Lisa SimpsonLisa Marie Simpson is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists in the animated television sitcom series The Simpsons. She is the middle child of the Simpson family. Voiced by Yeardley Smith, Lisa was born as a character in The Tracey Ullman Showshort "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening created and designed her while waiting to meet James L. Brooks.
Homer SimpsonHomer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated sitcomThe Simpsons. Part of the titular family, Homer made his television debut in the short "Good Night" on The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening crafted and designed Homer while waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office.
Springfield (The Simpsons)Springfield is the primary fictional setting of the American animatedsitcomThe Simpsons and related media. It is an average-sized, fictionalsuburbancity in an unspecified, fictional state of the United States. The city's geography, surroundings, and layout are flexible, often changing to accommodate the plot of any given episode.Ned FlandersNedward "Ned" Flanders Jr., commonly referred to by his surname, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer and first appearing in the series premiere episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." He is the good-natured, cheery next-door neighbor to the Simpson family and is generally perceived as annoying by Homer Simpson, though there are numerous instances where the two are portrayed as good friends.
The SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Set in the fictional town of Springfield, in an unspecified location in the United States, it caricatures society, Western culture, television, and the human condition.
Jumping the sharkThe idiom "jumping the shark", or "shark jumping", or to "jump the shark"; means that a creative work or entity has evolved and reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with or an extreme exaggeration (caricature) of its original theme or purpose.
WikiA wiki ( ) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or any organization. The name derives from the first user-editable website called WikiWikiWeb – being a Hawaiian word meaning 'quick' (pronounced ). Wikis are powered by wiki software, also known as wiki engines.
Christian fundamentalismReligious movement emphasizing biblical literalismTV TropesTV Tropes (also written as TVTropes) is a wiki founded in 2004 that collects and documents descriptions and examples of genre tropes: recurring narrative and plot devices in various storytelling media. Its contents cover many creative works and non-media subjects, which are written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as "Tropers".EvangelicalismProtestant Christian movement
DogmaDogma, in its broadest sense, is any belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform.
EssentialismEssentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity. In early Western thought, Platonic idealism held that all things have such an "essence"—an "idea" or "form". In Categories, Aristotle similarly proposed that all objects have a substance that, as George Lakoff put it, "make the thing what it is, and without which it would be not that kind of thing".
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