Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.