The ILX Animated Series Poll Results Thread is part of this complete breakfast

Breaking news from SILBY-TV, an entire box of uncounted ballots have been found, updated results pending.

In other news, Seth Macfarlane is reportedly sweating bullets.

https://i.imgur.com/xmyJOAK.jpg

1. Simpsons, The
452 points, 24 votes, 2 firsts

oh my god

don't know this one

trambopoline

todd reminds me of characters on mission hill, and that was a good show

I'll be honest, I wasn't sure how I was going to vote for The Simpsons, whether or not to take into account its undead inertia for the last 10+ years, or to somehow pay homage to seasons 3-5 which remain in my eyes as close to tv perfection as you can get. In the end I went a wishy-washy route and voted it at #8.

has anyone made a list of decent simpsons episodes from the last decade or so?

willing to accept it could be a blank list tbh

ah - another Mission Hill voter. i feel slightly better now.

xposts

maybe i'll work on that after i finish my guided by voices songs one

sorry buddy, I did not submit a ballot :(

I was too busy out being the grubermeister

doing some research on our poll winner

https://i.imgur.com/0XHqH2t.jpg

It's actually good to know that Bojack doesn't start well, as someone who does want to watch it soon.

Bojack starts fine and jam-packed with visual jokes, it just slowly reveals what its real point is over the first season. Waksberg rly took advantage of knowing they didn't need to keep an audience week-to-week.

tt and imago otm about bojack, voted for it in my top ten

“They say the devil is in the details, so let’s dsummon the devil”

xp to me top 5 actually, placement isn’t bad.

I also think the first half of season 1 is better in hindsight, though there’s a lot of crudeness and mean-spiritedness that’s basically entirely absent from later seasons

Yeah the crudeness put me off when i first watched. Same with Rick and Morty.

I was exactly that same wrt ranking The Simpsons - the peak era is unassailable, but the endless sucky extension sure drags it down

I don't think I'd put Bojack THAT high, but good for Bojack

tt is asking me whether The Simpsons has an apostrophe in it. it is time for bed

the simp'sons

I'm Si'mpson

what i will say about the simpson's is that there's a mid-period season - either 13 or 14 - that's really quite good compared to the few before it. think it was either s11 or s12 that sunk the reputation of pretty much all that followed, somewhat unfairly? idk there's some good mid-period stuff. i didn't vote for it. figured it wouldn't need the help

I do think Simpsons still deserves to win it - we're all voting for an old show, but that old show was exceptional. Personally, I can ignore the fact that its broken body still limps on.

No, it’s seasons 8 and 9

Xps

no i swear we were watching one of those early-teens seasons and we liked almost all of it

I'm Si'mpson

This killed me

Was somehow surprised at The Simpsons winning when I added up the points

thanks for running this btw (also leee and thinwall)

Thermo and Sibly deserve the bulk of the thanks!

I didn’t think I was so invested in the Simpsons anymore and then found I couldn’t put it anywhere in my ballot but really high. It’s rare that the reach of a show becomes so massive it actually shapes the cultures its parodying.

Thank you all pollrunners! This has been a very entertaining poll. The images were great and there’s loads to check out

Yes thanks Silby and Leee!

+Thermo

*cough*

yes thanks y'all

Thank you! This was fun.

great poll everyone thx 4 the good times

should we post ballots or nah

There’s like 30 voters so I suggest a ballot thread

Thx to the poll runners!

I really need to properly run through all the classic Simpsons seasons again. That shit was an event at its peak. It got to the point where I started telling people to not even bother trying to call me between 8-8:30 Sunday nights cuz I wasn't gonna answer that shizz.

Oop sorry Dys :D

I put Simpsons last on my ballot because 1. I knew it didn't need points, and 2. the drastic quality decrease after production season 8. (I added "production" there because the NYC episode is obviously a classic.)

Decent Zombie Simpsons episodes: Holidays of Future Passed, Barthood, Brick Like Me

I've come around a bit to the opinion of those OG writers who feel that the show was strongest just before it transformed into an unstoppable gag juggernaut. I'm not sure I agree completely, but I'm more kindly disposed toward those warmer early episodes than I was when I expected The Simpsons to provide reliable yuks.

https://www.ratingraph.com/tv_shows/the_simpsons-52128/

Wow, I don't know who these people are that still tune in. I check it out every couple years when someone cool is doing a voice or whatever and...it's just sad. It's like watching someone you used to admire drinking themselves to death.

that's a graph of user ratings on imdb. a viewer count is halfway down on this page: https://toddwschneider.com/posts/the-simpsons-by-the-data/