Current Events > Why is The Simpsons just not funny any more?

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Is this a fault of myself growing out of the demographic its aimed for?
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different writers
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If you have some free time Id recommend you watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk

If not, its just because of the changing times and writers.

I just watched the first three episodes of series 29 earlier. Didn't laugh once.

This is a show that should have long been cancelled and as much as I am a fan of the earlier good years that seem so long ago now, I won't feel sad when the last ever episode eventually does air.
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Season 10 was the final year I enjoyed most of the episides. The peak was certainly 6-8 though.
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The season opener 2 years was the perfect example. They built up this really serious emotional moment at the end, only to ruin it with a joke. The entire episode was also 2 dreams within each other.

Homer sleeps during a meltdown at the nuclear power plant, which leads him to be hospitalized. A spinal tap reveals that Homer suffers from narcolepsy and gives him a medical excuse to prevent Homer from doing activities because of his disease, but he starts using his excuse to simply sleep and escape doing anything at all. Marge gets irritated and tells Homer to get his narcolepsy medication at a pharmacy.

At the pharmacy, there were four senior citizens in front of Homer. Realizing that would take a while, he goes to Moe's tavern and comes home smelling like beer. This scandalizes Marge, who plans to take Homer to a family ministration. But, instead of helping them, the mentor tells the couple to spend a little time apart followed by a divorce. So Homer leaves the house and starts living at the nuclear plant.

Lenny and Carl tell Homer that Marge changed her status to "It's complicated" and her name on the voice mail back to Marge Bouvier (her maiden name). Homer then goes back to Moe's and receives a call, but instead of Marge, it is the pharmacist calling because of his medications. While getting his meds, the pharmacist (whose name is Candace) takes Homer on a date and dopes him, which leads Homer to make the one drunken mistake he never made: sleep with someone other than Marge.

From then, Candace and Homer start going out on dates and doing activities as a couple, and Candace presents Homer to her father, who is also with a new lover: Marge. Homer tries to convince her that the pharmacist father is not a great man, but he proposes to Marge, which she accepts as soon as her divorce with Homer is done. At this moment, Candace reveals to Homer that she is pregnant, but Homer wakes up back at the counselor's workroom, meaning all of this was a dream.

His dream convinces Homer to became a better man for a month. He succeeds, even convincing Lisa to eat meat and Maggie to talk (or sing), But Homer wakes up at a bar during a date with Candace. Seeing everything he has lost, Homer runs back to the Simpson house and finds Marge having dinner with Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Candace's father, which made him so depressed that he starts crying in the front yard. At this moment, Lisa opens the door saying that nothing could separate them, as they share the same blood, but she enters the house again, because her "new father" invites her to play chess and go pony shopping later.

At this moment, Marge wakes up, revealing that everything was part of her dream, and takes Homer to the family checkup again, but before she tells them the solution to their marriage, it is revealed that the therapy is actually a tattoo on a girl's back, meaning "Don't get drunk in Brooklyn".
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Vol2tex posted...

The season opener 2 years was the perfect example. They built up this really serious emotional moment at the end, only to ruin it with a joke. The entire episode was also 2 dreams within each other.

Homer sleeps during a meltdown at the nuclear power plant, which leads him to be hospitalized. A spinal tap reveals that Homer suffers from narcolepsy and gives him a medical excuse to prevent Homer from doing activities because of his disease, but he starts using his excuse to simply sleep and escape doing anything at all. Marge gets irritated and tells Homer to get his narcolepsy medication at a pharmacy.

At the pharmacy, there were four senior citizens in front of Homer. Realizing that would take a while, he goes to Moe's tavern and comes home smelling like beer. This scandalizes Marge, who plans to take Homer to a family ministration. But, instead of helping them, the mentor tells the couple to spend a little time apart followed by a divorce. So Homer leaves the house and starts living at the nuclear plant.

Lenny and Carl tell Homer that Marge changed her status to "It's complicated" and her name on the voice mail back to Marge Bouvier (her maiden name). Homer then goes back to Moe's and receives a call, but instead of Marge, it is the pharmacist calling because of his medications. While getting his meds, the pharmacist (whose name is Candace) takes Homer on a date and dopes him, which leads Homer to make the one drunken mistake he never made: sleep with someone other than Marge.

From then, Candace and Homer start going out on dates and doing activities as a couple, and Candace presents Homer to her father, who is also with a new lover: Marge. Homer tries to convince her that the pharmacist father is not a great man, but he proposes to Marge, which she accepts as soon as her divorce with Homer is done. At this moment, Candace reveals to Homer that she is pregnant, but Homer wakes up back at the counselor's workroom, meaning all of this was a dream.

His dream convinces Homer to became a better man for a month. He succeeds, even convincing Lisa to eat meat and Maggie to talk (or sing), But Homer wakes up at a bar during a date with Candace. Seeing everything he has lost, Homer runs back to the Simpson house and finds Marge having dinner with Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Candace's father, which made him so depressed that he starts crying in the front yard. At this moment, Lisa opens the door saying that nothing could separate them, as they share the same blood, but she enters the house again, because her "new father" invites her to play chess and go pony shopping later.

At this moment, Marge wakes up, revealing that everything was part of her dream, and takes Homer to the family checkup again, but before she tells them the solution to their marriage, it is revealed that the therapy is actually a tattoo on a girl's back, meaning "Don't get drunk in Brooklyn".

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Zurkon posted...

I thought the most recent Treehouse of Horror was really good.

Okay, I just watched that one after you posted. Yeah, I'll give you that.
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I can point at the moment I stopped loving the Simpsons, homer be dignity.
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Disney will fix it
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the magical elf horse jockeys was when I stopped watching

Because most of their episodes are written to not offend anyone and if they do, its conservatives and Trump Supporters. I believe in free speech, but everyone makes fun of Trump and his supporters even some Republicans. Its lazy comedy.
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Its more about celebrity guests than being funny.
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ACHEEKSMALLOY posted...

Its more about celebrity guests than being funny.

Absolutely. And appealing to PC Culture..
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ACHEEKSMALLOY posted...

Its more about celebrity guests than being funny.

It use to be able to do both.
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creativerealms posted...

ACHEEKSMALLOY posted...

Its more about celebrity guests than being funny.

It use to be able to do both.

Yep but they also had good writers like Conan to make it work
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They have occasional good jokes and good episodes but for the most part I agree. It used to be witty, now they dumbed down all the jokes and characters. Its to the point where it's insulting to all of us true fans of the series, the way they've ruined the greatest show of all time.
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The Simpsons in its prime did a better job of teaching me about life than any schooling did.
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Chicken posted...

The Simpsons in its prime did a better job of teaching me about life than any schooling did.

Heh
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DanHarenChamp posted...

They have occasional good jokes and good episodes but for the most part I agree. It used to be witty, now they dumbed down all the jokes and characters. Its to the point where it's insulting to all of us true fans of the series, the way they've ruined the greatest show of all time.

:(
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It just got old and there isnt much they can do anymore that hasnt already been done
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kislev posted...

It just got old and there isnt much they can do anymore that hasnt already been done

How is South Park after 20 years?
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