Back in Season 4 of Simpsons Bart sees an episode of "Springfield Eye", in which Kent Brockman stands in a rare warehouse in Korea to give viewers "first -hand how American cartoons are made". Since the rows of attractive animators are furiously screaming on paper, they are produced by rifle soldiers in a short wrap, in which the show's writers take a pocket in and on American networks supplying animation in countries where labor was much cheaper than in the United States than in the United States.

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By The first episode of the "Simpsons" in 1989 - which was almost very different - The show is at least partially animated in South Korea, with animator Nelson Shin Studio the most prominent example of a Korean studio that contributes to the creation of the show. The company, to date, has animated more than 200 episodes of the long -standing series and has certainly been part of the inspiration behind the Springfield Eye segment. But the soldiers who quarrel in the sleeping animators were clearly exaggerated, designed to call the far less difficult, yet problematic practice of using cheap foreign work to provide American audiences with their entertainment.

This Korean sweater's display appeared in the episode "Itching and Scratching: The Movie", which was first aired in 1992. 18 years later, the "Simpsons" essentially recounted the same wrapping, but this time it was much less funny, much longer, darker and much more controversial.

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The Best couches on the couch of "Simpsons" They remember well from a generation who grew up with the show. Now, when the series lasted for 36 seasons, however, this joke is mostly omitted from the opening sequence - although the occasional couch is still appearing from time to time. It is not difficult to see why these little vignettes were rejected. After a while it must become impossible to think about new ideas.

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In fact, judging by some of the examples we have seen in the more modern episodes of the "Simpsons", it is probably a good thing that the show is not allowed to succur by the Holy Couch. Take the Gag's 22 -year -old Moneybart. The 2010 episode appeared an open sequence orchestrated by secret British street artist Banksy, whose name can be seen distorted on a billboard during the cover sequence of the episode. However, when we reach the couch, we face a nightmare dungeon in which the gray lines, attractive Asian animators are seen as drawing "Simpsons" cells.

Taking the couch of Banksy takes place at a disappointing beginning by essentially recreating a joke of 18 years before, but then things are only disturbing, as the camera is followed by the underground cave to detect rats that carry human bones, such as being thrown, the "used kitten" worker. In the end, we see a 20 -century Fox logo rising from the slums surrounded by a barbed fence. How Theujork Times He commented after the episode broadcast, "the leading joke went to a very dark place."

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Perhaps surprising, this specific sauce wrap has proved to be controversial, and not the reasons you can expect.

In the early years of the "Simpsons", the show often wavered the controversy by right-wing groups about what they considered a cruel picture of the American family and subversion of classical American ideals-maybe it is partly the reason why The Simpsons has never managed to get an American president as a guest. As such, if the gloomy couch of the Banski was broadcast during the day, it would probably stop the anger of the Conservatives. In 2010, however, it actually upset Koreans more than anyone else.

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How Time It has announced that it is Nelson Sheen and his workers in Korea, who have actually opposed what seemed to have attracted attention to the oppressive employment of insufficiently paid foreign workers. Sheen and his staff protested on the heinous performance of working conditions in the series, noting that company workers Akom actually animated much of the "Simpsons" in "high-tech workshops in downtown Seoul". As Sheen said, "most of the contents concerned the degradation of people from Korea, China, Mexico and Vietnam. If Banksy wants to criticize these things ... I suggest that he first learn more about it."

I'm not sure the sequence was intended to degrade foreign workers and it was much more Banksy's attempt to call 20th century fox (which Disney later acquired). In any case, as the time was noted in their report, Korean workers actually made about a third of their US counterparts, even while their salaries are high in terms of their country. It is a difficult couch vignation on the couch, but this was the clearly predicted goal of the sequence. However, Korean animators did not clearly see it.

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Behind the scenes Documentary Since 1999, in fact, Nelson Sheen and some of his team members have been reviewing the office where Akoma staff worked. It barely resembles the dungeon depicted in the extended bank of the bank, although at one point we see the main floor of the studio where workers painted 100 cells per day and worked from 10 am to 6 pm (yet there are no troops in sight). In the clip, Sheen also admits that Hollywood turned to Korean animators in the 1980s "due to major Hollywood wage problems", which is partly what Banksy highlighted with his gloomy vignette.

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But while his depiction of a dungeon full of enslaved drones can aim for humor by exaggeration, the artist is also known for his defiant anti-capitalist, anti-corporate style, which does not make it exactly the funniest "gag". Banksy is often described as "dark humor" in his work to highlight social topics, but there are those who really find not very funny about his work. As the MOF cares Hecklerspray Put the next on the episode, "He is bonnot of the art world, constantly asking us to look at ourselves as if we are a brain fertilizer."

All of which is to say that it was sort of funny and subversive for "The Simpsons" to Poke Fun at Its Own Network for Using Cheap Labor in Season 4, but 18 Years Later The "Dark Humor" of Banksy's Exteded Nightmare Nightmare Vision just doto realist, and as the couch gages on and on hard to to what is exactly what the purpose of it is - especially when you have korean animators. "

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As the time notes, the dark sweater on the Banksy couch, in fact, calls North Korea, "in the Pyongyang capital, a state animation studio, the studio sec, is grinding of many European and Chinese cartoons since 1997." Sec supposedly He worked on the "Simpsons", but it seems not to be a regular associate of the episodes. However, it cannot be said that Banksy's contribution to the "Simpsons" did not promote discussion, and in that sense he probably made what he set to do, while at the same time doing the case of lifting the couch panties together. As such, he probably won't be remembered as one of The best guests that sometimes contribute to the Simpsons.