Was this really the point where The Simpsons jumped the shark? That season had some pretty good episodes...

Was this really the point where The Simpsons jumped the shark? That season had some pretty good episodes, it wasn't until the early 00s when the show really took a nosedive in quality.

They fucked it up real bad with that episode, but like you've said, everything went to complete shit in early 00's

It's an early outlier, because there are plenty of good episodes left in seasons 8-10, but it is the first sign of what was to come.

this , also anyone who says they didn't like this episode who saw it when they were a kid is lying

Conveniently it was around the early 2000s when South Park really started hitting it's peak.

Principal and the Pauper is nowhere near as bad as Maude dying, normalfags just didn't get the joke.

Nah there were good episodes after that abortion

the official moment when The Simpsons became garbage was Beyond Blunderdome. Not a single funny moment in that fucking episode and from that point on there were no overall funny episodes

I'd say it was some point in S10, S9 was still good but 10 felt so average.

Take a gander

The Baldwins episode marks the end of the Simpsons.

That was actually a good episode, but I agree that it was around that season that the show went beyond redemption.

>watching cartoons

its funny this episode is 19 years old and people are shitting on it.

Up yours children was pretty funny.

No, it's a shitty meme that redditors believe because other redditors keep repeating it.

It's a funny episode that did nothing different than the B-Sharps episode. The gradual decline starts around that time though.

Season 13 is the absolute point of no return. There are a handful of good eps from the two seasons prior

I always look at "The Simpsons go to Africa" as the point of no return.

Why did they go to Africa again?

Animal cookies.

There were still some solid episodes after this. Like Trilogy of Error, Behind the Laughter and despite it having a pointless cameo New Kids On The Blecch.

Homerpalooza was an egregiously worse episode and was a season earlier.

Simpsons was still mostly good until s11. The Swartzwelder episodes of season 12 weren't even up to snuff.

Homer becoming a food critic is also a good episode too.

No, this theory about the show getting Tanzarianed came from a random autist at Zombie Simpsons. There were great episodes after that one.