And The AV Club dutifully reports it via videos no one watches and slideshows everyone hates.

Guys. This is my fault.

Of all the “hot takes from an interview somewhere else” articles, why does this one have to be a fucking video? I don’t want to watch a fucking video.

Not to get too blasphemous, but after Disney+ dropped I did my first in-order rewatch in ages, and I’d even say you can see the DNA of the show’s decline as early as season 7. For some reason I’d describe the increasing use of Hank Azaria’s regular voice as the canary in the coal mine; it’s not the bad thing, but the…

Disagree.

This is top of my list. Granted, it’s hard to only pick 20, but this is at LEAST better than whatever that Halloween Horror episode is, but my curiosity means I will probably check that one out too.

Nobody expects the Dragon Age: Inquisition symbol

Susan Sarandon’s sins are many, but she had nothing to do with Donald Trump. Unless you want to blame her for Clinton getting 3 million more votes than Trump or something. (Only one Republican has won the popular vote since 1988...so maybe priorities here.)

How could the The Principal and the Pauper not make it on this list? It’s literally the episode that Matt Groening said was an insult to the viewers.

Maybe I remember that one more fondly than other people because we had just watched Return of Martin Guerre in French class, so I felt smart about getting the reference.

This show’s golden era had some of the funniest most well-crafted jokes, which had accompanying animation that were also hilarious (e.g., when Homer is trying to have “the talk” with Bart and ends up comparing women to beer, which fast forwards to Bart being bored and Homer drunk with a dozen beer cans on the table…

I think the exact moment when the show really lost it was when they killed Maude Flanders. I don’t know what season it was, but making Flanders from “the guy with the perfect life next door” to “sad sack widower” really gutted what made the character a funny archetype.

While I’m not sure I’d call it one of the worst episodes ever, one of my least liked is the one where Bart becomes a super talented jazz drummer, because it just treats Bart so shittily. Over the course of the episode, Lisa resents Bart’s sudden talent for a musical genre she claims to love, irresponsibly takes in a…

And Groening took his name off “A Star is Burns” because he hated  the idea...but jesus, compared to the stinkers in this list, it’s a classic ep.

I’m surprised The Principal and The Pauper isn’t in there because that’s probably the most infamous bad episode of the show ever. Personally, I absolutely hated the episode where Lisa’s pets kept dying on her. I don’t understand how anyone could think that a good little girl losing her cats was funny, when the same…

I think season 10 was the end. Its when the problems all started to become noticeable, but not being as bad as they were about to become. And I actually like the tamzarian episode. It was silly, in a good way. Unfortunately it was the beginning of the decline, because it started getting more absurd from there. As just…

“Oh we make fun of everyone [who’s not a rich straight white male libertarian].”

“Saddlesore Galactica” is the episode when the show lost me as a first-run viewer forever. It represents a point when the show’s production team assumed they were on the brink of cancellation, simply because a show running more than 10 years at that time was unheard of, and the old guard had left the series (whether…

There are good episodes past that one, which is why people usually say 10. But I say stop at 9. 10 is just the point where it is not consistently good. s10 is the first MASSIVE drop in quality, with emphasis on “Hi I’m...” cameos, “Jerkass Homer,” terrible trilogies, and then just really stupid storylines that have…

You can imagine their reactions to Killing Zoe, Dial M for Murder, Murder By Death, A Perfect Murder and most heinously of all, To Kill A Mockingbird.