While not hated outright...

The joke was that homer hated ned because of how much happier than him he seemed

Edna - 6 years, maud - 20 years
I could have looked at the simpsons online wiki.

But now it seems like the show should of ended 10 years earlier.
Maybe some people don't want to know the time frame.

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I'm actually mad they haven't written episodes about all the gags in that song, it would've been the perfect wink at the fans. Instead he get... Marge runs for mayor and wears a pantsuit.

Well they did do crazy weddings. And I remember Moe getting a cellphone or some shit like that.

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The problem with Marge isn't that she's difficult to write.The problem is that Bill Oakley keeps giving her episodes to new writers who inevitably end up taking this a challenge to write a good episode despite her character.
It's a wonder how The Simpsons was ever good in the first place with that kind of decision making.

Bill Oakley wrote Marge gets a Job and that's a top-tier golden age episode. The newbie writing Marge thing was actually a good idea... back in the 90's

Remember when Marge was a VR whore?

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No I don't actually.

Come on Yas Forums, surely you can come up with a good Marge episode.

simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Friends_and_Family

I don't think any less of Bill as a writer. But as a man making decisions? That's a bad one. If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't make it into some sort of hurdle to test the newbies. You just put it out there that Marge is and always will be the hardest character to write.

Marge raped Homer

youtu.be/O0lRhcLwHVA

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But it wasn't Bill who made that decision, he was the newbie in Season 4 so he got to write the Marge episodes, it was Mike Reiss's initial idea.
Anyway, Bill hasn't worked on the show since 1997.

wow, this sounds terrible

3:10
youtu.be/tSJasecjgS4

The original concept of Ned was clearly that he was slightly nut noticeably superior to Homer in every way; he was slimmer, had more hair, apparently made more money because his material possessions were nicer, his wife was better-looking (it's Maude's cleavage that Homer oggles in that one early episode), his children were better-behaved, and, in the aspect that got bloated to crowd out all others, his religious faith was sincere where Homer's was a shallow grumbling obligation or habit.

Wow this show is way too long in the tooth. Felt like I just read an ancient text written by a historian. OP started this thread off with an idea that Bill practised a quarter of a century ago and it also turned out that this wasn't even his original idea. Actual historians are going to have to talk about The Simpsons like they do for Sazae-San.

>tfw no good Marge lewds

>I'm actually mad they haven't written episodes about all the gags in that song
What are the exceptions? Because they've done a ton of them.

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Eh, her character is generally the straight man, Straight men can be easy to write, they're just not necessarily easy to write well or be the driving force of an episode if you want to keep their character consistent.

Women are much harder to make interesting/funny (The Simpsons was always the Bart and Homer show)

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>it's a Lisa Simpson episode

>new writers who inevitably end up taking this a challenge to write a good episode despite her character.

I fail to see the problem. Everyone wins.

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Classic Flanders was the kind of guy you actually wanted as a neighbour.

I feel Marge shouldn't be stacked.

The second one's definitely from Large Marge.

Sneed thread?
Sneed thread.

That was the cherry on top; he was cheerful and friendly; he clearly had no notion that he was better than Homer in every way. The most antagonistic he ever was was when he agreed for Bart and Todd to compete in mini-golf, and Homer had to extensively goad him into it, plus he had second-thoughts about using their sons in such a manner.

marge get ipad

Sneed

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Lisa before she became insufferable had several good golden age episodes about her

Like this one.

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Yes, Flanders was the ‘grass is always greener’ neighbour who Homer couldn’t help comparing himself with and always came up short - We all have that idealised family we know who seem perfect in every way. The Flanders were just that family to the Simpsons.

Moe is a bad friend

At least he wears his ugliness on the outside to warn everybody.

Ok swami

this episode was uncanny valley

fuck off

Has Bart ever owned a bear?

This was from the season where Marge got transformed a lot, right? She turns into a literal cat-girl in this season, too.

Yep, Season 14. Home of implants, panther-women, and bodybuilders.

I feel its because women IRL hate it when you take the piss out of them, you offend one you offend all

This is the root origin of the "women aren't funny" meme. It's not because women lack the capacity for humor. It's that, for whatever reason, most American women are incapable of laughing at themselves. This is essential in comedy. When all else fails, a comedian needs to be able to make fun of himself. Comedians have to be self-deprecating, because mocking your own flaws is an easy but effective way of generating jokes. Jim Gaffigan's made an entire career out of it. But the overwhelming majority of women can't mock themselves, for whatever reason.

but were they funny?

But see, that's also one of the reasons why Lisa sucks and has never been used to her full potential, because Yeardley is an obnoxious douchebag who complains any time the writers show Lisa in a less than flattering light and takes the whole thing way too seriously.

yeah see the French don't have that problem

HD of this shot or webm?