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The demonstrate begins with the principles sight gags on the couch and the Simpson family's lampooning of television's midseason replacement series. The program that finally captures the family's carefulness is "Police Cops," which becomes a present within the present. As the two Miami-Vice enjoy heroes of "Police Cops" subdue would-be bank thieves, one of the police detective heroes, a millionaire cop surrounded by admiring women, introduces himself as "Simpson, Detective Homer Simpson." The Simpson family is shocked and Homer is exclusively overwhelmed, confusing himself with his television image.

The plot then unfolds in essentially five kernels that hire up and explore Homer's confusion over his own identity (Chatman, 1978). First, Homer identifies completely with the television detective hero: "Wow. They captured my personality perfectly! Did you examine the means Daddy caught that bullet?" In turn, the all-inclusive citizens of Springfield validates Homer's contemporary pseudo-identity, treating him as if he were the television detective hero: "Hey, Mr. Simpson, sir, can I purchase your autograph?" Second, the "Police Cops" producers interchange their television detective character from glamorous hero to bumbling sidekick, launching a series of gags about Homer's correct identity.

The virgin characterization is truly a near perfect replication of the "absolute" Homer Simpson. This outrages Homer: "Hey what's going on? That guy's not Homer Simpson! He's fat and stupid!" The town continues to respond to Homer as the television character, only these days with ridicule rather than respect. Nonetheless, Homer gains some insight into the confusion between his "authentic" and "fictional" identity. As a assemblage of co-workers gathers in the hallway absent his business waiting for him to "do something stupid," Homer retorts, "Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you gentleman, on the other artisan you seem to have me confused with a character in a fictional present." Factor of the pleasure for viewers derives from the irony of the cartoon character Homer making the state that he is the "authentic" Homer Simpson, as opposed to the fictional cartoon character within the cartoon.

The writers of the period then continue to play with this seemingly endless hall of mirrors between "absolute" and "fictional" identity by scripting Homer to behave true in the transaction of the revised fictional detective character. Homer obliges by spilling a fondue pot on the nuclear reactor polity panel. Homer's identity crisis eventually leads him to Hollywood, where he confronts the producers of the "Police Cops"-By the Numbers Productions-and demands that they recast the detective character: "I'm begging you! I'm a human duration! Let me have my dignity back!" 

The lines between Homer's authentic identity and his media identity blur all the more besides when his efforts in the production business are used as grist for a contemporary gag in the later "Police Cops" period. Studies in Media & Counsel Literacy Education, Manual 1, Controversy 1 (February 2001), 1-1本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。