Line #49 Quotes/SeasonalRot


1	!!LiveActionTV
2
3	->"I feel like ''Series/{{Friends}}'' in Season Eight: Out of ideas and forcing Joey and Rachel together [[StrangledByTheRedString even though it made no sense]]."
4	-->-- '''Michael''', ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' ("What We Owe to Each Other")
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6
7	->"In ''Series/{{Broadchurch}}'' 1, the mystery was, 'Who's the murderer?' In ''Broadchurch'' 2, it's, 'What's the point?'."
8	-->--'''Series/PhilomenaCunk''', ''[[Series/{{Newswipe}} Weekly Wipe]]''
9	!!WebAnimation
10	->"Variety is the spice of life and [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] is the starch. The star that shines brightest is all the more glorious for its brevity. Or, to bring the metaphor down to a broader cultural level, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has been running for 21 seasons and ''hasn't been good since the fifth!''"
11	-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2''
12
13	!!WebVideo
14	->'''Creator/RyanReynolds:''' Full of my signature [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth wall breaking]], '90s pop culture references, and more dick jokes than you can shake a sack full of dicks at!\
15	'''Bailey:''' In what feels like a really expensive longer episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''!\
16	'''Deadpool:''' Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Which season of ''Family Guy'' are we talking about?\
17	'''Bailey:''' Let's say... Fourth?\
18	'''Deadpool:''' Oh, okay. I can take that.[[note]]Becomes funnier when you remember that Reynolds was actually ''on'' an episode of post-season 4 ''Family Guy''.[[/note]]
19	-->--''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' on ''Film/{{Deadpool\|2016}}''
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21	->"Despite the show still airing new episodes, the book has basically been written already: ''The Simpsons'' had an amazing run in the 90's, then the decline happened; [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E2ThePrincipalAndThePauper Skinner is Armin Tamzarian]], [[{{Flanderization}} Homer became a giant asshole]], [[FranchiseZombie and the show refused to die]]. "LOL, Zombie Simpsons!"."
22	-->--''WebVideo/TheRealJims'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsPu0q7dFxU Jerkass Homer is Dead]]"
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24	->"It's extraordinarily sad to still see ''The Simpsons'' producing new episodes today. It's like watching a dominant athlete have all their remarkable abilities stripped away through the march of time, until they are no more special than the rest of us. There's a reason why many all-time greats in pop culture also happened to die young. We never get to witness them wither away into a shell of their former glory. The brilliance of those first eight seasons now only amounts to a measly ''quarter'' of the show's entire lifespan. ''The Simpsons'' has been on the air so long, that [=YouTube=] videos complaining about the show's decline have themselves become stale and cliched. What was once the epitome of media counterculture is now owned by the epitome of the media establishment. Following Disney's acquisition of Fox in 2019, the Simpsons featured in a series of uncanny animated bumpers welcoming their new overlords. Considering the prior two decades of openly trashing the evil empire, it's hard to believe that this was even the same show anymore. In all honesty, ''The Simpsons'' was never designed to survive until the 21st century. The big media conglomerates just keep it around as a ceremonial token to evoke nostalgia for better times. At this point, Homer Simpson has been relegated to a figurehead akin to the likes of Mickey Mouse and the Queen of England. Like many other forms of counterculture, ''The Simpsons'' ended up becoming the very thing they sought to destroy."
25	-->--''Creator/EmperorLemon'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq-qU_GCCLI there will Never Ever be another Simpsons episode like Homer's Enemy]]"
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27	->"If the first season of [[Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero Shield Hero]] was three dumpsters full of flaming Bud Light boxes, then Season Two is all that plus one budget fursuit trash compacted into a small, inert cube of dull gray aluminum, and then placed inside an equally dull gray aluminum trash can."
28	-->--''[[WebVideo/MothersBasement Geoff Thew]], in [[https://youtu.be/8uyw54guNuE?t=946 Hottest Trash of Anime of Spring 2022]]''.
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30	->'''Batman''': Now listen. We can stop here on a high note, or continue and completely dilute whatever quality control there once was here. You already know what my answer is.
31	-> '''Superman''': Let's [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] this shit!
32	-->-- '''WebVideo/SolidJJ''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6sheBzIlWo Justice League VS God]]''
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34	!!WesternAnimation
35
36	->"There's not really anything wrong with ''The Itchy & Scratchy Show''. It's as good as ever. But after so many years, the characters just can't have the same impact they once had."
37	-->--'''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]]''', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E14TheItchyAndScratchyAndPoochieShow The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show]]"
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39	->"This show's been going downhill since Season 3!"
40	-->--'''[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Philip J. Fry]]''' on ''[[ShowWithinAShow Everybody Loves Hypnotoad]]''
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42	->'''Peridot:''' How about [giving Lapis] my ''Camp Pining Hearts'' DVD?\
43	'''Steven:''' Which season?\
44	'''Peridot:''' Five?\
45	'''Steven:''' Trash.\
46	'''Peridot:''' I know.
47	-->--''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E4BarnMates "Barn Mates"]]
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49	->"We're replicants in a ridiculous theme park for an ancient TV show that stopped being good after Season 45!"
50	-->--'''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]]''', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS34E6TreehouseOfHorrorXXXIII Treehouse of Horror XXXIII]]" (a Season 34 episode)
51
52	->"What a shame. ''The Patrick Show'' has really gone downhill since the first three episodes."
53	-->--'''Granny Tentacles''', ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'', "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E13NitwitNeighborhoodNewsMidSeasonFinale Mid-Season Finale]]"
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55	!!RealLife
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57	->I'm sorry, but to me (Season 5) had a lot of missed oppertunities. It had a lot of bad filler, a lot of plot holes, and more annoyances, even more so than Season 4. It had a real lack of vision.... SMB was ruined for me when they decided to extend it past Act II of the movie
58	-->-- '''[[https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?list=PL5881D8C89CCEFCCF&v=J53U8VYeeho Kevin Chamberlain]]''' on ''WebVideo/StupidMarioBrothers''
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60	->So you either die as ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' or live long enough to see yourself become ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''?
61	-->-- '''Weaselwodger''' from a comment on [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-shows-get-ruined-that-arent-writers-fault/ this]] Cracked.com article.
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63	->One season of how to make a successful comic book-style television show, followed by three seasons of monstrous fuck ups.
64	-->-- '''[[http://quicksummary.tumblr.com/post/29893637171/heroes quicksummary]]''' on ''Series/{{Heroes}}''
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66	->"I think it was a point where we were in the room and we were talking about bringing Geordi's mother in, and we all kind of looked at each other and we were like, 'This is sad. This is the best we can do? Is this the best we can do, is Geordi's mother?' It was such a 'who cares' idea that we were just sort of, 'Oh, man... This show has got to end.'"
67	-->--'''Creator/RonMoore''', on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/{{StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E3Interface}} Interface]]"
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69	->''"As Autumn approaches, soon it will be time for another series of'' Series/DowntonAbbey, ''and, frankly, if you think of the downward trajectory that show is on, I dread to think what it will be like. It'll probably just be an animated turd standing on a Tesco logo, and screaming the word ''''why!''''"''
70	-->-- '''Creator/{{David Mitchell\|Actor}}'s''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87E3kamWOg Soapbox]]
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72	->"It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them."
73	-->--'''Creator/BillWatterson''', on his decision to end ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

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