Ahora no tengo ganas de ponerme a buscar, pero me suena que la serie de Los Simpsons entró en declive en el momento en que los creadores originales, que eran todos americanos "raritos" (Matt Groening era menonita y se crió en una familia de habla alemana; luego había muchos judíos, que son los únicos en EEUU con capacidad de parir guiones con inteligencia), fueron siendo sustituidos por los típicos guionistas rednecks con la típica cultura de zampabollos americanos en plan guión de American Pie.
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@Paletik "Paletov" Pasha, que a mí me da pereza.
En este artículo de 2003 le echan la culpa a Mike Scully cuando fue productor ejecutivo a partir de la temporada 9
Who’s to blame for this state of events? Some of the die-hard fans who populate the news group
alt.tv.simpsons have settled on a “lone gunman” theory—that one man single-handedly brought down TV’s Camelot. One problem: They don’t agree on who’s hiding in the book depository. Many fans finger
Mike Scully, who served as executive producer for Seasons 9 through 12 (generally considered the show’s nadir). Others target writer
Ian Maxtone-Graham. Scully and Maxtone-Graham, both of whom joined the show after it had already been on the air for several seasons, are cited as evidence that
The Simpsons lost touch with what made it popular in the beginning—Matt Groening’s and James L. Brooks’ conception of an animated TV family that was more realistic than the live-action Huxtables and Keatons and Seavers who populated 1980s television. Unlike other TV families, for example, the Simpsons would go to church, have money problems, and watch television.
But under Scully’s tenure,
The Simpsons became, well, a cartoon. In A.O. Scott’s
Slate “
Assessment” of Matt Groening, he wrote that Groening is “committed to using cartoons as a way of addressing reality.” But in recent years,
The Simpsons has become an inversion of this. The show now uses reality as a way of addressing itself, a cartoon. This past Sunday’s episode antiestéticatured funny references to
Spongebob Squarepants, the WNBA, Ken Burns, Tony Soprano, and Fox programming, but the Simpsons themselves, and the rest of the Springfield populace, have become empty vessels for one-liners and sight gags, just like the characters who inhabit other sitcoms.
Who turned The Simpsons into a cartoon?