![]() Sadly, it was only seen on the original airing, and has been switched out in streaming versions and later broadcasts.įans have long debated where the Simpsons' home town of Springfield is supposedly located (see my book Atlas of Imagined Places for one intriguing theory). A real throw-back to the Golden Era of animation. This couch gag is a live-action shot of a flipbook flipping through some hand-drawn scenes of the family sitting on the sofa. The clip was re-used as the "couch gag" in the Ricky Gervais-penned episode Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife (2006). Used just twice, the producers of The Simpsons must have really wanted to branch out into new styles of animation. What started out as a Sky One advert also found its way into official Simpsons canon. Bart and Lisa's school, which seems to be Rooks Heath in South Harrow In conclusion, then, the Simpsons live in Orpington, south-east London, but have daily commutes to Didcot near Oxford (Homer), and Ruislip/Eastcote in north-west London (Bart and Lisa). The handsome, if generic school building is a little hard to place, but is a dead ringer for the older buildings of Rooks Heath, just down the road from South Ruislip. The other chief setting is Bart and Lisa's school. Bart Simpson skateboards through South Ruislip The old car wash and tyres signs seen in the video are still in place. The only street in London beginning with those letters is The Runway in Ruislip, and Street View confirms this as the location. The telltale clue here is the side road, whose street name can just about be read as "The Run-.". The Simpsons couch gag - part I YOURE NEXT Lee Hardcastle 1.31M subscribers Subscribe 270K 15M views 7 years ago RIP Simpsons. ![]() Meanwhile, the row of shops past which Bart skateboards are also a long way from Orpington. Didcot Power Station, model for Springfield Power Plant Didcot runs on natural gas, rather than the nuclear rods of the cartoon. A reverse image search reveals that Homer has quite a commute each day, given that he apparently works in Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire. Other locations in the sequence require a bit of detective work. The scene where Homer gets out of his car to be almost mowed down by Marge was filmed on Lansdowne Avenue, an otherwise unremarkable residential street on the edge of Crofton Woods. In this version of "reality" the Simpson family live in Orpington, south-east London (or Kent if you stubbornly adhere to the old ways). The near-perfect homage was shot at the end of 2005 as a clever promotional skit for Sky One, masterminded by London advertising agency Devilfish. That's because this was an entirely British production. Meanwhile, the stand-in for Chief Wiggum is wearing a British police uniform. Marge drives a right-hand-drive car (a Lada, no less, once common in these parts). The recreation has some tellingly British touches. Nick Riviera, Groundskeeper Willie, and Chief Wiggum.It's Springfield, but not as we know it. Several other Simpsons supporting characters also make cameos, including Patty and Selma, Sideshow Bob, Apu, Hans Moleman, Dr. Of course, it just wouldn’t be The Simpsons if Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie didn’t make an appearance as well. And in one of the best sight gags of the sequence, Fernando’s chest is covered with several of Flanders’ signature quotes. ![]() Homer’s good-natured neighbor Ned Flanders is reimagined as Kaz and Couch’s sinister nemesis, Fernando Whitmore. Naturally, Homer Simpson has the leading role as Joe “Kaz” Kazinsky with Chaise Long as the strangely anthropomorphic couch. While The Simpsons was born in the ‘80s, it’s been more closely associated with the ‘90s and the show has rarely embraced the inherent cheesiness of its parent decade…until now!Īnimator Steve Cutts has delivered the ultimate Simpsons ‘80s tribute in the couch gag for this Sunday’s episode, “Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles.” In under 90 seconds, Cutts mashes up The Simpsons with two of the top ‘80s dramas, Knight Rider and Miami Vice, to create the opening sequence of LA-Z Rider a non-existent series that apparently explores the partnership between a cop and his couch! ![]() The Simpsons emerged as a series of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987 before graduating to their own series on December 17, 1989.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |