This is getting out of hand

This is getting out of hand.

Is this real?

Still one of the worst decisions the show has made, alongside Armin Tamzarian. The only good Tamzarian is Charles.

Who cares
Stop obsessing over dead shows

Kill la Kill was mid

Better than 90% of what's shitted out today

It pretended to be nothing but a fun anime

The Prince and The Pauper was an okay episode, and the Simpsons already had heavy retcon plots that were good

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Oh boy can't wait for the references to
Flappy bird
Five nights ar Freddy first releasing
The lego movie
The ps4
The walking dead
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And many many things popular in 2014

FNAF 1 is 2015

Still one of the worst decisions the show has made

What decision? Simpsons is still going on. Of course it's gonna always take place NOW. It was never a period piece. Why would it be that NOW?

It was never a period piece.

It started in 1989 but had a bunch of "spritually" 1960s stuff in it even if most of the pop-culture and politics references were contemporary.

August 8, 2014.

A MIDNIGHT COUNTDOWN,
TO Y-2-K

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fnaf will be 11 years old in august

It only gets weird when they actually mention their youth.
One day Homer may say that he grew up watching Rick and Morty.

What war is Skinner supposed to be a veteran of now? If he was still a Vietnam vet he'd be in his 70s or 80s.

had a bunch of "spritually" 1960s stuff in it

No it didn't, bro.

Simpsons needs to adapt hypertime. Have a Treehouse of Horror about it where there are infinite amount of Simpson families that are relatively the same except everyone is born one year later. So then you have like 40 families where Homer's birthday is May 12, 1956-1996 and so in and so forth. It'd be cute to have an aged up version of the Tracy Ullman Show Simpsons at least. Then make that canon so any inconsistency season to season is "Hypertime. That happened to season 15 Homer, not season 32 Homer."

What war is Skinner supposed to be a veteran of now?

Gonna be the War on Terror in a few

the steamed ham war

I admired the Go Nagai influence. It is meant to be fan service and nothing more and boy does it succeed. Sorry you're gay, anon.

Simpsons was about Matt's family and experience growing up in the 50s and 60s
His father is named Homer, his mother is named Margaret, his older sister is Patty, his older brother Mark would be the model for Bart, and his two younger sisters are named Lisa and Maggie.
The truth is the Simpsons should have ended decades ago.

Iraq after 9/11, maybe.
Grandpa Simpson would’ve been Vietnam.

Think of the WWII vets on the show.

I can not declare myself Plato and write "The Republic Two: Electric Boogaloo" and have the entire world mindlessly agree with that. But Simpsons can keep claiming to be the same television show from the late 80s while no longer resembling that source since the early 2000s.

Matt was the model for Bart. He has drawn himself as a boy in Life in Hell as a rabbit with Bart's hair.

the year is 2030

the Simpsons starts referencing the covid lockdown and the summer of love

Something must be wrong with me since I associate FNAF with 2015.
I still find it funny that Matt told the writers give whatever name they wanted to Homer's dad and they coincidentally used the name of his grandfather.

Simpsons was about Matt's family and experience growing up in the 50s and 60s

It was based on it, but still took place whenever it aired. Plus, other writers worked on it and added their own ideas and touches to it.

Matt was the model for Bart

Wrong.

His older brother, Mark Groening, influenced Bart's rebellious attitude. Mark introduced him to a variety of comics, including Mad (when it was still a comic), Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Little Lulu, and Tales From the Crypt; all were sources of inspiration for Matt.

But Simpsons can keep claiming to be the same television show from the late 80s while no longer resembling that source since the early 2000s.

It's like the Ship of Theseus, at what point did it stop being the original thing?

The timeline has been floating since season 3

I associate FNAF with 2015

I think that's when it officially became a phenomenon, so that makes sense

Apu's kids have been steadily growing older as seasons pass

Maggie remains a baby

The Simpsons are in negative continuity nowadays.

Ned's parents started as beatniks. They're going to be 2010 Portlandia hipsters soon.

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To be fair, there's not much difference between those two categories. I mean, you don't even have to change their style of dress.

Do they even show Apu's family any more after that crybaby Indian faggot got him removed from being a speaking role?

Original Homer and Marge are meant to be a parody of pop culture wholesome family sitcoms

Modern Homer and Marge and now the two weirdest fucking millennials who have no culture root in any time or place in history beyond being references to themselves as pop culture icons.

This is fucking gay.

I meant how Bart looks.

The problem is nobody buys it. The more they push the "floating timeline" shit, the less believable it becomes. It doesn't read as a surrealist joke, it just feels like a desperate and pathetic attempt to stay relevant and relatable in an increasingly unfamiliar world.

Cutey Honey is funnier and sexier.

we will see the day where Homer is a zoomer

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They outlasted the thing they were parodying. Now they are a simulation of a simulacra of a parody. The show should have ended long ago.

I gotta say I really don't care and never have. Same with The Principal and The Pauper. Continuity in the Simpsons wasn't something worth thinking about

Ukraine/Donbas lol.

It wasn't made for you.

Afghanistan
The next refresh will make Homer an FtM transman and have him give birth to Lisa, Bart, and Maggie instead of Marge

persian gulf at least, maybe mozambique or afghanistan

Has to be Afghanistan 2003ish now.

This makes Homer younger than pilot Maggie.

So what's wrong with this aside from reminding you that you're getting old

The Simpsons is a case study in writers and producers ruining their own product out of spite for the audience.

They HATED fans, they HATED nerd, they HATED the people online that would point out when they were ruining their own lore so they doubled down and intentionally ruined it, thinking that people would still love the show no matter what. Pure hubris.

I don't want to be old

The Simpsons is a case study in writers and producers ruining their own product out of spite for the audience.

That it can be extremely successful despite that?

Because one of the huge problems with Simpsons is people do not give a shit about the Simpsons anymore because they will drop all their continuity. People cared back when Simpsons was popular.

Nope. They took a successful show and made it into a irrelevant zombie.

There is a greater discussion about how Simpsons "sucsess" isn't all that impressive in the first place, but this thread is about what went wrong not Matt's dumb luck being at the right place at the right time.

Homer and Marge being written as relatable is cringe

based

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The problem with the Simpsons isn't the lore. Like for the longest time I was under the assumption that every single season reset the lore from square one, and thus there are no inconsistencies.

The actual problem with modern Simpsons is it is a product first and foremost, intended to sell slots to advertisers, and they couldn't give less of a fuck about who watches it.

There is a greater discussion about how Simpsons "sucsess" isn't all that impressive in the first place

I really doubt you could make an honest argument for that.

I guess Homer's mom would be one of those late 80s-early 90s neo pagan wiccans that also liked to live in communes?

I'm not gonna argue, all I know is that I had fun watching it while it was airing, and I had fun rewatching it last year. If it's high art or trash is not my concern

It would be better if they had scenarios or situations which made fun of that floating timeline. Or had a TOH skit about evil alternate versions of themselves

It'd be way better if instead of just using it as lame set dressing they actually made it a gag.

Like maybe have Skinner go "I served in the Vietnam War! The second one."

You know how you zoomers always complain about how you have no culture?
This kind of shit is why.

So Homer was originally born in 1956 and Marge had Bart in 1980, so Homer would be 24.
So now for Bart to be born in 2014 Homer would be born in 1990? Homer is now younger than The Simpsons?

Kill la kill Anon Babble was peak. Ost drop reached 1700 posts in 1 hour

Lots of midwits like to talk about color theory or the "silhouette test" when talking about marketable mascots, but the reality is the details of virtually all big mascots and brands are arbitrary. Mickey Mouse would've still been successful if he was a dog, or he work green pants instead of red.

The Simpsons isn't some inspired designs. They were scribbled on a napkin in a waiting room because Groening had wanted to pitch Life In Hell, but found out at the last second that he'd lose ownership rights of what he expect to be his future cash cow.

Animation was for children in the 80s, full stop, nobody was making animation appealing for adults. Animation quality was also shit because it was done cheap by Americans.

Fox Network had just opened and needed experimental programing, so they made the skit show Tracey Ullman show, and added some animated bumpers, one being the Simpsons and the other a very dry psychiatrist show.
This was only possible because the animation industry had just set up the first Korean sweatshops to do inbetween works overseas, so the cost was cheap and quality not bad. This is Matt being lucky.

The shorts are successful, and cause Bartmania, because there was ZERO competition in the market for animation for adults at the time. Any type of adult animation done cheap would've been successful. This is circumstance, being at the right place at the right time.

Then when Fox picked up the show for a proper television series Matt didn't draw, he didn't write the jokes, he was just a producer that worked on merchandise. Matt Groening is really untalented as a creative, but he is very talented as a businessman.

main cast never ages

sliding timescale

constant flashback episodes changing the time period homer and marge grew up

The passage of time in the series is weird but wouldn't be a problem if the writers didn't seem to go out of their way to make it obvious that it is weird.

It's not like I want Simpsons to adhere to a strict continuity, but it would be nice if they at least didn't go out of the way to undermine and dismiss some of the best episodes they've ever had in favor of this kind of garbage

What's Kill la Kill?

all these characters being in the same age range is also wrong

The anime where some teenagers find out that the human instinct to wear clothing is actually caused by parasitic cloth aliens that want to destroy the earth so they put on super skimpy outfits to fight back. It's known for its fanservice and for giving up Blumenkranz.
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homer talks about klk and how great it was watching it when he was a kid

bart loses interest and treats it like some old black and white cartoon

this never happened

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