The Awful Simpsons Shorts of Disney Plus

The Simpsons shorts like "The Good, The Bart and the Loki" and "Plusaversary" are a bleak reminder of just how far the show has drifted from its roots. In this video, I talk about why.

[captainmidnight]

Do you still have a favorite episode of The Simpsons?

[TheVivapinsam]

Bart playing Mickey in a short...remember when the Simpsons Movie literally had bart wear a bra and say "I'm the mascot of an evil corporation"

[InDeathWeLove]

The irony of Lisa being the one to do the song advertising and glorifying Disney a mega media congrolomorate when she is the most leftie anti-establishment character in the show. Shows you how much respect there is for the characters.

[boatymcboatface]

The fact that The Simpsons is becoming the puppet of Disney is a joke in itself.

[graphitetailgrace]

I love how a majority of the older Disney characters look utterly miserable in the clips you showed. Goofy was the happiest looking and even he's been driven to drinking.

[ARealPersonNotABot]

Lisa from the 90s would have stormed out after yelling at every character, and the viewers.

[QuilLocke]

I don’t even use Disney Plus, but watching these clips in this review, it just makes me depressed. As if The Simpsons isn’t dead enough, Disney is kicking the horse’s decaying corpse.

[MrJotzank]

The weird and sad thing is that the Mickey shorts made more fun of Disney than the Simpsons did

[PlanetZoidstar]

Lisa is the last character who would shill Disney+ so shamelessly. It goes against every fibre of her being as an anti-corporate, anti-materialist, anti-sellout, left-wing activist. Whoever wrote the script completely misunderstood her character.

[Melonposting]

Disney making Plusiversary: “This is great, look at all the franchises we own!”

Everyone watching Plusiversary: “Dear God, look at all the franchises they own”

[aderose]

The show went from mocking and deconstruction the stagnation of pop culture, to ending up embracing and becoming pop culture....

[stevengodoy]

Remember when Homer is mistaken for the Incredible Hulk rampaging downtown then Stan Lee himself walks out of Comic Book Guy's shop, declares himself the Hulk, fails to transform, insists he really did it once, and then is ushered back into the store?

[Whiteythereaper]

Bart mocking Mickey in the Simpsons movie: "I'm the mastermind of an evil corporation"

Bart in the shorts: "Pls don't kill me Bob Iger"

[screenhead]

The Simpsons is milking their past success way too hard. Quantity over quality is never a good strategy.

[JonathanMartin]

When I was a kid in the 90s, I literally had multiple friends who were not allowed to watch the Simpsons. That's how edgy they were. And yes, I was like 7-10 years old when they first came out, but still.

[AVdE]

So the shorts basically do nothing but say "hey, we referenced that thing you know! Isn't that funny?!"

Yep, sounds like a Disney product allright

[michaelheffner]

What I think added to early Simpsons being so perfectly cynical, was Matt Groening’s past. Groening grew up in a very anti-authority time, in an anti-authority city. Krusty himself is a direct parody of Rusty, a Portland area clown. And that sort of directed cynicism eventually devolved into a generalized bitterness, which then devolved into this Disney-approved “haha look at these sight gags”. Like an old man, who used to bite through solid wood, slowly losing his teeth and having them replaced by dentures made of rubber.

[SonicSnail]

*in Marge voice*
"It's not even supposed to be comedy anymore! It's NOT even supposed to be a joke anymore! The Bart Simpson Butterfingers commercials had more integrity than what the show is now!"

[DaWoWzer]

so sad to see what Simpsons has become, especially considering what they represented in 90s, they're everything they used to mock.

[MomMomCubs]

I'm so glad my Daddy passed just after the theatrical release of the movie. He was the BIGGEST Simpsons fan I've ever met in person. It woulda broken his heart so badly to see this horrible turn of events.
I agree the Simpsons deserves better, in the same way Alan Turing deserved better.