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Lisa Simpson would love this college class. The brainy, introspective daughter of blue-haired Marge and loutish Homer would eat up the intellectual challenge of determining the place of pop culture in postmodern American life. Lisa Simpson is an animated TV show character, so she can’t really sign up for Southern Connecticut State University’s new class on “The Simpsons.” But 25 SCSU students and a professor can’t wait for the fall semester to begin so they can begin discussing and critiquing the philosophical underpinnings of the long-running Fox-TV show. “Cartoons don’t have any deep meaning. They’re just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh,” Homer Simpson once said. SCSU Professor Charlene Dellinger-Pate, who will be teaching the course — “Postmodernism, Parody, Pastiche: Deconstructing ‘The Simpsons’” — begs to differ. Read More >>>

“The reason I love The Simpsons? Not just the hilarity, not just the even-handed way they skewer everybody. What gets me is that alone of all the shows in the history of television, let alone animated programs, they’ve managed to present both an amazing amount of sexual habits and preferences, and a married couple who have never strayed. Homer and Marge have both been tempted in their time together, but their love is more than a match for such petty delights. It’s inspiring, it is, and it’s good to know that a balding fat man can elicit such joy in his bride. God knows Homer needs to be good at something… So here are my own Top Ten Episodes, along with a plentiful supply of quotes.” Read More >>>