Aspiring writers get a chance to fix The Simpsons‘ Apu problem thanks to a new contest launched by film producer and YouTube personality Adi Shankar. The venerable animated sitcom The Simpsons just made history by passing Gunsmoke to become the scripted series with the most-ever episodes. Lately however, the conversation around The Simpsons hasn’t focused on its admirable longevity, but rather on the possibility that the long-lived show has finally grown out-of-touch with the culture at large.
Much of the conversation about The Simpsons‘ arguable lack of perspective has centered on the character of Apu, the Indian-American convenience store owner voiced by Hank Azaria. In his documentary The Problem With ...
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April 30, 2018 at 10:54AM
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