My favourite character in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Simpsons is Lisa Simpson. She's the one I most identify with, and the one who gets the best episodes. If you've been keeping up with The Simpsons for the past decade (or, I don't know, read the headline), you might be confused by this. But whenever I think of my favourite parts of The Simpsons, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I think only of the Golden Age, where Lisa shone brightest. I still watch the new episodes regularly and enjoy it, but it's not as good as it used to be. It's not the greatest show on television anymore, but for almost a decade, it was, and the comparison makes it feel a lot worse than it actually is. Sadly, the biggest victim of the show's change is Lisa.

Lisa's role in the show used to be well-defined. She was a principled and well-spoken eight year old, but an eight year old nonetheless. She liked dollies and was scared of the dark and bickered with her brother. She was a kid. She knew what was right and spoke her mind, but was a child. Somewhere along the way, Lisa went from being a kid who sometimes tries to act like a grown-up into just being a grown-up. And for some reason, the show made her the meanest, most self-centred, self-righteous grown up they could imagine.

Lisa is now the downer, always telling Bart and Homer off, tattling on everyone and thinking she knows best. She’s the antagonist to the fun of the rest of the family, a replacement for Marge, but far whinier. Let's look at some of her worst episodes since they made her the villain. There's On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister, where she gets a restraining order and forces Bart to live in the yard. There's E My Sports, where Bart and Homer bond over esports and Lisa sabotages this just because she feels like it. Most reflective of how the show now views Lisa is Girl's in the Band, where Lisa's musical gift is presented as such a roadblock for the family that she is villainised the entire episode for the crime of being tutored and then is forced to give up and squander her gift in what the show presents as a happy ending.

The Lisa that I loved was not like this. She was a kind, smart kid who knew how to land a joke. She was the lonely brainiac destined for better things who channelled that energy into her art, and could be highly competitive. She was a little uppity, but in the way eight year olds are. She bought Bart's soul with the change in her piggy bank and cried over her substitute teacher. Most of the characters are written worse now than they were in the Golden Age (most characters on television can't live up to The Simpsons' season eight writing), but with Lisa it's obnoxiously bad.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I complained about this 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:when she met Billie Eilish, I complained about this 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:when she met Loki, and now I'm complaining about it after she met Taikia Waititi. The short with Eilish was to promote Eilish's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Disney Plus concert film, the short with Loki was to promote the character's Disney Plus series, and the cameo by Waititi was to promote Jojo Rabbit, What We Do in the Shadows, and his Thor movies, all of which can be found on Disney Plus.

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I admit, Lisa is usually the family member most up to date with her celebrity knowledge because she's the most plugged into pop culture, but the praise heaped on Waititi is shameless and perfunctory. It goes beyond the crutch Lisa offers of introducing celebrities to the audience and just becomes a list of IP to watch - the episode even references Lisa being obsessed with mindless IP, based on... well, something, probably.

Here's the thing - I still like The Simpsons, and this episode I'm getting all bent out of shape about? It was fine. It presented a murder mystery scenario and was pretty fun - without the Lisa shenanigans it would probably make it in my top ten for this season when it wraps next year. Certainly there have been far worse episodes in the past couple of seasons. I expend more energy than is worthwhile fighting the good fight that The Simpsons is still very good and worth paying attention to. But please, for me, stop ruining Lisa.