"I think that the show's drop in quality has been both a gradual one and a relative one. I think to be fair to the writers and to be fair to Matt Groening, there's only so much you can do with a set of characters in a situation. I mean, no one has written a show for 20 years. It's amazing that they're still funny at all. As the show sort of moved away from its roots, starting around the sixth season, and the show kind of got a little zanier, the show became sort of unmoored from those emotional character-driven plots that initiated the series. You really start to get 21 minutes of throwaway jokes and then one minute of emotional reconciliation thrown in at the end."
Thomas Rogers in Salon interviews John Ortved, author of The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History.
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