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.

The idea of doing a clip show only 6 seasons in is diabolical.

I've watched nearly episode in the first 20 seasons of The Simpsons three times or more but I have always skipped those episodes

Yeah they should have had black as 5.x, grey as 6.x, white as 7.x, green as 8.x, and gold as 9.x

Or just use the Blizzard/rpg rarity colors for user defined groupings so that people can make their own thresholds for how to opine for whatever ratings.

For example, I typically think of each number as three categories: low-7s, mid 7s, and high 7s. A low 7 is watchable and decent, a mid 7 may be pretty good but not have a ton of truly moving content or messaging, and high 7s are like the last rating of ultimate popcorn - fantastic, but relatively intellectually empty. And as soon as you hit 8.0, to get there, it has to start having some levels of boundary-pushing of my expectations AND be very good.

So I would relate all of the 7s as like a Diablo green item rarity, maybe with high 7s being blues. High 8s maybe starts to get into yellows, and 9s are legendaries with mid and high 9s being reds or like Diablo ancients. Very low 7s and high 6s would definitely be whites, with mid and low 6s being greys. And anything under there... Probably also greys? Maybe have a gradient where the lower the rating, the more transparent it gets. 1.0 or 0.0 (whatever the lowest is) would have to still be visible, though.

Eh, idk how it is with series, but <7 for films means not worth the time (excepting special circumstances), and 7 to 8 is okay to good.

These are the people who constantly whined about "NPCs" just following directions without thought, showing the same line of dialogue 6 years on lol

My father sill to this day says it was a "muslification attempt", "trying to force burkas in the whole population".

He has two health-related degrees.

Yeah I thought I was supposed to be dead from sudden onset Bill Gates microchip 5g disease by now because I'm vaccinated. But instead I'm still reading their dumb posts on the Internet.

They'll never let it go lol, just permanently triggered.

I have those in my family.

Those who got vaccinated will be dying any day now. /s

Yeah, the show was never the same after Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein left to make Mission Hill in the late 90s. Additionally, Futurama became a primary though to people like Groening so Simpsons suffered stagnation majorly.

Coincidentally, that happened to be around when the last year of Gen X graduated high school, 1997-98-ish. The internet actually started to become more of “a thing” (edit: as well as computer ownership and literacy, generally), and cell phones started to become smaller and cheaper and more ubiquitous.

Cable television had also become much more widespread and popular. Edit: so did video game consoles.

It might be connected to a cultural shift.

Seasons 3-8 are generally considered "golden age" simpsons. Theres a lull for a few seasons where it gets very patchy, then it kinda enters a long silver age where episodes are fairly consistently good, with few poor ones and even fewer universally agreed upon greats.

Many fans completely ignore 9+. Others argue where sliver age begins.

The ratings only show the golden age and then slowly declining popularity, because popularity is only ever a loose proxy for quality.

I could guess, but why don't you just go ahead and say it? I'm not sure what you're implying, it could be anything.

What about s23e22?

Edit: no need to respond, just keep scrolling and you'll get to another comment that answers this.

Wouldn't the earlier seasons have aired before rotten tomatoes existed so they don't include the earlier audience?

I was Bart's age when the show came out. I'm now older than Homer

Ullman shorts so good they're off the charts.

The Simpsons SHORTS: https://youtu.be/Ufx0tioBw1w

Last year a started watching from the beginning and watched until I found that I pretty consistently did not enjoy the episodes. I agree with your assessment. The last episode that I watched was from '13 or '14.