But future generations will understand more The Simpsons?
to be the question is the television critic for Slate , in the face of compelling evidence of his children who increasingly are asking him to explain, seeing old episodes with repeats around various channels, the now-obscure references to Hollywood Squares (in Italy, The game of nine ) or less than an Arnold Schwarzenegger filmography not yet governor of California.
The series and contemporary American sitcom, rich in quotations and references to popular culture and other media (from movies to comics, from the song to the game), stand the test of time? And how much, even after many years, already require an apparatus of glosses and explanations of the annotated editions of the Divine Comedy ?
The solution probably lies somewhere in between: the wealth of each bet means that every viewer will find something to laugh, even if he does not understand every single riferimento; allo stesso modo, la "decadenza" e la mancata riconoscibilità di alcune battute sarà ampiamente compensata da quelle (magari visive, o legate ai personaggi) che invece "reggono" a lungo.
Tutto questo, mentre aspettiamo con ansia le versioni annotate di Grattachecca e Fichettolandia , ovvio!
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