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I think that one Season 12 episode where the schoolkids are snowed at Springfield Elementary is a gem in the pile of crap that is post-Season 9/10, but that's it
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Jun 9, 2023 02:31
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History Comes Inside! posted:Have another kid and start them off on modern Simpsons, your test is flawed because you started them off on what you already liked so that also became “their” Simpsons. The ethics committee (my wife) would never approve of that sort of child abuse for the sake of scientific research.
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Jun 9, 2023 02:33
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Bill Posters posted:My kids (7 & 9) started watching from the beginning after being shown one of the golden age episodes. Their interest petered out right around season 12 so I don't think age has much to do with it. My 10 year old daughter watched from season 2 up until season 9 or 10 and then lost interest. She tried watching the new ones and just said "they're not good".
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Jun 9, 2023 02:46
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Wayne Knight posted:
This will be the first thing I think when that day comes. Who am I kidding, he will outlive us all.
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Jun 9, 2023 03:28
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Pththya-lyi posted:I think that one Season 12 episode where the schoolkids are snowed at Springfield Elementary is a gem in the pile of crap that is post-Season 9/10, but that's it Oh man, the Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was episode is that late? Guess that explains the DVD joke.
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Jun 9, 2023 04:01
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Pththya-lyi posted:I think that one Season 12 episode where the schoolkids are snowed at Springfield Elementary is a gem in the pile of crap that is post-Season 9/10, but that's it The ballsack and airbag jokes are both pretty good.
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Jun 9, 2023 04:30
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The exact point at which the Simpsons became bad is season 10 episode 5, "When You Dish Upon A Star," the episode where Homer becomes a personal assistant to Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. There are some good episodes after that, but that's where the show as a whole stopped being good and it never recovered afterwards.
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Jun 9, 2023 07:25
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the last episode of the show is behind the laughter. there were no more episodes after that, good or bad.
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Jun 9, 2023 07:57
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Sagebrush posted:Alec Baldwin 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPrv_n7DNls
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I've said it before, but Ultimate Simpsons in a Big Ol' Box is the entombed and sealed away canon of the show. Main book 1-8 where you have rise to prominence and perfection, one supplement of 9-10 when the sheen starts to wear off, and then one supplement of 11-12 where it's clear it's on the verge of falling apart. That's it. That's the Simpsons.
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Jun 9, 2023 15:52
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Cael posted:I've said it before, but Ultimate Simpsons in a Big Ol' Box is the entombed and sealed away canon of the show. Main book 1-8 where you have rise to prominence and perfection, one supplement of 9-10 when the sheen starts to wear off, and then one supplement of 11-12 where it's clear it's on the verge of falling apart. That's it. That's the Simpsons. Tried to figure out if that's the one I have, I just have the 1 - 8 book somewhere
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Jun 9, 2023 15:57
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I recently watched season 13-14 for some reason, and while there are some really stinky plots, like the awful Frank Grimes jr. episode, and too many of them just ends on a non-sequitor. There are at least some decent jokes here and there. The last 20 or so seasons however are just dull and lifeless slogs.
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Jun 9, 2023 16:26
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Cael posted:I've said it before, but Ultimate Simpsons in a Big Ol' Box is the entombed and sealed away canon of the show. Main book 1-8 where you have rise to prominence and perfection, one supplement of 9-10 when the sheen starts to wear off, and then one supplement of 11-12 where it's clear it's on the verge of falling apart. That's it. That's the Simpsons. I’m still convinced the season 1-8 book is partly responsible for everyone saying those are the peak seasons, since everyone had that book and during those years, those were the episodes being most heavily replayed. 9/10 and 11/12 are still more good than bad to me, even if they aren’t perfect or hitting the highs of previous seasons. After that is where it falls off pretty quickly and 15/16 has some of the lowest points and are where I mostly bailed.
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From the regular ol' meme thread: https://twitter.com/sreddi_515/status/1667053285054857216?s=46&t=crshEc6ZJO1zh40ZDAIfPQ
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I think I recognized the show had turned a bad corner when the psychic waiter predicts what Homer wants by going, "I'm sensing you want A…B…" and Homer interrupts to say, "BEER! How'd you know?" This was a decent joke about psychics tricking their marks into giving them information, but apparently somebody thought the audience wouldn't get it, so they animated Homer's beer gut bursting out of his shirt, immediately retroactively ruining the original joke.
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https://twitter.com/lukeisamazing/status/1667252751905030144
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In the replies https://twitter.com/fewgene2/status/1667275764088094720?t=rxLf5PwVROYc9VWM32_zMg&s=19 
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Jun 9, 2023 22:16
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It is a very exploitable background:
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CPColin posted:I think I recognized the show had turned a bad corner when the psychic waiter predicts what Homer wants by going, "I'm sensing you want A…B…" and Homer interrupts to say, "BEER! How'd you know?"
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fartknocker posted:I’m still convinced the season 1-8 book is partly responsible for everyone saying those are the peak seasons, since everyone had that book and during those years, those were the episodes being most heavily replayed. There's some real truth to that but at the same time you can't force the kinds of remixing footprint S2-8 have had, and it can't all just be inertia from memorization. To a degree it's an impossible question to answer because those seasons became woven into the DNA of so many who came up after. But it can't all just be that.
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Jun 9, 2023 22:56
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InsertPotPun posted:there was a joke about moe being a plumber or some such and he hands homer a card and it freezes on that frame while moe reads the card out loud. at some point the simpsons writers decided the show was for children Like Martin's line about twigs being literally explained in text on screen.
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mind the walrus posted:There's some real truth to that but at the same time you can't force the kinds of remixing footprint S2-8 have had, and it can't all just be inertia from memorization. To a degree it's an impossible question to answer because those seasons became woven into the DNA of so many who came up after. But it can't all just be that. Oh yeah, just to be clear, I'm not disputing that those seasons are phenomenal. They are, and there's a stretch of several years in those first 8 seasons that you can argue is some of the greatest TV ever made. I meant more that "the Simpsons stopped being good after season 8" is a take that feels like it's been around for 20 years at this point, if not longer. While they probably aren't the biggest factors (The fact that those seasons simply are so great probably is the biggest), I do think the impact of A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family covering those seasons is a part of what reinforced that idea and it usually doesn't come up when the subject is discussed. It came out back in the day before you could just google and find every script/screenshot or the entire episodes themselves, so it was the big end guide for a lot of fans (Or rather, before most people would think of going online for that - I know poo poo like The Simpsons Archive goes back to usenet or whatever). I still have my beat up copy on a shelf somewhere, and remember it being brought on road trips or taken to school, it being passed around for people to read quotes or chalkboard gags or whatever. I think reruns probably played a bigger role than the books, since I know for myself and a lot of my friends who are huge fans of the show, it wasn't necessarily watching the first run episodes on Fox that was our first exposure to the show or really got us into it, it was daily reruns on WB or whatever where there'd be an hour of them every weeknight. I know my local WB (Later CW) station was always a season behind what was currently airing new on Fox, so if Fox was doing season 10, they had seasons 1-9 just cycling through reruns for an hour every weeknight at 5PM. That was how I was mostly exposed to the show, and for something like that, you got to see those early seasons over and over and over for years until the peak years were outweighed by stuff that maybe wasn't as good.
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fartknocker posted:Oh yeah, just to be clear, I'm not disputing that those seasons are phenomenal. They are, and there's a stretch of several years in those first 8 seasons that you can argue is some of the greatest TV ever made. Yeah same. The first episode I ever really watched was the Australia one, I was still a kid so before then I just assumed I wasn't allowed. I still remember me and my sister just losing our poo poo for the rest of the night. I don't know what it was, but koalas made it good. So this was our new thing and we would watch it whenever it was on, and it was on a lot, at least twice a day on Fox and probably more ways I didn't know about and don't remember. Simpsons didn't tank until like 2002 and I started in like 1997, so that was for me just mainlining golden age Simpsons and there wasn't any bad ones. Since TV is what I did instead of having friends, I ended up practically memorizing it. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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definitely not drunkposting
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We wish.
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The last episode I remember watching when it was aired was the grocery store bag boy strike leads to a Jane Goodall parody using chimpanzees as labor in her diamond mine. That was S12E17. I held on way too long, but I was also a dumb 16 year old, hoping that S10 to that point was just a low patch.
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I watched until probably something like season 14, but I was aware that it loving sucked at that point. I remember the first episode that I recognized as being bad was the Halloween episode with the dolphins. I remember that Jane Goodall one, there was a bad Paul Simon joke and then fake Jane Goodall starts yelling "DI-A-MONDS!" and that pronunciation has lived rent free in my head for 20ish years.
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I remember the very last one I even tried with was the one where Tony Hawk showed up.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I watched until probably something like season 14, but I was aware that it loving sucked at that point. I remember the first episode that I recognized as being bad was the Halloween episode with the dolphins. Animus memory unlocked
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The two episodes that I remember most clearly made me go "Ugh, this has gotten bad" were from season 16. The first was Don't Fear the Roofer (S16E16) had Ray Romano, who I can't stand, and was incredibly dumb and annoying. The other was the last episode of the season, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star (S16E21), which I remember had some really stupid lines in it. I knew the show had been declining before that, but momentum kept me watching it for a long time, since 8PM on Sundays was just Simpsons time, no questions asked. I think the last first run episode I watched as it aired was G.I. D'oh (S18E5), as I know I was still sorta watching the show after the movie came out, but remember that episode just being awful. I still occasionally saw episodes after that if there wasn't a good football game on or as background noise or OnDemand out of boredom. Looking on Wikipedia, I definitely remember a few episodes from season 19 (The infamous That 90's Show episode and The Debarted), but I don't recall anything from 20 or 21, so I had to have stopped completely by then.
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Not an interesting choice but it was Maude dying for me. Even as a dumb kid I didn’t understand why they were disrespecting that character for seemingly no reason. It was even stupider when I learned the reason years later.
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InsertPotPun posted:there was a joke about moe being a plumber or some such and he hands homer a card and it freezes on that frame while moe reads the card out loud. at some point the simpsons writers decided the show was for children It's probably overly generous to suspect they have a character read text like that so it can be translated for the non-English dubs
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Baron von Eevl posted:... and then fake Jane Goodall starts yelling "DI-A-MONDS!" and that pronunciation has lived rent free in my head for 20ish years. I, uh, definitely bust out that pronunciation any opportunity I can.
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Want to know what is the latest episode of The Simpsons is on Frinkiac.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Want to know what is the latest episode of The Simpsons is on Frinkiac. https://frinkiac.com/faq posted:What seasons are available?
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SeANMcBAY posted:Not an interesting choice but it was Maude dying for me. Even as a dumb kid I didn’t understand why they were disrespecting that character for seemingly no reason. It was even stupider when I learned the reason years later. Wait, what was the reason?
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Well then let it be known anything after season 17 is not worth meme'ing, therefore bad episodes.
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