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forward pass posted:The season after the Who Shot Mr. Burns? cliffhanger was when I tuned out. Every episode seemed to revolve around an unfunny celebrity guest and I just didn't care anymore. Phil Hartman dying didn't help, either. This. Armin Tamzarian and any Lisa episodes are bad, sure. But celebrity guests appearing as themselves are what turned the Simpsons into irredeemable garbage. Mel Gibson was the first I can remember.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the mel gibson episode was very funny tho. Compared to the Lady Gaga one I guess. There were probably a few decent writers still on staff, the Mel Gibson episode just always stood out to me as the glaring example of when the focus of the show shifted.
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Groovelord Neato posted:nah it's very funny. not just in comparison to gaga. I'm not just comparing it to gaga, I'm also comparing it to the episode with Hank Scorpio. And Mel Gibson is no Hank Scorpio. I might be extra hard on it, but I distinctly remember feeling after I watched it that the family had changed from the Simpsons into The Simpsons™
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I want to change my vote to the lady and the tramp bit. That is the worst.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:People who say they are Simpsons fans but actually hate 40-80% of their "favorite show" and are constantly spouting off about the fact are garbage, and it shouldn't be socially acceptable. have you not clicked on any of the links in this thread? also talking about the simpsons isn't socially acceptable thats why were doing it here
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Ork of Fiction posted:The funniest thing that the Simpsons have ever done is produce nearly two decades of absolute poo poo without losing the majority of their audience.  To be fair I think all tv as a whole has had a similar decline. E: from here: http://toddwschneider.com/posts/the-simpsons-by-the-data/ which has a lot of other neat graphs and poo poo like this algorithmically derived list of the most important phrases in each episode: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XETUC97k1AvVPwqGnPuSPnWVtMrk2YhO8aHbo53RcoU/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true Dogmeat fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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Ork of Fiction posted:Yeah, as of ~2010 you need streaming #s to get a real picture of what's going on. So if, 1:10 of Hulu's 12 mil subscribers watches the Simpsons, that's still significant. He mentions in the article the streaming data was pointing to the older episodes getting more play.
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I think it came on after the Super Bowl that year.
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YeahTubaMike posted:Which episode was that? I don't remember that plotline. Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles They go to a spa and all fall in some mud that turns them into teenagers I think? Leela is happy to spend some time with her parents as a teen, but the rest of the cast tries to fix the issue, but it fails and they become even younger. Leela babysits them. The professor has a dumb gargoyle that saves them all at the end when they get stuck in the fountain of aging.
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WeaponX posted:I hate to do this to you guys but I’ve seen it and now you all have to. It’s very real 
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