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I blame the Simpsons. Nonstop slander against nuclear science in every single episode, for almost thirty years. Literally every single episode, it's in the op
by daniel-cussen 5y ago
I blame the Simpsons. Nonstop slander against nuclear science in every single episode, for almost thirty years. Literally every single episode, it's in the opening sequence. How can you watch the Simpsons, if you think they're funny, and you trust them, and not think nuclear science is shit?
- xboxnolifes 5y agoI feel like the simpsons make nuclear look great. You have homer, the lovable idiot, who is a Nuclear safety inspector for the plant, and, even though he is completely underqualified for the job, the plant still has never had a meltdown.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoYeah it did, he impedes it by blocking the pipe with his ass I think, and Mr. Burns congratulates him on turning a "[potential] Chernobyl into a media Three-Mile Island." Then there's all the three-eyed fish, Mr. Burns irradiated into looking like an alien, all sorts of stupid gags. Maybe some of them were funny.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> and you trust them Who's trusting the Simpsons? The whole joke is they're dysfunctional.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoNo not the characters themselves, the point of view. Like if they show you an opening sequence where the first thing you see is Bart Simpson spelling out by rote a line that is funny and does change episode to episode, then Homer Simpson fumbling a stereotypical regulus, like is it supposed to be radium, which does glow green, or more likely uranium, which is what powers a nuclear plant? It doesn't matter. You trust that someone who just told a funny joke will tell another funny joke, so you laugh without thinking it over. Humor sandwich.
- DocTomoe 5y agoAnti-nuclear sentiment predates the Simpsons by at least two decades.