Are anyone actually still watching Simpsons?
Yes. There are dozens of us.
By the time this movie comes out, the first movie (2007) will be closer in time to the first episode (1989) than to the second movie (2027).
The first one came out when The Simpsons was at peak relevance — I wanna say it was right around the time Mr Burns was shot and we had that cliffhanger and nobody knew who shot him. I guess it was the new “who shot JR” except I still don’t know who shot JR. I’ve gotten curious a couple times, looked it up, said “oh” and promptly forgot about it because I never watched Dallas, so those characters don’t mean anything to me.
The neat thing about The Simpsons though, like most American cartoons is, what you know from the first seasons, when it was good, is still exactly what the show is still about. Homer still works at the power plant. Bart is still in fourth grade, Lisa is still in third, and Maggie is still in diapers. The characters don’t age. It’s not like Japan’s Fullmetal Alchemist where these adolescent boys age ever so slightly in every episode, and by the end of it all they’ve basically grown up. In The Simpsons, the family stays the same, it’s the world around them that changes, which is weird, because they do not grow, they do not learn, they do not evolve. That’s a good thing for those of us who gave up after the first movie or thereabouts, because we can just pick up where we left off, doesn’t matter if the last 20 or 30 seasons were trash. The movie can stand on its own.
That said, I’m not interested, maybe I’ll catch it on streaming, but I’m more likely to watch it in the next 5 years than I am not to. Assuming I live that long. I am old enough to have seen the first episodes when they first aired.
I think the movie came out roughly a decade after Burns was shot, certainly past its main relevance (season 1-9ish). Season 9 ended in 98 and the movie released 07!
Is this the end?
