KaeruYojimbo

It amazes me how vividly I remember some of these episodes even though I haven't seen them in 25 years. Those first few years were some of the best TV ever made.

@digdugnate   You are absolutely right to feel that way. I graduated in 1989, the year the Simpsons started showing on regular series broadcasts.  After watching all the shorts between commercials on the Tracy Ullman show in 88-89.  I was a huge fan from the beginning and didn't miss Sunday nights from season 1-12 or so.   Really the show started declining after about season 10 I'd say. By that time the writers at the show had undergone huge turnover and many of the original writers were not there.     Everything for the past 20 years has been for the most part crap and the show is a mere shadow of it's former self.

I'm still a fan and never stopped watching...But if you're used to south Park (being offensive and poignant), or maybe the rapid fire pacing of Family Guy, or the smart, offensive bent of Rick & Morty...Well Simpsons hasn't done anything wrong IMO,...Just that other stuff is (at least) more attention grabbing.  I hate to say Better because I like them all for what they are,  and Simpsons still throws in jokes that come out of left field every so often and land in a funny peculiar way...Sometimes one after another in the best episodes.