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- From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
- Subject: Re: The Simpsons in U.S. culture?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:35:23 -0500
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- >Simpsons played no role in the elections, it is not really an issue.
- >The only reason it might be brought up is to illustrate a point with
- >a reference most people are familiar with (after all with 250,000,000
- >people of different regional and ethnic cultures, TV may be one of
- >the few sources of common (vicareous) experience).
- >
- >I think that _The Simpsons_ is an 'Anti-Utopian' family the same was
- >_The Cosby Show_ was utopian. I think what i feel appealing is by
- >showing the worst in us (Homer being a selfish slob, his wife fairly
- >shallow, Lisa an intellectual stifled by her uninterested family, Bart
- >the hellion and troublemaker who dispite everything still looks up
- >to his rotton father, Maggie the barely taken care of baby, Withers
- >the uncaring Ogrish Boss, His sycophantic subordinate, Flanders that
- >'picture perfect' neighbor, and so on...) and cardboard archetypes of
- >what is in all of us, we can laugh.
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- HOW can you say that about MARGE??!! The only thing I see wrong with
- her is that, for some strange reason, she likes HOMER! She takes care
- of Maggie!
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- P.S.-- I don't want to start a major argument here, because I do agree
- with most of what you say above. But Marge does her best.
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- "All the good signature file quotes are taken."
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- -- responses to tina@rjlg.com
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