Hey everyone.
This was originally supposed to be the Patreon followup to our Simpsons Reboot video but
with all that’s happening in the world right now and the fact a lot of you seem to enjoy
when I talk about the Simpsons, here it is.
Patrons, I’ll make it up to you.
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I hope this makes this shitty time a little easier.
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So in lieu of a process video, we are going to be looking at more Simpsons obscura.
Now, what is Simpsons obscura?
Well last year we made a video featuring rare and obscure appearances by The Simpsons.
These can be unauthorized commercials or clips from the diaspora, basically anything outside
of their familiar setting.
As an example, lets start with two of the hottest costumes of Halloween 1990, The Simpsons
and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Now I have used some of this footage before.
I love regional commercials, its interesting seeing how these two fads coexisted and I
think this clips sets up the concept perfectly. Let's take a look.
So now that we’ve established what we’re looking at, let’s dive in to
some more unlicensed merchandise with Bootleg Bart.
We talked about this in the first video, but this was the unauthorized use of Bart on novelty
t-shirts.
Now like most novelty shirts of the time, or of all time, most of these are pretty terrible.
Many make political statements, some with positive messages, others not so much and
b ecause of when the Simpsons was taking off, the early ‘90s, there is a bizarre subset
of Bootleg Barts, known as Gulf War Barts.
These feature Bart in Desert Storm settings.
There are quite a few calling out Saddam Hussein.
We have a whole series about the appropriation of popular cartoon characters for purpose
of propaganda, but seeing Bart in this context can be very jarring.
Would not wear.
As a palette cleanser, here is Homer shilling Doritos in the UK from 1997.
Notice the lack of budget, there is no background.
This harkens back to the early Hanna-Barbera cereal ads, not only in terms of limited animation
but also animated product placement which I can never get used to.
Renault is French automaker.
I only know this through Gran Turismo, and in 2008, The Simpsons appeared in this ad,
promoting their utility vehicle the Kangoo.
The Simpsons have shilled cars before but this one is a little more on the risqué
side, but that could just be my repressed North American nature.
You decide.
To date, The Simpsons has won 34 Emmys , including 11 for Outstanding animated program.
They were presenters at the 1990 Emmys, presenting the award for outstanding actor in a comedy
series.
Ted Danson won.
The following year, FOX was broadcasting the Emmys and Bart introduced the celebrities
appearing.
Get ready for just a wave of 90s TV nostalgia.
Man, that just kept going.
The mid-2000s was the last time I really remember there being a push in Simpsons merchandise.
The Simpsons were never shy when it came to throwing their image on a product and many
Simpsons versions of popular board games were released.
Operation, the anxiety inducing game of patience and skill released a Simpsons edition in 2005.
Here’s the commercial.
And that is it for this edition of Simpsons obscura so thank you to the original uploaders.
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