Why does this feel so wrong?

Why does this feel so wrong?

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I think we have had this thread before. No need to have it again.

They've been using DVDs for the past 20 years and THIS is what bothers you?

Because you are calcified by nostalgia.

Because this was the technology fad of only 3 or 4 years and was billed as the next advancement in the technology of the future. Everyone in common society was participating in this fad. Now, we're in a new decade and this shit was abandoned even earlier than 4-5 years ago.

Maggie is still the same age even though Simpsons take place before the Iphone and stayed the same when the Ipad was released.
It has nothing to due with the familiarity Homer has as he was first confused by the Iphone but learned to use it as portrayed in the bottom picture as some amount of time has passed for him to get used to it.
The reason for "this feel so wrong" is the fact that Simpsons is on a sliding time scale, where things have always been this way, but it hasn't.
Things have changed but weirdly the Simpsons stayed the same, like they are in a time bubble and the world ages around them. Unless they want cram in celebrity guest appearances of course.

because they use realistic colors instead of zany simpsons colors

Floating timeline is inherently bad outside of reboots

too much detailing as well - the logos, the cameras, the panel lines, etc

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The characters didn't age.

Yes retard, answer or fuck off.

Because they used to have financial struggles, and now they can afford to buy an ipad on a whim and are friends with Elon musk

Elon Musk is a son of a bitch, he won't help anyone but himself

homer get mypad

Weren't they always rich? Doing trips to other countries and shit? Homer is a nuclear engineer

You're right that looks great

because it's tiresome. phones and apps suddenly become the hook of every story instead of something organic happening. shows and movies of all sorts suffer from the inclusion of smart phones - everything can be solved by them because they have so many utilities, which lowers the stakes to the point where it's not fun anymore. to get around this writers either make hacker plots which are cringe and boring or they just have them solve things in a more interesting fashion, but then you end up asking yourself why they don't simply use their smartphones.

Because they are characters made in another time, from a show who is trying to literally be "Hello Fellow Children"

>Doing trips to other countries and shit?
Not really - in golden age Simpsons almost every trip they went on was because their trip was sponsored by someone else (ex. Crepes of Wrath, Mr Lisa Goes to Washington, Bart vs Australia, Bart on the Road, You Only Move Twice, Cape Feare). The farthest they travelled on their own during this period of the show was New York City to get Homer's car and that was riding a cheap coach bus.

It wasn't until the zombie era that the "Simpsons go to INSERT PLACE" episodes became common

because modern day homer and marge were born in the 80's.

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Because the Simpson family is way too poor to afford Apple products, given their highly overpriced but under-performing nature, plus Lisa wouldn't be willing to put up with Apple's sweatshop labor practices.

The 90s aesthetic and vibrant colors of the house are contrasting with the soulless appearance of the iphone and ipad

Looks better.

Yeah, now the guest stars are really detailed charicatures of the celebrity's instead of, yknow, them in the Simpsons art style like in the first 9 seasons

I hate that overly realistic look for cameos

in addition to some other points itt it's weird that's it's specifically Apple and not just generic smartphone/tablets

Show examples

We already told you, Simpsons have a very goofy and absurd decor. Look at their kitchen, look at their car. Very vibrant and gaudy colors. They look like a cartoon. The fake ipod shit, doesn't. It looks like a drawing of an ipod. The further the Simpsons gets away from its cartoony roots the more the stiff sterile add ons clash with the remnants of the past. Even when they did similar shit in past seasons there was some effort to be cartoony and absurd about. Like what the fuck is that supposed to be? It doesn't really look like a Playstation or N64 and has a Sega gamepad, but you know what a "Funtendo Zii" is because it's literally a fucking wii.
Look at their guest stars as well. Originally a guest stars and new character designs, they're oddly less cartoony to fit into a stiffer style.

Simpsons when it was good was designed to be a cartoon even when parodying real things, Simpsons now doesn't take that effort.

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Is nothing to new.

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all our live depends now from smartphone and the Simpsons used the so little.
To make it work they need to introduce a new character like Gazoo for the flinstones, a sentient super smartphone who lives with the family.

Good point, I think you are pretty much right.

I also think that the writers have lost focus of what the "character" of Springfield and the Simpson family are meant to be, and just write about what they know, which is the liberal-hipster world they live in. Spingfield isn't run down and kind of sleazy anymore, it's just a generic nice "hip" town to live in that's clean, sterile and has lots of performance arts theatres or latest high-tech wastes of public expenditure the writers happen to like, and The Simpsons are no longer a lower-middle class behind-the-times family, they are affluent hipsters that love to hop on the latest trends or buy the latest goofy technology and generally just reflect a weird millenial feeling around them, I mean, there's an episode where Homer is depressed his ipad broke, if that doesn't tell you what's wrong with the show, I don't know what will.

Also, I don't think iphones or ipads have been around long enough for anybody (at least not anybody working on The Simpsons) to have anything funny or interesting to say about them, but they are just included to drive the plot forwards or to facilitate very weak gags.

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>Used in one gag
>Not namedropped
>Doesn't even look like a Newton

>Simpsons has always had Apples
>Posts an orange

It's a show that came out in the 1980s and had its golden years during the 1990s (long before any of this tech) and it really hasn't done much since then to change the status quo over the years.
this also might have something to do with it, it's a similar problem with modern character designs on this show clashing with established characters.

>It's a show that came out in the 1980s
Wrong, it came out in 1995 when I was born, my mother told me as much because she said that's why the Simpsons was always the one adult cartoon we watched, because it had a very special connection to my birth.