Banksy Nails FOX With ‘Simpsons’ Intro

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by Michael dEstries October 14, 2010
Categories: Film/TV.

Banksy, a semi-elusive UK street artist, has stirred the pots of controversy with an opening intro to the animated show “The Simpsons”.

The extended sequence, which takes a shot at 20th Century Fox’s reported animation outsourcing to Seoul, South Korea, shows a worn-down factory where Asian workers make Simpsons DVDs and other merchandise in depressing, dark, and toxic settings. There’s also a great deal of animal abuse — which only adds to the eerie vibe that’s probably more expected of “South Park” than something like “The Simpsons”.

Check out the clip after the jump below!


Categories: Film/TV.

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  • Casey Robison

    Darkest intro ever.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Jensen/599701961 Matt Jensen

    Its a joke. Get the fuck over it. There isn’t a single thing wrong with this intro. Its funny and amusing, its not like its real.

    • georgina

      Yeah, you must be talking about the unicorn part because the other animals in the intro are correctly portrayed as some people in certain countries use them for their benefit/profit.

  • Shozen

    It’s more real than you’ll ever know.

  • Cho cho ma

    This makes Korea look like some 3rd world country.

    • joe

      it might be acurate for north korea. souths not that bad, asfar as i know. if it was china however…

  • M

    Pandas from China, severed dolphin heads from…I’m guessing Japan…. Looks like our dear champion of the downtrodden couldn’t quite decide which country to caricaturize. And the soundtrack? Could anything scream “Look at them, they’re being oppressed, how bloody terrible!” louder than this?

    I’m all for making people aware of the horrible working conditions for the world’s laborers…laborers whom our own nations are perfectly willing to exploit for the sake of profit. But lumping them all together in the category of “Poor Subjugated Helpless Workers” and using caricatures to get your point across isn’t exactly the way to go. The educated will shake their heads, the uneducated will take it as a joke. And guess what? Nothing will change. Maybe the artist didn’t intend for anything to change. That would explain a lot – not just for this intro but for many other shows as well. *cough*SOUTHPARK*coughcough*

    • anon

      i think the animals were just there to give the sequence a comedic effect and make it less dark as simpsons is a comedy

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Johnson/100000918950168 John Johnson

    Banksy obviously has never visited South Korea. And I’m assuming he knows the difference between South Korea and North Korea.

    South Korea isn’t some 3rd world country. Their economy is one of top 15. Some say 20. And the owner/president of AKOM Korea (firm that produces the clips in South Korea) actually used to work in US and worked on such classics as Pink Panther and Transformers (the original animations).

    Banksy got it all wrong. No wonder is a ‘STREET’ artist. Go abroad to see for yourself.

  • Ed Butcher

    I believe that Groening and Co. were just as responsible for allowing this as Banksy. It’s impressive they allowed the “light” to shine upon them. While satirical, its suggestive of the truth, sans much commentary. It is what it is…

  • Laurie

    Banksy is completely off the mark with this. I live in South Korea. In many ways it’s more developed and a better place to live than England, where I’m from. There are no sweat shops here, only booming industry that the west can barely keep up with.

    Furthermore, Korea doesn’t have the problem of homelessness on any where near the scale that America and England have. Their society is far more kind to the poor in general.

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