Did The Simpsons lose its way, in an effort to become family friendly?
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I think The Simpsons was a fantastic series, it's still good, but it's really lost that thing that made it special.
Did it lose its way to become family friendly?
It just seems that the story lines are pandering to a certain audience, instead of being completely original and different.
Also, has the new animation taken away from it's character for anyone else?
Did it lose its way to become family friendly?
It just seems that the story lines are pandering to a certain audience, instead of being completely original and different.
Also, has the new animation taken away from it's character for anyone else?
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No, The Simpsons lost its way because it ran out of good ideas about 12 years ago and didn't see that as a sign to stop.
The show was more family friendly back in its infancy than it is now.
Sad, very sad.
Does anyone know how mcuh revenue the series generates outside the english speaking world?
I just find it funny. THEY'RE JUST BREASTS. People seem to forget us humans used to walk around nude 24/7. I find Itchy and Scratchy much more offensive. It's not even funny. Maybe when you could still view it as parody, but some have been brain-hurtingly sick and actually surprised they get through the TV censors, especially when they often cut minor swears such as bastard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:16@r/The_Simpsons_by_country this shows a list of where the program is shown, which countries and channels. It seems to be quite popular around the world. I have watched it in Spanish, Italian, French and German oh and Czech too.
I say all the above as a big Simpsons fan.
PJ
Oh and the Banksy credit sequence wasn't really all that kid friendly either. If anything, they're going the other way.
Why on earth should he feel even remotely guilty? The audience continues to be there in the US, where it counts, so the demand is there from Fox for them to keep making new episodes. If it was universally hated, as people often try to make out, it wouldn't still have a regular audience of 4-5 million. As such, as long as someone wants to keep paying him exorbitant amounts of money to keep doing it, why wouldn't he? I sure as hell would and so would you, I bet!
With that said, at this point I think they'd do well to finish on a round number and call it after Season 25.
I completely agree. Last night i actually watched the 'Lisa's First Word' episode from Season 4 and it struck me just how different the show is now to how it was back then in terms of storytelling. The moment where Lisa says Bart's name conveyed more emotion than any episode has managed in the past 14 years combined! If they go back to simpler and more relatable storylines like that then the show would improve immensely.
If I got millions of bucks for producing crap in a time of austerity I would feel guilty :-)
PJ
After it got to preacher and lost it's way with keeping up with the times.And it should have stopped after the movie,Seth Macfarlene said in a interview he did not want his cartoon,too run for a longtime.Becuase people would just get bord of Peter and the show would be come a image of it's former self.And that's what it has become people are now finding The Simpsons not hip old dryer and less irrelevant.
They did the episode with Lady Ga Ga recently and it was a flop.And the ratings for it were kind of half and half not like the ones from the early years.
My most favourite seasons of The Simpsons are Seasons 3 to 9 i think many hardcore Simpsons fan would also say the same too.
This year one of the segments is a Back to the Fututure parody in which Bart travels back to '74 and causes Marge to fall in love with Artie Ziff. Sounds pretty good.
As Lisa once said after a while a show can't have the same impact.
I only have Freeview so I'm a bit behind the curve on the Simpsons as I watch it on Channel 4 [/tightwad]
Last week there was a 'flashback' one where they went back to the 1990s with Homer and Marge as a couple without children. Other than the music (Homer forms a grunge band0, it didn't really work for me.
I understand the logic, but it would be better implied to bigger brands/people/industries than people that do voices on the Simpsons.
Also there are lots of amusing songs in the earlier episodes which add to the charm , Monorail and Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart are examples of these