WWAWD Homer being an abusive husband in the early episodes of The Simpsons?

[guest]

Hahaha I've never seen this before. Wasn't expecting this:

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This was meant for off topic. Mods, please move.

 

[guest]

He was growling alot, and called bart 'boy'...and bart called him Homer but they stopped that...

 

[TorqueWheeler]

My cousin and I used to watch the Tracy Ullman Show for those Simpson shorts when we were really little kids. No recollection of how that happened but, needless to say, I go fawking deep with the Simpsons.

 

[Meownaw]

My cousin and I used to watch the Tracy Ullman Show for those Simpson shorts when we were really little kids. No recollection of how that happened but, needless to say, I go fawking deep with the Simpsons.

What would you say was the point the show hit rock bottom? Or even just when the episode quality started to decline?

 

[Gay Faggot.]

Old school simpsons were the original South Park. Matt and Trey both say that the simpsons were the biggest influence on them. They were happy to be friends with the writers when they did the “Cartoon Wars” episodes. Surprised you didn’t know they used to be pretty “edgy” and “offensive”. Linger longer.

 

[guest]

Old school simpsons were the original South Park. Matt and Trey both say that the simpsons were the biggest influence on them. They were happy to be friends with the writers when they did the “Cartoon Wars” episodes. Surprised you didn’t know they used to be pretty “edgy” and “offensive”. Linger longer.

Of course I knew they were edgy. I'm talking about I was surprised that Homer's character was abusive to Marge.

 

[Gay Faggot.]

Of course I knew they were edgy. I'm talking about I was surprised that Homer's character was abusive to Marge.

Well now don’t I feel stupid. I’m sorry I did that. I’m sorry I did that.

Edit: I still stand by my apology, like a faggot, but what did you think was edgy in the 80’s? Al Bundy was ripping on fat chicks everyday and condemning his (hot) slut daughter.

 

[Feltch My Ass]

Homer's character was abusive to Marge.

How so?

 

[TorqueWheeler]

What would you say was the point the show hit rock bottom? Or even just when the episode quality started to decline?

I know a lot of people think season 9 is the decline because it became high concept and wacky as fuck. In retrospect that was the turning point I guess but since it was still mostly really funny I didn’t give a shit. Season 10 was definitely the season where I started feeling half the episodes were off and by season 12 it was mostly shit. The S12 episode guest starring The Who was the first time I remember thinking it just flat-out sucked. I’m sure if I went back and did a full rewatch there’d be earlier episodes than that but that was the first one for me that really left me thinking the show is dead.

I watched the most recent episode the other day and the second half was entirely a Hamilton-style hip hop musical about how zoomers can’t afford to buy houses anymore. So, it’s gotten a lot worse.

 

[guest]

I know a lot of people think season 9 is the decline because it became high concept and wacky as fuck. In retrospect that was the turning point I guess but since it was still mostly really funny I didn’t give a shit. Season 10 was definitely the season where I started feeling half the episodes were off and by season 12 it was mostly shit. The S12 episode guest starring The Who was the first time I remember thinking it just flat-out sucked. I’m sure if I went back and did a full rewatch there’d be earlier episodes than that but that was the first one for me that really left me thinking the show is dead.

I watched the most recent episode the other day and the second half was entirely a Hamilton-style hip hop musical about how zoomers can’t afford to buy houses anymore. So, it’s gotten a lot worse.

Did you know they turned Chief Wiggum into Peter Griffin?

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[HotDogJoe]

Even those earliest episodes that were super rough around the edges were 100 times better than the shite they've been pumping out for the past 15-20 years.

 

[guest]

I go fawking deep with

Dan, that's another OnA reference

 

[TorqueWheeler]

Dan, that's another OnA reference

You just reminded me to post this gif of Dan every time someone made a reference over the last few years.

 

[TorqueWheeler]

Did you know they turned Chief Wiggum into Peter Griffin?

Did you know they recast Wiggum's wife with Nick Offerman's wife and now she's a super-smart, streetwise professional criminal who was just pretending to be dumb as pigshit for all those years?

 

[JesseTheGovernor]

I know a lot of people think season 9 is the decline because it became high concept and wacky as fuck. In retrospect that was the turning point I guess but since it was still mostly really funny I didn’t give a shit. Season 10 was definitely the season where I started feeling half the episodes were off and by season 12 it was mostly shit. The S12 episode guest starring The Who was the first time I remember thinking it just flat-out sucked. I’m sure if I went back and did a full rewatch there’d be earlier episodes than that but that was the first one for me that really left me thinking the show is dead.

I watched the most recent episode the other day and the second half was entirely a Hamilton-style hip hop musical about how zoomers can’t afford to buy houses anymore. So, it’s gotten a lot worse.

I agree with your assessment of the decline. But when I first noticed that I didn’t laugh at an episode was the Fleet-A-Pita one where Marge begins selling pretzels and it ends in some stupid gang fight outside of their house. That one sticks with me was one of those moments where I thought “this show sucks now”

 

[EraGodless]

What would you say was the point the show hit rock bottom? Or even just when the episode quality started to decline?

Season 9.
I think the consensus is that the Principal and the Pauper is when it jumped the shark.

 

[TorqueWheeler]

I agree with your assessment of the decline. But when I first noticed that I didn’t laugh at an episode was the Fleet-A-Pita one where Marge begins selling pretzels and it ends in some stupid gang fight outside of their house. That one sticks with me was one of those moments where I thought “this show sucks now”

Yeah, I totally get that but there's a Iine in that episode where the woman shilling the business says the extremely ethnic chef's name is "Christopher" that always made me laugh. For me, season 12 was the point where entire episodes had zero laughs for the first time so that's how I judge it but I completely understand your POV.

 

[TorqueWheeler]

Season 9.
I think the consensus is that the Principal and the Pauper is when it jumped the shark.

Definitely did but compared to the last 20 years of the show that's a solid gold episode. Unfortunately.

 

[TorqueWheeler]

Honestly I think Phil Hartman dying was arguably as big an issue as the writing staff changing. His last episode was in early season 10.

 

[NortheastPhilly]

I know a lot of people think season 9 is the decline because it became high concept and wacky as fuck. In retrospect that was the turning point I guess but since it was still mostly really funny I didn’t give a shit. Season 10 was definitely the season where I started feeling half the episodes were off and by season 12 it was mostly shit. The S12 episode guest starring The Who was the first time I remember thinking it just flat-out sucked. I’m sure if I went back and did a full rewatch there’d be earlier episodes than that but that was the first one for me that really left me thinking the show is dead.

I watched the most recent episode the other day and the second half was entirely a Hamilton-style hip hop musical about how zoomers can’t afford to buy houses anymore. So, it’s gotten a lot worse.

I think people forget how easily amused we were as a society before we collectively started overanalyzing things on the internet.

Me and my dad used to fuckin howl at this scene, even though now I can be a snob about it and say the show sucked at this point.