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Remember when The Simpsons was funny?

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rae:
I still think it's funny.
The gay marriage episode was hilarious though.

Inlander:
The Simpsons has been almost unwatchable for me for several years now.  The episode where they went to Africa was the first Simpsons episode I'd ever seen where I didn't even raise a smile, not once.  But the decline started long before then.  I'm tempted to say that the rot set in after Phil Hartman's tragic death.

Here's the problem as I see it: for a cartoon, it's the strangest thing, but they've lost their comic timing.  These days they try to cram too many jokes in, and too many weak jokes at that (maybe that's why?), and there's no time to appreciate them.  No time to laugh at them.  Compare the rhythm of the recent episodes, to an episode from the golden years - say, the Stone Cutters episode.  Or the monorail episode.  It's very different.

space_oddity:
I think the show has lost its imaginative spark. Earlier episodes such as the Guatemalan Insanity Peppers classic weren't just hilarious, they were creative, beautifully animated, and meaningful in a completely un-sappy manner. Now that the show has become a tired search for the easiest giggle, it has lost what made it excellent in the first place.

Spinless:
You know Ricky Gervais? That annoying gimp thing with a goatee that think's it's funny but isn't? Over here Sky One hyped that one episode of the simpsons he wrote a LOT. The advertising campaign was pretty huge. I don't really need to say anything about the quality of the episode, you already know everything about it. But that is the moment I vowed never to watch the simpsons on tv ever again. Even before that episode, it was still tolerable. I could idly watch watch it for 20 minutes while waiting for food or something. Even if it wasn't funny.
The characters are not the same characters they used to be.
The jokes are shit and cramped into every possible second of the show.
The script is just lazy. All the dialogue is now just setup for a bad joke.

I remember when I was 8/9 and I use to get excited when a halloween special started. Few years later, I'd groan and watch something else.

nihilist:
I still watch it if it is on, because the timeslot that it fills in is pretty much dead on all other channels.  Some of their jokes are a bit deeper now, you have to watch the whole thing to get it, but overall the quality is dropping.  Though, you have to admit that the first few years were pretty balls as well.  Animation and voice acting was pretty damn low quality.  I think it was season four or five that it got pretty good.

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