'The Simpsons vs South Park\r'

'By dividing line southbound putting surface relies on our bangl jar against of subjects extraneous the realm of elevation. South Parks pique is heavily underage on the fact that its audience is consuming media and find culture outside of traditional television shows. The Simpson family is, literally, a middle American family. The town in which they live, â€Å"capital of Illinois” Is constantly shown to be In the center of the pastoral in any of the shows maps. The family consists of Homer and Marge, hes an overweight, undereducated disgorge potato and shes the long suffering loving wife.Together they pass water three children baronet, Lisa and Maggie. The trouble-maker, straight a student and doodler respectively, scarce the composition of this family shows that the creators be seeking to lampoon the middling American family. The stupidity of Homer and the childrens antics and the ridiculous record of the world around them are strictly for laughs. In show adve rtisements mock sexism and religion in American culture. Within the show, the television often reflects criticism of discussion and popular action movies and issues of children and violence.But for all this satire, there is non much bark to the Simpson bite. The show itself must bet on advertisement revenue. Its network, FOX, Is one of the Top 4 networks In the country. In the late asss, the Image of Bart Simpson was synonymous with Butterfingers candy bars. There were two unison Cads released with official music videos, that would play at the exterminate of the episodes. Its parody in like manner point. And Its parody that many Americans are well sensible of already. Its as if the creators wink and trot at the audience and say ‘Youre smart and we know it.Now please, buy our products. ” South Park attempts to do something beyond just simple parody of our consumption and violence. lead Parker and Matt Stone attempt to create new meaning out what we have already v iewed. The really meaning of the parody is derived from what you already know of the keister of ridicule. This is what Jerkiest and Fiske refer to as intellectuality. They attempt to relate the Simpson to this projectile plainly I believe this realm is where South Park is actually operating.The Simpson may use this intellectuality when acting with genre, but South Park uses it when conveying the actually meaning of the parody. Even this season alone, South Park had covered the topics of social media sites Like Faceable, celebrates and sex scandals and the hypocrisies of the media concerning such(prenominal) events, and marijuana legalization contend. All of these topics are lampooned by critiquing the medias covered and both sides of the social and political debate on TV.You have to be critically aware to understand the finer points of South Parks humor that lies beneath the crude language and crass gambols. The badinage is that those that think Homer Simpson is a cutting e dge satire of American life, are most belike a carbon copy of Homer himself. Its slowly to criticize South Park on the surface, but those that are media literate will â€Å"get the Joke” more than its critics. The Simpson are entertaining but ultimately, too safe.\r\n'