When they get on a soapbox, Simpsons = Death. Shaddup and animate.
Posted on 09/30/2004 6:21:43 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist
Hit cartoon series The Simpsons is pushing for gay marriage rights in America with a shocking episode featuring chain-smoking twin Patty wedding another woman. Animated father Homer is ordained as a minister and marries Marge's sister to her dream woman in the eagerly-awaited show, which criticizes American President George W Bush's refusal to allow homosexual marriage. The sitcom will create further controversy later this year when Marge delivers a Christmas speech to the British public, which will rival monarch Queen Elizabeth II's traditional festive message.
They finally found a way to commit suicide.
I don't see how a hot femme like Patty could possibly be gay.
My parents have long outlawed that show; that rarely stopped my teenage brother from watching it. Maybe this will be what does it, given his homophobia. This might turn out to be a good thing.
Next thing ya know they are going to say Smithers is a homosexual.
When they get on a soapbox, Simpsons = Death. Shaddup and animate.
The season will close with a Very Special Simpsons episode where they jump the shark...
But, what about her infatuation with MacGyver??
Shock.
Ever.
Yep.
I stopped watching Fox News.
Now I stop watching Fox TV.
After 10+ years, Matt Groening finally jumped the shark. And tilted anti-Bush.
Goodbye, Simpsons. It was fun while it lasted.
BTW, the John Waters episode was quite funny!
Futurama is far far better than Simpsons.
The Simpsons attacks anyone and anything. I haven't seen the "Patti is gay" episode, but I would expect them to lampoon it the same way they lampoon everything else. And if they poke fun at Bush, so what? They poked fun of Bush the Elder and Clinton, so why not Dubya?
I've heard rumors that Groeing was poed at Fox for shuffling around futurama and decided to kill the simpsons.
It still has a left leaning slant though.
I've been overseas since before the Simpsons started, so I never watched it. Oh, there were a couple of times I saw parts of episodes when I was in the same room with TVs on military bases, but I didn't really have an opinion one way or the other.
Then the DVD set of the first season appeared at military exchanges. I decided to take a chance. It was really pretty good, and my middle boy got a kick out of it, so when the second and third year sets came out, I bought those too.
This Saturday I saw the fourth year set on the shelf for the first time, bought it, and in a Simpson's orgy watched all episodes at one sitting.
In my estimation, there was a radical change in direction in the fourth season.
During the first three years, I didn't notice any strong pandering to the homo agenda. In the fourth year, it was like somebody reached over and flipped the "Homersexual" switch on. It went from "imperceptible" to "in your face" right there at the start of the fourth season.
Anybody else notice that? In the fourth season you have Grandpa Simpson dreaming that he's "the Queen of the West," Bart vamping around in high heels, Aunt Patty saying something like, "There goes the last vestige of my heterosexuality," Smithers dreaming about Mr. Burns flying in his bedroom window, an adult male saying to Bart, "I'd kiss you, except the Big Brothers made me sign an agreement that I wouldn't," at least one character speaks in that "I'm a homosexual" accent that they use...
Then there was the other leftist crap: Krusty badmouths Fox network, they bring back Nixon for some more abuse, the anti-Christian stuff ratchets up a level with that pastor actually lying about what's in the Bible...
And this is just what I'm recalling off the top of my head. A thorough inventory would be much longer.
It looked to me like a sudden, abrupt change in course, as though they'd said, "Okay, we have the popularity. Turn on the propaganda."
Anybody else notice that?
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Thanks for that recap. I haven't watched a network series in years because I was tired of them pushing a leftie political agenda down my throat, so I have no idea of how bad it's getting in TV land.
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