The Simpsons Satire
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is a popular, prime-time, animated comedy program. Those who have never seen the program may dismiss it as being merely a children's show. That assumption could be made of many animated programs. However, those non-viewers are likely unaware that The Simpsons is a very cleverly written show. The humor in the show is written with various aspects that appeal to different segments of the audience. The characters are written in such a way that many people can relate to one or more of the characters. These factors allow the program to appeal to the large segments of the public in different ways.
The Simpsons is an animated program that will appeal to children simply because it is an animated program. The scenes rarely last more than two or three minutes so as not to bore those members of the audience who were raised on video games and therefore have very short attention spans. The Simpsons contains many levels of humor that appeal to vastly different segments of the population. The show contains very basic and even slapstick type humor which appeals to the members of the audience with average to below average intelligence, yet at the same time includes witty humor and satire which is better …show more content…
Homer Simpson is the bread winner and the head of the household while his wife, Marge Simpson, is a stay-at-home mother who raises her children and cooks for her family. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey for 2003, sixty-eight percent (68%) of all households in the U.S. were family households, and of those, seventy-six percent (76%) were married couple family households. Although many television programs portray households as having alternate lifestyles, such as a heterosexual single parent household or homosexual couples, most of the households in America are traditional nuclear families and can relate to the family as portrayed in The
The Simpsons is a popular, prime-time, animated comedy program. Those who have never seen the program may dismiss it as being merely a children's show. That assumption could be made of many animated programs. However, those non-viewers are likely unaware that The Simpsons is a very cleverly written show. The humor in the show is written with various aspects that appeal to different segments of the audience. The characters are written in such a way that many people can relate to one or more of the characters. These factors allow the program to appeal to the large segments of the public in different ways.
The Simpsons is an animated program that will appeal to children simply because it is an animated program. The scenes rarely last more than two or three minutes so as not to bore those members of the audience who were raised on video games and therefore have very short attention spans. The Simpsons contains many levels of humor that appeal to vastly different segments of the population. The show contains very basic and even slapstick type humor which appeals to the members of the audience with average to below average intelligence, yet at the same time includes witty humor and satire which is better …show more content…
Homer Simpson is the bread winner and the head of the household while his wife, Marge Simpson, is a stay-at-home mother who raises her children and cooks for her family. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey for 2003, sixty-eight percent (68%) of all households in the U.S. were family households, and of those, seventy-six percent (76%) were married couple family households. Although many television programs portray households as having alternate lifestyles, such as a heterosexual single parent household or homosexual couples, most of the households in America are traditional nuclear families and can relate to the family as portrayed in The