Daddy's Little Girl

In today’s episode of the Simpsons Lisa’s birthday is coming up and there is this new diary that every little girl wants, so she’s been dropping hints. So Marge sends Homer to go and buy the diary at the toy store for her but when Homer gets there Mr. Burns buys the last one. So Homer hits the mall to find her another diary or at least something that is really cool. Well he bumps into Ned Flanders and sees him buying a personal move for one of his sons, so homer to decides to do that for Lisa’s birthday. Well it her birthday and she opens the book shaped package to see that it is a tape, so she them plays it. It turns out that Homer knows nothing about her in the video he said that her favorite food was chicken McNuggets but she’s a vegetarian. After watching this tape Lisa becomes very upset because her father doesn’t care about her and doesn’t know anything about her. Now the Simpsons always has a way of taking a serious issue and making I humorous while still getting the message out. The hidden message in this episode is that in the United States there are many fathers that don’t take interest in their children, and it’s very sad. The worst part about their father not having any interest in them is because they tend to put the blame on themselves saying that its their fault that their dad doesn’t care. This may not seem like a big deal but after feeling like that the child will have self-esteem issues when growing up which can lead to many serious problems.