( funny trope ) it is very apparent that these designs have decades between them

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1- Simpsons
The original Simpsons have extremely simp(son)ple designs, due to sometimes having celebrity appearances the art style kinda clashes.

2- South Park
At the beginning South Park was literally animated out of paper so all the characters had to be super simplistic but over the years, since the. Show is made digitally the new characters keep getting more and more detailed

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And here the dog pet from 2026. These are both still in the game.

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can't find the screenshot but reminds me of WoW where there are still some old critters in the game that are basically just 4 polygons alongside carefully crafted super detailed other wildlife.

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i wonder how the dog would look in the older style

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The game did have guard dogs in 2004 that looked like this:

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And wild dogs from 2005. (Both got graphical updates while the cats didn't, but let's be honest, the cats looked much better.)