Maggie Simpson

I have known Margaret (Maggie) Nail for a little under six months. However, it did not take me more than a few conversations with her to realize that she is unlike anyone I have ever met. I am proud to say that Maggie Nail is my best friend. Maggie has character and leadership in the excess. I could go on forever detailing the dedication she has for learning, the compassion she shows to every individual she encounters, and the inspiring effect she has on anyone she meets; yet, I will limit myself

Family Guy and The Simpsons have differences in comedic style and family friends and similarities in family personalities . To begin off with, Family Guy and The Simpsons have differences in comedic style. Family Guy uses humor that has to be taken lightly, Family Guy overuses a joke until it dies and Family Guy takes a joke from zero to hundred in about six seconds. The Simpsons use humor that is funny, but doesn’t kill your braincells. For instance, in Family Guy there was an episode mocking terrorism

Fluffy white clouds part to reveal a perfect blue sky and The Simpsons writing moves toward the screen. The font of the title and the music create an almost heavenly idea of the sitcom. This is perhaps to give the misleading impression that The Simpsons are yet another perfect television family depicted in a sitcom. Next we meet Bart for the first time. He is in school detention, writing lines

The Simpsons as a Sitcom "The Simpsons" is an example of an American sitcom. A sitcom is situation comedy, which is when the same setting and same characters appear in every episode. Examples of sitcoms are programs such as "The Crosby Show" and more recent sitcoms such as "Friends". Sitcoms surfaced in the 1950's in America showing the "ideal" family. Slowly sitcoms started to show the reality of life and dealt with social issues such as divorce and unemployment. Sitcoms

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. Most shows have

sixties and The Simpson was popular in the nineties. Despite many similarities between The Simpson and The Flintstones, the differences are not as obvious. In both shows, the main characters always end up in trouble. Also they both have family situations to deal with. There is a major difference between the two shows that makes them different from one another. The main characters are completely different. The Flintstones were the greatest TV cartoon of all time until The Simpsons came and took the

The Simpsons A sitcom is a situational comedy television series. Sitcoms usually use comic devices to make them funny like puns, violence and exaggeration. They use satire, farce, parody, jokes, gags and slapstick to entertain the audience. Sitcoms usually last 30 minutes if shown on commercial TV and they involve chracters having problems which they try to sort out. "Leaver it to Beaver" was about a typical, white middle-class 1950's family that had problems and worked

woods. They recount a normalcy of how life used to be, an episode of The Simpsons. Throughout the recounts on what happened in the episode “Cape Feare”, the play introduces a new character which gives exposition to the current landscape of the United States. As the play continues into its second and third act, there is a large shift on the scenery, lighting, etc. as the cast begins to recreate the episode of The Simpsons which they discuss in the previous act. While it is easy to get lost on why

1 How do different forms of entertainment media (like TV, movies, video games, comic books, etc.) create and re-create cultural values related to gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and technology? What do fictional worlds, societies, technologies, and creatures tell us about our own society and the values we hold? Are the cultural values expressed accurate reflections, or are they more like the distorted reflection of a fun house mirror? Do they reinforce the status quo or challenge cultural

no further than Matt Groening’s classic The Simpsons, or the more recent twist Family Guy created by Seth Macfarlane. The Simpsons and Family Guy are American comical cartoons that share many similarities and differences. Although the two shows portray a dysfunctional American family and have a similar way of delivering humor, they both contrast in their targeted audience and characters. The first and most noticeable resemblance is that The Simpsons and Family Guy’s humor can be indistinguishable