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beamjockey) wrote2015-05-14 08:15 pm
beamjockey) wrote2015-05-14 08:15 pm
"Quality, Shmality! If I Had a TV Show..."
News that the many-voiced Harry Shearer is leaving the cast of The Simpsons, as the series heads into its 27th season, triggered a discussion around my office.
One colleague wondered why they're still making the show. My position is that they are true to the philosophy Bart expressed back in Season Two, when The Simpsons aired a special tag in tribute to the then-voluntarily-ending Bill Cosby Show (its competitor for ratings on Thursday nights).
My pal had never seen this clip. To Youtube!
And so we see that the producers of The Simpsons are perfectly consistent with the spirit of this 1992 proclamation. This is why I am unsurprised that they continue.
(For the record, I still tune in, because while it's no longer firing on all cylinders, the show can still make me laugh sometimes. But then, given the ravages of time, I have arrived in the demographic slice that is reputed, like Grandpa Simpson, to enjoy Matlock, so why should anybody listen to my opinions about television any more?)
One colleague wondered why they're still making the show. My position is that they are true to the philosophy Bart expressed back in Season Two, when The Simpsons aired a special tag in tribute to the then-voluntarily-ending Bill Cosby Show (its competitor for ratings on Thursday nights).
My pal had never seen this clip. To Youtube!
And so we see that the producers of The Simpsons are perfectly consistent with the spirit of this 1992 proclamation. This is why I am unsurprised that they continue.
(For the record, I still tune in, because while it's no longer firing on all cylinders, the show can still make me laugh sometimes. But then, given the ravages of time, I have arrived in the demographic slice that is reputed, like Grandpa Simpson, to enjoy Matlock, so why should anybody listen to my opinions about television any more?)