The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

Zombie Simpsons is an insanely accurate name for the show now. This show died long ago, but they refuse to let it's increasingly tattered corpse lie down and rot with some fucking dignity. I get that it's their cash cow and all that, but for fuck's sake whatever happened to artistic integrity? Even without considering artistic integrity, as the show has none now, haven't they figured out that they've run out of good ideas?
I'm not looking forward to another 10 years of this show. They're going to keep dragging it on until all the voice actors are dead. Hell, I wouldn't put it past them to finally bury their "we don't recast dead VAs" rule and just replace any of the main cast who die while shoehorning new characters in to replace the old ones until the show is completely unrecognizable from what it used to be.
 
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Jub-Jub said:
I really dislike the "improved" (cheaper) animation look of zombie Simpson's. It looks too crisp? IDK what word i should call it, but it loses so much charm. The old style had so much motion and expressiveness to it while the new style looks so robotic, where's the heart?
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It becomes apparent in the designs for new one off characters too. Old Simpsons gave all its characters googly eyes and all sorts of hair colors like Wiggum's blue hair or Sideshow Mel's turquoise hair for example.
Meanwhile zombie Simpsons goes for a weird middle ground where new characters are drawn more realistically and yet keep the typical overbite and neon yellow skin which makes for uncanney looking designs
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
How many try defending Zombie Simpsons, claiming it's still good?

"It's just a little dirty. It's still good, it's still good!"
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Only super hardcores and that's about it. Maybe boomers too? I dunno? It's like analyzing the audience of Chuck Lorre shows, you just have to write it off that some people are just very easily amused.
 
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Jub-Jub said:
I really dislike the "improved" (cheaper) animation look of zombie Simpson's. It looks too crisp? IDK what word i should call it, but it loses so much charm. The old style had so much motion and expressiveness to it while the new style looks so robotic, where's the heart?
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Agreed. Just compare the old intro to the new one.
 
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Jub-Jub said:
I really dislike the "improved" (cheaper) animation look of zombie Simpson's. It looks too crisp? IDK what word i should call it, but it loses so much charm. The old style had so much motion and expressiveness to it while the new style looks so robotic, where's the heart?
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It's also obnoxiously bright now. Not to say the older episodes weren't brightly colored (it'd be hard not to be with yellow characters), but the newer episodes legit hurt my eyes when I'm watching on a big HDTV.
 
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Super-Chevy454 said:
Thank goodness then King of the Hill had ended when it did, even some said it should had ended a bit earlier. One Youtuber posted this comment who was worth to quote:
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Even King of the Hill was getting weird near the end. Like the Simpsons it was a product of its time and did not adjust well to the internet age. See that God awful Myspace episode as an example.
 
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Trilby said:
It was a shame to replace such a great intro like that.
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That new intro is basically everything wrong with current Simpsons. It's struggling really, really hard to get a laugh out of the audience, but it's ultimately not funny. I don't even know why they stuff the new intro with so many gags because it only makes it less funny the more you watch.

I also hate how cartoony the new intro is. The old one is mostly pretty grounded while the new one has that Loony Tunes-esque sequence of Marge hitting Homer and Homer crashing through the door leaving an exact outline of his body.
 
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Ruin said:
Even King of the Hill was getting weird near the end. Like the Simpsons it was a product of its time and did not adjust well to the internet age. See that God awful Myspace episode as an example.
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IIRC, the infamous MySpace episode was written in 2004 or 2005, but wasn't produced and aired until 2008 due to the fact that Fox actively fucked with the show in its last two seasons and they were running on both a reduced budget and a reduced time frame to make the seasons. A lot of rejected scripts from the mid-2000's got greenlit and produced to fill the gaps.

Part of why King of the Hill was weakening near the end was due to Fox messing with the budget and the show's writers not knowing whether or not they'd be ending in the later seasons.

Season 9 yielded low ratings due to Fox's sports contract at the time ruining King of the Hill's timeslot, meaning the show didn't even premiere until November. A similar trend happened with The Simpsons (for a while in the 2000's, every season premiere was a Treehouse of Horror and it usually aired after Halloween was over) but The Simpsons was a lot more ironclad than King of the Hill was.

Season 10 was a mix of a few new episodes and episodes from Season 9 that had yet to be aired, while Season 11 was meant as the last season. The last episode of Season 11 with Luanne and Lucky's wedding was meant to be the grand finale, but Fox renewed the show for two more seasons at the very last minute.
 
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Jub-Jub said:
I really dislike the "improved" (cheaper) animation look of zombie Simpson's. It looks too crisp? IDK what word i should call it, but it loses so much charm. The old style had so much motion and expressiveness to it while the new style looks so robotic, where's the heart?
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I'd characterize the new animation (and art direction by extension) as sterile, while the old one, while a bit cruder, is more fluid and has a sense of life.
Bread Fetishist said:
Agreed. Just compare the old intro to the new one.
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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
That new intro is basically everything wrong with current Simpsons. It's struggling really, really hard to get a laugh out of the audience, but it's ultimately not funny. I don't even know why they stuff the new intro with so many gags because it only makes it less funny the more you watch.

I also hate how cartoony the new intro is. The old one is mostly pretty grounded while the new one has that Loony Tunes-esque sequence of Marge hitting Homer and Homer crashing through the door leaving an exact outline of his body.
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Never forget.

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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
That new intro is basically everything wrong with current Simpsons. It's struggling really, really hard to get a laugh out of the audience, but it's ultimately not funny. I don't even know why they stuff the new intro with so many gags because it only makes it less funny the more you watch.

I also hate how cartoony the new intro is. The old one is mostly pretty grounded while the new one has that Loony Tunes-esque sequence of Marge hitting Homer and Homer crashing through the door leaving an exact outline of his body.
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What's funny is that even though it's more cartoony with its gags, they deliberately neutered the animation because of it also being cartoony. Which makes no sense when the original arguably was a lot more natural than the cheaper robotic animation they forced upon the HD seasons. @Brit Crust's post with Marge's hair being the most obvious example, but you also got the little details like Burns and Smithers in the background at the Power Plant.

Hell, even the Season 1 intro pulled off the cartoony gags better like Bart stealing the bus stop sign, or the original Power Plant scene with the guy eating a sandwich with the kind of tongs used for carbon rods.
 
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Duncan Hills Coffee said:
That new intro is basically everything wrong with current Simpsons. It's struggling really, really hard to get a laugh out of the audience, but it's ultimately not funny. I don't even know why they stuff the new intro with so many gags because it only makes it less funny the more you watch.

I also hate how cartoony the new intro is. The old one is mostly pretty grounded while the new one has that Loony Tunes-esque sequence of Marge hitting Homer and Homer crashing through the door leaving an exact outline of his body.
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It doesn't help that there's way too much shit going on and "Hey, remember this character?" shoehorned into the new intro. Whatever happened to quality over quantity?
 
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Brit Crust said:
I'd characterize the new animation (and art direction by extension) as sterile, while the old one, while a bit cruder, is more fluid and has a sense of life.



Never forget.

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Hey, how else were they gonna shoehorn in that stiffly animated scene of Maggie and Gerald shaking their fists at each other?
 
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