I'm still not quite sure what to make of Handsome Pete. There is something existentially terrifying about him.
If he ever shows up on the show again, he will speak, and everything he says will be a terrible, inescapable truth. His voice will be provided by the late George C. Scott. No one will be able to explain this.
Also, "Simpsons" is a the title of a show (singular), not in reference to the family Simpsons (plural), so the correct tag would be "back when Simpsons was good", "was", not "were".