The Simpsons
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
The Simpsons is an American sitcom which first aired on December 17, 1989; a satirical parody of the "Middle American" lifestyle epitomized by its dysfunctional title family. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield, and lampoons many aspects of the human condition, as well as American culture, society as a whole, and television itself.
The Simpsons and nobrow
In true nobrow fashion, the show's humor also turns on cultural references that cover a wide spectrum of society so that viewers from all generations can enjoy the show. Such references, for example, come from movies, TV, music, literature, science, and history.
End July 2007, when this wiki was only just born, the backward links to The Simpsons already covered a wide range of highbrow and lowbrow subject matter. The 19 then current links are listed here:
- The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer
- Intertextuality
- Ive Verdoodt
- Grotesque
- Stereotypes of White Americans and Europeans
- Benito Mussolini
- Cult classic
- Art film
- I Am Curious (Yellow)
- Requiem for a Dream
- Wit
- Blaxploitation
- I Spit On Your Grave
- Metafiction
- Plot twist
- Pagliacci
- The Stepford Wives
- Robert Mapplethorpe