What's With The Simpsons?

I'm a big fan of The Simpsons, the longest running animated series on TV. I think they're up to 19 years or something now. The show has always been hopelessly politically incorrect, which is one of the things that endears it to its fans.

However, this season something has happened. The show has suddenly taken on a decidedly anti-Iraq war tone with not-too-thinly veiled criticism of the war in the past two episodes. For the first time I'm hearing "preachy" coming from the show rather than humor. It's not an attractive change.

In addition to the anti-war shots, last night's episode was basically a 30 minute anti-Army slam, which makes for pretty curious timing coming just one day after Veteran's Day. It was easily the most unfunny Simpsons episode I've ever seen (and I think I've seen them all).

Perhaps the creators of the show have finally given in to the lefty world in which they live and work and have simply run out of ideas after so many years on the air. If so, it's time to pull the plug before they cheapen the entire franchise. It was political correctness that made the show successful, not political activism. We get enough of that out of Hollywood without seeing it in a cartoon as well.