Today I have a few thoughts on The Simpsons...
Oh The Simpsons, what can I say about you that hasn't already been said. This show has affected so many people over the years. It has paved the way for countless other shows and mediums to push the boundaries of what is considered politically correct. It helped shape an entire generation of kids into the cynical and skeptical young adults we see today. Despite all of its accolades, I mean it when I say, this show is stale as shit! It has been on the air for too long. In comedy, a joke can't be told too many times because after a while it loses its edge and stops being funny. Fox Network: stop making your show because it is no longer funny. In today’s modern entertainment world something like the Simpsons can no longer stand against the likes of Family Guy, South Park, or even its sister show, Futurama. I think the only reason it is still around is because over the years The Simpsons has developed into a mountainous brand that is so engrained in popular culture that nothing will ever move it. This doesn't mean that it shouldn’t be moved. I believe the show should have ended with the movie, and that the movie should have been made at least five years ago.
Fox Network, over the years I have enjoyed much of your Americanized programming, but by dragging this show on, season after season, you are ruining a staple of my young life. Stop it!
Daniel Chambers
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its sad but true
ReplyDeleteThanks for your lovely blog. It strikes me that one organizes things in domains, with one entity encapsulating another, when one thinks about shows. We have the entity, a kind of fencepost lot, Fox network, holding the aegis for this realm (a structured realm) of narrative and characterological discourse, known as "The Simpsons."
ReplyDeleteWould like to know more about what has happened to the show, in your opinion. There are aesthetic questions with regard to the effectiveness of the comedy, and, as well, the comedy relates to other events in the similacrum and the cultural and political events and discourse of the nation state.