The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

I'm assuming that's a joke, but I don't want that on my search history to check. Why would there be any?
 
It's become one of those franchises that keeps going out of inertia, like SNL or any of those crime drama series like the Law & Orders or the NCISes that have been running for years - too many people are dependent on it, nobody wants to bring this gravy train to a stop.

Long-running franchises and repetition will hollow out any character, no matter how complex in the beginning. These characters may start with peaks and valleys, flaws, foibles and virtues, but these are all sanded down or filled in as their creators make them into polished, frictionless golems welded from the parts that were the most audience-pleasing and/or easy to write. So of course you do see this with the Simpsons after decades of being on the air, Homer Simpson may have started out as a slightly oafish but sincere and loving father and husband but he was slowly transformed into a 2-D brain-dead buffoon after several years of success.
 
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Strange Wilderness said:
"Have no fears we've got stories for years"
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The show could've ended with "Behind the Laughter" as a final episode. But they kept going and the show got "crappingly new" to me.

The movie could've been another chance to end the show. But the show kept going and now it is Zombie Simpsons slop of Current Year.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
If you've got six hours to spare, this British person does an overview of the entirety of the Simpsons, one video covering the golden age and the next covering the shit age.
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I watched the "An Analysis of Modern Simpsons" and clicked off at about 1:28:00 into it when the guy calls Indians "Asian Americans." No. Fuck you.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
I think the next Treehouse of Horror shouldn't have 3 stories but just focus on one, and it's a parody of Hereditary where the entire family just fucking dies.
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Well, you're in luck this year because there's another Treehouse of Horror this weekend. It's the same formula. Three stories each one more forgettable than the last.

Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes​

"A tattooed man at a mysterious night circus transports Lisa into three strange stories from the innocent 1950s, the chilling retro-present, and a brutalist future where prestige TV rules the world."
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What's ironic this episode is ripping off a much better comic that was released in 1998:The Illustrative Man.
"The Simpson children encounter a circus freak whose tattoo-covered body tells many different stories."
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That character also appeared in a previous Treehouse of Horror in 2013:

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All I can say is that whoever is charge of the Simpsons creative is lazy.
 
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