Comments on: What would Simpsons characters look like in Real Life? Something like this.

What would Simpsons characters look like in Real Life? Something like this.

wendell — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:12:17 -0800

A filmmaker, [SPOILER], records his young son, [SPOILER], telling an imaginative story to his two younger sisters, [SPOILER] and [SPOILER].
from the A/V Geeks of Archive.org, whose diverse menu of nostalgia include Psychedelic Schoolhouse Rock, a delightful VD PSA and a whole lotta falling down.

By: stupidsexyFlanders

stupidsexyFlanders — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:42:58 -0800

Pretty high production values for home vid of that era. Interesting.

By: fungible

fungible — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:49:25 -0800

And then they all went home and watched Itchy and Scratchy blow each other to bits.

By: Verdant

Verdant — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:07:56 -0800

They really are kind of yellow looking.

By: NoMich

NoMich — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:18:25 -0800

Skip has another Homer Groening film that is pretty great, but he doesn't have it up on the Internet Archive. Maybe it's not public domain?

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:02:37 -0800

I love that the image fore the Geoduck is a duck, because those things are definitely not ducks. They also only seem to be something you hear about if you grew up in the Pacific Northwest.

By: avgeeks

avgeeks — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:22:14 -0800

Homer Groening was an industrial filmmaker. He made several films for Jantzen, Johnson Outboard Motors, Alaska Airlines and for Aims Media. I was contacted by a schoolmate of Lisa Groening's who said that Homer would come to their elementary school with a projector and show films to the kids every month. What a great dad!

By: infinitewindow

infinitewindow — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:16:54 -0800

Young Matt sounds oddly like Milhouse.

By: ericbop

ericbop — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:29:52 -0800

Why did you black out the participants' names with [SPOILER], when you gave it away in the title of the post?

By: Democritus

Democritus — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:02:34 -0800

Pretty interesting subject of the post, but the movie is so damn boring. I felt very conflicted watching it. On one hand I was thinking, "Oh wow, cool, it's like the real Simpsons!" and on the other I was about to fall asleep.

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:33:14 -0800

ericbop, my use of [SPOILER] was part in jest, part as manipulative teaser, and the title is only semi-revealing since it referred to the Simpsons and not the Groenings. Did I just spill the last of the overthought beans? D'OH!

By: davejay

davejay — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:03:13 -0800

Pretty high production values for home vid of that era. Interesting. A friend of mine has a film taken on a vacation island, shot by her friend's dad (who happened to be Joel Sedelmaier. It was shot around the same time E.T. came out, and so it's called I.T. -- and it's just my friend and her brother running around the island, being chased by a giant free-moving inner tube taller than they were. And the production values? Shockingly high!

By: davejay

davejay — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:04:14 -0800

pretend I closed that paren.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:31:58 -0800

That Psychedelic Schoolhouse Rock is interesting. I like the part around two minutes in where the U.S. colors wrap into a giant horn of plenty spewing cars, burgers, TVs, hot dogs, and baseballs.