they've improved some bits, where other bits have gotten worse. All the post-classic episodes seem to just have weird ratios of good things to dodgier things.
That said, the characters are all worse now. For example, Skinner no longer being a Vietnam vet, and just being a bit of a dickish headteacher; and Ralph no longer being a well-observed awkward, kind of weird kid and now just having every possible learning difficulty there is.
and falls asleep at the wheel, hears a buzzing sound or something, wakes up & shouts, "i'll get it" and then dives head-first out of the car door. laughed for a good ten minutes.
"Hi everybody, my name's Moe or as the ladies like to call me 'Hey you behind the bushes!'"
The bachelor auction where Moe says he likes women who take their clothes off for money.
"Moe, Moe, Moe, why don't you like me? Nobody likes me"
go joyriding in homer's car and end up in the playing fields at the school and drive through the hockey net and it bursts into flames. also the episode where moe is attractive after plastic surgery and he & homer decide to wreck the soap he is in after they write him out - the producer clearly says 'what the fudge!' but they bleep out the word fudge. creases me up thinking about it.
i watched a new episode because somebody else had it on at their house
it actually wasn't awful. not that good, but decent enough. surprised, because the last time i tried to watch a new one it was diabolical.
it's weird
they've improved some bits, where other bits have gotten worse. All the post-classic episodes seem to just have weird ratios of good things to dodgier things.
That said, the characters are all worse now. For example, Skinner no longer being a Vietnam vet, and just being a bit of a dickish headteacher; and Ralph no longer being a well-observed awkward, kind of weird kid and now just having every possible learning difficulty there is.
yep
it's even a trope namer on this http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/main/Flanderization
also the voice of apu isn't the same now
it sounds really really bad
weird
it's still Hank Azaria
yeah i just read that
but it was notably different
homer's voice has noticeably changed too.
when marge hasn't been sleeping well
and falls asleep at the wheel, hears a buzzing sound or something, wakes up & shouts, "i'll get it" and then dives head-first out of the car door. laughed for a good ten minutes.
gonna do the reverse:
non-classic simpsons bits everyone goes on about, that arent funny -
stupid sexy flanders
no ones gay for moleman
the first one is good
the second is shite
Bronson, Missouri
Pretty sure that is the only one.
this ain't over
When Homer is throwing popcorn at the rhinos
and the camera cuts away then back again and one of the rhinos is on the floor :')
Pretty much all Moe related
"Hi everybody, my name's Moe or as the ladies like to call me 'Hey you behind the bushes!'"
The bachelor auction where Moe says he likes women who take their clothes off for money.
"Moe, Moe, Moe, why don't you like me? Nobody likes me"
i like the loch ness monster episod
theres a bit where marge is going towards a toll booth and it zooms up on her face
something about it made me laugh for 10 minutes
I remember one shit episode
the end of the scene was someone doing a monologue into a video camera, and then gets shot, shouting 'thanks a lot, steve!'
I laughed loads at that. Can't remember the episode, or the context. I think it had something to do with the comic book guy.
Lenny singing thankyou for being a friend.
from 3:53 :D
http://wtso.net/movie/141-The_Simpsons_1710_Homer039s_Paternity_Coot.html
that one where they are all pissed after being at moe's
go joyriding in homer's car and end up in the playing fields at the school and drive through the hockey net and it bursts into flames. also the episode where moe is attractive after plastic surgery and he & homer decide to wreck the soap he is in after they write him out - the producer clearly says 'what the fudge!' but they bleep out the word fudge. creases me up thinking about it.
things bursting into flames
is a classic Simpsons trope
chief wiggum exploding after rolling down a hill whilst dressed as a giant beer :')