[kj] FW: Re: who hates the simpsons.....

[Tim Bucknall]

yeah gotta agree Oliver, so many killer lines in each  episode, i can't wait
to see the film


3 that keep popping into my head for no reason

"Millhouse got a tip from a  4 year old  about a dead alien"

" you know that corpse?"," what jimbo killed him!" no but he poked him with
a stick!"

"since the dawn of civilisation, man has yearned to destroy the sun!


On 26/07/07, B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>

> The Simpsons is great social satire. It works on one level for kids, I

> guess, but it skewers religion (Homer being told in a moment of crisis

> that the Bible has all the answers he needs, flips through it, and

> announces with disgust, 'Oh, this doesn't have any answers at all!'),

> and so much of American culture so relentlessly that a lot of it

> probably passes over most kids' heads -- but, hey, it's a cartoon, and

> kids love cartoons by default, right? Just like adults dismiss them by

> default, generally.

>

> Recent episodes dealt with offshoring jobs to India, another with the

> Patriot Act, Burns buying up all the media operations in Springfield,

> the bad US healthcare system (Homer, Apu, Grandpa running in drugs from

> Canada, when Apu is arrested for being a suspected terrorist trying to

> cross the border)  -- they deal with a lot of serious issues but it's

> done in such an absurdist way. I like the show -- a lot.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

>

> melinda grant wrote:

> >

> > its tosh....does not appeal to me ok..

> >

> >> From: uncle benny's magical bra & liquorice factory

> >> <fatpotanga at gmail.com>

> >> Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the

> >> band!)"<gathering at misera.net>

> >> To: The Gathering <gathering at misera.net>

> >> Subject: Re: [kj] Killing Joke vs Johnny Cash mash up

> >> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:12:03 +0100

> >>

> >> On 26/7/07 17:07, "melinda grant" wrote:

> >>

> >> > any way for all those simpson fans on list(--its kinda for kids and

> >> teenagers

> >> isnt it,not adults--well mantally backward ones perhaps..lol..ive

> >> never liked it!!!!

> >

> > fats wrote.....

> >>

> >> Looks at shoes, scuffs ground & whistles...

> >

> >

> > bet you were at the premier,wernt you  ;-D))))))

> >>

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