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Examples Of Satire In The Simpsons

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The Simpsons is an American cartoon set, which was started in 1989. The story is about a very politically incorrect family. Homer is the father of the family, and he likes to drinking beer. His wife Marge is a hardworking housewife, they have three kids. Bart is a ten year old poor student, but he was proud of it. Lisa is a eight years old elementary student.Maggie is a cute loving girl which was always silent.The most prominent feature of this drama is the comments and satire to social and family problems. Each episode begins with an irony of American family life, especially of the middle class, and then all the social issues related to that era or weeks, such as race, religion, war, politics, and family and marriage ethics will flock to. …show more content…

Firstly, parody celebrity. An example is about Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni, who were parodied in an episode called "The Devil Wears Nada" in 2009. In this episode, Homer Simpson and his boss Carl Carlson visit Paris and meet a yellow-faced Bruni, wearing a long purple dress, at a posh party. She throws herself almost immediately into Carl's arms and says: "I want to make love, right now." The once French first lady is portrayed as a sex-mad vamp. Her husband has only a brief appearance in which he answers the telephone at the Elysée Palace by saying: "You're getting cosy with Sarkozy." Secondly, Parody the classic movie plot. In every season The Simpsons did impressions of several classical Hollywood films, including The X-Files，Star Wars，Brave heart，Spider-Man and etc. “Bart of Darkness (Season 6 Episode 1)” was trying to parody Hitchcock's Rear Window. Thirdly, Parody other nations. The Simpsons satirize Australia's folklore and aborigines, make an ironic remark on the Japanese who over polite ,tease the country name of Uruguay(in one episode, Homer see the Uruguay in the globe for the first time, to his confusion, there is a country called“u r gay” in the world)
Although defined as a cartoon, the audience of the Simpsons is not really children; to some extent， it is actually locked adults with good education and a sense of humor.
By using incongruity, sarcasm, exaggeration, and other comedic techniques, The Simpsons satirizes most aspects of ordinary life, from family, to TV, to religion, to politics achieving the true essence of

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