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[–] Janx@piefed.social 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Everyone:
Anti-vaxxers: "You're just getting vaccines to be trendy, not to protect your family and others!"

[–] slurp@programming.dev 99 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It shows the trend but the colors make this look far more severe than the scores reflect

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And now I know SCmSTR's very arbitrary scale compared to Diablo rarerity scale colors. What a time to be alive.

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[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 110 points 4 days ago (3 children)

just checked out of curiosity, s6e3 is a clip show, and s9e11 is a musical clip show

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (8 children)

The idea of doing a clip show only 6 seasons in is diabolical.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 43 points 4 days ago (3 children)

In the '70s/'80s, one clip show per season was pretty common.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, and nobody liked it. It was just there to save the show some money.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Cartoonists, too, need vacations

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

You could hire enough of them so they can get their vacation.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

I guess it made more sense back when people didn’t catch every episode. Still glad it’s not the norm these days.

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[–] null@lemmy.org 74 points 3 days ago (5 children)

2026 and they're still frothing at the mouth over masks and vaccinations.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

These are the people who constantly whiner about "NPCs" just following directions without thought, showing the same line of dialogue 6 years on lol

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have those in my family.

Those who got vaccinated will be dying any day now. /s

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately, idiocy is also highly infectious.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 6 points 3 days ago

They'll never let it go lol, just permanently triggered.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

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+

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Years ago I marathoned seasons 1 through 13 while enduring benzo withdrawals. I can absolutely confirm that these ratings are accurate.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

I was Bart's age when the show came out. I'm now older than Homer

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[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

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].
[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 3 days ago

Can't tell if they're mouthbreathing because they're dumb, or because of COVID.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] randomdeadguy@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 days ago (25 children)

Everyone just ignoring the vaccine scepticism eh?

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

with ~~anti vaccinators~~

with any-vaxxers.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Was there a major staff change for season 9? That's when it appears to have markedly declined.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 50 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 21 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] homes@piefed.world 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

S6e3 was a clip show, s9e11 was a musical clip show.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Those are actually not too bad Rotten tomato scores. Anything below a 6 is when things can get bad.

[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Aren't we up to season 37 now? Old chart?

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