Of course behind the success of ‘The Simpsons’ there always has to be fantastic voices behind the scene to create such an environmentally world known animated sitcom. Dan Castellaneta plays a variety of characters in ‘The Simpsons’ but his biggest and most important role is as Homer. Homer, the father of the family and husband works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear PowerPoint and with such a duty he tends to be very careless and immature. As Homer acts silly most of the time he uses his catch phrase ‘Doh’ which is a term to ‘damn’ or when in frustration can now be found in the English dictionary. The words Doh’ is involved in the series of every show this is because it shows the ordinary way of human nature and that we all have habbits that become very hard to get rid of.
Julie Kavner plays Marge who is a housewife and mother, Marge often looks out for her family she is a strong and determined woman, even though her husband is very clumsy and immature about what he does , she still has an open heart and looks beyond the image of her unusual husband. Marge sends a message to all women saying that life isn’t as hard as it seems because if she can live up to Homer’s way of acting then all woman should be able to be just as strong. There are lots of women who can identify this in their lives and try and use Marge’s example.
Nancy Cartwright plays mischievous and rebellious 10 year old unintelligent Bart who chooses to do things his own way most of the time but always has his sensitive side showing just as his rebellious. Bart’s relationship isn’t as strong with his father because they tend to argue quite frequently about things that are not relative. Bart has always doubt his father because he find a way of putting Bart down most of the time this is why Bart always wishes their next door neighbour Ned Flanders was his own father.
Yeardly Smith plays 8 year old Smart activist Lisa who loves the idea of education and helping social issues in the environment. Unlike her older brother Bart who tends to break the rules instead she decides to make her own civilised and sophisticated rules to suit her way of living. Lisa also has a passion for playing the Saxophone and likes to be creative about what she does despite people’s criticism and always gives others the idea of being positive.
For now Matt Groening still provides sucking sounds for Maggie the fearless secretly open- minded baby. Maggie comes of as innocent and quiet but she’s not a typical baby to mess with but a strong baby that fights for what she knows is wrong. She doesn’t use her secret knowledge about life all the time only when she feels it’s necessary.
There is a one of special series from ‘The Simpsons’ when relating to president Obama and McCain. Homer goes in the voting booth and decides to vote for McCain, however he presses McCain’s button as a joke then decided to vote for Obama who really intended to Vote for, anytime he tried to Vote for president Obama the machine would always add extra points for McCain. This was happening around the time of the elections as well as a political issue could this be politic issue in the society as well?
Apart from political issues ‘The Simpsons’ contains nature in using popular culture, An example is ‘The Simpsons Movie’ were greenday perform but at the end they end up discussing environmental issues this follows up when the People of Springfield throw food on the group. The ship they are singing on starts to sink then they play the emotional song which happened in the ‘Titanic’ which is a true story. This is popular culture because people have seen the film in reality. Also in the movie ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger’ who is the president of the United States has a lot of problems.
Overall, I believe that ‘The Simpsons’ is still relevant today because it is still popular, many people watch the show and admire all the work behind it.
