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The Simpsons

The Simpsons

1989
Comedy, Animation
TV Series
22m
The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield. (imdb) Episode List

Created by:

James L. Brooks, Sam Simon, Matt Groening

Directed by:

Jim Reardon, Mark Kirkland, Steven Dean Moore, Bob Anderson

Screenwriter:

James L. Brooks, Sam Simon, Matt Groening, John Swartzwelder

Starring:

Frances McDormand, Hank Azaria, Yeardley Smith, Russi Taylor, Harry Shearer, Dan Castellaneta, Tress MacNeille, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Maggie Roswell, Pamela Hayden, Chris Edgerly

Franchise:

The Simpsons

Genres:

Comedy, Animation, Sitcom

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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The Simpsons

1989
Comedy, Animation
TV Series
22m
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beedubBeeDub
Rated 29 Aug 2020
95
91st
My score is mostly for seasons 3-10, which were nothing short of phenomenal. The massive amount of parental angst this elicited in the early days seems truly hilarious given where society was even five years later, let alone now. I haven't seen a new episode in years, but the show's still going, so I have to assume SOMEONE'S watching.
Rated 29 Aug 2020
suture_selfSuture Self
Rated 05 Sep 2015
10
96th
Impossible to rate. The first 10 or so seasons are mostly magic, especially if you saw them as a kid. Now it's just garbage that's going nowhere at the speed of light. A walking corpse that keeps marching on. A slowly dying animal that shrieks at night due to failed organs and blinding pain. For the love of god, Matt Groening, please put The Simpsons down. It doesn't deserve to suffer like this. Sooner or later you'll have to let go. It's time.
Rated 05 Sep 2015
jerkyJerky
Rated 10 Apr 2016
90
99th
Is it fair to rate it even if I didn't watch all 25 seasons (or 26, or 27 or...JESUS CHRIST ALREADY!!!) As iconic a thing as there can be, this show transcends both animation and situational comedy. It's a phenomenon, for lack of a better word. The Simpsons are so ubiquitous in the world today that even phrases written for the show are now in the god damn dictionary! It created an entire universe for 3 generations of kids/adults to enjoy and partake in. Not bad...not bad at all!
Rated 10 Apr 2016
inmateinmate
Rated 05 Sep 2015
99
99th
it loses a point for being terrible the last fifteen years
Rated 05 Sep 2015
disconnecteddisconnected
Rated 11 Sep 2015
100
99th
The first nine seasons or so are the greatest work of entertainment that the modern world has ever produced, and I say that entirely without hyperbole. Most episodes beyond that point are worth ignoring entirely, and the mantle it once assumed in terms of its postmodern aesthetic, depth of character, sharpness of satire, fluidity of animation and style of humor has since been taken up by shows like Gravity Falls and Rick & Morty.
Rated 11 Sep 2015
alex_watkinsAlex Watkins
Rated 08 Sep 2015
6
98th
I don't really care how hard the latter seasons fell off for rating purposes, because the first 9 or 10 seasons belong in any discussion of the greatest works of American art ever.
Rated 08 Sep 2015
rosenritterrosenritter
Rated 08 Sep 2015
9
94th
I basically learned English from this. I can't possibly overstate the meaning it has to me.
Rated 08 Sep 2015
hellboy76hellboy76
Rated 05 Sep 2015
83
95th
It has gone on for too many seasons, but for a time, this was the smartest satire in the history of TV.
Rated 05 Sep 2015
davidblastDavidBlast
Rated 12 Sep 2021
100
98th
Sitting here in my underwear and wife beater, having a beer, I can't help but think that Homer Simpson taught me the most valuable lesson of my life: If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. Is that dried yogurt on my ... I hope that's yogurt.
Rated 12 Sep 2021
funkyastroFunkyAstro
Rated 03 Oct 2015
100
99th
MAKE A SEPARATE WEBSITE FOR TV, OR MINIMALLY BREAK THE SHOW DOWN BY INDIVIDUAL SEASONS - I don't care. Fox can tack on as many crap seasons onto the Simpsons as they want but S1-S13 will always be good enough for me to give this show a perfect score. I stopped watching the show after S17 or S18. But that prime Conan era will serve to be some of the greatest American comedy for all eternity. Growing up watching this with my family (I had a cool mom) was one of the best memories I'll have.
Rated 03 Oct 2015
ytadelYtadel
Rated 26 Sep 2015
8
93rd
This is kind of the hardest show to rate on all of Criticker. At its best (season 4, and a halo surrounding that season for a couple seasons in each direction) it was probably the single best show on all of television. For the last decade... well, less so. Part of me says I should just give it a 99 score for how good it was at its peak, but that would feel disingenuous for a show I've now only seen about 30% of the episodes of. 80 feels right, I guess?
Rated 26 Sep 2015
pickpocketPickpocket
Rated 06 Sep 2015
8
82nd
The Beatles of television. When it's good, it's really good and when it's bad you can't understand what the hell it's still doing on the air. It crazily predicts the future multiple times, it has a hundred characters that are etched into everyone's mind and has provided thousands of laughs. Expecting it to end on season 30 which is a crazy accomplishment that we will never see again.
Rated 06 Sep 2015
overratedoverrated
Rated 05 Sep 2015
97
99th
This is where the TV blanket rating decision falls down, because here I'm rating seasons 3-9 which are what most people think of when they create entire conversations out of Simpsons references. Post-2000 Simpsons is this uncanny valley of imitating Family Guy (that was originally imitating the Simpsons) that I'll ignore. Favorite episodes: You Only Move Twice, Treehouse of Horror V, Marge vs the Monorail & Cape Feare. Single best gag is the Planet of the Apes musical from A Fish Called Selma.
Rated 05 Sep 2015
ocelotOcelot
Rated 05 Sep 2015
65
64th
The first decade is the greatest achievement in the history of American pop culture. The score should tell you how bad the rest of it is.
Rated 05 Sep 2015
aflickeringAFlickering
Rated 05 Sep 2015
7
94th
this is a joke, right? you keep using words like "pasghetti" and "momatoes", you make numerous threatening references to the UN, and at the end you repeat the words "Screw Flanders" over and over again!
Rated 05 Sep 2015
hishhismhishhism
Rated 17 May 2017
80
87th
I pretend that everything after the Armin Tamzarian moment doesn't exist, which is reflected in the score.
Rated 17 May 2017
bowntvBownTV
Rated 11 Mar 2016
100
98th
Just based on seasons 1-10 you know the drill, if I tried to rate it fairly I'd go mad
Rated 11 Mar 2016
maddogmaddog
Rated 05 Mar 2016
85
87th
So iconic is the Simpsons, yet to rate a show that's gone on- heck, dragged on- for over 25 years proves difficult. It was amazing in its first ten years. It's muddled through ever since, but we are so entranced by the Simpsons family and show's cast that we've kept it going past its best material.
Rated 05 Mar 2016
martrynmartryn
Rated 24 Feb 2016
86
88th
It's an animation classic that's been on as long as I can remember, but really started going downhill after about three seasons. Sometimes it can still hit gold, but most episodes are meh. It's been eclipsed in it's almost 30 years by edgier and funnier animation, but the Simpsons will always be remembered for paving the way to success for these shows and pushing the bar in what is acceptable in cartoons.
Rated 24 Feb 2016
cluedon657Cluedon657
Rated 18 Nov 2015
10
94th
Although long past its best the high point of The Simpsons in the late 1990's/ early 2000's is one of the greatest, most consistent eras of any show ever and that must be acknowledged.
Rated 18 Nov 2015
aceysaid10AceySaid10%
Rated 22 Sep 2015
90
98th
(you know what seasons I'm talking about)
Rated 22 Sep 2015
bakcheiabakcheia
Rated 09 Sep 2015
88
81st
Again, how do I assign one rating to a show that is older than I am and has been around long enough to be divided up into different sub-series in multiple think-pieces about said show? All in all, I love The Simpsons. It has its fair share of misses, but it is classic for a reason and it has done a fantastic job of keeping up a relatively high standard for the past decade now, even though its Golden Age has passed.
Rated 09 Sep 2015
neonmanNeonman
Rated 06 Sep 2015
99
99th
I'm totally ignoring the newer seasons because I got to give it up to the show that I've literally been watching since the day of my birth. I still revisit the golden era (season 3-9) and I'm astounded by what a perfect 22 minutes of humorous entertainment it is, that so wonderfully encapsulates many aspects of our culture. I have such an attachment to this show, I think I'm closer to the Simpsons than my real family. To be honest, seasons 10-14 are worth watching, too.
Rated 06 Sep 2015
djrossdjross
Rated 05 Sep 2015
35
19th
Highly variable, but later seasons seem to be unwatchably bad. Once got into a non-SIMPSONS-related argument with Harry Shearer that left me unimpressed with his thinking ability, but that's neither here nor there.
Rated 05 Sep 2015
spaceflohspacefloh
Rated 07 Dec 2024
70
83rd
eng;[the simpsons -- SERIE]; Eine Familie mit satirischen Erzählungen über das leben; {Folgen: S01E05}; (ikonisch);
Rated 07 Dec 2024
kopkop
Rated 01 Oct 2024
0
0th
contrary to everyone else, I will rate for what the show is now. People do not get that is not that Simpsons become not great (a very forgivable thing given it lasted so long, see 'south park': diminished results but mostly still south park) but it is actively bad, and more than that it is not the Simpsons. And that, Simpsons 2.0 IS worse than a lot of bad tv shows from its time (1998-2024). It is worse than big bang theory. It is worse than two and a half man. It is worse than Big Mouth.
Rated 01 Oct 2024
iknowspidermaniknowspiderman
Rated 27 Aug 2024
100
86th
LOVE IT SO MUCH
Rated 27 Aug 2024
pizzafacepizzaface
Rated 03 Oct 2021
55
42nd
it's impossible to rate, first few seasons were great when it was still satire, and now as a mainstream franchise that is not allowed to die, i would minus 5 point for every additional season it will inevitably get, there has a to be a cutoff somewhere
Rated 03 Oct 2021
jarobmuljarobmul
Rated 04 Aug 2021
83
88th
Obviously this score is not really taking recent seasons into consideration.
Rated 04 Aug 2021
oaicoaic
Rated 26 Jun 2021
50
23rd
How to rate a show like the Simpsons? For about eight years, it was one of the best thing ever. But for 24 years it has been mostly pretty bad, which is worse than every bad show that's ever existed. It's also so deeply embedded in pop culture (especially for people more-or-less my age) that it's impossible to have a reasonable point of view about it.
Rated 26 Jun 2021
cosmicmonkeyCosmicMonkey
Rated 26 Mar 2021
75
49th
How do you rate something like this? During the first 8 or 9 Seasons it was one of the best shows on Television at the time, and was probably the singular most influential piece of 90s pop culture; however those early seasons feel dated nowadays in its values and humour, a product of its era whose once sharply satirical bite has been dulled over time. This, of course, was followed by 20+ seasons of mediocrity which long overstayed anyone's welcome. Best Episode: "Marge vs. the Monorail"
Rated 26 Mar 2021
edwardedward
Rated 30 Aug 2020
90
82nd
It feels a bit insincere giving a show that's been ungodly awful for the past twenty years such a high score, but those first nine seasons were unbeatable. I can watch those episodes any time and still find pleasure. This seems to be the consensus. Makes me wonder who's still watching.
Rated 30 Aug 2020
hadleyreisHadleyreis
Rated 04 Apr 2020
98
99th
Seasons 2-9
Rated 04 Apr 2020
akatemossfanAKateMossFan
Rated 14 Mar 2020
30
59th
antonio_pAntonio P
Rated 24 Oct 2019
80
90th
First couple of Seasons this was great. Especially if you compare the first 3 Seasons to Family Guy's first 3 Seasons. This was way better. But now that it's Season 31 this has been trash. The 1st Season concentrated more on a story line. Also Homer was not dumb for some reason. He was sharp and would chase Bart. Then they made him dumb. I liked it when I was a kid. I think they ought to get this off the air now.
Rated 24 Oct 2019
nacho353Nacho353
Rated 06 Sep 2019
40
39th
I like it more as a piece of pop culture than as a TV series
Rated 06 Sep 2019
walkearthwalkearth
Rated 10 Jun 2019
55
47th
Up to season 25E08 - dropped there. Phenomenal early seasons, went bad quickly afterwards. The tipping point were overt satanic chants - a great symptom of the decline of the American (and Western) family as an institution. From a family-friendly show it started feeling more like a covert operation instead. Alas it's a shame, as seasons 2-8 roughly are pure TV gold and a cultural phenomenon we may never get anything resembling.
Rated 10 Jun 2019
gogolitgogolit
Rated 20 May 2019
90
96th
Obviously near impossible to rate as it fell off a cliff precisely after series 10, but 1-10 = best in show.
Rated 20 May 2019
kgbelliveaukgbelliveau
Rated 06 May 2019
80
50th
30 plus years for a cartoon comedy about a misfit family from Springfield. Who saw this coming? The animation craze this show spawned and is still responsible for. This show has so many impacts on pop culture and the world. Check one of the many Simpsons predicted it first videos circling the web and it will fully put into perspective just how big this show has become. The current iteration is far from the greatest television offered today but still this show will always have my respect.
Rated 06 May 2019
dmcrimsonDMCrimson
Rated 13 Mar 2019
84
88th
How am I supposed to accurately rate the show I obsessed over when growing up that also features 20 years of mediocrity?
Rated 13 Mar 2019
tulkas_iitulkas_
Rated 08 Feb 2019
80
35th
Classic!
Rated 08 Feb 2019
dasmaymaydasMaymay
Rated 25 Jan 2019
92
98th
Rating for seasons 3 to 8.
Rated 25 Jan 2019
vv238vv238
Rated 24 Nov 2018
81
86th
A show that has gone on for far too long that it becomes easy to forget just how awesome this show was in its early years. The Simpsons once boasted the greatest density of high-quality jokes, the sharpest satire, and wittiest parody and later paved the way for every single important animated show that existed (or exists) in the Western hemisphere.
Rated 24 Nov 2018
the_beastThe Beast
Rated 21 Nov 2018
6
56th
Very mediocre, very comfortable, exactly what you expect from standard American television. By now, the vast majority of the show has been bad, and the nostalgia of the early seasons seems to cause fans to forget that the last 16 seasons of this show have been outright uninteresting. Solid premises and jokes are lost to poor delivery, and lack of timing. The satire is clearly evident, but that doesn't elevate it in any way... it's just there.
Rated 21 Nov 2018
war_machineWar Machine
Rated 13 Oct 2018
90
93rd
S1missingtatingsbutmaybe85++iwasmoreintoit/theres90++ratedeps+S2-82andwasprobbetteroverallthanS1+S3sofari'mgiving80stoepsifeelwerebetterthanonesiratedhighercuzi'mlessintoitnow-buttheyreallyhitastridearoundep9-someoftheirbestbutavg78+
Rated 13 Oct 2018
xophorosxophoros
Rated 18 Mar 2018
5
81st
I love the Simpsons whenever it comes on and I would never sit down just to watch it. I guess that's it.
Rated 18 Mar 2018
daisoujouDaisoujou
Rated 02 Jan 2018
85
72nd
Like most other raters, I'm choosing to selectively ignore what the show has become.
Rated 02 Jan 2018
dogboi360dogboi360
Rated 24 Sep 2017
70
37th
I want to give it a higher score purely for the first 8 seasons but the newer seasons just drag it down so much.
Rated 24 Sep 2017
pyrosexualpyrosexual
Rated 26 Jul 2017
90
90th
Rating applies to first 10 seasons only...
Rated 26 Jul 2017
vandelay1Vandelay1
Rated 31 Mar 2017
84
94th
nice series
Rated 31 Mar 2017
thedicemanTheDiceman
Rated 19 Feb 2017
90
99th
A lot of laughs have been had through the years with this show.
Rated 19 Feb 2017
auhasarderikauhasarderik
Rated 24 Dec 2016
9
93rd
At its best (first 10 years, give or take) a 9ish, then slided quickly into a 7ish, and later seasons (last 10, give or take) settled into a 6ish. This as of 2016 :)
Rated 24 Dec 2016
gyrro7gyrro7
Rated 10 Dec 2016
95
94th
mostly based on seasons 1-8ish and my fond memories of what the show used to be.
Rated 10 Dec 2016
hiromiyamotohiromiyamoto
Rated 20 Sep 2016
95
83rd
I will only review the original run of ten or so seasons, which were absolutely perfect. The last twenty are dead to me.
Rated 20 Sep 2016
daigoroDaigoro
Rated 16 Aug 2016
8
85th
Greatest show ever made if you disregard every season after the 90s.
Rated 16 Aug 2016
90scoffee90sCoffee
Rated 20 Jul 2016
95
99th
It might've gone downhill but around 10 wonderful seasons is more than enough to give it a high score. Loved it as a kid even when I didn't understand much of the references, it's even better looking back now.
Rated 20 Jul 2016
icestark7IceStark7
Rated 08 Jan 2016
95
97th
Tied for the best animated comedy with King of the Hill. It needs to die soon unfortunately or else it will start to be remembered as pathetic and not like it should be as a king.
Rated 08 Jan 2016
nilbogNilbog
Rated 29 Nov 2015
100
99th
This is just a review of the first 8 seasons (a review of the full show would be somewhere in the 50s)
Rated 29 Nov 2015
filliganFilligan
Rated 20 Nov 2015
100
99th
This review is strictly for seasons 1 to 10, as we all know the later seasons ended up departing so drastically from the original spirit of the show they're practically an entirely different show altogether. The Simpsons has been the greatest influence on my sense of humor and satirical sensibilities. I grew up with it. I can pin quotes to episodes in a snap and I'm in constant admiration of the writers who revolutionized television comedy. I still heartily laugh at its jokes to this day.
Rated 20 Nov 2015
xanadontXanadont
Rated 13 Oct 2015
5
90th
Ever since the LadyGaga episode there's been a major reform on quality control and it shows, new episodes are as good as Season 11/12 episodes. Take that as you will, Season 2-7 still justify a perfect score.
Rated 13 Oct 2015
sirrobbieSirRobbie
Rated 02 Oct 2015
100
99th
The best show on the planet.
Rated 02 Oct 2015
nothingsnothings
Rated 30 Sep 2015
80
79th
i didnt want to rate this so high since it became really terrible, but i guess its normal to focus on the good when talking about any very long running sitcom. so yea, now it sucks but when it didnt it was on of the absolute best bits of tv ever.
Rated 30 Sep 2015
spooonsspooons
Rated 22 Sep 2015
10
94th
I'm only counting seasons 1-9
Rated 22 Sep 2015
xakkmasterXakkMaster
Rated 08 Sep 2015
90
88th
Seasons 1-10: 95, Seasons 11-20: 80, Seasons 21-Present: Meh,
Rated 08 Sep 2015
mattorama12mattorama12
Rated 07 Sep 2015
94
99th
I'm rating only for the first 10ish seasons. It's hard to overstate just how sharply The Simpsons was able to satirize American culture. I feel like this show was a huge part--maybe the biggest single component--of my cultural education.
Rated 07 Sep 2015
smuhusmuhu
Rated 07 Sep 2015
68
52nd
Great show for about 220 episodes, mostly the first 9 years, but it has been mediocre to dull for the last decade and a half. -- Seasons 1 to 9: |75| -- Seasons 10 to 26: |65|.
Rated 07 Sep 2015
velvet_croweVelvet Crowe
Rated 07 Sep 2015
70
74th
The Simpsons is a pretty hard series to rate, especially given how friggin long its been on air. The first few seasons were fairly bland and garish, but after that point the series hit its stride and became comedic genius. After some point though, The Simpsons comedy became less and less effective and a lot of the time it felt like they did their best try to shove as many celebrity cameos that they could on the show. A respectable series overall, but not one I'm terribly attached to.
Rated 07 Sep 2015
hofschneiderHofschneider
Rated 06 Sep 2015
100
99th
Yes, it went of the rails somewhere around season 12 to 15... but, hey! It's the Simpsons. Pop cultures finest. It taught me how to live, it taught me how to laugh. For every moment in my life, there is a Simpsons-quote. Its the one thing everybody on this planet can agree (openly) on (otherwise sex would be on that list too).
Rated 06 Sep 2015
okkervilOkkervil
Rated 05 Sep 2015
75
76th
Possibly the hardest show to rate? Anyone with half a brain knows the first 8 to 9 Seasons are possibly the greatest thing ever to have been on television. Its decline is possibly the saddest thing ever to have happened to the small screen, and whenever a episode comes on and it's in widescreen you know not to waste your time. Many post 2000 episodes are utterly unwatchable. Even so the 90's seasons are unrivalled.
Rated 05 Sep 2015
ag0stomesmerAg0stoMesmer
Rated 05 Sep 2015
3
73rd
Hard to rate but, more hit than miss over all -for now.
Rated 05 Sep 2015

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