Need Freepers to write! Same-sex episode to air on SIMPSONS (FOX)

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[FeeinTennessee]

UPCOMING EPISODE: "There's something about Marrying"

To boost tourism, the town of Springfield decides to legalize same-sex marriage and one of Springfield’s own comes out of the closet...

Sunday February 20 8/7c.

[FeeinTennessee]

This is DISGUSTING! I've already written the FOX channel about this, told them it was inappropriate:

askfox@foxinc.com

First it was the PBS show, now this! How blatant can you get? It's another attempt by the homosexual community to push this lifestyle on the rest of us and most people in America are against it! PLEASE WRITE THEM AND PASS THIS ALONG! --Fee

[Baynative]

I'd like to see the story line before I start ranting. My bet is that Simpsons will make a mockery of the same sex agenda and come out strong for family values.

...looking forward to hearing Homer get to it with a girlee man or lesbian.

[Phantom Lord]

With Homer officiating the "ceremony" after getting his 'license' online, I suspect this episode isn't going to be exactly an in your face support of gay marriage episode.

[oolatec]

Geez... it's just a cartoon... lighten up, will ya?

[wireman]

Get a life!

[Always Right]

Maybe next they expand our horizens some more and have Homer and Bart engage in sex. Afterall, I have seen it in journals where pedophilia is really not all that bad.

[EscapedDutch]

Just don't watch it if you don't like it. Most TVs have buttons specifically designed to change channels.

JP

[FactsMatter]

Please let me know where you live and I will notify to police about the armed gunmen in your home that refuse to let you either turn the channel or turn your TV off.

I mean of all the stuff of Fox Broadcast you get upset about this?

[Alter Kaker]

Afterall, I have seen it in journals where pedophilia is really not all that bad.

Your line of beach reading is, uh, different from mine.

[MTD]

If you don't like it, turn off the TV. There are worse things on TV. That is why TV has an off switch. Boycott the advertisers. Hit 'em in the wallet. Unlike most Americans, I don't watch TV.

[bobjam]

So Smithers is coming out?

[eddie willers]

Gee....why don't we wait until it actually shows, how 'bout it?

[Calusa]

If I to have also stop watching FOX, where am I gonna watch the news. Good-By Brit Hume. Sigh! Not that I've ever watched the Simpsons.

[P8riot]

I'm surprised that anyone here even watches the Simpsons

[Borges]

Not that I've ever watched the Simpsons

You've mised out on one of the most conservative themed shows of the last 30 years. Not to mention funniest.

[backinthefold]

hmmmm, wonder who the gay character is???

 

[Always Right]

Your line of beach reading is, uh, different from mine.

LOL, but it was posted here. I actually don't subscribe to any psychology journals, but with studies such as those it makes a person want to go out a get one.

[stevio]

I'm going to wait and see how it plays out. The Simpsons "used" to have a way of skewering the Left. I definately won't be watching with my kids.

[Borges]

What don't you like about it? They are one of the few shows on TV to make fun of leftists.

[Redcloak]

Something tells me that this will be about as "pro-gay marriage" as an episode of South Park.

[Conan the Librarian]

So Smithers is coming out? Or is it Marge's Sisters Patty and Selma? The world waits!

[Soliton]

Smithers has been gay for years. They also did an episode where Homer thought Bart was turning gay, he took Bart to a steel mill, and of course it turned out that it was a gay steel mill.

I love the simpsons.

Can't wait to see who Smithers marries.

[kittymyrib]

Who but an adolescent would watch the Simpsons?

[JTHomes]

Who comes out of the closet? If I had to guess, I'd say probably Sideshow Bob or his brother. Or that homely teacher with the straight hair and glasses.

[Phantom Lord]

I'm surprised that anyone here even watches the Simpsons

Why is that?

[Borges]

It's one of the most literate and witty TV shows in the history of the medium that's been praised by National Review among others.

[Arrowhead1952]

Who T F*** or what T F*** is the Simpsons anyway?????

[JTHomes]

I just think Smithers is too obvious. They'll have to pick someone else.

[Americanwolfsbrother]

Obviously you have never watched the Simpsons. First its a cartoon, not reality TV, not based on anything but the writers larks. Secondly the show for years has poked fun at America and our values (both real and imaginary). How this cartoon can carry an agenda is beyond me. And anyone who would take it seriously is in need of some professional help. If your so offended don't watch it or let your children watch it. I myself will tune in a probably laugh my @ss off. D'OH!

[TheOtherOne]

Who but an adolescent would watch the Simpsons?

Conservative adults relaxing after a day of work.

[Calusa]

It's just so much more offensive network trash, and this pretty much proves it. BTW, nastiness does not equate with conservative.

[newcats]

Raising my hand....
This 49 year old adolescent does....In fact I own seasons 1-4 on DVD.
What of it?

[Omedalus]

You're a MoveOn plant trying to troll around here, aren't you?

[Emmett McCarthy]

I'm with you on that. I suspect we'll see more subtle mockery of the whole thing than anything. We'll see Mayor Quimby (Ted Kennedy's cousin) publicly pronounce his "respect" for them while he privately figures out how he can fill city coffers with "gay money", Burns figuring an "EGGSSELLENT" way to raise power rates to queer hotels, etc. And, of course, Homer will be an idiot.

Folks ought not get their panties in a wad over this.

[Corin Stormhands]

You need Freepers to write a same-sex episode for The Simpsons?

Are you on the wrong forum?

[TheBigB]

Please. The answer is SOOO obvious:

You didn't think "Flaming Moe" actually meant a drink, didja? :o)

[Borges]

You obviously haven't watched it that much. What equals conservative is openly religous characters and more church going then has been on TV since the 50s. They poke fun at lots of leftists sacred cows. It's also extraoridnarily sophisticated and humane. What other show can work in refereces to Joyce and the like.

[MonroeDNA]

Welcome to FR.

[OpusatFR]

Don't watch it then.

The Simpsons always use a touch of the absurd in their antics.

Your tv has an on-off power switch doesn't it?

[Americanwolfsbrother]

ROFLMAO!!!!

[Calusa]

Sorry, what was my question?

[backinthefold]

I saw the commercial for this last night...

 

Had Homer making out with..... himself! It was too funny

[TheBigB]

Heh, my mistake...meant to post that to someone else.

[fr_freak]

Please let me know where you live and I will notify to police about the armed gunmen in your home that refuse to let you either turn the channel or turn your TV off.

I honestly don't understand why people like you go through all the trouble to sign up for an account on a conservative activists' forum, just so you can post comments dismissing and trivializing any objections to crap like this being injected into our culture with increasing frequency.

Yes, the Simpsons is just a cartoon, and I would not personally bother to make this show my battleground, but if some more motivated FReepers out there want to get the word out with the chance that they may have a positive influence on the entertainment industry, I say more power to them. That's what the culture war is all about. I would rather see that than someone on this site demanding that everyone shut up and take it.

As an aside, I stopped watching the Simpsons years ago, after being a long time fan, because their political satire became more and more humorless until it has become almost a straight list of talking points, and not the kind of talking points that I like.

[Vaquero]

Im 55 and I have every episode home recorded on VHS.

though they use to be more evenhanded with their tweaking of the left and the right...now they pretty much only tweak us on the right.

Great show none the less.

[kaktuskid]

Three words...

JUMP THE SHARK!

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

"Just don't watch it if you don't like it. Most TVs have buttons specifically designed to change channels."

LOL

I'm going to TIVO it. I think it will be funny. It'll poke fun at the right and make fun of gay marriage. It should be funny - like most Simpson's shows.

If people want to protest gays on TV, they should go after Rangle.

Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com

[meowmeow]

I'm surprised that anyone here even watches the Simpsons

It's the only show I watch.

[Bella_Bru]

The Simpsons has always poked fun at the left, and the right. That's what makes it so hysterical.

[TexasCajun]

Get a grip! The Simpsons show is great satire!