Persuasive Essay On The Simpsons
Children and adults both enjoy a good laugh every once in a while and Family Guy, the Simpsons and South Park provide us with that laugh. They introduce off-color comedy, or vulgar comedy, and in doing so make millions of dollars every year and influence millions of kids everywhere. Comparing the three shows for you today will be quite an interesting task at hand. The Simpsons, staring the Simpson family: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie in their fictional town of Springfield. The show started off in the head of Matt Groening, while waiting to pitch his idea he quickly made up names for his characters, using the names of his own dysfunctional family, him being Bart. Then later became sketches on the Tracey Ullman Show in April of 1987, didn’t get its time in the lime light until December of 1989 when a team off companies brought the sketches to Fox Broadcasting Company. Since that debut in 1989 the Simpsons has shown its viewers child abuse
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and alcoholism, but also religion. When children watch TV they look up to the characters and sometimes try to mirror the characters actions, so hopefully they look up to the academic Lisa instead of the trouble making, less caring Bart, but the show like others, portray Lisa as the nerd for being good in school and Bart as cool for being the delinquent.
But after five hundred and thirty episodes and twenty four seasons, the Simpsons has still never gone to all the lengths to make its audience laugh as some of the other adult comedies aired on television. South Park, the adult animated series created by to corrupt minds of producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is a show that centers around the four elementary school children: Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick and their adventures in town in Colorado. Don’t let the term elementary fool you, these boys are perverted, foul mouthed, hoodlums. Comedy Central’s South Park has been a hit since its first appearance in August of 1997, where two years before it was just a
skit. Parker and Stone’s creative and dreadful show discriminates against race, religion, socioeconomic standings, and anything else that pops into their tormented heads. Political issues and celebrities have no get out of jail free cards when it comes to show plots. If anything dramatic happens in the world Parker and Stone are going to take it and put their own corrupt twist on it. But it doesn’t stop there, the boys continuously make fun of their Jewish friend Kyle, making him feel bad about his religion. The boys also make fun of the poor kid in their group Kenny, and their black friend Token. What does this show other children, it show that you can make fun of other children and not get punished for it. Parker and Stone may not intend for their show to be seen by a younger audience but children are watching and the lessons they are taking from the show is it’s alright to bully and it’s alright to discriminate. After 237 episodes the show is not letting up on the graphic content or discriminative plots. With no sign of a let up,
Family Guy, a product of the twisted yet brilliant mind of producer Seth MacFarlane, was aired on January 31, 1999 on Fox. The show focuses on the dysfunctional family the Griffins, parent Peter and Lois, and children Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their talking dog Brian, in their made up town of Quahog, Rhode Island.
and alcoholism, but also religion. When children watch TV they look up to the characters and sometimes try to mirror the characters actions, so hopefully they look up to the academic Lisa instead of the trouble making, less caring Bart, but the show like others, portray Lisa as the nerd for being good in school and Bart as cool for being the delinquent.
But after five hundred and thirty episodes and twenty four seasons, the Simpsons has still never gone to all the lengths to make its audience laugh as some of the other adult comedies aired on television. South Park, the adult animated series created by to corrupt minds of producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is a show that centers around the four elementary school children: Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick and their adventures in town in Colorado. Don’t let the term elementary fool you, these boys are perverted, foul mouthed, hoodlums. Comedy Central’s South Park has been a hit since its first appearance in August of 1997, where two years before it was just a
skit. Parker and Stone’s creative and dreadful show discriminates against race, religion, socioeconomic standings, and anything else that pops into their tormented heads. Political issues and celebrities have no get out of jail free cards when it comes to show plots. If anything dramatic happens in the world Parker and Stone are going to take it and put their own corrupt twist on it. But it doesn’t stop there, the boys continuously make fun of their Jewish friend Kyle, making him feel bad about his religion. The boys also make fun of the poor kid in their group Kenny, and their black friend Token. What does this show other children, it show that you can make fun of other children and not get punished for it. Parker and Stone may not intend for their show to be seen by a younger audience but children are watching and the lessons they are taking from the show is it’s alright to bully and it’s alright to discriminate. After 237 episodes the show is not letting up on the graphic content or discriminative plots. With no sign of a let up,
Family Guy, a product of the twisted yet brilliant mind of producer Seth MacFarlane, was aired on January 31, 1999 on Fox. The show focuses on the dysfunctional family the Griffins, parent Peter and Lois, and children Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their talking dog Brian, in their made up town of Quahog, Rhode Island.