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genuinely remember nothing from that movie except spider pig and marge leaving homer???

 

That style of show doesn't translate to a full-length movie.

 

I don't know how unpopular the opinion is, but it feels like people are really excited for the Sopranos prequel but it feels like it is going to be really bad.

 

The Simpsons movie is weird because they make a whole new antagonist who never existed before. How is Mr. Burns not the obvious antagonist for a Simpsons movie?

 

“The Simpsons didn’t really mess with character arcs for any character in its prime, but it definitely had episodes that had a lot of heart (“Homer’s Mom,” “Lisa’s Substitute,” “‘Round Springfield”).

 

I think in the Simpson’s movie Homer literally gets stuck between a rock and a hard place? That’s all I remember.

 

Unfortunately the movie was finally put in production and released a year or two before the show kinda turned it around, still far far removed from their prime. Very forgettable

 

I've considered picking up wherever I fell off with the show when I'm doing something that doesn't require that much attention to the TV. I assume I'll still find it funny

 

Fun fact: the Kamp Krusty episode was originally planned to be a theatrical movie but the Harvard-educated writers couldn’t come with a storyline that would last 90 minutes, so they just made it a season premiere episode

 

My parents didn't let me watch the Simpsons for so long. Then around 6th grade I just started sneaking it on tv and they gave up (I think I even got them to like it). I ended up with the first 8 or 9 seasons of the Simpsons on DVD and VHS. There's so much good shit in those seasons.

 

What comedies retained their quality from beginning to end? I can't think of anything that lasted more than a handful of seasons.

 

THEIR quality or quality? Cause S8 and S9 of Seinfeld were good, they just werent up up to par.

That's about the only comedy I can think of that i dont skip a season (or skip around a season) on.

 

TV comedies are almost always victims of their own success. They end up dragging on seasons after they should have ended. The jokes get stale and the characters become caricatures of themselves.

 

Party Down? That's about all i got haha

 

I know people hate James Cordon, but I loved Gavin & Stacey. It wrapped up right when it needed.

 

Season Eight and Nine are not up to the gold standard, but the first two seasons are also subpar as well. Seasons Three to Seven are the golden age of Seinfeld.

 

It's Always Sunny is still consistently funny

 

I forget who said it, but someone said that sitcom characters end up going from being representative of certain personality types to being representations of themselves. Later seasons have to justify their characters' actions from the perspective of "he/she would not do this", while in the beginning the character is forming and their behavior thus makes more sense.

 

Idk about still but they definitely crashed for a minute in seasons 7 and 8

 

Weren't you the one who said the early seasons were not as good?

 

god I hope not

 

I don't think so, I've been supportive of it since it aired. It absolutely gets better with the addition of DeVito, but the first season rules as well.

 

Even the weaker seasons have gold though. I've found a way to work "dude hangs dong" into my conversations way more than i probably should have

 

Curb Your Enthusiasm dipped for a while, and it has never really gotten back to the heights of the earlier seasons. The Larry Sanders Show was pretty consistent.

I don't count really short shows like The Critic or Extras.

 

Veep started rushing the plot near the end but it was always funny

Bob’s Burgers is very consistent. I’ve never heard anyone be like “oh yeah s6 was a huge dip in quality” or anything like that