“The Simpson’s” is about the satiric adventures of a working class family in the city of

Its faithfulness to the original story, a musical and comedic taste and friendliness towards children makes the film more interesting and approachable to watch, appealing more people than the play. Moreover, as the Simpsons’ version is more straightforward and hence easier to understand, the producers’ message can be conveyed further. Likewise, as The Simpsons’ characters are familiar, it is easier to empathize with them and for viewers to put themselves in their

The television shows from 1950 to the present are connected in many ways. The characters showed in the 1950s television show called Leave It To Beaver all have white coloured skin and portrayed as a happy, perfect family. As the decades increased, the nuclear families turned into blended families, and the television shows started to have coloured characters. The families started to have problems and social situations. The viewer sees the conflicts inside the family begin as the years progress. For example, in the 2000's we examined a television show called Arrested Development. The show portrays the characters as if they are troubled and have problems. The children do not listen to their parents but instead have

The Simpsons is an American television show that features characters such as Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie. This television series is one of the longest and most popular television shows to ever hit the screens with a running of 26 seasons, beginning in the year 1990. The Simpsons is known best for its humor, the characters, the scenarios and the impersonalisation of the “All American” family. However there is also an understanding that The Simpsons has become a worldwide phenomenon not only for the narration and plot of the television show, but for the use of cultural representations and intertextuality used throughout the series. This essay will analysis The Simpsons and question whether or not the series plays with and uses intertextuality

"The Simpsons" basis, a father, a mother, and three kids, is far from unusual. The "typical" American is a blue-collar worker not unlike the father, Homer, who works a mindless job at the local nuclear power plant in the Simpsons' hometown of Springfield which is basically Anytown, USA. Marge, the mother, is a fairly typical housewife besides her large blue beehive hairdo. Bart, is the rebellious older son; Lisa, the under-appreciated middle child; and Maggie, the adorable baby. The Simpsons don't live in luxury, but they are a generally happy family that encounters the problems of everyday, and not-so-everyday, life, something that millions can relate to. But there is something that sets "The Simpsons" apart from the

Family Guy, an animated sitcom about a New England family and their everyday dilemmas, is a way for viewers to see the comedic side of a dysfunctional family. The Griffins consist of Peter and Lois, the patriarch and matriarch, and Meg, Chris, and Stewie are the children(Family Guy). Every character is different from the next character. They are also weird in their own way. The television show itself displays feminism, structuralism, and gay and lesbian criticism. Each character in the show also displays those criticisms in a certain fashion. Family Guy can be offensive to viewers with its satire, and the way the show delivers its message can make the family and the other characters in the show seem dysfunctional.

Everyone's experiences with it are different, some are favourable, and some are fallacious. Everyone has it, but no one’s family is synonymous. Family is strong and sacrosanct, but strange. The understanding of family varies between people and their personal experiences. In the play Only Drunks and Children Tell The Truth(ODACTTT) by Drew Hayden Taylor, one sees family defined in several legitimate but different ways.

When the FOX network aired "The Simpsons" in 1989, the show brought the yellow-skinned and four-fingered cartoon characters named Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson into millions of American living rooms. This bent archetype of the American family, as well as the hundreds of zany characters that populate their all-American hometown of Springfield, fast became the targets of enormous criticism. Elementary schools banned T-shirts bearing the images of the Simpson family and their slogans. Former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett and even President George Bush berated the show as subversive and demeaning (McAllister 1494). However, a more careful investigation of the show reveals far more than

These episodes hold accurate representations of our perception of the elderly. Often, older characters on television shows are portrayed in a negative light and The Simpsons are no exception. These characters are used in gags to exaggerate common stereotypes we see in the elderly such as making irrational demands or their apparent forgetfulness. When Bart and Lisa visit Grandpa at his retirement home, he is often

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom whose creator is Seth MacFarlane. Its first episode was aired in 1999, and up to now, almost 300 episodes grouped into sixteen seasons have been aired. The main characters are the Griffin family, formed by Peter and Lois, their children Meg, Chris and Stewie, and the pet dog Brian, whose most remarkable trait is the fact that he can talk. In this dissertation, I concentrate on Meg and Stewie, who are, from my point of view, the ones that change the most throughout the development of the series.

The show makes an obvious distinction between how men/boys and women/girls act. Anyway, the episode continues with lisa playing with her doll pretending that Malibu Stacy is giving a speech at the U.N, but Lisa is disappointed when she realizes that the new and improved doll says sexist remarks such as “don’t ask me, I’m just a girl” and “let’s buy make up so that boys will like us!”. Lisa goes on a rant about how “millions of girls will grow up thinking that this is the right way to act! That they cannot be anything more than vacuous ninnies...!”and gets really mad when Bart does not understand why she is so upset. The difference in communication styles is shown here as Lisa is more adept with words than Bart is as Bart can only give Lisa a stupid reply like “that’s what I was going to say.” This illustrates the stereotype that girls are more expressive and sensitive than boys are. On the other hand, Marge plays the more traditional housewife as her mind never delves into issues that are not relevant to the domestic center; she is not privy to relevant discussions on social issues like Lisa and cannot understand why Lisa is so upset. She said that Lisa had been speaking up “an awful lot lately.” This suggests that typical lady-like behavior does not include speaking out and that the mother should enforce positive female behavior. Additionally, in

The Simpson's episode Lisa on Ice explores and satirises the relationship between sister and brother, how sibling rivalry can cause distress and pressure upon children and also how society is obsessed with sports. These ideals are conveyed to the audience via the techniques inversion and anticlimax to name a few. Together these techniques expose human faults and weaknesses within our cultures and mindsets.

Anyone who owns a television had watched a sitcom of some kind. Ether it’s a good episode of Big Bang Theory or a whole season of How I Met Your Mother we all had experience a sitcom. A sitcom or situation comedy is a kind of genre that forces on a set of characters in a certain environment. Each episode would have an event that will affect the characters in the show, and then those characters will react in a comical way. Over the decades of sitcoms airing on television, certain sitcoms started to fellow some kind of formula. Each sitcom are different in some way, however some have clear similarity to one another. For instance take Family Guy, which is a sitcom about of a middle-class family, and The Simpsons, which also a sitcom about of a middle-class family. To show the similarity and different of these two sitcoms, I will compare and contracts two episode; episode 1 of season 1 of the Family Guy and episode 3 of season 1 of The Simpsons. I claim that both Family Guy and The Simpsons have similar aspects, which are the theme, style of comedy, the fathers, and their family.

If we look at Season 12 episode 9 – “Homr”, Homer becomes inspired by the animation convention that’s in town. Generating his first impulse by removing all his life savings from his joint account with Marge to invest in the company without any knowledge of the stock market other than his own perception of the product. Even as the teller informs Homer that he would need to have his wife sign, he goes behind a plant to impersonate Marge to sign and Lisa to get some candy. He even tries to leave after accepting the candy without getting the money that he went in for. After losing his investment he decides to become a medical guinea pig to get some extra cash, this lead to the discovery of a childhood crayon being lodge in his brain. This becomes one of the components of what has made Homer so asinine, yet after removing the crayon he is left with a high-level IQ but is unable to cope with the world of low intelligence. He does recognize that his intelligence creates a strong bond with Lisa so he writes her a letter before Moe puts another crayon in his brain. In season 9 episode 17 – “Lisa the Simpson”, we see the reversed of Homer in which Lisa is now trying to cope with being unintelligent after she is left unable to resolve a puzzled that everyone but her could do in seconds. Grandpa Simpson explains how it is the Simpsons gene that makes them dumb which happens around Lisa’s age. Grandpa Simpson shows the decline in both Homer and Bart’s academic years. This deterioration

Nowadays there are numerous sitcoms about the life of typical American families. Family Guy sitcom about Griffin family, is broadly known to be focused on satirical humor which is not just about fun at political figures or stereotypes, yet is meant to realize the issues in today's general public. Talking about Griffin, they may be seem as typical family for the first sight, but in fact, Griffin break typical American family’s stereotypes. Thus, the sitcom about Griffin’s atypical American family touches everyday values and beliefs, such as gender and sexuality, in a very outright manner.

Educational, interesting and entertaining: This programme entertaining and interesting TV programme which will make you laugh loud. “The Simpson’s” is a spectacular sitcom that has been on out screens for over fifteen spectacular year which is here if long time for an animated sitcom, but then we ask ourselves the question “how do they do it?”