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Far more than in any previous year, Season 8 is littered with scenes and plots that involve the kind of hyperkinetic cartoon violence and physics defying action that is more usually associated with Warner Brothers and Hanna-Barbera. That alone would’ve been an off-putting change, but The Simpsons insisted on treating these moments of animated peril seriously. That insistence made all of the action sequences not only strange, but downright dumb as well.

The author compares the Simpsons to The Looney Tunes Show. He says the Simpsons were too serious about an animated danger.

“The Twisted World of Marge Simpson” grows dark and threatening before ending with a transparently harmless gangster brawl on the Simpsons’ front lawn. “The Secret War of Lisa Simpson” uses an overabundance of suspenseful string music to prop up its cloying finale wherein Lisa overcomes adversity just like they always do on teevee. “In Marge We Trust” actually ends with Reverend Lovejoy battling apes who’ve managed to capture Ned Flanders.

That paragraph shows examples about how The Simpsons were serious about animated danger and any other serious moments, that didn’t make much sense. By the end of an episode laugh and jokes were returning. The Simpsons more often used fake suspense for nothing.

Many of these sequences are short, funny and downright tame compared to the cartoonish nonsense that would come in a few seasons. But they were also startlingly out of place in a show that had never made use of them before. The Simpsons was increasingly relying on cartoonish tricks and (danger free) action sequences to tell its stories, and was making those parts even harder to swallow by playing the over-the-top moments of animated madness for suspense instead of comedy.

The author says the Simpsons have refused to simple comedy elements, and they used suspense, uncertainty, and they have become unpredictable.

In “The Homer They Fall”, Homer becomes a boxer, and the final third of the episode is a hodgepodge of nonsense and fake foreboding. After Moe agrees to let Homer fight Drederick Tatum for the heavyweight championship, there are numerous scenes that simply don’t fit in with the show as it had been. Moe sincerely struggles with his ethics. Marge frets over Homer’s safety. And, worst of all, the show pretends that Homer is actually in mortal danger.

The action, the morality, and the suspense don’t serve the story; they slow it down. There are a lot of great boxing jokes and Paul Winfield is devastatingly perfect as Don King parody Lucius Sweet, but the plot and its tacked on emotions seem like an afterthought. This is highlighted at the end when Moe flies into the ring, picks up Homer, flies out of the arena, and is immediately met in the parking lot by everyone he just left behind. The story has long since devolved into nonsense at that point, but the episode has a few lines left for Tatum, Fox and the others and so it throws anything that could be called believability to the wind and just has them appear outside as if by magic.(Characters mysteriously vanishing from scenes or suddenly appearing in places they couldn’t possibly be are staples of Simpsons.)

The text shows the example that the new direction didn’t work. The author says that “The Homer They Fall” goes from satire of the world of boxing to a typical drama.