All anyone wants to talk about this week is the Oscars, which is all well and good unless you write for a TV site, in which case it is a little infuriating. Luckily, one of the nominees this year, in the short film category, is The Simpsons, and The Simpsons is totally a TV show.
The short, titled The Longest Daycare, features Marge dropping Maggie off at daycare, and the butterfly-related adventure she goes on while she’s there. In four dialogue-free minutes, it manages to be both funny and charming, which [fill in complaint about newer seasons of The Simpsons versus the golden years]. It also features Baby Gerald smashing things with a mallet, which is important because the Academy has ignored mallet-smashing-related works for far too long, and it’s nice to see one finally get recognized. Maybe now someone will finally produce my Gallagher biopic, Duck and Cover, Here Comes Some Watermelon Guts. It’s a love story.
(Via Vulture)
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Worst. Short. Ever.
It’s weird to be a person on this planet that remembers a time when The Simpsons didn’t exist. It’s like my grandfather remembering a time before Rock n’ Roll was invented by Marty McFly.
Cute.
This contest is over, give that man the $10,000
The Longest Daycare had heart, but football to the groin had football to the groin.
/obligatory
Nice reference.
I’ll still miss the Ayn Rand school for tots
Caught the end of this on the beginning of my recording of Bob’s Burgers. My first thought: “This can’t be a regular episode, it’s way higher on the production.”
Can’t view it from here, it’s blocked. But what I saw was cute. Curious now about the competition.
Like my schween every few hours, this video has been pulled.
Underachieving I see.
I’m not a young man any more
I saw this at the theater with my kids before the feature and we all liked it. It was nice to be able to show my kids “The Simpsons” because they are always seeing commercials and promos and want to watch it — but are too young.