Timeline for What is the foot-prints logo on Homer's shirt - and Homer's childhood acquaintance's shirt - referencing?
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| Dec 6, 2022 at 15:21 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @releseabe - did you even bother to read the article I found for you? "...And we just fill it with all kinds of layered jokes. All the signs in the background are usually jokes. Little freeze frame moments. So it is a great show to tape and slow it down and watch, because you’ll always see things that you’ll missed, because the pace is so fast”" No-one ever intended that you should get every single joke. | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 15:16 | comment | added | releseabe | @Tetsujin: Let us say this: The writers have never been concerned about throwing stuff in that, for whatever reason, many of its viewers might not get. Some math stuff, some things Grandpa and Burns say about times they never could have lived in. Average age of viewers is but one consideration. | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 15:01 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @releseabe - I really don't know where you get the idea that The Simpsons is written for kids. It really isn't. It never has been. They've always aimed at the 18-49 category. The only authoritative quote I can find is from David Mirkin - medium.com/narrative-from-linear-media-to-interactive-media/… but there are many other less authoritative references to it being an adult show. IMDB rates it 15 (UK rating) [it shows your local country's rating, so idk what it would say in the states]. | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 13:21 | comment | added | releseabe | @Tetsujin: new writers occasionally. the writers are certainly older than the kids who view the show, right? I am pretty sure the average age of viewers is below 21. My stance is what I stated above -- it will never change. | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 12:48 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @releseabe "written by much older people than the average viewer" .. but were they when they wrote this joke, 27 years ago? What would be the point anyway of only referencing pop culture over the past couple of years - it would rapidly age. | |
| Dec 5, 2022 at 19:13 | comment | added | Dai | "non-lazy young ones like the poster here." - I'll take that as a compliment ;) | |
| Dec 5, 2022 at 18:54 | comment | added | releseabe | 100% Simpsons is written by much older people than the average viewer but they feel free to throw in references that most of those viewers not only won't get but both won't realize there is even something to get and if they did, have no good way to look it up because it is purely visual. I suspect the verbal stuff is often ignored too, but the writers put it in for themselves and the more rare older viewers or non-lazy young ones like the poster here. | |
| Dec 5, 2022 at 17:55 | history | migrated | from scifi.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 5, 2022 at 13:58 | vote | accept | Dai | ||
| Dec 5, 2022 at 5:14 | history | answered | DavidW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |