The Teen Choice Awards > The Emmy’s for The Simpsons

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BREAKING NEWS: For Once, Teens Were Right.

The Teen Choice Awards took place Sunday night –- no, wait, please don’t stop reading just yet! Still with me? Okay, good. Anyway, that rinky-dink award show with the goofy surfboards in lieu of actual trophies was this weekend, and amongst all the BS nominations and winners (The Fault in Our Stars, Hunger Games, and One Direction very nearly swept the entire show) these youngins actually got a couple things right. 22 Jump Street rightfully earned a few boards, and The Simpsons won “Choice TV Animated Show.”

Of course, with the latter event, it’s worth noting two things: first, even the oldest teens weren’t even born until The Simpsons were already six seasons deep. And second, The Simpsons isn’t actually the best animated show on television. However, when compared to the other nominations (Adventure Time, Family Guy, Gravity Falls, and Regular Show) the win is actually quite justified. Don’t get me wrong: all five are solid series, it’s just not shocking that our favorite yellow family emerged triumphant.

What IS shocking, is that the Teen Choice Awards recognized The Simpsons for being able to hang tough after all these years, and the (allegedly) more mature, more intelligent suits at the Emmy Awards gave the show the ol’ shaft-er-ooni, and didn’t even throw them a nomination. As we previously reported, Emmy nods were given to Archer, Bob’s Burgers, Futurama, and South Park, but The Simpsons was denied in favor of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Project.

What the shit is this? They give props to some half-assed reboot of a once-beloved kids show, but not The Simpsons? Michael Bay is raping the TMNT franchise as we speak, and now we add this blatant insult on top of our current rectal injury? Blasphemy, I tells ya!

People might knock the younger generation as anti-social social media whores & thugs (additional breaking news: “Older Generation Thinks Younger Generation is Worse Than They Were”) but at least they know enough to respect their roots.

In the end, however, both award shows dropped the ball for nominations and wins, because Rick and Morty is currently the hottest thing since peeing with gonorrhea, and when the show rules the world one day, you’ll all be sorry as you slave and toil in their underground animation caves.

On the other hand, I, for one, welcome our new cartoon overlords.

About Gonzo Green

@Gonzo_Green is a chronic sufferer of Pre-life Crisis Syndrome. He drinks frequently, and wears hats sometimes, with these events occasionally occurring concurrently. Gonzo also likes watching baseball, and putting ketchup on foods that ketchup has no business being on. He enjoys rock’n’roll from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, when rock was rock, and meaningless repetitive phrases were frowned upon. But it is what it is.