I feel like I’ve been hearing this for a decade. Not that the show has been good for the last decade, but that the latest season is always the one that was pretty good.
The last time someone I knew told me this, I pressed for details. I tried to get examples of good episodes vs bad episodes, and a sense of the ratio between the two. The impression I got was that each recent season had a few episodes that stood out as pretty good, and the rest were either forgettable or kind of crap, but not as bad as the worst episodes in the show’s history.
They had a couple strong seasons roughly 10 years ago IMO. Good enough to keeping me watching again consistently for a few years. Then one day I realized that we were 5 episodes into a season and every single episode had been an alternate universe style episode. Like, oh hey, this week’s episode is The Simpsons but it’s a spaghetti western for absolutely no reason and with no explanation.
I remember asking my wife it she could remember the last time we actually saw Homer at the power plant. Did he still work there? Did he finally get permanently fired and this season represents his decent into madness as he realizes there’s no coming back this time? Or maybe he never worked there and I’m the one who’s gone crazy.
I remember asking my wife it she could remember the last time we actually saw Homer at the power plant. Did he still work there? Did he finally get permanently fired and this season represents his decent into madness as he realizes there’s no coming back this time? Or maybe he never worked there and I’m the one who’s gone crazy.
Just watch the first 9.5 seasons and call it a day. There is enough good content out there that you don’t have to subject yourself to hours of unfunny brain rot just to find the one or two jokes that make you chuckle.
I feel like I’ve been hearing this for a decade. Not that the show has been good for the last decade, but that the latest season is always the one that was pretty good.
The last time someone I knew told me this, I pressed for details. I tried to get examples of good episodes vs bad episodes, and a sense of the ratio between the two. The impression I got was that each recent season had a few episodes that stood out as pretty good, and the rest were either forgettable or kind of crap, but not as bad as the worst episodes in the show’s history.
They had a couple strong seasons roughly 10 years ago IMO. Good enough to keeping me watching again consistently for a few years. Then one day I realized that we were 5 episodes into a season and every single episode had been an alternate universe style episode. Like, oh hey, this week’s episode is The Simpsons but it’s a spaghetti western for absolutely no reason and with no explanation.
I remember asking my wife it she could remember the last time we actually saw Homer at the power plant. Did he still work there? Did he finally get permanently fired and this season represents his decent into madness as he realizes there’s no coming back this time? Or maybe he never worked there and I’m the one who’s gone crazy.
She said, “Let’s watch something else.”
Haven’t watched it since then.
They joked about that exact issue 24 years ago!
Just watch the first 9.5 seasons and call it a day. There is enough good content out there that you don’t have to subject yourself to hours of unfunny brain rot just to find the one or two jokes that make you chuckle.