Watching Season 3 again

Watching the season 3 episodes again just makes me wonder even more where these characters have gone to in more recent seasons.

Remember when Homer was a well meaning, if slightly dim, guy and not some ridiculously mean idiot? (Oh, I forgot, he's stupid because he has a crayon up his nose <shudder>)

Remember when the characters drove the plot instead of the characters acting stupidly simply because the plot dictates it?

Although I must say I don't envy the job the current writers have, trying to squeeze out what little life is left in the show where basically any interesting plotlines have been done already. Too bad the show couldn't have gracefully bowed out about 4 or 5 years ago. Even some of the best sitcoms of all-time started to noticeably wear out their welcome around season 8 or so.

And I also must say, no matter what I may feel about the current quality of the show, when the day comes it will be a strange, unusual feeling having The Simpsons no longer on the prime time schedule. It will definitely be the end of a TV era.

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Other sit-coms such as..... not to start a debate, I just want some names.

Yes, sad fo rme since I cannot remember a time without Simpsons on Sunday (or thurs) night. Is a family tradition to gather on Sunday night before we went to school/work on Monday. I say, don't cancel the show, there is still PLENTY that can be done. What is CRITICAL at this point is good, non-preachy writers.

M*A*S*H, All in the Family, The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, Happy Days etc. The 8th season was thrown out rather arbitrarily, suffice it to say, many popular TV series stay around that one or two seasons too many. Which shows and at what point that comes is a discussion for a website that I'm sure most of us have heard of...

What I have come to grips with finally is that the show will never be like it was in, say, season 4-6. It's a different show than it was 8-10 years ago, how can it not be? And when judged against itself, the newer episodes are hard pressed to stand up well next to the olders "classic" ones. So with that in mind I look at the new shows not with lower expectations, per se, but just different expectations.

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Can you give me an example from the last two seasons of Homer being a "ridiculously mean idiot"?

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Hey, great! Mail your super fresh, super detailed and super original criticisms to season nine, when I might have cared!

I'll go back as far as season 10: Homer Simpson in Kidney Trouble, Maiximum Homerdrive, Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner, Take My Wife Sleaze, Kill the Alligator and Run, How I Spent My Strummer Vacation, Brake My Wife Please.

Admittedly, they've gone away from using the "Jerk" Homer and have gone to trying more and more outlandish storylines.

Wow. Did I ruin your day or something?

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Ah, as far back as season 10. Episodes made more than five years ago. How relevant.

How was he "ridiculously mean" in these episodes?

"More outlandish"? Explain how the stories of S13/14 are "more outlandish" than the stories of S10-12.

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oh not at all. I'm quite used to arguing with tired irrelevant criticism of the show, having being doing it on-and-off (depending on the show's quality) since season 6.

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There's lots of good stories left...

Marge becomes a robot. Moe gets a cell phone.

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LOL. Marge becomes a robot is TOO outlandish, even for today's Simpsons. Maybe it will turn out that Marge was a robot all along in a Halloween episode.

Moe gets a cell phone. Nah. Homer gets a cell phone and goes everywhere, wearing a suit and pretending to do important business. Then some weirder plot evolves. Or Lisa gets a cell phone and makes tons of calls to the Corey hotline.

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