# Any sign of the simpsons finishing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064 "2005-12-10T21:24:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064/21 "2005-12-11T23:45:55Z")
> [@Banquet Bear](#): > > …you may laugh at those shows, but they have no _heart._ At the end of the day, you can care about Homer, you can worry about Bart, you cry for Lisa and you laugh with Marge. Family Guy, American Dad and South Park are funny, but once the programmes over you don’t give a damm about the characters, which is why The Simpsons gets the “love”! That’s how I feel about it. I do think that Arrested Development is funnier than the Simpsons these days. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064/22 "2005-12-12T00:28:00Z")
> [@Banquet Bear](#): > > …you may laugh at those shows, but they have no _heart._ At the end of the day, you can care about Homer, you can worry about Bart, you cry for Lisa and you laugh with Marge. Family Guy, American Dad and South Park are funny, but once the programmes over you don’t give a damm about the characters, which is why The Simpsons gets the “love”! The way I see it it used to be true, but the Simpsons have been on so long that they’ve pretty much had to drop all that in an attempt to stay funny. I’m certainly not the only one who thinks that they’ve turned Homer from a loveable buffoon who usually redeems himself in the end to a psychopathic moron. And those shows were just ones off the top of my head. AFAI’m concerned Futurama had way more heart than the Simpsons, if only because there was a continuity and a changing timeline that the Simpsons refuses to have. My point there was that the Simpsons is nowhere near the best thing on TV anymore, and pretty much everyone can find another show they like more these days. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064/23 "2005-12-12T01:22:02Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Bottom line: I’d like to see The Simpsons live indefinitely, but only if it can stay true to itself and not, for instance, become a pale imitation of those other shows or of its own earlier self. Pale imitation or not, they took a pretty good shot at FG and American Dad just now. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064/24 "2005-12-12T02:35:59Z")
I know it is blasphemy but it is time for the Simpson to let the kids age a little. They are running low on new material and might as well try it. It’s a cartoon, they can always change their minds a go back to the current age. Ironically it will be the first time the Simpsons would have to say, “South Park did it first” Jim ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064/25 "2005-12-12T02:41:16Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > I know it is blasphemy but it is time for the Simpson to let the kids age a little. But then they would have to introduce a cute new child character! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064/26 "2005-12-12T02:46:45Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > But then they would have to introduce a cute new child character! Well without any aging we now have a two year old? son of Sideshow Bob and the Octuplets have aged a little. It is worth a shot. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064/27 "2005-12-12T02:57:23Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Well without any aging we now have a two year old? son of Sideshow Bob and the Octuplets have aged a little. It is worth a shot. It’d be pointless and seem desperate. If it worked for eight years, there’s no reason it can’t work for 18 - the kids have already had three or four birthdays each and graduated their respective grades a couple of times. If anything, it would be confusing if they did it now. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064/28 "2005-12-12T03:09:05Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Bottom line: I’d like to see The Simpsons live indefinitely, but only if it can stay true to itself and not, for instance, become a pale imitation of those other shows or of its own earlier self. We’ve already passed that point. Homer has changed for the worst, by far. He used to be funny because he was dumb, yet you could still identify with him. Now he’s just a clown…an unfunny clown. In many of the recent episodes, it seems as though Homer is literally just dancing around saying “Hey! Look at me! I’m crazy! Look at all the wacky antics I’m getting myself into!” The other characters haven’t fared very well either, IMHO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sign-of-the-simpsons-finishing/335064.md?page=1)