So what was the deal with Peter when he lost his job at the toy factory, joined the Renaissance fair and became a black knight, didn't get his job back at the end of the episode, and became a fisherman? A series of random events that just happen to tell a story?

This is true, and this is why I don't watch it. I was over at a family members hows and we watched all of the fox animation shows. I usually don't watch Family Guy or Bob's Burgers. But also more importantly I don't have cable and cannot watch them when they are new away ways.

The thing is TV has never been thought about and written about as much as it has been in the last 10 years. The TV landscape has changed so much since the internet, mostly due to the internet.

I remember in the commentaries they talk about the origins of the word yoink and they say that it came from an Archie comic.

I don't remember saying that…

Cletus: Paw, I cut my finger on the screen door again.

Yes it is, but there is still good in those seasons and we should talk about both the ups and downs.

Around season 12 was when I started watching, but this was also around the time the reruns were being played non-stop. I think I could watch around 4 episodes every day of the week.

The Joy of Sect is a great episode. I get that the show was quite far away from where it started when that episode aired, but it has just jokes flying from every inch of the screen.

Season 7 is easily my favorite. The established greatness of the series meeting form challenging ideas is amazing. I believe we start getting all these shows that challenge the statuesque because they thought they were going to get cancelled by the 8th season.

Are they even out of development? Most people don't have them and it seems like they are jumping the gun to preserve the jokes life. It'd be funny if google glasses turned out to like the segway and no one bought them. That really wouldn't help the google glasses spoof.

What you don't understand is that this show never used to be about being offensive. It was an actual show with character development and plot, and not just a vehicle for offensive jokes and poorly done references to things.

Those are really more shock value "jokes". These didn't even go on and explain why society find these things in such bad taste. They just exist to offend, and when it doesn't it just appears lazy.

God what a terrible name for a episode too. They didn't even put work into find a related reference or a pun.

No it doesn't.

Was there any actual jokes in this episode? I mean a set up, punch line, reaction, and insight to a perticular topic? There was random shit like usual, and hurray no racist jokes (at least none that I can remember, that's not saying much), and the typical "remember this? that's a joke!" "jokes", but nothing even close…

Not sure why some people are claiming this to be the best episode of the season. It was okay at best, but it feel into playing to safe, again. No insight, no opinions, popculture references that are going to be outdated tomorrow, an A and B story only because they're supposed to have one, and the worst sin of all was…

I personally want to discuss people's oppinion's beyond the usual "Season eight is the stopping point for me" and actually get into why people don't like these episodes.

It's a little strange seeing every say that this episode "too real" and also have people claiming that the simpsons has gotten too far away from their family focused show…

Yea, "Marge Be Not Proud" is easily the best christmas episode because it doesn't focus on Christmas, but it uses the expectations of those episodes and focuses on the Bart/Marge troubled relation.