good call R2K, listen to the handle-bar moe man!!!! i love ever episode, and enjoy the new ones, for me the humour is most definitely still there.
Don't get me wrong, I still love The Simpsons, I just don't judge episodes until I've seen them at least three times.
Fox nearly sued itself over 'Simpsons' parody: Matt Groening NEW YORK (AFP) - Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of "The Simpsons" over a parody of the channel's right-wing political stance, the creator of the hit US television show has claimed. In an interview this week with National Public Radio, Matt Groening recalled how the news channel had considered legal action, despite the fact that "The Simpsons" is broadcast on sister network, Fox Entertainment. According to Groening, Fox took exception took a Simpsons' version of the Fox News rolling news ticker which parodied the channel's anti-Democrat stance, with headlines like "Do Democrats Cause Cancer?" "Fox fought against it and said they would sue the show," Groening said. "We called their bluff because we didn't think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. So, we got away with it." Other satirical Fox news bulletins featured in the show included: "Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party... Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple..." While the lawsuit never materialized, Groening said some action was taken. "Now Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news," he said. "The Simpsons," featuring the dysfunctional family of patriarch Homer Simpson and his rowdy brood, is now in its 14th year and is expected to become the longest-running situation comedy in US history in 2005. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...9/od_afp/lifestyle_us_television_031029172820
Looks like somebody's humor-impaired. If you can't poke fun at yourself, or if you can't see why someone would, you probably lack perspective. It's good to be able to step back and laugh at yourself, or at least to allow others to... (and I'm conservative, so I don't enjoy hearing about Fox thinking no one can make fun of them or that they own the phrase "fair and balanced". It's embarrassing... not what I had hoped for from a less-liberal news source.)
The Simpsons are possibly the greatest thing about America. SILENCE! ...I will not hear another word against the boat.
I agree with R2K, the Simpson while not as good, is still better than 90% of shows out there. You keep watching cause there's always gonna be a couple of really good episodes out there that would make you regret it if you missed. It's like the first year of MJ's second comeback, you can he see it's not as good, but he's still better than 90% of the league and every now and then, he scores 40+ just like the old times.
does fox think people are really that stupid to think that people would think a ticker on during the simpsons would be real!!!!
