The Simpsons says a lot about its production company. One of their values is family values which is present in all of their episodes. Even when in some episodes, the disequilibrium may suggest jeopardy within the family, the new equilibrium always shows the family back together happily.
The dominant reading is that the family is a conventional one, where the male is the breadwinner, the boy child is rebellious, the girl child is intelligent and an ‘angel’ and the mother stays at home and looks after her children.
A negotiated reading would be that there are gender challenges. Marge could be seen as a liberal independent woman and Homer is reliant on her, rather than her on him.
An oppositional reading is that the family are not happy at all, there is havoc all day long.
I agree with the dominant one.
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