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>Perhaps what you say is the situation of Old Europe AND New America? 
>If the Simpsons are the reflection of the world, then don't cry, let the dark come in. >BTW, I foundthe whole scene self-ironically, but completely harmless. And a little >autistic.. Let the dark come in.


Watching the re-runs we should do well to remember that the Simpsons
have become a global phenomenon just like in 1968. While the American
Simpsons took Columbian studios and canceled the season for new program
developers up town in the spring of 1968, Simpsons Global  were taking
over the networks in many other Televisoned states and the radio
stations and newspapers in a few un-Televisioned ones as well, in Black
and White states, where Red was all over,  and in states where living
color was piped into green living rooms nightly.  While the Simpsons
were motivated by a variety of issues and varying goals, their tactics
were often striking similar. Simpsons mass-marched in the streets,
occupied networks, and engaged in bloody clashes with Television police
in twenty countries that year. After killing Homer, Rex absconds to
France, land of the May Events. The insurrection at Columbia studios,
the "Easter Actions" in Germany, the May Events in France were all tuned
into the same program. Or were they? 
Simpson mobile organizers in America's radical studios were dismayed
that new programs were being Televised as early as 1967 without radical
actors in key roles and without proper coaching and analysis. Jeff
Jones, a Simpson's studio producer in NYC,  went so far as to label
these new programs "mobilized fascism," complaining that they had
"co-opted radical tactics for liberal ends." Member the episode where J.
Edgar Hoover and Burns gleefully tear up the pastoral scene that
balloons over Marge's head? Pieces of it, sopped with Gleason's puke and
spilled stadium beer stick to Frank's shoes, Piecing them together, the
teen girl observer (her back to us, but it sure looks like Lisa in that
Prairie) under the low hung oak, picnic basket, grape picker's table
wine............. you don't need a TV Set to know what's on the
Simpsons.