Who is your popular cartoon family? It's not an easy question. Is it? When I ask it of myself I am reminded immediately of The Simpsons. Other ideas that pop into mind are The house Guy house and some from South Park, like Stan's. Let's take a range straight through these superior depictions of suburban life in the 21st century and see what they have to say about us today. They are nothing else but more telling than whatever would know from first glance.
The Simpsons burst onto the scene very strongly in the late 1980's. No one would ever be able to forget the rebellious Bart, the symbol of every petite boy who just wants to have fun - and not do his homework. But their cartoon house as a whole is very broad and even. For instance, Lisa balances out Bart by being a hard-working, saxophone-playing do-gooder. And Homer's crack up antics as a lazy nuclear plant worker contrast endearingly to his wife, Marge's awareness of her house as a whole. She is all the time effortlessly taking care of her baby Maggie. It's just great.
Then with The house Guy we again see some similar dynamics. For instance Peter the dad is a whole lot like Homer, without being so annoying. And he also has his trustable wife Lois. The kids are a petite weirder though. I don't nothing else but get what's going on with their older boy.
And ultimately with South Park we see some hilarious American house stereotypes playing out. From white trash Kenny's family, where his mom is all the time wearing her "I'm With Stupid" t-shirt to Stan's Jewish family, it's all so over the top that it's hard to take offense. There are many funny cartoon families at play here.
But what do these all say about us? Well, since they are caricatures they nothing else but feature a lot of the silly things we assume to be true on a daily basis. But in the Simpsons in particular there is all the time some sort of an uplifting moment at the end of the episode. This ties it all together so nicely that you approximately accept our imperfections as being endearing. So be it. We're not God after all.
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