People have often debated what the "good" years of the Simpsons are, so here's my benchmark.
Episodes before Beyond Blunderdome = Classic Simpsons Episodes after Beyond Blunderdome = Zombie Simpsons
There were 5 or 6 episodes in Season 10 that had that Innsmouth Look to them, but as soon as season 11 started you could tell the show was done for. Barney getting sober, Maude dying, spring break with Kid Rock, jockey elves, no more Phil Hartman... it just felt like a totally different show at this point.
Luis Fisher
seems pretty legit desu hated that episode
Brayden Watson
ZIMBABWE
Asher James
The bar was set on the day Andy Dick sold that cocaine
James Perez
Yes, I've been marathoning the Simpsons after work and this is an accurate point where things went to shit.
Robert Davis
It's simple:
Everything pre-2000 is good. Everything 2000 is shaky. Everything post-2000 is bad.
People hate S1 because of how different it was, but it has a nice charm to it.
Zachary Turner
S7 is the coolest season imo.
Hunter Edwards
Agree.
We were in third grade when that shit episode came out and even as kids it felt different. Talking on the schoolbus was all about why simpsons was not as funny and different.
Jack Robinson
>1 Experimental Simpsons - Optional Viewing
>2-8 Golden-age Simpsons - Mandatory Viewing
>9-10 Symptom Simpsons - Recommended Viewing
>10+ Transitional Simpsons - Go for as long as you can until you can't stands no mores
>whenever the fuck they made the transition to "HD" and beyond Zombie Simpsons - Avoid Avoid Avoid
Matthew Scott
>everything pre-2000
every patrician knows 1997 was the cut off point f.am
Jayden Russell
Literally the second S8 ended all the writers suffered massive seizures and forgot how to make good tv
Sebastian Johnson
Good list. IMO: 1-3 Optional 4-8 Mandatory 9-10 Still worth watching 10+ unwatchable trash
Charles Foster
SHANIQUA
Cooper Ramirez
What happened after s8?
Did they just lose it?
Jacob Cook
Mike Scully became the showrunner in season 9.
Josiah Anderson
Fag
Oliver Richardson
>tfw The Simpsons will never be good again
I hope it goes on so long it comes full circle
Elijah Rivera
No, John Swartzwelder left and he wrote the bulk of the best Simpsons
Connor Hernandez
My adjustments:
1-2 Important for context 3-8 Greatest TV show ever 9-10 Still mandatory 11-12 Big problems, but still the occasional valuable episode 13+ Stop the madness
Leo Garcia
>Experimental Simpsons - Optional Viewing No way, season 1 was great. Not as funny as season 2 onwards, but with a great emotional core.
Logan Rivera
this is the same as my breakdown only i have season 9 in mandatory and season 10 as optional.
Owen Roberts
>People dont rate s17
It was actually a diamond in the shit
Matthew Roberts
Reminder that Phil Hartman didn't run the fucking show
Robert Robinson
Like everything in life it's not fucking black and white with a thick line down the middle.
Tyler Martinez
Not but his two characters gave them options
Losing Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure limits characters the staff have to work with
Without Lionel you cant really do any lawyer related sticks
Brandon Clark
The writers loved their courtroom scenes. They tried later by making Gil their lawyer. But his character was just spineless and pitiful which isn't as funny as a crooked idiot like Hutz.
Nathan Lee
>People hate S1 because of how different it was, but it has a nice charm to it.>> I hate that.
Sure it wasnt that funny most of the time because it was a little more serious (And has pretty good feel moments) but there is still quality there that shouldnt be dismissed.
The Big Foot episode is easily one of the funniest ones.
Aiden Price
I made this crappy analysis many years ago.
Brandon Williams
Part 2.
Carter Cooper
But Bart was always a "sappy shitlord" beneath his 90s attitude exterior, even in seasons 1-8. See "Marge Be Not Proud".
And I liked Bart the Mother, because it seemed to be the last episode of the series to contain good human emotion, as well as the last appearance of Phil Hartman.
After that episode, the show was no longer touching. It seemed content with just being zany and no character-based episodes to balance it out.
Wyatt Davis
And the egg being an invasive species the whole time wrapped it up nicely.