The Simpsons has jumped the shark. If there was any doubt, tonight's season finale clinched it. Lately the episodes have seemed like they were written by high schoolers, or even worse, network executives. It's as if the producers no longer understand what made the show funny to begin with and think that stupidity and absurdity are funny. Tonight's episode was about Homer getting sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit. Then, at the last instant, it's revealed that the whole thing was a bizarre new reality tv show on Fox.

Recent shows have been tone-deaf, incoherent and confusing crude insults of religion or other institutions with satire. It's like watching a clever and funny comedian develop Alzheimer's.