Humor in The Simpsons

Humor in The Simpsons

I and many other millions of people across the world believe that The

Simpson’s is the best programme on television because it is funny in

more ways then one.

The Simpson’s uses the family lifestyle that many American TV shows

have used over past (e.g. The Adam’s family, The Flintstones) but The

Simpson’s has proved it is a lot more popular because it uses many

more different forms of comedy which work with people from all ages.

Slapstick comedy is where someone gets hurt and you laugh but if you

saw it happen in real life you’d find it sick for example when homer

the father strangles his son Bart in many episodes it would be seen as

child abuse in real life but you feel its o.k. when The Simpson’s do

it. Another example of slapstick comedy is a programme that the

children in The Simpson’s watch called The Itchy and Scratchy show

which is a rather more gruesome parody of the classic Tom And Jerry

programme but Itchy and scratchy kill each over every episode.

Another theme of comedy is the hilarious idea of satire comedy, which

patronises the so called American life style for example homer is

arguably the dumbest person in The Simpson’s but he has a very

important job as he works as the safety officer at a nuclear power

plant.

Satire comedy in The Simpson’s is just making fun of stereotypical

America. For example the head police officer Chief Wiggum is lazy,

dumb but funny because he does nothing to solve crimes and eats

doughnuts and does the things that police officers are stereotypically

known to do.

In many episodes of the Simpson’s they use Intertextuality for the

plots. In...

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Simpson’s even managed to get Tony Blair the prime minister of England

to do a short part. And he didn’t seem to mind that Homer called him

“that M.R Bean guy” and many other celebrities have done voices not

playing themselves like Lisa Kudrow from friends who played a young

girl in Lisa’s year called Whitney Alexis another example the crane

brothers from Fraser Kelsey grammar and David Hyde Pierce play the

sideshow brother’s who have appeared in many episodes. For many

celebrities appearing in the Simpson’s for 5 minutes or a whole

episode is great achievement and is a sign to show they have it as a

international star and will probably be more well known.

Because of these reasons I believe the Simpson’s is the best programme

on in the world and I am sure will continue to be be for a very long

time.