... storylines were set around the family which was middle-class and they were very tight together. Most of the characters in traditional sitcoms were good, but to stop it being too sugary, they had one or two bad characters that cause small problems. As world war two was just over, the American media and government was trying to maintain the American's image of freedom and the image of hope. The Simpsons has some of these characteristics but it does break most of them. The first difference you see straight away is that the characters are mostly yellow and this is because it was supposed to catch the eye of "channel flickers" quoted by Matt Groening. Also because it is an animation, it can be more unrealistic therefore use more hyperbole. Unlike families in traditional sitcoms such as "Leave it to Beaver"; the Simpsons family is far from perfection as shown by ...

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