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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Aug 2014

      1. Stephen Marche's essay on Sideshow Bob, one of the greatest characters on The Simpsons, is worth expanding on:http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/the-simpsons-sideshow-bob?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1456_82883986 …

      6 replies 29 retweets 46 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Aug 2014
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      2. I think Sideshow Bob is a great character because he cuts close to the experience of the show's writers: he's a distorted alter-ego.

      1 reply 5 retweets 6 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Aug 2014
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      3. The Ivy League egghead who has to make his dough as a low brow clown: apt description of both Sideshow Bob & many Simpsons writers.

      4 replies 9 retweets 13 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Aug 2014
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      4. Tragedy of Sideshow Bob is he tried to bring smart comedy to kids and was rejected. Glory of The Simpsons is they did same & succeeded.

      1 reply 12 retweets 10 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Aug 2014
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      5. Sideshow Bob is what would've happened to the show's creators had they failed: the bitterness of the idealist in defeat.

      3 replies 4 retweets 12 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Aug 2014
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      6. Sideshow Bob raises a fundamental question: what is the role of the cultural elitist in a mass democracy?

      4 replies 70 retweets 60 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Aug 2014

      7. One answer is that the cultural elitist should simply turn his nose at the masses & become snob: the route of Mencken, Vidal, etc.

      8:22 PM - 25 Aug 2014
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Aug 2014
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          8. The nobility of Sideshow Bob is he doesn't take the easy (and lazy) path of snobbery but sees it as his mission to uplift the masses.

          3 replies 5 retweets 20 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Aug 2014
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          9. For the elitist to uplift the masses means entering into a complex love/hate relationship with them: which is what Bob has with Bart.

          2 replies 6 retweets 11 likes
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