Bart Simpson

Manitoba. He writes in his essay, The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life, about how all comedy has a similar pattern of quotationalism and hyper-irony. He does this to inform the reader of the rise of pop-culture parodies, and how this has affected comedy in history. In Matheson’s essay, he argues that hyper-irony undercuts the moral agenda throughout the plot and the development of the characters. He does this by using examples from The Simpsons, writing in an explanatory tone, and…

Park. “Oh how dumb,” I would say to my self and I could not understand how adults could find these mean animated characters so funny. At some point it even bothered me and I did not find the show funny but rather insulting. I would also watch The Simpsons but oddly enough I only found some episodes interesting. Sometimes I didn’t understand the language and I wondered why my older brother was still into these cartoonish shows. It was not until I got older that I realized these shows were…

This episode is definitely the most favorite episode from The Simpsons that I’ve watched since it tackled a character that I absolutely fascinated about, Mr. Burns. At the beginning of the episode, we saw Mr. Burns’ character a lot as he were dreaming about his past where he left his life of poverty (and his beloved bear, BoBo) to go off and live the life of a luxury with a heartless millionaire. The first scene of him agrees to leave his own family without any hesitation and choose to live with…

Design In regards to intertextuality, Teddy from my picturebook is the Humpty Dumpty used in the television show Playschool. This served two purposes: Humpty is known to be an incredibly unlucky character, creating doubt in the readers mind even at the beginning of the story that Teddy is the lucky one; and it also creates a connection to Australian children (and even adults) that watch Playschool. Salience and colour were used hand-in-hand in my picturebook through the colour red: it is one of…

Lorna Simpson is an American artist born August 13, 1960 in Brooklyn New York. Information about Lorna Simpson can be found in the textbook on pages 21-23. Information about Simpson was found on www.lsimpsonstudio.com, www.moma.org, and biography.com. Simpsons’ main work is photograph-and-text art. Simpsons’ Momentum was recently displayed at the Addison Gallery of American Art located in Andover, Massachusetts. Her art work on display from September 20, 2014- January 4, 2015. Another artwork of…

Have you ever watched the cartoons Doc McStuffins and Paw Patrol? Doc McStuffins and Paw Patrol are two recent cartoon shows. They both were published around the same time. Girls mostly watch Doc McStuffins because lots of them want to become doctor or nurse one day. Boys watch Paw Patrol because many of them probably want to become a firefighter or a police someday. Doc McStuffins and Ryder have many things in common. They are both great helpers and they both have animals in their cartoon show.…

In 2009, a show that would change the teenage tv show genre aired its pilot. Glee the first of its genre and the first of many other shows to come. Teenagers in the twenty-first century took a huge liking to shows that were either dramatic or comedic. Musical movies were making a boom in Hollywood. With this in mind, Ryan Murphy created a teenage musical dramedy (drama, comedy) that succeeded more than what colleagues had expected of the show. Glee took these three genres and combined them,…

Who says that’s cartoons aren’t allowed to use profanity and make fun of today’s society? Family guy awakens the subconscious and make the conscious aware. Family guy may have some rated R episodes and jokes but if you look at the show at a deeper perspective than just a face value, you will see the insightful meaning. Based on Peacocke’s article I would recommend young adults and adults to watch the show Family guy. Peacocke talks about her own struggle with the shows seemingly…

In recent discussions of Family Guy, a controversial issue has been whether people should or should not watch the television show. On the one hand, some argue that Family Guy is pure entertainment and that nothing is inappropriate with the show. From this perspective, I find it completely absurd that people actually find it acceptable to engage with such a vulgar show. On the other hand; however, others argue that it is a cruel show that incorporate crude humorless jokes. In the words of…

The television series, Modern Family follows an extended family and their respective nuclear families to capture the unorthodox nature of contemporary family structures. Included in the familial plot is “Jay Pritcher” and his second wife “Gloria,” Gloria’s son, “Manny,” and “Joe,” Gloria’s and Jay’s son. Jay also has two other adult children from his first marriage, and their lives are interwoven throughout the story; “Claire” who is the oldest is married to “Phil,” together they have three…