How This Became The DARKEST Simpsons Intro Ever

In this episode of The Simpsons Theory, I examine perhaps the darkest Simpsons intro opening every storyboarded by graffiti artist, Banksy.
Al Jean, Simpsons showrunner and producer, reached out to Banksy to storyboard a couch-gag for the show, and the result was 1 minute and 43 seconds of pure introspective horror - which was greenlit by series creator, Matt Groening. It was a project that was as controversial off-screen as it was on-screen. There were censor issues, dramatic changes and staff-protests.
So let's get into it.
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[@JagoHazzard]

I feel like as a parody, it's so far removed from reality that it's toothless. Like most of Banksy's work, it's subversive, but not in a way that's actually going to upset anyone. Least of all the people who might actually need to hear the message. He's the court jester of the art world. He allows rich people to pretend they're right-on and self-aware, but will never actually make them uncomfortable. Basically, if he was any good as a satirist, major media corporations wouldn't be hiring him to make jokes about them.

[@Peppermint0M]

Sir, you are indeed erudite. I was just going to go with "Banksy is pretty rubbish as far as satire and art goes". However this puts it in a much more articulated manner.

[@Iuxinterior]

he contributes to the problem he’s trying to critique by doing guest art on the simpsons and making more wasteful wristbands like the ones disney gives out

[@davidbrown8546]

Plot Twist: @JagoHazzard is Banksy

[@notaplic8158]

Wow, I never expected to see you here!

[@otaking3582]

It's clearly stolen from CLERKS: The Animated Series, except far more stupid. At least CLERKS knew their animators were in South Korea and not China.

[@OrangeHarrisonRB3]

1992's Itchy & Scratchy The Movie episode also depicted animation in a Korean sweatshop and the production company protested and threatened to send it back. So, even for Simpsons, the Simpsons did it first.

[@keiviroque5666]

It’s ironic how Banksy, in trying to raise awareness for sweatshops, only showed how unaware he is about the working conditions of Korean cartoonists.

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

Banksy should really just stick to what he does best and stay out of everyone's hair. He can do his own thing while we do ours; I'd rather not have som martyr rocking the boat because people can't handle the truth.

[@SkylarThompson-mu1qs]

@@nevaehhamilton3493 If he wanted to check out sweatshops, why didn't he check out idk, India?!, Nepal?!, China?!, Bangladesh?!, Other parts of BOTH KOREAS?!, CERTAIN AREAS IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA?!, NESTLE?!

[@NanashiCAST]

It might not be entirely accurate but it's pretty on point as far as what it feels like to work in SK while being younger then all the other elder hyeong/oppa's and without your own very "little brother" boss around. being female and work at the same time in the south korean environment is not a good time. And if you're male and the youngest, you WILL always end up with the shortest straw and eat shit. And 100% when they said "south korean cartoonists cry foul", they meant "one senior south korean cartoonist cry foul and told his younger brothers and sisters to also cry foul" There's really no other way to describe the socially oppressive environment in SK other then it's the dungeons. Except in reality they put on a heavy coat of makeup.

[@kingkoopa64]

​@@SkylarThompson-mu1qshes british, he stays on his land like the rest of the wanks

[@solouno2280]

Not too far away from reality, in Korea, freedom does not exist

[@alexpotts6520]

It's odd - this may be one of the few times in history where a workplace dispute has taken the form of an employer insisting that its workers are oppressed, and the workers insisting that they aren't.

[@sor3999]

And one of the many instances of activists speaking on behalf of a group without speaking to the group for the sake of their own fulfillment.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I still don't get how Banksy is anonymous in this day and age, with cameras and ways to track people online.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

And with him hiring contractors to build a bemusment park.

[@DeadEye42069]

Legit, I feel like almost anyone can find whereabouts on him.

[@Samterence]

He's not 😂

[@craigix]

He isn't, he's Rob Gunningham it's been known right from the start, there is even an old interview with him (before he decided to become anon). The press just plays along because it's fun.

[@borntoclimb7116]

@@craigix good to know

[@AvaEvaThornton]

You mentioned the Vietnamese hats in the original draft, the panda in the broadcast version also seems to be conflating South Korea with China, all around some pretty uncomfortable vibes. And not all of them intentional.

[@sor3999]

The hats aren't exclusively Vietnamese. They can be seen worn throughout all of Asia. If anything, they are Chinese, being the biggest cultural influencer of the region.

[@justsomedudeyouknow8372]

I think the point of the stereotypes is the idea of forced conformity by sweatshop owners for compliance and submission purposes within their "work force". Dehumanization. Taking away someones individuality is a strong form of psychological torture, like in the book 1984.

[@lelpato3327]

not to be all "well they both have a point" but i feel that AKOM deserved some shit for devaluing their animators and i also feel like banksy has a history of being, or at least often coming across as, a know it all for stuff he doesn't really know much about at all

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

Banksy is something of a glory hound because he genuinely thinks he's doing God's work. If he really wants to spread awareness about serious issues, he should donate to a charity or work in a soup kitchen instead.

[@mechajay3358]

1:46 Ralph: "The Rat is a Symbol for Obviousness."

[@alexrunyan1434]

It’s truly a dark couch gag indeed.

[@thepoetoffall7820]

Ok… now stop paying attention to the animators, and start paying attention to the merch. Sure. The animators have ok working conditions. But are you prepared to tell me the that the people making the merchandise can say the same? I doubt you can. It’s well known that factory workers in the textile industry are treated and paid like shit. Pretending otherwise is willfully ignorant.

[@virg0_lem0nade]

this is a really good point.

[@DeadEye42069]

Funny how the south korean animation lead (or whatever) takes pride in the cheap labor. Why else would he of all people be offended?

[@JJKane01]

Al Jean: Banksy, I don't think the South Korean animation team will like drawing themselves in such conditions and stereotypical depictions Banksy: South Koreans will like what I tell them to like

[@mercenarygundam1487]

LOL paint gun

[@RecoveryTurtle]

OBEY….wait that’s Shepard fairy

[@GeteMachine]

I doubt outsourced animation is exactly a fun job.

[@viewer-of-content]

@@GeteMachineI'm pretty sure anyone who goes into art is at least initially passionate about it. South Korean animators are probably making equal or better salaries than Disneyland/Disneyworld cast members. Actually comparing salaries to purchasing power between the Seoul, LA, and Orlando staff is something id have to do before comparing salaries though. Disneyland cast members probably get the shortest end of the stick though considering how expensive California can be. Seoul is also pretty expensive too though, so their purchasing power can't be much better. Anihieme>Seoul>Orlando would be my purchasing power guess.

[@skootergirl22]

People must know the truth

[@daniexists6]

To be honest with the bit about AKOM, they were probably worthy of said target. There has been stories for years about how bad their output got in the wake of The Simpsons, with one of my favorites being that one of their segments for Animaniacs was planned for season one but kept getting screwed up over and over that it got pushed off until the tail end of the show because they wouldn't stop sourcing from The Simpsons to the point where Yakko, Wakko and Dot started having Krusty's mouth.

[@MrTimshellscherber]

Which segment of Animaniacs was that?

[@KasumiKenshirou]

Based on your avatar, you must have heard that AKOM got fired from Batman: The Animated Series for their shoddy work.

[@daniexists6]

@MrTimshellscherber Back In Style, the one that had Yakko, Wakko and Dot in various parodies of 60s cartoons.

[@MrTimshellscherber]

@@daniexists6 Oh.

[@Eric_1991]

​@@KasumiKenshirouoh yeah, that's how I heard of them

[@Arcee720]

And I thought that the Lee Hardcastle Simpsons couch gag was darkest one of all.

[@clairetattersall5951]

This is truly a dark couch gag

[@Horsley-Green]

I think Banksy is Neil Buchanan who used to present Art Attack. He insists he's not but I don't believe him. I remember you saying that time travel stories are your favourites on Family Guy and that reminds me of this film that I think you'd like called "12:01". It's about a man who gets trapped in a time loop, but he's the only person who's aware that the loop has happened because he was electrocuted at 12:01 AM while trying to fix his bedroom light. He spends the film attempting to break the loop and prevent the murder of a beautiful woman (Helen Slater who played Supergirl back in the 80s and starred as the title character alongside Yeardley Smith in my favourite film ever, The Legend Of Billie Jean; I think you'd love that film so I recommend that too) who he has fallen in love with. 12:01 is available on KZbin. The Legend Of Billie Jean is not, but it is available on DVD and is relatively cheap. I think you'd love both.

[@TheSimpsonsTheory]

I used to love Art Attack haha, I think you're onto something there. Thanks for the rec, I'll try to give it a watch soon, although writing the love life of Stewie Griffin is taking up all my free time at the moment. Hoping to have it up on Patreon early this upcoming week :)

[@Horsley-Green]

You'll love both 12:01 and The Legend Of Billie Jean. Billie Jean is my favourite of the two so I suggest you watch that one first. I'm assuming that you have a DVD or Blu Ray player already. Looking forward to the Stewie video too, I'm reminded of him at Mr Weed's funeral looking at all the babies he'd rock the casbah with! I think everyone loved Art Attack, I still watch it now sometimes. I never actually tried to recreate anything though, it was probably much more complicated than Neil made it look so I never bothered. Though I'm sure everyone at least once thought about making a massive mess and claiming that it was a Big Art Attack. The only thing is that somehow I don't think your parents would be exactly thrilled. I remember mentioning the show to my friend at college, he's a year older than me but he doesn't remember it and I was horrified. Of course Neil would deny being Banksy though, he'd be absolutely mobbed by the papers.

[@mathieuleader8601]

@@TheSimpsonsTheory that laughing bust from Art Attack scared the living daylights out of me

[@eddiejoewalt7746]

@@TheSimpsonsTheory i sorry but you video is boring and BANSKY IS A F! Unless you knew IT NO SECRET THAT MOST WESTERN ANIMATED SHOWS WERE OUTSOURCE TO KOREANS! IT WAS DONT WITH JAPAN'S TMS ENTERTAINMENT!

[@eddiejoewalt7746]

@@TheSimpsonsTheory this video is boring aND bANSKY IS OVERRATED LIKE TRUMP!

[@grapeshot]

Yeah, the decapitated Dolphin head reminds me of that campaign back in the late eighties to boycott Bumblebee tuna because of the whole dragnet dolphin thing 🐬🐬🐬

[@otaking3582]

Clerks: The Animated Series did the same joke years prior, and they never got any pushback.

[@virg0_lem0nade]

Mainly because they didn't have many viewers.

[@mechajay3358]

Probably because it was a short gag, and the show barely got any major viewership.

[@MaxEverywhereSystem]

tbf like 5 people watched clerks animated

[@tayloreh]

It may not be the simpsons animators working conditions, but it represents (exaggerated for comedic effect) the conditions of making fast fashion, and other forms of merchandise. Even if it doesn't represent how 20th Century Fox manages every aspect of the brand, it points to bigger issues in outsourcing and capitalism, and I really really love that the show has made such a tradition out of letting artists art.

[@MattanzaMafiaFedora]

Really well done, Lydia. I love Banksy but I can see he probably didn't think this one too heavily through. Still, he had good intentions behind his message, and we should also see this as a means to discuss trying to keep ourselves from exploiting other nations for cheap labour.

[@Its_Charlie_Young]

AKOM worked on the original Transformers show, too. And honestly the AKOM animated episodes were quite shoddily animated...they kept giving Optimus a white back when it's meant to be red. Also, seeing Hasbro mentioned at 9:08...no wonder Transformers figures get leaked way before they're officially shown, what with factory workers possibly stealing samples to illegally sell to people.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

"...they kept giving Optimus a white back when it's meant to be red." You're really underselling how terrible the AKOM animated episodes were. They didn't just merely miscolor things. Every possible animation mistake you could make, they made. They made "Five Faces of Darkness" an incomprehensible mess, and their other episodes (at least half of season 3) weren't much better.

[@joseaguilar3323]

I think Banksy did it as an F-You, he didn't expect them to actually run it.

[@virg0_lem0nade]

Well then your imagined version of events is incorrect.

[@blackhatfreak]

Lol ok

[@Galko655e]

It's obvious the controversy came from South Korean animators being super focused on depiction of animators, rather than see through the storyboard to understand the general message.

[@McTherapist]

Fun fact! In the tree house of horror where Lisa is a split personality killer, there’s actually a HUGE mistake. Martin was killed because he was a “first child” but he has an older brother as shown in season 33 episode 18!

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

_"Boy, I sure hope somebody was fired for that blunder."_

[@McTherapist]

@@jackalenterprisesofohio you get it :P

[@ladbotz]

A dark couch gag yes, the darkest? No that honor would go to don hertzfeldts gag

[@MaxEverywhereSystem]

truly, we live in a society

[@ahmirdixon134]

im da jokah, baybee...

[@mathieuleader8601]

Snorky had it coming.....

[@ajiteshchandra]

He did try to take over the world with his dolphin army.

[@usermcskull4713]

I believe that joke from Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie was also disliked by AKOM

[@leet7489]

Yeah I was really wondering how this even came about considering the animation is outsourced

[@skootergirl22]

I heard that dismaland was inspired by an American artist who also had a point about mouse land

[@Evie1228]

You should make a video on the couch gag with “I will never forget you”

[@Polycomical]

A great breakdown- Must admit if I had to animate that I'd probably feel weird too. That being said I do think it's up there with the best guest couch gags.

[@Iwidelyoutliveeverything]

Big city Greens literally made the joke about how they animators send the storyboards over to south korea like it's this sad drak thing but then showing the south koreans as happy and motivated in a nice clean place.

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

I remember seeing somewhere that someone had confirmed that Banksy was not, in fact, one person, but a group. I don't remember the source, so I can't verify it, but...

[@efeugurYT]

Wasnt the 2014 one the darkest

[@MillhouseSpeaks]

Please do a similar video for the things Bart writes on the chalkboard

[@virg0_lem0nade]

I remember thinking when I saw this one that it was pretty awful. It didn't really even satirize anything, it was just mindless edgelording.

[@GeteMachine]

Not all satire has to be funny. Half the time people don't take the thing being satirized seriously if the tone is too goofy and people then ignore the message outside of the universe of the show. Plenty of examples where shows satirize something only for people to just think its comedy of the show.

[@virg0_lem0nade]

@@GeteMachine -- Well I didn't say satire had to be funny, I said satire has to be satirizing something.... lmfao

[@laobok]

It has an "I'm 14 and this is deep" vibe, or rather, it's designed to only make those who are privileged enough to take pity on the less fortunate from their ivory towers

[@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq]

At @GeteMachine - I don't think you understood the original comment.

[@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq]

Mindless Edgelording. Sounds like a pretty good description of 90% of Banksy's work.

[@GeteMachine]

To be honest, I like it because I felt like the satire of society in the actual Simpsons has gotten a bit weak over the years due to how whimsical and over the top things had gotten after the end of the 2000s era for it. More so now its current direction with more fantasy incorporated or pop-culture parody plots, that it just isn't really saying anything anymore. Its just a show now. Not unlike Adventure Time. I think people just expect the Simpsons to be like the current shows of today, so it could be why the Banksy intro seems off-putting in contrast. Though I think the Banksy intro fits more with older Simpsons, when it had jokes about the lack of oversight Mr. Burns had on the nuclear plant. The Simpsons used to satirize this stuff, but if it does happen its just hyperbolic and surface level, "Disney bad" but not saying as to why anymore. So I can knock the effort.

[@DeadEye42069]

No one likes your comment? You're just straight up correct, don't understand because the older simpsons are available on Disney and everyone's acting like we're watching spongebob. Power puff girls is more disturbing. Imagine the creator, putting himself in the show, voicing this character, then making the main UNDER AGE girl fall in love with his character. This is WAY WORSE than some south korean being proud about cheap labor 🤷‍♂️

[@TheGoffense8120]

Love the channel

[@Kisai_Yuki]

I always felt that this couch gag was a bit in poor taste and likely to have the same consequences the "monorail" episode had. Where people constantly point to the truths in it as a reason to not improve the status quo. People point to the monorail episode at every transit discussion and go "well at least you're not proposing a MONORAIL" in the tone of it being sung. This couch gag opening will have animation students going "is that what animation is like? a grueling labor camp? forget that, I'm going to go be a dentist."

[@jakcythebui1832]

i love your videos 🙌

[@ArnLPs]

I get the workers perspective here, but as an artpiece critique I still think the Banksy intro is valid. It of course is over exaggerating. This is a cartoon, and as shown in the later clip the Simpsons themselves often over exaggerated like this.

[@gehtdichnichtsan5211]

To quote Mr. Stabby: "Well... you're talkink about it."

[@jacobsockness571]

I didn't know the artist or the episode existed till now; I'm a fan of the artist. I always loved The Simpsons.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

To be fair, Kent Brockman didn't specify WHICH Korea the I & S movie was being animated in. American companies aren't supposed to work with North Korean companies, but Roger Meyers could've outsourced to a European company who then outsourced it to North Korea's SEK.

[@eddiejoewalt7746]

unless you knew IT NO SECRET THAT MOST WESTERN ANIMATED SHOWS WERE OUTSOURCE TO KOREANS! IT WAS DONT WITH JAPAN'S TMS ENTERTAINMENT!

[@adeadphish7931]

Banksy goes so over the top and so edgy that his parody feels like all shock value, little substance. Case and point, Dismaland was so heavy handed it was memed into the ground rather than sending a meaningful message.

[@SadGirlsRUs]

There’s an intro even more dark than this one but thank it’s not official $uicideboys Simpsons video…it made me sick to my stomach & cry

[@Nahasapasa]

9:30 the animation studio in Season 4 were also upset about the joke (well, at least according to the DVD commentary)

[@dyscotopia]

This seems like more of a criticism of Temu and all sorts of other disposable mass produce ephemera rather than the Simpsons directly. I don't think Banksy would have accepted the offer if he thought the Simpsons was particularly egregious. He's probably a fan of at least certain eras and I can definitely see him enjoying Life is Hell. He's probably less enthusiastic of the excessive merchandising bonanza it spurred on during the peak of its popularity

[@gacd2104]

2:22 It always bothers me how this guy puts the DVDs upside down

[@DJDroz-gh5nt]

Accurate depiction of how it feels to work a job you hate. Not something I've personally experienced but have felt through my empathetic nature interacting with those who have. While this may be how human labor used to be, more or less, I'd hope we've evolved past this level of workplace abuse.

[@circuitrionjuliusbreaker9924]

Humans? Evolving? Ha-ha...no.

[@devonjeffers5898]

@@circuitrionjuliusbreaker9924 I can see us Humans more likely going down The Boys route.

[@circuitrionjuliusbreaker9924]

@@devonjeffers5898 ...I'm hoping more for the Snap. Like...an Endgame-level Snap.

[@circuitrionjuliusbreaker9924]

@@devonjeffers5898 Plus...like there's ever been (or ever *will be*) something like a "good" human.

[@masonasaro2118]

@@circuitrionjuliusbreaker9924there was one, *and you know what they did to him?*

[@zac2412]

I never saw that opening as an attack on the Simpsons animators but AKOM getting that defensive over it makes me think they're guilty of what's depicted ngl

[@alexzeller8774]

Great video but as a Finn, your pronounciation of Bonnie Pietilä's last name caught my ears🤣

[@TheSimpsonsTheory]

Sorry 😅

[@tarvinneekomainitakaan]

To be fair, Pietila apparently doesn't speak any Finnish and probably mispronounces it herself too. (T: toinen suomalainen)

[@clairetattersall5951]

I love all your Simpsons videos! This one is no different! ❤

[@DanBen07]

3:55 I remember when The Simpsons became part of Disney. Disney release a KZbin video of all the times The Simpsons mentioned Disney.

[@jons.6216]

The pointy hats are called "coolies" in the English language. They're designed to both shade the wearer outdoors as well as resist rain due to the shape.

[@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq]

It takes about 20 seconds research to find Banksy's real name. And shock horror he's a university educated middle aged middle class white English male. Who saw that coming...

[@lanternsown3525]

Wow some very strong stuff!

[@borntoclimb7116]

I remember the controverse intro, even in Germany the news made a report about this. The Rat Graffiti artworks looks actually pretty cool. Lol 2:52 i love this kind of critic to disney:)

[@LucasCosta-ep5hl]

Before commenting,two warnings 1:if you think my english it's bad,is because i'm brazilian 2:i'm sorry for my very stupid question My stupid question:how you for countries speak english,know The Simpsons episodes NAMES?i'm asking this because,not just The Simpsons,but other series,when they are released in countries NOT SPEAK ENGLISH,they dub in his language,obviously, and this including the texts are show in screen,when The narrator translate in certain language,but for example The Simpsons,in the start from the episode,the narrator,in addition to the texts,for example,places like school,shops,etc,he said THE EPISODES NAMES and is this my question is because in The Simpsons,for example,after the intro,DO NOT APPEAR THE EPISODES NAMES;SO how you Americans,British,canadians, Australians,etc KNOW THE SIMPSONS EPISODES NAMES?!! Ps:no say "in FOX,have promos about the simpsons new episodes and say names" or DVD,Disney+ etc I'm saying about rerun on tv,how you know The Simpsons episodes NAMES? Edit:if you answer,i give a like in your comentary

[@KyleRDent]

Ugh, Banksy. Gives wall artists a bad rep. We have a local wall artist who does animals peeing rainbows. It's not technically graffiti because she's commissioned. Offended persons will still paint over them though, ironically being the true vandals 😒

[@user-yg8sr4wv4x]

At least he draws something decent

[@MonsterTaming420]

I can't tell if this is a joke or not this is so funny.

[@usermcskull4713]

who the hell gets offended by animals peeing rainbows lol

[@fish5972]

@@usermcskull4713 C`mom... You know exactly who...

[@ckp09er]

@@usermcskull4713the people who are offended by rainbows, for some reason.

[@feloniousbutterfly]

The laziness of every sweatshop worker being the same model. Embarassing.

[@bjam89]

Or it can be something else. With all the different asian stuff mixed like it was all from the same place, and the saying "how do you tell them apart they look the same to me" well... you be the judge

[@erubianwarlord8208]

lazyness or a message of stripped humanity leaving an all but faceless drone a fleshy cog in an unfeeling machine

[@BryceChillis]

Why would disney address issues? They make cartoons for children

[@Toxicity1987]

Actually there is some truth to that. At that time South Korean animation studios outsources some of their work to North Korea (where Slave Work is rampant). Nowadays we found out that some Chinese animation studios did the same.

[@DeadEye42069]

Its not that its depicting any particular country, to me its depicting cheap labor - sometimes most associated with China. Aside from the poster in the story bored and the use of a panda bear, what else is inherently chinese??? That's more racist in itself than the sketch 💀

[@yrasphong]

I never knew this..thank u

[@umwha]

I’ll bet the merchandise is outsourced to China . But it’s clear that the animators are not working in sweatshop conditions

[@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639]

If this "Banksy" person is so anonymous, how was he contacted?

[@Morgil27]

How has he not been sued by disney over that theme park?

[@Steve-vf7se]

I transform myself into a Simpson cartoon, that'll be cool. Bart the sneaky devil, and skinner the bad boss. I love the new episodes today

[@AgentGrsMan]

⁠when are you gonna change the profile picture for the account it’s been the Halloween one since forever!!

[@kingdomcomesuperman3669]

Like Jago said the couch gag is so overwhelmingly subversive to the point of parody that I'm shocked it was seen as that controversial. I find it ironic that the animation team, the ones made to be seen as victims of hard labour that Banksy want us to empathise with, were offended at how dire their profession was depicted.

[@homersimpsonthesamuria]

You should’ve mentioned what they said in Springfield confidential biography

[@TheSimpsonsTheory]

Hey, What did they say?

[@homersimpsonthesamuria]

@@TheSimpsonsTheory Mike reiss commented on his working conditions and talked about how nice the cell animators work space was saying it was nicer than his own while specifically talking about the couch gag

[@TheSimpsonsTheory]

@@homersimpsonthesamuria didn't know that, thank you for sharing 🙂

[@lambknot]

Look at me, I'm Scratcher or something...

[@LMCShweep]

This couch gag changed the way I saw animation and made me stop watching the simpsons all together. Never knew Banksy made it

[@DeadEye42069]

I bet you prefer the power puff girls where the developer puts themselves in the story and makes the main UNDER AGE character fall in love with him. Simpsons is definitely the most disturbing animation right now, totally 👍

[@LMCShweep]

@@DeadEye42069 Sir I didn’t bring up the powerpuff girls neither do I watch it. The message of the couch gag is more about the animation industry and I only pray humans get treated better

[@DeadEye42069]

@@LMCShweep Proof you don't really read or watch anything, you just stare at a screen and wait for something to happen 💀 Yeah, that's an actual kid friendly cartoon that's way more disturbing. Cause you're tryna be racist and defend a lower wage doesn't mean you're right.

[@LMCShweep]

@@DeadEye42069 Look, you can like powerpuff girls or the simpsons nobody judging you. I think outsourcing shouldn’t be exploitation

[@spliffyrodgers4266]

​@@DeadEye42069you get bullied alot dont ya kid

[@VideoAssaultSaturday]

visors are more of a starbucks thing than postal... they dont wear those here

[@drackestalentorgen166]

I get why the animators were disgusted in the way a rich artist from the usa depicted them

[@charliejauncey]

Uk

[@thomaslance5428]

I hadn't seen this, so before I watched this entire thing, my reaction was, "omg, is this kinda true?" It's confusing if you don't know.

[@jasonsullivan5827]

Banksy needs to see help

[@DeadEye42069]

Needs to see help, or get help? An edited comment later and I'm pretty sure you're the one that needs to "see help"

[@DragonSoul66]

I actually found it hilarious, in a more disturbing kind of way. I just kind of like those styles of dark humour, that I am basically classed as a greatly disturbing individual.

[@daveythesearcher]

His identity is no longer secret.

[@Jonathanest90s]

Source?

[@Americanman5445]

Thier is one character we have not seen in a long time that is Mr black remember season 4 camp krusty

[@AgentGrsMan]

This was a very depressing intro 0:15

[@virg0_lem0nade]

Gee thanks for just saying what the title already says

[@davidandgeorgebarnes8103]

I will make the Simpsons super Saiyan

[@mightyfilm]

I'll be honest here. It took me forever to find out this wasn't done by the Simpsons' usual staff. Replace all the imagery of the Simpson family and replace it with a certain Klown, and it could have been a standard gag in any episode of the series. Didn't they show a Chinese sweatshop with Krustified propaganda making the Kids' Meal toys which lead to Bart getting a virus and ending up in a plastic bubble? This is distinctly Simpsons humor, especially the over the top unicorn horn punching DVD holes bit. The show didn't just bite the hand that fed them, they chewed the arm off to the shoulder. Bart once confided to a therapist that he had a dream his success was responsible for a certain propaganda cable network. And it's clear that these guys were supposed to be Chinese. As in Chinese sweatshop that makes merchandise you greedy consumers are forced to buy. Seriously, this thing is so over the top, you get the feeling they're satirizing satire. I'm more shocked this was made by someone on the inside.

[@destroyerofeps2714]

Why can't people ever just enjoy nice things?, Why do we always gotta figure out ways to complain about them?

[@silversonic1]

Satire rarely is accurate. That's what makes it funny. It's not trying to be realistic. It's a demonstration of the flawed points of view of humanity as a whole while also reminding us of the darker side that can be hiding behind the more cheery exterior. Sadly, people will ALWAYS have trouble understanding art without context. While pictures can be worth a thousand words, absurdity tends to result in wrong interpretations. Our dumb brains jump to conclusions and make lots of mistakes because we skip LOTS of the details.

[@sor3999]

I don't know if the Korean animation director should really represent the voice of the workers on working conditions and pay. Just saying maybe we should be skeptical of management putting out these statements (yes, I'm aware they quoted ONE worker who said it's no big deal). Yes, objectively they get paid 1/3 their American counterparts, but perhaps adjusted for purchasing power parity, it might be a decent wage in that country. And it's a parody/satire, so things are going to be exaggerated.

[@CatKun-2000]

Good thing I never been to that twisted version Disney land 3:04

[@ColonelMetus]

Her avatar is hot

[@TailsPosts]

This looks good

[@Hogan231]

I watched the episode many times.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Love batman animated series

[@peaxoop]

The Simpsons Movie also used Sek animation studio from North Korea

[@thrillhouse4151]

9:32, yeah I was gonna say it’s been done.

[@mathieuleader8601]

the people from the Blood & Honey cinematic universe should get in touch with Bansky to create a Dismalland feature film that would be a good film to make

[@justsomedudeyouknow8372]

To me the point of the sweatshop wasn't to say that's how things are, more that's how things would be if disney/fox had their way. And also commentary on how sweatshops are a thing that corporations try and succeed in using in other countries when they can where regulations and wages are lower. More a warning than what is currently happening with that specific animation company.

[@allieniner675]

I thought this was meant to depict North Korean animators, not South Korean!

[@Morgil27]

I never gave much thought to this opening, but after watching this video, I'm starting to think this Bansky guy is a bit of a douche.

[@mirushiroi]

7yo me was horrified

[@KCKingdomCreateGreatTrekAgain]

I can see that animator’s point of view though. Poking fun of yourself is one thing but thing was far beyond poking fun at oneself. If this had been a different show depicting the Simpson’s like this ok but asking the Simpson’s animation team to depict themselves this way kinda goes a little too far.