“The Simpsons doesn’t write itself. It’s just written so well that it seems that way. The characters are coloured and shaped with such vivid detail and personality, and their absurd version of the world sustained with such fine touches of constant creativity, that they might as well actually exist. So when Homer makes another of his fantastic anti-logical arguments –‘Facts are meaningless! You could use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true!’ — or expresses a wish to do something more dreamily fulfilling with his life, like work in a carnival ‘where people throw ducks at balloons and nothing is quite what it seems’, you don’t consciously admire the scriptwriters for their exquisite dialogue. You just laugh like a baby.” Read More >>>
The Observer in the UK have posted a list of 300 reasons why we love The Simpsons. Worth a read if you have the time.