Do any of you have any friends/family members, or know people, who actively hate The Simpsons? A lot of my friends claim to hate it, and it pisses me off because they judge the entire show on one/two episodes, and of course they're from the post-classic seasons so when I tell then "Wait, there are good episodes!" they pass it off. I was watching a s18 episode with my best friend a couple years ago; it was "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" and he laughed at a couple parts but I could tell he didn't like it. And he hasn't watched an episode since.

All of my friends who hate the show only hate it because they've only seen the post-classic episodes, and I can't convince them to watch the classics. They're all watching South Park and Family Guy and American Dad, and if there isn't a joke a minute, or swear, or sexual reference, or anything else like that, then they dismiss it. Makes me mad.

Are there people who actually dislike the show as a whole though? I can get disliking the later seasons, but also actively disliking the first 8 (maybe 9) seasons? Is such a thing possible?