I don’t have anything to say about The Simpsons now and probably no force on Earth could really get me to do completism on the show, but I remember Paul C saying the same thing you said–“isn’t it weird to think how much effort and time is going to into something that isn’t going to last in the public’s mind at all?,” I’m paraphrasing. But it was something like that.

Is Matt Groening profiting off of this shit a lot, or what? Who is making money from 20 years of forgettable Simpsons episodes? I thought Groening hasn’t had much to do with the show in recent years, decades, centuries? I know Futurama is over (but I’ve only watched maybe an hour total of that show, in large part because I remember being put off by the very first episode.)

Okay, yeah. Without looking it up, I know what the Memba Berries episode is, but I’ve never watched it.

The only other thing I know of off the top of my head that’s even been in a South Park episode in recent years was that they had the “Manbearpig” show up in the background of a scene and go on a rampage in a restaurant as a sort of rare admission on Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s part that they were sort of wrong the first time around, which is sort of nice of them, but doesn’t change my opinion that “Manbearpig” is now my pick for the worst, and certainly the most morally reprehensible, TV episode to ever air, surpassing such luminaries as “Spock’s Brain,” the “face on Mars” first-season episode of The X-Files (which I recently rewatched, because I’m rewatching that show, but which is mostly just boring and lame now rather than the Ed Wood type disaster I misremembered it as being) and that piece of shit Roseanne episode everyone but me likes so much where John Goodman beats up the abusive boyfriend.