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College Writing 100 YOU ARE WHAT YOU WATCH For over ten years the animated suburban satire The Simpson's has captivated American families of all races, ages, and ethnicity. Viewers are attracted to The Simpson's because the show represents an exaggerated form of themselves and their own reality. The Simpson's half hour television sitcom does not have a great deal of time to develop characters so must rely on commonly understood attitudes about types of people and …

…show. While watching The Simpson's the viewer's enjoy an overly embellished sense of community. Many of The Simpson episodes contain a moral tag. Watching a sitcom can sometimes reveal attitudes and actions that we recognize in others and ourselves. By exposing and exaggerating these actions ""The Simpson's" subtly motivates change. No father wants to be a Homer Simpson and a mother might see beyond her love for her "Bart" and see that he needs discipline.