Is The Simpsons FINALLY Good Again? 

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Something I’ve noticed with a lot of legacy franchises (Godzilla, SpongeBob, Call of Duty, etc.) is they start of great, become bad for awhile, then new blood comes in and it becomes a mixed bag.

The question we’ve all been wondering.. Will Mark give us a definitive answer?

I think American Dad deserves some kind of individual video from you, especially in how it's been able to evolve and stay pretty damn good this many seasons in.

Never really watched the Simpsons in constant tandem but there was something about the number of episodes I liked from season 33 that has not only kept me more invested in keeping up with the modern era, but checking out some of the past favourites and ones I've missed. Making me feel like this is the biggest time I've been a Simpsons fan since I was a kid.

The episode about lisa and the singer only ended that way because its a parody of Morrissey, its unfortunate though instead of parodying a existing celebrity, they could of made one up giving more opportunity in the story, instead of relying on pre existing celebrities to tell the story

The Simpsons doing a defund the police episode for a season opener using a crossing guard setup is pretty great in my opinion.

Yay, LS Mark Simpsons follow-up vid! 😀 Found myself nodding along to all the episodes that you didn't care for. They really need to stop doing Cletus spotlight episodes, lol

17:20 After Disney bought the Simpsons, they begun using more American animators for some of the scenes in the newest seasons which is why some shots look much better than others. The Itchy and Scratchy short from Season 34 being one of the biggest examples

American Dad is personally one of the only Seth mcfarlane shows that has stayed good and stood the test of time. You should totally watch it!

I reccomend doing a bob's burger ranking next, it hasn't really gotten worse over its 14 seasons, one of its latest episodes are the highest rated on imdb

It's surreal seeing Morrissey referred just as "A british singer"

I will say that the reason why there seems to be a shift in Season 33 is because in the first time since Season 13 we got a new showrunner thru Matt Selman He has been on the show for a while and is even credited a few times between Season 21-32 but they where always usually 1 or 2 episodes per season (in my opinion the episodes he showrunned where usually the highlight) but from 33 to now he is now a main showrunner, with Al Jean taking a step back and sometimes showrunning 1 or 2 episodes now I really hope that as the show goes on we go back to how the show would change showrunners every few seasons. Matt G, James L, and Sam Simon did Seasons 1 and 2, Al Jean and Mike R did Seasons 3 and 4, David Mirkin did 5 and 6, Bill O and Josh W did 7 and 8, Mike Scully did 9 thru 12, and Al Jean did 13 till 32 It helps the show from feeling stagnate and you can definitely see the show starting to do more once we properly got a new showrunner at the helm

The show i keep forgetting is still on the air until something like this reminds me it still exists

Bob’s Burgers has almost taken the Simpson’s place in my heart now. The Simpsons may not be at its worst anymore but I still don’t care to watch it much anymore because it only reminds me of how fantastic it used to be. Bob’s Burgers is my favorite adult cartoon on the air right now and it’s been great now for longer than the Simpsons was.

If there's anything I'd love to see you do a ranking video on, it would be the Adventure Time Series and it's spinoffs. I say that because Adventure time has gone through multiple massive tonal shifts over the years and it's worldbuilding and characters are so strong that the showrunners are still producing very good quality spinoffs even to this day (the "Fionna and Cake" series was incredible!).

rank all cocomelion episodes

I’d be interested in seeing them go back and remake bad episodes I had two ideas * Miracle on Evergreen Terrace- The people of Springfield just dump their unwanted presents onto the Simpsons who find enjoyment in them. Also since the people of Springfield wanted an excuse to get rid of the gifts they don’t want, they forgive the Simpsons (Mainly Bart) for the whole lie * At Long Last Leave - Many of the Simpsons friends are against the family being banished, not just out of loyalty but because it’s just going to be undone eventually. A commentary on the “Status Quo is God” trope. The Simpsons do go to the Outlands but only out of their own volition.

This is something that I like to see. The Simpsons has a soft spot in my heart, and also the last season for Family Guy was their best season within the last 10 years, another show that has a soft spot in my heart. I love both shows so much, so glad to see that they still have it!❤👍

"The Simpsons is good again" is something I never expected to hear from people online. I'm glad they're turning things around. As for a new ranking video, I'd love to see you cover Aqua Teen Hunger Force!

I remember watching your simpsons ranking video when I was only nine. It inspired me to write my own stories a pilot I made was accepted in Cartoon network and now I am 36 with two children and a mansion in Pennsylvania.

The best part is season 35 aired its second episode yesterday and it's genuinely really well done and probably one of the better episodes in ages.

…I never stopped enjoying the Simpsons. It’s my deepest secret but this is a good place to share it I think.

The Simpsons have been getting a lot better than what people gave it credit for. I like to think it's thanks to more of the writers becoming attached to the show, instead of writing it off as another resume piece, but also that the showrunners are taking chances and getting great results! From A Serious Ned, Pixelated and Afraid, last years The Treehouse of Horror with Death Note, and Krusty the Clown as IT, they have been really smashing it out of park with some great episodes! Sure there's a few DUDS here and there, but overall the experience has been wonderful! Especially for his longtime fans of the series! Clause said it best in American Dad, season 16, " The Simpsons are getting good now!"❤

I think them occasionally adding a real Halloween episode is a good move since they haven't really been able to explore it much because of THoH. But making a serious episode about the subject or just putting more time into a parody isn't that bad of an idea. I still remember that one episode "Halloween of Horror" (Season 27 Episode 4) being pretty good and a change of pace from whatever else they were putting out at the time.

I'd love to see Mark make a video ranking every Adventure Time episode.

It feels so wild that the Simpson have had 3 more seasons since, it feels WAY too fast

Thank you for showing appreication towards modern simpsons! I definitely think the latest seasons have been a step in the right direction to the point where I actually enjoy watching the show again. This 'Modern Simpsons is bad' stigma needs to die, and videos like this help prevent it

I said it once before but it’s so bizarre how Bart was once characterized as a rebel by listening to music that Homer now gets nostalgic for

Well if you're looking for suggestions for ranking videos, Futurama would be amazing, Phineas and Ferb and Gravity Falls would make a nice short one where most of it is actually pure gold

Bart:Well its the better Modern Era of the show in years,Man. Homer:It's the better Modern Era of the show so far,boy.

I fucking swear that better not be a prediction of fnaf having a movie made by jj, I would be as pissed as homer

Regarding the floating timeline: Wasn't there a joke relatively recently when Homer hears a date in the late '70s or early '80s and briefly reminisces that that was when he was in his 20s "... or, _two!"_ ?

I have watched Futurama for around 1.5 times and I feel like it would be great for you to rank all the episodes, I understand if you don’t want to as it must be hell on earth to do this like 4 times but still.

I would personally love to see you rank the powerpuff girls at some point Mark since there is the original run and the reboot and both are very different levels of quality. But personally I would love to see you review every dreamworks movie next, its only an evolution from your Disney ranking a couple years back.

I'm so glad the series is back to being solid. Not amazing, but decent entertainment with some good laughs and a bit of heart. After how long the series was in the doldrums, getting back to pretty consistent 7/10 episodes is a hell of a result imo

I can't believe the original Simpsons video will be 10 years old in just a couple weeks

he actually continued the ranking video, what a madman

I’d really be interested in seeing a ranking video for American dad! I think it has its fair shares of low points but has some really good stuff for the majority of its run imo

I think you can just tell everyone is finally having *fun* with the episodes again and it just really makes everything better! I think the one problem I still have is that the simplicity that I've always appreciated in modern Simpsons isn't really there in a lot of the episodes. I think it would be nice to start mixing in some slower-paced episodes with the more zany "what if"/experimental episodes. More of stuff like Lisa's Belly or Bartless. But I'm genuinely interested to see where the show goes.

Still amazes me that the Simpsons rank video was 6 years ago, time flies when you continuously torture yourself with watchings whole series and ranking them

I think it would be cool to do a show that has more progression as it goes on. Bojack Horseman might be cool to see

I think they addressed ages ago that Sarah Wiggum was a criminal, Chief Wiggum said in one episode they met when he arrested her and then loved each other ever since so basically building upon a one off line And i think they made Maya Moes wife because of the criticism the episode got with Maya having to leave Moe because of obvious having to rewind what happened for the next episode, so they bought her back to make the fans happy

The voting thingy doesn’t work >:(

Marks been doing a lot of uploads as of late and I'm all for it

While I haven't watched every episode this season (maybe skipped 1 or 2 so far), I think this current season is the best one we've had in some time. Hoping that the trend keeps up 🤞

I think the one show you should see is: the anime One Piec-*gets bashed with a bat* But seriously, some shows I would recommend are American Dad, Bob's Burgers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Ed, Edd n Eddy, or The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, esp. since all of these are shorter in episode length

(15:30) I think this could work with her being perfect and surrounded by terrible people. She could try for a while to make things better and then it all slowly falls apart and she begins to become kind of jaded and lose her perfect edge, while never becoming outright hopeless or malicious.

Waiting on LS mark to do a ranking video for every scooby doo episode shall be a dream come true

You should rank every episode of American Dad. It's one of two long running shows that have avoided season rot in my opinion. The other one is Robot Chicken, in case you were wondering.

25:00 If the colors were warmer It would be spot on. I'm genuinely impressed like did they actually cell this or just switch up the style?

The Ms. Wigum and Cletus episodes are the big problem I have with the Simpsons as a whole. The Simpsons is at its best when it’s exploring little stories of white trash in American suburbia. Nobody in town should have a wild, cool backstory. Moe should never be in a quartet. Homer should never have gone to space. Life is hell and everyone is a disappointment- that’s the joke. “22 short stories in Springfield” is great because it focuses on the small lives of dumb people. I think king of the hill kinda perfected this concept better, but it’s a shame because Springfield and its inhabitants have a unique feel I’d like to see more of. When Simpsons is small, it’s at its best (imo).

It seems you really like it so I’d be cool if you did a Futurama ranking

A great day when this man uploads

11:11 you gotta admit making fun of morrissey like this is pretty fuckin clever

Honestly i think the main drawback of new Simpsons is how they're not really philosophical anymore. There no bittersweet endings or moments where characters don't need words to convey feelings. Everything is spelled out and nothing is left for interpretation.

I would love to see you talk about Ed, Edd, & Eddy since that was my favorite show as a kid and its very short compared to what you usually rank. Another one I'd like to see is King of the Hill. Someone also mentioned the topic of Dreamworks movies and i think thatd be very fun to watch.

Mark not getting that Lisa episode is a Morrisey reference is funny to me

Respect the coming back to this. Just going to say my piece: For the DECADES people have been saying the show has been dead since insert season here, the fact that the show came back with enough to make people reappraise it and acknowledge improvement kind of speaks to the quality of the overall show and how a lot of people's critical analysis was really shortsighted. A dead show wouldn't come back; that's the whole point of being dead. The Simpsons didn't die and it won't anytime soon.

I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve always kind of liked modern Simpsons. Sure it may of “fallen off” compared to the old days but I do see the point that Mark is making

Ironically, a lot of Simpsons episodes are kind of doing what AI art does; smoothly paste together chunks of pre existing art and media to make something commercial but hollow. And like, parody/references arent inherently bad at all, just like with other art forms. Referencing can be how you build strong foundations for your art pieces, and they have done and still sometimes do that. But the majority has just become commercial and pieced together from pre existing stuff. The critique is sounding a lot like how we talk about AI, except people still have to work on this. It's a very uncommercial choice that will sacrifice a bunch of money and ratings, but I think the series actually does need to end for the lagacy while it's on a bit of a high note. Simpsons is irreplaceable, but this talented stuff could be working on something really fresh instead that doesnt have to have us scraping down the tapped out walls looking for anything usable.

I originally put off watching new Simpsons for some time, until I checked some of Season 33 out and was pleasantly surprised. I don’t think that the new episodes hit as hard as the classics in the humour department (there’s some good jokes with the occasional Rodrigo from Instagram), but the storytelling of these latest seasons have really hooked me in. I just watched A Mid-Childhood’s Night Dream and was sucked into the story the whole way through. A Serious Flanders is also phenomenal. I’ve not really seen any of Season 34 outside of Not It due to Disney+ not having it on in the UK yet (I watched AMCND on the fire stick if you’re wondering), but I’ll be waiting. The Vlog episode initially rubbed me the wrong way, but you’ve actually made me pretty hopeful for it. I think that the only thing that really bugs me is how much the intro has been shortened. You’d be surprised to even see a couch gag nowadays. I get that TV airings need to save time, but why can’t Disney+ have the whole shebang? Even if it’s hard to think of more couch gags, why not reuse some like in the classic episodes? It’s a nitpick, sure, but they were always a part of the show’s identity. EDIT: I just watched a good chunk of Season 34 over the past few days and it was really damn good. I feel that they really stepped up their game this season, with more jokes that land, great animation and some really unique stories. And yes, that includes the Vlog episode, which is actually one of my favourites for how unique it was; I don’t even think it’ll become all that dated in the future since this kind of stuff is quite common on RU-vid. The Boblox one was also pretty damn good. I also loved The Very Hungry Caterpillars for how it chose to do their own thing with the concept of a lockdown episode rather than just making it a straightforward COVID story. My favourites were easily Lisa the Boy Scout and Treehouse of Horror XXXIII for how creative they were. It feels like the show has broke out of its years of stagnation and is doing fresh stories yet again. Even the worst of the batch of episodes I saw, that being Clown V. Board of Education, was still okay, if a little underwhelming.

The fact that they did something on Ring, but didnt tackle the actual book. Like the book is insane as hell. But its probably one of the funnest books ive ever read. Definately reccomend reading it. (Author is Koji Suzuki btw)

If you've watched it, I'd recommend a ranking of Phineas and Ferb episodes. I think most of them are fun, with maybe only a few duds here and there.

I think it would be hilarious to see Mark go through all of MLP Friendship is Magic

I got a idea for a Ranking video, maybe you and "Splash Dash" could work together and watch the old Sonic cartoons/special episodes from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog to Sonic Prime and rank them. It helps that most of Sonic shows that are out there don't take to long to watch, so you could either do one big video up to Sonic Prime or multi-parter series to take breaks after each one show, so by the time season 3 of Sonic Prime comes out everyone is coach up with Sonic's Old animated adventures and remember the great stories from StAM, The Metarex saga of Sonic X and the funny humour of Sonic Boom cartoon.

Man I can't believe we got Homer to do a "Ghostbusters 2016 didn't ruin my childhood, fucking polio did."

Pixilated and Afraid is the closest Homer and Marge have had if a good relationship for years. There was am episode where Homer plain framed her for DUI. Pixilated and Afraid is great basically

Honestly, if you want ranking suggestions, Ranking Bojack Horseman or TAWOG would be amaizing.

The fact one of the Simpsons writers used Lisa Simpson to work through their disappointment about latter-day Morrissey is honestly pretty funny.

Not being completely terrible doesnt mean its suddenly anywhere near the bar it set for itself.

Nice, I was hoping for this. Please do a Regular Show or Gumball ranking next, neither of them would be too bad compared to what you went through previously. 29:31 lol Edit: Didn't age that well cuz you rushed the former!

The Bartless titlecard scene of the video was comedy gold.😂

I love your ranking videos, So I was wondering if you can do another one?

Ranking video on Sonic Boom would be neat, if that's not in the works already..

Let's say the ratio good/bad episodes is improving a lot. And the highs are big highs imo. Bad episodes are plain, but rarely catastrophic.

every episode of sonic boom ranked would be sick its a shorter series so it wouldnt make you lose your mind haha but if you save those videos for like, LOOONG running series that makes a lot of sense

Idk if adventure time or heavily serialized shows in general are something you'd be interested in making ranking videos about but if so i think it could be pretty neat

haven't seen you talk about this series at all (or if you have, I've missed it completely), but I'd wonder how you'd feel about gumball after ranking every episode! (There is a 7th season currently in production, as well as a movie that's stuck in development purgatory atm, so maybe it'd be best to hold until those either come out...or don't)

I'd love to see a ranking of every Regular Show episode!

The show has been going on for 30 years. It will probably outlive us all.

I'm glad that you pointed out the soundtrack of classical seasons. One of the most memorable was "the land of chocolate"

PLEASEEEE DO A RANKING OF ALL CHOWDER OR REGULAR SHOW EPISODES! OHH MY LORD I WOULD LOOOVE THAT

Never thought I'd see the day where someone would upload something like this. The Simpsons has been going on a downward spiral for a long time now so it's nice to see the show finally do something that gives the viewers hope.

An invader zim ranking video wouldn't be too hard to make because it's only 2 seasons long

6:41 Anyone else spot the minor animation error where Wiggams just suddenly appears on screen? Well not sure if it's an error or intentional, but it looks kinda weird.

Try doing a ranking video on a show you really havent been into before Id recommend adventure time since is the hot thing right now and have never seen you talk about it

The real question is, when is Mark going to collaborate with Splash Dash to review every episode of every Sonic Show.

Would love to see a ranking Steven uninverse video!

Love this video. Also after watching your video it I got me to check out modern Simpsons. Thank you! 😊 I really enjoyed the newest ones!

Try watching every Bob's burgers episode. Most are really good, it's rarely terrible but when it is.. it's pretty bad. But for the most part it's a pretty funny show with a family that actually loves eachother. Which is so rare in animation nowadays tbh

I was shocked you didn’t mention the Season 34 finale/750th episode of the show. Aside from the intro where they literally fit 750 characters into it, it was a real mixed bag with an okay idea, but weak execution. It’s where Homer gets in a car wreck and is flying out in slow-motion, and he rethinks his life and what Marge did, and it could have been a good character study, but it just missed the mark in my opinion.

Well it's nowhere near it's 1-10 prime but it's also not hitting the lows of the Jerkass Homer era either. I guess it really depends on the episode. Like we've gotten genuinely good episodes like Fatzcarraldo or The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby. Yet we've had real stinkers like Mother's and Other Strangers "One of my least favorites" or that current one about the crossing guards.

Scooby do would be great for the next ranking video. All of the series’s that have released since it’s premiere in 1969, the Scoobynatural episode of supernatural, the specials released outside of main series’s, the Scooby so project, all of the movies, live action and animated, and the Lego specials/movies

5:43 According to The Simpsons wiki and other sources probably, Sarah Wiggum is voiced by Megan Mullally instead of Pamela Hayden in some of the newer Simpsons episodes since Season 32. Why? I don't know.

20:58-21:12 that’s literally modern day family guy (just look at Season 17 to 19)

I'll die on my hill of "the caterpillar lockdown episode was great". Yes, its a lockdown joke years too late, but it was fun and format breaking and I loved Lisa's struggles with doomscrolling and her comment about sarcastic twitter making memes and conspiracy twitter taking them as reality.

I'd like to see you rank the 80's/90's Garfield TV specials, even though there's only 12 of them, I think it would be a very interesting and fun video.

For a ranking for your next spring/summer one (since you tend to switch between Adult and Kid) how about Adventure Time? Since it's (mostly) over, and it has a massive resurgence this year with Fionna and Cake (also would be cool, since you've done mostly Nick shows)

I would absolutely love to see a ranking for King Of the Hill.