Count me among those who used to consider The Simpsons compulsory viewing but now reserve that status for South Park after seeing too many utterly lacklustre Sipsons eps…
I know there have been a lot of great eps since the Simspons’ first nadir, but watching a show you’ve grown to dearly love and seeing only lame slapstick and pop culture references feels like being gypped in a shell game. No wait, it feels more like a mad scientist was paid by a billionaire to exhume and re-animate your favourite childhood pet into a shambling, pus-belching zombie.
It’s just too hard to weed through all the dross for the gems… perhaps somebody has compiled a spreadsheet to help? Failing that, it’s hard to imagine what would rekindle my interest in The Simspons…
I tell you what’d make it feverishly compulsive again, though - if all the writers would just go and read this Rolling Stone article. It makes normal folks boil up with impotent rage, but if you had a really loud voice like those guys, there’d be an outlet for the fury…
And I’d lap it up like manna from heaven.
Why I love South Park: brutal, vicious, steel-capped boot-shod satire.
