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TikToker Explains Why ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Will Never Be As Bad As Modern ‘Simpsons’

As we approach Sunday’s Season 14 finale of Bob’s Burgers, long-time fans may fear that decades of wear-and-tear on the core characters will eventually turn the show into a self-parody, à la late-season The Simpsons. Thankfully, that eventuality is easily avoided with two simple words: character development.

Many modern Simpsons fans say that, three and a half decades into the show’s historic run, the show’s secret formula has seen gradual degradation due to a phenomenon The Simpsons helped name – Flanderization. The term was coined by TVTropes, who define the concept as, “The act of taking a single (often minor) action or trait of a character within a work and exaggerating it more and more over time until it completely consumes the character.”

The Walmart Yodeling Kid Made Matt Rife Act Like An Adult for Once

Over the past month, Generation Z has spent an inordinate amount of time dunking on one of their fallen heroes, the controversial stand-up star Matt Rife. Little did they know that the first kid to put Rife in his place came from Walmart, not TikTok.

Mason Ramsey is a 17-year-old country singer from Golconda, Illinois who is best known for scoring one of middle America’s most celebrated 15 minutes of fame after a video of him singing the aisles of a Walmart in nearby Harrisburg went massively viral in 2018, earning a view count of 86 million and jump-starting Ramsey’s music career.

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