Lisa, a little less straight laced.
We can easily say that with the release of the new movie, The Simpsons have trully hit a new milestone. This for a show that is close to two decades old and has forever changed the landscape of televsion (Stone and Parker have maintained that South Park wouldn’t exist, if it wasn’t for Groening’s success). At any rate, given the shows success and longevity, it’s always interesting to go back and examine the early days, the roots, just to see how The Simpsons have changed over the years.
The following clip comes from Simpons pre-history, when the cartoon was just a Tracy Ullman Show animated short. Notice a few things that are already established. Marge is fussy, and Homer can be crude. Bart is rebellious. The one different thing here is Lisa. She’s pretty much the ethical center of the show now, but in the beginning, she wasn’t defined that way. She was a bit looser and a lot more like Bart than she actually is now.
In this case, she’s just as rebellious as Bart, as she’s engaged in a burping contest.
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