Tragedy is not a word typically associated with The Simpsons. After all, this is a comedy sitcom, home to wacky jokes about Homer eating too many donuts or hammering himself in the head by accident.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...