Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Blogpost #1: Introduction to "The Simpsons"

     I am Joey O. Hernandez, Jr. When I was a kid, I used to watched cartoons. Until now, I'm already 16 years old, I still watch cartoons.  What I love most about watching cartoons is how they create such unique characters and how kids easily attach themselves to the characters they love the most. It has this feeling that when we watch cartoons, we imagine ourselves as one of the protagonist or the antagonist of that specific cartoon show. It really gives satisfaction to most of the kids. 

     For me, cartoons are stress reliever. There are times when I feel lonely or bored, and sometime I feel stress, I watch cartoons. I don't know why but I really do love watching cartoons.

     One of my favorite cartoon show when I was a kid is "The Simpsons". As most of you know, The Simpsons is one of the most long-running sitcom. It had aired for more than two decades. But what I don't know about "The Simpsons" is who started it and how did they come up with this great show.

    As I look for articles about "The Simpsons", I have found an article entitled "History of The Simpsons" from the website simpsoncrazy.com.

    According to the article History of The Simpsons,"The Simpsons are the brainchild of Matt Groening. He started out as a cartoonist by drawing a weekly comic strip for a set of regional newspapers, called "Life In Hell." They featured a rabbit called Binky and detailed the dark side of life. Books of these early cartoons are sold in bookstores..."

     The article tackles about how The Simpsons started. Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, started as a cartoonist. He started making comic strip for a regional newspaper. When he got a call from James Brooks, the co-producer of The Simpsons, he started the famous sitcom "The Simpsons". At first, everything was all made up. Everything was on the spot.  The main characters from the sitcom was orignally the name of his family (except for the name Bart, which is an anagram for "BRAT"). The sitcom was a big hit.
    
      Our life always starts from scratch and it will always ends up with a thick book. This is how Matt Groening started the sitcom. He started as a Cartoonist and now he is the creator of one of the famous sitcom "The Simpsons".  
      
  Here is a video entitled "The History of The Simpsons" from the website watchmojo.com and was uploaded from Youtube.


        
    While looking for more articles, a question popped out of my mind," What makes The Simpsons a famous show?" and " What makes it very interesting and different among the other shows?".

    Finally, I have found an article entitled " The 10 Most Significant, Lasting Changes on The Simpsons" by Jason F.C. Clarke.

     It does not really tackles about what makes The Simpsons a famous show but it tackles about those interesting episodes from the show that made the audience watch The Simpsons over and over again.

    He stated here that cartoon really gives a big impact in the actions that we show in our lives. But the best thing about cartoon is that the characters do not age. We watch the same characters over and over again but what is appealing to us is the scene. It has this  great impact and feeling that we, the viewers, would watch it again. 

     But, here in this articles, it also shows the changes that is happening to the characters. One of the interesting changes happened in one of the characters is Maggie's Gun skills. As we all know, Maggie is a baby. She has no significant value in the show. But here in one of the episode entitled "Who shot Mr. Burns?", we can conclude that Maggie is the one who shot Mr. Burns. Yes, this episode is quite weird and awkward but it just got to show that Maggie has a talent for firearm (Isn't this stupid yet amazing?). There is also one of this episode where Maggie saves his father, Homer, who was about to take down by a groups of mobsters. Because of Maggie's gun skills, he takes down the entire mobsters saving his father's life.


     Just like TreyVore stated in his article entitled "A look at The Simpsons", "The Simpsons is a very influential show". It really influence most of us especially the value that the show possess. The things that make this sitcom popular is First, the show portrays unique characters. Second, it has this value that you can learn from the show. And third, there are scenes that really reflects the community that we have now. The success of this sitcom really gives an impact to our lives.



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