The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Triggered Fivehead said:
It's a cartoon. Who cares?
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Let's check with the experts:
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Result: too many people.
 
Syaoran Li said:
I've been thinking a lot about The Simpsons lately. It was my favorite show of all time when I was a kid, and every Sunday night I would watch it religiously.

Even some of the seasons most people consider to be bad (like Seasons 11-15) I can still enjoy due to the nostalgia of it all. It really wasn't until after the release of The Simpsons Movie that I fully realized the show had jumped the shark and couldn't be bothered to watch it anymore, at least not regularly.

I'm gonna have to second the notion that Al Jean needs to just quit now (but he won't as long as he keeps making bank on reruns and merchandising) and FOX needs to take the show out by the woodshed and put it out of its misery once their current contract expires.

Once Zombie Simpsons is put out of its misery and the Disney-FOX merger is finally completed and The Simpsons becomes a Disney IP, then maybe (and this is a pretty big maybe) they can bring back a rebooted Simpsons to wash the taste of the past ten seasons or so out of everyone's mouths (and ideally not fuck it up).

I'm being very optimistic here though given Disney's current track record with the Star Wars sequels and those incessant Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

Not as a full show, but maybe another movie or a nostalgic mini-series event that is explicitly a nostalgic period piece set in the 1990's (or maybe the very early 2000's at the absolute latest) and get a good staff of writers, ideally a mix of fresh writers willing to take risks mixed in with some of the more acclaimed Simpsons writers from the old days still around who would be able and wiling to be on board with such a project.

Keep Al Jean and anyone who has worked as a writer on The Simpsons since 2007 as far away from this hypothetical (yet likely inevitable) nostalgia reboot as possible, and it might be tolerable, maybe even semi-decent.

Heck, if I were in charge of Disney or FOX, not only would I fire Al Jean, but I'd blacklist him from working on the show for the rest of his life.

You'd probably have to get a new voice cast for nearly everyone with the possible exception of Bart. Sad, but true.

Julie Kavner is practically on her death bed at this point, and both Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer are elderly. Hank Azaria and Tress MacNeille are approaching old age as it is, and the only cast member I can think of who wouldn't be either long dead or utterly ancient by the time the show ends its original run would be Nancy Cartwright as I think she was in her twenties when she first started voicing Bart.

Even then Cartwright would be pretty old by then, but hopefully not so old and frail that she could not do voice work. I have no idea how old Yeardley Smith is, so I can't really comment on that.

Again, if Disney were smart about this once the FOX deal is fully worked out, then they should can the current show, do either a new movie or a big mini-series event that is essentially a throwback to "Classic Simpsons" to end the franchise on a good note, and then just keep making major bank off of merchandising, licensing, and streaming.

I'd love to see the full series of The Simpsons on an actual streaming service (aside from FX Now or Hulu only streaming the most current season) and Disney is supposedly launching their own streaming service either late this year or early next year.

In addition to the core Disney canon, Star Wars, and Marvel, The Simpsons in its entirety could also make for an awesome launch title.

They could even just start off with the first ten or fifteen seasons if there's not enough space for the whole series right off the bat.

Seasons 1-10 are pretty much the only ones anyone's going to be wanting to watch (I might be able to go up to Seasons 15 or 16 due to nostalgia, but any of the seasons made after the movie are universally agreed upon to be awful)
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Smith and Azaria are in their mid 50s right now, so they're pretty up there in years. Dan's 62. I know Julie and Harry are in their 70s right now, and the supporting voices aren't much better age-wise (Tress will be 68 in June, Russi's in her late 70s and Minnie's the only voice she can do right these days, Pamela's 65, Kevin Michael Richardson is 56 and Chris Edgerly 49).

If Disney does cancel the show after its contracted 32 seasons, then great, if not. Then let's just hope Harry and Julie can hold out for a little bit longer.
 
Piga Dgrifm said:
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I actually kinda liked that episode....

Jewelsmakerguy said:
Smith and Azaria are in their mid 50s right now, so they're pretty up there in years. Dan's 62. I know Julie and Harry are in their 70s right now, and the supporting voices aren't much better age-wise (Tress will be 68 in June, Russi's in her late 70s and Minnie's the only voice she can do right these days, Pamela's 65, Kevin Michael Richardson is 56 and Chris Edgerly 49).

If Disney does cancel the show after its contracted 32 seasons, then great, if not. Then let's just hope Harry and Julie can hold out for a little bit longer.
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Especially Julie. Harry's voices got deeper, Julie sounds like she's struggling with her life.
 
If Masako Nozawa can continue voice acting in her 80s, I'm pretty sure the Simpsons cast can continue in their 60s.
 
Baldur's Gait said:
Good lord, she can barely do the husk now.

Y'know I don't think I've really had a good listen to Kavner's voice until now. Most of the actors' voices have changed after 30 years of wear and tear, but Kavner doesn't seem she can do it anymore.
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It just sounds like she's going to lose her voice with every vowel she sounds out.
 
This was probably asked already in the past 75 pages, but how long do you think the Simpsons will keep going?

It'll be either a few seasons at most, or they'll change the VAs -- "and no one can tell the diddly-ifference" -- and keep going "until the show becomes unprofitable."
 
ToroidalBoat said:
This was probably asked already in the past 75 pages, but how long do you think the Simpsons will keep going?

It'll be either a few seasons at most, or they'll change the VAs -- "and no one can tell the diddly-ifference" -- and keep going "until the show becomes unprofitable."
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I think Disney will cancel it after season 32.
 
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