6/14/2011

Why So Many People Watch The Simpsons Online

By Elizabeth Allen


You are the first one to admit it, back in college you were a huge fan of The Simpsons. Seasons five through seven were in your humble opinion the best thing on TV at the time. Needless to say, you knew all the characters, could reliably do half a dozen great impressions, owned a copy of the first Simpsons guide and could find a Simpsons quote for any and every occasion (much to the annoyance of your girlfriend at the time). In fact, even today D'oh, Woohoo! and Excellent are components of your day-to-day vocabulary and you've long given up attempting to suppress them.

A few years ago you were tickled when your daughter began watching The Simpsons and enjoyed watching the episodes with her when you could. She has since moved on to other cartoons and now it's uncommon for you to sit down and watch the show anymore. Occasionally you will get a twinge to see a certain episode but it always passes. Why not treat yourself next time you get a hankering and watch The Simpsons online?

## There are just so many episodes trying to wait for the ones you really want to see can take a long long time.

In 22 seasons (so far) there've been close to five hundred episodes of The Simpsons but most folks only have probably about a half dozen favorites. The die hard fans enjoy a good number of episodes but even they don't like them all. Even with all the countless opportunities that cable TV affords, if you're really dying to watch a specific episode you might wait a very long time indeed.

## DVDs are so costly you can't possibly rationalize buying them.

A Season of The Simpsons is close to $30 dollars or more. You would not pay that much for even one of your favorite seasons. To buy all 22 seasons would probably cost you in excess of $500. Were you even to bite the bullet and pick up the complete box set of the first twenty one seasons all at once you would be looking at almost $300. You do like The Simpsons, once upon a time you might have even said you loved The Simpsons but let's maintain our perspective, we are still speaking about a twenty-one minute to twenty-four minute cartoon.

## Even rental is expensive when it comes right down to it.

You have rented Simpsons DVDs a disc at a time from your local video store on occasion but even rentals are expensive in the long run. Plus the discs are often scratched to hell and you inevitably only ever want to see at most two or three of the episodes on any given disc.

## Sometimes you merely want to see one scene from a particular episode

Sometimes it just strikes you that you want to see a certain episode, or even a certain scene from a specific episode. It is a fleeting impulse but one you'd dearly love to indulge.

These are just some of the many reasons why so many people watch the Simpsons online these days. It's so easy. Simply go online and Google "Watch The Simpsons Online" and you are sure to find a variety of free sites.

Maybe you wish to watch full episodes of the Simpsons over your lunch hour. Maybe you have never had the opportunity to watch The Simpsons without commercials. Maybe you're simply dying to hear the Stonecutter song again or see a certain story from one of the Treehouse of Horror episodes. If you stopped watching The Simpsons years ago you are able to catch up on what's happened in the lives of your favourite characters. For that matter, you can even stream the Simpsons movie straight to your laptop if you missed it in the theatre.




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