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The Simpsons Movie: from D’oh to Dough! Helping white men get richer for 18 years!

Yes, Matt Groening and James L. Brooks are rich, rich white men, and thanks to The Simpsons Movie, they’re going to be even richer. Much as I would like to make fun of this movie, I can’t. It’s funny. Apparently, some Simpsons fans are little ticked that this isn’t quite the overwhelming existential masterpiece they’ve always dreamed of. Well, tough. I missed Marge’s MacGyver-loving sisters, but I coped.

I watched The Simpsons pretty regularly in the early years, but somehow my enthusiasm dwindled. I was a lot more like Ralph (see above) than Bart when I was growing up, and they seemed to pick on Ralph an awful lot. But we shouldn’t be too hard on The Simpsons. It made a lot of wiseass Harvard white boys rich, and kept them away from foreign policy.

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Alan Vanneman

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Alan Vanneman is a writer living in Washington, DC. He is the author of two dead-tree novels, Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra and Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara, both published by Penzler Press. Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara is available as an audiobook from Blackstone/Downpour. He is also the author of three new Nero Wolfe novellas recreating Rex Stout’s famous fat detective, a FREE ebook, and Author! Author! Auden, Oates, and Updike, a collection of two short stories and a novella, available both as an ebook and print on demand. All of his fiction can be accessed here at his blog Literature R Us. Portions of his article "Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone," which originally appeared online in Bright Lights, have been included in a textbook anthology by Allison Smith, Trixie Smith, and Stacia Watkins.

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