July 28, 200717 yr I think the Simpsons have always had their episodes in that manner where the end of the episode is completely off track from the beginning. However, I think what affected the show to make it less humorous is the lack of new ideas. The show has been on for 18 years and there are really very few things that a family can do within realistic bounds. So they began to stretch what happened to the characters in a more unrealistic sense. Matt Groening said that when he created the show he thought of jokes and such from experiences that would normally make humans worry or feel uncomfortable, and add humor to them. Now the show has dropped down to being nothing more than cheap puns and slapstick comedy. The character of homer has turned from having a touch of stupidity for humor but also real life problems, to all stupidity and no reality at all. No one can relate to Homer. Family Guy's Peter Griffin manages to pull it off by just plain having better writers and not having previous expectations of realisticness (the dog talks, for example). In summary, The Simpsons show has run out of ideas and the writers have changed with age, abandoning their reckless youthful humor for morally driven plots with cheesy jokes. They are trying to hard too continue the show. They should have called it quits a long time ago. Note: I am commenting from the recent episodes of the television series, not the movie, because I have not seen it yet. Yes i agree with this post a lot. However you say they have recently become more didactic, i think this has always been prevalent. It is more the opposite, there isn't any clear messages by the end of the episode comparing with previous more meaningful shows. I would also like to add how the characters have gone 'out of character'. You already mentioned how Homer has changed, i think this is the case for nearly all the characters. You just see them doing things you just KNOW they wouldn't be doing if they were 'in-character'. This ruins the sense of being a knowledgeable audience and makes it seem somewhat cheap. Overall, as you said, they should have stopped the Simpsons ages ago- instead keeping Futurama going. That was much more promising.
July 28, 200717 yr Lol, and 140 posts makes any difference? I hate cunts like you who use post counts as such an important thing. TL;DR:rape:
July 28, 200717 yr The Simpsons just ain't funny anymore. The old ones used to be, but theres seems to be a lack of a clear linear structure in the latest episodes (and the movie). The plots are less well connected and seem to diverge too many times off the original topic, not the mention the jokes are just crap. I have seen the trailers for the movie and thought it looked pretty shit, so i won't be going to see it. Fuck Futurama is funny, I hAf All TeH sEpIsOdeS on DDVD:happysad:
