@@stephenbyerly5887 Indeed, the crossover we always needed, while Itchy and Scratchy blow each other up Speedoman will impress the ladies, and boys who love Speedoman, right Millhouse?
That's what the Simpsons basically was, in a way. They were describing what was great about their own show. But over time it just got more and more off the wall and less down to earth.
I love how the executive becomes enraged and then yells how stupid the kids are causing Ralph to cry and turn the knob to no. This is such a great scene.
And yet, in the Simpsons Universe, the kids just went outside and played when they got tired of it. They didn't go and complain on the internet about it for 25 years. Well, except maybe Comic Book Guy. :p
Just a funny backstory to this episode: Network recommended creators of the Simpsons to introduce new reoccurring character. This episode was their response. They introduced new character in Itchy and Scratchy show, brutally murdered him at the end and promised he is never coming back. It's basically a big middle finger to the Fox
@@AnakinSkywalker_1858 You’re absolutely right, there’s tons of jokes about Nelson having repressed homosexual tendencies all throughout the Simpsons, this is just one of many
The meta commentary here on how the Simpsons ended up developing is incredible. Those early writers were so good they knew where the whole thing was going.
The thing is the writers didn’t realize this was the early seasons. This was season 8, shows usually didn’t last longer than that and it was already an impressive feat. The writers thought this would be the last season
but the problem with the simpsons is different, because the show is not good as ever. the show completely changed. the issue is that the writing is poor now, not that the show lost its impact from being on air too long.
That right there at the end was the most prepared corporate lawyer in the universe. He somehow anticipated that Lisa would "save Itchy & Scratchy" so he had legal papers drawn up that would ensure that Lisa (if she signed them) would waive her creative rights thereof. Brilliantly prescient piece of lawyering.
He likely had papers drawn up in any event that someone would make a breakthrough and then get them to relinquish creative rights. Not specifically saying she or anyone saved the show in this manor
"I need to purchase a brassiere." Well that language apparently worked on 10-year-old me. I have no memory of Marge saying she was buying a bra in that scene.
good ol' Alex Rocco. whether he be a bookie on a sitcom or a cartoon company's owner on The Simpsons he'll always be a memorable voice in television and movies! R.I.P.
I love his voiceover at the end of that episode. "I have to go now, my home planet needs me.." "Whoop!" (slide whistle and obvious frame removal) Flash to a crudely drawn title card reading 'Note: Poochie died on the way to his home planet' 😆
@@silentsmurf you got it. I used to work in one. We also would give out temporary cards for people who forgot to bring theirs. (It was so long ago we had to look up the number on microfiche!) and processed returns.
@@jonathanturbide2232 the thing is tomorrow's generation eventually grow up and they too discover by watching old Simpsons by chance and realise wow! this was awesome and go on CZcams to voice their opinion also. So you get the same thing being repeated 1000s of times until The Simpsons actually do something about it.
I like how they threw in one random generic kid, otherwise they all would've have all just been recognizable characters from the show, little details like that.
realistic, down to earth show, that is completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots. fits so many good shows. Futurama, Regular Show, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, Megas XLR and more shows and more shows than that I'm sure, I just can't think of anymore off the top of my head
My sister and I were approached like this at a mall. We were tasting chips in a room when I just got a bad vibe and said we need to go. I do believe it really was a market research set up but I just realized we were isolated from the mall open area. Unlike in a store, I couldn’t look out into the rest of the mall, I was in a room inside and that meant no one else could see me either. Nope.
My friend and I had a similar experience, but it was testing the new style of inhaler that came out with drugs like Advair. They wanted to see how intuitive its use was for kids
When you think about it, the "realistic, down to earth show that's completely of the wall and swarming with magic robots" is basically just Futurama (just replace magic with scifi)
I appreciate the effort the animators made toward showing the wiring for all the knobs. They probably could have gotten away with just having 6 boxes on the table. lol
Lisa’s words hit true for everything popular/faddish. It gives me hope knowing that the things I don’t like today in pop culture will eventually fade away.
Wrong lol. The things happening in pop culture are the result of a top-down social engineering psy-op. Things will never go back to how they were in 1990-2010.
do they still have the occasional heart throbbing moments? like for example from older simpsons: homer's mom leaving homer but this time homer is awake and it ends at homer just staring at stars,maggie saying daddy and then falling asleep but there was nobody else around,marge waking up in alone in the bed after homer had moved to chair when 24 hours prior homer had received notice that he would have only 24 hours to live due eating badly prepared fugu fish.
This actually happened to me in 2000. I was 10 years old and was walking at the mall when these 2 older men in suits approached me and asked if I wanted to come with them and take a survey. Back then it didn't seem creepy to me so I said ok. Turned out they were employees at Pixar studios and they showed me an early version of Monster Inc and they wanted a kid's opinion on the film before they finished the final version. They showed me about an hours worth of the film and asked me so many questions at the end.
Marge: “Don’t talk to strangers and be careful.” Bart and Lisa: “Okay mom, thanks mom.” Complete Stranger: “How’d you kids like to come with me.” Bart and Lisa: “YEAH!!!” 🤦🏼♂️
I once participated in a focus group (not as a kid though and not about a cartoon show), and the room looked pretty much like the one in this clip. We were sat at a large table with a bunch of knobs (although we didn't use them because they weren't required for the topic that the group was about) and there was a large mirror on the back wall which, although I could still see my reflection quite clearly, didn't entirely hide the people sitting in the room next door listening to what we were saying (and instructing the guy what questions to ask us).
I think it's hilarious that Lisa is poking fun at the fact that The Simpsons was no longer in its prime...... this episode is from 1997...... the show is still running.
Hard to believe there was a time when Simpsons episodes didn't have the supposedly average family meeting a celebrity by chance & imitating every bit they do because that's supposedly normal & funny.
One of the funny things to me is that the kids expectations aren't actually mutually exclusive. Several shows today are realistic in a lot of ways, while having magical robots lol
@@sunnyztmoney If we're talking specifically robots in addition to realism. Futurama Rick and Morty If they just mean random supernatural elements in addition to realism. Regular Show Nichijou Mob Psycho Bojack Horseman Probably plenty of others.
lol this show prepared me for real life. No joke I couldn't have been more than 14 and a woman approached me an my friend at a mall in a situation that played out very similar to this and wanted to do market research on a movie (the transporter I believe). they us gave 20 dollars gift card for the mall. I was asked not to tap the glass...
Now to be honest, the writers could have been referencing neon Genesis. But really, this was a 90s show. The big magical robot 90s show that would get the biggest laugh if referenced was power rangers. But there were other very popular robot shows with down to earth problems depicted in shows. As fantastical as they were at times. Transformers and Voltron we're also very big.
One kid seems to LOVE the speedo guy
But who was it?
He sure turned my knob too....
@@breadcanful5365 1:18 Technically Milhouse, though it was Nelson turning the knob.
@@breadcanful5365 Thrillo.
What episode is this
"ONE KID SEEMS TO LOVE THE SPEEDO MAN!" never fails to crack me up.
'What more do they want?'
@@adamsanter9385 More speedo men?
ITCHY & SCRATCHY & SPEEDO MAN
@@stephenbyerly5887 Indeed, the crossover we always needed, while Itchy and Scratchy blow each other up Speedoman will impress the ladies, and boys who love Speedoman, right Millhouse?
😂
"So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show, that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots"
How Regular Show was born
The funny thing is, regular show did a pretty good job lmao🤣
Mob psycho did a surprisingly good job at it too!
This is exactly why regular show is the freatest
It won’t let me edit my comment
That's what the Simpsons basically was, in a way. They were describing what was great about their own show. But over time it just got more and more off the wall and less down to earth.
Ralph turning the knob to red after he starts crying makes it extra funny
What episode is this
@@snakemaster1251 Season 8 episode 14: The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
@@hitstickrikk3669 When will they get to the fireworks?!
The fact that you had to actually typed that out just made everything…..so much less funny. Ya big fkn derp.
So well done
Giving the mirror the thumbs up after covering for the sneeze 😂 this whole scene is perfect
Stealth 👍🤣
I love how the executive becomes enraged and then yells how stupid the kids are causing Ralph to cry and turn the knob to no.
This is such a great scene.
Lisa telling the harsh truth about the Simpsons running for 34 seasons.
The Itchy and Scratchy and Lady Gaga Show
I don't know about the "as good as ever" part. The decline in quality is very apparent
And yet, in the Simpsons Universe, the kids just went outside and played when they got tired of it. They didn't go and complain on the internet about it for 25 years. Well, except maybe Comic Book Guy. :p
Ironic, huh?
Minus the part about it being "as good as ever" though which it most certainly is not.
"Please refrain from tasting the knob"
I think my missus was given the same advice...
@@JohnRock14 LOL
🥵
Words to live by
That’s what he said
"Please refrain from tasting the knob" will never not get a laugh out of me.
thats what her mom said XD
@@rg1649 "Lets see how long before someone comments with an exact quote of what we just saw." -IRL Comic Book Guy
‘Tasting’ instead of ‘eating’ makes it pop
@@rg1649 Worst. Comment. Ever.
Needless to say I was saying so on the internet within seconds.
My knob tastes funny.
Milhouse saying "Also, you should win things by watching'" for some reason always cracks me up.
Typical greedy kid.
@@lw3646that's why they're still kids, cause they're stupid!
Just a funny backstory to this episode: Network recommended creators of the Simpsons to introduce new reoccurring character. This episode was their response. They introduced new character in Itchy and Scratchy show, brutally murdered him at the end and promised he is never coming back. It's basically a big middle finger to the Fox
"and and promised he is never coming back"
and he came back at least once.
And don’t forget Roy 😂
yeah hi roy
Roy has been in every episode. He's as integral to the show as Graggle
Put a sock in it Roy
That part when the muscular guy appears on the screen and Nelson turns Milhouse’s knob to green will never not be funny 😆
He was using milhouse as an outlet…
@@AnakinSkywalker_1858 its not that deep...
@@AnakinSkywalker_1858 this guy loves the speedo guy part
@@AnakinSkywalker_1858 You’re absolutely right, there’s tons of jokes about Nelson having repressed homosexual tendencies all throughout the Simpsons, this is just one of many
@@AnakinSkywalker_1858 No I’m pretty sure he was making fun of Milhouse
"So you want a realistic down to earth show that's completely off the wall and full of magic robots?"
And thus, Futurama was born.
And revived.
@@TheRealTestFry2024 and then revived again
I came here to say this
I came
More like Neon Genesis Evangelion.
The meta commentary here on how the Simpsons ended up developing is incredible. Those early writers were so good they knew where the whole thing was going.
The thing is the writers didn’t realize this was the early seasons. This was season 8, shows usually didn’t last longer than that and it was already an impressive feat. The writers thought this would be the last season
but the problem with the simpsons is different, because the show is not good as ever. the show completely changed. the issue is that the writing is poor now, not that the show lost its impact from being on air too long.
@@shellyb6926"That's it little girl! You saved the Simpsons!"
"Please sign this paper indicating that you did not save the Simpsons."
Cool internet word alert!
Meta
They were already running out of ideas by this point in the show, hence this scene.
@1:26 "They like Itchy, they like Scratchy....one kid seems to LOVE the Speedo man" XD
What more do they want
That right there at the end was the most prepared corporate lawyer in the universe. He somehow anticipated that Lisa would "save Itchy & Scratchy" so he had legal papers drawn up that would ensure that Lisa (if she signed them) would waive her creative rights thereof. Brilliantly prescient piece of lawyering.
That’s the joke 🙈
He likely had papers drawn up in any event that someone would make a breakthrough and then get them to relinquish creative rights. Not specifically saying she or anyone saved the show in this manor
@@geg6315 what’s wrong with you guys, seriously wondering, unless you’re kids then ok but otherwise..?
@@Soskouy Overthinking silly things is a lot of fun to a lot of people.
@@Soskouy I’m enjoying myself
I love Ralph Wiggum. Too pure for this world.
Finally , someone who gets it!!!🙌🤍🕊
He tells me to burn things...
When people write how characters are too pure for this world, what does that mean? Are they saying that they should die?
I just thought about the poor kid in the next group who gets to handle the chewed-on knob lmfao
@@Steveman27 Yep. it means Ralph is dumb and would've died quickly in the real world.
"After so many years the characters just can't have the same impact they once had." -- story of The Simpsons.
he got the joke. way to go champ!
"Would you kids like to come with me???"
This episode contains the best opening segment in my opinion.
His voice, the timing, it's just perfect.
"I need to purchase a brassiere."
Well that language apparently worked on 10-year-old me. I have no memory of Marge saying she was buying a bra in that scene.
They probably censored it for tv
not going to lie until you just said that i had no idea what as a brassiere was lol(i am assuming it means bra lol.)
@@gorginhanson Bra is just short for brassiere. It’s not censored.
I love how well Simpsons writers understand what a kid is and how their brain works. Makes the jokes funnier and wholesome moments wholesome-ier.
Lawyer popping out of nowhere pressuring you to sign something is the most realistic part
good ol' Alex Rocco. whether he be a bookie on a sitcom or a cartoon company's owner on The Simpsons he'll always be a memorable voice in television and movies! R.I.P.
The Itchie and Scratchy company owner died? RIP ;(
Also he played Moe Green in the Godfather Part II and voiced the Gommorah's leader right hand man "Sal" in Fallout New Vegas.
Moe fucking Greene???! 😱
How did i NOT know this?
RIP 😭😭😭😭
He also played Jo Polincheck's father on the Facts of Life.
I love his voiceover at the end of that episode. "I have to go now, my home planet needs me.."
"Whoop!" (slide whistle and obvious frame removal)
Flash to a crudely drawn title card reading 'Note: Poochie died on the way to his home planet' 😆
lmao I always laughed at that part where Nelson keeps turning Millhouse's knob and they think he really loves the Speedo Man 😂
I don’t get it, what does it mean he likes speedo man?
@@beavermuffin that he likes hunky males.....
@@danielleking262 Do you like the speedo man? By the way, if I'm not mistaken, I think Milhouse prefers girls over dudes.
Why are all the people dumb under your comment?
@@beavermuffinIt makes Milhouse look gay. That’s the joke.
Speedo Man needs his own show.
Simpsons is now owned by Disney, so it's possible.
DevilFish69 seems to LOVE the Speedo man!
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Johnny Bravo
With Milhouse as his sidekick, Noseplug Boy.
When Nelson reaches over and starts turning Milhouses button I lost it.🤣⚰️
A credit department in a department store? My God, this show HAS been on forever!
What’s a credit department
even back then it was a thing that was over, but i'm old enough to just remember these, and department stores- they were great places
@@dont-want-no-wrench what’s a credit store?
@@newjerseyyouth4853 it’s where people could make payments on their dept store credit card. It’s so long ago though, not super certain
@@silentsmurf you got it. I used to work in one. We also would give out temporary cards for people who forgot to bring theirs. (It was so long ago we had to look up the number on microfiche!) and processed returns.
0:37 the sneeze / the thump of the mirror never fails to make me laugh. 😁😂
a realistic, down-to-earth show, that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots
nichijou
Yhaa, that checks out
Neon genesis evangelion
I can’t stop replaying the part with Ralph crying after the mirror clicks off
Some sketchy guy comes around the corner and Bart and Lisa immediately agree to come with him lol.
Lmao "that one kid LOVES the speedo man."
The timing of the lawyer always kills me
"So you want a realistic down to earth show. That's completely of the wall and swarming with magic robots" 😂
They were giving a subtle shout-out to the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion
Sounds like Steven Universe.
Basically Ricky and Morty on [adult swim]
Why is that mirror sneezing? 😂😂😂😂😂
"Ah--look its just an old creaky mirror ya know. It might sound like it's sneezing, coughing, or talking softly!"
🤔
@@Tylerpierre99 Thumbing the mirror
@warreng675 *Lisa being highly suspicious* 🤨🤔
I don’t get it…..
@@Tylerpierre99👍😂
"One kid seems to love the speedo man"
He couldn't refrain from tasting the knob
I don’t get it, what does it mean?
@@beavermuffin it means he's gae
1:34 Neon genesis evangelion is what the kids want.
True
FLCL
yes
And also you should win things by watching.
Like depression.
Isn't that the supposedly realistic, down to earth anime, that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?
This cartoon will always be a masterpiece😊.
The bit that gets me is the lawyer appearing next to Lisa with disclaimer papers to sign.
Definitely missed the Millhouse joke when i was a kid 😂
Wow the writing was gold back then. I laughed more in this two minute clip than I did in a whole recent episode of the Simpsons.
That's cuz the show back then was written like a cartoon where nowadays its written like a sitcom.
Wow what an original comment, it's not like thousands of people didn't comment the exact same thing previously. 🙄
@@jonathanturbide2232 and praise be to you for pointing it out! Oh where oh where would any of us be if it were not for you and your witty comment
@@jonathanturbide2232 the thing is tomorrow's generation eventually grow up and they too discover by watching old Simpsons by chance and realise wow! this was awesome and go on CZcams to voice their opinion also. So you get the same thing being repeated 1000s of times until The Simpsons actually do something about it.
💯
Ralph’s reaction is one of my favorite Simpsons moments ever.
I like how they threw in one random generic kid, otherwise they all would've have all just been recognizable characters from the show, little details like that.
2:27 Lisa just described The Simpsons today
@Frank Lloyd Wright instant gratification
Described the last 20 years
realistic, down to earth show, that is completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots. fits so many good shows.
Futurama, Regular Show, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, Megas XLR and more shows and more shows than that I'm sure, I just can't think of anymore off the top of my head
My sister and I were approached like this at a mall. We were tasting chips in a room when I just got a bad vibe and said we need to go. I do believe it really was a market research set up but I just realized we were isolated from the mall open area. Unlike in a store, I couldn’t look out into the rest of the mall, I was in a room inside and that meant no one else could see me either. Nope.
Wait so it was a corporate marketing team orrrr it wasn’t?
good instincts regardless
My friend and I had a similar experience, but it was testing the new style of inhaler that came out with drugs like Advair. They wanted to see how intuitive its use was for kids
When you think about it, the "realistic, down to earth show that's completely of the wall and swarming with magic robots" is basically just Futurama (just replace magic with scifi)
Thanks for reenabling the comments. Love this clip
I appreciate the effort the animators made toward showing the wiring for all the knobs. They probably could have gotten away with just having 6 boxes on the table. lol
Lisa’s words hit true for everything popular/faddish. It gives me hope knowing that the things I don’t like today in pop culture will eventually fade away.
Wrong lol. The things happening in pop culture are the result of a top-down social engineering psy-op. Things will never go back to how they were in 1990-2010.
or evolve into something worse
@@SimonFallheart This guy is right. Culture always degenerates and rarely improves
Of course. That's why they're called fads.
@@gastheleft6535 So most people have never experienced a "healthy" culture in their lives.
Ah, the good ol' days. When Ralph Wiggum did more than one-liners beginning with "I'm a..."
Unitard
Start with the song Ralph Wiggum by the Bloodhound Gang. "Was President Lincoln okay?"
They taste like burning
@@mattyboyanderson That's where I saw the leprechaun. He told me to burn things.
2:22 that is exactly what happened to The Simpsons 🤣
do they still have the occasional heart throbbing moments? like for example from older simpsons: homer's mom leaving homer but this time homer is awake and it ends at homer just staring at stars,maggie saying daddy and then falling asleep but there was nobody else around,marge waking up in alone in the bed after homer had moved to chair when 24 hours prior homer had received notice that he would have only 24 hours to live due eating badly prepared fugu fish.
So who else is just binge watching Simpsons clips? 😂
2:21 The Simpsons predicted the future again! This time, with self-referential humor.
Even since I watched this episide as a kid, I've wanted to be in a focus group....still hasn't happened.
You see, the problem is that youre not focused enough on focus groups…
I almost did 30 years ago at one mall.
2:27 Lisa predicted the future
That guy came up with those papers indicating she didn't save itchy and scratchy fairly quickly.
This actually happened to me in 2000. I was 10 years old and was walking at the mall when these 2 older men in suits approached me and asked if I wanted to come with them and take a survey. Back then it didn't seem creepy to me so I said ok. Turned out they were employees at Pixar studios and they showed me an early version of Monster Inc and they wanted a kid's opinion on the film before they finished the final version. They showed me about an hours worth of the film and asked me so many questions at the end.
Did you have to sign a waiver indicating that you did not save Monsters Inc ?
I call BS on this
Marge: “Don’t talk to strangers and be careful.”
Bart and Lisa: “Okay mom, thanks mom.”
Complete Stranger: “How’d you kids like to come with me.”
Bart and Lisa: “YEAH!!!” 🤦🏼♂️
Marge can be a worse parent than Homer at times. I mean, she let Lisa go on a late-night date with Nelson.
I thought, at least Bart would of said no
Yes, that's the joke
It's like they put that joke there on purpose.
*that's the joke*
I never say "please refrain from tasting the knob."
1:53 he just describes The Amazing World of Gumball and Regular Show
I once participated in a focus group (not as a kid though and not about a cartoon show), and the room looked pretty much like the one in this clip. We were sat at a large table with a bunch of knobs (although we didn't use them because they weren't required for the topic that the group was about) and there was a large mirror on the back wall which, although I could still see my reflection quite clearly, didn't entirely hide the people sitting in the room next door listening to what we were saying (and instructing the guy what questions to ask us).
Did the knob taste funny?
Please refrain from eating the knobs
I want to see the blue haired laywer's credentials at least once in this lifetime.
He went to Vassar
0:15 If an old man suddenly sprung out of nowhere and said that, my stranger danger alarm would go off and I'd run a mile!
Didn't ask
0:13 Love Bart and Lisa's faces. 😀
I think it's hilarious that Lisa is poking fun at the fact that The Simpsons was no longer in its prime...... this episode is from 1997...... the show is still running.
And even then it still had some good shows.
Hard to believe there was a time when Simpsons episodes didn't have the supposedly average family meeting a celebrity by chance & imitating every bit they do because that's supposedly normal & funny.
1:25 I really do love the line read here. You can tell he is really trying to figure things out than just be like some evil producer.
The sneeze still gets a laugh out of me.
1:54 basically the kids want neon genesis evangelion
And "End of Evangelion" was that answer!
Simpsons predicted their own future with this one
"So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show, that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots"....... So Evangelion basically?
One kid seems to love the speedo man
😂😂😂
i love when they're saying "Yeah sounds good let's go!" their mouths come to a stop on the exact same frame in the exact same way
1:34
And this is how Futurama was made
‘please refrain from tasting the knob’
One of the funny things to me is that the kids expectations aren't actually mutually exclusive. Several shows today are realistic in a lot of ways, while having magical robots lol
Name several
The good ol A plot B plot formula.
Sound like Evagalion
@@sunnyztmoney
If we're talking specifically robots in addition to realism.
Futurama
Rick and Morty
If they just mean random supernatural elements in addition to realism.
Regular Show
Nichijou
Mob Psycho
Bojack Horseman
Probably plenty of others.
Regular show episodes start out as some guys having fun at work, then turn into them battling robots from another dimension
still one of the best jokes in the series 1:19
I dont get it, whats special about that?
@@PRubin-rh4sr mill house gay lol
Blue haired lawyer had the paperwork ready lmao
The visual gag of turning the light on, yelling and then turning it off is just genius.
Never realized the guy was talking about Gundam when he said a "realistic show about robots"
I like how the guy who initially seems like a child-you-know-whatter turns out to be a market researcher. 😄🤣
Please signs these papers indicating that you did not save Itchy and Scratchy
He described Regular Show lmfao
I miss when The Simpsons was still good. This is Classic!
THIS IS THE TYPE OF COMEDY THAT MADE THE SIMPSONS LEGENDARY.
Some of these comments are from 5yrs ago it's like a time capsule
Please refrain from tasting the nob! (Nintendo Switch cartridges) 🥁
"Please refrain from tasting the nob."
Then many years later, Nintendo would be inspired to flavor their Switch games.
lol this show prepared me for real life. No joke I couldn't have been more than 14 and a woman approached me an my friend at a mall in a situation that played out very similar to this and wanted to do market research on a movie (the transporter I believe). they us gave 20 dollars gift card for the mall. I was asked not to tap the glass...
Lisa calling out what's wrong with modern Simpsons seasons. Damn, they really did predict everything.
Omg this is how they created Futurama
That might be my favorite Nelson gag/roast, got laughs out of everyone on and off screen
2:27 I guess Lisa just analyzed her own show
Nailed it
This show is a masterpiece
Now to be honest, the writers could have been referencing neon Genesis. But really, this was a 90s show. The big magical robot 90s show that would get the biggest laugh if referenced was power rangers. But there were other very popular robot shows with down to earth problems depicted in shows. As fantastical as they were at times. Transformers and Voltron we're also very big.
I work with kids, and when they give them surveys on how to improve the program, this is exactly what it looks like.
Please refrain from tasting the knob.
Older Simpsons were where it’s at. It had the humor, animation, story, and character development that was enjoyable. Newer stuff can’t compete.
It also had heart!
The era of top writing for this show.
Lisa does one of Marge's "hmmm"s at 0:47 lol