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	<passage mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/2652.mp3" title="Best American TV Show"><![CDATA[<div id="passage"><p><strong>Wendi:</strong> So. I wanna know why you think The
Simpsons were so successful?</p>
<p><strong>Ken: </strong>They have a kind of humor that funny
  to people of all ages. It's funny to people
  from all different walks of life. So I guess it
  appeals to the masses more than any other
show.</p>
<p><strong>Wendi:</strong> But how do they do that? How do you make something
appealing to 8-year olds and fifty-year olds?</p>
<p><strong>Ken: </strong>Yeah. It's difficult. Like I haven't really thought about it all
  that much but like they have jokes that only old people would get
  and they have the fart jokes that, you know, children love at the
  same time, so. Yeah. So I guess that's what, yeah. It's a
phenomenom.</p>
<p><strong>Wendi:</strong> It is crazy. The thing that I think is wild about that show, is
  that just the colors even. Do you know what I mean? It's so basic.
  Kind of like the lines and the colors. Everything is like incredibly
  basic, yet it's so, kind of strong and powerful. It's really weird.Do
you have any idea of what I'm talking about?</p>
<p><strong>Ken: </strong>Not really. No.</p>
<p><strong>Wendi:</strong> It's just like a coloring book kind of with bright colors filling
  in the lines. I don't know. The animation, just the style, all of it. It's
  just all so simple yet, I don't know, it really works, like the
characters and everything.</p>
<p><strong>Ken: </strong>It doesn't have to be visually stimulating, or visually...</p>
<p><strong>Wendi:</strong> Like sophisticated or anything.</p>
<p><strong>Ken: </strong>Sophisticated to be funny, just like South Park isn't at all yet
it's one of the more popular shows on TV right now.</p>
<p><strong>Wendi:</strong> But I don't know. I think one of the really funny things
  about the Simpsons are like the shapes of the people and stuff,
  like the way like that guy has the big kind of beak, like the
bartender guy.</p>
<p><strong>Ken: </strong>Oh, yeah, Mo.</p>
<p><strong>Wendi:</strong> He has like a beak. He almost looks like a duck in a way.
  And it's like you know. Marges hair and then like Homer's crazy
  beer belly. It's all just so funny and then like the people that are
  supposed to be stupid like they look stupid. You know, they have
the really like stupic look. Like hammerhead sharks looking.</p>
<p><strong>Ken: </strong>Yeah. Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Wendi:</strong> It's just all brilliant.</p></div>]]>
	
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