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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 19:30:10 GMT
They're all good. It's just conventional internet hipster wisdom that the "good seasons" were somewhere between the first six and the first ten, and it just depends on when you personally were at the right age to discover and most enjoy the show. I could say, "It was SOOO much better from 1994 to 1999, when I watched it every Sunday on Fox!" Or I could realize that if anything's changed, it's me. Not The Simpsons, which is every bit as funny as it always was. I don't know. Something about the pacing changed after season 7. If you watch the season 3 episodes (season 2 is great too but it was 3 where the series hit its stride), they just had pitch perfect comedic timing. The Simpsons had a rapid fire pace but not in the same "throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks" way that Family Guy did. It's boom, joke, boom, joke, boom, joke, with finely-honed rhythm and the whole time they're slowly setting jokes up and paying them off exactly on time to the springy beat. After season 7 or so, though, it seemed like they started getting tired. The episodes weren't as energetic. It's like when your dog starts getting old and even though he's still happy and willing to play around, he doesn't have the same gusto he used to, doesn't bring the ball back as quickly, doesn't squeeze his toy as enthusiastically. It was noticeable to me at the time that they were running out of steam and fresh ideas. It may have changed later on but I stopped watching around season 9 or so. It just didn't feel as lively and the show started to become a caricature of itself. That's just my opinion, though. Like I said, I'm sure there were some great episodes after that time and perhaps the show got its second wind. I just don't think you could top the energy and timing of the early seasons. They were truly awe-inspiring. |
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Post by ratboy on Mar 21, 2017 19:37:45 GMT
Are you a firm believer in the "Season 1 thru 9/10 were the show's Golden Era" idea or do you believe that the show had some good seasons/episodes left to offer "post-Golden Era"? I'm eagerly awaiting your responses. 😀 Matt Groening was once asked about the perception that the show quality has declined over the years. He responded, saying if the show ran for 1,000 years, he's sure there would be fans saying the last 500 seasons sucked compared to the first 500. |
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Post by deviates on Mar 21, 2017 19:47:56 GMT
In my opinion, the show went downhil after the two-parter "Who Shot Mr. Burns?". I agree. It was clearly a jump-the-shark moment. I cant believe its still on the air. Nobody watches it. The youngest voice actors are old enough to be grandparents right now. They are really beating a dead horse Family Guy was always a smarter series and I even stopped watching that since they got way to left leaning. It always turned me off when I found out that the voices of bart and lisa were both actresses who were scientologists. Family Guy seems to rely on repeating the same jokes. I thought that show got old very quickly. I was surprised when I saw more recent Simpsons episode and it was actually better. I'm not sure if I can see how a cartoon can ever have a 'jump the shark moment', but maybe that's just me. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 20:08:59 GMT
I agree. It was clearly a jump-the-shark moment. I cant believe its still on the air. Nobody watches it. The youngest voice actors are old enough to be grandparents right now. They are really beating a dead horse Family Guy was always a smarter series and I even stopped watching that since they got way to left leaning. It always turned me off when I found out that the voices of bart and lisa were both actresses who were scientologists. Family Guy seems to rely on repeating the same jokes. I thought that show got old very quickly. I was surprised when I saw more recent Simpsons episode and it was actually better. I'm not sure if I can see how a cartoon can ever have a 'jump the shark moment', but maybe that's just me. I dont see why it cant. Jump the shark means using a gimmick or unlikely occurrence that is seen as a desperate attempt to keep viewers' interest. |
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Post by pennypacker on Mar 21, 2017 22:27:25 GMT
General consensus is seasons 1-9/10ish.
Honestly though, I'm one of the few (million) that still finds The Simpsons reasonably enjoyable. They're way past their peak, yes, but can still be entertaining.
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Post by DSDSquared on Mar 22, 2017 12:22:47 GMT
Family Guy is absolutely terrible in every way.
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Post by bondfan90 on Mar 22, 2017 13:35:39 GMT
Seasons 2-10, are my personal favourites. It was from season 2 that the Simpson's started to find their feet in terms of writing. I think it's from 11 onwards, that the quality of the writing started to drop and it was a chore to sit through. I am fond of season 1's Homer's Night Out. It was the first episode that tested the strength of Homer and Marge's marriage.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 16:43:27 GMT
1-10. It's been absolutely dreadful for the past five years, but then I still watch it lol. Classics were just on another planet.
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Post by OmegaWolf747 on Mar 29, 2017 14:35:30 GMT
I'd say seasons 1-10 were the best. To me, The Simpsons lost its charm after Homer started rejecting Maggie by calling her "Other Kid" and "The Baby" instead of by her name, when Phil Hartman's death forced them to remove Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure from the show and when it became more about the celebrity of the week than about the eponymous family it was supposed to portray.
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Post by LeWildPlatypus on Mar 29, 2017 14:53:00 GMT
Seasons 1-7 were the funniest, Seasons 8-9 are still highly entertaining but not as funny.
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Post by someguy on Nov 21, 2017 14:10:03 GMT
Honestly, I did not care for season 1 except for "Krusty Gets Busted". 2 was good but not great. 3 was the beginning of true greatness, with 8 being my favorite season. After 10 it declined gradually, but it's hard to pinpoint a last good season.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Nov 21, 2017 14:17:45 GMT
I haven't watched it in a long time, but only because I haven't watched TV shows in real time for a long time, and then I started wanting to watch shows I liked in order, from the beginning. I never really got around to trying to do that with the Simpsons, though I'd like to.
At any rate, I certainly watched it semi-regularly through at least the early 2000s, and I've seen episodes past that here and there. I never felt that the show lost anything when it came to the episodes I watched.
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Post by novastar6 on Nov 21, 2017 14:27:57 GMT
Tracy Ullman shorts, and when they got Michael Jackson on it.
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Post by Marv on Nov 21, 2017 16:35:52 GMT
When I was a kid.
I'm guessing it's just me not finding the same things amusing as I did when I was a wee lad but I tried to rewatch early Simpson seasons a few years back and I couldn't get thru them.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 23, 2017 0:01:08 GMT
When I was a kid. I'm guessing it's just me not finding the same things amusing as I did when I was a wee lad but I tried to rewatch early Simpson seasons a few years back and I couldn't get thru them. This happens to me too but not with The Simpsons. I am 34 and I still love re-watching the first 9 seasons. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 23, 2017 1:48:43 GMT
Not really a fan of the first season. Rarely rewatch them.
I think the two things that were the sign of a decline were the Frank Grimes episode and the death of Phil Hartman.
The Mike Scully years (early 200s?) were the most tedious. I stuck with it until a couple years ago, still some funny episodes in recent times but it just got repetitive.
Something about the earliest scenes were cutting edge and enduring.
"I am beginning to suspect you are in cahoots with him Smithers, I seem to recall you had a penchant for bell bottomed trousers, back in ’79.”
“Sir, that was my costume from the plant production of HMS Pinafore.”
“Oh, yes, of course. Your spirited hornpipe stole the show as I recall.”
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