Hopefully it won't. The Simpsons 1992-1998 hold a special place as probably the funniest show on television ever. Just so amazingly smart. Was just thinking about the episode where Homer gained weight to work from home. I can remember almost every joke in that episode. Dailing wand, Honk if your horny, Man Cape with fat guy hat, the water bird! So amazing.
Then 2000 hit and they turned a show with insanely smart humour into a Homer gag reel. Just lazy show since then and when Family Guy arrived early 2000s I turned off for good. Now Family Guy has been lazy for a long time.
No show lasts forever. Simpsons has become the very thing they mocked when they first started. They are the Krusty the Clown who asks to be put out of his mysery but doesn't. Just a show that limps on because of what it used to be a long long time ago. yet people still show up every week and in turn it keeps this former shell of a show going.
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Shearer was the leader of the voice actors when they threatened to walk years ago. He has been categorized as hard to work with in the past. I think he is just one of those guys that knows what he wants and isn't afraid to fight for it. He's in his 70s now so maybe he wants to slow down some.
Wonder if the recent renewal of 2 seasons would of happened with this news would have come out 13 days earlier.
Maybe if this happened in the first half of the show's run losing a major actor would kill it. But now it has so little integrity that this isn't a big deal. The Simpsons is nothing but a cash cow at this point.
Clearly there is no show without Rainier Wolfcastle.
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I really don't see how they go on without Shearer, its like gutting half the characters on the show. Him and Hank Azaria add the most of the depth outside of the main characters. That being said the show has had a tremendous run and soon it should be time to move on. At one point I know I had seen every episode now I think I'm about 100 plus behind.
Shows been terrible for over a decade now, Its time to take the Simpson's behind the barn and do what they should have done right after the "Behind the Simpsons" episode aired.
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Shows been terrible for over a decade now, Its time to take the Simpson's behind the barn and do what they should have done right after the "Behind the Simpsons" episode aired.
17 years by my count, the season with Canyonero was the last half decent one.
"Harry Shearer was offered the same deal the rest of the cast accepted, and passed. The show will go on and we wish him well. Maggie took it hard. We do not plan to kill off characters like Burns and Flanders but will recast with the finest voiceover talent available," Jean said in a statement to the New York Time
There is a tendency with every long running TV series to say "it ain't as good as it used to be". Is that true though? Would a neutral viewer rate an episode from season 1 different from season 20 if they did not know the difference?
When the novelty wears off, does the ability of a show to delight and surprise diminish (even though the content and jokes are consistent)?
There are not enough reviews from critics on each season to track this very well:
I'm shocked that this show kept going after the turn of the century. Have ratings been good enough to keep it going? It should have been put out to pasture 15 years ago.
Harry Shearer leaves the Simpsons?
