Posted on 12/15/2009 8:44:32 AM PST by Borges
Ping!
Simpsons has actually been around a couple years longer, technically, as it was a series of shorts on the Tracey Ullman show.
I have never watched even 10 minutes of this completely stupid cartoon and in my lifetime never will. I just do not find any humor in this cartoon.
If you’ve never watched it then yes you won’t find anything.
Used to be good in the 1990s. Jumped the shark around 2000 when it started to preach hardcore leftist propaganda without even trying to disguise it.
For a long time it was the most conservative show on TV.
I’m a huge Simpsons fan, but it died about 11 years ago. I especially love the Halloween episodes, but the last one I saw was so unfunny, it was amazing. I didn’t laugh once—sad. Such a great show, but it should’ve gone away long ago. And the movie mostly sucked, too.
Sadly, The Simpsons is also a sign of how far our society has declined in the past twenty years. Speaking as a former fan who has since moved on to watching more “degenerate” programming such as South Park, I was just a young boy when the show first started. I remember that, in many quarters, it was considered quite controversial in its displays of a dysfunctional family.
Now the show is considered tame and almost wholesome. This was best explained in South Park when Eric Cartman meets Bart Simpson and they compare the worst things they’ve done - Bart cut off the head of a statue and Cartman made a kid eat his own parents. When the Simpsons tries to push the envelope in the way current programs do, it simply comes off as contrived. Incidentally, I stopped watching the Simpsons in favor for those other shows simply because that lack of ability to push the envelope in a non-forced manner has directly affected its ability to be funny. When it tries it just never fits because it betrays the essence of what the show once was.
Still, there is something sad about us as a society when that which once had parts of society up in arms has come to be considered a wholesome mainstay of sorts.
IIRc, the show pretty much jumped the rails about the time it had the "gay" episode where Carl and Lenny(?) come out of the closet, and Homer had to deal with it. Really went overboard on pushing off the gay agenda onto the viewers.
And most of the stuff people said about it in the early 1990s was false. It was never really raunchy or scataological and the characters always felt remorse for their actions. Most of the people complaning never watched it.
Best line from Sunday night when Bart wanted a brother. “Dad said he doesn’t need a Husay to my Uday”.
“The Simpsons” ride at Universal- best ride evah!
Reminds me of the years when I used to enjoy this series.
bttt
Amen to that! I watched it a few times and then decided to quit. It is to me a perfect example of everything that is wrong with America. JMHO
I has a huge fan until about 6 or 7 years ago.
Stopped watching as it visibly aged.
The movie, however, was fantastic and we watch it as a family 2 or 3 times a month.
America’s most famous dysfunctional family the Obama’s he thinks he’s Nero and Michell thinks very party is a costume party.
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