Blogpost #2: Simpsons Family Values

  The best way to have a stronger relationship with your family is watching television with them, together. As a sixteen year old guy, who still watches cartoons, one of the best thing to watch whenever you are watching television with your family is watching cartoons. 

   We have seen so many cartoon shows. There have been different genres for every cartoon shows we watch. What I love most about cartoon shows is that it has this value or moral lesson at the end of the episode.

    
   We see "The Simpsons" as a very funny and sometimes a weird show because there are scenes that will really make you laugh hard because of the silly things that the characters are doing. 

    There are times that there are episodes in The Simpsons which are not appropriate for the young audience because of those green joke and because of how the characters act in a specific scene.

  While looking for an article, I have found an article entitled "Simpsons Family Values" written by John Ortved.

   According to the article, George H. W. Bush made a commitment during a campaign stop last January 1992 to strengthen the traditional family values. In his speech, he stated that the american families should be more "Like the the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons " The Simpsons made a response few days later with the use of their show. The Simpsons family watch Bush deliver his speech. On that episode, Bart said, "Hey! We're just like the Waltons. We're praying for an end of the Depression, too."

   When George Bush lost the 1992 election, Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, made an episode where George Bush moved to another town (U.S Springfield), where his next door neighbor was the Simpsons. At that time they were both bitter enemies.

 Because The Simpson are now "in" at that time, they produce more episode which people can't resist watching. At that time, they also produce episode which shows more family values to the viewers. In the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", We can see how virtue Homer is just to give his Family an unforgettable Christmas. The sitcom became one of the most astounding success in the television history. Many shows have imitated their family values.

   This article really gives me this impression that no matter how dumb or weird the show is, if we are going to look at it closely and understand it more clearly, we can see that their are still values inside of it. We should always remember the idiom "DON'T JUDGE THE BOOK BY ITS COVER" because we can really say how virtue the show is.

   If you are interested to see the episode where Bart said, "Hey! We're just like the Waltons. We're praying for an end of the Depression, too" , here is the video uploaded from Youtube entitled "Like the Waltons too"