I like when Homer asked Nelson/Yes guy why he talked the way did, and was told “I had a SEEEEIZURE!”
Probably The Blue-Haired Lawyer. I found his voice annoying.
I think there are a lot of complaints about almost all the characters because the whole show is just very tired. I haven’t watched it in a long while, and this thread prompted me to watch the first few episodes of Season 33. They were really lame, even Treehouse of Horror.
Bambi’s dad catches the hunter, “thank goodness you’re a herbivore” - “today we’ll call you Herb”.
A tree comes alive like an Ent and animates a bunch of other trees who killing all the mean humans, then a plant wants to be animated too - “but you’re not a tree”, “no, but I identify as a tree, I’m a transplant”.
Seriously?
Homer.
He’s so goddamned stupid it’s no longer funny.
My biggest problem with Homer is his stupidity is played up when it fits the storyline (which is pretty much all the time after season 7 or 8) but he didn’t used to be. In the first few seasons he would do stupid things every now and again but wasn’t the bumbling moron he became later. He could play the piano, for instance, and apparently knew how to write musical notation. In the episode where he accidentally is given a vocabulary-building subliminal message tape instead of a weight-loss tape, his vocabulary increases dramatically:
Marge: “Homer, has the weight loss tape reduced your appetite?
Homer: “Lamentably, no. My gastronomic rapacity knows no satiety.”
And later: “Machiavellian countenance – [opening the fridge and seeing a six-pack] oooh! A sextet of ale!”
And more later: “Here in the boudoir the gourmand metamorphosizes into… the voluptuary!”
That right there is not a moron. But later he is one, just to make it “funny.” The show completely changed his character. I read once – and of course cannot remember where – that the show’s first 5 seasons or so focused on Bart, but the show’s writers realized that at the rate they were going Bart would likely end up in juvie or having CPS called on Marge and Homer so they shifted the series to focus more on Homer and basically turned him into a walking punchline. I personally preferred the early versions of Homer.
A number of shows have done this. I’m not a big TV watcher so when it happens, like when they changed several characters in Northern Exposure, it pretty much ruins the show for me. Which is why I think I gave up on The Simpsons around season 12 or 13.
Nitpick: a STROOOOOKE!
I mean, the Simpsons made fun of this as early as season 7. It’s been a running … observation.:
Far too many.
They Homerfied Adrian Monk in later seasons. Oh sure, he could still solve murders, but he couldn’t use a phone, or a remote control, or smile, all of which he could do in the beginning.
Lisa - way too much of a predictable sensibility touchstone. Which is her role, I spose, but yawn.
Homer got Flandered.
e-YESSSSSSSS! Thank you.
I was once a big enough Simpsons fan, maybe for the first dozen seasons, that I bought the books that discuss every episode, character, funny lines and stories etc. There must be five hundred or more characters, many only used in one episode. A lot of these were pretty clever.
I can’t speak to recent seasons. But I also can’t think of many characters I much dislike.