The Way They Was
You
can’t hurl a dead Snowball I across the internet without hitting an online
debate around the question: When did the longest-running sitcom in American
history jump the shark? Everyone knows “The Simpsons” today is no longer the
show it was; when did the rot set in?
As
a former bigtime Simpsons fan whose devotion fled sometime between the rise of
Britney Spears and the fall of Enron, I feel I have company in my lack of
clarity. Some cite specific episodes as their turn-off points; for me it is not that simple. Re-discovering the early Simpsons, in the form of this tie-in book
published in the second year of their 28-years-and-counting run,
brought that home.
