The Simpsons Pilot Episode

[@VaporYTVideo]

I actually kinda like the more crude yet fluid and cartoony animation, it isn't extremely unrealistic in movement, but still stuff that can't be done in real life

[@armandochannel.oficial]

siendo no puede

[@MaxOakland]

I like it too. I thought it would be a lot worse

[@pawprint1]

Same it's perfect that way.

[@Starixia_]

The quality and style of this video just seems like those horror videos where as it goes on it gets worse until it just shows a creepy image and distorted audio

[@jacoblipkestudios7621]

That is exactly what someone with an anime profile picture would say lmao. Creepy pastas aren’t real.

[@shyguy85]

@@jacoblipkestudios7621 no reason to be a douche lmao. You arent ant better mr. I draw shitty art thinking people actually care

[@anapple6779]

Like spongebob red mist

[@zh4y]

@@shyguy85 - replies to insult someone 1 month later.

[@shyguy85]

@@zh4y ... 3 months ago tard

[@MarkConforti]

Damn I was 4 when Simpsons first aired and now I'm older than Marge. I finally outgrew them.

[@photios4779]

I was the same age as Bart Simpson when the show first aired. Now I'm old and he is the boy who never grew up. :)

[@ERINTHEGAMERR]

@@photios4779 bro your 46?

[@--superbluedude--2912]

Why you guys lucky I was born in 1970 and I’m still 10

[@SoryRN]

I'm still young

[@ERINTHEGAMERR]

@@SoryRN 6 years old (jk)

[@toyshop6664]

Marge sounds kind of depressed

[@camelopardalis84]

She *is* kind of depressed, I'd say. Not a full-blown depression necessarily (also not a milder one) but "just" in a depressed mood.

[@onigireee]

It's just the lack of music and digetic sounds, and if this really is a pilot, they hadn't perfected the character voices then. ^_^

[@jaquanscott1890]

Onigiree Old Homer doesn’t take anyone’s shit

[@alvexok5523]

@@jaquanscott1890, yep, that was the season 1 Homer, the "Bart!!!!" and "Why you little..!!" Homer. He mellowed after season 2 and became the goofy lazy "Mmm...doughnuts" Homer

[@leaha888]

If I was her I would be too

[@cordyceps7531]

The most unrealistic thing about this is anyone waking up to an eggs and bacon breakfast and deciding they’d rather have anything else.

[@byHexted]

I could see a sugar obsessed 8 year old like bart MAYBE pulling something like that and wanting the sugary cereal instead, but Lisa ignoring eggs and bacon for a donut is insane I mean she isn’t even vegetarian yet, and Homer is a grown man I don’t know what grown man wouldn’t want that especially when you don’t even have to wait it’s just sitting there

[@ABlueyFan]

@@byHextedthis was the post Tracey Ullman era (where Lisa was basically Bart’s sidekick) so I guess it makes sense she’ll get a donut and fight with Bart over it

[@DLVRYDRYVR]

Eggs are gross and smell like farts

[@davidwillow9866]

@@DLVRYDRYVRaverage picky eater

Haha! An American drinking a expresso is the more unrealistic thing 😅

[@garganrose]

It is beyond surreal knowing exactly what this short would later become

[@comradesXcosmos]

dang, never knew this existed.

[@camelopardalis84]

Before starting the video I thought it was either just the first episode or the first shorts. And I thought to myself: "Wouldn't it be a big deal if there was something out there that's never been shown before? But that would probably just be about 25 seconds long." And now it's this. Neither the first episode nor something that looks at all like the first shorts. The characters look way too developed for that. Weird they kept this hidden for so long. Edit: Added missing quotation marks.

[@pabloignacioscaletta]

@@camelopardalis84 This seems to be a fragment of an episode of the first season, mainly because the robbing nanny is in this episode.

[@camelopardalis84]

@@pabloignacioscaletta I am very sure that the robbing nanny episode was meant to be first one, although I don't know until how long into the developmental or production process. I always thought that they just changed the broadcast order of the already completely finished Christmas episode and the already finished robbing nanny episode.

[@charizardoreo]

Yeah this is an unfinished version of the season 1 episode "Some Enchanted Evening" which was originally the first episode, hence the production code 7G01. This was actually included on the Season 1 DVD set

[@comradesXcosmos]

@@charizardoreo wow i need to go through my special features, thank you

[@madcat789]

That scene of them dancing is so fluid. I love it.

[@jamesbyrne9312]

I thought that, thats the one bit they got right

[@calliecreates06]

Funnily enough, that scene was actually not liked by Matt Groening and was very specifically altered to reflect that Homer and Marge shouldn't be that good at dancing as they haven't gone out in a while.

[@bsgambati1]

Fun fact: Homer's voice was an impersonation of Walter Matthau during the first season.

[@TheDarkwingj]

It was hard for him to do it so he changed it around the second season

[@VehemenceOfTheDemigods7712]

Then Homer's voice changed, It was Dan Castellaneta

[@destroyIoneIy]

the lack of sound makes this scary 😭

[@armandochannel.oficial]

para ti mi no da miedo

[@isaacbaylor4511]

i realize I'm pretty off topic but do anybody know a good place to watch new tv shows online?

[@lylebrendan1218]

@Isaac Baylor i use FlixZone. You can find it by googling :)

[@erikbrooks2595]

@Lyle Brendan yea, I have been watching on Flixzone for years myself :)

[@isaacbaylor4511]

@Lyle Brendan Thanks, I went there and it seems to work =) Appreciate it !

[@pamew]

Kinda love how they don't even trey to disguise bart's VA with the radio voice, lmao.

[@TheLSDiva]

I'm obsessed with the fluidity of the animation for Marge and Homer dancing; Marge especially. It's so smooth and graceful.

[@davidthedrawbird8687]

1:37 is my favorite part because it expresses marge's situation

[@CornyVR.]

I feel so thankful that this isn’t lost media.

[@SethAshcraftGaming]

I feel so bad for you, this isn't the full pilot

[@ryanwilkins2233]

I love that this started as a kid short.

[@d.a.p5579]

This episode was re-done to the traditional Simpsons standards of today

[@alvexok5523]

These are cruder drawings of everyone in this preliminary unpolished version. Homer's face when eating the donut looks almost like Fred Flintstone, Bart's face after Marge kisses him looks kind of scary, and Bart and Lisa's faces while screaming when seeing Ms Botz as the bandit show up with the rope look like freakin goblins

[@princeleo276]

Yes. Bart's face at 3:39 needs to be a meme. I know i've got a good idea to get it started but I haven't figured it out yet.

[@Khentendo1337]

"Oh! Listen Maggie, I think I hear those sleepyheads now!" *(Silent running)*

[@aubreeofarc]

2:42 I actually like that version better than the final version. The only exception is that circling effect on what Marge was thinking, which is more detailed and realistic in the final version, and that final version doesn't go around the circle, lol.

[@maxfranklinmeans]

This was originally going to be the Pilot episode of the series but was reworked into Some Enchanted Evening.

[@themasterpiece12437]

This pilot was used as a actual episode

[@gianluco]

It's quite common with pilot episodes, but it usually happens with the first episode of the first season, this is quite a unique case

[@kalilreviews7852]

@@gianluco it was actually season 1 episode 13

[@AluminumFusion22]

@@kalilreviews7852 It was intended to be the first episode to air, but due to troubled production it was pushed back to be the Season 1 finale and the Christmas special was aired in its place.

[@rickster008]

it's a amzing that pilot episode was reworked into about two future episodes.

[@1w37-t6j]

1:08 and thats how homers donut addiction started

[@Zer0DaPwne]

Holy shit… 😂

[@mr.spielefreak707]

At the first half, Homer looks different and in the dance scene like we know him

[@alvexok5523]

Yeah, when eating breakfast, he kinda looks like a cross between Fred Flinstone and one of those old cartoon jungle apes, lol

[@ZakWolf]

Heh, this reminds me of Kennedy Cartoons's animation on "Tiny Toon Adventures," which also often had to be sent back to be re-animated.

[@NonceKillaz]

When you dream of the Simpsons instead of watching it

[@V-AzimIIVidO]

When somone watched this pilot and they think there is graggle simpson

[@everythingcollectibles]

This plot literally has scenes from the various episodes from the first season.

[@jacoblipkestudios7621]

Just one, some enchanted evening, which is actually the last episode of season 1 aired

[@jacoblipkestudios7621]

@L Train45 I would say its a pretty good time to use literally. It actually does literally have scenes later used in enchanted evening.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@L Train45 Some people don't know what literally really means; they just throw it in where they think it belongs, or they use it mistakenly instead of "actually". We live in a world where it's regrettably common to hear and read many erroneous things every day-- including "ekspecially", "a dead corpse", "should of", "Expresso coffee", "irregardless", "supposably", "for all intensive purposes", and more atrocities, lol.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@L Train45 Oh, I haven''t heard that one yet. How wretched. :) Speaking of the English language, I just learned that there's a word for something spelled unintentionally wrong ... it's called an eggcorn. The word was coined by professor of linguistics Geoffrey Pullum in September 2003 when he saw the word acorn written by a woman as eggcorn, and he felt it would make a good word to describe other words that people get wrong that way. Here's what it is: "In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original but plausible in the same context, such as 'old-timers' disease' for 'Alzheimer's disease' ..."

[@emeraldsforever5788]

I can tell this was during the shorts because of the character designs.

[@Wayne_Schlagel]

No... This was firs full episode ever produced.

[@dewlivewireftw]

You are correct! When this was being produced, the shorts were just starting to wrap up.

[@ERINTHEGAMERR]

this was 32 years ago and the only voice that changed is homer

[@ERINTHEGAMERR]

@@KrissyRoseAnimallover this is old

[@176questions]

Highlights: Marge's frog face at "I dread the day when you realize you're a separate human being. Bart and Lisa going fucking ballistic at the breakfast scene while Homer fucking shaves at the table. "Don't want to go to work in my shorts!" "...Especially that big ape father! "the Simpsons are a quite mistaken and underrated family." Underrated, my ass!

[@pivotalpancake5454]

Pause a random scene in this episode, and you'll either get a nice picture or an utterly *cursed* one.

[@rudrav1sual]

Why do I feel like this is what TV will be like when the world ends

[@charizardoreo]

The main difference is just at the start with the breakfast scene, marge saying to maggie she dreads the day when shes a separate human being isnt in the final episode (The actual episode starts with all the Simpsons in the kitchen) and the animation is different. The rest of the stuff is the same, even the scene with Marge getting dressed to go out with Homer, which looks pretty grotesque and should have been reanimated but wasn't

[@Dembitess_Blu]

Ohh so that's why it looks older compared to the first episodes of the series, it was a bit retouched in most scenes

[@grattful]

If the monster in my closet had a voice it be Marges

[@sslmovie5923]

Bart is the national weather service

[@eduardo_corrochio]

And then Homer (Dan) is the radio voice of the traffic reporter shouting.

[@duck-friend]

I personally love the animation in this. Really emphasises their cartoony nature and gets a lot of emotion across. The dance scene is a highlight for me, I love how fluidly they move together and apart. Still feel bad for Marge though LOL, written out the gate to be at her wit’s end with Homer

[@m0istur]

So that explains why some parts of the episode looked different than the rest, especially the scene where the animation of the bandit talking to Bart had smooth animation

[@JustaMisu]

I would like to see what the modern simpsons would look like if that more cartoonish style of the pilot and Ullman's shorts had been kept

[@tonyspirito1884]

0:39 Isn't it kind of scary when the camera just shakes like that?

[@PowerAnimationsPACStayAnimated]

Yea

[@ThiagosToons]

Nah

[@charizardoreo]

Yeah without even any footstep sounds

[@WestBritishMapper]

No

[@ΕυαγγελοςΣαμαρας-τ2φ]

Yep.

[@animationsg6485]

Shows how much a TV show can improve

[@alvexok5523]

This was such an unpolished crude version, some of it was almost scary looking. Everyone's facial expressions are so exaggerated here

[@nahuelraverta94]

1:38 a glass generation just broke.

[@dinisb]

I paused and now marge looks like the peashooter from pvz

[@timexyemerald6290]

3:50 this part should be looped and play a electro swing in the background

[@byHexted]

2:25 what the hell was Springfield intended to be an island originally or something? Or is just the power plant on an island which might even be weirder

[@mohamedhogs9867]

The video will never get old.

[@riccardogaria3044]

in the 1987 animated shorts, Homer Simpson may have been born on May 12, 1948, then from 1990 his birth is brought forward to 1956

[@christysilverman2418]

I like how the cut season 1 is like the shorts at the ullman show

[@alvexok5523]

Yes, the drawings and movements of the characters were so much more crude and exaggerated

[@kamealex]

Still better than the lastest twenty-something seasons.

[@Biancalovestosew98]

Yep yep

[@KrissyRoseAnimallover]

32 seasons

[@KrissyRoseAnimallover]

@Mr Carr 32 seasons

[@weirdman5215]

@@KrissyRoseAnimallover They've already begun production on season 34

[@KrissyRoseAnimallover]

@@weirdman5215 ok but I haven’t seen 32 or 33 it’s not on Disney in New Zealand yet!

[@deanduffy4722]

Marge's voice used to be higher back then

[@ZachToons25]

Apparently character voices change in time

[@kingtarkus]

Isn’t this the version of Some Enchanted Evening that caused a screaming match between James L Brooks and Gabor Csupo when they first watched it? Like they were screening it and suddenly Brooks shouted “this is shit!!” and everybody cleared out of the room because they knew this was going to get ugly.

[@ΕυαγγελοςΣαμαρας-τ2φ]

They made this episode early, but FXX fixes this episode.

[@dewlivewireftw]

Yes, it is.

[@brycefourn2001]

That's correct!

[@smilven939]

0:23 that head game must go crazy

[@claudespeed277]

Omg this is creepy af, the lack of sound effects makes it so weird too

[@omaribrahim9290]

This was an episode formula for one of the episodes of the simpsons when the animation was better

[@JerDrey05]

pause at 0:35

[@raquelsotomartinez4th735]

This Is The Pilot

[@exintrovert6803]

0:30 captions: “I dread the day you realize you are a human being.” Accidental psychotic Marge

[@KrustyKrabPizza673]

Idk why but I love hearing Marge talk in the beginning part

[@gragglesimpson5270]

me searching for graggle simpson: why its not here?

[@G10V4NN4]

Wow and over 2 decades later look how far we’ve come

[@Tom2404]

3 decades, this was made in 1989

[@G10V4NN4]

Tom 2404 oh ok

[@watchforever1724]

Lol 😂

[@Nice_lode_us]

3

[@KrissyRoseAnimallover]

@@Tom2404 no this one was 1987 they made it again in 1989

[@JaMariSmith-i3b]

Funny How It That The Simpsons Started Out As Shorts For The Tracey Ullman Show, Then They Got A Show & Made A Pilot Episode. Crazy Isn’t It

[@minionthefabulous]

Maybe it’s an early version from March of 1987

[@ritchiedevon4907]

i always loved the babysitter episode because it showed homer being marge's man instead of marge being his babysitter

[@TheDeformedEevee]

I’m assuming that these are the parts of the episode “Some Enchanted Evening” that were reanimated to look better.

[@SammyRenard]

The stuff they had time to fix at least, same with When Flanders Failed

[@Pika-Chu64]

Omg Marge sounds less like a dying bird here lol

[@weirdman5215]

The dancing animation at 3:51 is sooooo much better than the final result, marge is just bouncing up and down on the version that aired

[@TXPeach]

Property of Twentieth Century Fox

[@diheinercirilogonzaga9536]

Martin Prince gets grounded on the next Episode of Season 34 of The Simpsons

[@caustin850]

1:18 Is Homer referring to the nuclear power plant?

[@raklung9326]

This is actually the final episode of the first season

[@laburu7320]

u be right

[@Gabo2oo]

Yes, because it was pushed back to be re-animated. It was supposed to be the first episode.

[@KrissyRoseAnimallover]

No it’s not

[@christopherrussell7232]

How many of you are here because of the documentary?

[@SANS_THE_SKELETON666]

Sort of for me.

[@KeithWilliams-dx6pb]

I wish there were sound effects

[@lifeboy3253]

The pilot is actually good night

[@botbee2316]

Their voices haven’t aged a bit. Except for Marge.

[@barrywoodward76]

Release Year in the Simpsons Pilot (1986)

[@ernestovarela676]

September 4, 2022 01:08 Well that’s a lesson they both get for fighting over one donut.

[@armandofigueroanavarrete4022]

Aún a si es mejor que las nuevas temporadas !

[@miljamitic3023]

3:29 それ！

[@samlibutti]

The animation on the dancing is really interesting. Otherwise the rest of it looks crude.

[@Darkshadow3775]

I have watch ever episode of The Simpsons and this looks like 2 episodes cut and put together

[@subscribeifyouwantspatoret8980]

Some Enchanted Evening Disney'd and Crudely drawn.

[@ToppetREAL]

It seems like it was more family friendly

[@nestor8369]

it almost looks like it was recorded with a 70s vhs tape just the way it looks

[@dewlivewireftw]

Because this was recorded onto a VHS. You can tell from the artifacting.

[@MrWolfSnack]

It's because you are watching a VHS camcorder recording of the slave print on UMATIC (or actual master film reel) being broadcast over a projector screen.

[@dewlivewireftw]

@@MrWolfSnack I knew it was VHS. No other thing has that kind of artifacting, not even Betamax. (UMATIC was like professional videotape)

[@dewlivewireftw]

Like the mrwolf said this is a VHS recording of the master on U-MATIC on a projector. And this is the same pilot that nearly got the show fucked in the a -s -s

[@KrissyRoseAnimallover]

1987

[@jamesstewart7317]

My mom was 10 when first Simpsons aired

[@GregoryAmicar57]

Klasky Csupo did the animation until 1992

[@imapmpkn]

Half of the audio is completely lost

[@G10V4NN4]

Stopwatch Animation ikr

[@PowerAnimationsPACStayAnimated]

Yeah

[@alvexok5523]

They probably hadn't made all of it yet

[@eduardo_corrochio]

It's a rough, just the basics with dialogue. They hadn't yet added sound effects and foley, bg music, etc.

[@KrissyRoseAnimallover]

It’s from 1987

[@JamesRobin370]

The Simpsons in 1986 WTH!!!

[@justinw7323]

The baby sitter bandit was suppose to be the first episode. Would have made more sense

[@leejtam0914]

its interesting to see what they used in the episode

[@EdenDelaCruz-z8l]

this was made into a episode it is the last episode of season 1

[@basedacid2290]

Maggie looks exactly the same

[@mattmc9812]

Just a simpler time I mess

[@Harmonyya1992]

Very smooth Animation

[@armandochannel.oficial]

si seguro fue una prueba

[@pawthebuilder2348]

Bart : hey comma

[@thechannelforyouandme9376]

The episode some enchanted evening is literally just this episode

[@thechannelforyouandme9376]

I know baby baby baby baby

[@KrissyRoseAnimallover]

This is from 1987

[@thechannelforyouandme9376]

@@KrissyRoseAnimallover boi it from 1989

[@Hadlee-f4m]

Marge kisses the door

[@mpa-vr]

This looks to be from 1988 - 1989

[@nataliehouchin4758]

0:00 January 6, 1980

[@sergiosandoval9531]

The simpsons was since 1987 !!❤

[@leaha888]

I had no idea marge was 34

[@michaelhall736]

Darn they gave Marge a big ass. 🥵

[@jonellis8433]

Bro your wierd

[@michaelhall736]

@jonellis8433 She's an adult, relax.