The Simpsons Season 10 Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Le grill! What the hell is that?!?!
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Kinda fought with Season 10 when writing this review. I don't personally vibe with this season that well, it's not the style I gravitate toward with comedies. But at the same time, I feel like Season 10 is criticized too much for some of the stuff that came later. There's a lot of foreshadowing in Season 10, but by and large, it's not that over the top about it. So I tried to at least be diplomatic with some of the critiques here.
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No worries Jimbo, the video is fantastic and your opinions are totally valid.
I often can’t tell by how much I’ve watched the Simpsons that I genuinely like seasons past the golden age or that I’ve watched them so much I’m familiar with them. I think the case that the need to try new things is a good point, but they somehow further typecasted and flanderized a lot and we’re only beginning to see that in season 10. It’s interesting to watch. There’s new situations, but characters react increasingly in patterned and tired ways or with one line quips. Anywho, great vid. It’s like a Monday morning watercooler talk with all my Simpson homies.
You were talking about how violent season 10 was, but I'm pretty sure this is the first season homer doesn't strangle bart at all.
I look at season 10 as the true end of classic era Simpsons. Bart essentially becoming Homer's sidekick, more absurd plots, a lot of stuff that we would see in future seasons started here. And of course the beginning of "Jerkass" Homer. This isn't a bad season, but it feels like the end of what The Simpsons once was.
Series 10 is also the final series which had Phil Hartman as a regular guest star before his untimely death. It wasn't just Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz that we lost, but a major part of Classic Simpsons itself.
That’s why I consider 10 as the last Classic season for that reason.
It was the last with him period.
I think that is perfectly symptomatic of the season. It had Troy McClure but lacked Lionel Hutz, meaning it had less than previous seasons, but more than the following seasons.
Season 10 was a mixed bag, but I'm glad that Phil Hartman's last work on the show, was in probably the best episode of the season, either that or "Lisa Gets An A".
That's kinda why I love the first 10 seasons the most. If it wasn't for Phil Hartmans characters the first 10 seasons wouldn't have been complete.
Am I the only one who watches these multiple times randomly
If you mean the realjims videos not the Simpsons episodes then no. I do that too.
no
no
Yes. Therealjims has a nice voice to listen to.
I listen to these at work
Season 10 is probably the most conflicted I’ve ever been with a Simpsons season, it also happens to be the season that I just can’t decide on what era it’s in, because while it doesn’t reach the jump the shark moments of seasons 11/12, it’s edge and lack of even the most forced heart distances it from seasons 8/9
Personally I consider it post classic, even if it's probably the last season to have some episodes with a classic era flavour.
For me it's ever more clear that season 9 was the exact point in time in which classic and post classic are mixed together.
Season 10 isn't horrible or anything but it's definetely post classic for me.
It's the first season where it's relatively bad by Simpsons standards, but still great by TV standards.
Like, we complain here, but I know every single one of us would rather watch a season 10 episode than Dr. Phil or Maury while bored in a waiting room at the dentist or something.
@@ohnoitschris lol true
To me, the only bad episodes of this season, was the kidney episode and the one that featured Alec Baldwin and his wife, the rest were either good or average.
Now season 11 on the other hand 👎👎👎👎
Season 11 is the guilty pleasure season for me.
Season 10 had all the weaknesses of new Simpsons but was still very very funny.
I'm divided on season 10. Personally i feel as though there were quite a few standout episodes: "Mayored to the Mob", "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", "Sunday Cruddy Sunday", "Lard of the Dance", "Mom and Pop Art" are my personal favourites from this season, but I didn't enjoy the wackiness a lot, or the cutaway jokes as much as I had enjoyed them in seasons 3-5. While it's definitely not on the level of season 11, 12 or even some of the more modern series (while writing this, "The Scorpion's Tale" from season 22 comes to mind) in terms of wackiness, I think there is a less of a balance than in the Mirkin/Oakley and Weinstein years.
As the series has gone on, it has become a lot happier to use celebrity guests to "justify the madness" so its good, that after repeatedly watching every episode of The Simpsons, Season 10 (with the exception of "When You Dish Upon a Star" which i thoroughly hated) comes out fairly well in this regard. The problems I find with guest appearances (guests playing themselves, not characters) is that a) it tends to dominate the plot of the episode or b) it seems shoehorned as a cameo, just so the producers and FOX could put "With special guest [insert name of celebrity]" in the promos. However, I did enjoy "Sunday Cruddy Sunday" because it felt like the celebrities always fit into the context well enough to not seem jarring. Also the lack of on the nose political satire is appreciated for this season - the occasional cameo or remark in an odd episode is enough in my opinion. The series isn't on the level of "Bart Mangled Banner" from Season 15 or "The Kid is All Right" from Season 25 yet.
If you got to the end of that without feeling bored, thank you for taking the time to read it. Thanks to whoever is reading this.
you are by far my fave youtuber you are simply the best and ur vidoes give me lots of serotonin
You know, it's funny how perspective work. I used to think of these episodes as kinda overwhelming and even gimicky compared to the older ones... it didn't help that i mixed most of 10-16 seasons in my head... but now, compared to the HD era and with some age plus Jims commentary i kinda appreciate more how balls to the walls they went just so they wouldn't be more of the same, sometimes, and how that caused them to be hit or miss.
Message and characterization get thrown out to the window sometimes and this gets people mad... but i wonder if they shouldn't have taken this to the exteme and make the Simpsons more of an "anthology" series were they kinda change the setting and characterization on purpose instead of accidentally bit by bit to fit the times. Have Homer be a manchild because he's the personification of a bad stereotipical milenial instead of being a jerkass. Have Marge be incredibly well intentioned PC. It'd be funny seeing Lisa be the popular one with the rise of Geek culture (or at least toy with the idea that trends do not make the popular)
We all know people disliking Marge V. Monorrail at the time but it's aged well because it had something to say. Change the characters to reflect the times and you never run out of things to talk about that don't fit your show
This is where the show should've ended with dignity IMO.
I wish Beyond The Laughter had been the Season 10 final and the ending to the show.
"Homer, your spine!"
You sir, are and will always be one my top 10 favorite youtubers of all time.
Season 10 is the last season I can stand to watch. Every time I try to cross the barrier into 11... I just can't.
YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
WHY DOESN'T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT
"The biggest winner of Season 10 is Gil"
The most ironic statement in Simpsons History.
Gil got the win this season
Ol Gil
"Simpsons Histories on Gil" when?
Max Powers doesn’t snuggle with anyone, you strap yourself in and Feel The Gs!!!
I always thought Homer said Feel the Cheese lol
Oh lord.
I never got this joke as a kid, but Dan Castellaneta's delivery was so good I always laughed.
Who is Max "Powers"?
There's three ways to do things- the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way.
Isn't that the wrong way?
But faster!
I'm just realizing that Season 10 is extremely weird for me.
Half of these episodes I thought happen way later in the series, and half of them feel like earlier entries... I don't know why.
Yep, that's how I felt.
Same. I figure it's due to the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" approach on this one
IMO its due to how many of the episodes would fit right in the later "zombie simpsons" era.
Season 9 does that to me as well. The Powersauce bar mountain climbing one feels way more like a season 11-12 outing, but meanwhile Duffman feels like he had always been in the show. Such a strange mix.
@@Descriptor413 In season 10, some of them like Mayored to the Mob and Lisa Gets an A feels more the classic era, others like When You Dish Upon a Star and 30 Minutes Over Tokyo feel more like "Middle Simpsons".
“I got a question for that gross thing, whatever it is.”
“Homer.”
No the green dude
@@levv7258 If you're that baby's daddy, where you been at? *Audience cheers and claps* Somebody should learn your green ass some responsibility!
@@BmanTheChamp *She gets laser'd*
Season 10, looking at season 7:
"Ah, that's a fine looking season."
...
"WHY DOESN'T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT!?!?"
I think every season don't need replicate each other they can be enjoyed in their own way
This season I find interesting because this was the first season where the show had real competition. This season started airing in 1998 and King of The Hill and South Park had come out the year prior and were both big. Especially South Park. Meanwhile halfway through the season, Family Guy premiered. I feel like the reason this season was more raunchy was because they wanted to compete with all the new more edgy shows coming out at the time.
Futurama came out in the middle of season 10 you didn't mention that
@@maganhassan2627 Yeah, it aired on the same day as the episode from this season, "Maximum Homerdrive".
@@maganhassan2627 but futurama wasn't as big as the others i
@@t_man7259 Neither was Family Guy
@@alchemistofsteel8099 I could be wrong but I think family guy did slightly better than futurama by comparison
I'm not gonna lie: this is where those retrospectives are getting especially interesting to me. I've always been pretty interested in trying to determine if the Simpson had certain "eras", certain "trends", in short the equivalent to "ages" over the years... but whenever you ask fans about that, they just toss the entire discussion aside and reduce it to "everything after season X sucks". So I'm very glad that Jims is actually providing an in-depth season-by-season analysis here, and I hope he keeps doing so :)
And this is a reason I hate a lot of the fanbase, they just jerk the same seasons over and over and refuse to say anything else about the later seasons other than "NOT MY SIMPSONS" or "it sucks".
everyone knows that everything after the first christmas special was crap!!!
@@aarontheperson6867 You kid, but even though many people consider season 1 practically a different show since they were still figuring out the characters, I may like it even better than “golden era” Simpsons. I go back to the first season over an over because I lovr it so much
I agree with you im a fan that has Stuck with the Simpsons even now ... and well they havebt become really bad in my eyes right now they have a second golden age and by the way a lot episodes after season 12 are my favourites .. there is a lot good stuff still coming
@@ChiefMedicPururu Well a lot of the later seasons suck sure there were some gems but still.
"Sorry, the guys kinda made a mess of your bathroom"
"What bathroom???"
Homer made mess of two bathrooms (at least) that year.
It's funny how the show's perception in the early years was, in some circles, "Let's see what crazy antics Bart gets up to this week!", but then literally turned into "Let's see what crazy antics Homer gets up to this week!".
I was in my second year of high school when Season 10 aired, and people described episodes as "the one where Homer becomes a..." or "the one where Homer does ". It was starting to lose its edge though, given South Park was new at the time.
Yeah i wish RealJims did more comparisons of what the competition was doing at the time. Especially "now" with South Park, Futurama, King of the Hill and Family Guy now airing.
Isn't this around the time a lot of the writers migrated over to Futurama as well? Or is that a bit later?
@@FreyaEinde The writers were working on Futurama during this season. Uter wears a Futurama shirt in "Mayored to the Mob", even though Futurama wouldn't be airing until next year.
The focus used to be on how unbalanced and dysfunctional the whole family was. The focus on Homer takes away from that a lot
@marylandbrony I also attribute the change of the show's tone to the competition. It felt like Simpsons tried to be more "edgy" like South Park but cannot do it as well.
@@ccricers South Park was never good though. Simpsons beats it any day. SP is just preachy and annoying.
This season was the consequence of Homer stealing Willie’s retirement grease
"Everything's coming up Milhouse!"
I actually used "my feet are soaked, but my cuffs are bone dry!" the other day.
Wait that was from this season?
Bart the Mother. Rest in Peace Phil Hartman
it sure is Billy, it sure is.
R.I.P. Phil Hartman!!!!! :( D:
It was a great episode to go out on. He will be missed 😞
“Le grile what the hell is that”
🤷♂️
Season 10 does have my favorite Homer moment of him trying to build the bbq.
That shriek at the end is so perfect.
@@BleydTorvall le grill
Haha the 2 comments above are my 2 fav moments “Le Grille? What the hell is that?!?”
Stupid Lisa!
Agreed, It's honestly very notable how some scenes that are ofter regarded as classic Simpsons gags come from "later" seasons.
1/3 of the way!!!! Let’s gooooo!
Technically 10/32nds of the way!
Mike Reiss always said the the rule for how stupid Homer could get was "He can never forget his own name." They don't think twice about breaking that during the Loch Ness monster episode. "What's your name, young man?" "I don't know,; just give me the money!"
I'd always interpreted that joke as meaning that Homer is so focused on and so desperate to have the dollar that he isn't listening to what Arthur Fortune is asking him and just wants Arthur to give him the money.
@@Horsley-Green I agree with that. That's also how I interpreted the joke, although it could have much more clearly been phrased as "I don't _care,_ just give me the money!".
Tbh this is a good time to do a top 10 Simpsons seasons
For me it will go something like: 6>7>3>4>5>8>2>1>9>10
7>6>4>5>3>8>2>1>9>10
Off the top of my head: 5>4>6>3>7>8>9>2>1>10
Not sure what my ranking would be but one thing's for sure: y'all are underrating season 2
@@stradify1 for me seasons 1-8 all range from 8/10-9/10. Season 9 is a 7/10 and season 10 is about 6.5/10.
If we're including the later seasons I've seen seasons 11-15 are about 5-5.5/10
I'd say seasons 9 and 10 are right at the edge of classic Simpsons where some of the missteps for the series started to seep in, but they were overall still great and classic episodes. And as I recall, season 11 is where the shift to a new era really took hold. I still liked much of the early teens season's episodes, but they definitely were outside of the classic era and things would definitely start going more and more downhill.
I think 8 was the last great classic season, 9 was the last good, 10 was alright, then after that, it really died.
Yeah I think those two seasons were where the later problems were REALLY starting to kick in, more mean spiritedness and on-the-nose cartoony gags, but there still often seems this one toe trying to firmly stay planted down to earth and keep that old earnest Simpsons magic still around here and there. Season 11 I'd argue it was finally fully lifted away, likely because it was now trying to compete with Family Guy and South Park and even their sister show Futurama.
"you liked Rashomon."
"That's not how I remember it."
Biggest brain joke.
Lol.
If that had appeared around S3-5, it’d have more appreciation.
@@rayvenkman2087 definitely seemed like it could have been from “Streetcar Named Marge”.
Can you a Simpsons Histories on Lindsey Naeagle next please? After learning about her past in the latest episode of season 32, I think she deserves one.
Yes! I second this, I always found Lindsey Naeagle an interesting character and would love to have Jims do an in-depth character analysis.
I third this! I've been asking for this for ages!
Spoiler: I feel like The Simpsons needs to explore more this devious aspect of Lindsey Naegle and what she's going to do because they left that last episode on a cliffhanger for her character after being caught stealing everyone's jewelry. I think she's going to hire that gaggle of lawyers Mr. Burns uses and get off scot-free, or probably be seen in future episodes as if nothing happened.
Not really. Her character was meant to be "generic corporate executive", and then they put her in all over the place as "generic rich woman". I know the most recent episode has the more devout people feeling there's hope there's more to her, but I don't think so.
Agreed. That episode changed the way I think about Lindsey Naegle forever. I might even have to get my Lindsey Naegle tattoo altered to reflect her jewel-thief past.
My favourite will always be "la grille", "hi apu" and " you killed Ron Howard"
This is the season I remember watching as a kid. Dunno why this season in particular, but I remember a ton of these episodes. The Bible stories one was probably my favorite, the ending to Bart's Dream sequence still cracks me up.
Yeah I remember before watching the first 5 seasons of the show that a lot of episodes from this season repeated a lot on tv for some reason
As you can see, the real deal with Bart Simpson is that he's Homer Simpson's assistant. He's in his early 10s, is unmarried and currently resides in Springfield. Thanks for writing!
At this point I'm wondering how far you're willing to go.
I’m really curious to hear his more in-depth thoughts on 2000s era Simpsons
2032: The Simpsons Season 28 Retrospective
I think he'd be happy to continue. He's always been open about his belief that no Simpsons season is fully bad. It'd also be a nice way to show off some modern gems.
You don't want to know how far he is preapred to go !
I'm most curious on his expert opinion on how to possibly differentiate the newer seasons.
I rewatched S10 a couple years back, expecting it to be cringe af. But I had a surprisingly enjoyable time. It was leaning hard into the wacky and extreme, but there were also a lot of gags and jokes that were essentially memes between me n friends, at the time and through the years. Super Nintendo Chalmers? MAX POWER full name monogrammed? I don't know if I liked it more than S9 when I rewatched it, but both were a lot stronger than I expected.
The Japan episode always sticks out to me in this season. I think its because of the Homer Toilet scene and Seizure Robots
Knife goes in, guts come out 🎵
I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!
Seizure Robots was a parody of the Porygon episode of Pokemon
This was the real beginning of the end for the simpsons. It wasn't horrible, but it definitely wasn't great, and the simpsons never reached the heights of seasons 8-9 again.
Season 10 has pretty consistent quality though, I think 11 or 14 is the real end of the Simpsons. As the Scully years go on. Jean is just irredeemable.
Nah, it's not.
After season 30whatareweonnow it is a bit hard for me to accept that season 10 was the beginning of the end of it. Sure, you might not like it now, but enough people do that it is still running.
Nah, you are wrong.
in revisiting the show since disney+, halfway through season 10 i noticed a steep dropoff in quality in the show, specifically at the alec baldwin episode. i agree that theres probably some base level of entertainment there that stays around after this point, but the drop is too real for me, and i personally just stick to watching 1 thru ~9 over and over again
"All right, just go ahead and sue me! The average settlement is $68,000!"
I look at season 10 as the true end of classic era Simpsons. Bart essentially becoming Homer's sidekick, more absurd plots, a lot of stuff that we would see in future seasons started here. And of course the beginning of "Jerkass" Homer. This isn't a bad season, but it feels like the end of what The Simpsons once was.
That seems fair. The show peaked in Seasons 5-6-7.. the drop off was not that bad in 8-9 which were about on par with season 2-3-4....Season 10.. yeah I would rather watch season 1. Show didn’t know what it wanted to be anymore.
Same really. It still has a bit of old earnest magic tying it all together and keeping it a little charming, but this was definitely a point the meaner more cartoony antics were starting to take over, with Season 11 being the culmination. By then nearly all the plots are wacky and the characters lack any sincerity to them anymore.
@ToonReel001 Yeah, that's the biggest problem with what this show became, it just turned into a cartoon, I felt the absurdity reached it's peak in season 11.
I always consider the Mike Scully era as a really important 'Silver Age Simpsons' (or if you prefer, the 'it's still good, it's still good' era), worth at least partially including with a rewatch of the show's best years. There's some genuine classic episodes in all those seasons, as well as some big historical episodes that changed the show (season 10's light on those, but it's still got the Vegas and curfew episodes, and we're on the doorstep of Barney going sober), moments that you'd do a disservice to the show by ignoring. But at the same time, it's an era that clearly showcases the problems the show would go on to suffer heavily from, at levels where it's still just 'a bad episode among a good crop' rather than an epidemic.
We have officially left the golden era. Will zombie Simpsons break TheRealJims?
He’ll probably try to resist but he will break eventually
(I’m waiting for him to)
It turns out Jim was Bruce Willis the whole time. Unbreakable.
No we haven't
@@matriaxpunk its not gonna get as god as the first few seasons but the later ones might be still good but it goes down hill
@@Galvatronover that's true, I just think this later seasons still have some of the best episodes of the show.
Alright, See you in 2-3 months on season 11.
Lard of The Dance always felt like a season nine leftover. It's also a great episode.
It is a Season 9 leftover
@@KingYou2002 Seriously?
@@j04370859 yeaahhh so is wizard of evergreen, bart the mother, and when you dish upon a star
@@melhanlol Great, I enjoyed all those episodes, except "When You Dish Upon A Star".
@@melhanlol The idea and plot was for Season 9, but the writing process was during the production of Season 10.
Season 10, while considered out of the Golden Age™, is one of my favorite seasons, but that's largely based on some strange nostalgia. My buddy had a tape of a ton of season 10 episodes that we'd watch religiously in our shitty duplex in northern Wisconsin, and the tape came with me when I moved to Milwaukee, where it was still watched with much frequency. My friends would refer to it as "the tape", and at the end of long nights someone would surely suggest "just throw on The Tape". I don't really have any favorite episodes from it, but I do still watch it from time to time.
Ironically for me, this season is the earliest one that I have the fewest memories of, since it and season 9 were the only ones of the good years that I didn't have on DVD. Some of these episodes are a complete blank for me. It's funny how much access to a show could burn it into your brain or not back then. I guess that's part of why they had clipshows.
Season 10? I’m outraged! You promised me season 7 or higher!
Season 10 is a transition and sort of bridge between what the show was and what it has become. Some episodes feel like season 9 episodes (Lard of the dance, The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, Bart the Mother, Lisa Gets an 'A', Mayored to the Mob, Wild Barts Can't Be Broken) while some of the episodes seem to come from the future season 11 (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo, Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble', When You Dish Upon a Star, Monty Can't Buy Me Love, Viva Ned Flanders, The Old Man and the 'C' Student). Wild Barts Can't Be Broken is the last episode with classic flavour. By the end of Season 10 it was a different show. Less satirical and more absurd.
Lard Of The Dance and The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace were originally thought of during Season 9.
This video’s ending really got me thinking about the episode “Sunday Cruddy Sunday” because it’s an episode that you could see as an absolute mess due to it’s desire to do so much stuff in so little time and on top of that has an egg plot that literally adds nothing. But on the other hand, it’s so much fun to watch the episode just do whatever it feels like that I’m compelled to say that it’s one of my favourites of the season. If you can look past the really fast pacing and some of the most strange jokes the show has done, then you get a really entertaining episode that goes to so many interesting places in so little time.
maybe it would of worked better as a 2-part episode, that way they could have expanded the plots and paced it a little better.
"Stop eating the tickets!"
I like that episode because it has some good jokes and nostalgia
I know you tend to stick to simpsons stuff, but i think an entertaining idea for a video would be to follow the canonical plot of “All My Circuits” in Futurama, similarly to how you did a video on Itchy and Scratchy. With the increasingly complex and nonsensical storylines, i wonder if there is an underlying plot to all my circuits
The king is back with another absolute banger🙏🏼
"not cutting away constantly to some fantasy sequence"
realjims family guy retrospective when? :^))))))))))))))
"le grille?! WHAT THE HECK IS THAT"? will always crack me up... ugh lol
This is where the series should have ended in my opinion
1: it would have stayed in the 90s
2: had the last appearance of Phil Hartman
3: also I would say Thirty minutes over Tokyo would have been a nice climax for the season not for the series but hey maybe they could have done the movie after this.
The only issue with keeping it in the 90s means you no longer have new trends to use as plots, no new tech to reek havoc, no modern references etc. It wouldn't fix the issues people have with the following seasons either.
@@NirateGoel Well, they could've made a separate show at the end of the 90's set in the future to critique changing trends and technology. Call it "Futuretopia", or something.
I think Behind The Laughter, would've been a great way to end the show, I just wish it was the Season 10 final, instead of the 11th one, that Season was really when the show died, even though 10 was a decline, I would rather it be the final season.
I think this season is where I started watching the Simpsons less and less, not worried about missing a new episode when it would come out. I think this was also when I started buying Simpsons DVDs so I could watch the earlier seasons.
DVD's existed in 1998/1999?
@@j04370859 yep, the first DVD player was.. IIRC late 96 in Japan and early 97 in the west. So by 99 it was still fairly uncommon but had come down from “home theatre enthusiast” price down to mid-range level. Certainly still an indulgence over VHS but not so completely stratospherically expensive as it was at first.
Back in the days I had the entire season 10 recorded on VHS. I didn't have much else so I just rewatched this season again and again so this season definitely means a lot to me.
I had the first five along with this season and S17 ugh all on DVD at one point than I lost of some of them and gave away the latter
Season 10 is a very good season. Some of my favorites are in it- "Mom and Pop Art", "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", "Lisa Gets An 'A'", "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", "Make Room For Lisa", and "Bart the Mother". It has its ups and downs but is definitely worth a watch.
Make Room For Lisa is terrible but I love the rest
The Treehouse Of Horror episode also.
@@j04370859 I liked The Terror of Tiny Toon but the other two were just okay.
I can't watch the episode where Homer has to give his kidneys to grandpa, it feels so wrong, like Homer becomes the villain and not even in a funny way, just like in flaming Moe's
Even though I love this season that episode along with Make Room For Lisa and Monty Can’t Buy Me Love are low points in this batch
Wild Barts Can’t Be Broken is one I can’t stand to enjoy because of Homer’s antics in it and never getting his comeuppance for it at any point.
"Cold-hearted Homer, ditching his wife, while ancient Ned runs for his life."
"Chips of red and blue and white, but we decide wh-"
"Can the poems, it's ass-whooping time!"
"I want fatty!"
😂
I’m having a really bad day... and this upload just made it a bit better. Thank you RealJims :)
There's always a better day. Stay safe, friend
do you feel better
@@francescomanzo3939 I do!
No season w/ "Luke Be a Jedi Tonight" can be a bad one.
Season 10 is a very Swartzwelder heavy season. He wrote 5 of the episodes that season. It feels like without Oakley and Weinstein to reel him in, Scully just let him go wild.
This season was his decline, he wrote 5 episodes and I only loved "The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace", and liked "Maximum Homerdrive", all the others were meh, can't believe he even wrote that awful Kidney episode.
@@j04370859 Wait, that was Swartzwelder? Jeez, that's heartbreaking...
Season 10 was the last lingering bit of magic in the show for me. It has all the clear warning signs now, a few too many mean spirited or gimmicky episodes, over abundance of guest stars and wacky hijinks, but there's still a bit of earnest charm sandwiched in it all. By Season 11 it was pretty much all gone.
This is my exact thoughts. Season 10 felt like the turning point for this show, but it still had some gems. By the 11th Season, the show was officially no longer Simpsons.
The episode where Lisa stays home from school was one of my favorites growing up. I was like her and NEVER stayed home (I always had to make sure I got straight A's) -- and my sister was like Bart (faking a fever so often our mom stopped believing her). One day, I was terribly sick for 2 school days (Wed and Thurs) but better by Fri. I faked still being sick the next morning in order to get a 3 day weekend. It was awesome. Thankfully, no test to worry about the following Monday... xD
I loved that episode
Why did you have to write straight A's but your sibling did not?
@@sunwukong5518Because they were different people
This was clearly Gil's season because it's the only one where he actually managed to get a win: sell the Coleco's to the only ones dumb enough to buy it, Springfield Elementary
I loved these Episodes. People say they wished Simpsons Ended in 1996. Not me 😕
Never heard 1996. More like 1998.
@@manuellagos659 the 96-98 time period Pretty Much
Some people wanted the show to retain its classic family sitcom format, while others feel it got better when it started getting really wild. Personally I don't think it got bad until Homer morphed from well-meaning simpleton to selfish jerk.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 For me Simpsons shudda ended latest 2003
Never really noticed how the seasons have their own different themes
It definetly got raunchier but you can't have "Do It for Her" and "You are Lisa Simpson" forever.
Season 10 makes me believe that someone saw Homers Enemy and completely missed the point about Homers place in the series and in the minds/heart of viewers.
It scares me how many people bash Frank Grimes as if his resentment of Homer and his eventual mental break were unjustified. Apparently a lot of people do have some sort of disease that they can't see Homer's an idiot who doesn't deserve what he has.
What I call a Wrath of Khanism.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 including Schwartzeld who wrote it! He said Frank had it coming the whole episode or something like that.
@Palace of Wisdom eh I still think Frank was a bit of an asshole in that episode. Homer was in the wrong too and Grimes didn’t deserve to die, but he certainly wasn’t a saint.
And it’s not a disease to have a different opinion about an episode.
Season 10 has some really great episodes IMO
Yeah a lot of people said that if they had ended the Simpsons at season 10 it would have been considered a perfect show.
For me, they should have ended at season 7....I take that back. Season 6
Personally I would be fine if they ended it at S13 or the movie
For it to be perfect it would have had to end at 9. But if it ended at 10 it would still be seen as an incredible series with a last season that isn't as strong but it's still decent.
@@atticus5106 Huh? Season 7 was great.
I feel like season 10 is a strong reasoning for the theory that Simpsons episodes are all during one day but just severely out of order
"So... is this your school?"
"It was."
Great video as always! I was very curious to see your stance on Season 10, since that’s where I wouldn’t say I fell off the show, but I will say that I started getting tired of the show.
I enjoyed this season as a kid when it aired, but it was the first season that I revisited and felt as if there were more clunky weird episodes than there were stand-out episodes. I'm curious as to what your top 10 will be as I think there are a few great episodes, and a whole lot of okay episodes that spiral out of control in the third act.
I was in middle school when these episodes came out, and this is when people started saying how the series was dead. Looking back, there are still a bunch of awesome episodes in here! Max power, homer driving the rig.... Its just that the show seemed to change so quickly that people were turned off.
Seasons 11-33 looking at seasons 1-10: "Aahh those are some fine looking seasons.....WHY DONT OURS LOOK LIKE THAT!!!!!!
It is getting better with 33 and 34 not as good as the classics but better
@samuel-wankenobi well I guess that's true. Lydia over on the simpsons theory says that actually. If she says it's good then it must be.
Season 8,9, and 10 was the main seasons I grew up with ever week day at 6:30pm after Malcom in the middle. I can remember each episode verbatim
Season 10 is wonderful, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it
I knew that this channel would eventually move into the later seasons, so as someone who checked out of The Simpsons at around seasons 7/8, will there still be episodes related to the golden years or is it going to be newer stuff from now on? Love what you do by the way and thank you for all your incredible effort.
This season was (in my opinion) the start of the failing age only ending in season 19
Also yes I enjoyed the hd simpsons
I enjoyed HD Simpsons too
I think season 19 is where my interest of Simpsons fell off I loved 2000s Simpsons I grew up watching that
@@maganhassan2627 yes that's understandable as every 10 seasons the simpsons change extremely
@@phoenixanimations8851 yeah that's an interesting observation there
@@maganhassan2627 Season 19 had probably the worst scene of the show, Homer killing his Dad, that along with Homer getting raped by a panda in season 12, worst scenes of the whole show, I stopped watching it years ago, maybe there's worse.
I can’t believe that they didn’t write a character for Mark Hamill
they did actually, Mark doubled as the drill sergeant in that episode.
They didn't need to write a character for him. That's his picture next to the pepper steak, and don't you forget it!
0:10 Those all look like the same people
Me when I get to my season 10 - 13 DVD's: "Ooh, Now We're Into The Dregs"
If Season 9 and Season 10 were switched around, fans would be more positive towards this one.
Are you saying this season was better than 9?
I actually like it better when celebrities play themselves. The Simpsons always referenced pop culture. Also when they make up new characters for them that new character is less likely to come back than if someone from the regular cast voiced them. When is the last time you saw Jessica Lovejoy? She was pretty funny. She probably isn't back because Meryl Streep is too expensive or busy.
The Simpsons used to be the exact opposite of celebrity centric culture. Once that was broken it became just another TV show.
@@manuellagos659 I can't think of any other tv show that has celebrities show up this frequently. Except for maybe SNL or the Muppet Show. In other shows, it's only done on occasion. For example on Suite Life of Zack and Cody Jessie McCartney showed up once and they only did cameos every so often.
I always liked how that Dolly Parton scene made absolutely no sense when you stop and think about it. If she's headlining the Super Bowl Half Time show, why is she the one wearing the Snoopy head?
On top of that she isn’t even seen singing in the episode, despite the fact that she’s one of the most successful country singers of all time. They even lampshade it at the end!
The Downfall Begins...
Mayored to the Mob is my number one. I say I prefer celebrities voicing characters, then contradict myself by loving Hammil in it. Talk about Star Wars!
I love how there are 2 episodes that include Groundskeeper Willie crawling in a vent, and grease.
The first is in season 5 episode 19 "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", and the second is in season 10's "Lard of the Dance".
The writers must have just loved putting a greased-up Willie into a vent for some reason.
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I think everything after this season is not so good. For that, I kinda feel like it belongs in Classic Simpsons territory. Sure, it’s different, but it doesn’t cross a line into “bad” for me. If you do classify it with the Classic Simpsons, it’s definitely my least favorite. But I think it still has a place there. It’s definitely watchable, and there are some outstanding episodes that would definitely stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the earlier seasons.
The football cameos don't really bother me as much, after all Homer at the bat was an amazing episode. But I cannot stand the Kim Basinger and Ron Howard episode, I refuse to even watch that again
The Thomas Edison episode is honestly really funny
Yeah
"I'll get you, you fat lunatic!!!"
(Homer starts to back up, Edison panics and hides behind a bush)
Woe, I just realised that season 10 was the first time I started seeing commercials of the show. Particularly the episode when they go to Japan and get attacked by godzilla on the plane
I feel that Season 10 is a transition season
Ah, what a fine looking grill. Why doesn't mine look like that??
season 10 is when you can see the immediate decline of the Simpsons