More popular: Simpsons or Seinfeld?

[morphism]

I guess I'm the only one that voted neither?

 

[Darkiekurdo]

I like The Simpsons better than Seinfeld. But then again, when I watched Seinfeld I was 7/8 years old.

 

[moe darklight]

O my god people! seinfeld is freakin' brilliant! ... so they had a masturbation competition, how does that disqualify it as intelligent humor? did you see that episode? the dialogue is hilarious and very well-written!

and so what if it's not high-brow? if I had a dollar for every time a shakespeare comedy "cleverly" makes a quaint little allusion to s-e-x so that a bunch of pretentious dudes with weird-looking beards and fake british accents can chuckle under their breath*, I'd probably have enough money to buy season 3 of seinfeld on DVD, which is what I would do (ugh, I can't stand shakespeare. I really don't understand what the big deal is with him. at school they would feed us shakespeare like there's no tomorrow, when there were, and are, so many more interesting writers out there). Intelligent humor doesn't necessarily have to be abstrusely written, is what I'm saying.

The soup nazi! c'mon! the bald chick! ... how can anyone not like seinfeld?... this planet is truly doomed.

* ok, I know not all shakespeare fans have weird beards and fake british accents. I just really really really can't stand shakespeare.

 

[radou]

Btw, I don't like the soup nazi episode. Probably because everyone likes it.

 

[Cyrus]

Thats the perfect reason not to like something.

 

[radou]

Thats the perfect reason not to like something.

For me it is.

 

[Chi Meson]

OK, this is revealing. If the question (as per thread title) is which is more popular and not (as per poll title) which do you think is better, I think I have some pretty clear evidence that The Simpsons is the winner.

If you check Amazon's "most popular" sales for television DVDs, you will find ALL 10 available seasons of The Simpsons in the top 90. In fact season 10 is in there twice (once for the collector's edition pack). The Simpsons owns 11% of the top 100 sales in TV DVDs.

Only one of the eight seasons of Seinfeld is in the top 100 (Season 8, at 47)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestselle...950760-5731932?ie=UTF8&pg=1&tag=pfamazon01-20
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[Loren Booda]

Of course, popular music popularity is often dictated by 13-year-old girls.

 

[Moonbear]

I voted Simpsons. Seinfeld would start out with a good joke, and then beat it to DEATH. It was more annoying than funny. I haven't watched The Simpsons in a while, so don't know if it's currently any good, but when I used to watch them regularly, they were hilarious. And, when I catch an episode here and there, they've still been fairly amusing...way more amusing than Seinfeld ever was.

 

[Tony11235]

Have you? Is a masturbation competition "intelligent humor"?

Don't get me wrong, I thought Seinfeld was ok, but highbrow humor? No way.

Ok "intelligent humor", wrong word. It's not directly obvious. You have to pay attention to detail. Not detecting sarcasm is dangerous. This roughly describes the majority of the humor you find in Seinfeld. Whatever the humor of Simpsons happens to be, it's not as great. I'd watch Family Guy or South Park ANYDAY over Simpsons.

 

[radou]

Oh, apropos Seinfeld...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qe4YPOQVHw