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Originally Posted by KTrain
They have a contract for the 30th season in 2020 and that'll likely be their last.
I've watched it off and on every season. Each episode I watch gets a chuckle or two but it's definitely not as good as it used to be. That could be as due to the changing landscape of comedy. The Simpsons has always been pretty clean and the audience that loved it as teens/young adults are now in their 40s/50s.
Similar to SNL, I think the Simpsons has been getting a "historical pass" for a while.
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They were the kings of taking a clean, thoughtful and funny show and pushing dirty jokes at the right times. Their downfall was a million and one other shows taking their success and exaggerating the dirty stuff.
After that a dirty joke on the simpsons was an eyeroller on Family Guy and other shows.