Angry Dad: the Movie

I have just finished watching the first assigned episode of The Simpson's for class. I have always like The Simpson's better than any other animated "adult targeted" show. This episode was called, Angry Dad: the Movie. In the episode, Bart, after being left alone by his family gets asked to turn his animation into a feature film. I think it is quite interesting that in the beginning of the episode Bart is left alone by the whole family (everyone else went out for ice cream), and the short film he created was called angry dad.  I feel like this must have some sort of significance especially with the way the Homer treated Bart all episode. The family traveled to different award ceremonies where "Angry Dad" won most of the awards. When the awards were announced, Homer would get up and take credit for almost everything, not letting Bart say anything. At this point in the film I really felt bad for Bart. You can look at it two ways, Homer was ignorantly taking the spot light away from his son not realizing the affects, or you can think of it as Homer, not knowingly teaching Bart a valuable lesson that he realizes in the end. Unfortunately the way Homer's character is portrayed, I feel like it is the first one, however Homer does something at the end which may suggest other wise. At the final award show, The Oscars, Bart lies to Homer so that Homer doesn't go with him. Once Bart gets up on stage, he realizes that he doesn't want to take all the credit for the movie, he realizes its not all about him.at the end, Homer got up on stage with Bart and said he was proud of Bart for doing the responsible thing. He did exactly the opposite of that all episode, but maybe it was to teach Bart a lesson. I think that this episode is symbolic of the way that parents and children interact with each other. parents want the best for their children, so they make their children do the right thing even if that's not what they do them selves.