You know I’m not sure. I sure spend a lot of time here on Lemmy but somehow I’m not sure I even exactly like it. I was going through my feed to see if I could find a kind of quirky counterintuitive answer that I could justify by saying at least it’s not some super depressing news or angry commentary but they’re kinda… all like that.

I guess I cherish all of them equally as much in that I somehow keep coming back.

Ah I knew it’d be something that should have seemed obvious to me only after it’s explained.

What’s com’s?

There’s a podcast called hot money that goes in to this. Go check it out, I reckon you’ll like it

I think around about the 2008th to 2012th season of the AD series the writing was starting to pick up a bit, they’re just sorta phoning it in now and trying to spice it up with some shark jumping B stories about the political backdrop .

Just make sure you don’t use it, or fail to clarify and confirm the meaning of its use, in a business setting or you could be in some trouble.

I don’t mean to be a bit obvious but I really think of all the insightful analysis you might get it really boils down to “he’s a cartoon character” both literally and metaphorically.

When he’s evil, it’s funny. His evil plans are… well… cartoonish. He tried to block out the sun, he built a factory that uses the plastic from beverage packaging to deliberately snare sealife as a business venture, he tried to pose as a child in an elementary school in an attempt to trick the principle in to donating school funds to his power plant. It’s true he had more realistic and grounded evil too like trying to cancel all the plant employees’ dental plans, but in the same episode he does zany wacky stuff with a 1000 monkeys at a 1000 typewriters writing the world’s greatest novel and you tend to forget he’s evil because that’s just so funny. In fact his hilarious ways of spending his ill gotten wealth or his old-timey antics are so cooky and eccentric it’s kind of hard to hold on to resentment that he has undeserved power and privilege and besides, again, it’s a cartoon so there’s no actual real harm to be upset about and the tone of the show and his appearance in it never tries to portray that harm in a serious way so you can’t really even be so wrapped up in the fiction that the harm even feels real as in other works of fiction.

They have also occasionally humanized him, as a necessary measure for when entire episodes have revolved around him so he has his troubled past with his lost toy BoBo and his own quick abandonment of his own parents, he’s been unlucky in love and he’s insecure about his baldness even showing genuine empathy towards Homer for his desperate attempts to use the company medical insurance for hair replacement medicine. In fact I think the few times they really show him as an actual unlikeable prick are when he stays at the Simpson home and behaves like a monster and the time he tried to marry Marge’s Mum and was extremely hasty and controlling about it. In both those instances we could genuinely hate him, but they more or less redeem him by having him be forced to accept consequences for the behaviour.