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Sitting president is raging against a sitcom. >> they have dealt with politics and popular culture and all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. >> don't ask me. i'm just a girl. >> say it sister. >> it's not funny, bart. millions of girls will grow up thinking this is the right way to act! >> they have found a way to talk about everything that's going on in our lives through the filter of the simpsons. >> dang immigrants. they want all the benefits of living in springfield, but they ain't even bothered to learn themselves the language. >> yeah. those are exactly my sentiments. >> sold! >> whe...

Works -- >> you are watching fox. >> we are watching fox. >> -- they're telling you don't trust us either. >> eat my shorts. >> all right. i'll eat -- eat your shorts? >> the simpsons is like shakespeare in the sense that we quote the simpsons all the time, very often without even knowing it. >> excellent! >> i wish i could create something that culturally indelible. >> twin peaks showed up out of nowhere at the beginning of the decade. the pilot episode of that was one of the strangest and most exciting things i've ever seen. >> what's her name? >> laura palmer. >> it was incredible. i mean, ...

Safe humor. >> you see, the kids they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. >> and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. >> we were able to spoof fatherhood. >> what a bad father. >> which at the time -- and i stress at the time -- was bill cosby as a shining example. ♪ did you ever know that you're my hero ♪ >> the stuff they got away with because it's a cartoon, the father strangling the child. >> why, you little! >> we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the american family to make american families a lot more like the waltons and a lot...

♪ listen to it. they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the '80s. >> will this horrible year never end? >> when the '90s begin, we're starting to see a lot of experimentation. >> five, four, three, two, one! >> the simpsons in some sense was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television but distrust. >> tv respects me. it laughs with me, not at me. >> you're stupid. >> doh! >> i think the sitcoms of the '80s were such a sort of warm

Because there are some people willing to do that, but the conversation is about how they don't matter, and your position is perfect. >> kennedy: i think you are absolutely right, tammy. most people just want to have a good time. >> jimmy: they want to see movies. >> kennedy: they want to say please and thank you and make things better for everyone else. we've all been on the plane with that one person. everyone rolls their eyes because everyone else can get along. >> jimmy: if we want to take it seriously for a minute, this is a measure of how far we have come in the country on race that we ar...