So when did the Simpsons start to suck?

I can tell you the exact date in which the show turned the corner: March 31, 1994, for the episode "Bart Gets an Elephant"

Now, certainly some damned good episodes have followed - particularly "You Only Move Twice" which followed two years later and is one of the best episodes the show had - but the whole Stampy episode had no good jokes, no discernable moral (believe it or not, the Simpsons use to pride themselves on having an Aesop's Fable approach) and no interesting characterizations.

The whole thing was the precursor to what the show is now - moving from when Homer was a loveable, if dimwitted father to an outright retarded idiot dumbass jerk.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by valiant

One thing for certain, I don't think there has been a terrible Treehouse of Horror Episode so far.

For someone who is "certain", you sure do "think".

And they've sucked for a number of years.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

I mean, they're certainly not up to the standard of some of the earlier stuff, but I still enjoy watching the Simpsons a lot more than, say, Family Guy or American Dad.

Similarly, I'd rather have my fingernails pulled out than have my fingers broken with a spiked bat.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Cellius

Come on.

There isn't a single funny joke the whole episode. It was just a "situational" episode that attempted to find a zillion jokes with one idea. It never works like that.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Frank Grimes was certainly one of the bigger nails in the coffin, yes

I was speaking idiomatically.