How do the Simpsons set about achieving their purposes?

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Dane Wilson 10LC

How do the Simpsons set about achieving their purposes?

The Simpsons creators achieve the Simpsons’ multiple purposes using multiple techniques.

The Purposes of the Simpsons was to make money, entertain, and provide a basis of merchandising and to put forward a moral message to the viewers.

The Simpsons achieves its purpose of making money by attracting the viewer that requires good quality entertaining. The Simpsons makes good use of highly popular comic techniques that makes people watch the show. The uses of satire/parodies, for example send up celebrities and how they make fun of themselves such as The Smashing Pumpkins in “Homerbalooza,” how they are all glum and suddenly realize they have fast cars and loads of money and they run off screaming with joy and teenage happiness.

The Simpsons also make good use of sarcasm and irony, such as Krusty the Clown (Hershel Krustofski) who hates kids and is the son of a Rabbi as an example of irony and Reverend Lovejoy uses masses of sarcasm; even his name is sarcastic and ironic. Lovejoy has the impression that says the person loves joy, when clearly he is a gloomy, and unenthusiastic towards his work. He tells parishioners who seek guidance to refer to the bible at which point they ask any particular passage and receive the reply “it’s all good.”

Stereotype is used recurrently in The Simpsons; Groundskeeper Willie, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon,

Mr Burns, Barney Gumble and Mrs Krabappel.

Groundskeeper Willie is the international view of the Scotsman. He lives in a shack, hollers at the children who beleaguer him and has an accent that could

you could cut with a knife. Groundskeeper Willie is very simple and obedient, yet brawny and easily mislead.

Apu is every corner shop cashier in every country around the world. People can relate to this character, even Americans see the humour of this palpable stereotype. The catchphrase “please come again” that almost involuntarily protrudes from Apu’s mouth. Even when insulted by a person’s actions or by the local shoplifters: Nelson and co.  

Mr Burns, the town’s residential millionaire is the stereotypical millionaire, clasping his expensive port with his claw like hands with a smug grin on his face snuggled nicely in his cavernous mansion, when not attempting to steal puppies and turn them into fur coats. Mr Burns is Bill Gates in, say, twenty or thirty years. He has more power than any other, can barely lift a baseball bat, this shows truth in the real world’s millionaires. They also have a lot of money, but they are as weak as any man. Mr Burns shows the frailty of modern man and his material possessions.

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Barney Gumble is every man you see lying in the doorway of Poundland on Saturday in a tie short of a suit. He is your everyday middle-aged man during the day, but when lunchtime appears barney becomes a drunken slob, living at Moes Tavern shying away from natural light.

Mrs Krabappel is a classic show of irony and stereotype. Her name is Krabappel (Crab apple) one of the most sour and disliked fruited until put in extreme heat meaning nobody likes her and they won’t do until she is cremated. Mrs Krabappel is a very unenthusiastic teacher and is not ...

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