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Topic	When did The Simpsons "jump the shark?"
s0nicfan 09/22/23 11:40:22 AM #14:	CARRRNE_ASADA posted... Movie wasnt bad, but remember thinking that it didnt feel like the simpsons. Too watered down from the subjects that made them great. Anyway for me this was it. Though it wasnt much better prior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeMlMCOam9w Like others have said, I'm not even passing judgement on the movie. But if we're looking for the moment that Simpsons went from passion project to soulless moneymaker, it would be the movie, because that's the most clear cut moment where Groening flat out says the decision to not wait until the show was over was driven by ratings: https://web.archive.org/web/20061029045609/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117940840.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 The original intention, said Groening, was to delay the film until the show was done. "We tried to save this until the end of the series, but that intention was undone by good ratings," said Groening. Last month, Fox committed to two more seasons of the show. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:976237061] in When did T... [t:80574011]...</cite> <quote>CARRRNE_ASADA posted... </cite><quote>Movie wasnt bad, but remember thinking that it didnt feel like the simpsons. Too watered down from the subjects that made them great.Anyway for me this was it. Though it wasnt much better prior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeMlMCOam9w</quote>Like others have said, I'm not even passing judgement on the movie. But if we're looking for the moment that Simpsons went from passion project to soulless moneymaker, it would be the movie, because that's the most clear cut moment where Groening flat out says the decision to not wait until the show was over was driven by ratings:https://web.archive.org/web/20061029045609/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117940840.html?categoryid=14&cs=1<quote>The original intention, said Groening, was to delay the film until the show was done."We tried to save this until the end of the series, but that intention was undone by good ratings," said Groening. Last month, Fox committed to two more seasons of the show.</quote> --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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