Thursday 27 October 2011

John K. Couch Gag (Simpsons)

Check out John K.'s animation for the Simpsons opening couch sequence. John K. is the creator of 'Ren and Stimpy' and has a very crazy style of animating, and works with some bizarre and even morbid concepts. This is the reason I like him. He claimed that with this animation he wanted to completely move away from the rigid style of the Simpsons, and this resulted in a wacky almost surreal approach. Some of the subject matter is also very crude, e.g the way that Homer commands his wife to bring him a beer, reflective of feminist issues in earlier decades, and also how Homer ejects his brain resulting in him becoming slow and mentally impaired. This is clearly a very strange and daring approach being used by the well-loved 'Simpsons' series, which is the reason the animation is so exciting.

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