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PostNouveau posted:The episode two weeks ago, which was Halloween-themed but not a Treehouse of Horror, was really good. I hate to say it but I agree. I even actively avoid watching the Simpsons when it's on, but I apparently have some magical sense to watch it, or at least forget to turn off the TV or change the channel when it's that season's allotted good episode. I say stop at the end of Season 11. So many of us have a hard time telling when it went to poo poo, because we watched into the poo poo years due to pure momentum. I probably continued to watch well into season 15 before I realized that it was poo poo, just because I didn't know what else to do on Sundays.
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The Lego one a couple seasons ago was good too.
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The last good episode was also the best episode of the series: You Only Move Twice, featuring Hank Scorpio.
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PostNouveau posted:The episode two weeks ago, which was Halloween-themed but not a Treehouse of Horror, was really good. Yeah it was actually. Occasionally they still put out a good episode, but its not worth watching every episode in hopes for the good ones. The actual THOH was awful, though.
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I wish king of the hill was still on. There was an underrated and hilarious show.
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Season 13 of king of the hill was bad I'm glad it got cancelled before it turned into another simpsons
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I can honestly say I never noticed a significant change in quality for KOTH. At worst it just became kind of repetitive, but never bad or unwatchable like Simpsons.
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if you didn't cry when maggie said her first word you're dead inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRr2zXdLkHA
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You can tell by the animation style.
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PostNouveau posted:The episode two weeks ago, which was Halloween-themed but not a Treehouse of Horror, was really good.
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The Bible posted:It's real motherfucker. I know, I just wanted to believe it wasn't that's a big probbo with the simpsons today, references like this. early seasons had gags relevant to that time that haven't really aged well but the majority of references were to older things that were generally well known. like, 25 years later those jokes still work. who the gently caress is going to remember kesha or tik-tok in 25 years?
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Groovelord Neato posted:if you didn't cry when maggie said her first word you're dead inside i am very dead inside, yes also jaded they never did poo poo with maggie but then again they were stuck in a floating timeline so no one ever aged
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armin tamzarian episode
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Loutre posted:The last good episode was also the best episode of the series: You Only Move Twice, featuring Hank Scorpio. This was not the last good episode but it was certainly the high point.
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i havent watched it in years.but how could i? i dont even own a tv 
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Actually i just recently pirated most of the simpsons so I want to make sure I remember it right. Will watch them in order and update this thread once it gets bad.
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I had quit watching regularly before this point, but the episode where Bart and Lisa chase Homer and Marge around the world trying to catch them loving is the one that broke me.Leroy Dennui posted:ftfy (the Frank Grimes episode was legit great) Anything good about that episode was destroyed by the Frank Grimes Jr episode.
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raditts posted:I had quit watching regularly before this point, but the episode where Bart and Lisa chase Homer and Marge around the world trying to catch them loving is the one that broke me. Season 14 did not exist, therefore your statement is invalid 
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:
Also not from a THOH:  Son of Rodney posted:I was not aware that anybody didn't like the grimey episode or the homer in the navy one, they are both classic episodes to me with some of the funniest jokes. Maybe they're confusing it with the "Yvan Eht Nioj" episode, which was in fact total poo poo The Navy one is the one where Homer accidentally takes a sub and causes an international incident, isn't it? Because there were some good parts to that episode but that part was pretty bad.
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I remember this because it was cut out in reruns at some point on the channel i watched simpsons on, and I really liked homers line there 
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I think something as well in both Simpsons and South Park thag I didn't care for was the slight change in animation style IE more shadows in the simpsons and showing like, individual digits and more complex animation in South Park, the beauty was in the simplicity for both
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Moes Tavern changing colors in season 2 or 3.
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Oh yeah that's possible. Well the episode wasn't perfect but it had the nucular joke which I still quote sometimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-OycAb_Lg
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Turpitude posted:I consider this episode to be when it all went to poo poo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Dish_Upon_a_Star (Season 10 ep5) ding ding ding
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Remember when smithers was black?
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On the Tracey Ullman Show.
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Kings Of Calabria posted:I hate to act all serious about a cartoon on the internet because that's like the ultimate fall from grace, but early Simpsons episodes actually had some life-changing ideals written into them. Picture a show being watched by millions of people 25+ years ago where all cops are corrupt dickheads, religious leaders are all hucksters, politicians are all lying narcissists, and your ideal American nuclear family is a terrifying pit of disappointment and looming troubles behind closed doors. I didn;t have the capacity to understand what changed in the ealry 2000s as I was in Junior High, but I definitely felt it because watching The Simpsons back then was a requirement and all that cynical grit just up and left over the course of a year. What season was that one where Bart gets bullied until he tells mum who talks to the school and then he's not bullied any more? Because that's the exact kind of feel good family value that the show was originally meant to skewer, but I swear they played it totally straight.
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Is there a website anywhere where they say plots of simpsons episodes + guest stars and you have to guess if they are real or fake? Because based on the first page of the thread I would not do very well at that.
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I think most people say the Armin Tanzarian one, but I think it's actually a couple episodes before that. "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" really breaks new ground for the show in terms of laziness. Someone in the writer's room went "What about if the kids go to a military academy?" and that's about all the setup the show gives it. It really sets a precedent that the later seasons follow where nothing develops organically, it's all just premise-driven. They had a Marge becomes a cop episode a few before this one, but I feel like they put a lot more care into setting her new job up and explaining why she'd want to do it. This was really the one where the staff gave up and went, "Eh, it's OK if we don't try real hard on the plot as long as it gets us to a place where we can riff."
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PostNouveau posted:I think most people say the Armin Tanzarian one, but I think it's actually a couple episodes before that. "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" really breaks new ground for the show in terms of laziness. Someone in the writer's room went "What about if the kids go to a military academy?" and that's about all the setup the show gives it. It really sets a precedent that the later seasons follow where nothing develops organically, it's all just premise-driven. The setup was Bart acting out and doing that megaphone prank which made them seek some form of punishment/something that might help him mature. Then the episode is more about Lisa deciding to do it and overcoming struggles. It's not perfect, but it isn't that lazy and is comparable to a lot of episodes before it. If it aired today they would probably just randomly run into a celebrity endorsing it and then smash cut to Bart and Lisa in uniforms.
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