To me, it's hard to picture life without The Simpsons. All the sub-personalities that compose my dark side get permission to live and breathe when I watch that show. Everything that can possibly go wrong does, and it makes me so happy that it's happening to them instead of me. Of course, it's a bit disconcerting that Homer rarely even notices that things are constantly going wrong, but then, that frees him from taking responsibility. Oddly enough, he ends up taking responsibility by accident, which makes my inner Hallmark self happy. Marge is even more oblivious than Homer except when the day really needs to be saved, then suddenly she becomes supermom. Bart is busy trying not to be like Homer, which makes him twice as dangerous. Lisa is a perfect person, which makes it perfectly obvious how insane everyone else is. And Maggie is just an innocent baby... or IS she? I find most of the older episodes better than the newer ones, but it's still the Mad Magazine of the new millennium.
Review of The Simpsons
