While the pop culture relevancy of The Simpsons TV show has long faded, there's no dismissing its longevity and impact. The show aired its landmark 500th episode yesterday. As for the game, it's "life-ruiningly fun," Kim said, quoting one of the Simpsons writers. The Simpsons: Tapped ...
Third Street School really has a problem with bullying in the epic ’90s cartoon,Recess. What’s great, and pretty revolutionary about this ’90s show is that the kids decide to band together and fight back against the school’s biggest and meanest bullies. T.J, Gretchen, Ashley, Vince, ...
Apu, the Kwik-E-Mart clerk who has sold expired food and ripped off customers in the long-running animated FOX series, has come under fire as racist and stereotypical. The criticism flared after the recent release of the documentary "The Trouble with Apu." "We have had conversations with (...
But the airwaves are just that -- space, the final frontier -- and could bring anything into your home. They carry sports, sitcoms, dramas, news and reality shows. And they do it in half-hour or hour-long chunks, with predictable commercial interruptions and -- for the most part -- ...
The ideal image of ‘nuclear family’ used to be described as a male husband, a female wife and their kids; however, in few decades, the term family has become diverse without any blood-related relationships. Because of this recent change of family values, it is easy to find that present...
Making a Rapist,was inspired by theNetflix true crime docuseriesMaking a Murderer. The long-running series saw the potential of utilizing cases people were currently talking about and getting inspired by them. This way, the audience feels even more connected with the characters, especially ...
Salter also didn’t seem too concerned about the long-term impact of the documentary. “The worst case is, the licensee would call me up and cancel,” he said. “And we would go to their closest competitor and do a deal with them.” ...
working-class sitcom. “Grace Under Fire” and “The Nanny” centered working women, and “Married With Children,” as well as “The Simpsons” and “King of the Hill” used lowbrow, sarcastic humor to lampoon normative blue collar masculinity, bringing us a long way from “Father Knows ...
is an iconic show inTV history, but back at the start, it took a controversial episode and an angry viewer to make it a hit. At this point, the FOX network has been a major player in the broadcast TV scene for so long, it can be hard to remember that in the grand scheme of thi...