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.
I’m thinkin’ it was unwatchable on Day One. I guess I don’t know how disgusting it is/was, as I can’t even sit through one of the commercials much less an entire show.
I still enjoy the Simpsons. It does poke more fun at conservatives but most sitcoms do. I just try to dismiss the bias. The characters really crack me up; especially C Montegomery Burns.
I liked the movie better than the shows.
I’m more of a movie person. I don’t like TV shows.
Forgot to mention in my last post.... I haven’t watched any television in about nine months. It all is liberal poison and mindless garbage with no value at all in my opinion.
When the Treehouse of Terror shows began airing in November.
Futurama, IMO, best animated series of that type. Though the newer episodes started to get smutty, I check them out online.
It jumped the shark when they killed Flander’s wife... or when Phil Hartman died.
IMO...the most conservative-friendly network animation show in the last 10-15 years is King of the Hill. And it actually follows a plot for the duration of the show as opposed to being built along a string of little quips held together with fart jokes. But The Simpsons is still better than Family Guy or American Dad. I just don’t get Seth MacFarlane’s “humor” at all.
To those who reflexively hated the Simpsons, you really don’t know what you missed. Originally, the satire was biting and hit all targets, left and right, equally. Remember the ‘Monorail’ episode? It demolished the lefty fantasy that a big enough infrastructure program will save us all. The show started to turn when the original writers jumped ship. What really did it for me was one of their Halloween specials had a bit entitled ‘Hell Toupe’ which was plagiarized from an episode of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Amazing Stories’ show (remember that steaming pile of a show?). I never watched again until just recently. I now have a 13 year old son who wants to watch it, so, I relented, and we watched the Halloween episode a couple years back. It ended with the ghost of Abraham Lincoln groping some guy’s ass. Sorry, never again.
Show went from being funny to mean.
Love Futurama and South Park though.
I can pinpoint when it stopped being great, which was after the 7th season; although season 8’s “Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment” was a masterpiece. When I quit I don’t remember exactly, but among the last few episodes I recall Homer smoked pot and the family went to Brazil, I think.
It wasn’t the liberalism, rather the endless self-reference, lack of plot, and increasing unfunniness (though this is subjective) that turned me off.