Amph The Simpsons

Forget about it, now that Disney owns it, they will milk it through the end of time.......

 

They'll definitely keep milking 'The Simpsons' but I don't know in what form the milking will be. They have thirty years of content, does it really make sense to produce full seasons anymore? I think eventually Disney will realize it will be more effective to coast on nostalgia and we'll see shorter seasons or movie length specials

 

Perhaps Disney kind of lets The Simpsons go away for a while, say a decade, then brings them back, but when they do it’s with Bart and Lisa as teenagers or adults.

 

Eh, I could see them letting it coast. It’s a well-oiled machine at this point, Fox reduced the budget to the corporate equivalent of a half a potato, and it gets relatively consistent ratings (to say nothing of merchandise). Why throw away money?

Now, alternatively, given that it’s Disney, I could also see them trying to rejuvenate the franchise by throwing more money into it, being disappointed when a 30 year old show can’t magically become a cultural phenomenon yet again, and then unceremoniously cancelling it after two years.

 

Groundskeeper: A Simpsons Story

 

They call him Willie because he’s all alone.

 

They'll definitely keep milking 'The Simpsons' but I don't know in what form the milking will be.

Does Matt Groening have a say in all of this?

 

No. At the absolute most he could remove his name from the credits and give up design approval authority (assuming he even does the latter any more). That would causes the show to continue running but without paying him, so... uh, yeah, that isn’t going to happen.

 

Tbh I haven't watched new episodes of the Simpsons in many years; probably going back to at least a decade. I think sort of like Saturday Night Live, it seemed all the new episodes involved were the retelling of stories with the same jokes and sometimes stale new ones. At least Disney plans on updating their problem with the syndicated episodes on the Subscription App; every one of the old episodes will be available in their original 4:3 format in early 2020.

https://www.gamesradar.com/disney-plus-the-simpsons-aspect-ratio-fix-4-3-16-9/

 

Anybody know the status of the Disney+ Simpsons presentation vis-á-vis the aspect ratio? Has it been fixed is what I mean. Can’t afford to miss any o’ them Jokes(TM) in the periphery

 

It's still forthcoming, because apparently it's very difficult to implement something they already have I guess.

 

Here you go! Monorail, Monorail, Monorail...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdzx5/an-oral-history-of-marge-vs-the-monorail-the-simpsons

 

Since this thread got bumped (great read BTW), I have to recommend Mike Reiss' book Springfield Confidential. He gives a lot of insight into the process during his early and late tenures on the show and The Critic in a way that's more reliable than a lot of the earliest behind the scenes material ever was.

Now if someone could just get Al Jean to do a tell-all...

 

16 episodes.

 

So For the last 3 months I have watched 26 and a half seasons of the Simpsons and I gotta say this show is something. I have laughed hundreds of times watching this show. Cried a couple of times. I was trying to watch all of the show but I think this quote from the episode Flanders Ladder sums it up “now I realize this was a waste of time”

If I had to say which was my favorite episode I would say Barthood. If you couldn’t tell I also watched a few post season 26 episodes. And it was one of the last I watched but it was my favorite.

 

Wondered if a thread for this existed.

I'm curious.

When did you all give up on the Simpsons?

Are there still true believers, watching every Sunday night?

The show has been on so long now, there are more episodes since I quit watching then what I watched.

And whenever I try to give it another chance, something makes me cringe within minutes, and I am done.

Perhaps it was always thus, and only I am the one who changed...

Bah!

 

What would you rather do - watch three new Simpson episodes or read the three most recent Garfield Books?

 

I gave up after about season 13

It just stopped being great and refused to evolve unlike other sit-coms
Now it lives off the legacy of seasons 1-10 which are still awesome, I'm just surprised Disney puts so much effort into marketing the show now because I don't know a single person who watches it anymore and I doubt kids do unless their parents show them the early stuff

 

I don't honestly know. I assume by the choice offered, there is some critical dislike for recent Garfield?

 

The descent in quality of The Simpsons was very gradual (Seasons 3-5 constitutes the greatest television comedy in history, 6-10 a mashup of the excellent/good/mediocre), but Season 11 marked the definitive end. Among other faults, the tone became absurdist, Homer devolved into an insufferable ---, guest-star appearances were unimaginative, and mean-spirited conceits jumped to the fore (e.g., the death of Maude Flanders). It was simply a different show: I left and never looked back.

There's nothing to be bitter about, though. 150+ superlative episodes is more than one could ask for. The healthiest attitude is to cherish the gems as one does the Chuck Jones-era Looney Tunes shorts. Long since past...never coming back...but immortal.

 

So is it because you enjoy it, 2nd? Or is it more a completion-ist impulse to stay the course?

I know for me, I will tune in now and then to see how it's going, just because I feel like I should. I loved this show so much, it seems like I should be able to capture some part of that again.

But it never works.

 

When I got into Futurama, because it was the better show.
Yet, even with roughly 10 seasons worth, I seem to have an infinite amount of pop culture Simpsons references.

 

No my opinion - but general critical con Cecilia is similar to late simpsons.