I finely got a Simpsons box set

[Boingonut]

I have been resisting this forever but since I have not seen a really good Simpsons episode for a year (ever since I moved to the L.A. area it seems) I need my fix so I got season 5. Fox 11 seems to only re-run episodes no older then 2001 on weekdays. I did not mind at first since the show was not THAT bad in 01 02 and eveen some in 03 but none of these episodes have the repeat watchablity the "classic" mid- 90's Simpson's episodes had. Once I noticed I had seen episodes from 2001 and up era more then once I was turning off the Simpsons, something unthinkable just a year ago. I have been wondering what the heck the people in charge of Fox have been thinking re-runing these weak episodes over and over. I have decided that either the suits really are dumb or that they want to push these box sets so they have quit showing classic Simpson episodes, well the latter worked if that was they're plan and like a good little consumer I bought one and will most likely buy the rest.

The 04 and 05 seasons have just been horible and in 05 I stoped watching new episodes, something I never thought I would do. But all good things come to an end and instead of going out on top with dignity like Seinfeld it looks like Simpsons is going to get milked until it runs dry with everyone. Bad writing, stupid plots and everything seeming to be about Lisa (my least favorite character) these days has doomed the show. I hope they get back on track but it seems doughtful.

[Monorail Man]

Seriously. Simpson's so jumped the corn dog...erm...shark a couple of years ago. Let's just hope the same never happens for Family Guy.

[Boingonut]

Family Guy has become the new Simpsons. I love the fact that it was the fans that brought this show back from the dead, we know what its like for Family Guy to be gone and so do the people who worked on it so maybe just maybe they will stick with it and keep the show going for a long time.

Its not like Simpsons has not had a good run though, 16 seasons is huge if not unprecedented, 10 of which are brilliant, 2 that are ok, 2 that are "watchable", but not all that great and 2 that are just so awful it makes me want to vomit. If Family Guy can even make half the run that Simpsons have had with good writing and the inovative story telling and social commentary as well as the fall on the floor humor the show is known for then I will be happy. But if starts to it fall apart like Simpsons I would rather see it go out on top so we don't have to deal with seasons of crappy epicodes.

Simpsons has always been the patriarch of adult/teen oriented animated comedy, as it should be. Without it there would be no King of the Hill, or Family Guy or any of the stuff on Adult Swim. But now the show has grow stale and maybe even to big for itself. Family Guy has the fresh cutting edge that Simpsons used to have and it is time to pass the torch, as it were.

[blueerica]

Damn straight!

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'd go one step further and say the show has been positively unwatchable (with a RARE palatable episode with 0 repeat value whatsover) for at LEAST 4 seasons, and was on the decline for at least a couple of seasons before THAT. Bad bad bad bad. The characters are all pale characatures of their former selves. What passes for a plot is nauseus. Every episode is so formulaic I just want to smash things.

We too just bought our first box set, season 1. It's telling that the earliest episodes, where the writers had no idea who these characters were and the animators had no idea how to animate (or, more accurately, how to properly instruct the Korean animation house as to what they wanted), are STILL a million times better than the garbage they put out now.