Current Events > The Simpsons only has 6 good episodes after season 7

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and no good episodes after season 8

Homer vs NY sux

"New Kids on the Blecch" is the fourteenth episode of the twelfth season of the American television series The Simpsons.

TheLiarParadox posted...

"New Kids on the Blecch" is the fourteenth episode of the twelfth season of the American television series The Simpsons.

thats the navy episode right? sucks

heavily disagree with that statement. Most recently the one where they showed the future simpsons where Ralph gets cloned, is a masterpiece.

There are some decent episodes most seasons. The last 7 years have been better, and mostly just bland at worst

Mountain Dew or crab juice?

This topic must be post season 8.

you're right tc, most people over-extend the 'good' period of simpsons.

The X Dawg posted...

This topic must be post season 7.

this made me lol more than all of the simpsons post s8

Omnislasher posted...

you're right tc, most people over-extend the 'good' period of simpsons.

you can actually feel it declining in real-time. like it's so evident, im genuinely confused at the leeway fucking 9 gets, let alone 10-14

o.O

Femputer posted...

and no good episodes after season 8

Homer vs NY sux

F*** no. That's a great episode

Medussa posted...

o.O

wait wait i didn't know Medussa would take issue with this

i take it back! i take it all back! I can change for you bby

Still great until mid season 10. It just kills the character development they built up and has a loss in constant stellar writing.

One of the dumbest opinions ever posted to this site. Impressive.

TendoDRM posted...

One of the dumbest opinions ever posted to this site. Impressive.

season 7 is even not great. definitely the start of the steep decline

Definitely gonna disagree on that one, season 8 is full of great episodes.

Seasons 8,9, and 10 are all great. Season 11 is where things get weird, and I can understand people checking out at that point, but season 14 is when the bad episodes start out numbering the good ones.

Caution999 posted...

Seasons 8,9, and 10 are all great. Season 11 is where things get weird, and I can understand people checking out at that point, but season 14 is when the bad episodes start out numbering the good ones.

I think it was season 17 that had the one where Grandpa becomes a matador. I think - out of all the episodes - is the worst, and had me practically writhing on my couch over how bad it was.

It starts to flip around season 24, but the teens were dark years

MC_BatCommander posted...

Definitely gonna disagree on that one, season 8 is full of great episodes.

six of the best episodes of the series are in season 8...

Femputer posted...

season 7 is even not great. definitely the start of the steep decline

Agreed with you until you went and acted like a moron with this. Season 7 has an almost perfect melding of the cartoony seasons that 5 and 6 were with the more grounded stories of the seasons before.

Medussa posted...

six of the best episodes of the series are in season 8...

Accounted for in my title

Drunk Cobra posted...

Agreed with you until you went and acted like a moron with this. Season 7 has an almost perfect melding of the cartoony seasons that 5 and 6 were with the more grounded stories of the seasons before.

i do like season 7. it just has some real heinous shit

marge be not proud
scenes from whatever Chanel Chanel
bart the fink
bart on the road
homerpalooza (straight trash heap)
summer of 4ft 2

it's deffo not a bad season. just, not great. the beginning of the end

does have some faves tho for sure

The Principal and the Pauper
The Simpsons: Season 9, Episode 2

The Simpsons really peaks around seasons 5-6. 7-9 are just a decent sitcom. Some of the jokes are genius but the only reason the lines are revered is nostalgia and lack of competition.

Femputer posted...
marge be not proud

Nevermind, TC has no taste.

Homerpalooza is a big turning point. Some great jokes, but the premise is just trash.
Summer of 4 Ft. 2 is great character building, but really pushing the "cool" theme too hard.

Marge vs. the Monorail is season 4...

I enjoyed Barthood

Ivany2008 posted...

heavily disagree with that statement. Most recently the one where they showed the future simpsons where Ralph gets cloned, is a masterpiece.

Can't comment on this episode, but modern simpsons has made me laugh a lot. Just....not nearly as much as it should. And its sometimes done the opposite.

Homerpalooza was generally considered the worst episode until Principal and the Pauper came out.

The episode is fine, but it did kind of come off as "fellow kids"-ing with having as many music artist guests as they could get.

ChocoboMog123 posted...

Nevermind, TC has no taste.

Homerpalooza is a big turning point. Some great jokes, but the premise is just trash.
Summer of 4 Ft. 2 is great character building, but really pushing the "cool" theme too hard.

Marge vs. the Monorail is season 4...

i didn't say anything about marge vs the monorail, which to be clear is a perfect episode

im talking about the one with bonestorm and detective don brodka

uh huh, that's right

False.

The Simpsons is good, has always been good, and will always be good.

I love The Simpsons.

i wiSh

Bump

Femputer posted...

i do like season 7. it just has some real heinous shit

marge be not proud
scenes from whatever Chanel Chanel
bart the fink
bart on the road
homerpalooza (straight trash heap)
summer of 4ft 2

it's deffo not a bad season. just, not great. the beginning of the end

does have some faves tho for sure

Looks like we got the dud...

Drunk Cobra posted...

Looks like we got the dud...

Dud is an all-time good joke

Couched in a bad episode :v

On s12 right now and it's still hilarious.

I would only agree on Homerpalooza being bad tbh all jokes aside, your thesis of season 8 being a massive step down is correct but then you went a bridge too far into cartoony maniac zone.

I dont really see why people hate Marge Be Not Proud so much tbh its got some great jokes Ill admit it nearly veers into the smaltzyness that plagues the later seasons but I think it sticks the landing.

This is the first time I've ever heard anyone hate on Homerpalooza. Classic episode. I always made my band name Smiling Politely in Rock Band

The Simpsons had good episodes up to like season 18. You can argue that it wasn't "prime" Simpsons, but there were still pretty good episodes even with the shifting characterisation and the more fanciful plots. I really like the truck-driving episode and the episode where Bart goes to a Catholic school, though I have issues with how Marge basically fuelled Bart's impulsiveness and took him off a good path where he was paying attention in school and being a good kid because she was worried they wouldn't go to the same heaven. Two of my favorite Treehouse of Horror segments are the ones where Homer gets a magic hammock that clones him when he uses it, and where the family get a mega-AI house with an AI voiced by Pierce Brosnan.

I think this talking point of "the Simpsons were only good up to season 9" stems from a fanbase embittered by time, as well as a core difference in global demographic. In America, that was roughly the period of time where "Simpsonmania" was going on, but that was more of an American thing - Australia and Britain didn't have that wave of merchandise and popularity, at least not on the same level. The show didn't even start airing in those places for a couple years after it had started in America to my understanding. And regarding age - I was born in 1995. The Simpsons were already on season six when I came into the world. While I saw reruns every day, I also watched new episodes of the Simpsons until I was like 16 or so, and I explicitly grew up with the show up to season 18 where an episode called Boys of Bummer kinda spoiled the magic and turned me off the show.

This whole "The Simpsons was only good up until this particular point and was never good again" argument is dumb imo, but I think that cut-off date is going to vary for everyone. If you're older, there's gonna be a schism when the show switches to digital animation and moves onto their third writing staff, where Homer becomes more self-centred and rude. If you're younger, your Simpsons experience is going to be informed by what you watch as you grow up. Later Simpsons isn't great most of the time, but there are still really good episodes and I can't take that argument point of the show "only" being good up to some single-digit season seriously.

It's like people who legitimately get pissed off with Lisa because "she's always painted as being in the right" and "the writers are obsessed with making her the main character" - like yeah, she's written as a precocious know-it-all. That's her character. And sometimes she gets episodes where as the main focus, she has to face a moral or ethical dilemma. Not all criticism is bunk, but there really is some pathological anger that some chud-ass motherfuckers legitimately have over a fictional 8 year old girl.

There's something weird and stupid about people who go all-out emotionally on discussing the "rise and fall" of the Simpsons. You can try and pinpoint an objective moment where the series stopped being good, but that's gonna vary from person to person and it genuinely isn't that big of a deal. Pick what you like and enjoy it, rather than arguing about how an 8 year old in a cartoon is an SJW or whatever.

TendoDRM posted...

This is the first time I've ever heard anyone hate on Homerpalooza. Classic episode. I always made my band name Smiling Politely in Rock Band

The jokes and theme are good. The pacing is awful, the plot is dumb (Homer doesn't feel cool / Homer tries to act cool, but fails / Homer shoots himself with a cannon to be cool / Homer stops), and it's pretty cringey even giving it some leeway for cultural shifts. If you just focus on the one-liners, you're going to like it. If you focus on where it sits in comparison to other episodes, I don't know.