The simpsons

... also all become best sellers and the Simpsons generate billions in revenue for the FOX network. Late last year the FOX network renewed its contract with the cast of the Simpsons, allowing the show to run until at least 2005. This will allow the Simpsons to become the longest running sitcom of all time, beating out the 60's show Ozzie and Harriet. The Simpsons already claimed the title of the longest running cartoon in early 2000 ... when it overtook the Flinstones and now at ... ...

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... out of their day to take a break and watch their favorite television show. Some people enjoy sitcoms with very predicable happy endings. Others like the reality television shows like the new Joe Millionaire. For me, it's The Simpsons. It may or may not be your favorite television show but in some way you can relate something in your life to this cartoon family ... . For many reasons The Simpsons is the best television show out there. The cartoons characters, mockery of society, and its longevity have let The Simpsons become quite possibly the best television show running today. One reaso...

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... been broadcast to a large audience across a number of countries and its knack for making viewers laugh intertwined with its intellectual rigor and satire, making it a personal favourite of mine. While The Simpsons is made and broadcast on mainstream media (by Fox TV which is owned by Rupert Murdoch) its content is alternative television, that is, it is radical in its content, mainly ... it is viewed by millions, on a conservative network, may in fact deem it popular/ mass culture. Regardless of the genre the program provides an interesting mix of the radical and the popular. Murdoch him...

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... popular and longest running television shows in our time, and in this time of ever changing network schedules, with shows that don't even make it after their first airing. The Simpsons have not only lasted, but it has also become a staple of American life. Who would have ever thought that a cartoon about a dysfunctional eccentric middle class family would go on to ... become a part of peoples lives the way that it has. The Simpsons is a television program that is enjoyed by both children and adults at the same time. It has captivated millions of fans and still continues to go strong eve...

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... be nominated thirty three more times and win fifteen more. They even won a Peabody award, which is given for excellence in radio and television The Simpsons is a sitcom based on your average American family. Matt Groening loosely based the Simpsons family around his own family. He had a father named Homer, a mother named Margaret, and two sisters, Lisa and Maggie. Bart is an anagram for ... brat and a step in for Groening as a child. Around the family there is a vast array of characters that share the spotlight with the Simpsons from time to time. From the Apu the foreign Kwik-E-Mart ow...

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... influence on its viewers behaviors. In this day and age, we are constantly exposed to violence of all kinds, which contribute to giving negative examples. In other words, The Simpsons criticizes the domination of violence in the media, even in shows for children. A fine example of this violence is in Bart and Lisa Simpson's favorite cartoon show: Itchy and Scratchy. A show similar to ... a coincidence. How often is something like that heard in our society? Another important issue that is brought up in "The Simpsons- is national pride and the role of the United States in the world. "The Si...

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... driving home from work where he drops a radiation container and Lisa is playing her trumpet. These scenes are always included in the opening scene of The Simpsons. Homer is the main character to be looked at next after the credits, whether it is on the couch watching T.V. or at work eating doughnuts. Homer's character is a somewhat dumb witted individual who never seems to really ... when aliens abducted Marge and they brought her home and she was pregnant. That was the Halloween special from one year. The Simpsons cartoon draws a more mature audience. People in their early teens till l...

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... common memorabilia such as action figures and tee shirts, to the more abnormal items ranging from barbeque sets to "soap on a rope," Homer has lent his image. The Simpsons, which airs in numerous countries, has affected and influenced millions of fans around the globe. I am one of those fans. Although The Simpsons originally aired in 1987 on the Tracy Ullman Show, I didn't really get hooked until I was ... in 9th grade. (Before that, I was never allowed to watch the show, as my mom dubbed it "inappropriate".) But, once I entered high school, The Simpsons soon became my new favorite TV s...

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... Springfield and its reaction. Springfieldians first turned a tragic situation into a media circus and then forgot about it just when the tragedy became real. Bart's little crime and the Simpsons" incompetence pail in comparison to the criminal incompetence of the community. We, the audience, are still laughing, but the laughter is no longer innocent - we are not laughing at some fictional dysfunctional family that is a little bit like ... very charismatic; we are laughing at a community that is almost exactly like our own and not charismatic at all. All of a sudden, America itself is th...

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... but appeal to completely different audiences. Shock value, animated characters, and popularity are both major themes in each which put together has created a popularity value for each. The Simpsons first started as a small skit on another show called "The Tracy Ullman Show." It was on that show they were first born back in 1988 as a way to take small stabs at politics and ... the government using small episodes with a dysfunctional family. Soon the popularity of The Simpsons was great enough that Fox decided to branch them out into their own show. The first season of The Simpsons starte...

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