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This phase of the thread's existence kinda reminds me of Alan Moore trashing every Doctor after William Hartnell.
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Behind The Laughter serves as a nice retroactive series endpoint, at least for me. The next couple seasons had some funny individual episodes but I definitely wasn't going out of the way to watch every one.
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I feel like after the golden age there's a long phase of "good enough to watch when bored, with some occasional goldies". Not so much a quality thing but an era delineator, but I've always viewed that tall tales episode with the hobo as the end of the show I grew up with. Mostly because I think it was the last episode not done in HD or something? Actually, come to think of it, those anthology episodes kinda crept in at the start of the decline...
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This was the first episode I was kinda meh on. It's a solid episode with some good jokes, but it's probably my least favorite of golden age What should the name be for the declining seasons, like 9-12. Bronze age?
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Mind Loving Owl posted:I feel like after the golden age there's a long phase of "good enough to watch when bored, with some occasional goldies". Not so much a quality thing but an era delineator, but I've always viewed that tall tales episode with the hobo as the end of the show I grew up with. Mostly because I think it was the last episode not done in HD or something? Nah, that was the last episode of season 12, and they didn't go HD until season 20.
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Mind Loving Owl posted:This phase of the thread's existence kinda reminds me of Alan Moore trashing every Doctor after William Hartnell.
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Behind the Laughter is basically the series finale for me. The ending is just too perfect, “The Simpsons are going to Delaware!”. They knew of the decades of suffering to follow. It’s kind of bone chilling, in fact.
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I like to use the production codes to decide what fits in classic Simpsons vs post-classic. The classic series used the four character production codes while post-classic uses the XABF## codes. The means Bart the Mother (episode 5F22) the series finale of classic Simpsons. It also happens to be Phil Hartman's final episode which is also a good enough to reason to consider it the end of an era.LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:Absolutely do not watch the Poochy episode with commentary turned on, the writers get a bit salty.
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Apr 14, 2019 15:23
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J-Spot posted:Probably not as salty as the nerds on alt.tv.simpsons were at the time. They did not take being lampooned by the show in good humor. Well now how on earth am I supposed to picture that happening except exactly the way the show did it.
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I was a huge simpsons fan. Watched two episodes a day when I was a kid. I don't think it had a downfall, I guess I just grew out of it. Kids made fun of me because I always had a simpsons quote. Then one day I stopped watching it. poo poo happens
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Apr 14, 2019 17:32
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You stopped watching because the show became bad.
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steinrokkan posted:You stopped watching because the show became bad. for sure, but it became bad for me at a different time than anyone else
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Apr 14, 2019 18:03
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I think most people continued some time into the bad seasons just out of habit / inertia.
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J-Spot posted:I like to use the production codes to decide what fits in classic Simpsons vs post-classic. The classic series used the four character production codes while post-classic uses the XABF## codes. The means Bart the Mother (episode 5F22) the series finale of classic Simpsons. It also happens to be Phil Hartman's final episode which is also a good enough to reason to consider it the end of an era. when winter rolled around, the simpsons simply froze to death
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steinrokkan posted:I think most people continued some time into the bad seasons just out of habit / inertia. I for sure did
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I was also a two-a-day Simpsons watcher. The first thing you have to realize is that in the late nineties and early aughts, the syndicated episodes were really only pulling from 1-12 with the majority being firmly in golden era territory. Then at some point I left for college and cable was something we paid for but didn't use because we were supposed to be adults. On odd occasion we'd use the fledgling streaming services but they didn't have anything of value. So it was the odd Sunday that we'd remember we had free network TV and we'd watch the Simpsons. And it was awful. We'd only finish episodes out of morbid curiosity. I've never looked back.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I was also a two-a-day Simpsons watcher. The first thing you have to realize is that in the late nineties and early aughts, the syndicated episodes were really only pulling from 1-12 with the majority being firmly in golden era territory. I think the first time I decided that I don't want to watch the Simpsons anymore was the 25 anniversary episode
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That's like a long time after I stopped.
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Atlas Hugged posted:That's like a long time after I stopped. dude, I really liked the Simpsons
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steinrokkan posted:I think most people continued some time into the bad seasons just out of habit / inertia. I stopped at like 13 and feel that was the perfect place to stop.
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I used to tolerate up to 12, then it was 11. Now I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to enjoy 9.
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SeANMcBAY posted:I stopped at like 13 and feel that was the perfect place to stop. nahh, I was 20
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I remember I stopped watching when it seemed like most of the episodes were going the route of the early-'00s version of clickbait, where they'd try to draw viewers in by teasing certain plots, like Homer/Ned marrying new people or Marge getting a boob job. At that point, the show seemed so loose and disjointed. They weren't really doing episodes that explored characters like Hurricane Neddy did, instead opting for "Who is Ned dating now?!?!?" types of episodes.
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Plan Z posted:I remember I stopped watching when it seemed like most of the episodes were going the route of the early-'00s version of clickbait, where they'd try to draw viewers in by teasing certain plots, like Homer/Ned marrying new people or Marge getting a boob job. At that point, the show seemed so loose and disjointed. They weren't really doing episodes that explored characters like Hurricane Neddy did, instead opting for "Who is Ned dating now?!?!?" types of episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=surkCGT2emA
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I think the first time I decided that I don't want to watch the Simpsons anymore was the 25 anniversary episode i don't know when they happened chronologically, but my quitting point was either that stupid sideshow bob italy episode with the little kid who kept screaming "vendetta", or the episode that was literally the exact same as the jessica lovejoy episode except not as funny & with a different girl
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YeahTubaMike posted:i don't know when they happened chronologically, but my quitting point was either that stupid sideshow bob italy episode with the little kid who kept screaming "vendetta", or the episode that was literally the exact same as the jessica lovejoy episode except not as funny & with a different girl I am pretty sure Itay is a nazi
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I watched The Simpsons since the first season. While I mentioned the World’s Fair episode is when I thought things were going in a wrong direction, I stuck it out to How I Spent My Strummer Vacation. At that point, I stopped watching. My parents, who watched The Simpsons since season one as well, stopped watching a couple years later.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-WFK7iKPb0 france fuckin rules Mumpy Puffinz fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Apr 14, 2019 |
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Mono! Uy!
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Saint Drogo posted:iirc the second doctor met fairytale characters without trying to gently caress their brains out, that's jumping the shark to him. lol was that a thing that used to happen in Doctor Who
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BIG MEATY SHITS posted:do either of u feel like summarising so we dont have to listen to a three hour podcast about a twenty minute episode? Just skip through the parts where they invent stuff to get offended about 20 years after the fact and it’s down to a clean 35 minutes.
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J-Spot posted:I like to use the production codes to decide what fits in classic Simpsons vs post-classic. The classic series used the four character production codes while post-classic uses the XABF## codes. The means Bart the Mother (episode 5F22) the series finale of classic Simpsons. It also happens to be Phil Hartman's final episode which is also a good enough to reason to consider it the end of an era. Having Bart explain to the audience stand in that The Simpsons provides years of high quality entertainment for free(lol) and if anything we owe them was not really in good humor.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I was also a two-a-day Simpsons watcher. The first thing you have to realize is that in the late nineties and early aughts, the syndicated episodes were really only pulling from 1-12 with the majority being firmly in golden era territory. The real golden age was like Season 7-9 when there was new Simpsons that didn't suck and also when you got home from school every day there'd be a syndicated episode at 6 that also ruled.
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:Having Bart explain to the audience stand in that The Simpsons provides years of high quality entertainment for free(lol) and if anything we owe them was not really in good humor. yeah that scene is kinda a letdown in an otherwise excellent episode
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Improbable Lobster posted:yeah that scene is kinda a letdown in an otherwise excellent episode that was the poochie episode wasn't it. I think everything the characters said should be taken with a grain of salt
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I feel like that bit from the Poochie episode looks bad in hindsight if you think about how bad the show's gotten, but if you only consider the show up to and around that point, it's fair e: yeah, that was season 8, "thank the writers for having given you seasons 1-7 to watch for free" is a fair statement
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It looks bad even without taking the later seasons into account because it (deliberately?) misrepresents the business model of network TV. It's only "free" in the same sense that something like Facebook is free, where the company providing the service is making money off your use of their platform. I'm not going to go so far as to say the people who were making the Simpsons owe the viewers anything, but the show would not exist and those same people would not be getting paid if people did not watch their show, and to make it seem like they're providing you with entertainment out of the goodness of their hearts comes off like some weird martyr poo poo.
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The last episode I remember watching before I stopped was the one where Maude died. I was already losing interest and that one, something about it just told me enough was enough and the simpsons were all dead also.
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