A cool guide The Decline of the Simpsons

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HowManyNimons@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Those outliers in the golden era seasons are all clip shows.

Geek_King@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Having grown up with Simpsons, it makes me sad to see it visualized that Simpsons has been awful much longer then it was actually good.

alekwithak@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
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deadsenator@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y

A bit sad, yes. However, this image does somewhat validate my decision to stop watching after season 13. When the DVDs were selling, I bought up to that season as well. This image is also missing seasons 32-35 which looks like there are some better rated episodes. I am sure there are funny bits in the later seasons, but I am not really interested anymore.

Volkditty@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y

Had to look up why season 6, episode 3 was so hated...it's a clip show that I had completely blanked out of memory.

LucidNightmare@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I mean, anything above a 5 is above average?

1 - Don't even waste your time
2 - Really really bad
3 - Has some good things, but mostly bad
4 - Fell flat quite a lot, but still enjoyable
5 - Mid/Average
6 - Decent
7 - Pretty good
8 - Good
9 - Great
10 - Masterpiece

So, from my list, it looks like it's been consistently okay, which is what I would expect from a show that has run as long as it has!

bhmnscmm@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If I remember correctly the IMDB average is closer to 7.

DarkThoughts@fedia.io · 7 pts · 2y

That's my personal rating system too. 5 I would literally not watch, 6 probably not either unless it is maybe close to 7 and something simple like some action flick. Haven't watched the Simpsons in a long long time though. I wasn't even aware it got this bad. Even before I quit people often said the "new" stuff wasn't that good but I still felt it was quite enjoyable most of the time. I guess at some point any successful product just becomes a milking process.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

has ran

"Has run", my dude.

LucidNightmare@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Thank you.

humdrumgentleman@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

I'm disappointed that it doesn't incorporate any other information such as artists, writers, directors, producers, budgets, etc cetera.

kratoz29@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

This comes real handy as I am watching The Simpson as a comedy relief series with my girlfriend for the first time ever (she watched several episodes, and I watched even less).

lung@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I mean how much new shit can you really come up with at this point? R&M ran dry after like 3 seasons and latest one was just gore porn and callbacks

What would you do if you're the writer? I think I'd pat myself on the back, milk a paycheck for a while, and find more fertile ground to impregnate

alekwithak@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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lung@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Thanks for the recs, though I thought season 7 was pretty boring and do not remember the episode you're referring to haha. But 1-3 I know basically line for line

But yeah krapopolis and lower decks seems cool

mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Krapopolis was painfully unfunny. I wanted to like it going in but everything felt so contrived. I pushed myself through 5 episodes before throwing up my hands

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

roop and poopy

9point6@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Damn, that 2nd to last season kinda shows it's never getting cancelled

alekwithak@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
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Akasazh@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 2y

I use to think they'd have to stop one the voice actors passed. However ai.

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It is too bad they can't hire back Conan.

CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

He didn't really write that much.

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 2y

He wrote a decent number of classic episodes and has later been a creative head of a TV show.

There may be other classic writers who could be a showrunner, but I feel like Command definitely could.

10_0@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
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Eheran@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

How to get the ratings of a series on IBDb?