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#1: The Simpsons have never hesitated to address—and make fun of—political and social issues.
#2: Homer knows how to give awesome fatherly advice sometimes—this wasn't necessarily one of them.
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#3: The Simpsons is often clever and witty.
#4: At least one person has to be the voice of reason. That role fell to Lisa.
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#5: Bart might be an anarchist—but he has a good point sometimes.
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#6: Homer always knows how to make a bad situation worse.
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#7: Every once in a while, they give us a moment like this.
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#8: The Simpsons teaches us to expect the unexpected.
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#9: Their topical humor never fails to amuse.
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#10: Marge tries so hard—and sometimes she even succeeds.
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#11: They manage to mix the philosophical with the absurd in exactly the right measurements.
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#12: There’s something magical about how Homer’s stupidity never gets old.
#13: Sometimes, we are all Homer. Especially when we have been drinking.
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#14: They really GET American culture.
#15: They manage to capture elementary school hardships in very concise scenes.
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#16: Homer Simpson is basically our inner voice incarnate.
