--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2000-10-09T02:43:36' draft: false title: Here's a long and thought-out --- Here's a long and thought-out [case for euthanizing _The Simpsons_](http://www.msnbc.com/news/419648.asp?bt=nm&btu=http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/d/news_menu.asp) I found on MSNBC. The author descibes the transformation over the last several years of the original Simpsons characters, especially Homer, into what he calls "the meta-Simpsons", or, less civilly, "jerkass Homer." An interview with George Meyer, the last of the staff old guard, helps the author make his case.