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They've done this recently with their media piracy episode. They set up a whole community theater in their backyard, and Marge sends some money to the production company when she finds out how they got the movies. She frequently ruins some of the less than legal fun they get up to
Wasn’t that episode supposed to be ironic? Inside the FBI building, most of the departments were shown to be small and empty, but then it pans to the anti piracy department which had the largest budget, all the agents had rifles and helicopters, and they had to use advanced biometrics just to open their doors. Homer is then put in prison alongside murderers and burglars who considered his crime of piracy to be the worst.
I'm kinda wondering if the shows have to layer it in irony, because the studios won't allow them to be explicitly pro-piracy? The closest thing to pro-piracy in a mainstream TV show I can think of is jokes about Lars Ulrich, along the lines of "Because of piracy, he can only afford a gold-plated swimming pool without diamonds all over it".
Cant say for newer simpsons, but older episodes had more nuanced episodes
If you haven't watched it cuck philosophy has a good video the Simpsons
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it's going to be more Adorno shit isn't it