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Yeah, that was surreal. The appeal of the Simpsons for me was always the characters, and the fact that they genuinely cared about each other despite their dysfu
by Zanni 9y ago
Yeah, that was surreal. The appeal of the Simpsons for me was always the characters, and the fact that they genuinely cared about each other despite their dysfunctional family dynamic. Conventional wisdom says that it's not that the show-runners abandoned humor in favor of character but the other way around, abandoning the core of their characters' identities for cheap laughs, hence the birth of "jerkass Homer."
- hitekker 9y agoI'd consider the author's arguments seriously if he bothered to buttress them with more sources than one Matt Groening quote, and one link to the Statemen's. I would speculate that he didn't want to do the research, because his opinion is the opposite of the consensus, and because he didn't even seem to like the "Golden Age" Simpsons that much. Pretty shallow overall.