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In case you don’t know, last year there was a documentary called “The Problem With Apu”, calling the Indian Kwik-E-Mart clerk character out for being a racist depiction of American-Indians. To many Simpsons fans, it was a sign of how political correctness can affect the show’s sense of humour.
Now the first thing the show has done wrong about it is address the controversy head-on in an episode, instead of actually doing something about it, whether it be to retire Apu or tone down his stereotypical mannerisms. The second is that it just shrugs off the whole controversy as political correctness.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/simpsons-apu-stereotype-controversy-new-episode-lisa-marge-a8295516.html
This really is an example of how lazy Zombie Simpsons’ writing can be. It doesn’t try to make light of the issue, it doesn’t put a comedic spin on it, it isn’t even in-character for Lisa to be criticising political correctness. The current writers really need to think before they add in “jokes” like this, but that ability has been waning for far too long now.
Now the first thing the show has done wrong about it is address the controversy head-on in an episode, instead of actually doing something about it, whether it be to retire Apu or tone down his stereotypical mannerisms. The second is that it just shrugs off the whole controversy as political correctness.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/simpsons-apu-stereotype-controversy-new-episode-lisa-marge-a8295516.html
This really is an example of how lazy Zombie Simpsons’ writing can be. It doesn’t try to make light of the issue, it doesn’t put a comedic spin on it, it isn’t even in-character for Lisa to be criticising political correctness. The current writers really need to think before they add in “jokes” like this, but that ability has been waning for far too long now.