Worst Seasons of The Simpsons

The Top Ten
1 Season 24

In the UK, simpsons is aired on sky 1, and they skip half of the season or mess the episode info up. I think the lady gaga episode it the wierdest rather than the worst... I hated the Mary spuckler episodes because they made no sense and we're boring, but it has less of 'something happens or changes then at the end it all goes back to normal' which is good. The episode with the hope tree thing was so YAWN THIS IS SO BORING!

This season is truly forgettable, with drag episodes like "A Test Before Trying" and "Homer Goes To Prep Schools" and of course the shockingly bad "A Tree Grows in Springfield". The only good thing I can say is that "The Day The Earth Stood Cool" was good. That's right the BEST EPISODE in the season was only GOOD!

The Simpsons seasons has ages because of its long life: golden age, silver age, Bronze Age, and the ordinary age in where it can be compared to family guy and American dad. This season IS the ordinary age. the Bronze Age is seasons 23, 25, 22, and 21

2 Season 7

This season was probably the best, if not for season 6 and season 4! It had extremely memorable episodes like when Bart sells his soul, when George Bush moved into the neighborhood, and when Krusty gets audited by the IRS.

Now this is not True. Other than King Size-Homer and Marge Not be Proud, but, there were memorable episodes such as Radioactive Man, Homer the Smithers, and Summer of 4ft.2.

Why is this on here, let alone second place?! It's an excellent season.

3 Season 1

I find this so unfair, I enjoyed the analogy's and metaphor's that were in Season 1. "Some Enchanted Evening", "Homer's Night Out" and of course "Bart The General" displayed some great issues in life (some in simpsons life albeit, but still). This is where Season 23 should be, might I remind you of "Lisa Goes Gaga".

No such thing as golden era but this season was not the worst its underrated my fave episode is Moaning Lisa, the later are also underrated seasons because you hate the celebrity.

The only reason this was bad was because they hadn't confirmed a general plot yet! Give them a chance! You can't magic genius in a matter of seconds!

4 Season 23

Simpsons up to this point are hard to watch (unless you're someone like me, watching them just to see if there is a least some sort of "hidden gem", for me this season had none, some solace may be found in season 20 but otherwise it's a dead end. Season 23 is no different. The absolute disappointments in simpsons episodes are "Lisa Goes Gaga" and of course the "Diving Bell and Butterball" segment in Treehouse XXII. I do agree with IMDB that "Moe goes from Rags to Riches" and "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpsons" were awfully scripted episodes, but to say that "Holidays of Future Past" has the same rating as "Das Bus" is a scar to the name of the Simpsons.

This is where something went wrong. I had no problem with seasons 1-22, but then THIS happened. THIS is when the Simpsons went downhill, not during season 11. I remember, I was exited for the new season, I was watching, and I immediately shut off my T.V. , due to the awfulness of this season. The show now focuses way to much on Lisa and her liberal beliefs, way too many marijuana references, and they had Justin BEIBER ON THE SHOW FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! The show should have ended at season 22.

5 Season 10

Seasons 9 and 10 are not the best, but at least get some funny episodes, unlike Seasons 11 and 12.

Season 10 was very dull and boring and only one or two episodes were good

At least Season 10 was an improvement upon Season 9. Season 9 was horrible!

6 Season 11

Expect for behind the laughter this season was lackluster. It had horrible stories. Characters acting out of the ordinary. If you like no sense simpsons this is for you. Plus the episodes were mostly boring

This season marks the beginning of the Silver Age (11-18). But it's also the worst season of the Silver Age.
-Silver Age (11-18)
Best to worst: 12>15>14>17>16>18>13>11
-Golden Age (1-10)
Best to worst: 6>8>4>5>2>1>3>7>10>9
-Bronze Age (19-29 or present)
Best to worst: 20>27>21>26>29>19>25>23>22>24>28

Bart to the Future was horrible!
-Best to worst future themed episodes
1. Lisa's Wedding
2. Future Drama
3. Barthood
4. Holidays of Future Passed
5. Mr. Lisa's Opus
6. Days of Future Future
7. Bart to the Future

7 Season 2

Why is this on here this season was awesome let me remind you people of some great episodes like dead putting society itchy scratchy and marge dancing homer Bart gets hit by a car one fish two fish blowfish blue fish and many more!

Season 2 is way than they have ranked it

This is one of the best seasons...

8 Season 17

This wasn't a memorable season at all. They had some episodes that completely dragged, like Bonfire of the Manatees, and not to mention the one where Marge got Amnesia was awful! the remotely only good or alright one was The Italian Bob.

What?! This was a great season! It may not have been in the Golden Age (1-10), yet in the Silver Age (11-18), but still this was great season!

This is ridiculous! Season 17 was great, and it had highlights such as "Marge's Son Poisoning", "The Italian Bob", "My Fair Laddy", and so on.

9 Season 12

Seasons 12 and 13 are a lot better then people think. I enjoyed several episodes from this season. Way better than 10

Homer getting raped by a panda is not at all funny. Like Season 11, I really hate this season.

This is actually a great season! This season is actually the best season of the Silver Age (11-18).

10 Season 25

Season 25, I swear to good was a good season! With episodes like Steal this Episode, Homerland, Brick like Me, and Married to The Blob were examples of how The Simpsons can still deliver despite it being on for 25+ years now.

Simpsons lost mojo and entertainment value about 3season ago. Although the last 5 have lost some thing. I have watched every season from the beginning and I think this May be the last

It's not finished yet, but so far, it's just been awful. Plus, this is the season where they will kill of one of the popular recurring characters, so I'm not looking forward to THAT.

The Contenders
11 Season 6

Episodes such as Bart v Australia,Homer the great,Treehouse of horror 5 etc were really good in this season and really stood out. All episodes I at least moderately enjoyed in season 6. SHOULD BE NEARER TO THE TOP

Is this a joke? Season 6th here?! COME ON! "Treehouse of Horror V" is epic, "Bart v.s. Australia", "A Star is Burns" and "Homie The Clown" were hillariously funny, "Homer Badman" and "Homer the Great" had amazingly great plots, so why is season 6 worse then Season 22? P.s. I feel your pain RickyReeves

10th place? Really? That is WAY too high on the list! Should be at the bottom of this unflattering list.

12 Season 18

Now, this was a season with good episodes. 24 Minutes anyone? Or how about The Haw-Hawed Couple? I will admit there were some bad ones, even awful ones like The Boys of Bummer.

There were a number of good episodes here, but it was the last of them. It was all downhill from after this.

"The Boys of Bummer" and "Please Homer Don't Hammer Em" were some of the show's absolute worst episodes.

13 Season 3

Season three was great it gave us classic episodes like like father like clown radio Bart homer at bat homers odyssey Bart the murderer and brother can you spare 2 dimes

WHAT?!?! HOW?!?! This season had some of the most classic episodes of this series! Such as Stark Raving Dad, Homer at The Bat, When Flanders Failed, and Bart the Murderer!

Why is this before season 27?! Season 3 was one of the high points of the Simpsons!

14 Season 13

I give this one credit for having the greatest modern THOH and giving us I am Furious (Yellow), Weekend at Burnsies, and Poppa's Got a Brand New Badgem

Season 13 was brilliant!
Some of the really good episodes were 'weekend at burnsies', Treehouse of horror 12, the episode where marge has a lawsuit against sugar etc.
Way better than most previous seasons! Up there with season 14,15,16,17,2,3,4 and 5

I love season 13 they are showing it on channel 4.

15 Season 19

Season 19 is where the characters started to change. This is the first post movie season.
- Then
Homer: Idiotic well meaning father
Marge: Hardworking mother
Bart: Mischievous good hearted son
Lisa: Smart overachieving daughter
Maggie: Genius baby

-Now
Homer: Moron
Marge: Space occupier
Bart: Brat
Lisa: Liberal activist
Maggie: Violent baby

The treehouse of horror 18 was TERRIBLE on here. After this episode all the other tree houses of horror were crap

Well, Season 18 was a little better than Season 19.
NOTE: Season 19 marks the beginning of the Bronze Age/Post Movie era.

16 Season 26

Okay, now I can agree with this argument. Season 26 was an awful season! With episodes like The Musk who Fell to Earth, Sky Police, The Man Who Came to Be Dinner, and Mathlete's Feat. But, there were one or two decent episodes, such as Bart's New Friend, and Simpsorama was one the best episodes in years!

These days it seems like the simpsons have a writing staff consisting of drunk monkeys and DR Phil crap it's just crap!

This just in the simpsons hired a writing staff of drunk an d drugged up monkeys

17 Season 16

-The Simpsons season rating
Seasons 1-8: Great (Golden Age)
Season 9: Bad, though mostly okay
Season 10: Good and improvement from Season 9 (Last season of the Golden Age is Season 10)
Season 11: Worst pre-Movie season
Seasons 12-15: Amazing (Silver Age)
Season 16: Average (Some episodes like "Sleeping with the Enemy" were really wonderful)
Season 17: Great, though this is the last decent season
Seasons 18 and onwards: Average (Seasons 19, 20, 26, 27 were really good for the most part)

So far, Season 16 is an okay season.

This is actually the season where the characters' personalities started to deteriorate.
E.g Lisa Simpson. She went from being a beloved character (Seasons 1-8, parts of Seasons 9-15) to a hated character (Seasons 16 and onwards; though she became worse during the HD seasons.)
Season 16 was a degrade from Season 15, which was a great season. But the following season of Season 16, Season 17, was fair.

This one had the first episode I could really call terrible (On a Clear Day I Can't See my Sister). It had some good episodes, though.

18 Season 15
19 Season 28

This was the worst season of all! Whoever thinks this was a good one, why? With horrible episodes such as Dogtown, Moho House, etc. the only episode that was alright was There Will Be Buds, but that was still bad.

I was REALLY looking forward to season 28, but when they churned out junk like 'The cad and the hat' and 'caper chase', I gave up. I did like 'the great phatsby' and 'there will be buds' though.

The lowest rated season, Season 28.
Best to worst seasons
-6
-8
-4
-5
-2
-1
-3
-7
-10
-9
-12
-15
-14
-17
-16
-20
-27
-13
-18
-29
-26
-11
-19
-21
-25
-22
-23
-24
-28

20 Season 21

"The Color Yellow" further ruined the Simpsons. That episode should be considered non-canon, or not official. Anyway, the previous season (20) was much better than 21.

There are some terrible episodes in here like "Postcards From the Wedge".

A degrade from Season 20.

21 Season 14

Season 14 is better than Season 13.

22 Season 5

What the hell is this doing up here this season is great are you forgetting episodes like homer and apu, $pringfield, homer the vigilante boyz In the hood, marge on the lamb and the boy who new to much! I rest my case.

Season 5 was the best season ever! it shouldn't be on here

This seasons was amazing and shouldn't be here.

23 Season 4

Marge In Chains Was. Pretty Good

24 Season 8
25 Season 29

Not a good season, but "Flanders Ladder" was amazing.

I can't believe this season gave us "No Good Read Goes Unpunshed" the 3rd worst Simpsons episode

Worst ever season. All series are total crap!

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