... There are certain traces of stereotypes in almost all the activities in which the characters engage and that seems to be meant in a humourous way. For example, in one episode, Lisa and Bart (the children of the family; brother and sister) are taken hostages by a prison escapist in a zeppelin. Using a computer inside the zeppelin you could write on an electronic board outside the zeppelin. Lisa discovers this and writes a message to let everybody know that they are in there - and decorates her plea for help with a series of flashing red love hearts... Stereotypically, it is unlikely that Bart would have done this if he were the one who had written the message! Another example could be in the episode where Bart gets himself a fake ID, rents a car and goes away for 'spring break' with some friends (he of course lies to ...

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