The new simpsons sucks and please dear god let it die

Actually, I think the new Simpsons is more like an atrocity. How long has it been going on for now? Twenty. Five. Fucking. Years.

My entire generation grew up with the Simpsons, with few exceptions. We watched each episode probably a hundred times in our lives. Every quote that was the least bit memorable has been etched in our memories, buried deep within our souls and has become a part of us. The Simpsons was ridiculous, satirical, hilarious and even touching at times.

It started really getting shitty around season 8, 9 and especially 10. All of the characters started becoming caricatures and stereotypes of themselves. A handful of new and completely uninteresting characters were added for no reason. What was once (at least slightly) subtle satire is now nonstop political commentary which is about as subtle as a bag of flaming dog shit being thrown at your face.

The animations are now completely computer generated, and very poorly so. For the past 15+ years, the shitty writers have not come up with a single original idea. The Simpsons has pretty much become exactly like Family Guy was for its first couple of seasons: perpetual unnecessary and unrelated referencing of pop culture and other fads that in and of themselves are passed off as humor -- a kind of humor that is below the caliber of what even most young teenagers would laugh at. In other words, if you laughed at my reference to flaming dog shit, you're likely too sophisticated for the Simpsons as it is today. The number of celebrity cameos used simply to fill up time and to inflate the already valueless abyss that is its ~20-minute airtime is appalling and nothing short of shameless.

And you know, I could potentially forgive all that. I really could. Maybe I could accept that younger people, who never really knew how great The Simpsons was at its peak, who never really "got" it, could at least be able to sit through an episode and chuckle a bit. Maybe I could have just dropped the issue entirely. Had it not been for one thing that just adds insult to injury to the extent that I have not watched a single new episode in over five years:

THEY RECYCLE THEIR JOKES.

As if it wasn't bad enough that The Simpsons franchise has been thoroughly torn apart, shit on. run over, thrown into a live volcano, eaten by a stray magic lava cat and then shit out again over the past 15 years... they add insult to injury by constantly referring to even their less funny material from the time when it was good.

I never studied literature or theater in college, but I'm pretty goddamn certain that recycling old material is a good indication of bad writing. So when The Simpsons recycles the same jokes from 20 years ago multiple times, it's a surefire indication that the writing staff has pretty much completely checked out more than just a few years ago. To salt the wounds even further, those "self-references" just remind me of when The Simpsons not only was funny, but genuinely brought some joy into my life.

So there you have it. What was once a rare pearl of television history, cherished almost universally by millions of people around the entire world for years... has become a steaming pile of pig shit upon cow shit upon horse shit. It looks like so many domestic animals have metaphorically defecated on the quality of the show that it has become nothing short of an agricultural phenomenon. When The Simpsons is on, exotic molds and other fungi immediately spring out of the fertile shit that my television spews when someone accidentally leaves it on during Sunday evenings.

So now that I've gotten that off my chest: