Friday, January 19, 2007

Hurricane Neddy

I can easily say that The Simpsons is my favorite show of all time, so I recently bought a Simpsons DVD. On this DVD there is the episode with the hurricane, in the episode we find out some things about Ned Flanders you would have never thought of before. In case you don’t watch the show Ned Flanders is the neighbor to Homer Simpson and he is the most uptight and plain person you can find on the show, but he is also the most polite person in the city. Ned is also most known for his faith, he is the person that you will see in church come rain of shine. Well in this episode a hurricane comes ripping through the town destroying Ned’s house but leaving Homer’s untouched. Ned then later finds out that his store the Leftorium is currently being looted. Since he is such a nice guy all the towns people decide to rebuild his hous, and they actually built it, it looked almost the same it was before. So they get Ned and show him his new home, after the tour he shuts the door and the whole house fall to pieces. After all this drama Ned is furious and goes off on all the townspeople. Later in the episode we find out that Ned was a very bad kid, and they tried a procedure that would stop his rage. This procedure worked great but there was on side effect it worked too good and Ned was no longer able to express his anger. That procedure turned out to be the reason why he exploded, so he was told to express his anger from now on. Now, this episode was hilarious but I can’t get over the irony that the nicest, happiest, and most religious guy in the town was the one hit with all the hardships and exploded. The part that puts the icing on the top is that the most stupid person in the town Homer Simpson didn’t suffer any hardships through the hurricane; his house was left untouched. Anyway if you don’t watch The Simpsons I suggest you do at least once because it is very entertaining.

1 comment:

popcultchick said...

Good job this week!

You might want to reach just a little bit further, connecting the show to larger issues. The Simpsons is loaded with intertextual references (when one text, like a film or television show, borrows, hints at, or steals from another), which should give you lots of examples of the ways in which The Simpsons interacts with other media and with American culture.