The Moment The Simpsons Ruined Homer Simpson

What is the best animated show of the 2000s? ALSO: I mispronounce Matt’s name twice in the video because apparently hearing something 8 million times isn’t enough for me lol

They transformed Homer Simpson into Peter Griffin.

Simpson’s predicted the Simpson’s

Homer selling his ticket for the Duff blimp because he believes his daughter is the most beautiful gets me every time. That was peak ‘good’ Homer

"Bart gets an F" made me shed tears because it hit so close to home and it still does and it probably always will

I’ll never forget the “Do It For Her” moment. Those are the moments I miss the most.

Simpsons died when it stopped being about everyday life of the family and focused on Homer meeting/being chased by celebrities and crying

This problem especially creeps up is in animations that don’t age their characters through the seasons. Because I feel that all these late 80s mid 2000s shows suffer from keeping their characters the same age and stuck in the same situations. So they eventually run out of character building and the formation of a narrative eventually.

Because so many Homer/Ned scenes got shown in this it reminds me that originally the dynamic was that Homer hated Ned because he recognized how "good" Ned was. Because Homer cared how people saw him, living next to Ned was a reminder of someone who seemed to effortlessly go to church, raise his kids, provide for his family, etc. Scully Homer kinda just hates Ned...because it was funny to be mean to Ned. Homer doesn't feel small next to Ned, he takes advantage of him and hurts him because it's suppose to be a joke that Ned will just take it. Weirdly enough, Jerkass Homer doesn't even have a consistent outlook on Ned, because Homer merely does whatever the writers want him to do to make the episode happen. He'll respect Ned and ask for advice, play off their "friendship" or just abuse him episode to episode for no reason.

Homer wasn't the only one who was ruined. Marge became more hypocritical, jealous, demanding, and judgemental. Bart became more destructive, selfish, and even started showing signs of being sociopathic. Lisa became more snobby, overly mature, annoyingly self righteous, and slightly narcissistic. And Maggie....Well they haven't changed Maggie that much.

So they hired someone that didn’t care about the show to be the head writer and he openly mocks the fans and the creator of the Simpsons. Great idea.

There's a point where idiocy stops being funny and starts being sad, Homer dipped below that line about 20 years ago.

Homer is an example of when you've been alive too long, you see yourself become a monster. It used to be about a real family that just happened to be Animated, now they're a full blown cartoon

The finest of Homer (IMO) is when he learned his mother, Mona, was alive and spent the ending credits sitting on his car hood, just watching the stars.

Remember when characters like Homer, and Spongebob actually had character and depth, and not full of tropes? Yea, me too.

Point of order: the "GYM" joke isn't about Homer's illiteracy. It's about how he's so lazy and unfit, he's never heard of a "gym" before. It's not a great joke that tracks since he recognized the gym visually when he sees it, but its not poking fun at his intelligence, but rather his inexperience with the concept of exercise.

This analysis pretty much sums up why the Simpsons turned from "greatest cartoon series ever" to unwatchable over the years. Early Simpsons had better authors, better storylines, better gags and better characters.

This is a problem with dumb characters in general. They weren’t the smartest but they weren’t this stupid

Back when the Simpsons aired opposite "The Cosby Show" on Thursday nights, they did a short bit that aired ONLY on the night that Cosby show ended. It shows Homer and Bart watching Cosby's last episode. Bart asks, "Why did they end the show when it's still a hit?" Homer warmly says, "Mr. Cosby wanted to end it before the quality began to suffer." Bart laughs. "Quality, shmallity! If I had my own TV show, I'd run that sucker INTO THE GROUND!!!" Three decades on, it's so true.

As someone who grew up with this show its sobering to reflect that right now bad Simpsons seasons outnumber good Simpsons seasons by a factor of 4.