We’re praying for an end to the Depression, too.” Homer is too stunned to speak, but Bart takes on the president: “Hey, we’re just like the Waltons. The next episode to air was a rerun of “Stark Raving Dad” (1991), except the opening had been edited to include an additional scene showing the family watching President Bush as he delivers his speech about the Waltons and the Simpsons. The writers of The Simpsons responded a few days later. This motivated the most memorable sound bite from his speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, which was a major part of his re-election campaign: “We are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American family to make American families a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.” He believed that the series was designed to display the worst social values.
Bush claimed to have exposed the real message behind The Simpsons. And what if we’ve picked the wrong religion? Every week we’re just making God madder and madder?”Įven President George H. Regular viewers will be aware that Homer consistently resists pressure to attend church each Sunday, as demonstrated in “Homer the Heretic” (1992): “What’s the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn’t God everywhere?. This is surprising, because many characters appear to be unsympathetic toward the tenets of religion. Pinsky’s The Gospel According to The Simpsons focuses on the spiritual significance of The Simpsons. Related Segment The Simpsons’ Secret? It’s Written by Math Geeksīy contrast, Mark I.
Chapters include “Marge’s Moral Motivation,” “The Moral World of the Simpson Family: A Kantian Perspective,” and “Thus Spake Bart: On Nietzsche and the Virtues of Being Bad.” Skoble, claims to identify clear links between various episodes and the issues raised by history’s great thinkers, including Aristotle, Sartre, and Kant. The Simpsons and Philosophy, edited by William Irwin, Mark T. One group of intellectuals authored a text arguing that The Simpsons essentially provides viewers with a weekly philosophy lecture. What are the hidden meanings of Homer’s utterances about doughnuts and Duff beer? Do the spats between Bart and Lisa symbolize something beyond mere sibling bickering? Are the writers of The Simpsons using the residents of Springfield to explore political or social controversies? Inevitably, its global appeal and enduring popularity have prompted academics (who tend to overanalyze everything) to identify the subtext of the series and to ask some profound questions. The Simpsons is arguably the most successful television show in history. The following excerpt has been adapted from the introduction to The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, by Simon Singh.
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