T

Tao te Ching, 41

Tartuffe (Molière), 183

"Team Homer" (Episode 140), 57, 192, 194-195

teamwork, 195

television

comedies on, 108-109

families on, 163-165

religion on, 170-172

semiotics applied to, 252-253

The Simpsons as a family sit-com, 100, 110, 123, 162, 165

women on, 131-135

temperance, 48, 49-50

'Terri,' 129

Thales, 290

"There's No Disgrace Like Home" (Episode 4), 14

"They Saved Lisa's Brain" (Episode 225), 17, 32, 138-139, 176-178

Third Realm (Frege's), 276-277, 280

Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 291

thoughts, 275-276

"Three Men and a Comic Book" (Episode 34), 240-241

'Todd Flanders,' 55, 169

"Trash of the Titans" (Episode 200), 88

tree in bloom (Heidegger's), 270-273

"Treehouse of Horror" (Episode 16), 48

"The Raven" segment, 89

"Treehouse of Horror IV" (Episode 86), 187

"The Devil and Homer Simpson" segment, 167n11

"Treehouse of Horror V" (Episode 109)

"The Shinning" segment, 89

"Treehouse of Horror VI" (Episode 134), 41

"Treehouse of Horror VII" (Episode 154), 236-237

"Citizen Kang" segment, 161n4

"The Genesis Tub" segment, 137

"Treehouse of Horror" (episode series), 87

'Troy McClure,' 27, 133

Twain, Mark, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 189

"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" (Episode 164), 13, 88-89, 134

"Two Bad Neighbors" (Episode 141), 15, 161n3

"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" (Episode 17), 196

"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" (Episode 123), 187

"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" (Episode 185), 12, 134n17

U

Übermensch, 68, 73-77

Unamuno, Miguel de, St. Manuel the Good, Martyr, 184

unhappiness, 191-201. See also happiness (eudaimonia)

utilitarianism, 47

V

'Van Houton' family See 'Luann Van Houton'; 'Milhouse Van Houton'

vicious characters, 8, 9n2, 18

virtue, 9-10, 18-19, 46-58

virtuous characters, 8, 9

"Viva Ned Flanders" (Episode 213), 15n6, 20, 87, 150

W

"The War of the Simpsons" (Episode 33), 19, 55, 133-134, 149-150

'Waylon Smithers,' 35, 127, 129

weakness of will (akrasia), 19

"Whacking Day" (Episode 79), 141, 184

"When Flanders Failed" (Episode 38), 12, 15

White, E. B., 235

Whitehead, Alfred North, 294

"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" (Episode 128), 15, 196

"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" (Episode 129), 35, 43

Wiesel, Elie, 44

'Wiggum' See 'Chief Wiggum'

will, 61, 65, 67

'Willie the Groundskeeper,' 177

willing, 207

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 37, 43, 280, 281, 294

Wood, Julia, 127, 129

Woolf, Virginia, 131

words, 36-42

'Worker and Parasite,' 241

workers, 129, 152, 245-247, 248

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 178

Y

"You Only Move Twice" (Episode 155), 14, 52