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THANK GOD FOR THE SIMPSONS?

The Simpsons presents a welcome antidote to the politically correct, mawkishly sentimental fare on offer in many (though not all) other comedies on American TV, both shows paving the way towards a less inhibited era. In the UK, The Simpsons aired for many years on the satellite/cable channel Sky One and made its terrestrial bow with a deserved fanfare, on the BBC in November 1996. A specially commissioned documentary, The Simpsons Have Landed (BBC1, 24 November 1996), was screened to introduce the show to new viewers, providing a definitive view of the Springfield world and its inhabitants. Down the years the gang has proved an unchanging phenomenon: no one ages, no one really learns and the rigid status quo allows Springfield and its inhabitants to remain in a time-frozen sitcom limbo, lending a stability that must be the envy of every other show that once got the mix right only to find actors being lured away or falling prey to ageing. homer

Without doubt, the Simpsons is about one of the few good things to come over here from America in the last few decades. Certainly Homer is far more popular than Bush. Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons has been accused many times of inserting subliminal anti-PC messages in various episodes. Some are quite overt. Homer, voted most popular ever TV character is without doubt right-wing Republican, and superficially is supposed to be a moron. Then to upset the PC Brigade, he comes out with some real pearls of wisdom. Classic left types are sent up outrageously.

Obviously we cannot lay claim that the Simpsons is a White Nationalist show (they are yellow for a start!), but we feel that a half hour Simpsons episode with its lampoonery of modern Western liberalism is a healthy dose of TV in anotherwise dreary converyor belt of unadulterated multi-culturalism.

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