

[Macgyvercas]

As Yahtzee once said: "The star that shines brightest is all the more glorious for it's brevity, or to bring to the layman's terms, the Simpsons has been running for 21 seasons and hasn't been good since the fifth."

But I suppose if it gets ratings, the station will keep it around.

 

[blankedboy]

I don't really care, it's still got some good jokes going strong. Some of it's terrible, sure, but the older stuff had its own shit moments.

 

[tthor]

The show is dead now and all that remains is a corpse animated by the radioactive power of green papers with the faces of US presidents on them.

Spoiler: indeed

well, lets go get our shotguns and chainsaws, it looks like we have work to do..

Edit:

I'm sticking to Family Guy and American Dad. That's still funny.

personally, i find most of family guy to be shit. american dad on the other hand I really enjoy. i guess overall I'm a southpark man myself

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Hehe, its funny how people like to think that their personal feelings matter.

Too bad its all about the green (or whatever colour a country's money is. The Simpsons are marketable. Either:
1)Shut the hell up about it and get used it to it, cause no one wants to hear you have a pity party.
2)Shut the hell up about it and stop watching it, cause no one wants to hear you have a pity party.

Hilariously apt, sir. Hey, you ought to write for The Simps- Reminds me of an old Offspring song, "Cool to Hate."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkRJzErnRmY
"I hate the jocks
And I hate the geeks
I hate the trendies
But I also hate the freaks
I hate your band
And I hate TV
I'm only happy when I'm in my misery"

If you like that sort of thing. Which you probably don't.

 

[Souplex]

I'm sticking to Family Guy and American Dad. That's still funny.

Family Guy declined faster than the Simpsons. Started better though. The moral of the story is you can't bring back the dead, you just get a zombie. Happened with Family Guy, happened with Futurama. Everyone who made Family Guy good has since moved on to American Dad.

 

[emeraldrafael]

<youtube=PkRJzErnRmY>

Your avatar is hilariously appropriate for some reason.

And hate what? The Offspring? No, I love the offspring. One of my break up banners was Self Esteem. And my mother always played Why dont you get a job when I went through a three month period after the place I worked at fired me for BS reasons (said I was liable to hurt some 300 lb guy when I wasnt even 130 at the time).

I like pretty much any angsty nineties music, or nineties rock music in general.

Also, snipped your post and left the vid, incase anyone wants to listen and doesnt want to make the effort to go to youtube (yes, there are people that lazy).