LEVEL 75 PALADIN Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Meh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM4RT Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Meh. Both have lost their relevance and importance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armand hammer Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 the sweatshop bit was pretty funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnifeHits RS Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Should have gone out on top and stopped 8-9 seasons ago... Painful making it through an episode now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T4M* Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Banksy took aim at Twentieth Century Fox banking on "The Simpsons" Sunday night. During the credit sequence for "MoneyBART," the British graffiti artist -- whose identity remains unconfirmed -- mocked the network's branding of their famous cartoon with a color-drained couch gag sequence. Banksy's scrawled signature appeared early on in the credits, with his name obscuring a sad Krusty the Clown ad trumpeting "Krusty Now Doing Funerals.” Bart is then shown writing, "Must not write all over the walls," on a chalkboard before the camera zooms out to show the school with "Banksy" spray painted on it. As the Simpsons take a seat on their couch in front of the TV, the lights flicker and the camera pans to a color-drained scene at the fictional 20th Century Fox "Simpsons" factory. As "Schnidler's List"-style dramatic music swells, a group of Asian workers draw individual cells on transparencies for an episode of "The Simpsons." A little boy in rags is passed one of the transparencies and dips it into a vat of what appears to be radioactive material, while a nearby rat is seen grabbing a bone from dead workers. The camera then dives into the depths of the factory’s lower floors where the show’s merchandise is being made. A box full of cute kittens provides the fluff to stuff Bart dolls while a panda carries the toys to a shipper, who is using a dolphin head to tape shut the boxes of merch. A unicorn is then shown sticking holes into CDs of the show before collapsing to the ground. At the end of the sequence, 20th Century Fox flashes on the screen in the same color-drained style. "The Simpsons" airs Sundays at 8 p.m. on Fox. ........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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groyn shmoyn Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 i dont hate either. both had their prime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEVEL 75 PALADIN Posted October 11, 2010 Author Share Posted October 11, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reuben Kinkaid Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Video removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubbs Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 graffiti is promoted in the media. graffiti writers are punished severely. wat 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 the media loves anything edgy, urban, youth oriented, fresh, cutting edge, etc... however the laws in relation to graffiti are absolute bullshit, no matter how many people secretly or openly love it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visual_ransom Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 fucking fox and copyrights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Sheen Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 this video anywhere else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Mamerro Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 http://www.clarin.com/espectaculos/Simpson-Bansky_0_351564993.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakeenyc Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 i didnt know bansky does handstyles? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reuben Kinkaid Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I can't imagine Fox will look too kindly on this...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Sheen Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 oh shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1char Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 wut.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EON 352 Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 NEEDS MORE ARROWS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Fox is the new Dianectics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asian Eater Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 NEEDS MORE ARROWS Quoted for great justice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubbs Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 the closing scene is great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 I just tried to watch the link mamerro posted and I couldnt get through more than ten seconds of the new intro. Is that the new intro? Jesus. I dont watch any simpsons past season 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllTheWrongWords Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Have some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Twentieth Century Fox. fuuuuuuu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickos Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/the-simpsons-explains-its-button-pushing-banksy-opening/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreSixO Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 I was just saying the other day, the simpsons have really sacrificed plotline, story, and character development the past several years, instead just using their position at obviously right leaning fox studios to make eqully left leaning positions, becoming barely even a comedy show and just being a preachy liberal backlash fest. The this shit aired. I was like omg this is exactly the type of who cares bullshit I was speaking on. Then I saw banksy on the closing credits... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MALIK78 Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 i personally thought it was clever...just think its funny how people think matt groening is cool for poking fun at fox but yet he still lines his pockets fat with fox's money with no objection.. good ol hollywood politics.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonCheadle Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Is the Banksy opening of the Simpsons transgressive or subversive? No, not unless you think millionaires tweaking the noses of billionaires is subversive; I'd like to see Werner Herzog or Michael Haneke do one. I'd also like the show not to be so terrible, but if wishes were horses, then that would be super weird. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 I thought it was neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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