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These kind of negotiations have happened before a couple of times. My prediction is that they will come to an agreement and the show will go on, whether or not anyone thinks it should.

On the one hand the studio saying that they should take a 40% pay cut is bullshit. On the other hand, their pay would drop to $4 million a year, so I'm not crying for them either way.

At this point it doesn't really matter if it stops or just goes on forever.

As the show now has about twice the terrible episodes (the last 15 or so years) than good ones (seasons 2-8) I have to say, let it end. Let Fox's awful, mediocre garbage train of shitty Sunday night animation all end. Maybe something good can be made.

This negotiation is periodic and normal. They have pie. They have to decide every so often how to split the pie up. Everyone wants more of the pie than they currently have, and no one wants less. If negotiations fall through, no one gets new pie (though the studio will continue to make money off old pie).

Since some new pie is better than no pie, then it's unlikely that it'll be canceled. The voice actors certainly aren't going to get that kind of money somewhere else.

Eventually there won't be enough pie to go around, and that's when it'll be canceled. At that point everyone will start lawsuits about the old pie that's being redistributed (they've got 20+ seasons in the can).

But right now, there's probably enough pie that everyone will eventually, grudgingly, agree to a contract no one really likes.

Frankie Williamson said:

As the show now has about twice the terrible episodes (the last 15 or so years) than good ones (seasons 2-8) I have to say, let it end. Let Fox's awful, mediocre garbage train of shitty Sunday night animation all end. Maybe something good can be made.

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You forgot the awesome episodes in season 9.

I got full of the pie about 6-7 years ago.
I'm with Frankie on this one.

Looking over the IMDB, nah, 8 was the shark jump for sure. It was all down hill from there. 9 was the beginning of where we are now.

I think I stopped watching around season 4 + the movie, so there's still plenty of the good stuff that I haven't seen.

--Patrick

I'm not saying it's the bestest ever, but 9 has some great episodes, starting with Homer Vs. New York.

HAH I love that one... Mountain Dew or Crab Juice?

But really, it's run its course. Hasn't been good in a long time. Last time I watched a recent episode, I actually felt a little sad. It doesn't seem like anyone's trying anymore.

Kind of like watching SNL these days....

stienman said:

Since some new pie is better than no pie,

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Now I want pie, dammit.

Derp.

Oh I hope there is some wacky stuff that goes down.

I just hope that the Halloween episodes are decent enough.

North_Ranger said:

I just hope that the Halloween episodes are decent enough.

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Don't you mean the Mid-November Tree House of Horror?

Yeah, those. I thought they air during Halloween over there in the States?

Usually Baseball season is wrapping up and Fox won't show Tree House of Horror until the World Series is over.

Yeah, I've never seen a thoh air before November.

Ravenpoe said:

Yeah, I've never seen a thoh air before November.

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They've been parodying that lately. I remember one year Kang and Kodos made the comment "Their playing the Halloween Episode during NOVEMBER? We've already started putting out Thanksgiving decorations! Who cares about Halloween anymore!?"

Though it's really not their fault if the World Series goes the full 7 games.

....Yeah, season 9 was a great season. Season seven and nine are the only two I currently own (I want eight. It has the Beer Baron episode which is possibly my absolute favourite).
I also think that the show is nowhere near as bad as some people seem to think. It definitely hit a huge snag for a very long time, but the few episodes I've seen from the past few seasons have all been laugh out loud funny. Its a very different show from what it once was though.

I see it like this:
The Simpsons started struggling, Family Guy came on the scene and tried to be a zanier version of the Simpsons. People loved it but it got the axe. When Family Guy came back, it tried to be even ZANIER, and sucked horribly, but people watched anyway, and the face of Sunday Night primetime was changed forever. The Simpsons tried to follow Family Guy's example, because for some reason people seemed to find this drivel funny. In so doing, The Simpsons got even worse and more people stopped watching. But in the last few years, The Simpsons has finally come around and settled intself somewhere between old Simpsons and old Family Guy.
Personally, I want to see it keep going, if only because South Park and Family Guy are both on pace to match it season for season should it get the axe.
Anyway, the dispute was settled for now. All the voice actors, producers and just about everyone involved in anyway with the show took a pay cut in order to keep doing the show. We got two more seasons coming, which puts it around 540 episodes. Al Jean says he wouldn't mind making it to 30 seasons and surpassing Gunsmoke for the longest running primetime series.