"The Simpsons"

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This paper analyzes one of the longest-running cartoon shows on television today, "The Simpsons". The paper contends that "The Simpsons" has always operated on two levels, appealing to children as a fast-paced cartoon and to older audiences for its wit and satire. The paper describes how the show reflects various aspects of American life, including parenting, religion, and discrimination to help us see our own flaws and laugh at ourselves.

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"Homer Simpsons is the device for delivering the most satiric comments on everything ranging from alcohol to children to law to religion. What makes this satire quite wholesome and hilarious is the lack of subtlety with which it is presented to the audience. Homer isn't interested in pleasing anyone so he says what is on his mind and that takes the viewers by complete surprise, though may be no longer with everybody becoming familiar with the show's incongruity. MacGregor maintains: "It is Homer Simpson who drives the show" As a moving, ever expanding satire, he is at once the best and worst of American dadness. He is forever wanting the things he'll never have, scheming to get them and failing, his appetites and disappointments as classic as the central conflicts from which all great theater and literature derives."(MacGregor 27)"

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