Debate topic.

[Petrov]

If the Simpson's just kept living out their lives imagine what would the kids would turn out like? Are Marg and Homer good or bad parents?
Petrov

[Jukka]

always in the end... good parents!

[Thrillhouse24]

yeah good parents (this must be the topic of the year)

[Revolver]

Well Lisa becomes President of the United States!

[Homer Jay]

And Bart becomes the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. So they have to be doing something right.

[HotMilhouse977]

Homer and Marge are good parents. Beneath the infinite arrests and con-artistry, they can teach their kids good lessons. Even if they can't, Lisa was smart from the beginning, and that's why she becomes president. I can't explain how Bart becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, though...

[Blythy]

explain how bush became president and there's your answer

although bush had money, thats a thinker that is.

[HotMilhouse977]

Bush was never elected. It was that f%#kin' incident in Florida...so maybe Bart technically lost to Lisa who then decided to become just a senator, and then she realized how good she was at it and decided to run for and then win the roll of president!

[Wavy Gravy]

Well Lisa becomes President of the United States!

That episode blows, so it doesn't count.

EDIT: By the way, I'm joking.

[Sloppy Jimbo XOX]

This thread blows. And I'm not joking.

[The Governor]

Homer and Marge: Homer keeps his job until he's replaced by the son of the Scratchy Voiced Teen while Marge opens a housekeeping service.

Bart: Get's arrested...time, and time again, winds up in jail, but is no one's bitch.

Lisa: Nearly gives up on music to work in an office space, but when she comes to terms with her muse-ality, she learns to play bass, the viola and trumpet. Thanks to new advances in multi-tracking, she becomes a successful musician and is loved around the world by everyone, except John Tesh.

Maggie: After being left behind while the rest of the family went on vacation, Maggie grows up to become the rag-tag tomboy who likes to skateboard on the weekends and is pot head in denial. She's too special for normal school, but too normal for special school. Plaid shirts are her friend.

[Wavy Gravy]

She's too special for normal school, but too normal for special school.

Best line I've heard all day.

Of course, the day is only seven minutes old.

[Petrov]

You don't need brains or morals to become president. You only have to go back two of your presidents to prove that. Or a Chief Justice.
The total lack of interest in Lisa by Homer and abusiveness and constant strangling of Bart by Homer - and Homer doesn't even remember Maggie's name!- could only recreate lack-lustre, unloved adults.
Marge's well-meaning but repressed character in each episode I'm afraid could only add to these abused, unloved kids in negative ways that leave them falling short of having successful, fulfilled lives.
Jake, agree with you on Bart and Maggie except Maggie takes the Stairway to Heaven at 15 y.o but any ideas of Lisa being a success are just in her office-mind imagination.
Good parents wouldn't create these kinds of people from their kids.

[SNUH]

Yes they are good, loving parents (except for when Homer strangles and chokes Bart, ignores Lisa's dreams/desires, and forgets he has a third child).

How will the kids turn out: just like their parents. We all do. I am my father. My wife is her mother. It will happen to you too! Muhahahahaha!