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Merkava:

--- Quote from: happybirthdaygelatin ---Wait a minute.  Did someone a couple posts back in this thread say the Simpsons was trying to cash in on Family Guy?  That is utter shit.

I agree that the Simpsons has peaked and has not been as funny but weird random one-ff was done first and best by the Simpsons.
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Actually, I think the Simpsons has been trying to be Family Guy for the last few years. It was pretty obvious to me. The jokes have all become "witty" one-liners that were not the focus of earlier seasons. The problem is FG still maintains characters, while Simpsons makes every character a would-be sharp, intelligent commentator. It's pathetic. It's lame. FG does it better.

Sure, earlier Simpsons had some one-liners, but the writing stretched beyond that. The writers knew how to write for the characters, not for the lines.

Ok, so FG copied the Simpsons format and main character archtypes, but they were supposed to. They decided that they would have to make fun of the Simpsons amidst the rest of the pop-culture references. And wait, didn't the Simpsons kind of copy the nuclear family shown in many shows before it in an effort to satirize that? And doesn't Homer work at a Nuclear power plant?

!CONSPIRACY!

TheBoredOne:
I .. love the Simpsons. I make a point to watch it every Sunday.
Recently though I have noticed it's not as funny as it used to be.
It's also not as insightful either.
I can't imagine it not being on though. O.o that would be terrible.
Just please.. *please*.. make them stop doing episodes about someone taking credit for everything, even though someone else actually helped, or did all the work.

Homer took credit for Marge's handicrafting,
Moe took credit for the title of the poetry which Lisa actually thought of.

I can't think of any more off the top of my head, but I'm positive there've been more.

Otherwise I still love the show. Its tribute to Loony Toons recently was really funny :-D
They should be more insane more often o.o

Thrillho:
Here are my reasons why The Simpsons sucks now:

 - Any character will do anything for the sake of a joke, including Marge who is meant to be level-headed.
 - Lisa is simultaneously an immature kid and a ridiculously mature busybody. Why the fuck?
 - There was a gag where Homer lists all the jobs he's had, and repeated jokes about whether he even works at the power plant any more. This makes a good point; The Simpsons has a cast of hundreds, and every last damn character - excluding those played by Phil Hartman, which were funny right up to their last appearances - is completely tired. They've introduced new characters in the last few years - i.e. the YEEEEES guy - which were funny briefly, but they're just bit-part stereotype characters who don't work any more.
 - Homer continually makes horrible, horrible decisions. Earlier on it was funny because he was dumb. Since about season 12 it's been getting more and more psychotic, to the extent that Marge should have left him and taken the kids with her. Seriously. The fact that in a poll a few years back Americans voted him as the best role model on TV or some shit makes me want to vomit.
 - Most of the episodes are either woefully short of gags, or crammed full of them, none of which are funny anyway.
 - Even the episodes where they are taken out of context - i.e. the Hallowe'en specials which used to be the saving graces of the Simpsons because they could do whatever the hell they liked - are terrible now. My example is the 16th Hallowe'en special, which had about one good joke.
 - Is Bart a good brother or a bad brother? Is he a wanker, or is her caring? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS OR CARES ANY MORE?
 - Family Guy has upped the ante - Family Guy is also shit by the way - by being as offensive as possible. Now the Simpsons has to try this as well, and it doesn't work.
 - They have ridiculous celebrity guest spots in almost every episode now. In the first few seasons, not only were the guests written better - i.e. George Harrison, those nine baseball players - but they were irregular and a novelty. Now, they're terrible in almost every instance. Exhibit A: Ricky Gervais. Are they so short of ideas that they have to get him to write an episode? Exhibit B: Metallica. About one line each. Totally irrelevant to the storyline.
 - Here's another reason they suck - Matt Groening badmouths the Simpsons DVD commentaries on the Futurama DVD commentaries. Futurama being the better show (post-season 6).

I could go on.

ScrambledGregs:
Everyone keeps forgetting to mention another thing that SUCKS ASS about the Simpsons: the constant, unnecessary MUSICAL NUMBERS in every show these days.

I saw a newer one which was a play off of Pygmalion in which Groundskeeper Willy is made into a gentleman after his shack is destoyed and he moves in with the Simpsons. Not only should that episode description make steam issue from your ears, but imagine one of the STUPIDEST attempts at a song I have ever heard, anywhere. Utter shit.

The Simpsons is like that pet people have that was cute and fun years ago, but now it just will not die, but the people who own it feel too bad about it to kill it. That is The Simpsons.

SeanBateman:
God I hate the simpsons backlash more than I hate anything else

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