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On last night’s episode of The Simpsons, they parodied Pixar, and Wallace and Gromit, and also the Triplets of Belleville (which is the best, right, and we have never really addressed how good it is?) and also Ricky Gervais and Halle Berry and other stuff. Here.
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This would get a downvote from me if I practiced the art of validation with you, Steve.
p.s. werttrew’s pretty!
yeah, pretty good at guest blogging.
except he miscalculated the caption contest victory validation, which as I already pointed out should have gone to me. its the one thing he does and he cant even do that
Perhaps you should check that caption contest again.
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Relax “Techno mike pants.”
I got your back, mike schmants.
Banksy upstaged again.
hulu is just more american isolationist bullshit
What have I got to do to get downvotes round here? ITS FRIKKIN’ PRESIDENTS DAY!
“frikkin’” would get a downvote from me if I practiced the art of validation with you fools
Two of the happiest days in my commentating career were the two times Steve called me “fucking Chris Trash”. #sadlyfe
Hey, speaking of Triplets of Belleville, which really is the best, I saw the director’s new movie The Illusionist a couple weeks ago, and it’s really also terrific. But it’s really also sad.
Ed Norton’s finest work since Lester “The Worm.”
I kid!
Totally! And Jessica Biel is a revelation in the role of “The Rabbit.”
the illusionist sucks
I liked it better when it was called ‘The Prestige’ .
honestly I really enjoyed the prestige, just saw it for the first time a couple months ago. I normally dont dig that dudes movies, batman and inception, but that prestige movie was a rad film
I also enjoyed The Prestige. David Bowie as Nicola Tesla!
Steve, are you going to be writing any more stuff for The Sunbreak?
I have seen The Prestige three or four times, and every single time i forget the logistics to the trick ending! Which is so great every time. Scarlett Johansson= meh, but at least she’s pretty, right steve?
oh man, I want to see The Illusionist so bad, but it’s still “date unknown” on netflix.
It’s still playing theatrically in the states, so you might be waiting for a bit. Then again, it’s readily available on every download site and almost nobody sees any money for Netflix DVD rentals. Up to you!!
sounds like the status of my relationships with most women
PERSEPOLIS PARODY! PERSEPOLIS PARODY! PERSEPOLIS PERSEPOLIS!
Do you also feel like the writers of that bit didn’t actually watch Persepolis, and instead just wrote a ‘parody’ based on what they thought the movie was about? Also, I realize calling 2011 Simpsons ‘lazy’ is redundant but Persepolis is probably the only movie they parodied that I have any emotional investment in.
Also: man this episode isn’t funny. And didn’t Family Guy already do the same Randy Newman parody?
Yeah, Persepolis is all I really care about, and I thought that too. Persepolis may have been about war, but it’s also about a girl living through its repercussions, which weren’t always the obvious ones like death and destruction, but having parties and going through divorce. It had its bleak moments, because war is TOTALLY bleak, but it’s mostly really uplifting and relatable.
Surprisingly enough 2 minutes isn’t a ton of time to really hunker down and parody every single aspect of a feature length film. I felt like it was more a parody of all the “indie”/”grown up” cartoons that have come out over the last few years (ie Waltz With Bashir, Chicago 9, Coraline, pretty much eveyrhting nominated for short form animation). And it that sense they fucking nailed it.
Yeah I agree, I think they tried to capture the tone/style of each film, which is harder to do than just poke fun at the plot. Hence why I found the Pixar parody half hearted in comparison with the Persepolis or Triplets of Belleville.
i kept waiting for them to do a Miyazaki parody….that along with the reading rainbow shout-out on community last week would have been the ultimate pandering to my nostalgia