Posted on 03/02/2005 3:06:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
Doh.
Far out.
Well, at least they do good work. Now, if we could get Lisa to be less PC.....
"There was so much slang in the show. I looked up those phrases in my dictionary and I couldn't find the meaning," Shin said. "Bart speaks to his father and says 'Hey, man.' This is so disrespectful for us with our Confucian culture."
Aristotle defined comedy as the depiction of characters who are morally worse than the audience. This is a very difficult feat to accomplish in modern America.
Amen! The Lisa episodes always stink.
Outsourcing the outsourcing....
Her PC-ness is often made fun of though.
I wonder how far things can go with outsourcing. Eventually it seems like you'll end up with a lot of needless middle men. If the philipines people are cheaper, why bother with the koreans at all, just move it there.
And then where? Always going to the cheapest kinda seems terrible to me.
One day they might start insourcing to the US. The advantage is about half the residents in the US speak English. The disadvantage is that the labor force is virtually unskilled....
It used to be, but in the last couple of years the show hasn't balanced Lisa liberalism at all. Remember her conversion to Buddhism (guest starring Richard Gere)? Puke. Even Lenny and Carl became Buddhist.
The Simpsons regularly poke fun--if gently--at conservative values. How interesting to know they, too, outsource.
The one thing they haven't touched to my knowledge is Islam. Don't what that fatwa I guess. P.S. I heard that Lisa was John Ashcroft's favorite character! He liked her 'moral voice'.
They make fun of liberal values just as much. Probably one of the most conservative shows on Network TV.
Maybe by then the Americans can work in sweatshops making shirts and plastic crap for the Chinese and Indians.
When Lake Erie is as polluted again as it was in the 70's I'll know we've made progress....
Animated TV shows have been outsourced to S. Korea for YEARS and not just by Fox, which I notice is the ONLY company this article mentions. Just watch the credits of any series done by Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, etc. All the main animation is done overseas. This is very, VERY old news.
Feature length is a different story. Those have been done on US soil, and most if it still is. Even things that bomb like "Titan A.E." was done domestically where quality control is very tight.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
So Lisa is PC. Are we to deny that PC people are out there? I think Lisa's political inclinations work wonderfully, because she is so smart but makes such obvious mistakes.
And remember, Marge likes guns...
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