don't know enough to rank, but just looked at some best ep lists and my favorites are almost 100% from seasons 4-7? I guess that's pretty standard, but whatever, on my list of the best rooms to be in in human history then somewhere between an early live Zeppelin show and the team bus post-Miracle on Ice and Saturnalia at the Domus Aurea would be the writers' room at peak Simpsons, just like a handful truly funny/generous people crammed in a small room with ****ty furniture trying to crack each other up, and even though the show was an international hit, Fox was still nickel-and-diming them to death, cutting their office budget because they thought they were spending too much on bags of pretzels, etc. Good times.

Yeah the Australia episode is peak Simpsons iyam, that was season 6

I just can't get into animated TV shows. I used to really enjoy Simpsons but that grew old quickly. Never liked South Park. Started the recently hyped Bob's Burger but gave up on it. Kind of odd because I read quite a few comic books.

Pretty much the only one I'll watch these days is Archer. The last animated TV show I'd call elite was probably...

2-10 is all solid re: Simpsons. 4-8 prob the apex.

Western animation, that is.

Try Texhnolyze.



The first episode is pretty opaque if you don't have an episode summary at hand, so in the interest of advertising I embedded the second one. It's a dark and macabre show, which makes it sort of like Hannibal! At first you might be a little confused, but just sit back and enjoy the scenery--the narrative strands will eventually coalesce. It's awesome like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones and Rick and Morty!

I think people who read comics expect a certain quality of art...which is nonexistent in almost every animated show today. Hence why I don't watch them.

And I always laugh when I see South Park. But it's ugly so I usually turn the channel anyway.

seriously? that's so awful it's hilarious

bookmarked

Everything from like 2-8 or so is really good in the simpsons.

Homer at the Bat has to be the GOAT episode tho. So good.

re The Simpsons, Season 4 is the most dense and has the most of my very favorite episodes, but 5 might be the most laugh-out-loud. I have seasons 1-9 in my collection and I think that's all you need.

I was sort of but not really tired two nights ago and watched the first episode of TD.

Ten hours or so later I went to sleep.

What kind of cretin doesn't love that show?

Homer vs New York was where they jumped the shark IMO

Surprised there's not more Southpark love in here. It has the lowest lows of the long running animated shows but also the highest highs imo. When hitting on all cylinders it's amazing.

yeah about right, was right where it started to turn

But god 4-8 is just so unbelievably elite. Those seasons are still awesome to watch today, and they influenced TV a drastic amount. Those seasons were what showed animated shows were feasible for network TV.

I love SouthPark.

guy who voices rick needs to stop burping so often

I don't have any $tats but I think he burps less often as the series goes on. It definitely becomes less annoying/noticeable

One of the funniest shows IMO . . . "HOME MOVIES" . . . was an Adult Swim program . . something about it that cracked me up, especially the onesies everyone wears.

yeah, South Park's best is insanely funny

Home movies is one of my all time faves. Very underrated.

The kind who thought the real story took place in the background with all the visual clues they were supposed to piece together to solve the mystery, the kind who were pissed off we didn't get an elaborate network of criminal conspiracy that our heroes were able to take down, the kind who were pissed off that we didn't get some awesome, super-cool serial killer with crazy detailed beliefs and methodology, the kind who thought the show was misogynist because it starred two white men in a world that was ****ty to women, the kind who dismissed the philosophy as "juvenile stoner rambling" because existential questions make them uncomfortable, the writers at Grantland who seemed to be in a competition to out-snark each other in lieu of providing anything resembling intelligent analysis...

tell us how you really feel

nayth: so do you hate ppl who think that TD was merely "good"?

How I feel? I feel liberated from caring about the opinions of people who Don't Get It. I used to waste far too much time trying to get people to see things my way who never would and never will.
I don't care what anyone thinks anymore. The first season is in the books and so much (digital) ink has been spilled on the show already that there's not anything left to say. I don't mind telling people why I thought it was so good, but I also don't have any interest in trying to convince people they should have different responses to art than the one they actually had.

mjw, this one's for you:

http://www.avclub.com/article/youtub...ries-fi-202969