Oh, I agree completely. For me personally, the limits just seem to start sooner than they do for you—-like the talking cow from the Tomacco episode. I'm not morally objecting to the cartoonishness—-it's that, for me, it's not funny, and that the ways in which it's not funny seem to dovetail with the showrunners…

For me, the decline is visible in that the jokes are becoming more cartoonish, the plots more outlandish, the pacing more erratic. Whereas they were able to get into and out of Bart washing himself with a rag on a stick in a few seconds, Lisa's similar sequence drags on. Describing the gas station lunch as "the kind…

Relative to the Golden Age, S9 shows signs of wear…but relative to modern Simpsons, it's Judge freaking Reinhold. I wouldn't be annoyed by the reviews talking about how weak S9 is if it weren't for the concurrent review saying that last week's episode was an A-.

I like it for what it is, but can completely see how someone could hate it. For example, I always laugh at the "it's my first day!" bit, but then when I step back and think about it…Homer says, "Quack quack quack!" and the anthropomorphic penguins understand that that means it's his first day? That is some…

I feel like this trend started when they named him "Brick".

Homer Simpson, smiling politely!

This is the first I've heard of it. Also, I'm too busy fucking pigs.

I'm not sure where you found the "little more".

Wait, is that a thing? I thought Milhouse was shit on because he was Milhouse.

But…the combination of the two was the joke, that Bill Gates would destroy a "business" that wasn't actually doing anything at all. Again, probably a had-to-be-there reference.

"Save me, Jebus!" is one of my absolute least favourite Simpsons moments ever. Thank you for articulating why.

I've always heard "higher".

I blame "dingo" being a funny word. But, yeah, its pretty dark.

Anyone can keep up with dated pop culture references. It takes a creative genius to add an "m" in front of them.

Illegitimi non carborundum, Perky D!

My hometown Toronto Blue Jays have made the playoffs for the first time in a generation. Of course, the baseball fan in me is rooting for eccentric knuckleballer R.A. Dickey to give the best performance of his life. But the Simpsons fan in me wants him to screw up horribly so that whenever he's mentioned, I can…

I thought the ending of "Das Bus" was bad until I saw the ending of "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes". The worst part about "The Simpsons" still being on is that by Season 40, it's going to be such an awful show that Season 18 is going to look like part of the golden age.

So, wait. He hates that the episode doesn't spend more time depicting Bart recovering from drowning. But then he gives credit for…the closure given by the ending?

I still can't figure out if I love or hate that Fred Thompson "character". It felt to me like a self-aware dig at how the show (and a lot of procedurals, really) always try to stay topical by having the case of the week be about Zark Muckerberg getting sued over Bacefook. If "Fred Thompson playing a character who was…

I assume it was Eli, not the show, making the mistake.