Season Analysis

The Simpsons

Season 19 Analysis

Season Woke Score

out of 10

Season Overview

No specific overview for this season.

Season Review

Season 19 is part of the later 'The Simpsons' era, but it precedes the show’s shift toward the most modern, explicit ideological commentary. The primary 'woke' themes detected center on feminism and civilizational self-hatred, mostly through the lens of Marge's entrepreneurial success and Homer's mother's political activism. Marge and Lisa's career-focused narratives depict them as instantly successful 'Girl Boss' figures, diminishing the roles of the men around them, particularly Homer. The season also features a notable plot celebrating an activist character's environmental sabotage of a U.S. missile program. However, identity politics and queer theory are largely absent, and anti-theism remains within the show's traditional satirical lampooning of Flanders rather than a hostile deconstruction of faith itself.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The season contains no overt plotlines dedicated to intersectional identity, systemic oppression, or race-based vilification. Characters are defined by their long-established, stereotypical traits as the basis for the comedy.

Oikophobia6/10

The episode 'Mona Leaves-a' frames Homer's radical activist mother, Mona Simpson, as a positive, heroic figure whose final wish is to use her ashes to sabotage a US government missile test, specifically to prevent a payload of nuclear waste from being dumped into the rainforest. This elevates a saboteur who is hostile to U.S. military and governmental operations as spiritually superior.

Feminism8/10

The episode 'Husbands and Knives' features Marge becoming an instantly successful business mogul after opening a women-only gym called 'Shapes.' Homer is subsequently emasculated by a group of attractive men who convince him he is on 'wife support' and that Marge will leave him for a healthier man, which centers female career fulfillment at the expense of the husband's self-worth and traditional role. 'All About Lisa' has Lisa quickly and effectively supplanting a male figure, Krusty, to win the Entertainer of the Year award.

LGBTQ+1/10

The season does not contain any episodes or plot points dedicated to centering alternative sexualities, promoting gender ideology, or lecturing on queer theory. The central family unit remains the standard, albeit dysfunctional, nuclear family.

Anti-Theism3/10

The season is consistent with the show's long-established tradition of lampooning religious figures like Ned Flanders and the Christian church. There are no major plots dedicated to presenting traditional religion as the root of evil or deconstructing objective morality; the content is primarily satirical rather than hostilely anti-theistic.