{"id":5262,"date":"2018-01-11T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2018-12-04T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T10:13:09","slug":"the-simpsons-most-societal-impact-television-series-global-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/north-america\/2018\/the-simpsons-most-societal-impact-television-series-global-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simpsons: Most Societal Impact Television Series Global 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5263\" src=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TheSimpsons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TheSimpsons.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TheSimpsons-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Simpsonology \u2013 the study of life in Springfield \u2013 has turned into a serious academic pursuit. Already the longest-running cartoon series in television history with 29 seasons and 627 episodes, The Simpsons depicts not just contemporary life but dissects the wider society as well. Prescient and omniscient in surprising ways, the series predicted Donald Trump\u2019s arrival in the White House (Bart to the Future \u2013 S11E17), the FIFA corruption scandal (You Don\u2019t Have to Live Like a Referee \u2013 S25E16), the voting machine debacle (Treehouse of Horror XIX \u2013 S20E04), and Apple\u2019s FaceTime (Lisa\u2019s Wedding \u2013 S06E19), amongst many others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The series \u2013 the product of a collective of geeks and high-brow intellectuals \u2013 takes it cue from history. Mr Burns, the evil owner of the Springfield Nuclear power plant and the town\u2019s richest and greediest inhabitant (Forbes estimated him to be worth some $7.3bn), is loosely based on Alvin Brewster, the scheming owner of the fictional Nitro Chemical plant in This Gun for Hire \u2013 an obscure LA noir classic from 1942. Womanising Springfield mayor Joseph Fitzgerald \u201cThe Edge\u201d Quimby takes his character traits from John F Kennedy whilst Elvis Presley\u2019s personal pill-pushing physician Dr George Nichopoulos provided the inspiration for the eager-to-please local quack \u2013 \u201cyou\u2019ve-tried-the best, now-try-the-rest\u201d \u2013 Dr Nicholas Riviera, or simply Dr Nick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With a cast of 153 regular and recurring characters joining the core family of five (Homer, Margie and their children: rebel rouser Bart, aspiring intellectual Lisa, and little \u201cwhat\u2019s-her-name\u201d Maggie), The Simpsons represent a complete universe \u2013 a veritable Planet Simpson.<br \/>\nThe makers\u2019 attention to detail is legendary \u2013 nothing that appears on screen is there without a reason. Some elaborate scenes \u2013 such as the split-second camera pan just before the couch gag \u2013 can only be appreciated by hitting pause at the exact moment. Almost every scene is a reference to something else and whilst most viewers pick up on allusions to Star Wars and Jaws, true Simpsons aficionados ferret out and lay bare direct links to literature, science, and assorted theorems. As a collage of cultural phenomena, The Simpsons is often considered television\u2019s first and most successful foray into postmodernism, defined as an aesthetic of quotations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CFI.co judging panel notes that L\u2019Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican and mouth-piece of the pope, branded accident-prone Homer Simpson a \u201cmodel father\u201d for never wilfully failing his family. The paper praised the series for providing a mirror of the \u201creligious and spiritual confusion of our times\u201d and particularly mentioned the episode (Homer the Heretic \u2013 S04E03) in which Homer ascends to heaven to have words with God about the meaning of life. At the end of a stairway to heaven, Homer finds God seated behind a desk adorned with a plaque that reads \u201cI Believe in Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the series that brought the counterculture mainstream, and was awarded cult status even as it did so, Planet Simpson seems to have come alive. It is a real place: a playground where trends and events are explored and parodied \u2013 sketching both the futility and value of life. The judges do not know the meaning of life either but agree that The Simpsons\u2019 take on it has many merits and warrants recognition with the 2017 Most Societal Impact Television Series Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simpsonology \u2013 the study of life in Springfield \u2013 has turned into a serious academic pursuit. 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