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Originally Posted by Darth_Chocula
The show certainly turned with the Skully era, it wasn't just that though, it's like the writing staff was either completely changed or was forced into writing a different form of the show, cause a lot of staple of the Simpsons got dropped
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About a year ago, I read an interview with George Meyer, who's been a writer on the show since the beginning, and has probably done as much to shape the tone of
The Simpsons as Groening or Brooks. Meyer said that the tipping point for the series was "Homer's Enemy" (the Frank Grimes episode), which was when the writers really started to pick at the core concepts of the show. Originally, in the Ullman shorts and the first season or two of the show, there was some credibility to the idea that the Simpsons were a working class family who were getting by on Homer's salary. By the mid-to-late '90s, any remaining notion of realism had gone out the window, and Homer was an irreponsible goofball who, in real life, would have probably gotten a bunch of people killed, not least of all himself. "Homer's Enemy" was basically the show's "God is dead" moment, after which the writers found themselves able to do anything with and to the characters.
