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I realize I am starting generational warfare by criticizing this piece today in @TheAtlantic about how the "Simpsons" life is no longer attainable, but the writer just didn't watch enough of The Simpsons and this is shoehorning some nostalgia about 1990 into a *cartoon* /1
When I say that younger people are whining about a life that didn't exist, this is what I mean. The writer is (by my math) about 39? The Simpsons *wasn't real and it was predicated on being a 1950s life and that was the joke, you see*
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Yes, Homer had a good job with a high school diploma. That was the joke. In a 1993 episode, it's revealed that he was SUPPOSED to have a college degree. He was a fake. He was incompetent. He shouldn't have had that job. /3
"This lifestyle was not fantastical in the slightest—nothing, for example, like the ridiculously large Manhattan apartments in Friends."
Except it was COMPLETELY fantastical. The kids never aged. Money was always short but not a crisis. Nothing changed. Because: *cartoon* /4
Except it was COMPLETELY fantastical. The kids never aged. Money was always short but not a crisis. Nothing changed. Because: *cartoon* /4
The whole point of The Simpsons is that it was a parody of a life a lot earlier than 1989, when it began. THAT WAS THE JOKE. It wasn't supposed to be a representation of a real place. They never named Springfield (which was on a seacoast, by the way). /5
If you believe the American dream is unattainable because you cannot live in 2020 the way you think Homer Simpson lived in 1995, maybe you should pray for ol' Grimey and stop comparing your life to a cartoon that is *already lampooning your values in a way you don't get* /6x
