[user104658]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

But i don't understand why garbage shows like South Park still keep churning out new episodes .

[Marsh.]

Yes, The Simpsons is sh*t now but people have started overrating 90s Simpsons.

Stop being silly.

[Livia]

They're keeping the Jewish clown though?

Spoiler:

Good. Because it's not racist to have Jewish characters, nor is it racist to have Asian characters

[Smithy]

Well he’s not a practicing Jew and they killed off the rabbi

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Well he’s not a practicing Jew and they killed off the rabbi

Oy vey!

[Scarlett.]

He isn't being axed after all it seems, someone was bull****ting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46017390

[Smithy]

Can y’all believe this and there’s like a literal paedophilic character in family guy

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Dia.

He isn't being axed after all it seems, someone was bull****ting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46017390

Not surprising, just trying to feed the PC gone mad brigade then

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Can y’all believe this and there’s like a literal paedophilic character in family guy

Nobody seems to complain about family guy/ american dad or south park . Those shows and their boundaries get ignored for some reason .

Simpsons is Disney compared to Family guy etc .

If it's true that it was just the PC gone mad brigade lying and making a fuss over nothing , then i'm happy Apu ISN'T being axed! , but it sounds like they're still undecided , i hope they keep him! . I kept thinking why would the writers & producers of Simpsons cave in to such a ridiculous uproar when the show has been on air for 30 years ! . And all the characters in The simpsons are well loved by fans .

Every character in the show is a stereotype or a caricature that's the comedy .

They pick on the indian guy, but what about the angry scots man grounds keeper willie?? .

Or messy Krusty the jewish clown? , or the accident prone mexican bubble bee man ??

[Maru]

Family guy took off around the time the Simpsons were introducing more radical/parodistic changes to the model. So it never took itself seriously at all. The same can be said about South Park. Though South Park was in that "cool" medium-rare zone of US cartoons that was on the fringes at the time. Where it wasn't quite vulgar enough that it was Beavis&Butthead-y (which was cancelled at the time), but still vulgar enough to appeal to the older Millenials. US shows are becoming less censorship-heavy, so there's not really a niche for vulgar/outrageous anymore. It used to be if a show was not "family-friendly" enough, it was petitioned until it was pulled off the air in the States. Now that pull is in the other direction... how dare it not break norms, etc...

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Dia.

He isn't being axed after all it seems, someone was bull****ting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46017390

The version of the OP's story I had read was that it was only in rumor stages so it's somewhat not surprising. It was supposedly in consideration because of a documentary that came out in 2017... There's probably more to that story.

The Problem with Apu
https://www.trutv.com/shows/the-prob...apu/index.html

Comedian Hari Kondabolu, the creator and star of this feature-length documentary, confronts his long standing “nemesis” Apu Nahasapeemapetilon – better known as the Indian convenience store owner on The Simpsons. Through this comedic cultural exposé, Kondabolu questions how this controversial caricature was created, burrowed its way into the hearts and minds of Americans and continues to exist – intact – twenty-eight years later.

His comment on the rumor:

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Everyone in it is a fecking stereotype.I’d argue that it’s more racist to just pick on the Indian guy to be dropped.

This.