Haven’t watched any English cartoons?

Are still watching Japanese movies? Frankly speaking, it is not a good idea at all. Though some of them have meaningful themes, it would be a hard time for us to focus on both pictures and subtitles. As soon as we tried to concentrate on finding out what they are saying, we may lose details in the story. What’s worse, it would bring us many bad effects. For instance it may cause a sense of absent-minded because our eyes are not focusing on one part of the screen. As a result, why not try some cartoons in English? Some may argue that there are only Mickey mouse or Tom and Jerry which are too childish for them. Thus I would like to introduce one of the greatest English cartoons which I love the best. It has been popular among Americans for many years. Its name is The Simpsons.

The Simpsons has been the most popular cartoons in American ever since it was first published in 1989. It was made by the 21st Fox Broadcasting Company and has come out over 441 episodes up to now. The characters were created by Groening who initially drew rough drafts for a short story called The Tracy Ullman Show. The animators liked his design very much and used his characters to start the Simpsons. The story became extremely popular due to the funny stories from every Americans daily life and satirical jokes to some current policies and phenomenon, for example American government, Steve Jobs and so on. The cartoon has got a large amount of awards and really worth watching.

The cartoon talks about a story of a typical middle class American lifestyle family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Maggie, Lisa, and Maggie. Homer Simpson is the father of the family. He works as safety inspector at the Springfield nuclear power plant. Homer is a careless, broad minded, self centred, timid and quite silly man. He could always do things wrongly and injured himself easily. However Homer has a sense of “luck” that he would do great thing to end the mass caused by himself and his family. Marge Simpson is his wife and stays at the position of both wise wife and good mother. She is clever and knowledgeable. They have three children. Bart who is the eldest son is a great trouble maker. He almost plays jokes on everyone and brings great numbers of troubles to his family. He stays at the position of bad but kind student. Lisa is the second eldest girl in the family. She is talented and extremely clever. She is the reflection of the greatest students in school. She is also very kind and cares of everyone, for example she always worries about the bad environment of Springfield. Maggie is a small and cute baby. They also own two pets Santa’s little helper the dog and snowball V the cat. They all live content and fulfilled in the fictional city Springfield.

You may know a lot about American culture from this cartoon. The humour in the carton covers all kinds of areas, from old to young and from literature to science. In this case everyone will be interested in it. Though is hard too find on both tudou and youcu, you can easily find them on the youtube. Here is a link to one the episodes. I hope you like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2fsubA2-c