I actually was not allowed to watch The Simpsons either, but for very different reasons. The writers cribbed quite a bit from white American literary classics, so the way it presented race, gender, and childhood was rather white. Too white for my parents’ taste. Bart & Lisa were granted an excessive permissibility to talk back, to disobey, to disrespect, etc. Homer was irresponsible but also got into skirmishes that would get my father or my brothers killed. Plus, there were the poorly done characters “of color.” I wonder how those things strike you now, I mean, once you look at them from an intersectional perspective.