Yellow peril? Writer says Simpsons should be cancelled

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"John Ortved loves The Simpsons so much he wrote a book about it — but even he admits that the long-running cartoon has slipped in quality in recent seasons.

"They should have canned it 10 years ago," said Ortved, the 29-year-old author of The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History , in an interview with The New York Times .

"To be fair to the writers, there's only so much you can do with a set of characters," he said. "I mean, 20 years? I don't know how they do it."

Ortved added that he wasn't impressed with The Simpsons Movie , which hit cinemas in 2007.

"It was 90 minutes of throwaway jokes," he lamented. "It was about as good as a very good episode in the later seasons, but I don't think it worked. It's kind of shocking to me that that group of writers couldn't come up with something better."

But Ortved is still a big fan of early episodes, praising classic lines including, " Does whiskey count as beer?" and "Me fail English? That's unpossible".

The Simpsons airs on Network Ten and FOX8."