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SIMPSONS FINALE!!! ITS FINALLY OVER!!!

26-05-2004, 08:47
or is it? i dunno, cuz i havent seen the simpsons for 9 months. no simpsons in japan, u know how it is...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/arts/television/23LEVI.html

HE episode of "The Simpsons" that will be shown tonight at 8, the finale of the Fox hit's 15th season, includes pointed social satire, Capraesque small-town sentiment, broad physical humor and sly self-referential jokes. What it doesn't have, in a time when sitcoms like "Friends" and "Frasier" featured plot arcs that played out over the course of a year, is any reference to the fact that it's the last show of the season.

In "The Simpsons," everything is neatly tied up at the end of an episode. Whatever happens that week, whether Homer buys a professional baseball team, starts an Internet business or goes to Alcatraz with his family on charges of treason — and he has done all of these — is resolved in 22 minutes and conveniently forgotten by the next week. Bart is forever in fourth grade, and Maggie, the baby, will never talk. Whenever tonight's episode is seen in syndication, it will be difficult to tell that it's a season finale — or even what season it's from.

PS- i dont really know what i copy and pasted, i just put the first 2 or 3 paragraphs. I LOVE THE SIMPSONS!!
26-05-2004, 08:49
It wouldnt be difficult to tell what season its from. Its never difficult with the simpsons.
IIRRAAQQII
26-05-2004, 08:51
I got tired of the Simpsons since they never grow older!
26-05-2004, 08:52
the simpsons is timeless.
Cannot think of a name
26-05-2004, 09:09
Man, I wish people would check to make sure that there links don't require a subscription...

The Simpsons is not over, the idea behind it (and most cartoons, with the exception of For Better or Worse the comic strip) is that it is frozen in time, it's part of what makes it work.

Everyone wants to be the one to stick the fork in things (Rock is dead, the Simpsons isn't funny anymore, this bands first album was good-but when you started listening to them....)

I'm sure there is some aspect of game theory that explains this, being the first on the cynical trigger as a way of establishing cool or something. I'm no game theorist...

I still watch the Simpsons like some people go to church. That and Adult Swim and Daily Show. (I've been a John Stewart fan since he had a show on MTV)