Pride
Rex Banner's personal crusade to track the Beer Baron is a
major instance. He starts with noble intentions but degenerates
into egomania. Springfield punishes him by catapault. In 'Trash of the Titans' Ray Patterson exhibits
the sin of pride when he refuses to return to the office of
Sanitation-Commissioner after Homer has sullied his name. |
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Greed
Mr. Burns exemplifies this. Classic episode such as '$pringfield' and
'Burns'
Heir' showcase his feelings of entitlement. And he pinches
pennies. In the fan-favorite 'Who Shot Mr. Burns' Monty's greed
is near-tragic. Most
Burns-centered episodes allude to greed. |
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Lust
'Colonel Homer' and 'The Last Temptation of the Homer' seek
to answer the question, "What beautiful woman can resist sex-god
Homer?" Southern-bell Lurleen Lumpkin and potential-soulmate
Mindy Simmons draw Homer away from his wife. All three Simpson
children are bastards, and Playdude is Springfield's most-read
magazine. |
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Envy
Homer is constantly jealous of those around him, especially
his next-door neighbor-iddly Ned Flanders. Homer seeks revenge
for the anger caused by Ned's good fortune, only adding to the
bad caused by his lack of discipline. Homer's envy is not
limited to Ned Flander, nor is envy limited to Homer. Lisa
experienced an extreme bout of jealousy in Lisa's Rival, and
then Bart did as well in Summer of 4'2". But examples are
growing more sparse as the seasons progress and the tone moves
away from human nature and toward just another cartoon. |
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Gluttony
Homer represents the sin of gluttony more than efficiently
in nearly every episode of the series. In Homer's Triple Bypass
his constant eating even caused him a heart attack. Greasy and
sugary foods along with beer make up the majority of his entire
diet. The children are also shown to have a gluttonous streak,
viciously attacking candy and sweets whenever the opportunity
arises. In Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood Bart pays a hefty sum for the
coveted syrup-only squishy; he and chum Milhouse. experiences a
psychedelic hallucination as a result. |
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Wrath
"Why you little!" is one of several catch phrases The
Simpsons have produced, which is always followed with Homer
violently grasping Bart by the neck and shaking him with all his
might. Marge or Lisa usually breaks them up before anything too
serious happens, though exceptions do exist such as in Treehouse
of Horror XII when it turns Bart's neck into rubber. Many
plot-important antipathetic actions have been a result of wrath.
In I Love Lisa the usually level-headed eight-year-old loses her
patience and breaks Ralph's heart. In Homer Alone Marge is
stressed to the point of anger. |
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Sloth
Over-sleeping is the tragic downfall of both Simpson men,
Bart and Homer. It is Homer's reluctance to climb out of bed to
go to church in Homer the Heretic that sets off a chain of
events leading to a house-fire. In Bart Gets an F Martin, the
intellect in the class, slips into laziness in school, becoming
a foil to the Bart in this season two gem. In Lisa Gets an F
Lisa is in danger of failing gym. This is indirectly blamed on
the stereotype that intellectuals are physically incapable,
though the most likely case is she sees exercise as pointless.
This would fall under the sin of sloth. |
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Seven Sins