Friday, April 20, 2007

Take a second

In today’s episode of The Simpsons Homer learns how valuable listening can be. This episode begins with Mayor Quimby unveiling the new statue dedicated to the boxer Drederick Tatum, we then see Homer run into the fist of the statue and breaks his jaw. In order to let the bone heal in the right spot Dr. Hibbert has to immobilize his jaw and thus wires it shut. For Homer this is a big deal because of his loud personality, he likes to talk a lot and be heard but with his jaw wired shut he is forced to be quiet and listen to everyone else for a change. In the beginning it was rough for him he couldn’t eat all the foods he wanted because he can’t open his mouth and he cant even talk, so he finally realizes that there is no way out of this and he should make the best out of the situation. He begins to listen to people and learn new things about people. While building a model airplane with Bart tells his father that in class today they had a substitute teacher who’s name was Mrs. Duty and everyone in the class looked for him to make fun of the name Bart said he then realized that he became the class clown and he didn’t really like that. Homer then learned though listening that Bart does have feelings like everyone else in the family. For a while everyone is happier with Homer listening but eventually Marge gets so bored of Homer listing she does enters a demolition derby, and losses. So The Simpsons have once again taught you a valuable lesson, this one being that talking too much is bad but also talking to little can be bad too, so talk in moderation and take the time to listen to someone else every once and a while, it will be good for you and them.

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