Comparing The Monkey's Paw And The Simpsons

When comparing the Monkey’s paw and the Simpsons Parody video there are many similarities but there are many differences. When comparing these two videos one of the similarities in both The Monkey’s Paw and in The Simpsons video is the way the protagonists are written, they are both greedy in the beginning. When Mr. White first receives the monkey’s paw he uses it for money when he says “I wish for two hundred pounds” (Jacobs, 172). When Homer receives the paw while he is in the living room with his family with his, Bart takes the paw and wishes for “the simpsons to be rich and famous” (Simpsons, 1:04). This shows how Mr. White and Homer are greedy because they both wished for money. Homer did not directly wish for money but when Bart was making