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Let's talk about David, The Simpsons, and Tallahassee....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Let's talk about David, The Simpsons, and Tallahassee....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bowe again.

0:04.0

So today we are going to talk about Michelangelo and The Simpsons and Tallahassee and how all of these things actually do relate in the most bizarre

0:18.0

way.

0:20.0

If you have missed the news a principal at a school in Tallahassee that promises to provide students with a classical education that is content-rich, liberal arts and sciences,

0:37.0

that principal has been fired because sixth grade students saw images of David, Michelangelo's David, and this was deemed

0:52.0

inappropriate, I guess.

0:55.0

And it just kind of went from there.

1:00.0

Deemed inappropriate by some parents.

1:05.0

I'm not sure how you're supposed to provide a classical education without the Renaissance,

1:12.0

but here we are.

1:14.0

There are a lot of people who are making the connection to a Simpsons episode,

1:19.0

because there is an episode of The Simpsons in which Marge, which is the mother if you don't know,

1:27.0

she gets upset about the cartoons her kids are watching.

1:30.7

It's itchy and scratchyy which is basically Tom and Jerry.

1:34.0

And she moves to get the show, let's just say, edited.

1:40.0

And the whole move for censorship just spirals out of control and it just goes wild.

1:49.0

And by the end of it, people want to censor David.

1:55.0

It's one of those things where the Simpsons predicted this.

1:59.0

Marge, an artist herself, does not agree with censoring Michelangelo.

2:07.0

And yeah, I mean that's definitely a connection to make and it is funny, especially with all of the different things that the Simpsons have seemingly predicted over the years.

2:18.0

And it is also funny in the sense that our current world is just beyond parity even in the Simpsons.

2:27.2

But I think there's another point that can be made with the Simpsons Tallahassee issue.

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