Rarely are we afforded clarity on when we were "out" on a given show, it tends to be a slow erasure - but I remember the exact moment I stopped actively watching The Simpsons.
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Because grounded under everything in early Simpsons was this baseline grounded humanity. No matter how callous, the family cared about hurting each others feelings and lessons and all the stuff that makes sitcoms function. But it was just... gone now.
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And so Homer went from a goofy, clueless, sensitive, twee dimwit, to an outright asshole; one who lashed out at his family with this spiteful, lackluster core. Something deeply hollow was happening here, made clear in the way the show has pressed on and on and on and on...
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Every once in a blue moon I'll look to see if anything's changed in that mutated DNA, but it really hasn't (especially in the movie). Once they lost the ability to take pain seriously... There was nothing left to be vulnerable about. <3
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This was me and THE OFFICE, exactly when Michael Scott drove into a river because his GPS told him to. Just solidified “this is no longer a human being and now a caricature.”
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The family's love is specifically mentioned in Conan's roundtable talk with the writers as a core principle of the show in the early days. https://youtu.be/DtJ28qOEG1g
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I remember reading one journalist expressing upset that an older episode ended wth Homer and Marge cycling into the sunset singing together, while a then current episode ended with Homer shooting a tranq dart into Marge's neck.
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