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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Who still watches this show?!

Oh, and I should have mentioned it in my last post, but there's going to be a Lego Simpsons TV show as well.

I think everybody can agree that this will help revitalize the series and help bring it back to it's former greatness that it oh god I can't keep a straight face.

Every time this thread gets an update I check it, hoping to see that the show's finally been canceled.

It's actually kind of surprising how consistently terrible everything associated with the franchise has been for fully 14 years now. I mean, as much as the evergreens of like Batman, James Bond, or Star Wars or whatever get exhausting after a while, usually there's something good that will come along to revitalize it. The Simpsons seems to have crammed every sliver of quality imaginable into the golden years, and now they're desperately trying to make enough garbage- terrible episodes, terrible video games, terrible movie, subpar home pregancy tests- to fulfill Sturgeon's Law.

Come on, that movie was mediocre and forgettable and you know it!

Still not cancelled yet.

Guillermo del Toro's opening credit sequence for this year's Treehouse of Horror.

Wow, that's actually legitimately fun to watch. It's also a solid reminder of what an amazing stable of images Del Toro's created with a relatively small filmography.

I didn't like anything about it, unfortunately. Would it have killed them to make even one aspect of that funny instead of just grotesquely referencing a bunch of stuff?

domino harvey wrote:Would it have killed them to make even one aspect of that funny

To be fair, this applies to the last 15 years in general.

I chuckled a bit when Hitchcock threw breadcrumbs on Mrs Krabapple...

I'm not much of a Del Toro fan (haven't seen any of his since Devil's Backbone), so my favorite bit was the buried corpses of the crude-looking Ullman-era Simpsons.

Loved the Del Toro couchgag.

Matt wrote:Every time this thread gets an update I check it, hoping to see that the show's finally been canceled.

Sorry for the news, but the show has been renewed for a 26th season.

jindianajonz wrote:I chuckled a bit when Hitchcock threw breadcrumbs on Mrs Krabapple...

slyly

I laughed when Lenny poured the coffee down his throat after Carl accidentally beheads him.

Homers mutated mouths were kind of amusing, as was the zombie noshing on the brain he finds. Burns as the hand-eye monster and Smithers as a fairy work.

Three reasons the Simpsons shouldn't be canceled:
Treehouse of Horror

After the sad death of Marcia Wallace, it just dawned on me that the only way it seems the Simpsons are going to end the show is when one of the main voice actors and/or Matt Groening, dies.

I suspect Al Jean would hold more sway than Groening.

Instead of the previously-scheduled "Bart the Lover" (which they couldn't find the digital master for), Fox will be airing "The Ned-liest Catch" (or the one where Edna and Flanders fall in love, oh god, I hate myself for typing that) at 7:30 in tribute to Marcia Wallace. That's kind of like expecting steak at a restaurant, and instead getting a TV dinner that the cooks haven't even warmed up in the microwave.

A better tribute would have been the one where Bart is writing her the fake love letters, but I guess it's too old, and not in HD/widescreen, so no go.

That's "Bart the Lover."

The more interesting part of this development is that the entire show archive is expected to stream via the FX Now app. Not getting rid of my DVDs anytime soon, but that is going to be a major convenience.