The Search For Fantasy

It is, of course, a fact that all life situations have a comparable Simpsons moment. For instance, when Bart is forced to befriend Ralph Wiggum after Marge sets up the much maligned ‘play-date’. After initial reluctance to endure the social stigma that the friendship would attract, Bart warms to Ralph’s innocence and especially the contents of his new friend’s father’s closet. Unable to comprehend this interest, Chief Wiggum retorts ‘what is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?’. Humorous indeed, but he hits upon an almost universal human characteristic; a fascination with the mysterious.