So I'm watching the Simpsons tonight and it's the episode where Bart steals the video game. He gets caught; and is banned from the local TryNSave 4 life. Then Marge plans the family XMas photo at the same store. The local yokel security guard catches Bart and shows the tape. Marge thinks she's smothering Bart with her mothering. So she stops and he misses his youth. He eventually returns to the store and pays for his own portrait as Marge's XMas gift.
This helped me come to a certain realization. The Simpsons has been around so long that I can do what Homer did. Park my kids in front of the TV and hope they'll turn out TV. Think about it, I can show them this episode when they get of age to want things. But why stop there? I'm sure if I combed the Sippy's archive, I could find episodes for everything. There's the one where Lisa is cheating and comes clean. 'I know a bar where we can cash this big check!' There's the one where Bart shoots the bird then tries to hide it from Marge. The one where they all pitch in to rebuild the Flanders' house after the storm. And the one where the Reverend's daughter--and Bart's GF--steals from the church. I mean I can raise a child by preemptively showing them Sippy's episodes. Hoping to keep them from doing their own dumb shit. Maybe that's the way to go. Yo Barnes, can we try this out with Brea? Miggy let's use Addy, Vannah is too old to start now. It'll be like the new Jedi training. You have your missions gentlemen. Godspeed.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Nope, she's getting the same way I was raised: NBA Entertainment and no emotion whatsoever. Oh wait, I only get her ever other weekend. Fuck.
And THIS is why I'LL be raising our kids... oh wait, that's right, we've established I'm not having your children... I wonder why?!?!?
:P
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