Falling out of Love With the Simpsons
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- For many years, I've enjoyed the Simpsons as a medium of entertainment, but as of late, I've slowly fallen off of the series, and in all honesty? It might just be more me than it.
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Some people asked me why I didn't care for the simpsons now-a-days, so I figured... The best way to convey this was with a video.
I hope you guys understand where I'm coming from with this.
Thank you for your time, and please be sure to leave a like and a comment on the video :)
I was sad when I stopped watching the Simpsons because I didn't enjoy it any more but at the same time. I've made peace with it. I think I stopped watching around season 16 or 17. I just wasn't laughing and found things boring.
I have to think there new people watching it and loved season 10 through 20 or 21 through 30, and one day they will also stop loving the show. The cycle continues until it gets cancel.
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Dude, this show has been around for a long time. So long, South Park made an ep about it
and that was about a decade ago.
Two decades at this point in time.
@@DangerDan64SIMPSONS DID IT!
South Park still reinvents itself while Simpsons is still a late 80's show
@@Jormungandr108 Even at its absolute worst, at least South Park _tries_ to stay somewhat relevant even to this today.
It was a sad feeling but one we all had and made peace with.
YOu know what I miss? The simpson comics. No matter how bad the show got, the comics where always great
I missed Bart's Blue shirt.
I actually read one of the issues. The story where Flanders opens up his own bar and steals all of Moe’s customers.
"I have guns at my house, a MIGHTY ARSENAL of GUNS!"
How about the one where Upper and Lower Springfield turn on each other for control of the town’s water supply?
I remeber the comic where Homer was addicted to donuts and then he got huge or something
They could've honestly just let The Simpsons age up, and then pass on the torch to a new family that reflects the type of new stories that they want to tell. Honestly, they kind of should've established that as a possibility since the beginning, the fact that The Simpsons aren't immortal unlike a character like Ash Ketchum or Lupin the 3rd or Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and more that I can't think of. Rather, they should've been more like Gravity Falls, Amphibia, and The Owl House, been given a sensible enough start to invest us into them, then go through a whole load of insane stuff, then end on an ending for them as someone else picks up their torch, rinse and repeat for every decade. Bam, the old Simpsons are untouched, and the newer storylines get their chance to shine.
They're too afraid to do that.
As that one scene in the Simpsons goes: "Stop ! Stop! It's already dead!"
I just want the show to end so my memories of the show back in the 90s stop getting ruined.
Maybe the Simpsons should have ended with the 2007 movie. But I guess the Simpsons is Fox’s mascot show so they’ll just milk the whole series until the end of time.
Disney's holding that whip now-a-days.
Just like Disney is now whipping both Marvel and Star Wars until the end of time
yeah... unfortunately
I feel like tons of people are having that experience with Pokemon right now. Many of my real life friends had burned out on the franchise after 2008's Pokemon Platinum, and even most of my online acquaintances burned out on it by 2011's Pokemon Black & White. For me, it was my immense disappointment with 2013's Pokemon X/Y that made me realize that, regardless of how good or bad Pokemon would be in the future, my connection with it was lost and would likely never return. Having 2014's Alpha Sapphire as my final entry in the series only reinforced that sentiment - the original Sapphire from 2003 was my favorite entry in the entire series, but I felt none of that spark in the remake (despite being able to acknowledge what objective positives it had)
While I eventually picked up Legends Arceus in January 2023 and actually enjoyed it, most of my enjoyment was because its gameplay was so radically different from the main series. While I'd love another Legends-like game, I still have no desire whatsoever to revisit the main series
Meanwhile, although I'd left the Pokemon franchise nearly 10 years ago (save for Legends), I've remained in touch with diehard Pokemon fans who subjected themselves to Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet. And I just see them just 'going through the motions' with those modern mainline Pokemon games as you had with modern Simpsons eps. It's a level of indifference I'd never want to feel for any entertainment property, let alone one I loved so dearly in my youth. It's better to let go before that happens
Yeah, I agree. For me my last main series pokemon game was Moon cause later I skipped over "Sun/moon again but remixed" and everything afterwards just felt like the devs having trouble adjusting to switch development and not being allowed to take their time refining the games. PLA wasn't perfect but it felt like a breath of fresh air.
I genuinely enjoy Scarvi despite the performance issues, the story, the new mechanic and new pokemon are fantastic.
I skipped Sword and Shield however. I began to be more critical after XY
I feel like that’s for a different reason than the Simpsons though
@@cosmicspacething3474 of course. It’s kinda apples and oranges, as Simpsons is an American adult cartoon built off smart satire, while Pokemon is a kid-friendly bog-standard turn-based RPG game.
But where The Simpsons’ humor changed in a way Kamen could no longer resonate with, Pokémon’s overall art style and way of taking the player on an adventure could no longer resonate with me. Even if Pokémon’s graphical issues didn’t exist and they had time to make a polished product, they established a direction with X/Y that I just couldn’t connect with, and every mainline game continued that particular direction. I’m just pleased Legends dared to deviate from the path they were on
@@TurboPikachu In my honest opinion the art style is the smallest of the many problems modern Pokémon has. Most criticisms I’ve seen have been present from the beginning. The only major one I agree with is that the newer designs lack points/edges in order to make every single one of them more “marketable” looking.
Tbh, i really don't care about they Simpsons anymore(except the old seasons), but man, Disney/Fox are really dickheads for not ending such a long series
Don't you think the same could be said for comedy Central and South Park
@@animezilla4486 Stone and Parker write South Park series like segmented movies. That's one reason why South Park hasn't declined in quality.
There's also the fact that South Park's core moral (never keep a sacred cow) has gotten more relevant as the show's gone on.
It’s better than Family Guy’s downfall at least but that ain’t saying much.
Yeah I see so many people say "well atleast it's not as bad as family guy" like that doesn't matter its still bad.
@@micjimster4845 At this point, I feel like both shows have fallen in some equal sort. Boring and uncreative may not be nearly as bad as twisted, and shock-value for the sake of shock, but there might be some who found common ground between both.
Meh, honestly I still enjoy Family Guy.
It was always a bit more random than The Simpsons, so the flanderization effect didn't hit as hard.
@@devonjeffers5898Modern Family Guy may be a tragedy, but I must admit that those memes and clip compilations that people made were truly a goldmine.
0:10 I mean the joke is funny in isolation, but yeah it’s sacrificing character for humor
That SK Reflexions clip was kinda funny since I beat it (Asuka’s route at least) last month.
I will agree with you that not caring about continuity is one of the biggest problems with The Simpsons. Even the early seasons had flashbacks that contradicted each other so it's always been a problem with the show.
Simpsons has been bad for years.
Contanuity never actually matered in thomis show. The early seasons were retconing character histories too you know
Gee, it's like I brought that up in the video.
@@Mangakamen Still it's a stupid critisim
Not really.
Especially since I'm levying it as a criticism, but rather why it turned me off.
I really wish the Simpsons stayed as the animated 90s family what grew up over time in the 2000s that would have worked as the Simpson family would be way more relevant and relatable to the older audience which is what The Simpsons target demographic should be in the first place.
While the Simpsons Declined overtime shows like South Park are still going strong & honestly hold up alot better for both old and new fans of that show alike because that show mocks and calls modern Society out on its Total BS without sugarcoating it the south park writers are often clever and get the message across easy .
So the biggest problem with modern Simpsons is honestly the writers they can't make there older audience laugh and tell good jokes while still trying to stay relevant the new Simpsons often fail with story telling as they rely too much on the overused celeb guest apprences and even worse glorify modern culture which is not relatable to most families or people who grew up in the 90s early 2000s.
The show is mostly meh now as It feels like the new writers of the Simpsons really want you to forget about the past as they removed characters like Apu due to some stupid documentary while still targeting the Simpsons franchise towards kids rather than families as the writing feels really wacky & childish at times yet really boring throughout the later seasons so it sometimes fails to entertain the younger audience as well as it's focused on outdated trends which is a huge problem yes we still get some gems every now and again in the modern era of the Simpsons but it's nothing compared to the early seasons.
Honestly I stopped watching after season 25 came back to watch a bit of season 27 and recently have heard the newer seasons are good and are alot more wholesome like they used to be so I'm mixed on the franchise & its just too bad that I can't watch the newer seasons as I refuse to subscribe to Disney+
Yeah im really passionate about the show & would rather have new Physical media releases on DVD more Simpsons comics new episodes on channel 4 & the Simpsons movie 2 on the big screen should end the series on a high note that's all most Simpsons fans want.
If the showrunners decide to age up the Simpsons and retcon all the events past season ten, I think the show will improve
Not all of them. There’s been a few gems during the decline.
Facts.
Not gonna lie, I thought this show ended years ago.
Needing to always be political correct hurts comedy... that's a scientific fact... :-P
Hard agree
Its not like Simpsons was especially radical at any time.
While the simpsons did have a leftist leaning in the earlier days, it's really easy to see them slide down further and further left.
Which hey, isn't a problem, but how they go about it is extremely boring.
@@Mangakamen I think one of the reasons The Simpsons worked well is they used to mock the media but now they are the media.
Bro be dishing out existential crisis’ as a Christmas present 😂 jokes or semi jokes aside it was really brave for you to make a vid like this. I mean I know it’s not on the same level as other actual life changing self realizations, but having to admit something like falling out of love with something you held dear is commendable.
We all do but it really just a part of things I guess. In a way I think it’s harder with the simpsons because it’s lasted over what 30 years now? Jeez. It hard to let go as it is when certain franchises end like pokemon the original anime did, but harder when the series is still ongoing.
It reminds me a lot of Jerry Seinfeld, saying he quit the series at season 9 because he wanted to end it on a high note even when they were offered a 10th season.
I think their use of a floating timeline was too extreme. Pokemon has used it and is infamous for it, but they never tried to really mention time since after the kanto league. I mean I guess they reiterated ash was still 10 during B&W intro but they try to exclude stuff like “it’s been x years/days/etc” from the main anime.
And I think the reason why it affects the simpsons so critically is that its a series meant to try and keep with current society whenever it is. So it’s always forcibly having to retcon events because they’re too aligned with how it was set up.
There is also a shift that really have the characters. As someone would say, be satire parody versions of themselves in contrast to earlier.
Either way great vid! 💯
I used to watch the Simpsons every time it was on TV with my father, right up until I became an older teenager (so around 15 or 16 years old I stopped watching it with him). I would still catch glimpses of it here and there. But now that I am 26 I don't feel any kind of connection to it whatsoever. I honestly feel it is just trash that is constantly trying to shove in celebrities in my face. I know older Simpsons did that as well, but I felt it was way more contained back then. Maybe it was the old look of Simpsons vs the scaleup they have done nowadays. Actual people looked more cartoony and more like caricatures back in the day rather than what they look like now.
But that is not really the main gripe. It is just I don't connect with what is going on in the show, especially since it seems to be connecting so much with zoomers or with millenials and honestly, I just don't care for it. Like you Manga, I also remember the past they showed of Marge and Homer and what they were doing before they met up with each other. I honestly connect way more with that than what they come up with nowadays. Maybe things were just simpler than they are now since we are grown up and don't have the benefit of viewing the world as children anymore.
But the Simpsons is just not a thing I can watch and connect with anymore~
Yeah they seem to force down celebrities a lot not even parody versions of them just the actual celeb themselves which kind of ruins the joke.
Good video but it shows that tv shows should end on a good note or high note instead of never ending.
This is true, the creatives should have made a new series that takes place in the same world as the simpsons,
Perhaps Bart and Lisa: older Millenials as they would have been. Others could have died, such as Apu so no drama would have happen etc.
@@thecompareablezombie yep that would have been better.
The biggest thing is Homer's devolution as a character. He started off being someone who while not the brightest person still tried to do right by his family and wife even if the way he went about it was not the best. Modern Homer is just "Duhhh, me do dumb things!"
In a weird way, the show has come full circle. It started life as being a rebuttal to the idealized television family and counterculture with characters that had character flaws but were still endearing. It redefined television. Now though? It has become the very thing it once mocked. The characters now reduced to pale imitations or deluded.
I really hate it when sitcom characters who start out in a series with a calmer personality regress over the course of a show to be more psychotic, dumber, and in some cases more evil. Homer's dumbness would be more tolerable in later seasons had they also not made him more selfish and careless in the process. It makes you appreciate the earlier seasons more when Homer wasn't this dislikable.
One thing worth pointing out is that humor heavily relies on the surprise effect, so the more someone follows a comedy show, the more the style of humor will become predictable and unfunny.
I wonder if the lack of a real consensus on when the show fell off depends on people becoming invested at different points.
It feels like Bart has matured a lot compared to the others, Homer has gotten dumber but a bit more sympathetic, Maggie hasn’t changed much maybe a bit less consistent and Lisa and Marge can’t be in the same room together. Admittedly though, I haven’t watched much of the latest season.
I stopped watching when hollywood arbitrarily decided that the VAs should match the race of the characters for some reason
obviously I have no problem with non white VAs getting work, I could take or leave the new Carl who was mostly silent for the few episodes where fox found "color appropriate" replacements but then the family visited hibert, he sounded terrible and the new guy couldn't even do the iconic laugh. if you can't endure a character or have someone new who doesn't know what makes that character special, then you have a problem
I pretty much stopped watching the other animated sitcoms too. they stopped being funny and well along with changing VAs for a very poor reason in my eyes there were one too many preachy simpsons episodes at that point, me and my brother used to watch together but the heart was gone from the series, seeming like every episode had some message rather than something that was actually funny
I grew up on those early 2000s mid-season Simpsons. It certainly was interesting in retrospect to have been watching the show devolve into the zombie era without realizing it until around the end of high school in 2014.
What's even the point with this show? The Simpsons isn't going anywhere, but the quality of the show has gotten worst especially when Disney bought it. Yeah there might be some good episode in modern episodes but their only tiny bit of it while most of it are just forgettable, unfunny and outdated humor, mostly cringe, and the worst is removing characters or replace voice actors to be political correct which down right stupid and insane. And it's really sad how truly fallen the Simpsons had gotten. The very old seasons of The Simpsons will forever be still a classic and memorable while Modern Simpsons is a dud.
The only way to save the Simpsons is to break the status quo and let the characters finally grow and develop. I'm pretty sure no one would freak out if Bart finally turned 11 and advanced to the 5th grade.
For me it's more that the characters feel less human and become more either figures of statements or are just simply 2 dimensional. Lisa becomes a plot device, Ned Flanders becomes a satire character, Mr. Burns is ridiculously unbelievably old and they must always joke about it, Homer has hardly any acknowledgement whatsoever, and I have no idea what they've done to Marge. There used to be so much more to these characters.
Rewatching some clips from earlier seasons showed the episodes with plenty of funny and even clever jokes. Plus, the characters had reasonable amounts of depth and humanity to them. These days, those nuances are missing and I’m disappointed.
Thanks for sharing your feelings about the Simpsons and why you don’t care for it anymore.😺
Yeah, it doesn't feel right that the Simpsons have three different backstories and counting because they just feel like it. Makes it feel like it's ignoring its roots rather than celebrating them
5:30 Would it be too hard to change the timing up of that event a little to fit the backstory? I mean like maybe they were close in high school, but afterwards Barney’s drinking made him forget all the times they shared together
I love Simpsons, man. It’s just… so sad to see it seemingly forget itself, in a way.
I only watched the treehouse of horror specials. Some had its good moments and some not so great.
honestly i hate the logic that cause a show is episodic means lore doesn't matter.
no it simply means that each episode is a self contained story, that's it, that's why characters can still career change, remember past stories and even die.
because it is still the same characters, they continue to live their own lives, it's just homer having gone to space has nothing to do with barts antics at school.
the most agregious is when characters relearn the same lesson over and over but just relapse at the start of the next.
relapses happen but for example bart stealing is very infrequent and is always done by him craving to temptation, meanwhile marge continually learns the exact same lesson of needing to loosen up yet she never does.
but i think the most frustraighting thing is the floating timeline, because it gives as much investment as comic books do where events are rewritten over and over just to fit the current time period because the writers ran out of ideas that week, you are allowed to write these characters as if they still exist in the 90's, sure it would limit celebrity cameos and the ability to throw smartphones in as plot devices but... that would actually be an improvement, it'd actually require thought as to how they lived back then and would even allow future episodes to just be set in current day so we can get past the future tech that definitely won't exist and just focus on the more adult stories like the simpson kids struggling to connect with their own.
It same with Family Guy. I use to love that show to death. But over the years I can not even watch a full episode. I can only watch in clips.
And Just like what Just Stop said, it about Inconsistencies with so many episodes and out of character and in character until consistencies doesn’t mean anything at all.
There been a lot of Inconsistencies with Family Guy. They also did the retcon of Peter and Lois’ past. The met in the 1970 before marriage but they retcon into the 80’s and then 90’s Including forcing in Bonnie into the past.
And Meg’s friend Patty previous establishment she have two mom. But retcons that her parents are little people.
Peter let a Brian(who is already 7) into his family but when the Shower episode made a retcon Brian been with the Family since he was a puppy. Basically being taken away from Brian’s mom means nothing.
At least the only retcon Family Guy acknowledge is How Joe broke his legs. The did mention the Grinch.
Even Family Guy crossover with Simpson was not good. It half baked at best. Could’ve been a Movie.
I seen reviews on the latest episode about Meg no longer a punching bad. My thought is okay……
The Simpsons is still good in my honest opinion.
ok
At least The Simpsons has aged better than Family Guy but, both of pale in comparison to Bob's Burgers and American Dad.
When I think Simpson i think bart with a macheta or axe Maggie with a gun lisa with a knife Jessica lovejoy who appears every now and then because she was shoved with anti pscr pills that bart might need being a pcycopath
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the same problem family guy has
I have not seen it for a long time
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Yeah, the newer stuff is a little painfully weird at times but I do get a couple of favorite moments at times.
Needs more Green Simpsons like in EmperorLemon’s videos.
I was a huge fan a long time ago. I stopped watching when I realized I had been watching the show for years without so much as cracking at smile. If it wasn't funny or at least enjoyable anymore, why should I keep watching?
I've heard that it has "gotten better", but I find that very hard to believe. At best I would enjoy watching it for a little while until it just went back to being unfunny again.
It probably would have been better to allow the characters to age.
I've been wondering the difference between being cynical about certain activities you may have enjoyed in the past and simply just growing past them due to maturity and other new experiences.
Its inevitable in some cases such as long running shows that's just the natural cycle.
Watch numerous people talk about the Simpsons and you'll get a general consensus that the show is past its peak but it does throw out an interesting idea every now and then.
I honestly don't have much of an opinion of the Simpson series, most because I merely watch two seasons from not sure which ones exactly they were. But I watched over 40 episodes so that's basically two seasons worth of episodes. As well as the movie and even then. So my general thoughts on it is. It's a light hearted comedy show with some heartfelt moments on occasion. But usually end with the statis quo by the end of episode or episode set.
(I have however watched all of Futurama aside from the recent revival season that came out earlier this year.)
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Theyre more concerned with "the message" than "the funny"
I started the Simpsons the same age as Bart. Now I'm the same age as Homer...it happened to me and it'll happen to you.
Crystal blue persuasion that episode made me dislike the series
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great video
I'll always love The Simpsons but haven't watched in a really long time and heard it's good again but haven checked it out yet.
Some of the issues people complained about years ago have since been fixed (biggest example being Homer being a loving husband and father always trying his best again) while other have stayed the same or gotten even worse.
I like it, but's a lot easier to appreciate if you treat it as its own thing divorced from the older seasons, because it really is a completely different show nowadays.
@@JesterQueenAnne Thanks for putting it this way
i mean they can either keep the show set in the 90s forever and not have anything from the present or have it set in the present and retcon the character's past to have it make sense
either way is kinda weird and the second is the only way to do it if you want the show to stay current
also getting mad at the show for making homer and marge millennials when millennials are homer and marge's age now is kind of a dumb criticism and makes you sound like a literal boomer