Aye Caramba! A recent episode of Los Simpson, aka The Simpsons, has been causing quite the stir (not in a good way) in Argentina, according to The Washington Post:
During the episode, Homer and his friends gathered at Moe's Tavern and grumbled about their choices of political candidates. The conversation seemed innocent enough, until Homer's buddy Carl Carlson opened his mouth."I'd really go for some kind of military dictator, like Juan Perón," Carl said, mentioning the general who was elected president by Argentines three times. "When he 'disappeared' you, you stayed disappeared." Carl's friend Lenny then delivered a coup de grâce: "Plus, his wife was Madonna." Most Argentines don't consider Perón a dictator, and they certainly don't blame him for the fact that up to 30,000 dissidents went missing during the country's "dirty war." Those disappearances are attributed to a military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983, after Perón's death. "This type of program causes great harm, because the disappearances are still an open wound here," former congressman Lorenzo Pepe, who now heads the Juan Domingo Perón Institute, said of the episode. "This is highly offensive to Argentines."
Watch the offensive episode in question - E. Pluribus Wiggum - here on Fancast.
