Citizen Times: At first, 32-year-old photographer Bo Post didn’t want to go on the record badmouthing “The Simpsons.” “If I tell you my name and that I don’t like The Simpsons, I’m going to get nasty phone calls because most everyone watches it,” she said. At 8:00 on November 3, a good deal of fans will be sitting down for the annual Halloween episode, which unofficially kicks off the show’s 14th season. The official premiere runs Nov. 10.
Even at 14, the show’s humor is hardly adolescent, and its popularity doesn’t fade. College students and young adults who started watching the animated series in its 1990 debut season are now in their 30’s and 40’s. They have families, jobs and concerns outside the realm of cartoons. But they still watch reruns, quote lines from a variety of characters and analyze the show’s unprecedented run. Once criticized for a lack of family values by both Barbara and George Bush, The Simpsons have evolved into an accepted and often applauded satire on a blue-collar American family. Read More >>>