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NCBI ROFL: "Old people are useless": representations of aging on the Simpsons.

Explore how The Simpsons embodies a postmodern aesthetic through its sharp political parodic irony and inversion of meaning.

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"..The article constructs a bridge that places The Simpsons squarely within a postmodern aesthetic and, using this rubric, shows how the inherent political nature of parodic irony can help to create an inversion of meaning."

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