The Simpsons

Simpsons just takes mess: Moe, is short for Mohammed a muslim name. Moe being a bartender and muslims dont drink. Homer is the name of an ancient greek god who was powerfull and always active where Homer Simpson is the exact opposite. Despite all this I love the Simpsons and it’s the greatest show ever

That was a really bad commentary, they should be ashamed with what the show is now and not what it was then.

@thebigrene1972 It was like some weird late 80′s motif that didn’t quite catch on. Perhaps I just sorta like the moody nature of it. As if the lighting obviously worked that way if you were in a room or outside looking at the sky. It’s a different approach from the “cel shading” technique they want to use today.

“Everything’s so rubbery!”

“They don’t even obey the laws of physics!”

In a cartoon? Can’t have that, now, can we?

I can’t believe no one noticed the cool color-gradient on the walls durind many scenes in this “pilot”. We only get to see this effect in the first couple of full-length episodes in Season 1. (Some Enchanted Evening (7G01), Bart the Genius (7G02), and Homer’s Odyssey (7G03))

I just noticed how much less entertaining the commentary is than the actual cartoon.

It’s really disappointing that they can’t see the charm and fun in their younger efforts. There’s something really sad about that.

@GTASRTF Moe has never been referred to Mohammed. It’s short for Moemar (or Morris in Flaming moes).

In one of the commentaries season 5 or 6, David Mirkin asks why Matt Groening why he doesn’t release the ‘tracy ulman shorts’. Matt says it’s because he thinks the animation is so bad, and he just doesn’t like it. He finally did release them on itunes or something, because he claims the crappy format does justice to the crappy animation.

@geoflcl I agree.

@mrtea180 There’s a good blog entry people outta check out right now…
cartoonbrew(dot)com/tv/the-stiffsons(dot)html

@thebigrene1972 I usually try to make a note of that when I talk about what I miss from Season One. The same color-gradient look also showed up in a few of the last Tracey Ullman shorts like “Family Therapy” and “TV Simpsons”.

“Everything’s rubbery” “Oh my God”

Yeah you wouldn’t want to use the basic animation principles of squash and stretch in a animated show that would be just awful

Nice! This wasn’t available in Region , so it’s good to be able to get a look in at what they said about the pilot!

Why complain about the rubbery, enjoyable quality of the earlier episodes? I can’t imagine Homer and Marge’s energetic, expressive dancing being animated to the stiff, lifeless, pale, lazy, clean and downright dullness of the show’s current production today…
God help me, I LOVE this sort of style. A time when characters truly DID have character, in terms of animation AND scripting – fact.

This comentary is pointles. They don’t say anything constructive. Maybe I’m just spoiled because I watched through my batman the animated series comentaries and those are really constructive. BTW. I like the animation. What’s so wrong with it?

I kind of like this really fluid style more than the current-day one.

@hotwater10 Yeah, what sygo7g said. And for the record, “Some Enchanted Evening” was the first produced pilot episode while “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” was the first regular episode broadcast on TV.

What on earth are they freaking out about? In my opinion, this art style looks far better than the current style. It’s energetic and cartoony, unlike the vapid, boring, inactive art style of today’s episodes. There’s nothing wrong with off-model at all, when it looks this fun!

@sygo7g

Yep, true.