I too laugh to myself at random memorable scenes out of the Simpsons at seemingly arbitrary times.
>MY RETIREMENT GREASE!

11-13 have a lot of gems the weed episode in season 13 is up to par with golden episodes like lisa needs braces and treehouse of horror 4

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>>153259272
I figured this was pretty much universally agreed upon. The series didn't suddenly turn to shit, it gradually lost its sparkle over time. Even newer season episodes might have 1 good line or joke in it, but nowhere near the earlier seasons.

at least the voice actors were still on top of their game back then. i'd hate to imagine this scene in Season 30+ Simpsons.

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>>153258559
Funny enough, Harry Shearer's voice IS starting to give out lately. I've seen many a complaint about his Mr. Burns voice in particular.

>>153259272
>lisa needs braces
The reason that episode is so great is because of how densely packed it is with jokes and just how many of them are memorable. There's not really any other episode in the series that matches it.

>>153258559
I liked that episode. I like some episodes of the later seasons (before season 16, before season 19 at the latest).
It was also fun when Mr. Burns worked as a replacement for Homer or a manatee worked as his replacement. I loved the island arc and Lisa jr.

I'm not NOT licking toads!

>>153261898
I genuinely thought Burns got replaced since I hadn’t watched in like a decade

>>153259997
I think what separates the early teen seasons isn't their quality as much as still occupying an organic position in the zeitgeist. it was still a viable show even if it had gotten sloppier and more lowbrow. the corporate desperation later on is when it started to become nauseating.

>>153261898
can we agree from now on that keeping voice actors past reasonable competence is worse than recasting and shouldn't be encouraged?

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>>153262391
Yeah, he's starting to go. There was a clip of a Burns/Smithers conversation from last seaosn that's painful.
>>153262646
The core six really got an iron grip on the show and nobody ever bothered to tell them to fuck off. Now, from what we've seen of replacements for characters like Hibbert, I don't have faith in who they would hire. You could probably do an open call in any major metro area and get a handful of jagoffs off the street who can do a handful of spot-on impressions, but because they aren't in the industry it doesn't matter.
I like Kevin Michael Richardson, but his Hibbert is awful.

Damn it is pretty bad

https://youtu.be/QN9DntObXYE?si=my2R1kI__2F4-2pN

>>153262785
This sounds like a fan animation wtf

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>>153261898
>Funny enough
That's not funny at all!

>>153259404
marge bakes a pie

>>153264891
MAYBE MOE GETS A CELLPHONE HAS BART EVER OWNED A BEAR OR

>>153262444
That, and there was still a connection (i.e. the writers) to the past seasons that still had some of the magic there. The further away we get, the more that the bad stuff starts getting copied and suddenly Treehouse of Horror goes from a once a season treat to night every third or fourth episode. Why? Because they we beloved and the writers liked being able to play with the characters in such a way.

>>153261898
Why would the voice of an old geeser be harder for him? he's turning into one, if anything it should be easier

>>153261898
He hasn't actually tried since 2003 when he started working from home and only reads his own characters' lines.

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>>153259272
I maintain that Trilogy of Error is the last truly classic-feeling Simpsons episode. Out of seasons 11 - 13 it's also by far the highest-rated episode on imdb, with an average rating of 8.6. The last time an episode got a rating that high was The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, 3 seasons earlier. It's honestly kind of jarring how much better it is than what else was going on around it.

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>>153266802
Everything about how the Simpsons production is run nowadays feels increasingly sad and devoid of passion. Even the smooth bits of animation we get in newer seasons--while admirable--don't hit as hard as, say, this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnVrop697uU

They lack that OOMPH that rounded out the snappy writing of yesteryear

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Anyone else read the comics as a kid? I never see them discussed much here, they were still good even while the show was going to shit

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>>153266925
>Marge's sweet can

>>153266857
not moved by that episode, just feels like generic Season 11-12 antics including the obligatory Homer injury/mutilation stuff

>>153266925
I did, I distinctly remember them being funny but simultaneously barely remember the first thing about them anymore.

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>>153266857
Trilogy of Error is one of the better "anthology" episodes because it is actually quite clever in how it's presented.

>>153266955
Same tbqh, my physical collection of them is probably rotting in an attic somewhere. I think archive.org has a lot of them digitised, I might post some here when I can be motivated

4chan let me post.

>>153266857
I have a theory it was an old script they dug up and reworked or something, the pacing and writing feel way more like a classic episode and the only thing about it that feels like a contemporary episode is the scene where Homer first lost his thumb and bleeds everywhere.

>>153266925
i remember it I had some but then I donated to the local library.
Anyway I remember they were funny I liked them a lot and I liked them especially because it felt like a continous "Treehouse of horror" or an Anthology episode because every story was jsut not grounded but you could see it was really treated like a cartoon, like I remember the story where Springfield does a contest where they put a Biosphere with a garden inside and put 2 families inside to survive, one was flanders family and they thrived and created a villa while the simpsons were barely surviving and in the end the fire that ned Built for his home start burning his home and the Biosphere so homer come and save everyone by carring everyone on his shoulder and I remember distinctly that he punched ned in the face because he was having a panic attack and so he put it to sleep with a sucker punch.

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>>153267073
This one?

>>153267449
Yeah exactly that one. I remember even one that you had to bend the pages to see the secret messages inside, because if I remember like bart start doing a comic and he get published but working in the comic industry is really hard and he has like to draw comics everyday without complaining and getting paid and to show that he was used he madea special cover that you had to bend to see the secret message that was like "I'm imprisoned and this guy he's stealing my money and forcing me to draw" or something like that.
I tought it was clever, but with hindsight many copies would be ruined just for that page and secret message.
One last fact I remember that I discovered only years later when I picked up "Fury and the agents of shield" original run that there were some simpsons comics with Krusty and the agents of Clown or Laugh or something like that and didn't know it was a parody of nick fury.
Maybe i'll read it online or rent it from the library.

>>153267519
>I remember even one that you had to bend the pages to see the secret messages inside
Kek I remember those, they did that a few times. Simpsons writers were so obviously inspired by MAD magazine

>>153262646
I'd argue they're the same kind of bad. The recasts because there's no effort to actually try and recapture the character in most of these. The ones staying because Julie and Harry sound like they're about to die in the recording booth.

>>153268978
>no effort to actually try and recapture the character
I'll say that the new guy doing Carl is at least trying to imitate the proper inflection and delivery, his voice is just way too deep.
Hibbert isn't even trying.

>>153261898
Not Lenny!

>>153266754
Dan Castallaneta does Grampa's voice better than Homers now lol

>>153269076
>Hibbert isn't even trying.
That's because Kevin's voice is instantly recognizable. and doesn't have that level of range to even come close to Harry. Or at the very least, they should have had him go for the voice he used as Grimace in those Ronald McDonald VHS tapes.