The Gospel according to The Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition: With a New Afterword Exploring South Park, Family Guy, & Other Animated TV ShowsWestminster John Knox Press, 24/05/2007 - 317 páginas Is there anything holy in Springfield, the home to irascible Bart Simpson and his naive dad Homer, their enthusiastic evangelical neighbor Ned Flanders, the sourpuss minister Rev. Lovejoy, and the dozens of other unique characters who inhabit the phenomenally popular TV show? In this revision of the 2001 bestseller, author Mark Pinsky says yes! In this entertaining and enlightening book, Pinsky shows how The Simpsons engages issues of religion and morality in a thoughtful, provocative, and genuinely respectful way. With three new chapters and updates to reflect the 2001-2006 seasons, Pinsky has given a thorough facelift to the book that Publishers Weekly called "thoughtful and genuinely entertaining." The new material includes chapters on Buddhism and gay marriage and an extensive afterword that explores how religion is treated on the animated shows that have followed in the footsteps of The Simpsons: South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, and King of the Hill. |
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... Night Live impersonator Dana Carvey, has not yet recanted his criticism of the series. How did it happen? What made ... nights, when America's best-known dysfunctional family is a fixture in millions of households, many Christians are in ...
... nights. Over 250 stations in the U.S. and Canada air the highly rated reruns, some twice a day or more. Around the world, it is more popular than Baywatch, reaching sixty million people a week in more than seventy countries (though not ...
... nights, opposite the wholesome and high-flying Cosby Show, then number one in the ratings. The contrast between the two family comedies could not have been more stark, and The Simpsons caused a sensation, sparking denunciations ...
... night. Pork chops. From cradle to grave, etched in stone in God's library somewhere in heaven.” It is Homer, however, who has the most personal relationship with God. Denounced by some as a simple-minded pagan, he is much more than that ...
... night, Marge kneels by her bed and prays for Homer to see the error of his ways, as he drifts off to sleep. As so often in The Simpsons,God hears and answers. God comes to Homer in his dream, and provides as dramatic and direct an ...
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