Sure it’s a funny episode but if they released it today people would point to it as another example of how the show is a zombie.
Again, it’s not that the show is doing worse, its that the show is doing exactly the same it always did in a TV landscape where everyone is doing some louder version of their jokes. They simply didn’t adapt. If 1994-style LoLs aren’t working for a person anymore then they’ll not find the show funny. Rick & Morty is a Simpsons pop-culture reference episode with an overlay of Sci-Fi nihilism. The only modern popular cartoon that I can think of that has departed from that formula is Adventure Time.
Mind you I don’t watch a lot of TV nowadays. I’ve heard good things about Bojack Horseman so maybe things are slowly starting to move away from the Simpson’s comedy shadow?
