Pretty good writing. Although I was never fan enough of the series to eagerly watch the latest episode, I remember many memorable ones of earlier seasons. Some that come to mind are And Maggie Makes Three and You Only Move Twice (the one with Hank Scorpio). Nowadays I live in hope of watching the execs finally killing it once and for all.
As you have mentioned before, the whole environment the series depict no longer exists and almost feel like Pleasantville levels of surreal compared with what the USA has now. Maybe the series could have moved along with the times (for example, inflation rises and Homer is forced to sell the house and move the entire family to a one story department in a hellhole neighborhood through a shitty mortgage loan) but I'm afraid that lots of people would have found it too accurate to be funny. I'm on the opinion that people at large could laugh at their issues from the safety of their stable income and own home, but as situation goes worse they would rather escape reality through unrelated cheery fiction (the tsunami of Isekai anime comes to mind) than face their own misery on screen.
Pretty good writing. Although I was never fan enough of the series to eagerly watch the latest episode, I remember many memorable ones of earlier seasons. Some that come to mind are And Maggie Makes Three and You Only Move Twice (the one with Hank Scorpio). Nowadays I live in hope of watching the execs finally killing it once and for all.
As you have mentioned before, the whole environment the series depict no longer exists and almost feel like Pleasantville levels of surreal compared with what the USA has now. Maybe the series could have moved along with the times (for example, inflation rises and Homer is forced to sell the house and move the entire family to a one story department in a hellhole neighborhood through a shitty mortgage loan) but I'm afraid that lots of people would have found it too accurate to be funny. I'm on the opinion that people at large could laugh at their issues from the safety of their stable income and own home, but as situation goes worse they would rather escape reality through unrelated cheery fiction (the tsunami of Isekai anime comes to mind) than face their own misery on screen.