Current Events > The Simpsons needs to end.

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1990s style characters like Bart Simpson just don't work in the modern era.
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you're just mad because they made fun of trump
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I haven't watched the simpsons in like 2 decades

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2019 Bart is not the same as 1990s Bart
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Have no fears, we've got stories for years!
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Machete posted...

you're just mad because they made fun of trump

People have been saying it needs to end for a decade now. Its nothing new.

Everybody, if you can, do the Bartman. Shake your body, turn it out if you can, man.

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eston posted...

2019 Bart is not the same as 1990s Bart

Indeed. Not even remotely close.

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CrimsonWaffle posted...

Everybody, if you can, do the Bartman. Shake your body, turn it out if you can, man.

That is so 1991
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Don't have a cow, man
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DaveTheUseless posted...

eston posted...

2019 Bart is not the same as 1990s Bart

Indeed. Not even remotely close.

Should he be?
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It should ended years ago lol
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I agree with the people who think "Behind the Laughter" should have been the series finale.
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Nobody in this topic is still watching it, so why do you care?
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The day the Simpsons ends will be a really sad moment in most of our lives.

The Simpsons ending now would be a mercy kill. Like putting an old, beloved pet who is struggling and dying of disease or organ failure to sleep. It's sad, but it has to be done.
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Machete posted...

you're just mad because they made fun of trump

I don't like Trump myself, and I also feel the show needed to end a long time ago.

Aren't the ratings dropping each season, too?
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Bass_X0 posted...

Should he be?

No.

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A major problem is that the show has lost it's cultural relevance. At it's height it was the edgy show portraying a brazen view of American culture and family amidst a sea of family-friendly sitcoms. It was a reaction to shows that had come before it, it could be both familiar and shocking all at once.

But now, thirty years later? The view of American life that the show was once mocking has long since faded away, and the generation that grew up on The Simpsons are now adults - and much of the media has shifted to appeal to the generation that grew up on shows like The Simpsons. It's become the show to mock, rather than the one to do the mocking.

Thus the show ambles on, trying to take shots at modern American culture, and politics, and whatever else in an age where such mocking is prevalent. Rather than being the edgy new product, The Simpsons is the dinosaur lumbering behind trying to show that it's still relevant and that it can be just as cutting and clever as every other popular show today.
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Yes.
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Too_Many_Limes posted...

A major problem is that the show has lost it's cultural relevance. At it's height it was the edgy show portraying a brazen view of American culture and family amidst a sea of family-friendly sitcoms. It was a reaction to shows that had come before it, it could be both familiar and shocking all at once.

But now, thirty years later? The view of American life that the show was once mocking has long since faded away, and the generation that grew up on The Simpsons are now adults - and much of the media has shifted to appeal to the generation that grew up on shows like The Simpsons. It's become the show to mock, rather than the one to do the mocking.

Thus the show ambles on, trying to take shots at modern American culture, and politics, and whatever else in an age where such mocking is prevalent. Rather than being the edgy new product, The Simpsons is the dinosaur lumbering behind trying to show that it's still relevant and that it can be just as cutting and clever as every other popular show today.

I could replace "The Simpsons" with "Saturday Night Live" in this post.

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