{"id":341,"date":"2009-05-20T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=341"},"modified":"2023-08-21T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:01:21","slug":"norwegian-themed-simpsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2009\/05\/20\/norwegian-themed-simpsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja, Vi Elsker The Simpsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coming_to_Homerica\">Coming to Homerica<\/a>,&#8221; the season-ender for this, the twentieth season of <em>The Simpsons<\/em>, uses as its foils the Norwegian immigrants who inhabit Springfield&#8217;s neighboring town of Ogdenville. What follows is a traditional <em>Simpsons<\/em> send-up of Norwegian-Americans and Norway in general, from aquavit and the inward-breathed &#8220;ja&#8221; to a strange fondness for the Minnesota Vikings. While this season has been uneven at best, the season finale should be remembered as one of the stronger episodes this year.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/norsksimpsons.jpg?resize=502%2C297&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" alt=\"Simpsons go Norsk!\" title=\"Simpsons go Norsk!\" border=\"0\" width=\"502\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of note, though, is the original U.S. air date for this Norsk pastiche: May 17, 2009. May 17th is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norwegian_Constitution_Day\">Norwegian Constitution Day<\/a>, the Norwegian national holiday. Whether this confluence of the episode&#8217;s air date and its content was intentional is unclear&mdash;my money is on a happy coincidence&mdash;but it still stands as a nice touch and adds another layer of depth to the episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Coming to Homerica,&#8221; the season-ender for this, the twentieth season of The Simpsons, uses as its foils the Norwegian immigrants who inhabit Springfield&#8217;s neighboring town of Ogdenville. What follows is a traditional Simpsons send-up of Norwegian-Americans and Norway in general, from aquavit and the inward-breathed &#8220;ja&#8221; to a strange fondness for the Minnesota Vikings. While &#8230; <a title=\"Ja, Vi Elsker The Simpsons\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2009\/05\/20\/norwegian-themed-simpsons\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ja, Vi Elsker The Simpsons\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[125,126],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-norway","tag-simpsons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-5v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6275,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/6275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}