I was just speaking to a co-worker last week, and I made a Simpsons reference. (I referred to someone as a Jerk***) She looked at me like I'd grown a 3rd head. I told her it was from the Simpsons, and she said, "Oh, we don't watch that show in our house. That boy, Bart, is too disrespectful to his elders."
I thought I'd accidentally gone back in time. Certainly, back in the early nineties, The Simpsons might have been edgy, but in the time since, the rest of television has definitely caught up with them. Bart is pretty tame by today's standards. This is a woman that can tell me the plot of every ****ty CBS sitcom from the last 20 years, but the Simpsons is still out of bounds?