How This Became The DARKEST Simpsons Intro Ever
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- In this episode of The Simpsons Theory, I examine perhaps the darkest Simpsons intro opening every storyboarded by graffiti artist, Banksy.
Al Jean, Simpsons showrunner and producer, reached out to Banksy to storyboard a couch-gag for the show, and the result was 1 minute and 43 seconds of pure introspective horror - which was greenlit by series creator, Matt Groening. It was a project that was as controversial off-screen as it was on-screen. There were censor issues, dramatic changes and staff-protests.
So let's get into it.
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1992's Itchy & Scratchy The Movie episode also depicted animation in a Korean sweatshop and the production company protested and threatened to send it back.
So, even for Simpsons, the Simpsons did it first.
I still don't get how Banksy is anonymous in this day and age, with cameras and ways to track people online.
And with him hiring contractors to build a bemusment park.
Legit, I feel like almost anyone can find whereabouts on him.
He's not 😂
He isn't, he's Rob Gunningham it's been known right from the start, there is even an old interview with him (before he decided to become anon). The press just plays along because it's fun.
@@craigix good to know
I think Banksy did it as an F-You, he didn't expect them to actually run it.
Well then your imagined version of events is incorrect.
Lol ok
I really like the grungy industrial 20th Century Fox tower at the end of this couch gag, definitely one of my favourite logo parodies.
It’s a joke. The Simpsons joke on everyone. For people to take offense to this is ridiculous. You don’t see middle aged, balding, overweight men protesting about the way Homer is presented.
I feel like as a parody, it's so far removed from reality that it's toothless. Like most of Banksy's work, it's subversive, but not in a way that's actually going to upset anyone. Least of all the people who might actually need to hear the message. He's the court jester of the art world. He allows rich people to pretend they're right-on and self-aware, but will never actually make them uncomfortable. Basically, if he was any good as a satirist, major media corporations wouldn't be hiring him to make jokes about them.
Sir, you are indeed erudite. I was just going to go with "Banksy is pretty rubbish as far as satire and art goes". However this puts it in a much more articulated manner.
he contributes to the problem he’s trying to critique by doing guest art on the simpsons and making more wasteful wristbands like the ones disney gives out
Plot Twist: @JagoHazzard is Banksy
Wow, I never expected to see you here!
It's clearly stolen from CLERKS: The Animated Series, except far more stupid. At least CLERKS knew their animators were in South Korea and not China.
It's odd - this may be one of the few times in history where a workplace dispute has taken the form of an employer insisting that its workers are oppressed, and the workers insisting that they aren't.
And one of the many instances of activists speaking on behalf of a group without speaking to the group for the sake of their own fulfillment.
Correction: the worker's boss said they aren't
@@sor3999 if what the original poster said was the case, maybe.
It’s ironic how Banksy, in trying to raise awareness for sweatshops, only showed how unaware he is about the working conditions of Korean cartoonists.
@@nevaehhamilton3493 If he wanted to check out sweatshops, why didn't he check out idk, India?!, Nepal?!, China?!, Bangladesh?!, Other parts of BOTH KOREAS?!, CERTAIN AREAS IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA?!, NESTLE?!
It might not be entirely accurate but it's pretty on point as far as what it feels like to work in SK while being younger then all the other elder hyeong/oppa's and without your own very "little brother" boss around.
being female and work at the same time in the south korean environment is not a good time.
And if you're male and the youngest, you WILL always end up with the shortest straw and eat shit.
And 100% when they said "south korean cartoonists cry foul", they meant "one senior south korean cartoonist cry foul and told his younger brothers and sisters to also cry foul"
There's really no other way to describe the socially oppressive environment in SK other then it's the dungeons. Except in reality they put on a heavy coat of makeup.
@@SkylarThompson-mu1qshes british, he stays on his land like the rest of the wanks
Not too far away from reality, in Korea, freedom does not exist
Banksy is that undeserved attention artist that makes a pretty penny from pseudointelectual people that think edgy=transgressive...
Most of Banksy art is just straight copying photographies with some edgy addition, oh look at my art I draw a little gar with a gas mask... What he shows me about sociaty is that adults in general are just a bunch of edgeLords, simpleminded that hardly understand any actual complex global situation, it's sad.
You mentioned the Vietnamese hats in the original draft, the panda in the broadcast version also seems to be conflating South Korea with China, all around some pretty uncomfortable vibes. And not all of them intentional.
The hats aren't exclusively Vietnamese. They can be seen worn throughout all of Asia. If anything, they are Chinese, being the biggest cultural influencer of the region.
I think the point of the stereotypes is the idea of forced conformity by sweatshop owners for compliance and submission purposes within their "work force". Dehumanization. Taking away someones individuality is a strong form of psychological torture, like in the book 1984.
@@sor3999yes but those hat typically uses in for farming not in a sweatshop and not every asian country use this kind of hat. If anything, this is a blatant stereotype especially in the us that blend all asian culture to one. I mean great for wanting to criticize consumerism ,but doing it in weirdly racist way makes it hard to take the argument seriously. Oh well at least it’s subversive and edgy right?
Okay, but what Asian country has unicorns?
@@battlesheep2552 Well, there's the extinct Siberian Unicorn (actually a kind of rhino) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_unicorn
Banksy always struck me as the guy who hates consumerism and how its ruined society while regularly buying $800 bottles of wine.
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Yeah, all his stuff is a bit vapid isn’t it?
@@reallythatbad1 you mean the one that puts USSR flag sticker on his iPad and his Mercedes Benz?
Banksy goes so over the top and so edgy that his parody feels like all shock value, little substance. Case and point, Dismaland was so heavy handed it was memed into the ground rather than sending a meaningful message.
not to be all "well they both have a point" but i feel that AKOM deserved some shit for devaluing their animators and i also feel like banksy has a history of being, or at least often coming across as, a know it all for stuff he doesn't really know much about at all
Banksy is something of a glory hound because he genuinely thinks he's doing God's work. If he really wants to spread awareness about serious issues, he should donate to a charity or work in a soup kitchen instead.
@@nevaehhamilton3493LoL he doesn't, he knows his art is hollow but he also knows people in art community is really pretentious.
Ok… now stop paying attention to the animators, and start paying attention to the merch. Sure. The animators have ok working conditions. But are you prepared to tell me the that the people making the merchandise can say the same? I doubt you can.
It’s well known that factory workers in the textile industry are treated and paid like shit. Pretending otherwise is willfully ignorant.
this is a really good point.
Funny how the south korean animation lead (or whatever) takes pride in the cheap labor. Why else would he of all people be offended?
I agree, while it takes shots at the studio, I do believe, regardless if you feel it was done well or a tone deaf joke, much more about the general state of the heartless and crass corporate MERCHANDISING abroad, not so much the animation process/the workers there at AKOM
1:46 Ralph: "The Rat is a Symbol for Obviousness."
Al Jean: Banksy, I don't think the South Korean animation team will like drawing themselves in such conditions and stereotypical depictions
Banksy: South Koreans will like what I tell them to like
LOL paint gun
OBEY….wait that’s Shepard fairy
I doubt outsourced animation is exactly a fun job.
@@GeteMachineI'm pretty sure anyone who goes into art is at least initially passionate about it. South Korean animators are probably making equal or better salaries than Disneyland/Disneyworld cast members. Actually comparing salaries to purchasing power between the Seoul, LA, and Orlando staff is something id have to do before comparing salaries though. Disneyland cast members probably get the shortest end of the stick though considering how expensive California can be. Seoul is also pretty expensive too though, so their purchasing power can't be much better. Anihieme>Seoul>Orlando would be my purchasing power guess.
People must know the truth
Really well done, Lydia. I love Banksy but I can see he probably didn't think this one too heavily through. Still, he had good intentions behind his message, and we should also see this as a means to discuss trying to keep ourselves from exploiting other nations for cheap labour.
Banksy is like a firm Democrat aligned neo-liberal by American political standards, and he's firmly open-borders and pro mass immigration. The Democrats are the reason we outsource labor to developing nations in the first place lmfao there is no way in hell he is actually helping to fix the issue, especially because illegal immigrants usually wind up being extorted by their employers while illegally presiding in a country.
The guy in general is a huge fraud, everything he does always ends up having the opposite effect of what his purported agenda is. Like when he graffities an apartment complex with some 'corporations are bad' platitude only for the rent to raise for everyone in it because the property value rises having an authentic Banksy art piece on it.
To be honest with the bit about AKOM, they were probably worthy of said target. There has been stories for years about how bad their output got in the wake of The Simpsons, with one of my favorites being that one of their segments for Animaniacs was planned for season one but kept getting screwed up over and over that it got pushed off until the tail end of the show because they wouldn't stop sourcing from The Simpsons to the point where Yakko, Wakko and Dot started having Krusty's mouth.
Which segment of Animaniacs was that?
Based on your avatar, you must have heard that AKOM got fired from Batman: The Animated Series for their shoddy work.
@MrTimshellscherber Back In Style, the one that had Yakko, Wakko and Dot in various parodies of 60s cartoons.
@@daniexists6 Oh.
@@KasumiKenshirouoh yeah, that's how I heard of them
it seemed like banksy doesnt know the difference between South Korea, Vietnam, and China....
'know'
There are several different ways to fix it. Depends on what the op meant.
Yeah, the decapitated Dolphin head reminds me of that campaign back in the late eighties to boycott Bumblebee tuna because of the whole dragnet dolphin thing 🐬🐬🐬
It may not be the simpsons animators working conditions, but it represents (exaggerated for comedic effect) the conditions of making fast fashion, and other forms of merchandise. Even if it doesn't represent how 20th Century Fox manages every aspect of the brand, it points to bigger issues in outsourcing and capitalism, and I really really love that the show has made such a tradition out of letting artists art.
It’s truly a dark couch gag indeed.
AKOM worked on the original Transformers show, too. And honestly the AKOM animated episodes were quite shoddily animated...they kept giving Optimus a white back when it's meant to be red.
Also, seeing Hasbro mentioned at 9:08...no wonder Transformers figures get leaked way before they're officially shown, what with factory workers possibly stealing samples to illegally sell to people.
"...they kept giving Optimus a white back when it's meant to be red." You're really underselling how terrible the AKOM animated episodes were. They didn't just merely miscolor things. Every possible animation mistake you could make, they made. They made "Five Faces of Darkness" an incomprehensible mess, and their other episodes (at least half of season 3) weren't much better.
@@KasumiKenshirouNot all their episodes look bad, as I'd say Dark Awakening looks better than some season 1 episodes Toei produced, which didn't look that good already, with the show only getting good animation by season 2.
However, Carnage in C-minor looks, you know, way below even Akom standard. I don't know how that got the green light.
Clerks: The Animated Series did the same joke years prior, and they never got any pushback.
Mainly because they didn't have many viewers.
Probably because it was a short gag, and the show barely got any major viewership.
tbf like 5 people watched clerks animated
And I thought that the Lee Hardcastle Simpsons couch gag was darkest one of all.
The couch gag does almost implode on itself to becoming a parody of Banksy. Trying to be socially aware, but only highlighting how it's all shock no substance and highlights how uninformed they are of a real issue. I thought it was amusing when I first saw it, I like dark humor and thought it was a kind of "lets make the silly thing very serious" subversion, but it almost becomes funnier when it's like "Wait, you were actually trying to deliver a message with that?".
This is truly a dark couch gag
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Snorky had it coming.....
He did try to take over the world with his dolphin army.
I remember thinking when I saw this one that it was pretty awful. It didn't really even satirize anything, it was just mindless edgelording.
Not all satire has to be funny. Half the time people don't take the thing being satirized seriously if the tone is too goofy and people then ignore the message outside of the universe of the show. Plenty of examples where shows satirize something only for people to just think its comedy of the show.
@@GeteMachine -- Well I didn't say satire had to be funny, I said satire has to be satirizing something.... lmfao
It has an "I'm 14 and this is deep" vibe, or rather, it's designed to only make those who are privileged enough to take pity on the less fortunate from their ivory towers
At @GeteMachine - I don't think you understood the original comment.
Mindless Edgelording. Sounds like a pretty good description of 90% of Banksy's work.
This seems like more of a criticism of Temu and all sorts of other disposable mass produce ephemera rather than the Simpsons directly. I don't think Banksy would have accepted the offer if he thought the Simpsons was particularly egregious.
He's probably a fan of at least certain eras and I can definitely see him enjoying Life is Hell. He's probably less enthusiastic of the excessive merchandising bonanza it spurred on during the peak of its popularity
I think Banksy is Neil Buchanan who used to present Art Attack. He insists he's not but I don't believe him.
I remember you saying that time travel stories are your favourites on Family Guy and that reminds me of this film that I think you'd like called "12:01". It's about a man who gets trapped in a time loop, but he's the only person who's aware that the loop has happened because he was electrocuted at 12:01 AM while trying to fix his bedroom light. He spends the film attempting to break the loop and prevent the murder of a beautiful woman (Helen Slater who played Supergirl back in the 80s and starred as the title character alongside Yeardley Smith in my favourite film ever, The Legend Of Billie Jean; I think you'd love that film so I recommend that too) who he has fallen in love with.
12:01 is available on TH-cam. The Legend Of Billie Jean is not, but it is available on DVD and is relatively cheap. I think you'd love both.
I used to love Art Attack haha, I think you're onto something there.
Thanks for the rec, I'll try to give it a watch soon, although writing the love life of Stewie Griffin is taking up all my free time at the moment. Hoping to have it up on Patreon early this upcoming week :)
You'll love both 12:01 and The Legend Of Billie Jean. Billie Jean is my favourite of the two so I suggest you watch that one first. I'm assuming that you have a DVD or Blu Ray player already.
Looking forward to the Stewie video too, I'm reminded of him at Mr Weed's funeral looking at all the babies he'd rock the casbah with!
I think everyone loved Art Attack, I still watch it now sometimes. I never actually tried to recreate anything though, it was probably much more complicated than Neil made it look so I never bothered. Though I'm sure everyone at least once thought about making a massive mess and claiming that it was a Big Art Attack. The only thing is that somehow I don't think your parents would be exactly thrilled. I remember mentioning the show to my friend at college, he's a year older than me but he doesn't remember it and I was horrified. Of course Neil would deny being Banksy though, he'd be absolutely mobbed by the papers.
@@TheSimpsonsTheory that laughing bust from Art Attack scared the living daylights out of me
@@TheSimpsonsTheory i sorry but you video is boring and BANSKY IS A F!
Unless you knew IT NO SECRET THAT MOST WESTERN ANIMATED SHOWS WERE OUTSOURCE TO KOREANS!
IT WAS DONT WITH JAPAN'S TMS ENTERTAINMENT!
@@TheSimpsonsTheory this video is boring aND bANSKY IS OVERRATED LIKE TRUMP!
Fun fact! In the tree house of horror where Lisa is a split personality killer, there’s actually a HUGE mistake. Martin was killed because he was a “first child” but he has an older brother as shown in season 33 episode 18!
_"Boy, I sure hope somebody was fired for that blunder."_
@@jackalenterprisesofohio you get it :P
I guess you could argue that since the thoh’s are non canon Martin’s brother doesn’t exist.
Stunning lack of cultural awareness there, using a Maoist China aesthetic over the actual true representation of what is uniquely South Korean. The lazy "It's all China." way of representing that part of the world.
Banksy is obviously an idiot pretending to be deep.
Okay. What country is the biggest example of cheap labor????? You dont watch tv, you really just stare at the screen and wait for something to happen 💀
@@DeadEye42069 Bangladesh has a reputation of terrible conditions for clothing workers, so that would be a bigger example. I am not sure the point you are trying to make? Banksy's intro was presented as a critique of The Simpsons production and associated merchandising/consumerism it fuels. If it was aimed at consumerism in general, there are far worse industries to shine a light on and much worse production/consumption cycles to highlight through the lens of The Simpsons intro.
@@Peppermint0M Cool. How do you know it isn't Bangladesh? Tell me right now, aside from the poster IN THE STORYBOARD and the use of a panda, what makes this Chinese or korean?? To me it looks more like a general exaggeration of cheap labor you racist POS.
unless you knew IT NO SECRET THAT MOST WESTERN ANIMATED SHOWS WERE OUTSOURCE TO KOREANS!
IT WAS DONT WITH JAPAN'S TMS ENTERTAINMENT!
Wasnt the 2014 one the darkest
There’s an intro even more dark than this one but thank it’s not official $uicideboys Simpsons video…it made me sick to my stomach & cry
A dark couch gag yes, the darkest? No that honor would go to don hertzfeldts gag
Yeah I came here to say that I think Hertzfeldt's couch gag was probably the darkest .. or at least the saddest and weirdest (in a good way)
A great breakdown- Must admit if I had to animate that I'd probably feel weird too. That being said I do think it's up there with the best guest couch gags.
I remember this guy doing some cute cat graffiti on the ruins of a house that was bombed down. Seeing the photo of those poor kids in their bombed neighborhood with that stupid cat in the background was so hilariously tone deaf that I couldn't help but laugh. The rich guy flew over there just to vandalize their already ruined houses! It's amazing.
Actually there is some truth to that. At that time South Korean animation studios outsources some of their work to North Korea (where Slave Work is rampant). Nowadays we found out that some Chinese animation studios did the same.
Its not that its depicting any particular country, to me its depicting cheap labor - sometimes most associated with China. Aside from the poster in the story bored and the use of a panda bear, what else is inherently chinese??? That's more racist in itself than the sketch 💀
I heard that dismaland was inspired by an American artist who also had a point about mouse land
Yeah I was really wondering how this even came about considering the animation is outsourced
Banksy: "I WANT TO STOP THIS ABUSE TO THESE SWEETSHOP WORKERS"
also banksy: "lets draw them in the most racist and stereotypical way"
Ugh, Banksy. Gives wall artists a bad rep. We have a local wall artist who does animals peeing rainbows. It's not technically graffiti because she's commissioned. Offended persons will still paint over them though, ironically being the true vandals 😒
At least he draws something decent
I can't tell if this is a joke or not this is so funny.
who the hell gets offended by animals peeing rainbows lol
@@usermcskull4713 C`mom... You know exactly who...
@@usermcskull4713the people who are offended by rainbows, for some reason.
Please do a similar video for the things Bart writes on the chalkboard
I just got a Jakks Pacific Bart Simpson Plushie. OH NO IT SMELLS LIKE A CAT
Before commenting,two warnings
1:if you think my english it's bad,is because i'm brazilian
2:i'm sorry for my very stupid question
My stupid question:how you for countries speak english,know The Simpsons episodes NAMES?i'm asking this because,not just The Simpsons,but other series,when they are released in countries NOT SPEAK ENGLISH,they dub in his language,obviously, and this including the texts are show in screen,when The narrator translate in certain language,but for example
The Simpsons,in the start from the episode,the narrator,in addition to the texts,for example,places like school,shops,etc,he said THE EPISODES NAMES and is this my question is because in The Simpsons,for example,after the intro,DO NOT APPEAR THE EPISODES NAMES;SO how you Americans,British,canadians,
Australians,etc KNOW THE SIMPSONS EPISODES NAMES?!!
Ps:no say "in FOX,have promos about the simpsons new episodes and say names" or DVD,Disney+ etc
I'm saying about rerun on tv,how you know The Simpsons episodes NAMES?
Edit:if you answer,i give a like in your comentary
lmao. Talk about not getting the point. "I just want to emphatically state, we do not use unicorns or decapitated dolphin heads when producing the Simpsons content and merchandise you all know and love."
I get the workers perspective here, but as an artpiece critique I still think the Banksy intro is valid. It of course is over exaggerating. This is a cartoon, and as shown in the later clip the Simpsons themselves often over exaggerated like this.
Banksy is a typical snobby artist type who loves tp preach tp people about things he has either no understanding of or an extremely superficial understanding of.
To be fair, Kent Brockman didn't specify WHICH Korea the I & S movie was being animated in. American companies aren't supposed to work with North Korean companies, but Roger Meyers could've outsourced to a European company who then outsourced it to North Korea's SEK.
truly, we live in a society
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I have a theory that Rick and Morty and Futurama are The same universe. So basically they see parmesan cheese the same
I hope she'll do the review of the rest of the episodes soon.
I’ll bet the merchandise is outsourced to China . But it’s clear that the animators are not working in sweatshop conditions
Honestly I'm wondering the universe where Banksy bought Twitter instead of Musk and then had on there to show issues that other companys the new simpson like the new norm byt riding Banksy and being the first show that shows you the TRUTH about commercialism and like to be edgy he would've also renamed Twitter to just "X" but now in a depressing way.
The new Simpson theme song:
The Simpsons are a commercial product until now, trying for the the torture to end, and thank God for Banksy and his truth revealing things, X is the home for the real issues.
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I usually respect most of Banksy's works but I just was not a fan of this couch gag intro.
Along with the irony of the art not being Banksys work anymore (he literally sells out to fox with this couch gag which isnt exactly the point of counterculture) even if this couch gag has merit and truth it just comes off as corny and insensitively stupid to me compared to his other works, especially since the actual animators themselves thought it was ridiculous.
My takeaway from this: Banksy can't tell South Korea and China apart.
Can't blame him for every asian almost look the same
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3:18 the original skibidi toilet
I never saw that opening as an attack on the Simpsons animators but AKOM getting that defensive over it makes me think they're guilty of what's depicted ngl
It's not depressing or bleak, Banksy is so over the top it's ridiculous, he pretends to criticize while doing the same, his rat is just as much of a brand as Mickey itself, but it appeals to idiots so there's that.
Basically steve cuts of the graffiti world
" his rat is just as much of a brand as Mickey itself" well said.
How loaded is this dude to be able to pull off that amusement park joke of his? Imagine if he actually used that money to do something useful.
THE SIMPSONS!!!!
Of topic but do we know if banks Is even a man ?
You should do a die count for the simpsins movie
3:55 I remember when The Simpsons became part of Disney. Disney release a TH-cam video of all the times The Simpsons mentioned Disney.
when are you gonna change the profile picture for the account it’s been the Halloween one since forever!!
I remember the controverse intro, even in Germany the news made a report about this. The Rat Graffiti artworks looks actually pretty cool. Lol 2:52 i love this kind of critic to disney:)
I didn't know the artist or the episode existed till now; I'm a fan of the artist. I always loved The Simpsons.
I remember seeing somewhere that someone had confirmed that Banksy was not, in fact, one person, but a group. I don't remember the source, so I can't verify it, but...
How did banksy afford dismalland?
Accurate depiction of how it feels to work a job you hate. Not something I've personally experienced but have felt through my empathetic nature interacting with those who have. While this may be how human labor used to be, more or less, I'd hope we've evolved past this level of workplace abuse.
Humans? Evolving?
Ha-ha...no.
@@circuitrionjuliusbreaker9924 I can see us Humans more likely going down The Boys route.
@@devonjeffers5898 ...I'm hoping more for the Snap.
Like...an Endgame-level Snap.
@@devonjeffers5898 Plus...like there's ever been (or ever *will be*) something like a "good" human.
@@circuitrionjuliusbreaker9924there was one, *and you know what they did to him?*
You should’ve mentioned what they said in Springfield confidential biography
Hey, What did they say?
@@TheSimpsonsTheory Mike reiss commented on his working conditions and talked about how nice the cell animators work space was saying it was nicer than his own while specifically talking about the couch gag
@@homersimpsonthesamuria didn't know that, thank you for sharing 🙂
Never seen but since i gave up on Simpsons decade ago as they stopped being good loooooooong ago.. but seeing it now? i don't see any issue with it.. animation studios overseas are gross, inhumane at times and having a "shocking" opening to bring some light to the terrible overseas animation industry isn't a bad thing.. can't imagine being upset, angered over the opening
Great video but as a Finn, your pronounciation of Bonnie Pietilä's last name caught my ears🤣
Sorry 😅
To be fair, Pietila apparently doesn't speak any Finnish and probably mispronounces it herself too.
(T: toinen suomalainen)
9:30 the animation studio in Season 4 were also upset about the joke (well, at least according to the DVD commentary)
I always felt that this couch gag was a bit in poor taste and likely to have the same consequences the "monorail" episode had. Where people constantly point to the truths in it as a reason to not improve the status quo. People point to the monorail episode at every transit discussion and go "well at least you're not proposing a MONORAIL" in the tone of it being sung. This couch gag opening will have animation students going "is that what animation is like? a grueling labor camp? forget that, I'm going to go be a dentist."
9:08 hahahhha! That's true 2020 hasbro had exclusives, qc and dog gone orders missing and not reaching to destinations! Sure we were in pandemic days but after lockdowns my earthmode baricade,dropkick both broke and finding replacement is like finding car parts for a good price but i had bad experience my brother got a deal 2 acura doors for 1 price but transformers parts it's like i have to go dark web for origins and don't take that out of context for toys.
Banksy is a over hyped red.
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I don't know if the Korean animation director should really represent the voice of the workers on working conditions and pay. Just saying maybe we should be skeptical of management putting out these statements (yes, I'm aware they quoted ONE worker who said it's no big deal). Yes, objectively they get paid 1/3 their American counterparts, but perhaps adjusted for purchasing power parity, it might be a decent wage in that country. And it's a parody/satire, so things are going to be exaggerated.
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It's obvious the controversy came from South Korean animators being super focused on depiction of animators, rather than see through the storyboard to understand the general message.
Satire rarely is accurate. That's what makes it funny. It's not trying to be realistic. It's a demonstration of the flawed points of view of humanity as a whole while also reminding us of the darker side that can be hiding behind the more cheery exterior.
Sadly, people will ALWAYS have trouble understanding art without context. While pictures can be worth a thousand words, absurdity tends to result in wrong interpretations. Our dumb brains jump to conclusions and make lots of mistakes because we skip LOTS of the details.
It takes about 20 seconds research to find Banksy's real name.
And shock horror he's a university educated middle aged middle class white English male. Who saw that coming...
Terrible room sound, the room is nearly as loud as your voice. You probably wanna get some heavy blankets and create a sort of blanket-fort vocal booth, look up how voice over artists on a budget do it at home, there's tons of stuff on social media, you can probably do it with materials you have. On the software side, you should also look into basic noise-gating of your VO, as well as AI noise reduction if it comes to that, both of those will help with room echo as well. (Voice Over Engineer for 15+ years)
???:Life would have been so much different if i went to watch that on october 10 instead of mare in the moon. The first drafts of "Haltmann" (2010-2016) are still shameful to this days
It's a difficult task to understand what Banski was trying to do. He wasn't going to try to criticize the Simpsons using this intro. He was leaving his mark on the creative process. Wanting to force us to see how much an artists vision can change from its original vision.
As you said, it was changed. Enough so I believe that Banski can't be criticised for this. This is now art created by Fox executive action and completely theirs to own.
Banksy got the platform and criticised a whole industry. I don’t really get, why the Korean workers think that Banksy was pointing out them in particular. He used the Simpsons (as they usually do on their own) to criticise the price of the western shiny and cheap entertainment industry, for which poor Asian workers are often paying the price. You can’t interpret this piece of art only as a Simpsons critique.
I can see that animator’s point of view though. Poking fun of yourself is one thing but thing was far beyond poking fun at oneself. If this had been a different show depicting the Simpson’s like this ok but asking the Simpson’s animation team to depict themselves this way kinda goes a little too far.
3:56 the irony in that one scene
I liked the couch gag and I agree with you that it felt more like a play on capitalism and consumerism than the actual conditions of the workers. You also need to look at the statement of the workers in Korea in context. It might be a normal job for reasonable wage by their countries standards but their work culture is insane and by most of our standards they are horribly overworked and underpaid.
Parody is one of the reason that made Simpsons successful for 35 years. This being said that couch gag was more about commercialism than insulting the writer
Banksy needs to see help
Needs to see help, or get help? An edited comment later and I'm pretty sure you're the one that needs to "see help"
It's pretty mean-spirited, but also wholly unoriginal, to the point where as a gag it doesn't really subverse anything, it just references nothing
3:12 ahahaha 3:18