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#the simpsons (3 posts)

How have The Simpsons not done a WWI episode titled In Flanders' Yard?

How have The Simpsons not done a WWI episode titled In Flanders’ Yard?

Tagged: the simpsons screenwriting in flanders fields

muffinlevelchicanery:

I was thinking about this the other day, and how “Smithers loves Burns” wasn’t originally about being gay, it was about highlighting what a sycophant he was but now I can’t remember what to look down on, for my generation “the put-upon executive assistant” is the iconic employee to sympathize with

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Thinking about how the episode of Simpsons that best clocked the coming of neoliberalism wasn't the dental plan clawback/strike...

Thinking about how the episode of Simpsons that best clocked the coming of neoliberalism wasn’t the dental plan clawback/strike one, or the one where Germans buy the plant and look for efficiencies, but the Frank Grimes one, where Homer having a charmed life despite his incompetence is revealed as a miscarriage of justice against anyone with more merit

Tagged: the simpsons neoliberalism frank grimes meritocracy