Claymation

Pretty good episode, but I thought the real claymation seemed a bit out of place. Maybe it's tough to draw claymation...

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I think they could have drawn claymation as it would exist in The Simpsons cartoon world...They could have shown a cartoon version where references to claymation cliches like "choppy"/missing frames (typical of stop motion photography) and finger imprints on the figures, etc. were made. The "real" claymation that they used,(i.e. prunes), was so contrasted to the Simpsons cartoon world that it made their cartoon reality seem pale in comparison. It made you conscious of the fact that you were watching a cartoon. Plus, the claymation bits had a "video", instead of "grainy"/film look. That extra light in the video quality made it even worse. When Homer is watching the (traditionally drawn) cartoons, like Mr. McGrew, we already have to suspend our belief because he's a cartoon watching a cartoon...but it's believable in that things don't all of a sudden shift like it does with the claymation. Besides that, I thought the episode was very entertaining.

But we've seen it before. In one episode, they are watching an episode of "Davey and Goliath", and it was real claymation. I seem to recall something else along those lines, but I can't remember.

Michael

In article , Michael Black says...

That was "Gravey and Sobriath".

I was pretty sure as I posted that they hadn't called it Davey and Goliath, but obviously that's what it despite the name and attitude difference.

For that matter, Mr. McGrew's Christmas is on the CBC here in Canada tonight at 7pm. They re-air it again on Wednesday December 24 at 1pm.

Michael

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Goliath,

its Mr. magoo. The Simpson's used the name "mcgrew" to avoid copyright problems, and to satire it.

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I think I remember that appearing twice. The classic Gravey and Jobriath episode hosting one of my favorite lines ever (I'm making a pipe bomb, for to blow up Planned Parenthood!), and another one called Davey and Goliath (I don't know Davey, you've gotten awfully fat).

Yes, the first was claymation (or whatever scheme was actually used), and I'm pretty sure the family watched it on TV. The second was in the episode where they saw themselves in biblical stories, and Bart goes up against Goliath. It is a cartoon, and it's a more subtle reference.

Michael

Nitesbane wrote:

Your second reference was in "Simpsons Bible Stories" (AABF14 -- http://www.snpp.com/episodes/AABF14). It featured an animated (not claymated) Bart as King David and Santa's Little Helper as his dog saying that line.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:19:24 GMT, "Michael J. Astrauskas" wrote:

And of course Todd used to watch Davey and Goliath, but he thought the idea of a talking dog was blasphemous.

Thomas

While not claymation, there was a THOH episode where Homer enters a 3D computer-graphic world, and finally our own "live action" world. That blew me away when I first saw it.

As for the claymation in the recent ep I liked the way it was totally different from the rest of the show. There's no other way to do claymation really, other than just doing it.

I was thinking of that 3D segment too. I actually like it when they add those "out of their world" bits.

Michael

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Erotic cakes.

Actually, "Missionary: Impossible" featured an animated-- not claymated-- Thurgood from "The PJs." It was awful.

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The PJ's was a pretty funny show.

it's not the heat, it's the stupidity

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It's not the stupidity, it's your rigidity.