Loud and clear

In my opinion there just isn’t anything good on TV anymore. At my house we have Charter Digital Cable, and sometimes I wonder why my roommates and I pay for the service month after month.

There are some things that I watch pretty religiously, but most of these are sports related, so I won’t categorize those with TV shows.

With programs like Jerry Springer, Judge Joe Brown and The Real World
infecting the airwaves every day, there has to be hope out there somewhere.

The other night I was reminded of prime time TV’s saving grace.

I was at Wal-Mart Wednesday night getting some dog food for my puppy that has grown much larger than ever expected. As I headed for the pet accessories department, I was strangely pulled into the electronics section like usual (darn marketing ploys).

As I was perusing the aisles, I stumbled across the new DVD section. As I was rummaging through the rows of discs, I something caught my eye, it was ‘The Simpsons’ season two box set.

I looked at it and decided that It had to come home with me. The package consisted of 22 episodes on 4 discs, an episode guide and some bonus footage, all for the sum of $34.99. My Fianc?e, Pamela, had bought me the First Season DVD box set last Christmas, and it had provided hours upon hours of entertainment for my roommates and I for just about a year, it was time it got a rest for a while.

The thing about a Simpsons episode is the fact that none of the jokes ever really get overplayed. There are hidden meanings everywhere, and every time you watch an episode you notice something new. Something else that’s interesting about a Simpsons episode is the number of things that can happen in a matter of three minutes, those three minutes could consist of Homer traveling to a foreign country, buying a sandwich, getting deported and making fun of Flanders. I don’t know how the writers do it, but they manage to use every bit of the time allotted for each episode.

I remember the very day that this show was introduced to me. I was sitting at my friend John’s house when I was just about eight years old. We were both talking about this new cartoon that was coming on later that night. We had just returned from a birthday party at the local bowling alley, where everyone was talking about ‘The Simpsons.’

Speaking of bowling and other so-called sports, all of you sports fans should flip to Rich’s editorial in the sport’s section (shameless plug, I’m sorry).

I remember sitting on the floor in anticipation, just waiting for the show to start. Then all of a sudden it begun.

The theme music would be forever etched into my brain.

I remember being instantly drawn into the plots, wondering what was going to happen next. The shows were sometimes so random that you really had no idea what to expect. I guess that’s why I like them so much, none of the plots are predictable at all. The next day at school everyone was talking up the show, it was an instant hit, mostly because there wasn’t anything else out there quite like it.

The Simpsons has survived the test of time, and an ever-changing
American culture. Through the years, no one on the show has aged. Although where have been a few new character additions, for the most part they are the same family they were back in 1989.

The Simpson family and the tiny town of Springfield in the state of.uhhhhhh…are truly examples of timeless entertainment.

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Sep 20 2002. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry