Episode 3 of season 6 is such an outlier. Too much romance for the Simpsons audience apparently.
It’s a clip show. Both low rating episodes from the first seasons are clip shows. That’s why. Clip shows are typically unpopular, even tho for The Simpsons, each clip is original and not a reair of a previous one. They’re “filler” episodes.
The graph represents my experience with The Simpsons. Back when they got their movie for the 10th anniversary, the serie was already struggling with the audience. I believe that was the point where they changed the animation to a horrible 3d rendering and, at least in my country, the started having troubles negotiating with the original voices we all grew up with.
Honestly at this point I believe I haven’t missed much from the series since the 9th season. They should just let it die at this point, as they should’ve done it in 2007.
The movie came out in 2007, mate. Nothing to do with the 10th anniversary.
Also, you probably referred to the move from hand drawn to software animation. Because there is no “3d rendering” happening in the usual sense.
How an episode of The Simpsons is made: https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/25/9457247/the-simpsons-al-jean-interview
3d?
Some objects are 3d renders, most notably cars.
Why was 9/11 such a poorly rated episode in an otherwise solid season. Hmmm 🤔
It’s a clip show episode musical without the normal effort they put into clip shows like the self-aware 138th episode spectacular in season 7 episode 10.
Laughter can’t melt steel beams!
The
towrating collapsed…Season 9 episode 11 was an inside job!!
What happened at episode 23.22?!
Looks like Lady Gaga randomly popped up to boost Lisa’s spirits when she became literally the least popular person at school.
That indeed is interesting, had to look it up. Episode Lisa goes Gaga, Lady Gaga guest starring the episode perhaps warranted the 38% of one point ratings. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403733/
Since when are IMDB ratings a serious metric of quality?
my pirate collection stops exactly at season 9
i guess i can now call it my “criterion collection of the simpsons yaaaar”
I have it all because hoarding.
I’ve never watched past season 13. The last season I could get through is 12…
There’s some bangers in 10-12 though.
my ancient hard drive used to have up to 12 i think. and you are right it was hit and miss there were a few goodies but so many bad as well
and then whatever happened with the really late seasons where the show basically became family guy i get sort of secondhand embarrassed watching
Gods, how right you are. I stopped after 12 watching as it came out, 10-12 had some great eps but many that I was just… bored watching.
I’ve seen a scattered few from 13-20 and they were nigh unwatchable. You’re totally right about the Family Guy-ication, and it’s not even early (good) Family Guy. It’s like watching newer Spongebob, after the writer (director?) quit.
I need to watch the Gaga episode. It sounds truly awful. I don’t know if I’m ready for that psychic damage.
I just started a rewatch of The Simpsons. I was only planning to watch the first 10 seasons though, juat because of the drop off in writing quality.
doesnt this coincide with matt leaving the writing team for futurama?
oh yeah i remember reading about him flying on that plane a couple times, which at the very least raises some flags
I mean, they themselves called it.
The Simpsons started as a parody of the (back then) dominant family sitcom that reinforced traditional values, where the family is led by a wise man who maintains the family and everyone else follows along in a traditional patriarchal hierarchy. Once that era got buried and they swallowed the thing they were mocking, The Simpsons slowly became self-referential, which made it a much harder show to write.
Seasons 8-10 were shit. That chart is invalid
Frank Grimes is season 8.
That’s a shit episode
I was a major adult fan in my twenties who worked with people who could finish a Simpsons joke when anyone started a line from the show. I remember coming in and sadly announcing that I thought I didn’t like the show anymore. That was in the oughts. It had been in decline for a while at the time.
what’s the deal with 9th episodes being good every now and then
Maybe the 9th ones are the Treehouse of Horror ones?
Maybe the last episode before a season break or something?
Isn’t it also just because it’s old and people get bored of it? People crave new things, and even if it’s just as good as in the beginning, it’ll get lower ratings because it’s not new anymore.
I remember quite some years ago i was like “i’m finally going to watch southpark”. And people were already complaining about how the latest seasons were worse than the first seasons. Watched a ton of seasons in a short period, and honestly can’t say the later seasons felt any worse than the first ones when you’re not bored of the series yet. Now so many years later when i watch some more southpark, it’s not as fun as when i started watching it since the “it’s new and exciting” feeling is long gone.
Probably some truth to that. Also, when Simpson first came out they were quite unique. Nowadays there is a lot of edgy comic shows around.
Nice graph!
By the way, any reason to share this here rather than [email protected], as you did for the Boeing one? Genuinely curious
Ahah, didn’t actually expected anyone to recognize I was the same person as the Boeing graph, time to create a new throwaway account I guess 🤷
I post a lot on Lemmy, mainly content I find on over social networks, and I try to avoid posting on lemmy.world, it’s getting too much activity, and really hurting the decentralized aspect of Lemmy, which imo is its biggest advantage.
I’m not criticizing the mods or admins or lemmy.world, just saying that for the content I post, I try to avoid putting in there
No worries, I’m sure most of people didn’t notice.
Definitely agree on the fact that LW is a too central on Lemmy. If you want to discuss this, we created a community recently on that theme: [email protected]. Feel free to join, some discussions might interest you!
Thanks, just joined!
