I know a lot of you here like The Simpsons, and I'm probably the only one here who doesn't. But that's okay with me. Anyway, here's a question I've been meaning to ask to Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Greoning.
Here goes: For as long as The Simpsons have been on, has Matt Greoning ever
received any complaints from fans concerning the treatment of the character
Lisa Simpson? From what I've heard, Lisa is a friendless pariah on account of
she's a 'nerd' and always gets into trouble in the most obscure ways possible,
heck, she's even been arrested for Pete's sake! And you never hear about 8
year old girls get arrested for anything! I've also heard that Lisa has had
sexist things happen to her.
Anyway, consider this a curious question and feel free to answer.
I'm not sure what you mean by "treatment." It sounds like you're considering how Lisa herself is treated in the episodes by other characters. This is all part of drama and storytelling, not something any sensible viewer would complain about. For the rest of this I'll assume you mean the way her character is written and/or handled. Rest assured, the internet has been full of complaints about The Simpsons, even since long before its true quality slump, most of them registered by the show's self-proclaimed staunchest fans. When the people who aren't fans the complaints about the show are usually much less specific than to focus on one character.
The writers have often clearly expressed some of their problems about being an intellectual misfit in the grade school years through Lisa, the show's smartest character. There are lots of things you can get picked on for in those early grades, and no question about it, being considered the smartest kid in the class makes you a major target. Those scenes of Lisa being picked on and misunderstood due to her intellectual views and behavior ring true to many of us, and are some of the most successful in the show because they make her easy to identify with and have the ring of truth good comedy needs.
Yes, well, I think Homer's been arrested 6 times and Marge 3 at last count. Probably a lot more now. It's television. Bart and Lisa do a lot of things kids their age wouldn't really do due to the flexible style of animation. It's difficult to think of any fictional, realistic, non-animated characters at that age who could really inspire our adult attention and interest in the goings-on of their lives for this long.
I can't think of any specific examples, but again, what does this mean without the context? The episode might have been about the consequences of sexual harassment in the third grade. If you're asking if the writers have ever been accused of sexism, it is true that they are a 90%-plus male group, one of the few female writers to be on staff has mentioned it was not the easiest place for a woman to fit in, and it has been said that the writers don't let Marge and Lisa be as funny as often as the male characters, who seem to have a lot freer comical range to their personalities. They choose to make the female-starring episodes more serious and emotional in content more often, which may be sexist, but at a level where you can hardly quantify it, having to do with their creative process and in what particular way women inspire them in life and storytelling.
All the family members have been arrested and done jail time with the exception of Maggie and she was the only one who really attempted murder.
What sexist things have happened to her? She goes out of her way to be PC. In the football episode she only wanted to play to show that girls could. When she found out there were girls on the team already she wasn't interested.
If she's not liked it's because she's a muckraker more than a nerd.
Personally, this questions was obviously posed by someone who rarely watches the simpsons- hey this isnt the Simpsons newsgroup! if anything, the simpsons should be black balled here because they get preferential treatmnent to futurama! Also, this persons grip on reality is a bit weak. Its a comedy and "always gets into trouble in the most obscure ways possible" is ridiculous! they all get into trouble in the most obscure way possible. Hey, who wants an obvious plotline? Obviously, you don�t watch the simpsons, so why do you care how a fictional character is treated? Maybe there is a nerd bias on fox?
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