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March 9, 2017 11:03 PM

@SimpsonsFilms is a Twitter account that posts stills from Simpsons episodes that recall famous films.
posted by Going To Maine (22 comments total)

I don't get it. I mean, some of them are sort of hilarious in their wrongness -- the "Total Recall" x-ray machine is actually a reference to Bojack Horseman because it has a 2-kid Vincent Adultman? -- but most of them are too dumb to be parody.
posted by bjrubble at 1:34 AM on March 10, 2017 [2 favorites]

"The majority of Woody Allen's filmography"
posted by AFII at 2:33 AM on March 10, 2017 [4 favorites]

I think they're projecting (geddit!?)
posted by chavenet at 3:51 AM on March 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

I like this account a lot. You couldn't characterize it as anything beyond surface-level - "Trainspotting" has a literal train - but the trio that makes up Inception is quite inspired.
posted by solarion at 4:32 AM on March 10, 2017

jfc
posted by middleclasstool at 5:06 AM on March 10, 2017 [2 favorites]

This totally goes with Total Recall, dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1990.*

* Or Department of Homeland Security Theater, 2001 onwards.
posted by runcifex at 5:30 AM on March 10, 2017

I like this. Sometimes when my wife and I are watching a thing she'll be like "oh, that's a reference to such-and-such" and I'll just sort of go "uh huh" and quietly say to myself "no, it isn't, honey." because my wife, god bless her, knows absolutely nothing at all about pop culture.
posted by bondcliff at 6:22 AM on March 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

Black Swan
posted by schmod at 6:23 AM on March 10, 2017

my wife, god bless her, knows absolutely nothing at all about pop culture

Is it your wife's twitter account?
posted by effbot at 6:26 AM on March 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

This is just a sucky attempt at cashing in on a bit of Twitter wit where you take screenshots of something and title it with the movie or tv show it reminds you off, hoping for hilarity. It works well when it's just a bit of spontaneous wit inbetween despair at Trump's America and whatever pop culture meme is doing the rounds today, not so much in a concentrated dose of humourless like here.
posted by MartinWisse at 6:42 AM on March 10, 2017

Man, everyone being like "that's not funny" it's exactly like that scene in Goodfellas.
posted by bondcliff at 6:56 AM on March 10, 2017 [5 favorites]

Eh, it's hit or miss but I'll take it over most of what's on Twitter 24/7. Trying to get all mouth-frothy about it is a waste of energy, really.
posted by blucevalo at 6:57 AM on March 10, 2017

not funny!
posted by middleclasstool at 6:59 AM on March 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

These are pretty good though some seem to rely too heavily on the joke being that the episode is 20 years old and it is 'referencing' a new movie. Am I crazy or are the American Beauty ones actually correct and if so is that some trick to make me look for the other correct ones or should I question everything I think I know and I'm not crazy Marge, you're crazy.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage at 7:51 AM on March 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

This is just a sucky attempt at cashing in

i'm just mad my TwitterBucks™ are getting deposited to the wrong bank account
posted by beerperson at 7:59 AM on March 10, 2017 [4 favorites]

I like this account and enjoy many of its posts. Thanks for posting it!
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:00 AM on March 10, 2017 [3 favorites]

This is my favourite, though it turns out it's not from them.

They're cashing in on the cashing inners!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:19 AM on March 10, 2017 [4 favorites]

Trying to get all mouth-frothy about it is a waste of energy, really.

But blind, frothing rage over molehills is the purpose of Twitter.
posted by Sangermaine at 10:02 AM on March 10, 2017

I found the mix of "random picture being a bit amusing when placed in movie context" with "I just discovered that Simpson is overflowing with movie references" a bit distracting at first, but then I got to the one where a very explicit Simpsons reference to that old Westworld movie from 1973 was labelled "Westworld (2016)" and went "did this person just insert an obscure joke in what's until now appeared to be a stream of mostly low-hanging fruit, and if so, did I just miss a whole bunch of obscure jokes before this one? or are they just this clueless?" and had to bail out.
posted by effbot at 12:40 PM on March 10, 2017

Y'all haters can keep on hating. This is wonderful.
posted by Guy Smiley at 7:40 PM on March 10, 2017 [2 favorites]

I'm thinking the Hidden Figures still could also work for The Loved One.
posted by lagomorphius at 2:03 PM on March 12, 2017

I like this. Sometimes when my wife and I are watching a thing she'll be like "oh, that's a reference to such-and-such" and I'll just sort of go "uh huh" and quietly say to myself "no, it isn't, honey." because my wife, god bless her, knows absolutely nothing at all about pop culture.

I like this too, because I am just like your wife.
posted by daybeforetheday at 2:19 AM on March 17, 2017 [2 favorites]