# How much longer will The Simpsons last? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-longer-will-the-simpsons-last/704824 "2014-11-17T01:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**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:** [November 17, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-longer-will-the-simpsons-last/704824/15 "2014-11-17T13:39:14Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > For the record, I’m still a fan and a regular viewer. Their cultural impact has passed, but their ratio of good shows to bad still holds up quite well. > [@Stringbean](#): > > I don’t know but it’s been at least a decade since The Simpsons stopped being The Simpsons. I’m going to agree with **Tom Tildrum** and _not_ with **Stringbean**. It’s still recognizably the same show. I still try to catch every new epsode that comes on (I did so last night), and I usually enjoy them. Not as much as during the show’s “golden age,” but that’s partly because the quality isn’t as consistently high, either from week to week or within an episode, and partly because so many things have already been done and it’s lost its freshness and novelty. Balancing the latter, though, for me at least, is the familiarity and comfort of knowing that The Simpsons is still around, still putting out new episodes as they have been for pretty much my entire adult life, and as long as that remains so, the World I Knew will not have entirely disappeared. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-longer-will-the-simpsons-last/704824)._