Watching The Simpsons Amidst a Sea of Children - Musings from a Pop Culture Experience Collector

Is everyone enjoying their summer? Well not to add any pressure to do so, but it’s entirely possible that this current season might be the most “important” of our entire lifetimes (and almost certainly so far) in terms of popular culture. This month alone, the single biggest literary and cinematic event our generation has ever known (and maybe ever will again) has released its final installment on paper, as well as its pen-pen-ultimate chapter on film, and a prime-time animated family sitcom that every single one of us has known for nearly TWO DECADES has finally seen its debut on the big screen. Like it or not, its events like these that help us older (read: over 23) folk define the timeline of our lives. If you are young enough for this to be the first real phenomenon you’ve ever lived through, congratulations! You now officially have something notched on your belt that even YOUNGER people (and they’re coming, believe me) will use to brand YOU as old.