The Simpsons: 10 Most Controversial Moments Ever

5. President George Bush Snr.

Presbush In 1992, 41st President of the United States George Bush Snr. said while in office that the Simpsons were an example of "the declining morals of the United States" and that American families should be "more like the Waltons, and a lot less like the Simpsons". In response, the Simpsons aired the 1996 episode €˜Two Bad Neighbours,€™ which depicted an animation of Bush Snr. voiced by Harry Shearer, engaged in a "turf war" between Homer and Bart. The two warring neighbours duke it out and even come to blows, until George's wife Barbara finally defuses the situation, but not before the Simpsons writers sensationally ridicule one of America's most famous of figures.
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