The Simpsons

[craigwd]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

yeah it makes one sad when compared to the show now.

Did anyone laugh even once during the D'oh Canada show?

The JT planking thing was kind of funny, but the rest?
An unnecessary scene just so they could recycle a 20 year old Mt Splashmore joke?
A song about upstate New York that nobody probably understood.
A Newfie seal killing joke????? WTF?

[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by craigwd

Did anyone laugh even once during the D'oh Canada show?

The JT planking thing was kind of funny, but the rest?
An unnecessary scene just so they could recycle a 20 year old Mt Splashmore joke?
A song about upstate New York that nobody probably understood.
A Newfie seal killing joke????? WTF?

People still watch new Simpsons episodes?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by craigwd

Did anyone laugh even once during the D'oh Canada show?

The JT planking thing was kind of funny, but the rest?
An unnecessary scene just so they could recycle a 20 year old Mt Splashmore joke?
A song about upstate New York that nobody probably understood.
A Newfie seal killing joke????? WTF?

Yeah I didn't watch it, I do know that social media wise they're getting slaughtered on social media about the Newfie joke

[SuperMatt18]

Haven't watched the full episode but the Ottawa Senators joke going around twitter made me laugh.

[Ped]

Didn't they do a Canadian episode before? With curling and health care?

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Yeah I didn't watch it, I do know that social media wise they're getting slaughtered on social media about the Newfie joke

I can appreciate good jokes about any topic.

But that wasn’t even a joke.... there was no punchline or anything. Poor attempt.

Also, is there a group of Canadians anywhere who don’t like Newfies????

[Locke]

Originally Posted by craigwd

Did anyone laugh even once during the D'oh Canada show?

The JT planking thing was kind of funny, but the rest?
An unnecessary scene just so they could recycle a 20 year old Mt Splashmore joke?
A song about upstate New York that nobody probably understood.
A Newfie seal killing joke????? WTF?

I'm always game for some satire of Canada, I usually enjoy it but wow was that episode cringe-worthy.

First of all, enough with the healthcare. We get it. Everyone gets it.

You want to know who else has Universal Health Care? Pretty much the entire developed world and some of the under-developed world not named 'America.'

We also use the metric system and Celsius just like 90% of the rest of the world.

And I'm all for making fun of Justin Trudeau. As much as I dislike the guy he probably has a decent enough sense of humour to laugh at being lampooned by the Simpsons but honestly? WTF was that?

And the seal clubbing Newfie joke? I'm not even going to touch on the fact that it was in poor taste and largely inaccurate, but most Newfies are probably cringing at that mostly because it was a ham-fisted and pathetic attempt at a joke.

Newfies can take a joke on the chin, even a self-deprecating one, but that was painful to watch. Like a child trying to formulate a joke and it just doesnt work.

Just stop.

[timun]

The worst joke about this alleged controversy is that The Simpsons is still on TV despite not being funny anymore for the better part of the last 20 years.



"Stop! Stop! It's already dead!"

[KTrain]

It's still on the air after all this time so the ratings must be fine and some people must still find it funny.

I only ever hear people complaining about how it hasn't been good in years. Do you watch it week-to-week or are you just guessing that it's not good anymore.

[Fuzz]

It's down to 2 million viewers the past several episodes.

I've watched a few, and caught a bits here and there over the past decade. None of them were good.

" The 29th season of The Simpsons on FOX averaged a 1.42 rating in the 18-49 year old viewer demographic and a total audience of 3.45 million viewers."
https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/t...on-30-ratings/

According to this, anything under 1.4 is cancellation territory, so this season will be worse than 1.42.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TelevisionR...ick_guide_for/

[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.

[CaptainCrunch]

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.

It really stopped being on my schedule a while ago, I watch the occassional episode, and its just not that funny. They've kind of trapped the characters. I mean Lisa and Bart and Maggie never age, Homer and Marge aren't all that dynamic.


I mean lets be honest there have been character changes, but have they been better


Homer - From good natured, slightly defeated Oaf, to a bit of a jerk who's only there to play the pratfall

Marge - Good natured, slightly overwhelmed house wife who was looking for more to a bit shrill and trapped housewife, she's really only there to say "look this episode is really sentimental"

Bart - From a Dennis the Menace type to a heartless prankster and anarchist
Lisa - From the smartest member of the family and wise beyond her years to a flavor of the week cause character
Maggie - from the non talking but smart baby of the family to pretty much a piece of furniture.

[Northendzone]

continues to boggle my mind that the simpsons will have been on TV for more than half of my life if the 30th season is the last.

it would be cool to know how much $ the simpsons tv shows and movies and their merchandise has brought in over that time.

[timun]

Originally Posted by KTrain

It's still on the air after all this time so the ratings must be fine and some people must still find it funny.

I only ever hear people complaining about how it hasn't been good in years. Do you watch it week-to-week or are you just guessing that it's not good anymore.

I admittedly don't even know what time and which channel it's on anymore. I used to watch; it went downhill in about 2000, I stopped actively watching in 2002 or 2003, and any subsequent episodes I've seen bits and pieces of were complete crap. I find it eminently easy to believe it's still crap; it's so bad now it's making the news!

There's lots of crap on TV. Popular crap, even. Just because it's still on TV doesn't mean it's good. I'm amazed Family Guy is still on the air too. Grey's Anatomy, The Big Bang Theory... They're shows that might have been good when they began, but became stale long ago.

[CaptainCrunch]

I still think that the show hit its quality and creative peak with the after the simpsons spoof.

[PsYcNeT]

Sunday's ratings for the Fox animation block were

Simpsons - 1.94
Bob's Burgers - 1.83
Family Guy - 1.93

So, definitely not in cancellation territory for any of the above...yet.

[jayswin]

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.

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.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Sunday's ratings for the Fox animation block were

Simpsons - 1.94
Bob's Burgers - 1.83
Family Guy - 1.93

So, definitely not in cancellation territory for any of the above...yet.

That's viewers. The rating's share is 0.8, with cancellation said to be in the 1.4 range. So ya, not looking good.



https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/da...april-28-2019/

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Russi Taylor passed away.

She was also widely recognized as the voice of Simpsons characters Martin Prince, Üter, Terri and Sherri

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...innie-simpsons

Also did Minnie Mouse and Duck Tales characters.

[AC]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Russi Taylor passed away.
Also did Minnie Mouse.

And was married to the voice actor that played Mickey Mouse!