This whole season is just going to be tds isn’t it
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Don't know, I remember episodes from season 10 pretty fondly, but the peak may have been earlier.
I don't think many people watched the Simpsons for continuity, especially since people couldn't re-watch the oldest episodes during most of the shows run, only what was chosen to be broadcast, which was never in order at any stations near me, and only rarely any early seasons.
I think the hard drop was when Futurama started not long after that, creativity seemed to be drained to that, then when Futurama temporarily went off the air, never came back.
Futurama worked because it was a show made by nerds who lampshaded sci-fi tropes using actual science. Nu Futurama is your typical commie writer using the show to vent about politics
I vaguely remember some line from NuSimpsons where Homer and Marge were dancing while singing about Paul Tsongas.
That shit wasn't funny even when it was topical.
I was only vaguely aware of Tsongas, mostly just the memorable name, and that he was a politician.
Looking him up, if he won the democrat primary in 1992 it would have been a bizarre point of departure having a libertarian leaning, anti-deficit democrat instead of Bill Clinton. Since I believe the deficit was a key portion of the 1994 Contract with America, the Republicans might not have won the house for the first time in decades that year. Not sure where Tsongas would have stood on the GATT/Uruguay Round/WTO that established the modern low-to-no tariff era of 1994 to 2017, but probably not any different than Clinton/Bush Sr. He might not have radicalized the Department of Justice like Clinton did though.