Babbling

[SlitneyBoobston]

I don't even need to watch that whole supercut of all the I&S episodes to guess it was around the time when the cat and mouse duo were doing more topical material, i.e. the steroid hearings or "The King's Speech".

Now, I'm not against them doing parody.  They got great mileage out of the guest directors Tarantino and Stone, but there's a time and a place for that kind of gratuitious satire.

Really, it wasn't Poochie that caused it.  It wasn't the wildly successful movie, either (or the movie seen in "The Simpsons Movie").  Heck, the theme park was a landmark of fun and frolic.

Nay, I think it's when they started talking.  It was fine at first, but once the writers started giving June Bellamy more dialogue, it became less about the massacre of a cat and more about the mastication of a word-bat.

But still, that musical had some great songs in it.

[Chappi_The_Rabbit]

They jumped the shark when they tried to go for the "all ages" approach with the loving and sharing Itchy and Scratchy after that lawsuit with the soccermoms. The show's creator really budged and caved in, and that's not the sign of a competant staff. Hell, not even Bonestorm had to go through that much censorship and that threatened people to buy it or they would "go to hell".

[ShlickShlickShlick]

I'll grant you that the infamous lemonade episode was bad, but I would say that it jumped back and forth for a while, especially with the ill-fated Poochie episode, but it's definitely been missing more than hitting repeatedly until entertaining blood shoots forth.

[westpark]

Probably a decade or so ago when the Simpsons jumped it.

[PsychoLezUSA]

Sure, yeah, if you want to get meta about it.

[westpark]

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PsychoLezUSA wrote:
Sure, yeah, if you want to get meta about it.

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I never really got into the Simpsons or Itchy/Scratchy. I always liked Futurama better. 

The first few Simpsons were awesome. But that came out like when I was 6 or 7 or something like that. Back then it was all edgy. Now its hilariously boring.

[PsychoLezUSA]

You seem like someone who would have come to Futurama first, despite being older than me.