Dude, who even knows.

15th November 2022

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

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29th October 2020

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muffinlevelchicanery:

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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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27th October 2020

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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 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 simpsonsneoliberalismfrank grimesmeritocracy