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Anti-vaxxers: "You're just getting vaccines to be trendy, not to protect your family and others!"
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It shows the trend but the colors make this look far more severe than the scores reflect
Yeah they should have had black as 5.x, grey as 6.x, white as 7.x, green as 8.x, and gold as 9.x
Or just use the Blizzard/rpg rarity colors for user defined groupings so that people can make their own thresholds for how to opine for whatever ratings.
For example, I typically think of each number as three categories: low-7s, mid 7s, and high 7s. A low 7 is watchable and decent, a mid 7 may be pretty good but not have a ton of truly moving content or messaging, and high 7s are like the last rating of ultimate popcorn - fantastic, but relatively intellectually empty. And as soon as you hit 8.0, to get there, it has to start having some levels of boundary-pushing of my expectations AND be very good.
So I would relate all of the 7s as like a Diablo green item rarity, maybe with high 7s being blues. High 8s maybe starts to get into yellows, and 9s are legendaries with mid and high 9s being reds or like Diablo ancients. Very low 7s and high 6s would definitely be whites, with mid and low 6s being greys. And anything under there... Probably also greys? Maybe have a gradient where the lower the rating, the more transparent it gets. 1.0 or 0.0 (whatever the lowest is) would have to still be visible, though.
And now I know SCmSTR's very arbitrary scale compared to Diablo rarerity scale colors. What a time to be alive.
just checked out of curiosity, s6e3 is a clip show, and s9e11 is a musical clip show
I just (re)watched S9 E11 ("All Singing, All Dancing") last night, and it's fine but if I wasn't watching during dinner I'd have skipped the episode.
The idea of doing a clip show only 6 seasons in is diabolical.
In the '70s/'80s, one clip show per season was pretty common.
Yeah, and nobody liked it. It was just there to save the show some money.
Cartoonists, too, need vacations
You could hire enough of them so they can get their vacation.
That's why we all love Community. In "Paradigms of Human Memory" (Season 2, Episode 21) it was super expensive because all the clips were new. It was a great episode in general too.
I guess it made more sense back when people didn’t catch every episode. Still glad it’s not the norm these days.
2026 and they're still frothing at the mouth over masks and vaccinations.
These are the people who constantly whiner about "NPCs" just following directions without thought, showing the same line of dialogue 6 years on lol
I have those in my family.
Those who got vaccinated will be dying any day now. /s
Yeah I thought I was supposed to be dead from sudden onset Bill Gates microchip 5g disease by now because I'm vaccinated. But instead I'm still reading their dumb posts on the Internet.
My father sill to this day says it was a "muslification attempt", "trying to force burkas in the whole population".
He has two health-related degrees.
Unfortunately, idiocy is also highly infectious.
They'll never let it go lol, just permanently triggered.
The Simpson stopped making stories about the family and started making episodes where every week was a new celebrity coming to Springfield. Then they did some odd reboot thing where now they’re just retelling stories with a modern look? It’s so weird. The show should have ended with the movie IMO
Your comment seems to have been instinctively downvoted but a lot of other people are saying the same thing, so i feel like there's truth to it. Personally I don't really watch the simpsons but i tried to binge the first season when i saw it was on disney+
Years ago I marathoned seasons 1 through 13 while enduring benzo withdrawals. I can absolutely confirm that these ratings are accurate.
I'm so old I was an adult when I saw the very first shorts on Tracy Ullman.
I was shocked when they hit 20 years. Now, I'm just baffled. Why are people still watching? I can only guess, habit?
The last thing I watched was part of the first movie. Since I had, coincidently, just read Under the Dome (which King claims was not born from the movie), I didn't even finish the movie.
I was Bart's age when the show came out. I'm now older than Homer
Every episode of modern Simpsons:
"[First name] [Last name]! [Pronoun]'s the best [occupation] in all of [country]."
- Lisa Simpson, directly to the audience.
"That's right, Lisa. I'm here to [ad for a song/book/movie/space-nazi]."
- [First name] [Last name].
Can't tell if they're mouthbreathing because they're dumb, or because of COVID.
Season 23 episode 22: Rating 3.9: Lisa Goes Gaga: Lisa helps Lady Gaga and learns the importance of being yourself.
Season 30 episode 18: Rating 4.6: Bart vs. Itchy and Scratchy: Krusty releases an all-female reboot of Itchy and Scratchy
We can guess at why those two got the lowest ratings of the entire series.
I could guess, but why don't you just go ahead and say it? I'm not sure what you're implying, it could be anything.
I'd say the Gaga was for pandering to fans of a celebrity to get them to watch. Making a Gaga centric episode at the height of Gaga's popularity is pandering. As compared to having a few lines by George Harrison or Paul McCartney which were at their height of popularity 20 years earlier. When contemporary celebrities were used like Smashing Pumpkins is was as a cameo, not the focus of the entire episode.
The all woman Itchy Scratchy episode would be panned because it's punching down on the feminist movie remakes.
it's punching down on the feminist movie remakes.
Is that feminist? Giving women a recycled story with a history and a ton of baggage instead of a universe thats really theirs? You're setting them up to never be their own thing, always compared to the original.
Everyone just ignoring the vaccine scepticism eh?
No that's central to what quualifies it as a meme to me. The only funny thing in this oost is how he compares simpsons haters with ~~anti~~ vaccinators
As someone who grew up with the Simpsons and also pretty recently watched the first 29 seasons again, the first 9 seasons we definitely the best seasons. They're timeless. The show became too afraid to be offensive.
Was there a major staff change for season 9? That's when it appears to have markedly declined.
Yeah, the show was never the same after Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein left to make Mission Hill in the late 90s. Additionally, Futurama became a primary though to people like Groening so Simpsons suffered stagnation majorly.
Seasons 3-8 are generally considered "golden age" simpsons. Theres a lull for a few seasons where it gets very patchy, then it kinda enters a long silver age where episodes are fairly consistently good, with few poor ones and even fewer universally agreed upon greats.
Many fans completely ignore 9+. Others argue where sliver age begins.
The ratings only show the golden age and then slowly declining popularity, because popularity is only ever a loose proxy for quality.
Coincidentally, that happened to be around when the last year of Gen X graduated high school, 1997-98-ish. The internet actually started to become more of “a thing” (edit: as well as computer ownership and literacy, generally), and cell phones started to become smaller and cheaper and more ubiquitous.
Cable television had also become much more widespread and popular. Edit: so did video game consoles.
It might be connected to a cultural shift.
Those are actually not too bad Rotten tomato scores. Anything below a 6 is when things can get bad.
Aren't we up to season 37 now? Old chart?