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..they did an episode so disgustingly disrespectful to the fans, that I may be done with the series for good.

Last night was the very first time ever that I stopped the DVR and seriously considered deleting the rest of the episode without even viewing it.

Last night's episode re-defined atrocious and showed a BIG lack of regard to the longtime fans of the show.

For those who missed it, the series has completely shown that the last 19 years of the series no longer count.

• The whole spiel about Homer and Marge when they were in their twenties, done SOOOO many times in the series, now inexplicably got bumped up two decades. Now they were a young couple in the 90s. Never mind the fact that the series debuted (with Homer and Marge, even with the damn floating timeline, being in their late 30s at the youngest) several years before that.
• Homer INVENTED Grunge music, huh? Well I guess that explains how Homer was out of his element in the Lollapalooza episode, right? It's crap like this that epitomizes the lack of regard to the longtime fans.
• The Curt Cobain stuff was BEYOND tasteless. Even Family Guy wouldn't go that far.
• The Color Me Badd group was an UTTER lift off the B-Sharps storyline. Nauseatingly sloppy.
• The old Homer-achieves-worldwide-renoun-over-a-few-weeks-and-inexplicably-is-a-working-stiff-again angle is TIRED, TIRED TIRED. Also, a buffoon is only a buffoon if he's a bungler. Homer seems to have supreme sublime talent in any field, week to week. It's getting annoying.

I won't even use the cliche "Worst. Episode. Ever!" Even though it easily was.

I don't think the show has jumped the Shark yet. And there's been enough contradiction to their own source material in the past to not be too bugged by this. Plus I think Ripley's got something here, that'd be just the type of thing they'd do.

And what's the whole deal with Lisa and Bart STILL being kids?  I mean, come on, that's not, like, reality!!

The Science:

C'mon, the show's been on for nearly 20 years.  Even Groening has to mail it in every once in a while.

I don't think Matt Groening has had anything to do with the show in years. Fox owns the rights to the characters and has made it clear that they're going to keep the show on the air as long as they can until they run it into the ground.

When the characters don't age, you have to expect at least some retconning. Comic books do it all the time. The show has been on for almost 20 years and the characters are older than many of the people who watch the show. They need to do something to make it relevant to younger viewers.

My advice is to be happy for what you had instead of being sad for what you've lost.
 

I was never a huge fan but I lost interest in "The Simpsons" years ago..... Can't believe that they went lower than "Family Guy"  did not realize that was possible!