Long live the Conan years
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Monorail, monorail, monorail...
Homer, when you go home tonight, there'll be an extra floor on your house.
Here's some sugar, sorry it's not in packets (out of scorpio's pockets,) you want some cream?
Homer: Uh, no.
Almost as good as...
Not on your life my Hindu friend!
I still think it’s great until and including season 13, it has the Brazil episode and the weed episode, rather iconic.
Also has the old man yells at cloud meme
When I tried to do a complete rewatch last year, I found that quality started dropping in seasons 10 and 11. There were still funny moments and episodes but they were less consistent. I stopped about 2/3 of the way through season 14.
I went all the way to season 29. Only 1 to 4 good episodes a season after 10.
They became too afraid to be offensive.
I accidentally watched a few minutes of a new episode a year or two ago, and it just... was.
The only attempted joke I recall was Homer likening Marge's hair to a bell, which I guess kinda?
It was kind of freaky. Like seeing something I should recognize, but couldn't.
Behind The Laughter is a damn fine stopping point.
There are a fair few of memes from the Simpsons that actually come from "later" episodes, e.g.
- Wow, The Fortune Cookies Here Really Are More Accurate (S16E12)
- I gotta tell you. This is pretty terrific. (S13E07)
- Damn Scots, they ruined Scotland! (S15E12)
- Moe throwing Barney out and him coming back (S17E13)
- Ralph Wiggum dives through window (S14E21)
- Homer hides his fat in his back (S19E7)
- etc etc
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Seasons 12-13 have some great episodes, but some bad ones too. I agree it's Season 14 where it took the true nose dive and stopped having great episodes.
A Trilogy of Error (a classic) is season 12. Probably the last episode i consider a classic.
You might be right. Not sure they're quite 'classics' but they were still making some decent ones:
Half Decent Proposal (Artie Ziff episode), The Bart Wants What It Wants (Bart dates Reiner Wolfcastle's daughter Greta), I Am Furious Yellow (Bart's 'Angry Dad' comics), and Papa's Got a Brand New Badge (SpringShield).
Wasn't mountain of madness season 14 or 15? Still a great episode. Just they had some stinkers
No, that was season 8. The highest rated episode on IMDB for seasons 14-15 is Moe Baby Blues (Moe become's Maggie's babysitter). Still a few decent ones in my opinion: I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot (Homer pretends to be a Robot Wars bot), and Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Milhouse moves to Capital City).
Still some classic moments. "Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!"
OK...which are they?
Seasons 2 - 10
On a rewatch with my partner (their first time watching!) season 1 hit SO differently than it did when I was young. I hated old episodes as a kid, but going through all of season 1 in a few days, it was EXCELLENT. Sooo much heart, just janky animation. We both cried at least once, like real feelings and shit!
I think season 1 was good. Better than a lot of the later stuff, certainly.
But the art and animation and the pacing really improved over the next seasons.
Hooo boy the art is indeed a rough sight hahaha
Those jello Disney arms, yeah
seasons 3-11!
I think he's talking to you
you went a very different direction than i expected
First 8 are generally recognized as I understand it maybe 9 unsure how much us nostalgia influenced vs it got stale writing for characters especially homer started to change US society started to change etc.
The writers' general consensus is that the "Golden Age," ended with season 9, episode 2, "The Principal and the Pauper." I'm not sure if they believe the episode itself to be a part of the Golden Age or not, but I think its a pretty good episode.
Don't make me tap judge snyder
Fun fact, this episode is considered non-cannon, which is extremely rare for a non-anthology episode. Even, "You Only Move Twice," is considered cannon. In the Simpsons universe, the "Armin Tanzarian," thing never really happened, but Hank Scorpio took over the East Coast for an unspecified period of time.
Cannon, eh? ~Scorpion,~ ~eh?~
Cannons'r'Us, that's on Third!
joking aside, i have designs for a business hammock that have been sitting in my back pocket ever since we lost the East Coast
I might include the Treehouse of Horrors episodes as a stand alone season. There are sure dozens of outliers.
4-7 twice and the Halloween episodes as the ninth
Long live the original decade.
For me, 15-30 have only been spot checked (I'll watch if it's on). I find the past few years they've hit a new stride. Not at all the original, something different using the same characters. I find I get a good laugh here and there. Not always good, but still better than many newcomers considering its the longest running show at this point
They had their ups and downs. I think the first couple seasons were not that good, and then some later seasons were again. This "S1-10 were peak" narrative is hard to justify objectively/intellectually
The show had already gone seriously downhill by season 8.
Their best skit ever was 9 though wasn't it? The halloween special where they aliens captured the presidential candidates. Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
after the golden era of the Simpsons (ends anywhere between s8 to s9 depending on preference), the Simpsons becomes so boring and flanderized that I wonder if later fans liked the Simpsons for what it truly made it standout or they are just lifers because funny colors and faces onscreen
Definitely not. Small Slip at 9. 10 was still pretty good. Then it went to meh.
In latam there was a great debacle after they changed the voice of homer in season 14
A caller? At this hour?
My hard cutoff is S15. That is when I stopped watching them premiere on Sunday nights. S10-15 still have their good moments here and there. Anything after that is unwatchable to me.
but there are bangers in 10, 11, and 12
I've thought about putting simpsons on my jellyfin server but it would be a project and probably need more hard drives.
I put the detective conan anime but only the non filler episodes and like 2 of the 'good filler', but its still a massive amount of gb.
Maybe if I can find a decent av1 encode already done. I managed to get a few multi season series into a single bluray worth of space but I don't want to do my own encodes any more.
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Which is the Michael Jackson episode?
So there are more than 9 great simpsons seasons, I would extend it by maybe 5.
But the rest aren't bad, I just watched all of them, for the first time, 17th season was my previous stopping point.
They have some bullshit that turned me off previously, and pisses me off now, but disregarding their rw bullshittery they endorsed, they are still good, the great being reserved for the first ten or so.
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