O

'Officer Eddie,' 188

"The Old Man and The Lisa" (Episode 174), 53-54, 183, 196

one-upmanship, 123-124

Osbourne, Ozzy, 84

'Otto,' 50, 84, 127, 173

"The Otto Show" (Episode 57), 14, 242

P

painting, 115-116

paradox of comedy, 124

Parmenides, 279-280, 290

parodies. See 'allusions/parodies'

parole, 255

'Patty Bouvier' ('Aunt Patty')

'Homer Simpson' and, 16, 17-18

Lady Godiva imitation, 74

'Marge Simpson' and, 52

working woman, 129

personify vs. personalize, 271-272

photographs, 256-258

phronesis (practical wisdom), 9, 9n2, 13-15

Pierce, Charles Sanders, 293

Plato

divine comand theory, 56-57

philosopher-kings, 290-291

Republic, 167, 176

theory of forms, 69

Poniewozik, James, 129

Popper, Karl, 294

'Powers, Ruth,' 13, 129

practical wisdom (phronesis), 9, 9n2, 13-15

"Principal Charming" (Episode 27), 50

'Principal Skinner' ('Seymour Skinner')

accessible, 173

'Bart Simpson' and, 74, 94, 95, 105, 168

hypocrisy and, 182-183, 189

'Lisa Simpson' and, 85, 168

Mensa, 176

Steven Hawking and, 177

'Professor John Frink,' 32, 34, 176

Proust, Marcel, 101

psychologism, 273-276

"The PTA Disbands" (Episode 124), 247

Public Enemy (Wellman), 105-106

Q

'Quimby' family See 'Freddy Quimby'; 'Mayor Quimby' ('Diamond Joe Quimby')

Quine, W. V. O., 294

quotationalism, 109-113, 117-118, 123, 124

R

'Rabbi Krustofsky,' 235

Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli, 43

"Radio Bart" (Episode 48), 14

'Radioactive Man,' 128

"Radioactive Man" (Episode 130), 73n27, 174n25

"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'" (Episode 150), 73n26, 196, 222n5

Rand, Ayn, 85

Rawls, John, 29

reading, 264

"Realty Bites" (Episode 187), 14, 83-84, 134, 143, 152-154

reason, 212

Red Hot Chili Peppers, 91

references, intrinsic vs. extrinsic, 98

religion, 46, 50, 54-57, 170-172

representation, 61, 65, 67

representationalism, 197-201

Republic (Plato), 167, 176

'Reverend Lovejoy'

faithful, 46

hypocrisy and, 183-184

'Marge Simpson' and, 56

marriage counselor, 149

'Ned Flanders' and, 55, 169, 170, 184

nude art, reaction to, 56

organist, 74

pastoral burnout, 114, 171-172, 183-184

Roberts, Thomas J., 95-96

Robinson, Spider, 147

'Rod Flanders,' 55, 169

'Roger Meyers,' 261

Rorty, Richard, 116-117, 119-120

Rose, Margaret, 103

"Rosebud" (Episode 85), 11, 194

Rushkoff, Douglas, 254

Russell, Bertrand, 294

Ryan, Michael, 239

Ryle, Gilbert, 294

S

'Santa's Little Helper,' 74

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 38-39, 294

satire

accuracy of, 228

basis of, 259, 262, 264

excellence of, 77

importance of what's satirized, 172

'Marge Simpson' as, 140-141

Marxism and, 238-246, 250-251

of motherhood, 140-141

of piety, 172

richness of, 2

Saturday Night Live, 109, 110

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 255

"Scenes From the Class Struggle in Springfield" (Episode 142), 20, 48, 118-120, 190n3, 242-244, 246

Schacht, Richard, 68

Schindler, Oscar, 189, 196, 249

Schopenhauer, Arthur

appearance and reality, 61, 292-293

Eastern philosophy, 43

Nietzsche, influence on, 61

world as ideas, 270, 271-272, 275

Schumer, Charles, 160

science, 30, 116, 272

SCTV, 109-110

"The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" (Episode 178), 142, 156-157, 188

"Secrets of A Successful Marriage" (Episode 103), 13, 55, 56

Seinfeld, 1, 113, 123-124

Seiter, Ellen, 253

self-love, 207-208

'Selma Bouvier' ('Aunt Selma')

'Homer Simpson' and, 16, 17-18

Lady Godiva imitation, 74

'Marge Simpson' and, 52

serial monogamy, 64

working woman, 129

"Selma's Choice" (Episode 72), 130n12

semiotics, 252-253, 252-268

'Senator Bob Arnold,' 182

"Separate Vocations" (Episode 53), 85, 134-135

'Seymour Skinner' See 'Principal Skinner' ('Seymour Skinner') [on this page]

'Sherri,' 129

'Sideshow Bob' ('Bob Terwillerger'), 124n11, 174, 182

"Sideshow Bob Roberts" (Episode 108), 136, 174n23

signifier and the signified, 254-256, 257, 262-263, 267-268

signs, 255

'Simpson' family

family home, 139

names of family members, 84, 162

Simpson gene, 17

skin color of, 263

See also 'Abe Simpson' ('Grampa Simpson'); 'Bart Simpson'; 'Homer Simpson'; 'Lisa Simpson'; 'Maggie Simpson'; 'Marge Simpson'

"Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala-D'oh-cious" (Episode 166), 40

The Simpsons

aging lacking in characters, 64, 106, 251

animation, cartooning, 91, 230-231, 259, 263

compared to Seinfeld, 1, 123-124

conservatism of, 246

The Simpsons (continued)

couch gag, 265

cruelty in, 123-124

deeds without doers, 66-67

duty vs. desire in, 147-159

educational effects, 227-232

a family sit-com, 100, 110, 123, 162, 165

family values, 122-125, 162-165, 168-170, 176, 249

female vs. male characters, 143

guest stars, 29, 130, 170, 242

an "irresponsible" text, 264

jokes in, 246

mass appeal, 231

nihilism of, 246

one-upmanship, 123-124

openness to connotation, 267-268

ordinariness of characters, setting, 228-229

political lessons, 29, 160-162, 172-178, 243-245

redemption in, 124

revisions, 245-246

semiotic analysis of, 262-268

structuralist analysis of, 259-262

subtext of, 175

subversive ideas, 236, 239-241, 243-247, 254, 263

television(s) in, 91, 265

time, cost per episode, 1, 127

traditionalism, 166, 169, 170, 172-173, 175, 246, 249-250

vision lacking, 246, 251

Web sites about, 128

See also specific episodes

'Skinner' family See 'Agnes Skinner'; 'Principal Skinner' ('Seymour Skinner') [on this page]

Smith, Yeardley, 136

'Smithers' See 'Waylon Smithers'

"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" (Episode 77), 187

Socrates, 36-37, 63-64, 69-70, 290

"Some Enchanted Evening" (Episode 13), 41

Spinal Tap, 242

Spinoza, Baruch, 292

Springfield

Communists in, 241-242

crowd scenes of, 126-127

gender distribution, 127-130

hypocrisy in, 188

Marxists unwelcome, 241

media in, 174-175

Mensa in, 17, 32-33

moral extremes in, 76

quality of life, 16-17, 20, 21, 21n11

religion in, 170

traditional small town, 172-176, 241

"The Springfield Connection" (Episode 126), 48, 134, 188, 244

St. Manuel the Good, Martyr (Unamuno), 184

"A Star is Burns" (Episode 121), 47, 196, 249

Stein, Gertrude, 269

Streep, Meryl, 170

"A Streetcar Named Marge" (Episode 61), 13, 41, 85, 111

structuralism, 253, 254, 259-262

suffering, 61, 250

"Summer of 4 ft. 2" (Episode 153), 190

"Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" (Episode 100), 74n28

Swift, Jonathan, A Modest Proposal, 238, 245