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What do you consider as "classic" Simpsons?
- Thread starter Squarehard
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I agree. It's the only episode of season 9 I like and it's the first episode of season 9... so it works out.
I see Trash of the Titans as the series finale where they leave the old Springfield and the native american cries.
Season 8 is great. Season 9 is when things become a mixed bag but there's still good episodes.
Based on what i find funny: Seasons 2-15.
Season 1 was still "we still don't know what this show is about".
Season 1 was still "we still don't know what this show is about".
Season 9 is where it starts falling apart for me, though the cracks are definitely showing in season 8. Season 1 deserves better that people give it though. It might not be the best episodes but it's damn interesting to watch now, seeing how much it changes over the whole season until they find their footing.
Having never seen more than five or six minutes of the show at a given time, and then only a handful of times, I'm still aware through cultural osmosis that a ton of folks say somewhere between the ninth and tenth seasons it starts to fall off notably.
Seasons 1-10. Once they switched to digital animation from the hand drawn animation cells in season 13, I was done with The Simpson. It's remarkable how much charm the show lost from the animation switch.
Who Shot Mr. Burns Part I is the series peak and marks the end of "classic Simpsons" for me. There are great episodes after that, but from Season 7 on the show "felt" different to me.
Is there any reason you've never gotten into the show proper? The first 8 or 9 seasons really are some of the best comedy television ever produced. For most of us who grew up in the 80's and 90's, it was THE show to watch in primetime.
I tended toward whatever my grandmother (who raised me) watched growing up, and she never got into animated stuff at all. She watched, like, Frasier and Star Trek and ER instead. The lack of initiative to tackle animation has rather stuck with me as I've aged. There's a difficult disconnect with it for me. It's hard to put into words but it just doesn't engage me. The bits and pieces of Simpsons that I've seen are (probably) enough for me to see that it is, or at least was, a high-quality program with golden moments but as a result of my upbringing it will (probably) never truly cilck for me.
I guess it's true what they say about getting older, lol.
I got an episode guide when I was into it in a big way, and it pretty much covered everything I was able to watch on anything like a regular basis at that time:
The topmost one of these.
Shortly after the point that those episodes were current, I went off to university, and wasn't in a position to watch the series with any regularity, so any episodes not in that guide feel new and strange to me, yet the episodes in that I've generally seen multiple times (One exception: Homer Badman. I've managed to never see that, somehow. I remember the name well because it was the only episode from the guide I hadn't seen!)
The topmost one of these.
Shortly after the point that those episodes were current, I went off to university, and wasn't in a position to watch the series with any regularity, so any episodes not in that guide feel new and strange to me, yet the episodes in that I've generally seen multiple times (One exception: Homer Badman. I've managed to never see that, somehow. I remember the name well because it was the only episode from the guide I hadn't seen!)
Conan Simpsons vs non-Conan is the closest I would come to drawing a line, but tbh I don't consider there to be such a thing. I think the show has had highs and lows from the start and the internet fandom that thinks there's some magical point when the show became shit is just wrong and blinded by nostalgia.
This is the most concise explanation as to why you'll keep seeing people who either include or dismiss season 9, hold-overs were quite common in the show that hard seasons as we perceive them in retrospect still had a lot of the same staff working on them as ones we loved.
Also true about everything else still having great episodes, it's impossible to not still produce some quality with the amount of staff working for that length of time.
This is me. Though I watched a few season 11 eps. Homer teams with Mel Gibson for a whole ep...then Bart gets ADD...then...well you get the idea.
Thirty Minutes over Tokyo is legit the last good episode for me.
