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.
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.
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Irving Babbitt, Critic (1865) |
James A. Baldwin, Author (1924) |
Jim Capaldi, Musician (1944) |
Caleb Carr, Novelist (1955) |
James Fallows, Journalist (1949) |
Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Composer (1905) |
Lance Ito, Judge (1950) |
Victoria Jackson, Comedian (1959) |
George Kimble, Historian (1908) |
Enrico Caruso, Musician (1921) |
Thomas Gainsborough, Artist (1788) |
Warren G. Harding, President (1923) |
John Keegan, Historian (2012) |
Fritz Lang, Director (1976) |