Simpsons - No Education

I've chosen two Simpsons clips as examples of "Popular Culture". The first clip juxtaposes Pink Floyd's "We Don't Need No Education" with the Simpsons. A sort of anti establishment/anti government/anti society song with the iconic American sitcom. The Simpsons is popular culture, but not without subversive or counter culture aspects. I think its humor often expresses a self reflective critique of the American mainstream culture it represents.

The second clip "Electronic Voting" interests me mostly because of Homer's line: "This doesn't happen in America, maybe Ohio, but not America". On one hand this is an American hegemonic assumption: the democratic process is only subverted in other countries, never the homeland of democracy itself; On the other, the fact that it is happening to Homer introduces elements of farce, cultural critique and societal admonition.