Many of the newer Simpsons episodes seem to have declined in humour. They don't pack the comedic punch as well as the old episodes do, though they do still carry the capacity to get a couple of laughs. What's up with this??
Some of these new Simpsons episodes seem to be getting really slack
Jul 12, 2006, 9:28 AM ET9 posts by 8 posters
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It's been that way the last ten years!
Syrus must have just returned from the year 1995! He must have one of those toaster-time machines!
Aaron Space Museum
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He's from the future, kill him!
-- R Flowers ---- Oops, sorry - from the *past* - my bad.
...and Joe Piscopo left "Saturday Night Live" to conquer Hollywood!
"Syrus" wrote
To be fair, not many series (live or animated) have kept going this long. All the 'easy' stuff has been done, so these days the writers have to dig deeper, and use new techniques to keep the laughs coming.
One that was shown here in Australia recently was The Seemingly Never-Ending Story, which used a very clever construct of stories within stories until your mind whirled trying to keep up with them. Wouldn't appeal to everyone, but top marks for trying something different.
As an aside, one of our public broadcasting radio stations is re-running old episodes of Hancock's Half Hour, a classic British studio-with-audience comedy from the 1950s and 60s. It is still funny, but if it were redone today using current comedians, it would be terrible. So, treasure the old Simpsons, but don't write off the new ones - they're different, not worse.
Paul
Yes, my time machine toaster never fails. I can't believe that something so technologically advanced was made by Homer. Perhaps he learnt a lot when he was in 3D land, wasting a fortune just standing there.
"Syrus"
I really think that he sorta stumbled onto the invention completely by accident.
they should've had Patty and him come out together