So I decided to watch a randomly selected episode of The Simpsons. This one was a low roll.
The episode focuses on the priest character no one likes and his new youth pastor, who I assumed at first to be some celebrity I didn’t know about because he is drawn in an overly handsome style. Well, it turns out he is actually a self-insert of the writer of the episode, who also voices the character. He is some stand-up comedian and podcaster whose Wikipedia page tells us he originally planned to become a youth pastor and lists “sarcasm” as one of his genres.
The writer’s self-insert proceeds to totally Christmogg the priest by giving an extremely generic sermon that takes up 4 minutes of the episode’s 20-minute runtime, and which the random assortment of Springfield’s residents at the church all inexplicably love. He then befriends Lisa, which is pretty unrealistic considering we all know she is already best friends with my self-insert character from my fanfic.
A shocking number of the jokes are just the camera cutting to a random character who has no reason to be there. Why are the Simpsons suddenly eating a meal with Skinner’s mother and the Comic Book Guy? For that matter, there is no reason for the self-insert to be sleeping on that train set in the picture.
Number of jokes that were at least kind of funny: 2
Overall rating 3/10
You know not the horror of the path you set out on, modern Simpsons gets soooo much worse
Yeah, there’s a solid two decades of mediocre slop there
Only the last few seasons have started to get back to being actually good
never falling for this one sorry people have been saying this for years and it’s never true
I am a dedicated Simpsons guy™️
Trust me when I say that the newest seasons are on par with the good Scully episodes
They don’t hit the highs of those first 8 seasons, but they’re legitimately good TV
Making Selman co-showrunner was the smartest thing they’ve done in years
