One Final Note?

With the semester almost over, I would use this possibly last blog entry to make some of the relations between every book we have read in The Graphic Novel class to various moments in storytelling, guest speakers and visual gags found within the television series, The Simspons. I will list these examples in accordance with the season they premired in. Starting with the season 13 episode, Blame it on Lisa. The family has just traveled to Brazil to look for an orpahn boy was sponsoring. While they're in Brazil, they a disturbingly suggestive kids show "teleboobies" and in a similar fashion to the scene in Safe Area Gorazde where they are watching the horrors of the Bosnian war on TV and the audience only sees the reactions of the faces watching the movies, so to do we only see the mixed reactions of the family watching the TV when the female host goes "ON top of, beneath."--draw your own conclusions. Fast forward to season 16's, Treehouse of Horror XV. In the third segment, In the Belly of the Boss, which parodies the Fantastic Voyage, the Professor, Frink, warns them:"Look out for retroviruses, oh boy, are they retro!"(holds up a picture of a virus in a "keep on truckin' pose) "It's a crazy design by R. Crumb, who was friends with Harvey Pekar...Seriously, touch one and you die." Moving on to season 19's Husbands and Knives. A new comic book store opens and they have three comic book artists come by for a public signing (Seriously, all three artists did lend their voices to their animated counterparts): Art Spigelman of Maus fame, Alan Moore of Watchmen fame, and David Clowes of Ghost World Fame. and finally, possibly the funniest example of juxtapositioning came from the current 20th season episode, Homer and Lisa Exchange CrossWords. Early in the episode, Lisa has become so addicted to crossword puzzles that she is unable to carry on a conversation without being reminded of a clue she needed for her puzzle: "Oh, Thanks Bart (gasp) "barge--A large San Francisco people mover!" At this point, Bart turns away from Lisa and goes: "Speaking of Large San Francisco people movers..." the scene immediately cuts to a hardcore gay bar.