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Remember when The Simpsons was funny?

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Merkava:

--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 29 Nov 2006, 22:23 ---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.

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Win.

camelpimp:

--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 29 Nov 2006, 22:23 --- - Lisa is simultaneously an immature kid and a ridiculously mature busybody. Why the fuck?

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To be entirely fair, she's always kind of been like that. In the earlier episodes she's really quite immature and often willing to go along with Bart's plans. Then again, in earlier episodes she was less precious. Really, she was more like a goth/emo kid now that I think about it.

Thrillho:
I withdraw that one point from the 6000000 point list I could make.

Abattur:
It was funny?

TheBoredOne:
Yep.

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