All right, /co/: if you're so smart, and are so correct when it comes to all things cartoons, what season would YOU have ended The Simpsons on?

>>149573622 (OP)
9

Just stick with 10 and the movie should have happened in the mid 90s.

11. There are still some great jokes and classic moments in seasons 9 through 11 even if they're not as strong as the previous seasons overall, and Behind the Laughter functions extremely well as a series finale. If you ended it there, you'd end it in a way that satisfied fans while they could also say "the show was going downhill for the last few seasons" so there wouldn't be a feeling that it was cancelled during a high point and ALSO maintaining the series's dignity before it dragged on too long. It's the perfect way to end it for everyone.

>>149573622 (OP)
After the movie.

IMO the LATEST they could have ended the show with dignity was Season 13. It would have been very funny to end the show in the same season that "They'll Never Stop The Simpsons" came out. To sing "Have no fears, we've got stories for years" and then to end the show that very season would have been a nice final gag.

It's hard to say because even the crap seasons still have jokes that I love.
>No listening', you hear me?
>no
>You just don't learn do ya?

>>149573821
>Subliminal, liminal, and superliminal
>Superliminal?
>HEY YOU! JOIN THE NAVY!
>Yeah ok!

>>149573622 (OP)
1.

>>149573622 (OP)
Season 8, with Homer's Enemy as the Series Finale instead of The Secret War of Lisa Simpson

>As few bad episodes as possible
8
>Some bad episodes mixed in but it still ends with dignity
11
>Overstays its welcome but there are still a few jokes that became cultural touchstones and might be worth keeping just for those
The movie

>>149573853
I fucking hated this episode when it came out but over time I grew to love it

>>149573653
this

>>149573853
>>149574166
I feel like this episode was the last time the Simpsons had genuine cultural impact on-par with the golden age stuff. I remember kids saying "Yvan eht nioj" a lot after it came out. Even the movie doesn't feel like it really had the same kind of impact after that, but it's also weird to think that the last big cultural episode was one about boy bands and Military Industrial Complex commentary.

>>149573622 (OP)
12. Long enough for people to go "Yeah I guess it's fine to end it." Would be considered the definitive 90s show (that went from 1989-2001 but whatever) that it should have stayed as.

Maybe they could work on the spinoff Springfielders show they always tossed about.