Limewater wrote:Married with Children was considered very racy and edgy at the time. It premiered on a newly-launched television network, Fox, and they distinguished themselves early on by saying and doing things that the three existing national television networks wouldn't.
That said, there were a lot of teen sex comedy films in the eighties.
To clarify, season one wasn't that great. Season two was better, but season three is where it really hit its stride and seasons three through eight are where most of the classic episodes come from.
-I imagined it would a family show given at least a 14 year old is on the set+the theme of the show itself.
-I thought "teen" sex comedy films were done by 21 year olds acting as if they are 16
-I think the Simpsons main problem was it was a cartoon with an adult theme to it which caused it controversy because at that time cartoons were supposed to be kids shows like Bionic Six. First season you mean the official one or the script that was aired in Ulman show?
o.pwuaioc wrote:If you're talking about Simpsons and not Married with Children, I'm going to go against received wisdom and say that seasons 1-2 were vastly superior to everything that came afterward. All the "classic" episodes are actually 2nd rate buffoonery with Flanderization in full effect. The early ones where Homer truly has a heart of gold were best. As toxic as it might have been, the Groening-Simon relationship is unmatched.
I really believe that no creative mind has the ability to push more than 5-6 seasons. After that they are just doing it for the money and usually shows do drop down in quality. Sometimes it works by continuing feeding people the same formula but it becomes stale and same-old-same-old. I was there when South Park was new and people were crazy about it. I doubt any of the original fans are still excited for the next episode of Sourth Park in 2023.
