Even at the beginning of the 34th season, Homer Simpson is still dumb.
This time he finds people on the internet who think like him, enjoys the likes, investigates with them the disappearance of a turtle from the zoo and drifts into internet conspiracy theories.
When the episode ends, the lost turtle is discovered and the group looks for other conspiracies to deal with - Homer tells his friends that he heard about a cartoon that can predict the future, and that "we have to watch it and find out what's going to happen".
He didn't have to specify which program he meant.
Because throughout 729 episodes, "The Simpsons" did everything and said everything.
Somehow, they predicted some real events - years before they happened.
The best known is the episode that predicted the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in 2000.
But The Simpsons also predicted Nobel Prize winners and Super Bowl winners, Ebola and Corona, and the invention of AutoCorrect.
In Springfield, Lady Gaga sang suspended in the air five years before she appeared like that at the Super Bowl, while Daenerys and the dragon burned down a cartoon town two years before the same scene took place in Game of Thrones.
And there are many more examples.
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So if a series claims to predict the future, there is a question worth raising, because nothing has yet been hinted at in the episodes of The Simpsons.
I mean I wonder who rewatches every season: when will this series end, if ever?
After all, the most popular sentence said in connection with the series is: "I haven't seen 'The Simpsons' in years."
However, it is impossible to put a finger on the point where the series got stuck, because it is not really stuck.
It is like a product from the production line of a factory, which knows how to issue one thing;
And no matter how groundbreaking and influential it was in the past, The Simpsons is no longer able to reinvent itself.
On the other hand, last year it was the most watched series on Disney+, and it is a streaming service whose majority of viewers are Millennials and Zomers who were born after the series was created.
I mean, "The Simpsons" is still relevant among young people.
Among other things, because it remains clean, non-provocative, which is appropriate for the age and sector.
In fact, she is the prototype for everything that happens on television today.
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Even in her bad episodes, witty jokes and social criticisms are hidden.
The opening episode of the season, which was broadcast yesterday on yes, brought up messages about the idiots of the Internet, the culture of likes and friendships.
There was nothing groundbreaking or original about it, but the hand is still on the pulse.
No one is talking about the end of The Simpsons, because it seems that the series will never end.
Although the weekly ratings are low, and the buzz is non-existent, it is a well-oiled machine that prints money in quantities from the sale of merchandise, broadcasting rights, advertisements and collaborations.
So much cash, which will continue to flow as long as new episodes are produced.
The Simpsons, photo: AP
The strength of "The Simpsons" is in its continuity.
It accompanies us throughout our lives, provides a mirror image to the changing world and sometimes also guesses the future.
She is always there.
Homer is always dumb and fatherly, Bart breaks boundaries, Lisa breaks glass ceilings, Maggie is a baby, and only Marge has made a transformation from a feminist figure and role model to a cool aunt.
The Simpsons is racing on neutral and not stopping.
Somehow, as long as the money flows and the humor works - she can go on forever.
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