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For the first time in quite a significant while, I sat down and watched an episode of\u00a0The Simpsons<\/i><\/span>\u00a0last night, while eating dinner.\u00a0 It was pretty obvious that this episode was in honor of Black History Month or equivalent, due to the nature of it.\u00a0 But the biggest impression was left on me in the final two minutes, as Grandpa Simpson drops the bomb about the family history, and reveals that the Simpsons lineage has some African-American in it.<\/span><\/p>\n Homer is 1\/32 black, thus making Bart, Lisa, and Maggie 1\/64th.\u00a0 And suddenly all of them are gushing over how awesome it is, and how it explains all sorts of racial stereotypes that they’ve had the propensity to demonstrate from time to time.\u00a0\u00a0That explains why . . .<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I know that The Simpsons is pretty non-continuous, and that such a reveal will be forgotten \/ has been forgotten in current episodes, but I can’t help but wonder the thought process behind the story.\u00a0 It felt like a little bit of an attempt to draw reaction and hope it gets ratings.\u00a0 Maybe it’s to combat\u00a0The Cleveland Show<\/i><\/span>?\u00a0 No matter, it seemed a tad stupid.<\/span><\/p>\n Say what you will about the Simpsons, but they’re for better or worse, the longest running sitcom in television history.\u00a0 With this little nugget of information, does this also make the Simpsons the longest-running\u00a0black<\/i><\/span>\u00a0sitcom in history, passing series like\u00a0The Cosby Show<\/i><\/span>, and\u00a0The Steve Harvey Show<\/i><\/span>?\u00a0 That’ll be some interesting trivia to dredge up in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time in quite a significant while, I sat down and watched an episode of\u00a0The Simpsons\u00a0last night, while eating dinner.\u00a0 It was pretty obvious that this episode was in honor of Black History Month or equivalent, due to the nature of it.\u00a0 But the biggest impression was left on me in the final … Continue reading The Simpsons are still around?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,69,49],"class_list":["post-26523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-og","tag-television","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26525,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26523\/revisions\/26525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}