How Quickly Did The Simpsons Decline?

After watching season 9 and discovering that it was actually good, I found my self asking the inevitable...
Are we to believe that this is some sort of magic xylophone?
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[@billscannell93]

The debut of Family Guy was a big deal. They started out as an imitation of The Simpsons, but then The Simpsons made the mistake of imitating the imitation.

[@Arandomtree352]

Id say 1-9 is golden, 10-18 was silver, the rest is last place

[@Mikeymilne1510]

Yes

[@cherryfroggo]

Agreed but I love the Silver age. Those first few seasons 10, 11 and 12 are great

[@tonyking2880]

i'd say more like 10-20, but yea

[@Mikeymilne1510]

@@tonyking2880 the hell wrong with u

[@tonyking2880]

@@Mikeymilne1510 umm... idk, just didn't find it as bad as the recent ones

[@thebatterymill]

Also TBH the digital ink style used from Seasons 14-19 is still my favorite art style of the entire series

[@KarimY-119]

very quickly. I remember watching every episode during my late school years together with a friend. then there was one season where we were like "OK not the best". and then 1 season later we switched off during an episode and watched something else.

[@LukeLovesRose]

When Disney erased Apu, it was dead. Before that, it was meh. Lets be honest, The Simpsons never got much better than Who Shot Mr Burns? Then again, i thought the movie was pretty great.

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

Most classic Simpsons fans dropped off after Phil Hartman passed away

[@seandpizzle]

I was a "purist" once, but honestly, there are some great episodes post season 8. D'oh-ing in the wind from 10. Weekend at Burnsie's from 13. Trilogy of error, New Kids on the Blech(yvan eht nioj) and Skinner's sense of snow from 12. I'd say every season has at least one really good to great episode

[@caleb1413]

I'm always seen Season 13 as an unexpected peak compared to both the Scully and later Jean years. Good to see someone else agreeing!

[@thebatterymill]

Great analysis on this, I hope your channel gets the best!

[@CooperTheGoosebumpsGuy]

Amen 🙏

[@BladeGamester]

Man. I really need to watch the Simpsons.

[@jam9852]

Season 15 is the best of the silver age in my opinion Season 9 is also a guilty pleasure of mine but that's probably because I'm a sucker for good Lisa Episodes Season 13 I absolutely hated as it has a lot of Homer screaming in that season & a lot of bad & mediocre episodes like The Sweetest Apu The Frying Game Weekend at Burnsie's The Old Man And The Key, Gump Roast its the worst of the silver Era for me.

[@George546-he5tz]

You deserve way more subscribers man!

[@businesssecretsofthepharao8901]

Is that Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz in the background?

[@suarezguy]

The show is definitely a lot more cartoony in that era but I think not always bad, sometimes that still works pretty well or very well.

[@alexandru5369]

I'd say season11 Behind the music episode would've been a great series finale. Simpsons took a turn for the worst at the and of season 12 and and season 13 as a whole. True season 13 was better but still "off" I couldn't take it anymore

[@LucasWRIGHT402]

The program has deteriorated into mindless drivel and it's anyones guess what they'll be talking about or where there going.

[@blueblousedesigns]

I like David Mirkin era Simpsons

[@userdetails1]

Around the time Lisa became a radical feminist and we had entire episodes all about Lisa complaining about the size of mannequins, that was the start of the end for me. I started tuning out when I realised an episode was focused on Lisa, and not long after that I lost interest altogether. It's not the same show anymore, the characters are different and Flanderised (Homer- stupid, Bart- Stupid, Lisa- annoying, Marge- whatever it is she does) and the writers are different. The jokes and storylines we laughed at in the early days just won't happen anymore because that isn't what today's writers can do.

[@mysterious_559]

Honestly i didn't like the season after 15

[@Matty-kelly]

Yes

[@kanna-san.]

Umm...yeah.

[@suarezguy]

Lisa got preachy is a common complaint I think is pretty unfair, I don't think she really got that much so or that what she did become was really bad, she was opinionated from beginning and at times self-righteous but no not that much, a lot of people seem to hate that she's strongly opinionated at all.

[@Dreamon74]

Forced to watch classics cuz new episodes suck cuz they’re all woke Lisa episodes and she sucks worst character and Carl changed voices and no more apu

[@CZsWorld]

Do you think the digital art style looks bad or you just associate the hand-drawn style with your favorite episodes?

[@daghanarkadaslar3966]

nah dijital sucks i like the hand drawn style more

[@matttiberius1900]

I stopped ar Season 10 because the Japan episode was so bad.

[@estelashops]

Banjo Tooie?!

[@tylerbivins9807]

3:48 are we not going to question that

[@stellarkat4657]

It's cute

[@tylerbivins9807]

​@@stellarkat4657sacrificing Mario to Satan might help humanity but is not cute

[@stellarkat4657]

​@@tylerbivins9807 Oh, I meant the jaguar post but that's an interesting idea too

[@coolmandudeguycool]

yes

[@stuffsomedumb5665]

Season 9 is great