Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Bart Jumps
With a show idea in place, the next thing to choose was a studio. Brooks wanted to just go with basic line drawings but one studio offered colour for the same price. That studio was Klasky Csupo, which was founded in 1982 by producer Arlene Klasky and her husband, Hungarian animator Gábor Csupó. The duo's company had primarily been working in marketing, garnering a presentation for innovative logo designs, film trailers, TV show titles and commercials but the Simpsons was the studio's big break, the first narrative work for the series, even if it was 20 second shorts. Many animation fans know that while the Simpsons and Klasky Csupo parted way, the studio would remain big with the studio creating a lot of series for Nickelodeon including Rugrats, Aaaaah! Real Monsters and the Wild Thrornberries. But this is the studios humble beginning. Very humble.
Homer wants Bart to jump into his arms but Bart keeps missing and bashing on the floor.
This is definitely the worst of them so far. Like Watching TV, it is a series of little strips but somehow the jokes feel even more tired. It seems closer to what a kid would think up. That's not inherently a bad thing; a lot of comedy is slapstick but the fun is in the pretext for such a thing happening. But the gags really do see poorly timed and paced and the animation is still rough. I don't even mean the flow, I just mean the editing, while good for a studio doing it's first major production, in that it isn't incompetent, it just feels off, (notable in the second part where Homer is distracted by a pun). The jokes really do feel like they are from a bad kids joke book. That said, Homer going off to look up a world (and finding both are acceptable) brings to mind how the show will kind of love characters interest in the minutiae of language at weird times.
With a show idea in place, the next thing to choose was a studio. Brooks wanted to just go with basic line drawings but one studio offered colour for the same price. That studio was Klasky Csupo, which was founded in 1982 by producer Arlene Klasky and her husband, Hungarian animator Gábor Csupó. The duo's company had primarily been working in marketing, garnering a presentation for innovative logo designs, film trailers, TV show titles and commercials but the Simpsons was the studio's big break, the first narrative work for the series, even if it was 20 second shorts. Many animation fans know that while the Simpsons and Klasky Csupo parted way, the studio would remain big with the studio creating a lot of series for Nickelodeon including Rugrats, Aaaaah! Real Monsters and the Wild Thrornberries. But this is the studios humble beginning. Very humble.
Homer wants Bart to jump into his arms but Bart keeps missing and bashing on the floor.
This is definitely the worst of them so far. Like Watching TV, it is a series of little strips but somehow the jokes feel even more tired. It seems closer to what a kid would think up. That's not inherently a bad thing; a lot of comedy is slapstick but the fun is in the pretext for such a thing happening. But the gags really do see poorly timed and paced and the animation is still rough. I don't even mean the flow, I just mean the editing, while good for a studio doing it's first major production, in that it isn't incompetent, it just feels off, (notable in the second part where Homer is distracted by a pun). The jokes really do feel like they are from a bad kids joke book. That said, Homer going off to look up a world (and finding both are acceptable) brings to mind how the show will kind of love characters interest in the minutiae of language at weird times.
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