Posted on 09/26/2011 8:12:50 AM PDT by no gnu taxes
I used to love this show. As a young adult in 1990, when I first heard about the show, I scoffed at it, figuring it was some lame effort at crude humor aimed at the lowest elements. But when I watched it, I saw it had a brilliant take on society, and every show had a positive message overall.
Sure they had political spoofs. But I thought they were fair and even handed.
Then around 2000, the show went downhill rapidly. The writing became crap, and the show slowly started turning MSNBC. The end of of my watching this show became around 2003 or 2004 when they had something like 3 straight episodes trashing the Iraq War with an obvious anti-Bush bias.
I guess if you were an Olbermann fan, you'd have liked it still, but now the show makes me want to vomit. I don't think I've seen an episode in 6 years, and from what I see on other forums, I'm probably right.
I tend to think other Freepers feel the same way.
Same here. I find almost all new shows on TV dummed down and targeted for an immature audience. And in my opinion the assault started to happen in full force under Bill Clinton with his complicated new TV rating system. Seems like shows could push the decency envelope all they wanted as long as they showed the letter codes explaining the content.
Thank God for TCM and the few Retro TV channels available.
About 98 or 99. It just became boring.
Watched the first full episode. Never turned it on again.
Who are these “Simpsons” of whom you speak?
The Simpsons are now real life...they changed their name to Kardashians....
However, I did watch "The Family Guy" for a few brief minutes a year ago while my two young grandsons (ages 14 and 8) were visiting for a few weeks. Happened to walk in the living room while they had that show on, and watched as "the family" was "entertaining" a hippie-looking dinner guest (obviously modeled after a "Jesus freak") whom they addressed as "Jesus Christ". The "family guy" turned to this character and asked him if he could do a miracle, and the character said "sure"--or something like that--and then grinned mischieviously while two huge boobs popped up on the front of the female character, presumably the family guy's wife.
At that moment I shouted "that's blasphemy!" and turned off the TV.
My two grandsons were more than a little startled at my outburst--and actually so was I. But--as I (as calmly as I could) explained to them--there is nothing funny about a so-called cartoon that BLATANTLY mocks or puts to scorn my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and a program that engages in it will NEVER again be watched in my house!
When he got off scot-free after killing Nicole.
I loved the Simpsons from the first time I saw them on the Tracy Ulman show, years and years ago. Great satire, lots of sarcasm. But something changed. I think it was around the time Lisa became a vegetarian. After that, it started getting all liberal preachy. Haven’t watched it for years.
Same thing is happening with NCIS. It used to be pro-American and fun, the last couple of seasons have gone very liberal preachy with homosexual over tones. Too bad. I hardly watch any TV, anyway, because most of what’s on is unwatchable liberal preachy stuff.
It goes back to at least the mid-70s where middle-class, white fathers were all depicted as bumbling morons with their “square, unhip” values like hard work, honesty and integrity.
Instead, we get “loser” dads who can’t control there own kids and who get nothing but sneers from those they are providing for.
I get enough rampant PCism as a college professor; I don’t need to subject myself to it in my off hours.
That name again is Mr. Plow.
Mike
Rene Balcier poisoned ‘Law and Order’ too. Great show until he got hold of it, and then liberal/preachy.
Funny how liberals despise organized religion, but prosylitize like its nobody’s business. Sermonizers to the very last one.
The show was great because it was anti PC. Somewhere in the late 90’s the show became PC and it went downhill fast.
I saw them on “Inside the Actor’s Studio”, and it was really annoying, I don’t know why. Haven’t watch since. Oh, and I was 21 when it first came on, and 43 now.
They had quite a few clunkers over the years, but they've been on for so long that that's to be expected, really. And yes it can get a little preachy, which I don't appreciate.
Hard to believe how long Phil Hartman has been gone, and they retired all of his characters at that point, most of which were the better parts of the show.
When? What date did it debut?
I never really watched any tv shows but I just went on the Simpsons ride at Universal Studios Orlando and it is fabulous. The ride used to be called Back To The Future and when they redid it the ride improved by leaps and bounds. The theming and preshow are about the best in any of the theme parks.
Amen. (sorry, had to say it.) ;-)
Seth MacFarlane, the creator of “Family Guy” and “American Dad” is an avowed atheist.
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