I was talking to this girl who I found interesting and she mentions that she really likes the new seasons of The Simpson’s and Family Guy. I told her I also like the shows but only the earlier seasons, to which she said she’s never watch them because she thinks they were boring.
I had a Seinfeld moment and suddenly my mind was simply occupied with “boring? BORING??” And thinking about what kind of person finds modern simpsons entertaining
Coincidentally, I'm on somewhat of a Simpsons binge, atm. I haven't watched any of the new episodes, so I figured I'd scour the internet for people's opinions on "the best episodes of the last 15 years". Who knows, maybe some of them are actually good. I ended up with a list of ~40 episodes which I'm currently working through. I'll post my definitive list of good new episodes once I'm done.
I think the newest episode of The Simpsons I've seen (on TV, too) was the Elon Musk one. Shameless rip off of the classic "Oh Brother where art Thou" episode. Celebrating Musk way before he became the human cultural-financial bubble he is now. Doing active harm to the world, in retrospect, by stroking his ego and imprinting him as an engineering business genious on tens of thousands of nerds watching.
crazy how the show is still making accurate predictions even though it's been unrecognizable garbage for like 20 years
They definitely have a lathe in there
There's a later episode that mentions how they have to repair the damage done by Musk, who ended up being a snake oil salesman on par with the monorail guy. One of the few episodes with a canon effect felt later.
That's pretty cool actually; maybe they noticed they had done blatant advertisement "on accident"
that was 2015? wow
the one with comic book guy getting over his roots, and the ned flanders episode where it's like fargo. that's basically all you've got.
season 32 ep 11, and season 33, episode 6 and 7
I'm already 1/3 through the list and have found 4 episodes I'd consider "good", but I'll add your recommendations to my list.