Damn, the top one doesn’t even really look like a modern TV, either. It’s like they tried to update it while trying to do it in a way that most people didn’t notice. What a cop out.
Two distinct eras of television
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TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Notorious@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It actually just looks like a pre-flat, wide-screen TV to me.
ma11en@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Looks more like a rear projection set.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ah yeah, that’s what I was thinking of when I said plasma. Although typically those were much bigger than the Simpsons could afford.
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The picture.on those things was horrible compared to Carts, I don’t understand why anyone bought one. Must have tapped into that American attitude of “bigger is better even if it’s shit”. Same reason we keep Texas around.
Jesus_666@feddit.de 7 months ago
Even if we take it to be a modern TV: How the hell did they manage to put a VCR on that thing?
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 7 months ago
There was a weird transition era where some flat screens still weren’t super skinny.
antidote101@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Rumor has it that season 33 has some good episodes, and season 34 in generally considered a minor come back of the series.
snownyte@kbin.social 7 months ago
I'll take today's Simpsons over today's Family Guy. Family Guy today is just being used as someone's soapbox.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I find it hard to believe Family Guy is still on. It stopped being funny like 15 years ago.
Burninator05@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I read simmering a while ago that McFarlane wanted to stop the show years ago because it had run its course but the studio threw a ton of money at him to keep going so he did.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Cost to produce it < money it makes
As long as that holds true.
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
someone’s soapbox
That’s been Lisa Simpson since like season 3
sagrotan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s called “Simpsoning” or “Groening” in the entertaining industry: do something really great, then do it for so long and get worse and worse for so long, that people actually forget that it was great at some point in time.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
The clarity and lack of phosphor glow is depressing
clearleaf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Simpsons, Trailer Park Boys, and SpongeBob are three shows where you know what you’re getting based on the aspect ratio.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Oh no did they dirty my boy spongebob
Godric@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ricky falling is probably my favorite joke in TPB
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The Simpsons turned to crap long before they changed the aspect ratio.