We have a problem in the audiovisual world if every time a twenty second clip comes out on Twitter or TikTok we ignore the rest of the context and we shoot with it as the only reality, without the need to see what surrounds that fragment. The last one has happened with ‘The Simpsons’, which in its 34th season (which continues, by the way, the good run of the previous one) has made a joke that has gained virality…and it’s not even remotely canonical.
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In the third episode, ‘Lisa the Explorer’, two hackers interrupt the broadcast of a rather routine episode of the series (Lisa joins the same boy scout group as Bart) to try to destroy ‘The Simpsons’ once and for all airing incoherent bits that were censored or removed in previous seasons.
Lenny is a ghost Martin a police officer infiltrated in the school, Skinner cheats on his mother with another mother… It is a very original episode that, although it is not very funny, shows that the writers are willing to go a little further and take risks in recent years. And one of these deleted scenes, probably the smartest of the episode, it has gone viral.
In the last episode of The Simpsons there is a sketch in which Homer wakes up from the coma caused by the accident he had when he jumped the Springfield Gorge. Nothing that happened in the last 32 years really happened, everything was the result of his imagination.
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— SimpsonDub🎙 (Dubbing of The Simpsons) (@SimpsonDoblaje) December 7, 2022
With the animation style of the first seasons and the image in 4:3, we see Homer waking up in the hospital bed after a couple of days in a coma when trying to jump the Springfield Gorge (in ‘Bart the Daredevil’, season 2). “But I have lived many adventures! More than 700!”says Homer lamenting that he never got Pincers or going to space, and apparently rebooting the series.
Obviously it’s not ‘Los Serrano’ or anything like that: It is one more joke of a more conscious Simpson than ever its influence on pop culture. because, in the end, everything is context.