regrouping the episodes strictly by their production codes

[Khlav Kalash]

Would your overall season ratings differ significantly, if you'd regroup the episodes by their actual production codes?
(Season 1 = all 7Gxx episodes, season 2 = all 7Fxx episodes, season 3 = 8Fxx, [...], season 31 = ZABFxx, season 32 = QABFxx)


I for myself consider the seasons 2 - 5 as the shows prime. Season 1 has without doubt great episodes overall, but you can cleary see these were experimental to some degree. Seasons 6 to 8 have also many great episodes but not as consistently as it was the case with previous seasons. With season 9 the decline became obvious.

Surprisingly, nearly a decade later season 18 has showcased many good or great episodes. (aprox 1/3 of them were rated by myself with 8/10 to 10/10 - from memory those were "Springfield Up", "Homerazzi", "stop or my dog ...", "youkent always ...", "24 minutes", "he loves to fly ...", "Homer of Seville" & "midnight Towboy".

[ManuelMaiden95]

It wouldn't change a lot in my opinion. I think season 5 would be a bit weaker without Homer's Barbershop Quartet and Cape Feare. On the other hand season 4 would confirm its reputation as one of the best seasons ever along with 7 and 2 in my opinion.
Season 7 would be even stronger with episodes such as You Only Move Twice but on the other hand season 8 would be definetely a decline even if undoubtedly classic.
And it would be much more clear season 9 isn't part of the classic era without its holdover episodes. You would have Trash of the Titans and When You Dish Upon a Star in the same season and no City of New York vs Homer Simpson or Lisa's Sax. The decline would be immedeatly evident.

[The B]

I think recent thread on the same topic (ranking episodes by their production codes) is also suitable

https://www.nohomers.net/showthread....roduction-code

[Trab Pu Kcip]

Season 4's 9F code would be the best. My rankings from the other thread:

Only doing the first 12 seasons...

1: 9FXX
2: 3FXX
3: 2FXX
4: 7FXX
5: 8FXX
6: 1FXX
7: 3GXX
8: 7GXX
9: 4FXX
10: AABFXX
11: 5FXX
12: CABFXX
13: BABFXX

[TheNewestMoron]

Only gonna do 7F to 5F

7F - Looks a little stronger than before, don't mind either of the inclusions here.
8F - Slightly better than before with the inclusion of 'Kamp Krusty'.
9F - Gains one of the best flashback eps and 'Cape Feare', season 4 gains huge benefits here.
1F - Worse than before but not by much. Loses two of its best episodes for 2 great episodes from season 6.
2F - Looks a little weirder with both parts of 'Who Shot Mr. Burns' being part of the same season, but it doesn't hurt the season. Probably slightly worse than before due to no 'Bart of Darkness'.
3F - Gains the two best eps of Season 8, obviously benefits greatly.
3G - An ok 4 episode run.
4F - Loses two of its best eps for one of the best of season 9 (New York), a slightly underrated but very infamous episode (Principal), and an episode that I don't remember looking all that much (Lisa the Simpson). Also loses the 2 3G episodes. Definitely worse off than before.
5F - Also loses 2 3G eps, and another 3 episodes I've already talked about. Gains 3 very solid episodes from season 10 (Wizard of Evergreen Terrace is the best ep of season 10, fight me). Overall, I don't think its overall quality changes.

I'd say 9F and 3F are the two best codes for the show. 4F looks to be the weakest of the ones I've looked at.

[Evil Homer]

season 23 would loose Holidays Of Future Passed and the Book Job, making it even more easily one of the worst seasons ever.

[sandurt]

both eps are already bad