Please remind me never to watch tv with, go to movies with, or just be in public with most of you. Any thread mentioning the Simpsons becomes a bash fest of Comic Book Guy proportions. Then again, most of you likely look the part as it is. Not because you don't like The Simpsons. I couldn't care less if you do. But because you're those people that can't watch or do anything without some measure of criticism. You can't just be a kid and enjoy things for what they are. It's a cartoon for adults. This is a show that has rarely had a plot line last more than 1 episode. Why can't you just watch each show for it's individual brilliance (or lack there of on occasion) and simply enjoy it? As long as it's been on and as much as it can be seen in syndication, I probably wouldn't notice very much if the end were to come. That doesn't mean I don't still laugh at the show and watch the opening credits with anticipation just like I have for 2 decades.
MacFarlane's only good stuff is on American Dad, but it's evident with this new season that he's starting to get sloppy with that too.
Not gonna get into the food fight over the quality of the show, but... Am I the only one suprised that the cast was making $8 million a year each? That's like Luis Scola money. Then again, these guys are on national TV 22 times a year. Scola, being a Rocket, only gets to appear on national TV 3 or 4 times.
Broadcast television can't program for Sundays, Fox needs the ad dollars so they should probably try to make this work. This is a really stupid comment, but the Simpsons is probably about as close as Fox could come to 60 Minutes in terms of a permanent conceit that can comment on current and socially relevant topics. Those voice actors might wanna count their blessings, though; the most attractive one, Azaria, had four other TV gigs in the last 20 years: one of them was on Fox and another one he was banging the female lead.
They (rightly) axed Married With Children when each cast member was making $100k an episode and they were finishing fourth on every night they were moved to. $400k per seems fair in an era when you realistically have no other options, and all the highest rated shows of the night are on cable.
