The Decline of The Simpsons:
What Disney Needs To Do To Erase History
The Simpsons has been a worldwide cultural phenomenon, as well as a multi-billion dollar success for awhile now; having first aired three decades ago with the characters having appeared even longer than that. But you knew that already.
What you probably didn’t know (unless you are a die-hard fan of the series such as myself) is how much it costed Fox to keep the show on the air before the Disney takeover. The Simpsons has six main voice actors who have done a great job; but is it worth $300,000-$500,000 an episode for each voice actor's salary when the show is now out of quality and ideas? Not to mention production costs such as marketing and distribution?
That in and of itself brings up numerous topic points. We could go all day raving about how spoiled and entitled actors and actresses are. But that is not the point of this article, and frustrating as it may be, this won't really change the fact that The Simpsons has been out of ideas and quality for 15-20+ years (depending on the fan you ask).
The show probably won't go away for another couple of years, if not more. Renewed for its thirty-first and thirty-second seasons just before the Disney acquisition, fans are rolling their eyes at both these announcements (rightfully so as Disneyfication is very much a real problem with the media industry; more on that later. As well as the fact that the show is really suffering from lack of quality).
Does this necessarily mean that it's over for The Simpsons seeing how it is a massive success? The answer unfortunately is yes. And now without further ado, here is what Disney needs to do to put the show out of their misery.
Step One: Cancel the Show
It is the inevitable sad fact that we the fans must face. The show just isn't what it used to be and will never go back to it's glory days back in the early 90s to roughly 2004’ish. So before Disney makes it worse than they already did in that 45-second clip they recently released, they need to cut all ties to the show. It's over. It's been over for fifteen years.
Step Two: Keep it on Disney+
The announcement that every episode ever until the end of Season 30 would be on the already big streaming service this upcoming November was brilliant beyond comprehension. Before Disney screws anything up, they need to first end the show and keep the rights.
Step Three: Watch the Money Roll In
Like Disney always does.
And that is really it. That is all that Disney needs to do to keep the show from getting any worse before it completely dies. Is it sad? Yes. But this is reality and we can't run from it any longer.
