Observations

I'm now little over eight seasons in and have already started to notice some things that needs to be said. First off I've noticed that unlike South Park there seems to be lot more variation among the fans in episode reviews. That's understandable considering The Simpsons are different kind of show to South Park, where emotions take at times the front seat. Still some reviews, for example in The Simpsons Archive, are just plain ridiculous. There really are the comic book store guy-styled guys who'll call every other episode worst episode ever. It's also very polarized - it seems that only ratings to those guys are either A or F. There's no middle ground.

It's a little silly considering that Simpsons have mantained pretty high quality for the time I've watched episodes. I only remember one or maybe two bad episodes. The rest of them are consistenly at least decent. Luckily not all reviewers are like that.

I've also noticed, that Lisa is the Cartman of The Simpsons. No, she's not jew-hating ignorant racist, I mean that she's Cartman in the sense that episodes centered to her seem to be consistently good. Same thing goes for South Park - have Cartman taking the central role and you're pretty much quaranteed to have a good episode. Though the comparisons end there and Lisa makes episodes good in completely different way than Cartman does in the South Park. Lisa is the deepest of the characters, she isn't stereotype and all the episodes she's in tend to be character-driven and emotional. If they manage to combine enough good jokes into that equation, it's great.

I also love how the Simpsons is not afraid to openly say "fuck you!" to it's fans (not literally, of course). There has been many episodes already which prove that. Just the kind of mentality I hope from the series. But that's probably all that my sleep-deprived mind have observed so far, so see ya.