The Simpsons: “'Tis The Fifteenth Season”
In a way, yes. Sure, it’s a cynical appraisal of this, the season of giving, but just about everyone has experienced that mysterious pang—despair, alienation, the feeling that something is missing—as the holiday season descends like a gingerbread fog. Critics have decried The Simpsons for being cynical from the beginning, when the show debuted with a Christmas special on Dec. 17, 1989—22 years ago tomorrow. Hand-wringing, “won’t someone think of the children ?!” types used that time’s obsession with “family values” to decry a vulgar animated family that was ruining the future with its “Underachiever And Proud Of It” T-shirts.
The Simpsons premiere—“The Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire”—found the family struggling, as so many do, with the costs of the Christmas season. Mr. Burns discontinues bonuses at the plant, and Marge has to use the Christmas fund to get Bart’s tattoo removed. Homer doesn’t tell Marge about the bonus, then takes a second job as a mall Santa for extra money—when that doesn’t pan out, he bets it all on a dog named Santa’s Little Helper at the track. DESPAIR! CYNICISM!
When “’Tis The Fifteenth Season” aired on Dec. 14, 2003, controversy had long since moved on from The Simpsons . What had once threatened our children’s future was now a beloved institution and one of the sharpest, most successful television shows in history. Something worse had replaced the hand-wringers, though: (former) fans endlessly debating exactly when the show stopped being good and dismissing as heresy any suggestion that it still had life. The debate continues now, with some of the episodes from this era of The Simpsons now earning the respect they didn’t have then, as John Ortved noted in his deeply flawed but interesting book .
“’Tis The Fifteenth Season” stands out in the 15th season, which had a better hit-to-miss ratio than many of the seasons that followed. By that point, Christmas episodes were a part of the show—not to the same degree as the annual “Treehouse Of Horror” ones, but enough that the normally merchandising-averse Fox had released two dubious DVD collections of Christmas episodes. (“Mr. Plow,” “Homer Vs. Dignity,” and “Dude, Where’s My Ranch?” have tenuous connections to the holiday.
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