Briefly: Above you will find the Itchy and Scratchy clip from last night's episode of The Simpsons (courtesy of Hulu). It parodies the brilliant 'Married Life' segment from Pixar's masterpiece Up, and even features Giacchino's wonderful score.
The episode also features Zuckerberg and numerous references to Facebook, most likely due to the recent release of The Social Network (which was, by the way, my favorite film of the year besides Toy Story 3).
I love when pop culture references other pop culture...
Pixar is the world's greatest animation studio. They focus on story while maintaining excellent and cutting-edge animation, and they're humble about it the whole time. Another great thing about Pixar is that they interact with their fans. They do this, mainly, through placing Easter Eggs throughout their films. Below you will find, courtesy of /Film, the Easter Eggs found in the recently released Toy Story 3 trailer. There are plenty of familiar ones, and some quite surprising ones, as well. Enjoy:
Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3 has one line in the whole film. As the Jack-in-the-Box, he shouts "New Toys!"
In the initial daycare scene, you can see Mr. Ray from Finding Nemo as a toy sitting on the shelf.
When Woody is on the computer chatting with a dinosaur, you can see Totoro sitting next to the computer. Totoro is the main character from Miyazaki's 1988 masterpiece, My Neighbor Totoro. Hayao Miyazaki, the "Walt Disney of Japan," is a truly great animator and director, and is good friends with John Lasseter. I wonder how much more of Totoro we will see in Toy Story 3...
In the same computer scene, you will notice that the username of the dinosaur contains "237," which is an homage to Unkrich's favorite film, The Shining.
While watching the trailer, you may also notice numerous Macs. This is due to Steve Jobs' huge contribution to the animation studio (and, by huge contribution, I am referring to its creation). So, Toy Story 3 is full of Apple Computers.
In another scene at the daycare, you can see a very basic, yet obvious, homage to Cars' Lightning McQueen.
The "95" painted on the side of Woody's getaway train refers to 1995, the year that the first Toy Story was released.
And, finally, the classic A113 shows his face on the license plate of Andy's Mom's car. This is, of course, a reference to the classroom number of the animation class at CalArts. This Easter Egg is not only seen in every Pixar film, but also Disney movies, Family Guy, The Iron Giant, American Dad, The Simpsons, Powerpuff Girls, among other animated things. Very cool.
So, there you have it. Now you can have a whole new appreciation for the new Toy Story 3trailer, as well as Pixar history as a whole. Good ol' Pixar...
One of my favorite movies of all-time is Ghostbusters. It has got it all: action, romance, comedy galore, and even Rick Moranis. Well, Dean over at Springfield Punx has done it again with this amazing collection of Simpsonized Ghostbusters! Check it out!
Briefly: I thought it was worth mentioning that in yesterday's new episode of The Simpsons there was an obvious reference to Up. Carl (The Simpsons' Carl, not Pixar's) and Lenny volunteer as new border patrolmen for Springfield, and, to get a better view of the border, they get on a lawn chair and attach balloons. As you can see in the above image they get up a little bit too high, and cross paths with what looks a lot like Carl Fredricksen's house (see the image below to compare).
It is odd that they'd parody something that hasn't even been released yet. But, I guess Pixar is just so big that their movies are already well-known before they get released! Watch the full episode on Hulu. Or, read my full review of Up and Partly Cloudy here!
Here is a gallery I found. They are really awesome pictures of some of the characters from The Dark Knight if they were "Simpsonized":
These are from the blog Springfield Punx. Be sure to go there if you liked these, there are other "Simpsonized" characters such as Neo from The Matrix, James Bond, Pee Wee Herman, the Spiderman villains, among other pop culture icons.
A sweetshop owner in Spain was counting the day's take when he stumbled upon a very curious coin. It was a Euro, but it did not have Spanish King Juan Carlos on the front. In his place was Homer Simpson. The sweetshop owner has been offered 20 euros for the 1 euro coin.
Hi. My name is Adam and I love to write and to read. I shoot and go to a lot of movies. I am an avid collector of Disneyland souvenirs, Pixar stuff, celebrity photographs, and everything else.
