# The Simpsons have sucked for the last ten years and here's why!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 13, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-have-sucked-for-the-last-ten-years-and-heres-why/411620 "2007-07-13T08:01:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-have-sucked-for-the-last-ten-years-and-heres-why/411620/161 "2007-07-18T18:51:44Z")

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[QUOTE=lowbrass]  
Those old Warner Bros. cartoons (the good ones with Bugs Bunny et al, not the crappy “cutesy” ones) are loaded with subtle cultural references from the time. The humor is often _very_ adult.  
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I agree, but I felt like it was the adult humor was additional to the children appeal, not the other way around. However, you may be completely right. I was younger when I first saw the Warner Brothers cartoons (and I am talking Bugs Bunny and the like), just like **Justin Bailey** when he first watched the Simpsons, so I may simply have thought they were meant primarily for kids, since they were on during normal expected children’s cartoon hours.

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-have-sucked-for-the-last-ten-years-and-heres-why/411620/162 "2007-07-18T19:45:46Z")

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I still like the Simpsons. I never stopped liking the Simpsons. Every episode that is linked to as being a bad episode I like. The Spider-pig bit in the trailer is fucking hilarious.

Feel free to start hating me now.

That is all.

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**Author:** ![lowbrass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dc4da7/32.png) [@lowbrass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lowbrass)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-have-sucked-for-the-last-ten-years-and-heres-why/411620/163 "2007-07-18T19:57:16Z")

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I bet you like the M_A_S\*H episodes with B.J. better than the ones with Trapper, too. :mad:

(And you like DS9 better than TOS)

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