As perhaps the only person who’s watched any episode of The Simpsons made in the past few years, I’m giving myself the extra challenge of picking an episode made after 2016, long after the show had exhausted whatever quality or good will might have remained up to that point. (Case in point: that fucking Elon Musk episode of the show. No, I will never shut up about it; it’s just that awful.)
You know, I genuinely tried to find an episode from this period that’s worth watching, but the closest thing I got was The Road to Cincinnati. It’s one of the rare late Simpsons episodes that, rather than treat the characters as vehicles for unfunny gags or desperate attempts at remaining socially relevant, makes some effort to ground the story in their personalities and relationships, and even then, it doesn’t fully understand how to achieve that goal. Plus they throw in a weak Steamed Hams reference just because this is the Chalmers and Skinner episode.
That being said, it’s still miles better than anything Family Guy or South Park has put out in recent years.
