[ex-Texan]

No doubt about it ... People 'who know' -- understand how brilliant The Simpsons truly is -- especially compared to the other tripe on television. I do not agree that the show has declined terribly since the 1997 season. One of the Best Television Shows of all times ... If you don't agee with me, "You can eat my shorts."

I once met one of the Big Boys who developed the show for television. He was in one of favorite Thai take out spots on Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica, wearing a leather jacket given only to cast and production staff. I promised never to disclose his name or where he was buying dinner (Simpsons' fans get kinda aggressive don't cha' know?). Nice guy. From Portland, Oregon, too.

[rabidralph]

I once met one of the Big Boys who developed the show for television. He was in one of favorite Thai take out spots on Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica, wearing a leather jacket given only to cast and production staff. I promised never to disclose his name or where he was buying dinner (Simpsons' fans get kinda aggressive don't cha' know?). Nice guy. From Portland, Oregon, too.

I once sat next to Bonita Pietela on a NW flight from Minneapolis to DC. She had a copy of Variety on her tray table and I read the address label, this was in '87, and it said Fox Television Studios. I thought to myself, "Fox has TV stations? I thought they only made movies? D'oh!" I recognized her name as being a producer on the Tracey Ullmann show, which was still on at the time and introduced the Simpsons to America.

[The Lake City Gar]

No doubt about it ... People 'who know' -- understand how brilliant The Simpsons truly is

Exactly!

Those who bash The Simpsons have either never watched it, just don't get it and never will, or are book burners.

[Liberal Classic]

Hasn't been the same without Phil Hartman. :(

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Greatest Simpsons episode was "Mr. Plow"! After that, how could it not go downhill?

"Call Mr.Plow
That's my name
The name again
Is Mr.Plow!"

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

In the car on the way home from church....

Bart: "Mom, can we go Catholic so we can get food and booze?"

Marge: "Absolutely not!! Three children is enough thank you very much."

[537 Votes]

They seem to have more shows that bash Christianity and flirt with homosexuality, bestiality, etc. Did we really need to know about Homer being raped by a Panda? When I think of rape, I empathize with the victim too much to laugh at their humiliation and pain and psychic damage. I guess the average viewer has the same sense of connectedness to humanity that I do, and the current crop of Simpson's writers don't. Bless their little liberal souls, they will make splendid 're-education' camp guards during the Hillary Clinton administration.

[Blue Highway]

What would Space Ghost think?

[P.O.E.]

Excerpted from today's Newark Star-Ledger

...The quotable Homer Simpson

"To alcohol! The cause of -- and solution to -- all of life's problems!"

"Barney's movie had heart, but 'Football in the Groin' had a football in the groin."

"Look, Marge, I'm sorry I haven't been a better husband. I'm sorry about the time I tried to make gravy in the bathtub. I'm sorry I used your wedding dress to wax the car. And I'm sorry... Oh well, let's just say I'm sorry for the whole marriage up to this point."

"I'm a white male, aged 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me! No matter how dumb my suggestions are."

"Trying is the first step towards failure."

"If celebrities didn't want people pawing through their garbage and saying they're gay, they shouldn't have tried to express themselves creatively."

"Okay, brain: You don't like me, and I don't like you, so let's just do this so I can get back to killing you with beer!"

"It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen."

"Television: teacher, mother, secret lover!"

"Stealing?! How could you?! Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain Whats-his-name? We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those 'Police Academy' movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anyone laughin', did you?"

"Doughnuts. Is there anything they can't do?"

"Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike. You just go in everyday and do a half-assed job. That's the American way."

"What about Social Security, bus discounts, Medic-Alert jewelry, Gold Bond powder, pants all the way up to your armpits and all those other senior perks? Oh, if you ask me, old folks have it pretty sweet."

"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"

[BunnySlippers]

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[Fledermaus]

I don't think it has declined at all. I wathced both new epsiodes tonight and thought they were as funny as ever.

Maybe because the satire and ribbing is sooooo deep and often that some people can't see it all.

Or maybe after all these years they too have seen their oxes gored with jokes and don't like it.

Jonah Goldberg lately has been given major credit for the statement "cheese eating surrender Monkeys" when labeling the French. So much that he had to write in the LA Times today that he stoled it from Willie the groundskeeper just to remind people.

My favorite line from "The Simpsons" is when Homer's dad started getting money that wasn't his and he spent it like mad. When asked where he thought it was coming from he said, "I thought the Democrats were back in power"! Priceless.

[js1138]

The Simpsons continues to be the best television comedy ever because it never drifted entirely into liberalism. It is equal opportunity satire. The only tv show more conservative is South Park.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Who turned America's best TV show into a cartoon?

MORONS?