I didn't know they were still making new ones. It started when I was 13 years old.

LOL??? they have been playing repeats of like season 7-10 in Australia for like 10 years now...no joke

TV will never be the same without The Simpsons. Even if they arent as funny as they were a decade ago, the show still produce humorous and tasteful episodes that I can continue watching til the main voice actors are dead.

Im starting to hate Family Guy and anything Seth McFarlane does as his shows' humour needs to be extreme and distasteful alot of times in order to get a try and get a laugh.

Whoa, Whoa! Hold on guys, I'm getting SICK of people saying Simpsons suck, or that it deserves to be cancelled. While it's true it's not as funny as it once was, and the episodes tend to be hit or miss it's still a GOOD show. unlike others that try to emulate it, The Simpsons actually tried a lot of new things. Like I Said, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but at least they try. It's better than Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show put together. Easily. South Park is almost as good as it, and Robot Chicken is enjoyable because at least it doesn't overstay its welcome.

Not to mention it's still funnier and more poignant than 99% of the sitcoms on television. I'd take my LEAST favorite Simpsons episodes over Two and a Half men any day.

I find the Simpsons a lot better than American Dad, but worse than Futurama, Family Guy and South Park, although the best episodes of each series are almost equally excellent, except American Dad that for my tastes is almost always last behind the other four. For my tastes Futurama is the one that most regularly delivers high quality, followed by Family Guy. And I agree that now the Simpsons are a pale shadow of their glorious past.

It doesn't matter to me since I stopped watching it about 12 years ago.

I understand that but my reply was to his first statement which seemed to me like he was eluding to all sitcom actors not the top 1%.

Futurama > Simpsons

In fact, I'd argue that American Dad, Futurama, and South Park are more enjoyable than the Simpsons.

EDIT: I heard fairly recently that Fox wanted to do a Simpsons network.  This is really a turn of events.

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I have a hard time believing that an entire season of a sitcom costs more than a movie to make. Sitcoms generally have very low production values, and they reuse the same sets over and over again. Also, most of those shows take place indoors. The actors are probably the most expensive things about those type of shows.

Even whole seasons of 1 hour dramas are unlikely to cost more than a movie. It's simply too big of a risk to invest a lot of money in these typeof shows. A good example is Terro Nova, whose Pilot episode cost $ 20 million (I think it's the most expensive Pilot ever), and had poorer ratings than Two and a Half Men. A show would need huge ratings (American Idol levels, or more) to justify costing as much as a movie.

Most 1 hour shows cost about $ 2-3 million/episode tops, and sitcoms probably don't even cost $1 million/episode.