Nuclear Family

Matt Groening's Simpsons — with the role of "the dad" played at one time or another by every family member, least often the dad — can no longer blow things up like it did when it began in 1989. It descends on movie theaters in July, no doubt continuing the focal transition of its story line which began by revolving around an anarchic kid, but evolving into one circling an inept father.

** Is that just the 43-year-old, two-sonned Groening's story or every dad's? **