Jessica

While this series has had its highs and lows, the impact it had, and continues to have, is hard to overestimate. This impact stems from the combination of intelligent writing, a wide range of witty humour from visual gags to spontaneous one-liners, high-quality voice acting and creative animation to make a series truly worthy of recognition and praise.

People like to discuss how the show's quality declined and sometimes that it "died", usually somewhere around the start of this century.

For me personally, this decline was much slower than people claim. There was a slight lull around the movie (which makes sense since both were worked on simultaneously). It improves a little around Season 19-21, stays largely static until Season 28 or so, perks up a bit at 29 but drops to a low at Season 30.

However, Seasons 31 and 32 would improve on it and the show, as of Season 33, has been enjoying a "Silver Age". Is it as good as the first 10 seasons or so? No, of course not, as the term I used implies. However, I would recommend anyone who stopped watching many years ago to give Seasons 33-35 a go at least.

For what it's worth, this is just my opinion and fellow fans will disagree with me. That's perhaps the best aspect of this fanbase, it shows how this series can unify people from pretty much every background.