Really? You know Survivor is at least in the top 15 shows every week, if not in the top 10.. Two episodes ago when they did a crappy recap show it came in at 13…I'd say those are good ratings..
If y'all are discussing here what "seasons" were the best from a randomly funny show, and are arguing about how a movie is late for its prime and stuff, I am thinking ya'll might need to get out more often. I am picturing all of you coming out of the movie theater saying: "WORST MOVIE EVER."
It was the end of character development. There was nowhere to go unless the characters themselves got older. The writers know this. The shift was intentional. The end of the episode "Gump Roast" in 2002 is where they admit this. It was a "clip show" where they basically just show footage from previous shows. At the beginning of the clip show song, there is a picture of Homer jumping the shark, which is an Internet slang term (based on the website of the same name) that describes when a television show (or channel) has reached its peak and is now declining in quality or has done something to cause a decline in quality (kill off a character, bring in new castmembers, hire Ted McGinley, etc.) Homer is on a park bench, telling a story that Chief Wiggum isn't interested in, but he builds interest when Homer uses flashbacks (actually clips from previous episodes) to help him tell the story. The family takes him to the Friar's Club, where he will be roasted by Krusty the Klown and other prominent citizens of Springfield. Among the people roasting him are Bart and Lisa, Grampa and Agnes Skinner (in Jennifer Lopez's infamous Grammy dress), and, in a Smothers Brothers-like manner, Reverend Lovejoy and Ned Flanders, and even Mr. Burns. It isn't long, however, before Kang and Kodos arrive at the roast and prove humans are stupid, as part of their plans for world domination. When they probe Maggie, they find something on Earth that makes them spare it: celebrities. The episode ends with a flashback song, "They'll Never Stop The Simpsons", a parody on Billy Joel's hit, "We Didn't Start the Fire". The song apologizes for the clip-show, and insists that despite the long run of The Simpsons the writers have still "got stories for years!" Some of the future story ideas mentioned include Marge becoming a robot, and "some kind of crazy wedding." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gump_Roast
