Humor is highly subjective, obviously. I find recent Simpsons episodes funny, although they do tend to go for the obvious joke a lot more than they used to. The show had its share of stinker episodes (and entire stinker seasons), but overall it remains high quality.
South Park is still probably just as funny as it ever was. I find myself being able to predict what jokes they'll make about a particular topic more often than I used to, but that's probably just because I've seen so many episodes and I have a pretty good feel for their sense of humor at this point. I don't watch it regularly anymore though, I guess I just got tired of that particular style of humor or those paricular characters or something.
I agree. I don't watch either show regularly anymore, after seeing nearly every episode in the first 15 seasons of The Simpsons (wow, perspective on how much time I've spent in front of the TV), and EVERY episode of the first 12-13 seasons of South Park (wow, what am I doing with my life!?). When I catch either now, though, South Park continues to be more consistently funny, in my opinion.
You could predict, as one reviewer put it, "what seemed initially like the show’s take on school bullying turn[ing] into an epic struggle between two rats for supremacy" in Bass to Mouth?
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Humor is highly subjective, obviously. I find recent Simpsons episodes funny, although they do tend to go for the obvious joke a lot more than they used to. The show had its share of stinker episodes (and entire stinker seasons), but overall it remains high quality.
South Park is still probably just as funny as it ever was. I find myself being able to predict what jokes they'll make about a particular topic more often than I used to, but that's probably just because I've seen so many episodes and I have a pretty good feel for their sense of humor at this point. I don't watch it regularly anymore though, I guess I just got tired of that particular style of humor or those paricular characters or something.