[OC] The Simpsons dawnfall

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  1. why does “regular” include 6.0 and 7.0? This gives 11 values for “regular” and only 9 for “good”

  2. The series is running for 36 seasons – these numbers are kinda expected

  4. Who is still watching this? I honestly don’t know anyone who is.

  6. Wowza, third worst episode is during the heyday. They just had to screw up a perfectly serviceable wagon story with all that fruity singing.

  7. Keep in mind that this kinda data is inherently skewed.

    There’s always a large subset of people who will continue to watch a show no matter what since they’re so invested. They’re the ones who continue to rate episodes

  8. Frank Grimes episode seems to have the highest score at 9.3.

  9. I think the series dropped off way later than S9.

  10. The data looks pretty bad at a glance. I feel differently though when I look at what the colors represent. Dark green, Green, and Yellow signify Awesome, Great, and Good. Orange signifies regular while red and purple signify Bad and Garbage.

    It looks to be about 90 percent of the episodes fall between Awesome and regular. From that perspective the show seems to have maintained a pretty high level of success.

  13. The bad and awesome colours are to close for my colourblind eyes to understand at a glance making the colours useless. At least that written data is there.

  14. Most of that green on the left is when Conan O’Brien was on the writing team.

  15. Please tell me you’ve went your whole life thinking it’s dawnfall.

  16. Guess when Mike Scully took over the show, turned Homer into a mentally retarded person and everyone else one-dimensionally annoying? The show *never* recovered from that change in direction. 

  19. What do these numbers mean? Ratings? Personal preference?

  20. S4E18 – a clip show

    S6E03 – another clip show

    S9E11 – a musical clip show

    I’m starting to think people don’t like clip shows.

  21. I always love on these that you can tell which one is “Lisa Goes Gaga” immediately without even zooming in.

  22. It has been an incredibly long time since the Simpsons put anything good out. It’s insane that it’s still on the air. It definitely shaped my sense of humor growing up though, and the golden age where Conan was steering the ship was some of the best TV comedy ever.

  23. What’s the deal with the last ep of S23? I think o stopped watching during season 13 or 14 and have only seen about a half dozen episodes since.

  24. I’ve always felt subconsciously that seasons 4-6 was the sweet spot. Guess I was correct.

  26. Every few years E9 seems to get a good rating. I wonder what is special about that time? Would that be treehouse of horror or some other special episode?

  27. I keep forgetting they didn’t stop making this show 15 years ago

  28. Having to compete with family guy and changing their style of humor in the process was the beginning of the end

  29. Anyone watch the green ones in the latest seasons and can say if they’re worth checking out as standalones?

  31. I would recommend using a color gradient rather than just a few distinct colors. It makes it seem like the green episodes are significantly better than the light orange, which can be misleading if one is an 8.0 and the other is a 7.9.

    The trend is at least visible as is, but some nuance is lost if an 8.9 and an 8.0 are represented as equally good while a 7.9 is given an entirely different color.

  32. Frank Grimes is the highest ranked episode??

    When clearly the best episode is the Space Coyote one?

  34. I don’t know a single person who has watched the simpsons since the mid 90s. Same with south park. No idea how these shows are still on

  35. Surely 5/10 would be a regular rating?

    This key is just bizarre.

  36. Season 23 Episode 22 must have been some truly horrible garbage to not even make it above 4.0.

    Edit: Apparently it’s about Lisa manipulating a blog to garner positive attention about herself which backfires prompting Lady Gaga to get involved.

  37. Should be a lpt more red and purple. I love older Simpsons, but it’s been trash for about two decades now. I will never understand how it keeps clinging to life.

  38. Meh. It was novel back when it started. Tastes change and the original audience like myself don’t watch it anymore. New audience just doesn’t find it the same. Doesn’t necessarily mean the episodes are worse. But also how many ideas can someone come up with to keep a show going this long? It’s still insane it’s still on TV.

  40. There’s something beautiful to me that the highest rated episode of the show was “Homer’s Enemy”, with Frank “Grimey” Grimes, and Bart the factory owner.

    Ol’ Grimey would be so happy to know he help Homer reach his peak.

  41. Is it a downfall if they keep getting renewed and getting paid more? Only renews if people keep watching

  42. Whats that purple episode in season 23? Looks like that’s the lowest rated episode.

  43. This really works for me..

    Part of the problem was the way SImpsons seemed to run out of ideas and then recycle old ones.

    How many times did Marge meet a new man and think about leaving Homer?

    How many times did homer meet a new woman?

    How often did Bart meet a girl he liked?

    How often did Lisa meet someone who shattered her notion of herself as “the smart one” (Once an entire family!)

    And Lisa episodes in general seemed to be worse than the others. She was the least interesting character because she was the most two-dimensional…

    Over time SImpsons got worse and worse and I stopped watching them years ago.

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