The tragedy of what the Simpsons have become

[hillelslovak87]

The show started to suck a little after the turn of the century, when the writers staff was replaced, or something, because they took Homer from a lovable dummy who does right by others into a mean and stupid asshole.

Don't know what caused the shift in writing, but it made Homer, essentially the main character, a complete show ruiner.

 

[hillelslovak87]

yup they got too obsessed with PC principal for like 3 seasons the creativity and humor of the show suffered for it. even stuff like the 3 episode lord of the rings black friday thing was funnier and more creative than anything made recently.

The best ep South Park has had in years was the episode with the old folks drug ring with those stupid baubles Stan was moving for his grandpa. The one-off random episodes are what South Park is made for.

I noticed the decline when they started doing more 3-part story arcs, then they said fuck it and turned every season into some continuing plot, trying to reverse engineer episodes around the overall narrative that wasn't interesting. The Tegridy farms storyline was such trash, like they weren't even trying.

 

[JinKazama]

cant stand lisa simpson, but yea its been bad for a while now

 

[Mondo Freaks]

It been shit for a while

 

[bandicoot]

The Simpsons is still better than the shit show TS has displayed in this thread by turning it into arguing with other posters.

Take your own advice and delete this piece of shit thread

 

[lsa]

Damn bro bringing heat. I’m sure you’re scoring major points on your Sherdog scoreboard (since you admitted to clearly keeping score on this forum.) Keep it up and maybe they’ll make you a mod one day (the height of what you will achieve in your otherwise meaningless life, clearly.)

hey @Slobodan I think this guy just said you have a meaningless life.
I agree.
Dont @ me!

 

[Slobodan]

hey @Slobodan I think this guy just said you have a meaningless life.
I agree.
Dont @ me!

Jokes on you bud, they give us 10 bagels every month and 20% off Fight Pass.

 

[Demented]

I think it went downhill when he killed Nicole

 

[lsa]

Jokes on you bud, they give us 10 bagels every month and 20% off Fight Pass.

awwww

 

[Madmick]

South Park has gotten better over time. Family Guy is up and down, but they still bring laughs. Simpsons are the only ones who have fell so far in the same amount of years.

South Park's brilliance after all these years is astonishing. How they have kept it so brilliant and so fresh is maybe the greatest achievement in television history. It lays the claim to greatest animated series ever, now. The Simpsons may have had a greater prime, and a greater impact during that prime on the country as a whole, but it hasn't kept up. It's a story that can be told in numbers.

South Park goes 265 episodes deep before any episode falls below a 7.5 rating on IMDb. It goes 292 episodes deep before any falls below a 7.0. The #308 episode, lowest rated on the show, is a 6.3. That means that right now a whopping 86% of the show's episodes are 7.5+, and 95% are 7+.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?...&sort=user_rating,desc&count=250&ref_=adv_prv

The Simpsons gets to 245 episodes before it falls below 7.5. Close. This is a testament to the sheer volume of its greatness. The issue is quality control. See, it has 684 episodes aired so far. This means just 36% of its episodes are 7.5+. In fact, the bottom 100 episodes are 6.3 or lower. This means the public rates 1/7th of the show's episodes to be as bad (or far worse) than South Park's worst. It craters at a 3.9! That is one of the worst episodes of tv ever made. The worst episode of nearly every show that gets canceled after just its first season, or sometimes before even finishing the first season, isn't that bad.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?series=tt0096697&view=simple&count=250&sort=user_rating,desc

Or, more easily digested, the story told in numbers mapped to a jpeg (not fully updated, it's currently in season 32):

Compare (note the color coding is slightly different)

*Edit*
Oh, yeah, you might have noticed the jpeg-maker arbitrarily ranked 8.6+ as a "Great" episode. By that metric, South Park has 69 "great" episodes. That's roughly 2 out of every 9 episodes of the show for its entire lifespan. With a season length of 22 episodes, the most common for the The Simpsons, that means if evenly distributed South Park would have 5 "great" episodes every season for its 23 complete seasons so far. Bear in mind The Simpsons hasn't produced a single episode of that caliber for 20 years, now.

*Edit #2*
Another humiliating statistical interpretation here for Springfield. More than 1/4th (26.2%) of South Park's episodes rate 8.5 or higher. Just under 1/4th (23.8%) of The Simpson's episodes rate a 6.5 or lower.

 

[freakroor]

South Park's brilliance after all these years is astonishing. How they have kept it so brilliant and so fresh is maybe the greatest achievement in television history. It lays the claim to greatest animated series ever, now. The Simpsons may have had a greater prime, and a greater impact during that prime on the country as a whole, but it hasn't kept up. It's a story that can be told in numbers.

South Park goes 265 episodes deep before any episode falls below a 7.5 rating on IMDb. It goes 292 episodes deep before any falls below a 7.0. The #308 episode, lowest rated on the show, is a 6.3. That means that right now a whopping 86% of the show's episodes are 7.5+, and 95% are 7+.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?...&sort=user_rating,desc&count=250&ref_=adv_prv

The Simpsons gets to 245 episodes before it falls below 7.5. Close. This is a testament to the sheer volume of its greatness. The issue is quality control. See, it has 684 episodes aired so far. This means just 36% of its episodes are 7.5+. In fact, the bottom 100 episodes are 6.3 or lower. This means the public rates 1/7th of the show's episodes to be as bad (or far worse) than South Park's worst. It craters at a 3.9! That is one of the worst episodes of tv ever made. The worst episode of nearly every show that gets canceled after just its first season, or sometimes before even finishing the first season, isn't that bad.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?series=tt0096697&view=simple&count=250&sort=user_rating,desc

Or, more easily digested, the story told in numbers mapped to a jpeg (not fully updated, it's currently in season 32):

*Edit*
Oh, yeah, you might have noticed the jpeg-maker arbitrarily ranked 8.6+ as a "Great" episode. By that metric, South Park has 69 "great" episodes. That's roughly 2 out of every 9 episodes of the show for its entire lifespan. With a season length of 22 episodes, the most common for the The Simpsons, that means it would have 5 "great" episodes every season for its 23 complete seasons so far. Bear in mind The Simpsons hasn't produced a single episode of that caliber for 20 years, now.

South Park is the GOAT animated series. Trey and Matt are creative geniuses, and IMO are quite possibly the funniest people alive. We are all lucky to have them.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

 

[Excelsior]

South Park's brilliance after all these years is astonishing. How they have kept it so brilliant and so fresh is maybe the greatest achievement in television history. It lays the claim to greatest animated series ever, now. The Simpsons may have had a greater prime, and a greater impact during that prime on the country as a whole, but it hasn't kept up. It's a story that can be told in numbers.

South Park goes 265 episodes deep before any episode falls below a 7.5 rating on IMDb. It goes 292 episodes deep before any falls below a 7.0. The #308 episode, lowest rated on the show, is a 6.3. That means that right now a whopping 86% of the show's episodes are 7.5+, and 95% are 7+.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?...&sort=user_rating,desc&count=250&ref_=adv_prv

The Simpsons gets to 245 episodes before it falls below 7.5. Close. This is a testament to the sheer volume of its greatness. The issue is quality control. See, it has 684 episodes aired so far. This means just 36% of its episodes are 7.5+. In fact, the bottom 100 episodes are 6.3 or lower. This means the public rates 1/7th of the show's episodes to be as bad (or far worse) than South Park's worst. It craters at a 3.9! That is one of the worst episodes of tv ever made. The worst episode of nearly every show that gets canceled after just its first season, or sometimes before even finishing the first season, isn't that bad.
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?series=tt0096697&view=simple&count=250&sort=user_rating,desc

Or, more easily digested, the story told in numbers mapped to a jpeg (not fully updated, it's currently in season 32):

*Edit*
Oh, yeah, you might have noticed the jpeg-maker arbitrarily ranked 8.6+ as a "Great" episode. By that metric, South Park has 69 "great" episodes. That's roughly 2 out of every 9 episodes of the show for its entire lifespan. With a season length of 22 episodes, the most common for the The Simpsons, that means it would have 5 "great" episodes every season for its 23 complete seasons so far. Bear in mind The Simpsons hasn't produced a single episode of that caliber for 20 years, now.

All that's missing is the mic drop.

 

[lostdog000]

aint as funny as it was
hate the sjw shit giving us a crappy new carl

 

[kimocomplex]

Go woke

Have the longest animated show come to an end




Is normal

 

[Gambit MMA]

Never got into South Park.


I am excited about Beavis and Butthead coming back.

heard theyre doing a movie like do america. i hope so, and i hope they push the envelope

 

[bubbleboyjones]

The Simpsons need mercy here. End them gracefully with a clip show of seasons 1–9 and pretend the other seasons were just a bad dream. It’s time.

We are 20 years past that point. I'd say just continue on as a bad joke.

 

[HereticBD]

The show started to suck a little after the turn of the century, when the writers staff was replaced, or something, because they took Homer from a lovable dummy who does right by others into a mean and stupid asshole.

Don't know what caused the shift in writing, but it made Homer, essentially the main character, a complete show ruiner.

When "Family Guy" caught on fire, it had a lot to do with the direction The Simpsons went. There was a very noticeable shift in the style of humor they took. There were less organic jokes and themes, which were replaced with cheap gags and Homer got a lot more Peter Griffin like. In fairness, The Simpsons was already going downhill and considered a bit of a relic at the time, so shaking things up to please a dumber audience that demanded that style of humor, might not have been the worst decision in the world, and might'e helped them stay afloat among the new edgy shows at the time.

 

[blaseblah]

Hank Azaria left the show. That should tell you all you need to know.

No he didnt

 

[blaseblah]

South Park's decline came when they became a parody of politics every episode. South Park episodes where they step away from politics are the best ones.

Their last best episodes in my opinion was Imagination Land. From there it just became constant Obama and friends.

South Park hit it's prime when it did politics. Early on the show was just about shock humor and making fun of celebrities.