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How does The Simpson's episode 'Itchy and Scratchy and Marge' show the ways in which television influences children? Does it show these influences to be positive or negative?
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How does The Simpson's episode 'Itchy and Scratchy and Marge' show the ways in which television influences children? Does it show these influences to be positive or negative? Parody is an amusing imitation of another's work. The Simpson's use exaggeration and comedy to mock the TV culture of America. In America, at the moment most children tend to go home from school and spend the rest of the night watching TV. On average the TV is on for six hours and 47 minutes a day in America. This is becoming a problem because as the average child has seen approximately 8000 incidents of TV violence by the age of 11, and by the time they are 18 they have witnessed over 200,000 acts of violence. Statistics also show that children who watch 4 or more hours of TV a day were significantly fatter than those watching fewer than two. ...
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