The Simpsons

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an original, satirical American sitcom cartoon, which

is shown all over the world and appeals to a wide range of audiences

with its unique, yet basic form of humour. It stereotypes and

satirises the typical American lower middle class family. With its

simple plots, exaggerated situations, unrealistic scenarios, lurid

colours, humour, animation and familiar pattern, it is a typical

cartoon but with an original twist. This makes it like no other

cartoon made before, the twist is the level of humour used in the

Simpsons, and this type of humour is called satire. There are many

other types of humour involved in the Simpsons, but satire plays a

large role in it The Simpsons appeals to children and a large adult

audience, it includes a lot of references and satirises the society we

live in which only adults may realise and find funny. The way that it

different from normal cartoons is that they are usually written for

low intelligence levels, and normally animated for a child audience

with cartoons such as Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse. They have simple

jokes or they are just visually funny which will just stimulate

children while sitting in front of the television.

The Simpsons came about and was written because it was influenced by

many media sources from the television.

Other cartoons like The Flintstones influenced The Simpsons greatly as

they were the original television cartoon sitcoms in that they use the

same characters and the same scenario in every episode but using

different story lines different stories. The Flintstones is similar to

the Simpsons in the way the story lines are set up, the simple
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...he song are really stupid and irrelevant, so stupid that probably

only Homer would know because he watches so much TV and it makes him

feel special knowing them, but he does know the words!

Incongruity comes up quite a lot in this episode, this is a form of

humour where two ideas don't match up. This is like when Barney got

stuck in the girl guides meeting in his film entry, or when… said that

only he and Eudora Welty can belch this loud, this is funny because

Eudora Welty is a sweet old lady, and you could not imagine her

belching that loud. Also the idea of the doctor wearing fishnets, as

doctors are respected and it seems stupid if they go around dressing

up. Another incongruity was the Japanese tourists thinking Moe was

Drew Barrymore, this is funny because Moe is a grumpy Middle ages man,

not a young sex icon!

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