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Years ago I marathoned seasons 1 through 13 while enduring benzo withdrawals. I can absolutely confirm that these ratings are accurate.
The Simpson stopped making stories about the family and started making episodes where every week was a new celebrity coming to Springfield. Then they did some odd reboot thing where now they’re just retelling stories with a modern look? It’s so weird. The show should have ended with the movie IMO
Your comment seems to have been instinctively downvoted but a lot of other people are saying the same thing, so i feel like there’s truth to it. Personally I don’t really watch the simpsons but i tried to binge the first season when i saw it was on disney+
I’m so old I was an adult when I saw the very first shorts on Tracy Ullman.
I was shocked when they hit 20 years. Now, I’m just baffled. Why are people still watching? I can only guess, habit?
The last thing I watched was part of the first movie. Since I had, coincidently, just read Under the Dome (which King claims was not born from the movie), I didn’t even finish the movie.
I was Bart’s age when the show came out. I’m now older than Homer
Ullman shorts so good they’re off the charts.
The Simpsons SHORTS: https://youtu.be/Ufx0tioBw1w
Everyone:
Anti-vaxxers: “You’re just getting vaccines to be trendy, not to protect your family and others!”Those are actually not too bad Rotten tomato scores. Anything below a 6 is when things can get bad.
2026 and they’re still frothing at the mouth over masks and vaccinations.
These are the people who constantly whiner about “NPCs” just following directions without thought, showing the same line of dialogue 6 years on lol
My father sill to this day says it was a “muslification attempt”, “trying to force burkas in the whole population”.
He has two health-related degrees.
Unfortunately, idiocy is also highly infectious.
They’ll never let it go lol, just permanently triggered.
Yeah I thought I was supposed to be dead from sudden onset Bill Gates microchip 5g disease by now because I’m vaccinated. But instead I’m still reading their dumb posts on the Internet.
It shows the trend but the colors make this look far more severe than the scores reflect
Yeah they should have had black as 5.x, grey as 6.x, white as 7.x, green as 8.x, and gold as 9.x
Or just use the Blizzard/rpg rarity colors for user defined groupings so that people can make their own thresholds for how to opine for whatever ratings.
For example, I typically think of each number as three categories: low-7s, mid 7s, and high 7s. A low 7 is watchable and decent, a mid 7 may be pretty good but not have a ton of truly moving content or messaging, and high 7s are like the last rating of ultimate popcorn - fantastic, but relatively intellectually empty. And as soon as you hit 8.0, to get there, it has to start having some levels of boundary-pushing of my expectations AND be very good.
So I would relate all of the 7s as like a Diablo green item rarity, maybe with high 7s being blues. High 8s maybe starts to get into yellows, and 9s are legendaries with mid and high 9s being reds or like Diablo ancients. Very low 7s and high 6s would definitely be whites, with mid and low 6s being greys. And anything under there… Probably also greys? Maybe have a gradient where the lower the rating, the more transparent it gets. 1.0 or 0.0 (whatever the lowest is) would have to still be visible, though.
And now I know SCmSTR’s very arbitrary scale compared to Diablo rarerity scale colors. What a time to be alive.
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Automatically coloring cells is one of the things Excel excels at. Green for the upper bound (either a static number or ~90th percentile), yellow for 50th percentile, red for lower bound (static number or 10th percentile etc.). Automatically gradients everything in between. Want it more green? Lower the upper bound. Want it more red? Raise the lower bound.
Absolutely. That’s data visualisation for you
Eh, idk how it is with series, but <7 for films means not worth the time (excepting special circumstances), and 7 to 8 is okay to good.
just checked out of curiosity, s6e3 is a clip show, and s9e11 is a musical clip show
I just (re)watched S9 E11 (“All Singing, All Dancing”) last night, and it’s fine but if I wasn’t watching during dinner I’d have skipped the episode.
I know it’s a clip episode, but it’s probably my favorite clip episode. Snake’s horrible singing, specifically the “Ooo ooo ooo” before the act break always sticks with me. The “Ough oouu uuuah”.
That’s when you turn on the dvd commentary track
The idea of doing a clip show only 6 seasons in is diabolical.
In the '70s/'80s, one clip show per season was pretty common.
Yeah, and nobody liked it. It was just there to save the show some money.
Cartoonists, too, need vacations
You could hire enough of them so they can get their vacation.
That’s why we all love Community. In “Paradigms of Human Memory” (Season 2, Episode 21) it was super expensive because all the clips were new. It was a great episode in general too.
They also burned up a lot of great premises. But ya know what, that clip show was great. “It’s all terrain, dummy.”
Rick and Morty (also Harmon) did the same with the Mindblowers (or whatever it was called) episode. Also great.
Interdimensional cable episodes were the original R&M clip shows but i think it got stale for Harmon so they did the mindblowers on the newer season
I guess it made more sense back when people didn’t catch every episode. Still glad it’s not the norm these days.
Clerks the TV show did it for their 1st episode.
And it’s an incredible bit.
It’s the second episode but your point stands.
Stargate did one in the first season.
Stargate SG1 had a clip show most seasons
But I forgave them because I knew they needed to save that money for the finales
The first clip show episode is actually season 4 episode 18, but the framing for the clips is so good that the episode is worth watching.
I’ve watched nearly episode in the first 20 seasons of The Simpsons three times or more but I have always skipped those episodes
Can’t tell if they’re mouthbreathing because they’re dumb, or because of COVID.
Every episode of modern Simpsons:
“[First name] [Last name]! [Pronoun]'s the best [occupation] in all of [country].”
- Lisa Simpson, directly to the audience.
“That’s right, Lisa. I’m here to [ad for a song/book/movie/space-nazi].”
- [First name] [Last name].
Everyone just ignoring the vaccine scepticism eh?
No that’s central to what quualifies it as a meme to me. The only funny thing in this oost is how he compares simpsons haters with
antivaccinatorswith
anti vaccinatorswith any-vaxxers.
Oh yeah, haha, good catch
No we are ignoring typos; no grammar nazis here
I am slightly worried by anti-vaxxers being Simpsons fans. Do they understand what they are watching?
As someone who grew up with the Simpsons and also pretty recently watched the first 29 seasons again, the first 9 seasons we definitely the best seasons. They’re timeless. The show became too afraid to be offensive.
S6e3 was a clip show, s9e11 was a musical clip show.
What about s23e22?
Edit: no need to respond, just keep scrolling and you’ll get to another comment that answers this.
Was there a major staff change for season 9? That’s when it appears to have markedly declined.
Yeah, the show was never the same after Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein left to make Mission Hill in the late 90s. Additionally, Futurama became a primary though to people like Groening so Simpsons suffered stagnation majorly.
I’ve literally never heard of mission hill. Sounds like they should have stayed on The Simpsons
No way, I loved that show. It was great but flew under the radar.
Mission Hill is good, but had a very short run. I didn’t know it when it first aired, but watched it when it was part of Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim” block. It’s about a naive dork teenager, Kevin, moving in with his lazy older brother Andy, in the city. The art style is unique, vividly colored and eye-catching. Two of the characters are an elderly gay couple, treated like normal people (which wasn’t common at the time the show was made.) And of course, being written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, it’s pretty funny.
I’d say it’s worth a watch. It’s only 13 episodes long, so it’s easy to binge.
Can’t blame them for wanting to make their own thing, and they did a pretty good job (even if the TV stations kind of fucked them over by putting them on some bad timeslots.) Overall, I’m glad the show exists.
Art director for Mission Hill went on to work as a director for Disney (also one of the first women to work as a sole-director at Disney, coincidentally) and Bill Oakley / Josh Weinstein continued to work as writers, so I think it worked out for most parties involved in the production.
Seasons 3-8 are generally considered “golden age” simpsons. Theres a lull for a few seasons where it gets very patchy, then it kinda enters a long silver age where episodes are fairly consistently good, with few poor ones and even fewer universally agreed upon greats.
Many fans completely ignore 9+. Others argue where sliver age begins.
The ratings only show the golden age and then slowly declining popularity, because popularity is only ever a loose proxy for quality.
Coincidentally, that happened to be around when the last year of Gen X graduated high school, 1997-98-ish. The internet actually started to become more of “a thing” (edit: as well as computer ownership and literacy, generally), and cell phones started to become smaller and cheaper and more ubiquitous.
Cable television had also become much more widespread and popular. Edit: so did video game consoles.
It might be connected to a cultural shift.
It might be connected to a cultural shift.
If that’s related, it’s because the writers decided to address the cultural shift by making their jokes increasingly hokey and forced. The shift is there in the content.This isn’t just a change in audience perception.
I was suggesting that it was not just a change in content, but of audience, too. The kids who grew up watching The Simpsons were now off to college, and our tastes had changed. We had better things to do than sit in front of the TV on Sunday nights to catch the latest episode.
