Simpsons the Death of the Essay

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That is the viewer must be more attuned to pop culture to enjoy each episode because they're not watching the show for it's story arc or character development within each show (like in the earlier years), they're watching it to see what snarky political and social commentary the show will make or what movie the storyline of the episode will parody. This reflects a change in the media cultural milieu. We've become a society that watches former reality TV stars on new reality shows. In other words, it was once enough to comment on a bad movie or a pop-culture meme within an episode, but now animation shows must fully parody these phenomena.

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In a sense it's beyond post-modernism and intertextualization, it's an attempt of defining a show exclusively in terms of pop-culture.

It was Churchill who said, "Change is the price of survival." And perhaps The Simpsons needed to change to stay relevant and survive in a super-saturated marketplace. Plus, one can't really argue with the show's success -- 23 seasons and 491 episodes. Nevertheless, one can't help but to look back fondly at those early years and appreciate those self-contained, family-centered narratives that are….....

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