<Homer@NOSPAMFatHounds.com> wrote in message
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> "Sarah Palin: Lie, Lie, Lie, Drill Drill Drill!" <MikePaulM@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>"We've had our ups and downs, but it seems like most people who say
>>the show has gone downhill don't watch it," he says. "The latest
>>episodes are as clever, complicated, sophisticated and wild as any we
>>have ever done."
>
> All due respect to Mr Groening, "clever, complicated, sophisticated
> and wild" are NOT what made the Simpsons great. What made them great
> was
the blatant nudity (even Lisa went nearly naked when they wore nothing but
ties while on Tracy Ullman), the "who-gives-a-shit" attitude present in both
writing & animation, the fact that it looked like the whole family and
almost the entire town were suffering from a mutated viral form of jaundice
and the fact that Homer had a larger arrest record than Nick Nolte.