Looks like I stopped around the right time at season 10.
For anyone wondering, the two lower rated episodes during the glory days were the clip shows. And that low rated season 9 episode is the musical episode.
More time has passed between the movie and now than the show’s release and the movie.
Why did rating improve somewhat recently? What happened to change that?
If I was to watch 1 season of Simpsons, which one should it be?
One of those green ones from the last few years has to be that Ned Flanders crime noir episode…..extremely well made
I haven’t kept up since like S13, but I believe the ratings are more the cultural shift than the show itself getting worse. I stopped because I stopped watching TV in general.
S9 and S10, where the turn clearly happens, have some of the peak episodes that probably made more core memories and memes than any other seasons.Â
Episodes critiquing wealth, religion tribalism, traditional views of sex and gender, identity, civic rights, belonging, and so much more.
Lisas Sax is one of my favorites. Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo called the weebwave two decades before it really landed. There are so many episodes I am remembering just going through the episode lists.
I think it follows a Weber–Fechner law
FYI, the few really low rated episodes early on are clip shows. the 9.3 is the frank grimes one, the 9.2s are who shot mr burns (part one), and treehouse of horror 5 (the one with the shinning, time and punishment, and nightmare cafeteria – generally considered the best treehouse episode), and the hank scorpio episode.
i’m surprised lisa becomes a vegetarian (7-5) is only 8.5!
it went the same way as the monorail
If the ratings of the Simpsons is not great, why is it still on air?
tldr. Grimes was the best.
Yeah the end of the green years is when I stopped watching. Those were the glory days.
The thing with the simpsons is it’s one of those shows you put on when you can’t be bothered looking through everything to find something to watch
There used to be a website that did this for all series. Doest that still exists?Â
Watch this redditors, you can actually pinpoint the exact moment they stopped giving a fckÂ
growing up in the 90s, the new episode of Simpsons was a sunday night ritual for my family, I specifically remember it fizzling out after the ‘tomacco’ episode. apparently that was season 11, and looking at this chart I see season 10 was the last season with any >8.0 rated episodes.
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If you can come out with something brilliant, and then remove all the talent, it will continue to trample brainless through decades of mediocrity, like a zombie.
Why does this align with my quality of life since birth
People are way too hard on the show now. It’s been pretty good lately.
theres gotta be something more at play.
nostalgia, or the inherently negative bias in social media or something… theres gotta be some other contributing factor its too consistent to be solely caused by a general decline in quality..
While it’s clear things haven’t been awesome since season 9 or so, it looks like season 30 was the absolute low point, with just one okay episode and the worst average of the whole show by several points.
Anybody know what was up that year? New writers? New characters nobody liked? There has to be something that made that one so distincively bad.
so best episode is episode s8e23 .. see you in 25 min.
I would be interested in to see the results by generation, curious if nostalgia is playing any role.Â
In the last 20 years there are less green rated shows combined than any one year from 1-8.
You can very easily pinpoint “Lisa Goes Gaga”
I mostly enjoyed S10-S15 iirc, bummed others didn’t
But S2-S9 being peak Simpsons makes sense
Barthood (S27E09) was so good, definitely deserves the green
And the green ones in S33 are both parts of A Serious Flanders, a ridiculously brutal crime thriller episode
Looks like the most hated episodes are ones featuring celebrities (Musk, Gaga…), musicals and clip shows. Makes sense.
![[OC] Visualizing The Simpsons Episode Ratings Over Time](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hucqqs0yr09g1-1920x1024.png)
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Looks like I stopped around the right time at season 10.
For anyone wondering, the two lower rated episodes during the glory days were the clip shows. And that low rated season 9 episode is the musical episode.
More time has passed between the movie and now than the show’s release and the movie.
Why did rating improve somewhat recently? What happened to change that?
If I was to watch 1 season of Simpsons, which one should it be?
One of those green ones from the last few years has to be that Ned Flanders crime noir episode…..extremely well made
I haven’t kept up since like S13, but I believe the ratings are more the cultural shift than the show itself getting worse. I stopped because I stopped watching TV in general.
S9 and S10, where the turn clearly happens, have some of the peak episodes that probably made more core memories and memes than any other seasons.Â
Episodes critiquing wealth, religion tribalism, traditional views of sex and gender, identity, civic rights, belonging, and so much more.
Lisas Sax is one of my favorites. Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo called the weebwave two decades before it really landed. There are so many episodes I am remembering just going through the episode lists.
I think it follows a Weber–Fechner law
FYI, the few really low rated episodes early on are clip shows. the 9.3 is the frank grimes one, the 9.2s are who shot mr burns (part one), and treehouse of horror 5 (the one with the shinning, time and punishment, and nightmare cafeteria – generally considered the best treehouse episode), and the hank scorpio episode.
i’m surprised lisa becomes a vegetarian (7-5) is only 8.5!
it went the same way as the monorail
If the ratings of the Simpsons is not great, why is it still on air?
tldr. Grimes was the best.
Yeah the end of the green years is when I stopped watching. Those were the glory days.
https://preview.redd.it/6hcb21t4v09g1.png?width=925&format=png&auto=webp&s=74761020176fdf4e3446bb4b62da7d593b248fd4
on a line graph
Season8 was the GOAT imo.
You only move twice
The mysterious voyage of homer
The springfield files
Mountain of madness
Homer vs the eighth commandment
The thing with the simpsons is it’s one of those shows you put on when you can’t be bothered looking through everything to find something to watch
There used to be a website that did this for all series. Doest that still exists?Â
Watch this redditors, you can actually pinpoint the exact moment they stopped giving a fckÂ
growing up in the 90s, the new episode of Simpsons was a sunday night ritual for my family, I specifically remember it fizzling out after the ‘tomacco’ episode. apparently that was season 11, and looking at this chart I see season 10 was the last season with any >8.0 rated episodes.
[deleted]
If you can come out with something brilliant, and then remove all the talent, it will continue to trample brainless through decades of mediocrity, like a zombie.
Why does this align with my quality of life since birth
People are way too hard on the show now. It’s been pretty good lately.
theres gotta be something more at play.
nostalgia, or the inherently negative bias in social media or something… theres gotta be some other contributing factor its too consistent to be solely caused by a general decline in quality..
While it’s clear things haven’t been awesome since season 9 or so, it looks like season 30 was the absolute low point, with just one okay episode and the worst average of the whole show by several points.
Anybody know what was up that year? New writers? New characters nobody liked? There has to be something that made that one so distincively bad.
so best episode is episode s8e23 .. see you in 25 min.
I would be interested in to see the results by generation, curious if nostalgia is playing any role.Â
In the last 20 years there are less green rated shows combined than any one year from 1-8.
You can very easily pinpoint “Lisa Goes Gaga”
I mostly enjoyed S10-S15 iirc, bummed others didn’t
But S2-S9 being peak Simpsons makes sense
Barthood (S27E09) was so good, definitely deserves the green
And the green ones in S33 are both parts of A Serious Flanders, a ridiculously brutal crime thriller episode
Looks like the most hated episodes are ones featuring celebrities (Musk, Gaga…), musicals and clip shows. Makes sense.
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