The Simpsons

This show is like my childhood in a box! I literally grew up with this show (That and Doctor Who and Buffy) and I can't believe its still going!!!

D'OH! "The Simpsons" have been on the air for 20 years and Matt's STILL making new episodes! The new episodes are crap compared to the old ones. The old ones are waaaayyy better than the old ones because of the simple 2D cell animation.

The Simpsons is by far one of the greatest cartoons ever created within the last 20 years and it continues to exceed by producing quality episodes and amazing gags. In my first ever review, i review the seasons.



Season 1 (7.5) - This season does not really have any memorable episodes, but it is a great way to start off a great series.



Season 2 (8.0) - An improvement from season 1, this season starts to show what the Simpsons is capable of.



Season 3 (8.5) - A massive improvement from Seasons 1 & 2. This is when the humour picks up and when the characters start to develop.



Season 4 (9.0) This is a great season and includes great episodes such as Marge and the Monorail.



Season 5 (9.5) This is the Simpsons in there peak, characters are perfect, the storylines are good, the gags are at there best and it also is my personal favourite season.



Season 6 (9.0) I do like this season, however i prefer season 5. It has great episodes however. I don't like how they made fun of us Australians in 'Bart vs Australia' however.



Season 7 (8.5) Bill Oakley and did achieve what there aim was, to include emotional episodes and focus on the family. This would be explored even further in Season 8.



Season 8 (8.0) I covered this in Season 7 review, but this season has some episodes that are somewhat mediocre.



Season 9 (8.5) Season 9 was a good season, the humour does pick up again.



Season 10 (8.5) I personally don't understand why people say this is the start of the decline. Ok, i admit this season did have some mediocre episodes, but it was still overall good, way better then the newer seasons!



Season 11 (7.5) Oh Yes, the season with the wacky homer plots and heavy gags. I can see why people don't like S11.



Season 12 (8.0) It's an improvement from last season, the only episode I didn't like was Homer Vs Dignity.



Season 13 (7.5) Ok, this is when they decline. Mediocre takes over in this season.



Season 14 (8.0) Much better then Season 13, I really like Moe Baby Blues and there are over good episodes.



Season 15 (8.0) Same as Season 14, it had some good episodes.



Season 16 (8.5) For some reason i really like this season, i like Mommie Beerest and Mobile Homer. the only episode i didn't like was The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star, boring...



Season 17 (7.5) The decline comes back again. But it's really half-half and it does contain some really creative episodes such as The Seemingly Never-Ending Story and We're on the Road to D'ohwhere.



Season 18 (7.5) Same as Season 17, it's really is up to your taste of episodes in this season.



Season 19 (6.5) Don't get me started on this season! Not only did it contain the episode that destroyed the simpsons back story 'That 90's Show' but the rest were mediocre at best. I mean Ralph for President! The only decent episode was Eternal 'Moonshine of the Simpson Mind'.



Season 20 (7.0) I think the HD transformation really did reboot the series again and there is some nice emotional story lines in Season 20. Although, if your a old Simpsons fan, it's probably not for you.



Season 21 (7.0) This season is mediocre but I do like 'The Bob Next Door'.



Season 22 (7.0) Season 22 was Mediocre as well, I HATE! 'Elementary School Musical'. But, I think this is when they should of stopped.



Season 23 (7.0) Season 23's only good episodes were 'How I wet your Mother' and 'Holidays of Future Passed' which they can easily be compared to earlier seasons.



Season 24 (3.5) HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE!!! Don't even attempt to watch this!



Conclusion : Whether it's poking fun or emotionally done, The Simpsons is and will be a great series for years to come!

Am I The Only One Who Thinks This? I think The Simpsons is going UP UP UP from the first few seasons. The seasons now are very very funny. Homer has become even more hilarious. The only thing I don't really like is Bart's insults to Lisa. It's not really funny. Those are just little kiddy jokes. I love everyone else though, especially Homer, Abe, and Krusty. I wonder how much longer this show would go on! I wonder how you make a series finale for a show that has lasted 30 years! I can't wait to see it.

I love this show do much i''v saw every show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's so different from the every day show. sometimes i will set in front of the for the whole day.

It's so Funny and Oringinal! It's way better then the avarage show. I just think it didn't copy another show or character, It's just different. It's amazing! I would never stop watching the simpsons if i could! I can't believe how amazing this show is.


I also like family guy but it is not as close as good as this is. Although sometimes it's a little werid I just think that's what makes it funny. I can't believe some people hate or dislike this show. This is one of the best shows i ever saw! Everyone should like it! It's Amazing!

I have been watching the simpsons for as long as i can remember it is a funny show and i havent met one person that doesnt say the same thing about it. My favorite character is bart he reminds me of myself always getting in trouble and doing crazy things that is why i like him the most. I also think that they did a very good job on the animation i looks great and every season is looking better as they go along. Every episode of this show makes me laugh exept maybe for a couple but what i like is that every episode has something different in it and that is what makes it good. That is why i gave this show this rating.

It's not that bad now. I give it an 8 for all the classics and because some of the new ones are good like "The D'ohcial Network" but some episodes are so very bad and just impossible to watch like "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches", just a good show overall. I liked a lot this season and hopefully they improve before FOX finally cancels them, if they ever do.

This show has entertained me for many years. I actually started watching it when I was pretty young, and it has always made me laugh even though I was too young to understand some of the jokes when I first watched it. Most of the characters are very funny, especially Homer and Bart, and the humor, at least in my opinion, will never get old. I do admit that I don't watch it as much now as I did years ago, and the newer episodes in general are not as funny and classic as the old ones. I'm not really sure why, but there was just something about the episodes I saw years ago that just appealed to me more than the ones I see on TV now. Even so, this show will (hopefully) always be one of my favorites, and even after 22 seasons it is still one of the best there is in my opinion. Marebear2009, out!

~dedicated to tigerdude22~

The Simpsons is the longest-running animated series in the world and It's still great. This show is about a family and their town Sprinfileld. All family members are Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. My favorites are Bart and Homer. I don't know which one is better because both of them are the funniest characters in this show. I think Homer is a great father and better than "Peter Griffin" from Family Guy because Peter Griffin sometimes becomes a jerk, he gets drunk more than Homer and he hates his daughter so much. At least Homer is a great father for Lisa but he strangles his son Bart many times. I like Peter Griffin and Family Guy too and I don't think Family Guy is a rip-off the Simpsons. Bart is funny, cool and entertaning character in this show. I feel terrible about Bart's relationships so much. His last girlfriend was Mary Spuckler and she broke up with Bart too. I hope he find his true love in the future episodes. Lisa and Marge are one of the smartest characters in this show and that's why I like them so much. Maggie is so adorable and I think Maggie is so funny too. She doesn't talk but It's okay for me. That's why I like her so much. The other characters of this show are great too. The humor of this show is not perfect as old days but sometimes this show cracks me up like old episodes. I like the relaitonships of this episode so much. I think Marge and Homer are a great couple. The animation of this is great and yellow, which is my favorite color. This show is going little down like Family Guy too because the writers' ideas are running out but I don't blame them because this show had more than 500 episodes and It's so normal. Also It's hard to watch all episodes of this show. I sometimes watch old episodes on TV. I'm gonna start watching old episodes, after this show ends but I think this show still have change to get 30 seasons. It's true that The Simpsons will end soon like other shows but I hope all of animation domination shows, except The Cleveland show, continue for a long time and they don't get worse. 10/10

the best of its kind .o/

As pretty much everyone knows, the Simpsons was one of the oldest cartoon shows ever, surpassing long lasting ones like SpongeBob or Family Guy. Back in the old days, the characters were great, the humor was top-notch, and the overall appeal was great. In the present, the show itself is not as good as it was before, but to be honest, its still pretty frickin' funny.



As far as it looks, it actually looks really impressive for an adult cartoon, although there is not a lot of detail, although I was enjoyed the people being yellow. The characters themselves also work out good, but not as good as before. Montgomery is still as epic as ever, as well as Smithers. And Homer is pretty neat too, as well as Bart. However, for the other characters, they're still good, but just not as good as before. The voice acting is still as good as ever and the voices themselves are still great after +20 years, despite some lip syncs being off at times. The plots are rather rehashed, but since its lived for about +20 years now, I can let that slide. The humor itself is also awesome, and even though it wasn't good as it was before, it's still offers tons of laughs. There is still emotion found in them too, which I liked, although there isn't as enough as before.



Despite this however, whether you are looking at the new or old episode, you are going to expect awesome results. The Simpsons is not without flaws; however, the flaws should just be ignored as this show is an epic laugh fest from start to finish. Anyone who likes comedy should watch it.



Presentation: 7/10- Most of the characters are good, and the plots are also good, despite being rehashed.

Animation: 7/10- Better than most adult cartoons, although looking somewhat bland.

Voice: 8.5/10- Voices are still great after +20 years, and that's really saying something.

Entertainment- 9/10- Despite being not as good as it was before, the humor and the emotional impact are stellar.

Lasting Appeal: 9/10- All I can say that it's great from start to finish.



FINAL SCORE: 8.5/10 Great

This show is so cool way better family guy and futurerama.I love nearly every single episode except Bart the Genius because Martin is always telling on Bart and I hate Martin.My 2 faveorite characters are Bart and Homer.Don't ever cancel this show.

BEST SHOW EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Simpsons is definitely the best animated series. suitable and funny for all ages. excellent parody. can be used to lighten any mood.... its just the perfect show

this show is awsome. it makes me laugh all the time. this show is about a family called the simpsons homer marge bart lisa and maggie who go on misadventures in there town springfield. alot of people say the show sucks now but i completly disagree i still love the show to this day overall awsome show

Like most shows, it started out superb, and it's now declining. Still a super funny satire/sitcom that picks on stereotypes and follows the Simpson family through its trials and tribulations, but not the best thing to ever air on television.

since the networks and cable channels have decided to go cheap on us and make 99 percent REALITY TV shows, wrestling (on sci-fi!!) and are always cancelling great shows... i have cancelled my cable and no longer watch any tv... i download all my shows i like off the internet and have started watching alot of bbc shows from england. I'll not sit in front of the box and watch crap in the evenings after working all day. I want quality or nothing at all from the networks / cable channels. I SUGGEST WE ALL BOYCOTT THE TV for one week each month until the REALITY CRAP is taken off the air. That crap causes brain damage... it's totally unacceptable. No one is stupid enough to enjoy that crap except some inbred bigfoot half-breed. They want to produce the cheapest crap possible and still retain the ratings to get sponsors and advertising dollars. Don't give them the appearance of ratings by watching at all. Turn off you cable / sat and download... NO Commercials!!! and only watch what you want to watch when u want to watch it... been doing this for 4 years now and it's great. Only problem is, running out of shows to watch. Sci-Fi channel, now si-fi (junk now) sold out and became a cess-pool putting on fantasy and wrestling crap... was once the best channel on cable... anyways,



boycott cable / networks and download from internet...



watch ur shows without commercials or interuption...



hope the networks realize they're loosing their loyal viewers because we're NOT dumbing down and



we HATE reality TV crap...



screw u a-holes... you're idiots and you're gonna kill ur networks/channels if you keep on this way

If I'm grading seasons 1-10, it's definitely a 10, but with good-mediocre past 14 seasons, it's a 7.5.

The simpsons offers heart-warming moments and family fun. Matt Groening is the ultimate animated cartoon creator.

Ah yes, The Simpsons, perhaps the most popular cartoon in history, possibly the most popular show in general, I mean, just look around, you have Simpsons merchandise everywhere, the famous catchphrase of Homer Simpson(D'oh) is even in the Oxford English Dictionary, although the series itself decline greatly in quality, the merchandise still sells like pancakes - now this is a sign of "Cash Cow" Syndrome.





All up to season 10 were good because they were character-driven, you couldn't expect what would come,& they were pretty realistic(atleast for a cartoon), but as the series went on, the series stopped focusing on the family and much more in antics, which is a bad move, as the humor became significantly more predictable and unrealistic, not only that, the simpsons became completely static(same for nearly the entire cast) and if the main character/s is/are static in a character-driven story, the story fails. The plots in the series are the same due to this, they consisted of nothing but rambling and antics for half an episode, pointless celebirty appearances,& ends with some "comedic" @$$ Pull. The voice-acting sounds awfully dull now, take for example, one episode where Lisa and Marge were crying to stuff, they sounded like they were faking. Well, the post-season 10 episodes do have one benefit, the animation has improved a lot and the opening sequence was revamped but that doesn't make up for all the problems they have. The music is good, although there's only one(most of the time).





Verdict: Good for the first 10 seasons, but not so much of the rest. If you want a good and matured cartoon, watch something like King of the Hill, American Dad, or South Park instead although the post-season 10 stuff do have their moments. The Simpsons have certainly WAYYY overstayed their welcome.

The Simpsons is arguably one of the most influential cartoons to ever air right alongside Felix the Cat and Looney Toons. While still this supposed legend continues to air, I fear the magic today is all gone.



Let's get to the point though. It's about one family with its own shared little dilemma and its individual quirks from each character. Homer the Dumb, Marge the Uptight, Bart the Hell-Raiser, Lisa the Idealist and Maggie the Silent. The family interacts in a town called the common name of Springfield, state location unknown. Springfield holds its own cache of townsfolk that really act as a shopping cart full of secondary characters, such as Moe the grumpy, depressed bartender or Apu the foreign convenient store owner. Introducing a whole lot of the town as a defined identity where the audience can talk about or relate to is the first and one of the biggest things ever pulled off in cartoon history. I recall a documentary about the Simpsons that talks about this too.



This is technically a sitcom, a cartoon sitcom, not the first though if you consider The Flintstones. The earlier episodes portrays the family as... well... an actual family (Bart and Lisa actually act their juvenile age and Homer and Marges attempts for intimacy uninterrupted). This, as well as how they interact with Springfield and the outside world. As the show aged, the characters change a bit and in the later episodes demonstrate the family felt a little... less like a family.



Mid-era series there was a little more emphasis on comedy and real-life current event references and in a way was still pulled off. Late-era, today's Simpsons unfortunately shows that this show probably needs to be put down now. Characters (secondary and primary alike) are becoming parodies of themselves, like Ned Flanders and his constant reference to that of a person with outdated, often fanatical Christian beliefs. This was never always the case with Ned because in earlier episodes, he was portrayed as THAT next door neighbor that always seems to be one step up from Homer that gives him ACTUAL reason to hate Ned. Sure I get it, he was always portrayed as religious, my point is that the creators are exaggerating it more and more. Even Lisa and Marge are suffering from this problem. Then there is a heavier emphasis on celebrity appearances and the gag-me pop culture references that seemingly plague the show now. Occasionally it gets pulled off though.



Finally the questionable story choices that would seemingly alter the entire series for the worse, like the recent Fat Tony episode that introduces "Fit" Tony. I won't spoil the end but it's an unappealing one.



Regardless, put aside the recent short-comings, in the past, it was one of THE shows. I mean yes, I was just in diapers when the show was already in its third or fourth season, but at least I get it, and I recognize its impact. But say your local police force had this bomb sniffing dog that happen to foil one of the biggest bomb plots in the world, but then the dog got old and it can now barely recognize what is a bomb and what isn't. That's pretty much what this show is now.



Early Simpsons: 9/10

Mid Simpsons: 8/10

Late Simpsons: 5.5/10



Averages to 7.5

One of the greatest shows of all time.



Season 1 - Great

Season 2 - Superb

Season 3 - Superb

Season 4 - Superb

Season 5 - Superb

Season 6 - Superb

Season 7 - Superb

Season 8 - Superb

Season 9 - Superb

Season 10 - Great

Season 11 - Great

Season 12 - Great

Season 13 - Good

Season 14 - Fair

Season 15 - Good

Season 16 - Good

Season 17 - Good

Season 18 - Good

Season 19 - Great

Season 20 - Great

Season 21 - Great

Season 22 - Mediocre

Season 23 - Good

This show has so much original humor that makes everyone laugh. It is a pop culture phenomenon and brought shows later such as Family Guy,King of The Hill, and American Dad. I think the Simpsons is better than those shows because it's more original and not so unrealistic. Whoever hasn't seen this show is missing out on a lot because this is a great program. It has been going on for over 20 years and still pretty strong. If it wasn't for The Simpsons, I would have a less complete life. The old episodes are a ton better, but the newer ones aren't terrible either.

The kings of comedy in cartoons. Family guy is not very funny. I would expect you to watch this because it will blow your medical hearts away!!!!! The show starts with a people of yellow and a family with many advantures. Bart and the kids always have problems, the mom is careful and the other have some major mistakes. Watch this show. There is no reason to hate it.

this show is great, it always was great, and always will be

When I see The Simpsons, I think of a 30-year-old child star: a has been. It's had its hay day, and now its over. It once was the standard of animated comedy, and now its just a glimpse of days past and is just a few years away from being seen on TV Land. It was once the classic example of a sitcom drawn in pen, now I'm sure there are some people who don't even know the show hasn't been cancelled. The show has become so desperate that they to put out a movie just to remind the general public that they're still kicking! And to be blunt, the show was never really that funny. Perhaps its because the public's sense of humor has matured, but The Simpsons have lost their touch so much that they've allowed someone to not only plagiarize their show, but take their audience as well! Perhaps 20 years ago the antics of Bart, Homer and Company had people in stitches, but now it just has people in gaping mouth yawns.

Yes, the Simpsons nowadays are no where near as good is quality, but let me start off by saying that for a TV Show to pass through 20 seasons, with different directors coming and going, shows are expected to go downhill. The Simpsons Seasons 1 to 9 were the greatest seasons of any sitcom. They were original, had clever use of humour and did not overdo it like the current Simpsons.



As expected, my favorite characters are Homer and Bart. Their relationship is also an extremely interesting one. Much of the older episodes focused on family relationships such as Homer and Marge or Homer and Lisa or Homer and Bart with Maggie being the occasional main character. These episodes were cleverly planned out with the storyline flowing through nicely. These episodes never killed off screen time like the new Simpsons, which have run out of ideas.



The voice-overs in the Simpsons are extremely brilliant and the cartoon pictures got better and better as the series progressed.



The Best seasons

1) Season 4

2) Season 6

3) Season 7

4) Season 2 (had lots of classics)

5) Season 5

6) Season 3

7) Season 8

8) Season 9



Remember, my list is in no particular order. Season 12 and 15 were also brilliant seasons of the Simpsons! So ends my review, I give it a 10 out of 10. Don't bother watching the new episodes, just focus on the Seasons 1 to 9, then give Season 12 and 15 a go!

Season 1 and 2: A nice start to the series. Unfortunately falls a little flat in that the plots in some eps kinda drag. Still decent though.

Season 3: This is where the humour started picking up, and the pacing of the episodes generally being faster. An improvement over the first two seasons

Season 4-9: Here is generally what I call the best seasons. The plots and humour is generally creative, clever, and consistent. Pretty much the epitome of animated sit-coms.

Season 10-13: Here, the quality started to decline considerably. Plots particularly went for a Random/weird approach here, Homer became a jarkass, and it simply didnt feel like simpsons anymore. Some eps are good, but a lot are bad, and even some that are very ugly

Season 14+: here, they generally dropped the whole random/weird plots for more realistic ones, and unjerked Homer. While the humour matured compared to 10-13, its unfortunately still lacking compared to 4-9. Generally hit or miss from here onwards.

I have always enjoyed this show. Bart always causes trouble.





pete