Valerie Simpson was born on August 26, 1946 in the Bronx. Teaming with husband Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson co-wrote numerous soul hits before the two began a successful performing career of their own in the early 1970’s. Through their 30-year career Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson have become one of the most creative and successful musical couples in recording history. Through their performing, songwriting and producing they have created an extraordinary collection of chart topping hit
The song was written by Ashford and Simpson prior to joining Motown. British soul singer Dusty Springfield wanted to record the song but the duo declined, hoping it would give them access to the Detroit-based label. As Valerie Simpson later recalled, "We played that song for her (Springfield) but wouldn't give it to her, because we wanted to hold that back. We felt like that could be our entry to Motown. Nick called it the 'golden egg'." [1] The original 1967 version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
being too clever. The Simpson family are not rich and do go through money problems just like the rest of us. They are like a factual family ... ... middle of paper ... ...Simpsons’. I disagree with his view, as The Waltons is an outdated family that is not very realistic and is stereotypical, whereas The Simpsons deal with real life issues. Mel Gibson believes that ‘you can learn all life’s lessons from watching The Simpsons’. I agree with him because The Simpsons deal with real life issues
The Simpsons How does a television series keep going in this time of ever changing network schedules and shows that grow stale after twelve weeks? The Simpsons have not only lasted, but it has also become a staple of American life. Many tribute this longevity to the witty and hilarious satire that is present in every episode. By using incongruity, sarcasm, exaggeration, and other comedic techniques, The Simpsons satirizes most aspects of ordinary life, from family, to TV, to religion, achieving the
Literature as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “the body of written works produced in a particular language, country, or age”. Literature comes in different variations, languages, and from different countries. Canadian literature is literature made exclusively by an author of Canadian descent that understands what life is as a Canadian. The Canadian play I chose to read was Toronto Mississippi by Joan Macleod. The play has different themes that can be used as to teaching tools in Canadian
post-apocalyptic story when survivors need being again and link together to create a new society. The greatest common cultural icon used is the popular episode “Cape Feare” from the Simpsons. This gloomy comedy pushes us nearly a century, following a new society tripping into the future. “In Mr. Burns the episode from The Simpsons becomes the dominant character. Most plays are about people who experience challenges, and who develop towards the end of the play changing by the events that have taken place
INTRODUCTION I compared Friday Night Lights, Freaks & Geeks, and Suburgatory in parents/family, major character death/injury, and relationships (which includes friendships and dating) Parents: I chose parents/family as a category because in a lot of teen tv shows and movies the parents are portrayed as the bad guys and they’re generally too strict or they try too hard to seem cool and they end up having no control. Also because I have lived with my mom for almost all of my life, and then moved
The campaign against being a normal family sitcom continued for The Simpsons because they did not stay in their “sitcom” universe with the use pop culture references, satire, parody and intertextuality. Pop culture breaks a TV show out of the “sitcom” universe because pop culture is referencing anything currently marketed towards the majority of the public that reflects popular ideas, phenomenon, images and attitudes in a country’s culture. In 2017, any meme would be deemed pop culture. Thus,
When looking at poetry we notice many things. The language, meaning, and emotion all speak to us in many ways; some the author may have not even intended. When we look at the subject of war there have been many poems documenting the horror soldiers feel at their surroundings. The tragedy and atrocity that happens in war have all been written about with great impact. When we look at Louis Simpson's "The Battle" and Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" we can read first hand of the experiences
The Simpsons: Appealing to the Middle-Class For this assignment I watched the show The Simpsons, which comes on the Fox network on Sunday nights at eight. The show is about an animated nuclear family and their everyday lives. The Simpsons targets the middle class families that live in the suburbs of America. The show mainly appeals to families that composed of parents who work at blue-collar jobs and have children, between the ages of 10-18. You can tell this from the commercials, how The Simpsons
Sitcoms have been a part of American television since the early 1950’s, and even today their iconic audience laughter and constant punch lines are present, but not all sitcoms are the same. Changing societal norms and morals have molded sitcoms, and even though the intent of a sitcom remains similar, shows like “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Big Bang Theory” contain differences because of time period. One difference between “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Big Bang Theory” was the depiction
The Power of Satire in Babbitt and The Simpsons Sinclair Lewis used his writing to promote the enrichment of American society by attacking the weaknesses he perceived in his era. His most notable work, Babbitt, is a satire on the middle class lifestyle and attitude of the 1920s. Lewis' satirical style and voice is comparable to the modern television series The Simpsons, written by Matt Groening. Babbitt and The Simpsons contain numerous similarities in satirical writing, presentation
sitcoms in the 80s and 90s. A typical example would be The Simpsons, “a morbid parody of fatherhood and of the nuclear family” (Danesi, 229). Homer Simpson, the father of the Simpson family, was boorish, idiotic, immature and disgusting. His wife, Marge, was still a stay-at-home mom and his son, Bart, was a menace, whereas the daughter Lisa was a brilliant second-grader. The males of the show were portrayed as shallow and despicable. The Simpsons (1989) and Family Guy (1999) and other “similar sitcoms
First of all, in The Simpsons, the scene where we get into the actual plot of the story opens with Marge and Lisa walking into a department store that sells dolls. The gender stereotype that girls are only interested in playing with dolls is reinforced here as a huge selection of Malibu Stacy dolls is on display with a throng of screeching, bloodthirsty girls tearing the store apart. Lisa says, “I’m warning you mom, I might get a little crazy.” and immediately knocks down a girl and snatches another
Friends is an American sitcom that started its first season with twenty-four episodes, airing in 1994. The series stayed very close to the image of what real friendships are. Friends delivers hilarious day to day ventures mixed with a little romance. Friends is a series about six young friends all living in Manhattan, New York. Rachel who recently left her fiancé at the altar, comes to Manhattan and ends up living with Monica in her apartment. Ross, Monicas older brother, is seen throughout the first
No character in Bob’s Burgers is attractive or sexualized, which appropriates how standards should be for women and especially young girls like Tina. Often adult animated shows like Family Guy and The Simpsons still oversexualize the female characters and belittle women that stand up for themselves. Bob’s Burgers takes away the notion of sex hovering over female characters in these types of shows. Linda is strong and hard working, happy to be helping support
Could you picture comedy empowering women? This question would have only one kind of answer in the olden day but now that might be a whole different story. Just like how the world in politics and work environment change, I believed that the comedy world did too. However there are lots of sayings about how women aren’t funny. Those kinds of comments/statements are something men would say because they don’t want women to move into the comedy world. Women already have equal power in the political and
Cartoons such as The Simpsons and Beavis and Butt-head rolled out into mainstream television and soon parents were in an uproar about the language and the message it sent to kids. Cartoons continued to explore the use of language as well as topics such as drugs and drinking.
Addams Family Values: The Crazy and the Kooky of the Satirical The Addams Family was an unusual sitcom about an outlandish family of hellish outcasts homed in the center of suburban life. The 1964 television show was originally based off of a comic strip by a cartoonist, Charles Addams. It was a surreal show that was based one running joke. The Addams Family was “mysterious and kooky” and did not fit into comptempary life of modern suburban culture. Adaption of nostalgic popular culture allows
character portrayal to perceived gender roles, cartoons such as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Scooby Doo both reflect societal values from their time periods as well as perpetuate the developed stereotypes. Cartoons produced more recently such as The Simpsons start to challenge these stereotypes instead of following blindly. Comparing the earliest popular cartoons to more recent productions, shows progress towards a less stereotypical character portrayal in regards to gender. In North American culture