2026 and they're still frothing at the mouth over masks and vaccinations.
These are the people who constantly whined about "NPCs" just following directions without thought, showing the same line of dialogue 6 years on lol
It shows the trend but the colors make this look far more severe than the scores reflect
Yeah they should have had black as 5.x, grey as 6.x, white as 7.x, green as 8.x, and gold as 9.x
Or just use the Blizzard/rpg rarity colors for user defined groupings so that people can make their own thresholds for how to opine for whatever ratings.
For example, I typically think of each number as three categories: low-7s, mid 7s, and high 7s. A low 7 is watchable and decent, a mid 7 may be pretty good but not have a ton of truly moving content or messaging, and high 7s are like the last rating of ultimate popcorn - fantastic, but relatively intellectually empty. And as soon as you hit 8.0, to get there, it has to start having some levels of boundary-pushing of my expectations AND be very good.
So I would relate all of the 7s as like a Diablo green item rarity, maybe with high 7s being blues. High 8s maybe starts to get into yellows, and 9s are legendaries with mid and high 9s being reds or like Diablo ancients. Very low 7s and high 6s would definitely be whites, with mid and low 6s being greys. And anything under there... Probably also greys? Maybe have a gradient where the lower the rating, the more transparent it gets. 1.0 or 0.0 (whatever the lowest is) would have to still be visible, though.
And now I know SCmSTR's very arbitrary scale compared to Diablo rarerity scale colors. What a time to be alive.
Everyone just ignoring the vaccine scepticism eh?
Every episode of modern Simpsons:
"[First name] [Last name]! [Pronoun]'s the best [occupation] in all of [country]."
"That's right, Lisa. I'm here to [ad for a song/book/movie/space-nazi]."
just checked out of curiosity, s6e3 is a clip show, and s9e11 is a musical clip show
The idea of doing a clip show only 6 seasons in is diabolical.
In the '70s/'80s, one clip show per season was pretty common.
That's why we all love Community. In "Paradigms of Human Memory" (Season 2, Episode 21) it was super expensive because all the clips were new. It was a great episode in general too.
Yeah, and nobody liked it. It was just there to save the show some money.
Cartoonists, too, need vacations
You could hire enough of them so they can get their vacation.
I guess it made more sense back when people didn’t catch every episode. Still glad it’s not the norm these days.
Stargate did one in the first season.
Clerks the TV show did it for their 1st episode.
It's the second episode but your point stands.
I've watched nearly episode in the first 20 seasons of The Simpsons three times or more but I have always skipped those episodes
As someone who grew up with the Simpsons and also pretty recently watched the first 29 seasons again, the first 9 seasons we definitely the best seasons. They're timeless. The show became too afraid to be offensive.
Aren't we up to season 37 now? Old chart?
Season 23 episode 22: Rating 3.9: Lisa Goes Gaga: Lisa helps Lady Gaga and learns the importance of being yourself.
Season 30 episode 18: Rating 4.6: Bart vs. Itchy and Scratchy: Krusty releases an all-female reboot of Itchy and Scratchy
We can guess at why those two got the lowest ratings of the entire series.
I could guess, but why don't you just go ahead and say it? I'm not sure what you're implying, it could be anything.
I'd say the Gaga was for pandering to fans of a celebrity to get them to watch. Making a Gaga centric episode at the height of Gaga's popularity is pandering. As compared to having a few lines by George Harrison or Paul McCartney which were at their height of popularity 20 years earlier. When contemporary celebrities were used like Smashing Pumpkins is was as a cameo, not the focus of the entire episode.
The all woman Itchy Scratchy episode would be panned because it's punching down on the feminist movie remakes.
Thank you for the info, i assumed it would be "treehouse of horror" episodes. My mum didn't let me watch them and said they were horrifying 🤧😭
I remember how horrifying the first Treehouse of Horror was with checks notes an Edgar Allen Poe rendition of The Raven.
They're not as good as the old ones by a lot, admittedly they're frequently pretty bad but I still kind of feel like the treehouse of horror episodes tend to have at least one passable story and are usually the highlight of the season.
Everyone:
Anti-vaxxers: "You are just getting vaccines to be trendy, not to protect your family and others!"
Are they audience ratings? If so the episode quality is probably even lower towards the end as some audiences will have dropped out so you're only including the data of folk who stuck with it.
Funny how it looks like every season they continue the fire gets worse
Ah, yes. "Everyone whose opinion I disagree with is only bandwagoning onto that opinion because it's cool."
Are you actually unaware this is a real phenomenon?
Sure, sure. But, also, the "cool" opinion is popular for a reason. And it's often a good reason.
This is consistent with my idea (which I've long had) that there was yet another quality drop around the time they switched to HD. The episodes from the 2000s are mostly still perfectly watchable IMHO, the ones from the 2010s much less so and I don't think I've ever watched a Simpsons episode from the 2020s, so can't say anything about that.
Last year a started watching from the beginning and watched until I found that I pretty consistently did not enjoy the episodes. I agree with your assessment. The last episode that I watched was from '13 or '14.
Was there a major staff change for season 9? That's when it appears to have markedly declined.
Yeah, the show was never the same after Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein left to make Mission Hill in the late 90s. Additionally, Futurama became a primary though to people like Groening so Simpsons suffered stagnation majorly.
I've literally never heard of mission hill. Sounds like they should have stayed on The Simpsons
No way, I loved that show. It was great but flew under the radar.
Can't blame them for wanting to make their own thing, and they did a pretty good job (even if the TV stations kind of fucked them over by putting them on some bad timeslots.) Overall, I'm glad the show exists.
Art director for Mission Hill went on to work as a director for Disney (also one of the first women to work as a sole-director at Disney, coincidentally) and Bill Oakley / Josh Weinstein continued to work as writers, so I think it worked out for most parties involved in the production.
Seasons 3-8 are generally considered "golden age" simpsons. Theres a lull for a few seasons where it gets very patchy, then it kinda enters a long silver age where episodes are fairly consistently good, with few poor ones and even fewer universally agreed upon greats.
Many fans completely ignore 9+. Others argue where sliver age begins.
The ratings only show the golden age and then slowly declining popularity, because popularity is only ever a loose proxy for quality.
It wasn't "cool to be vaxxed and boosted."
Yes it was. That wasn't the primary reason to do it, just a little bonus. But it was and is.
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