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    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

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    Case Study on Homer Simpson By: Ian Conway Homer Simpson is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists in the TV show The Simpsons. Dan Castellanta voices him. He lives in a fictional town called Springfield, Oregon, United States. He is married to Marge Simpson with three children named Bart, Lisa and Maggie. He has a pet dog named Santa’s Little Helper and cat called Snowball. Homer currently works in the show at a Nuclear Power Plant as a Safety inspector but has worked at previous

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    The Simpsons 'The Simpsons' is a humorous show about the average American family, yet it manages to portray social and moral issues through the unusual medium if cartoon. How is this achieved? 'The Simpsons' is a comedy cartoon, created originally over ten years ago. The cartoon idea for adults lampoons everything Americans hold dear, and is now more popular worldwide

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    The Simpsons Satire

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    During the late 1980s, The Simpsons, was introduced as an animated cartoon show and has tremendously grown into a popularity of the American culture. Matt Groening, creator and executive producer of The Simpsons, has displayed twenty-seven seasons for over thirty years on 20th Century Fox Television. Jesssamyn Nehaus, doctor and avid popular media consumer, states the following, “In…respect, the show very much reflects the sensibilities of its originator, Matt Groening. As a Los Angeles cartoonist

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    The Simpsons Essay

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    The Simpsons The Simpson is now arguably the biggest sitcom and animation of TV history, but what is it that makes it so successful compared to traditional sitcoms. In order to answer this question, we have to look at sitcom as a whole; then the difference if any between modern and traditional sitcoms. Sitcoms when first released were aimed at families and it tried to show what American should be like. Sitcoms, are popular for many different reasons; some of these including

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    The Simpsons Reflection

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    Whether you love them, or hate them, The Simpsons a key piece to young adulthood in many homes around the world. From depicting things such as struggling with disorders, problems with the boss, or average family life, most North American families are able to relate to the The Simpsons and that is why we keep crawling back each Sunday night. In the episode Mypods and Boomsticks, Bart Simpson meets a new friend from Jordan named Bashir. After learning they share many common interest, especially coming

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    The Simpson Reflection

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    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

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    The satirical show ‘The Simpsons’, satirises aspects of life, in this episode its racism. In the episode ‘Mypods and Boomsticks’ the show exaggerates the view of Middle Eastern people. In particular the American view, stereotyping them with terrorism, and using black humour and absurdity to support that view. This show is aimed at young-adult and/or adult viewers, as many references to the real world may not be understood by younger viewers. The audience is positioned to think about if the episode

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    One of the most well-known episode in The Simpsons is definitely “The Secret to Successful Marriage”, not only it is one of the highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired, it also receives several positive reviews from critics. So what is the secret that makes this episode so successful compare to others? The answer is this episode essentially answered the questions of how Homer Simpsons deal with real world situations when people stop putting up with his idiocy and what makes people

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    Semiotics In The Simpsons

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    In this paper i will be analysing and discussing the semiotics on an episode of The Simpson series. The Simpsons is an animated adult series created by Matt Groening. it depicts the lifestyle of middle class America in a satirical form represented by the dysfunctional Simpson family consisting of Homer, Marge,Bart,Lisa and Maggie. it is also a parody to American culture, television,society and conditions humans find their selfs in everyday. the show first aired on December 17th, 1987 and has

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