If The Simpsons Were Real

June 8, 2007 11:59 AM

The Real Life Simpsons -- A creepy depiction of how The Simpsons would look if they were real. (via)
posted by fallenposters (32 comments total)

It just looks like crappy digital rendition work with elevator music.
posted by Muddler at 12:03 PM on June 8, 2007

That's almost as gross as Brian Peppers.
posted by solipsophistocracy at 12:05 PM on June 8, 2007

High grade nightmare fuel!
posted by Dr-Baa at 12:06 PM on June 8, 2007

I can't decide if the smooth jazz makes it more or less creepy.

Wait, yes I can. WAY more.
posted by ORthey at 12:07 PM on June 8, 2007

solipsophistocracy, don't you know? The internet isn't allowed to talk about Brian Peppers anymore.

Actually, Homer looks pretty normal. But the rest are pretty freakin' scary.
posted by M.C. Lo-Carb! at 12:12 PM on June 8, 2007

I think the freakiest picture for me is of the four fingered hand.
posted by fallenposters at 12:13 PM on June 8, 2007

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY....STOP LINKING BRIAN PEPPERS!!!!!! I haven't slept since I clicked that creepy pedo link yesterday...
posted by Shfishp at 12:14 PM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

They moved from Evergreen Terrace to the Uncanny Valley? Creepy, yes. Real, no. I never met anybody with eyes like that.
posted by muckster at 12:14 PM on June 8, 2007

I think you mean to say

A creepy depiction of how The Simpsons would look if they were real napalm victims.
posted by Peter H at 12:16 PM on June 8, 2007

I've seen guys in bars who look almost like 'real' Homer. I'm also disappointed they didn't do a 'real' Barney Gumble.
posted by jonmc at 12:16 PM on June 8, 2007

Real Life Simpsons Opening Sequence.
posted by ericb at 12:16 PM on June 8, 2007 [4 favorites]

Nightmares. Goddam nightmares.
posted by cortex at 12:21 PM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

Anyone else get redirected to some other page midway through the video. And yeah, that was kind of creepy.
posted by chunking express at 12:22 PM on June 8, 2007

I really hope that whoever made these was doing it for fun and with tongue in cheek. If he or she was actually trying to make some serious point about unrealistic character design on The Simpsons, then I feel nothing but pity.

Have you ever noticed that Kermit looks nothing like a real frog?
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:24 PM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

Why are they so...green?
posted by graventy at 12:25 PM on June 8, 2007

Well, yeah, but wouldn't any real people photoshopped like cartoons look creepy?
posted by treepour at 12:25 PM on June 8, 2007

Thanks for the Brian Peppers shoutout.
posted by infinitewindow at 12:30 PM on June 8, 2007

Not Christina Ricci, treepour. She looks like a cartoon whether digitally altered or not.
posted by cgc373 at 12:30 PM on June 8, 2007

I'm getting a redirect to a spam site or something.
posted by PercussivePaul at 12:34 PM on June 8, 2007

Yeah, I think I'd find this even creepier if the people were realistic (that is, actual people as close as possible to the Simpsons character designs).
posted by hattifattener at 12:36 PM on June 8, 2007

I liked the Snowball II and Santa's Little Helper depictions. Lots of fun to be found on the via link.
posted by Sailormom at 12:42 PM on June 8, 2007

Yeah, less a look at what the Simpsons would look like if they were real, and more an exploration of what Simpsons shaped meat puppets might look like if they are assembled from human parts by a serial killer.
posted by quin at 12:46 PM on June 8, 2007 [5 favorites]

Creepy? How about "damn ugly"? I think that'd fit better.
posted by triolus at 12:50 PM on June 8, 2007

Dont be absurd. THIS is what Homer would like in real life. It has been established.

Silly people.
posted by elendil71 at 12:52 PM on June 8, 2007

I always thought Dexter from The Offspring looks like a real Bart, grown-up.
posted by found dog one eye at 1:20 PM on June 8, 2007

Meh.

I can't believe no one has said that yet.
posted by slogger at 1:57 PM on June 8, 2007

How would YOU look as a Simpsonoid?
posted by a_s_m at 2:48 PM on June 8, 2007

I vote for the opening sequence that ericb linked to above. Those, to me, look like the people that the Simpons are caricatures of. However if ever a live-action Simpsons movie were made, Paul Giamatti would be the perfect Homer.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 6:04 PM on June 8, 2007

They all pretty much look like Gollum. Very shitty Gollums.
posted by synaesthetichaze at 6:05 PM on June 8, 2007

that's uncanny valley freaky.

...and my browser froze loading the damn page, so I was stuck staring at Lisa's undead bulging eyes long after they had burrowed inside my head to haunt my waking nightmares.

thanks long posters
posted by leotrotsky at 9:16 PM on June 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

That opening sequence looks too... British... to be the real "Simpsons." But other than that, it's great.

(I expected like what real humans would look like as the Simpsons, not what humans would look were they Photoshopped to look like the Simpsons. Color me both disappointed and creeped out.)
posted by grapefruitmoon at 7:25 PM on June 9, 2007

That opening sequence looks too... British... to be the real "Simpsons."

It was created in the U.K. by Sky One and approved by Matt Groening to promote 'The Simpsons' in the U.K.
posted by ericb at 8:41 AM on June 10, 2007