C

Camus, Albert, 295

"The Canine Mutiny" (Episode 173), 12

Cantor, Paul, 33

Capital City, 172

capitalism, 140, 240-241, 246, 247-251

'Carl,' 12, 245

cartooning, 2, 253-254, 259-260, 263

"The Cartridge Family" (Episode 183), 12

categorical imperative, 155, 212

character types, 8-9, 19

'Chief Wiggum'

as crime-fighter, 173, 186-188

hair color, 64

on likelihood of a jury convicting 'Maggie Simpson,' 43

to 'Mayor Quimby,' 179

choice, 213

Christian-flavored Aristotelians, 57-58

Christianity, 66, 69

"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" (Episode 179), 49, 52

class struggle, 119

the clearing (Heidegger's), 278-280

Clinton, Bill, 161

codes, coding, 254, 255, 256, 257

"Colonel Homer" (Episode 55), 15, 16, 85

comedy

education and, 229-230

humor's roots, 236

hyper-ironism, 119-120

Marxism and, 235-251

messages and, 124

today compared to decades past, 108-109

'Comic Book Guy'

anti-intellectualism, 34

bumper sticker, 87

'Lisa Simpson' and, 176

Mensa member, 32

Vulcan breeding rates, 177

Communism, 241-242

Confucius, 41, 290

continent characters, 8, 9

'Corey,' 31, 32

"The Crepes of Wrath" (Episode 11), 39, 246

Crosby, David, 91

cruelty, 123-124

Currie, Gregory, 224

D

Danto, Arthur, 115

Davis, Kevin, 160

"The Day the Violence Died" (Episode 146), 82-83, 260n11

"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" (Episode 244), 47

de Beauvoir, Simone, 294

deconstruction, 116-117, 119-120

"Deep Space Homer" (Episode 96), 47, 120-121

'Dennis the Menace,' 91

deontological ethics, 47

DePalma, Brian, 101-102, 103

Derrida, Jacques, 116-117, 119

Descartes, René, 60, 292

Dewey, John, 293

Dickinson, Emily, 36, 156

divine command theory, 54-57

'Dr. Hibbert,' 32, 176, 242

'Dr. Nick Riviera,' 31

duck-rabbit (Jastrow's), 282

Duff Beer, 61

"Duffless" (Episode 75), 11, 31n15, 133, 188

"Dumbbell Indemnity" (Episode 194), 148-149

duty, 147-159, 204-206

E

'Edna Krabappel'

'Bart Simpson' and, 12

educator, 173, 182-183

hypocrisy, 189

secret pen-lover, 12

working woman, 129

Einstein, Albert, 27

"El Viaje Misterioso de Neustro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" (Episode 162), 12n4

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 81

ends and means, 206-207

Engels, Friedrich, 245, 248

Epictetus, 291

Epicurus, 291

epoche, 277-279

existentialism, 179, 180

expertise, experts, 27-30, 30n10, 169, 176

F

family values

defense of, 168-170, 176, 249

role in The Simpsons, 122-124

television history, 162-165

'Fat Tony,' 13, 94-95

Feagin, Susan, 222-223

Feyerabend, Paul, 116

fiction

educative value, 216-227

philosophy and, 203-204, 225

films

allusions to/parodies of, 81, 82, 85, 86, 89-90, 97, 98-99, 103-107, 111-112, 152

family melodramas vs. gangster films, 99-100

Indian films, 'Apu' on, 97-98

"A Fish Called Selma" (Episode 147), 130n12, 188

Fiske, John, 252

'Flanders' family See 'Maude Flanders'; 'Ned Flanders'; 'Rod Flanders'; 'Todd Flanders'

Flaubert, Gustave, 38-39, 101

'Frank "Grimey" Grimes'

competent worker, 245

'Homer Simpson' and, 11, 86, 114, 119

'Freddy Quimby', 270, 274-276, 293

Frege, Gottlob, 270, 274-276, 293

"The Front" (Episode 78), 11, 161n5, 259-262, 262-263, 265-267

G

Gauguin, Paul, 22

'General Sherman,' 149

generosity, 48-49, 50

Ginsberg, Allen, 86

Golden Rule, 207-214

Goodfellas (Scorsese), 103-107

goodness, 147-148, 152, 153, 154, 157, 197-199

'Grampa Simpson.' See 'Abe Simpson' ('Grampa Simpson')

Greenberg, Clement, 115

Groening, Matt

on 'Bart Simpson,' 166n9

on 'Lisa Simpson,' 143

names of family members, 84, 162

philosophy and, 2

on The Simpsons, 81, 92, 143, 175