I hope you have no intention of ever leaving Springfield, because Fox has renewed The Simpsons for two more years, the network announced Monday. The renewal takes the animated comedy through its 28th season and 625 episodes.
The Simpsons debuted in 1990 and is now the longest-running scripted show in television history. The cartoon has earned numerous accolades, including 31 Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2012 for the theatrical short "The Longest Daycare." The show has spawned a feature film and an attraction at Universal Studios. It even has its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
Are you excited by this news? Do you still watch The Simpsons?
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1. They're repeating story lines.
2. Not so fresh feeling anymore...
3. The animation is too polished now. In the first many seasons when it was hand made it had a certain magic to it and just made it more fun to watch.
4. We're saturated with episodes.
Also, the series seems to be "timeless", keeping up with the times, but of course its original fans (including me) aren't. And The Simpsons was still Fox's #1 rated show until Empire rocketed itself into TV history earlier this year.
I don't think that this is true.
"The people who were criticizing the simpsons in season 3 were those overly nit-picky viewers that were nerdy enough to know how to use a computer back then."
I can use your logic against you. We could use that argument to people now. Maybe people now are "overly nit-picky viewers" too?
It is your opinion that the show is bad by tv standards now. I disagree. However, neither one of us is right.
It's fine if you enjoy the show still, but just realize that the interne
That's actually not what was said at all. He's just saying he doesn't agree. Can you read or are you just fucking stupid?
And your "I can't read" and "I'm stupid" response makes such a constructive point. Great posting!
God even the die hard fans must be bored of this show by now
The Simpsons is extremely popular and i can't fault that because it was VERY good early on but the people at FOX cancelled a show with SO much promise - Firefly (also airing it in such a piss poor way) yet still continue to stick by a show past it sell by date by umpteen seasons.....
I will also be fond of the early seasons of SImpsons but this is ridiculous
Anyway, if you're going to complain, they cancelled Family Guy, too... then brought it back when it turned out to be popular in DVD sales and reruns. You know what else is popular in DVD sales? Yup. Firefly.
My beef with FOX is that they aired the show out of order, which contributed to it's lack of ratings and cancellation
Like i said with SImpsons, the show is very popular, it doesn't take a genius to know figure that out, but i think 28 seasons is a bit much, even for a cartoon.... it's time to move on
The problem is, SNL has a rotating cast of comedians and writers. If you don't like it in its present form, just wait a few years and maybe you'll like it later. The Simpsons has had Al Jean running the joint for what's coming up on 15 years, and he never stops finding the same jokes funny.
Every once in a while we'll get an episode that had a guest showrunner and the difference is like night and day. The few recent episodes I've found funny haven't had Jean in charge.
And I guess the original series and TNG are also the same series since James Doohan (Montgomery Scott), Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy) appeared on both shows.
Oh, and George Takei (Sulu) appeared in the original series and Voyager, so *those* are the same show too.
And we've got Leonard Nimoy playing Spock in the Star Trek movie too, so those are the same. Wow, Star Trek has been running for almost 50 years straight!
Why dont you come up with better arguments?
Even if we don't buy into the "reboot" analysis (which I do... whatever happened to Gallifreyans having a limited number of regenerations?)
If we count spinoffs and reboots, AND reject the daytime serials, I think you have to go with Law & Order. 20 seasons in the original series, another 10 or so of Criminal Intent, 16 and counting for SVU, 8 and counting (I think) for UK, and one each for Trial by Jury and LA.
And it's not the longest running scripted show in TV history. There's many foreign shows like One Piece that exceed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m78gYyTrG7Y