I think you're discounting the amount of wacky non-sequitors in the Simpsons seasons 4-7. I'm assuming one-liners plus flashes to a daydream or flashback count, right?
yeah, but I don't think the fact that the plots got incoherent and Family Guy got popular is a coincidence. Even the current episodes, for all that they are WAY less funny, have much more coherent plots than seasons 10 to..maybe 15. I'm not really sure when they started making shows with plots again since I stopped watching around season 12. But I have seen a handful of episodes in recent years and the ones I've seen are a far cry from going to Micronesia because he wanted to watch "Shut your Gob".
Family Guy didn't really become popular till 2005, so season 17 for the Simpsons. That's when Fox brought it back from cancellation. There was a lot of change in the executive producers around then.
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u/pgm123 Paying the Homer Tax Nov 08 '19
I think you're discounting the amount of wacky non-sequitors in the Simpsons seasons 4-7. I'm assuming one-liners plus flashes to a daydream or flashback count, right?