2026 and they're still frothing at the mouth over masks and vaccinations.
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Every episode of modern Simpsons:
"[First name] [Last name]! [Pronoun]'s the best [occupation] in all of [country]."
- Lisa Simpson, directly to the audience.
"That's right, Lisa. I'm here to [ad for a song/book/movie/space-nazi]."
- [First name] [Last name].
It shows the trend but the colors make this look far more severe than the scores reflect
Yeah they should have had black as 5.x, grey as 6.x, white as 7.x, green as 8.x, and gold as 9.x
Or just use the Blizzard/rpg rarity colors for user defined groupings so that people can make their own thresholds for how to opine for whatever ratings.
For example, I typically think of each number as three categories: low-7s, mid 7s, and high 7s. A low 7 is watchable and decent, a mid 7 may be pretty good but not have a ton of truly moving content or messaging, and high 7s are like the last rating of ultimate popcorn - fantastic, but relatively intellectually empty. And as soon as you hit 8.0, to get there, it has to start having some levels of boundary-pushing of my expectations AND be very good.
So I would relate all of the 7s as like a Diablo green item rarity, maybe with high 7s being blues. High 8s maybe starts to get into yellows, and 9s are legendaries with mid and high 9s being reds or like Diablo ancients. Very low 7s and high 6s would definitely be whites, with mid and low 6s being greys. And anything under there... Probably also greys? Maybe have a gradient where the lower the rating, the more transparent it gets. 1.0 or 0.0 (whatever the lowest is) would have to still be visible, though.
And now I know SCmSTR's very arbitrary scale compared to Diablo rarerity scale colors. What a time to be alive.
Automatically coloring cells is one of the things Excel excels at. Green for the upper bound (either a static number or ~90th percentile), yellow for 50th percentile, red for lower bound (static number or 10th percentile etc.). Automatically gradients everything in between. Want it more green? Lower the upper bound. Want it more red? Raise the lower bound.
Absolutely. That's data visualisation for you
Season 23 episode 22: Rating 3.9: Lisa Goes Gaga: Lisa helps Lady Gaga and learns the importance of being yourself.
Season 30 episode 18: Rating 4.6: Bart vs. Itchy and Scratchy: Krusty releases an all-female reboot of Itchy and Scratchy
We can guess at why those two got the lowest ratings of the entire series.
I could guess, but why don't you just go ahead and say it? I'm not sure what you're implying, it could be anything.
I've no idea either.
Thank you for the info, i assumed it would be "treehouse of horror" episodes. My mum didn't let me watch them and said they were horrifying 🤧😭
I remember how horrifying the first Treehouse of Horror was with checks notes an Edgar Allen Poe rendition of The Raven.
just checked out of curiosity, s6e3 is a clip show, and s9e11 is a musical clip show
I just (re)watched S9 E11 ("All Singing, All Dancing") last night, and it's fine but if I wasn't watching during dinner I'd have skipped the episode.
That’s when you turn on the dvd commentary track
I know it's a clip episode, but it's probably my favorite clip episode. Snake's horrible singing, specifically the "Ooo ooo ooo" before the act break always sticks with me. The "Ough oouu uuuah".
The idea of doing a clip show only 6 seasons in is diabolical.
In the '70s/'80s, one clip show per season was pretty common.
Yeah, and nobody liked it. It was just there to save the show some money.
Cartoonists, too, need vacations
I guess it made more sense back when people didn’t catch every episode. Still glad it’s not the norm these days.
Stargate did one in the first season.
The first clip show episode is actually season 4 episode 18, but the framing for the clips is so good that the episode is worth watching.
Nice self-own, Frankie.
This is consistent with my idea (which I've long had) that there was yet another quality drop around the time they switched to HD. The episodes from the 2000s are mostly still perfectly watchable IMHO, the ones from the 2010s much less so and I don't think I've ever watched a Simpsons episode from the 2020s, so can't say anything about that.
Was there a major staff change for season 9? That's when it appears to have markedly declined.
Seasons 3-8 are generally considered "golden age" simpsons. Theres a lull for a few seasons where it gets very patchy, then it kinda enters a long silver age where episodes are fairly consistently good, with few poor ones and even fewer universally agreed upon greats.
Many fans completely ignore 9+. Others argue where sliver age begins.
The ratings only show the golden age and then slowly declining popularity, because popularity is only ever a loose proxy for quality.
Yeah, the show was never the same after Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein left to make Mission Hill in the late 90s. Additionally, Futurama became a primary though to people like Groening so Simpsons suffered stagnation majorly.
Coincidentally, that happened to be around when the last year of Gen X graduated high school, 1997-98-ish. The internet actually started to become more of “a thing” (edit: as well as computer ownership and literacy, generally), and cell phones started to become smaller and cheaper and more ubiquitous.
Cable television had also become much more widespread and popular. Edit: so did video game consoles.
It might be connected to a cultural shift.
Funny how it looks like every season they continue the fire gets worse
The chart is accurate, the falloff after season 9 is quite noticeable.
I can't watch modern Simpsons. I'm sure there are really good episodes out there, but I just can't listen to Marge's voice anymore.
Did she get a new voice actor in the original at some point?
Because for us who watch the German dub, this happened in or around 2007, between "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" and "My Fair Laddy". That was the time I seriously became aware of which episodes were (then) new, because Marge's voice was different only in the new ones. :D
Nah, the actress just sounds like she's about to die every time she speaks because she's been doing that voice for 40 years and she's in her 70s now.
No new US voice actor, the show has just been on for 37+ years so the actresses voice has changed.
It is noticeable in the more recent seasons, although I think in the last few episodes either she's figured out a way to make her voice sound better or they've figured out how to tweak it.
It wasn't "cool to be backed and boosted."
Ah, yes. "Everyone whose opinion I disagree with is only bandwagoning onto that opinion because it's cool."
Are you actually unaware this is a real phenomenon?
Sure, sure. But, also, the "cool" opinion is popular for a reason. And it's often a good reason.