• Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture is a non-fiction compilation work analyzing the effect of the television...
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  • The Springfield Three refers to an unsolved missing persons case that began on June 7, 1992, when friends Suzanne "Suzie" Streeter and Stacy McCall, and...
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  • "The Springfield Connection" is the twenty-third episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired...
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  • tastes of the masses" by becoming a criminal mastermind. In the book Leaving Springfield, David L. G. Arnold comments that Bart is a product of a "mass-culture...
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    through Springfield one last time. Among the returnees were the characters of Nola, Holly and Mindy; Josh told Reva that he was leaving Springfield for a...
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  • Springfield is the primary fictional setting of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons and related media. It is an average-sized, fictional city within...
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    Buffalo Springfield was a Canadian-American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1966 by Canadians Neil Young, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin and Americans...
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  • in the United States on January 14, 1993. The plot revolves around Springfield's impulse purchase of a faulty monorail from a conman, and how it subsequently...
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    The Springfield Street Railway Company (SSR) was an interurban streetcar and bus system based in Springfield, Massachusetts that that once connected much...
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  • alongside Homer in a work environment. In an essay for the book Leaving Springfield, Robert Sloane describes the episode as "an incisive consideration...
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  • culture, and Bart, stuck in between, always wins out. In the book Leaving Springfield, David L. G. Arnold comments that Bart is a product of a "mass-culture...
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    (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was a British singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice, she...
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  • February 18, 1996. In this episode, Lisa writes an essay on Springfield founder Jebediah Springfield for the town's bicentennial. While doing research, she...
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    Amanda Hugginkiss: Gay Life on The Simpsons". In Alberti, John (ed.). Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Wayne...
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  • Burns' amusement. Kurt M. Koenigsberger comments in his 2003 book Leaving Springfield that "a good deal of enjoyment" is to be had from the episode, due...
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  • Patton, and Chinatown. The episode has been analyzed in books such as Leaving Springfield and Education in Popular Culture. Since airing, the episode has received...
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  • September 23, 2022. Koenigsberger, Kurt M. (2003). Alberti, John (ed.). Leaving Springfield: the Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture. Wayne...
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  • Retrieved 24 January 2014. Alberti, John (2004). "Ethnic Stereotyping". Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Wayne...
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  • his piece "Commodity Culture and Its Discontents", published in Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. He noted...
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    van. Put together, it smelled of the '70s. Alberti, John (2004). Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Wayne...
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    The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans...
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  • Retrieved July 5, 2017. Alberti, John (2004). "Ethnic Stereotyping". Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Wayne...
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  • nobody could get in a tizzy about it. Very good indeed." In the book Leaving Springfield, Matthew Henry praised the episode's critiquing of "the most common...
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    Features: Nature Turned Nasty in the Movies, 2008, p. 54. Alberti, Leaving Springfield: 'The Simpsons' and the Possibilities of Oppositional Culture, 2004...
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  • as a "perfect adaptation". Kurt M. Koenigsberger said in his book Leaving Springfield that The Simpsons, while "not strictly a literary form ... is certainly...
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  • fourth major appearance as Sideshow Bob, who, in this episode, wins the Springfield mayoral election through electoral fraud to get revenge on Bart. The...
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  • prompted further attention to the episode. Alberti, John (2004). Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. Wayne...
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  • Snacky Cakes, one of Cartman's favorite snack foods. In the book Leaving Springfield, author William J. Savage Jr. said the episode "reveals a fine edged...
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  • culture, and Bart, stuck in between, always wins out. In the book Leaving Springfield, David L. G. Arnold comments that Bart is a product of a "mass-culture...
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  • original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2009. Alberti, John (2004). Leaving Springfield. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2849-1. Anderson,...
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