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The decline of the Simpsons 📉 (jlai.lu)

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[–] sanguinepar 50 points 6 months ago (4 children)

For anyone wondering the top rated episodes here, all at 9.2 are:

S5E2 Cape Feare
S6E6 Treehouse of Horror V
S6E25 Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One
S8E2 You Only Move Twice

And just as I was finishing that, I noticed that one episode has a 9.3, d'oh!

S8E23 Homer's Enemy

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Love how even IRL people forget about Frank Grimes. good ol Grimey

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Change the channel Marge!

[–] MissJinx 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just want to add that nobody is talking about the decline of tv itself. Its not only the simpsons but the whole media.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Exactly. This needs to be baselined with aggregate ratings for TV or at least the genre.

[–] alyth 2 points 6 months ago

I watched the Simpsons as a kid. Never thought much about it, but Homer's Enemy is the one episode that resurfaced in my mind as an adult decades later.

[–] Mango 2 points 6 months ago

I went into ye olde Plex server to see what 8-23 is about and immediately went "yep. That tracks."