Canvas – The Simpsons theme song
An evening pause: About two years ago I said to Diane that I’d never seen any of The Simpsons animated TV show. Neither had she. Since then we have watched all the available episodes on DVD, covering most of the first twenty seasons.
What first impressed us about the show was how actually normal and family-oriented it was, in the beginning. It was not the “edgy” ugly portrayal of America its reputation had implied.
Over time that theme was more and more lost, though whenever the writers went back to those roots the show shined. Even so, what was most impressive was how the show managed somehow to remain fresh, for most of that time period. Except for a period around season nine, the satire and jokes remained solid for almost all of the first twenty years.
Since the last ten years have not been put on DVD, we won’t likely see them. No matter. Twenty years of The Simpsons was great, but it was more than enough.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman, who used numerous musical quotes from the series to find many great evening pauses.
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You’re right. Homer might have been a bit of a slouch, but they were a church going family every Sunday. It it was wonderful for about the first nine seasons.
One favorite moment from memory. Lisa’s poem:
I had a cat named Snowball
She died! She died!
Mom said she was sleeping
She lied! She lied!
Yep, was fun in earlier years and then degraded and we gave it up.
At this juncture, I must put in a plug for “Rick and Morty,” on Adult Swim.
Best Moments of Interdimensional Cable
Rick and Morty
https://youtu.be/V6SfEIoEHY0
10:40
To this day, I have never seen this show, except for a few minutes off in the distance, every now and then when I go visit someone. I stopped watching TV sixteen or seventeen years ago and I never got cable products.
Is this bad?
I haven’t watched regular TV in years…. I will occasionally download a movie I feel like watching, and usually play it on my phone… My kids have a TV, and a Chromecast, but that is rarely used…. ( They both have gaming devices… A PC and a playstation )
All that said… I used to love the Simpsons… As Bob said, it’s actually a fairly true portrait of real family life…. Bart is just a regular kid, Lisa is just.a regular, but very bright kid, Marge is a typical long suffering wife, and Homer…. Well I would be lying if I said there were no similarly between us… All that said, there is love between the whole family… And that sends a good message to the viewer.
( And Mr Burns is a perfect example of all that is wrong with capitalism… The show also hints at the fact that socialism is obviously the way forward)
I will now grab my coat and dive into the trench to avoid the bullets about to fire at me!
;-) much love from pinko commie Sweden. X