Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Lisa Simpson on This Day in History

 

This day in history: "Lisa Gets an 'A'", the seventh episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, aired on this day in 1998. 

If there is one thing that most people agree on is that everyone hates Lisa Simpson, and the best explanation for this was posted on Quora by Alan Deeolo:

"She's loathsome. We're meant to see her as intellectually, morally, and spiritually superior, when in fact, she's just a pastiche of American liberal sputnum. She doesn't espouse a single idea founded in any sort of real wisdom, let alone kindness towards human weakness, but we are meant to take her trendy claptrap as sacrosanct. She's awash in self-pity, and pretends to an empathy she doesn't actually possess. All her high-handed soapboxing, which she justifies as enlightened martyrdom, is really just to draw attention to herself. While Bart is an honest Showman, who's exhibitionism brings some wonder to the lives of his audience, Lisa is simply forever telling people that they need to listen to her, because she's smarter than they are; and that they should like her despite her being manifestly unlikable. Basically she's Hillary Clinton."


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