Aren’t we up to season 37 now? Old chart?
Are they audience ratings? If so the episode quality is probably even lower towards the end as some audiences will have dropped out so you’re only including the data of folk who stuck with it.
Every episode of modern Simpsons:
“[First name] [Last name]! [Pronoun]'s the best [occupation] in all of [country].”
- Lisa Simpson, directly to the audience.
“That’s right, Lisa. I’m here to [ad for a song/book/movie/space-nazi].”
- [First name] [Last name].
It wasn’t “cool to be backed and boosted.”
The chart is accurate, the falloff after season 9 is quite noticeable.
Funny how it looks like every season they continue the fire gets worse
Was there a major staff change for season 9? That’s when it appears to have markedly declined.
just checked out of curiosity, s6e3 is a clip show, and s9e11 is a musical clip show
I just (re)watched S9 E11 (“All Singing, All Dancing”) last night, and it’s fine but if I wasn’t watching during dinner I’d have skipped the episode.
I know it’s a clip episode, but it’s probably my favorite clip episode. Snake’s horrible singing, specifically the “Ooo ooo ooo” before the act break always sticks with me. The “Ough oouu uuuah”.
The idea of doing a clip show only 6 seasons in is diabolical.
Clerks the TV show did it for their 1st episode.
The first clip show episode is actually season 4 episode 18, but the framing for the clips is so good that the episode is worth watching.
Stargate did one in the first season.






