The Simpsons

Uploaded: July 30th, 2024.

Updated: July 30th, 2024.

Everyone recognized the family back then, and everyone recognizes the family still today. The Simpsons is a cultural icon that exploded in unprecedented popularity during the early to mid-90s, with it simmering down in the latter half of the decade, gradually losing its momentum and indefinitely succumbing to zombification in the decades onwards. While Fox kept it going Disney whipped the franchise into season after season from the 2021 acquisition onwards, bringing us the same slop of our favorite yellow family with it coming back more and more tasteless year after year.

Now, due to the Simpsons being one of if not the longest indefinitely running animated sitcoms in television history, a one-fit review would not do it a fraction of justice I have deemed worth putting into it. so the review will be split into [NUMBER] sections, starting with...

Season 1 (December 1989 - May 1990) 'Dynamic Season'

When the Simpsons first made its debut as a televised stand-alone sitcom it did so mere days before Christmas 1989, presenting America's families with a new American family, one that George bush did not approve of later in its runtime. While I will eventually make individual episode reviews for now I will just review the season's apparent performance.

The first televised season was radically different from the Simpsons the world fell in love with a couple of years later. It's initial episodes were vastly more heartfelt and emotionally heavy than the 'everything is the same by tomorrow' routine of the show, which played on the dysfunctionality of the family. 

While the show tugs at your heartstrings and emphasizes how lower-middle class relevant they are, they also stuff every shot full of vibrant gradients at every turn, which I'd think is pretty much because they could do so.