{"id":9389,"date":"2010-10-11T20:10:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T19:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9389"},"modified":"2010-12-21T23:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T23:40:42","slug":"the-banksy-simpsons-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/11\/the-banksy-simpsons-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"The Banksy Simpsons Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night’s episode of The Simpsons<\/a><\/strong> (entitled ‘MoneyBART<\/a>‘) aired with a surprisingly political\u00a0intro directed by British street artist Banksy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Along with references to himself it culminated in an extended sequence referencing reports that the show outsources much of its animation to a company in South Korea.<\/p>\n

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Although the show has mocked Fox in the past, according to Time magazine, Banksy admitted<\/a> that the segment resulted in:<\/p>\n

‘delays, disputes over broadcasting and even threats of a walk-out from the animation department’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I once asked Simpsons creator Matt Groening<\/a> how the show got away with taking so many sly digs at their parent network and he said:<\/p>\n

If you think of Fox as an Octupus, The Simpsons would be like one suction cup on one of the tentacles, …so it doesn’t really bother the rest of the octopus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that it’s one of the most successful shows in television history has also given them a degree of protection.<\/p>\n

But even by their own standards, this intro was unusually punchy and also marked the first time an outside artist has contributed to the actual storyboard.<\/p>\n

> More about Banksy<\/a> at Wikipedia
\n> The Simpsons<\/a> at the IMDb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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