Thread:AnimationFan15/@comment-24200891-20200110180633/@comment-24200891-20200211065510

Many episodes have repetitive gags that serve as nothing but filler. For example most of Making the grade is Lisa refusing to help and blaming Lincoln for this. Friendzy is mostly remembered from repeating scenes of siblings inviting more friends. In the Simpson scenes of prank calling also serve as filler. Instead of filler, there could be more interesting scenes showing progress. In many anime series slowing pacing or extending fight scenes serve to fill episodes.

I wonder if the writers write simple cliche episodes, because they lack creativity or because they are ordered by their bosses to not write complex or stories. Why would the latter happen? Because the bosses want to milk the franchise, so they need as many episodes as possible, but put more effort into quantity of stories instead of quality of stories.