I think it’s very powerful - it’s about the Simpsons being immortal, long outlasting their original purpose and now reduced to absurd parodies of themselves. Homer remembers when the show still featured them as a family and not just spouting advertisements and repeating catchphrases. The line “I will never forget you” appears in perhaps the most abstract scene in the short, right before Homer realizes they might has well have already forgotten each other in these new forms. He is saddened by the Simpsons’ loss of purpose and structure.
How did the showrunners allow this critique on the show? Don't they constantly try to refute the argument that the show has now become bad? Did they just not notice it, or do they just not care? It's a beautiful couch gag with a sadly realistic message, but I'm just confused on how it got allowed.
That was probably the only "real" Hertzfeldt moment on this... Because the rest was so scripted to; "Look, you have to reference all your animations on this gag, so people can recognize your work"
I STOPPED BEEMING THE SAMPSANS INTO MY CRANIAL NETWORK AFTOR SEASAN 20,003 I REALLY DIDNT FLAP MY FLIPPERS AFTER THAT. PRAISE BE THE GODS OF THE TWO MOONS
@@Jammer439y8 it rappresent theirs never ending agony as animals can actually scream for exprime themself but they cant because they are just an draw on an paper despite everything that is happening to then
Unlikely as you need three circles to make a Mikey mouse silhouette. Plus its dark lord of the two moons. Not lord of the two dark moons which would support your theory
Forgot it a long time ago. She's repeating it cuz it was important for the former version of her to remember this simple truth. And she kept repeating it, but eventually forgot the meaning of it. Now, the sentence's substance is forever lost, as she's now a mindless and empty creature
The "I still love you, Homer," and the "I will never forget you," those two lines are the most powerful phrases I've ever heard in The Simpsons, especially in a couch gag alone.
Actually, I think the most powerful line here was one that you would have missed the significance of, unless you were on the lookout for it. "All animals can scream". It seems to be a statement that every living thing experiences suffering. Even though living things SHOULD just be shaped by evolution to be machines for reproducing themselves the most efficiently possible, for some reason, the same forces have shaped them into having this other thing in common with each other even though they came about that same result independently through adaptations to many different conditions, that existence is pain for everything that lives by its very nature.
I love how this is Don’s way of showing that overtime, the Simpsons have become so flanderised and product-driven, to the point that 100,000 episodes in the future, they are all spouting a single catchphrase or telling you to purchase merchandise (even Marge says “dark lord of the twin moons”, which someone in the comments theorised was a reference to Mickey Mouse and his ears). Then it cuts to flashbacks of other episodes where they love each other and have at least some sort of sentience, right before cutting back to them all spouting either their one catchphrase or random words.
I remember watching “its a beautiful world” at a similar time and that blew me away as well, never knew this couch gag was made by the same guy until recently
"Can we talk about the thing that everyone's already talking about?!" Ffs, read the comments first. The Simpsons has a long history of this. One of the longest jokes in the show is how they always make fun of their network.
Homer finally remembers amongst what his family has become, Homer is still alive inside but can't do anything about the flanderization. He remembers when they could do something about it the only way they knew how to: love. As Marge says she will never forget him the episode ends and presumably switches to a new season, the one this short takes place in.
a commentary about the extended runtime of the show inevitably leading to its own trajectory into meaningless garbage is somehow an own on the people making that exact criticism?
yeah i could see how this could be baffling to someone not familiar with his work, but i was just thinking the whole time "this is the most don hertzfeldt shit I've ever seen" lol. this guy's got a very distinct style.
Thank you Jacob Geller for bringing this wonderful opening to my attention. Seems that even in its perpetual death spiral, The Simpsons couch gags can still surprise us.
My friend showed me Rejected a while ago and I've known about It's Such A Beautiful Day for a long time, but I didn't know they were by the same guy. Now that Jacob Geller made that video, it renewed my interest in Don Hertzfeldt's work and I was able to order It's Such A Beautiful Day on Blu-Ray, so I'll finally be able to watch it. I love Jacob's content so, so much.
I've always loved Don Hertzfeld his blend of surrealism, existentialism, and dark humor I amazing from his little online animation redacted to his amazing film it's such a beautiful day he will always impress me with his talent
The strange misspellings of most words remind me of even right now, languages of the world are constantly changing. The English we spoke 500, 200, even 100 years ago is not the English we're speaking now (for example, "nice" once meant "foolish" by the 1500s). Who knows what it would look like hundreds of years into the future?
This is why things shouldn’t and don’t last. Because if they did, everything would just become deformed to the point that you can’t recognize it anymore. That’s why I don’t want me or anyone to be immortal. edit : heyo! this is indeed my opinion, and is not actually a fact! i was pretty disturbed and upset by the video at the time of writing this comment! please understand that!
Whereas should we advocate the process of coming into existence like a storm, or at the very least aspire to be impactful. Which it in itself stirs the ocean, changes something, express and/or address a message/point... Pretty much “does its thing”. Then, it quietly exits the stage after it has brought forth its case to the table of discussion. Leaving the world to ponder about it in the serene wake after the storm.
Quite the statement knowing it doesn't stand on anything don't you think? The only thing we know of immortality are our own depictions of it. Depictions that come from a specie doomed to die and therefore forced itself into believing that their fate is just and that the alternative was a curse. It's easy and even logical to have this mindset when you have no choice in the matter anyways, but when the day come where we will be given the choice this mindset will only be detrimental.
I've just realized that the homer of the future at one point remember the love that there was in his family in the past episodes (you can see the number of the different episodes in the upper center) and then he feel sad because he realizes what is family is become
This couch gag really is brilliant. Almost single-handedly justifies the existence of modern Simpsons, because then we wouldn’t have this perfect satire of it.
It's truly amazing how many different emotions this couch gag portrays. It's so random it's hilarious, it's sad knowing that overtime the structure of the show began to crumble until it was nonsense, and Homer realises this, it's confusing due to it's strangeness, but it's also beautiful because of it's story.
Not just the series will crumble into nonsense. Over a long enough timeline, physics dictates that EVERYTHING will eventually "crumble" into "disorder". Or entropy, as it is called in thermodynamics. Every system, including the universe itself, has increasingly more disorder over time, and everything trends towards this disorder. For example, it's easier to scramble an egg than to unscramble one. Our bodies decay and break down rather than remaining well. Individual cells die and break apart into their constituent chemicals to be smeared across the cosmos. Even the fact that it's so much easier to destroy a life (be it murder or socially) than to create one. The latter takes years of hard work. But only a brief moment to destroy. The list goes on.
1:34 this specific part of the "gag" is what gets me, there are so many different emotions that it provokes (comfort, horror, nostalgia, despair, love, just to name some) the date of the episode is unreadable which just leads to the conclusion of how far this specific episode is into the history of the show which i find terrifying the music choice fits really well too (Chopin, Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2), it gives a sense of security and that life goes on but with a sense of melancholy in some way
I though this gag was from the new season... then I look the description... 6 years has passed. He knew it. He knew what was going to happen in a few years later.
He has made his own full (non simpson) version of this. The title includes "tomorrow", but I can't remember it wholly. Jacob Geller mentions them in his video. Those episodes take much more time to explore the idea, if that's fascinating you (like it does me).
For some reason this allows me to genuinely feel what it would feel like to lose someone I love, and cry as if they are dead, and so hold them that little bit tighter while they still live.
I always cry on this clip. The idea that there is a kind of inconditional love, that can defeat time, physicality and even human purpose it’s so beautiful. That makes life worth living. The idea that we can feel love.
"I will never forget you" This has such darker implications like everything was rest and the simpsons were brought back using random assortments of whatever was available which is why they are now nothing more than an assortment of catchphrases and merchandise.
*inaffectually slaps face* "Still love you, Homar" Been breaking down crying to this for the last 20mins, Their love is eternal and they will love each other through everything, The toughest situations, they'll always end up together.
I honestly think this is like the only Simpson clip I've seen in at least the last ten years that managed to feel meaningful. Such an powerful critique of the "Zombie Simpsons" era of the show, where all characters have devolved into empty shells of who they initially were in service of pop culture gags and endless nonsensical pop-culture infested plots , pusing this critique even futher showing how the show will basically never end and keep devolving into a formless mess where even the characters will have trouble remembering the good times as they were like 1000 years ago and all the recent shows will keep getting worse and less coherent over time. I'm amazed that the Show greenlit this hard-hitting critique as their official couch gag.... They really captured the essence of the fall of the simpsons and the minuscule pockets of humanity and emotion that remains in a sea of neverending mediocrity.
The thought that in the far future, when human evolution has reached a point where people shapes and behaviours are completely alien to us "present people", advertising is still a dominant force that override brain processes, is oddly terrifying.
Even formless, there was still a connection. The connection was maybe even governed by feelings or experience. After evolution stopped making sense. Something was familiar. Amazing.
Don has a sort of unifying theme amongst his works. The issues with immortality and the importance of living in the moment. Our mortality gives definition to our lives (what is happiness without sadness? what is good without bad? and what is life without death?) but what happens if we don't die? According to this couch gag, we live to the point where we no longer recognize ourselves and become satirized versions of our past. If we live an infinite amount of moments forever, what importance does it give to the one we feel right now? What if the future gets worse and worse and worse?
I don't watch the show anymore I stopped in the early 2000s so I hadn't seen this. But seeing this Hertzfeldt was amazing. I love the tone of it and how it captures the idea of immortality. The I still love you bit crushed me. Thank you for sharing.
when around age 5, most people struggle to hold memories of when they were a baby. around age 14, you struggle to hold memories of when you were a baby or when you were 5. It gets worse and worse as time passes, losing memory of more and more of your life. Our lives aren't long enough for this to get much worse without other mental conditions like dementia. However, if something keeps going and lives forever, what memory would be left?
The Simpsons has run for so long now that it's just tortured, twisted shell of itself. Spouting meaningless one liners, perverted from what the characters used to say when the show was decent and relevant. Maggie just informs us to buy their merch, in a blatant admission of how commercial the show has gotten. The sad D'oh in the end underlines that Homer realises that they have become what they used to satirize: pop culture.
I remember this came out on my birthday when I was young, and when I came home to watch this episode on the Sunday night, it scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t not think of it for a while. Guess I couldn’t appreciate existentialism at the time.
You know when you hear those stories about humans who shifted their consciousness into computers or robots to become immortal, then somewhere along the way realise they should've just allowed themselves to die, remembering all it was to be human before they morphed into a machine? This is kind of what I think that feels like, just sadness for what you turned yourself into.
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Currently 2020, your comment is listed as 3 years old, wow, you put the shark jumping off the cliff point at 2002 as well huh. It must be objective fact then. It transcends opinion.
At some point this intro gave me some "the caretaker's everywhere at the end of time" vibes, especially the part where marge says, "i'll never forget you"
When the couch gag is more interesting than the episode itself
Ikr?
That’s been true for a loooong time now..
@@HailAnts word 😔✊
The rick and Morty one also falls into that category
That's pretty much all the recent seasons
I think it’s very powerful - it’s about the Simpsons being immortal, long outlasting their original purpose and now reduced to absurd parodies of themselves. Homer remembers when the show still featured them as a family and not just spouting advertisements and repeating catchphrases. The line “I will never forget you” appears in perhaps the most abstract scene in the short, right before Homer realizes they might has well have already forgotten each other in these new forms. He is saddened by the Simpsons’ loss of purpose and structure.
Good breakdown. It was profound and touching when I wasn't laughing.
Nathan Blair well said
I’m crying
How did the showrunners allow this critique on the show? Don't they constantly try to refute the argument that the show has now become bad? Did they just not notice it, or do they just not care? It's a beautiful couch gag with a sadly realistic message, but I'm just confused on how it got allowed.
@@thebatmanfan1309 Simple. They didn't understand it.
I remember falling asleep watching the NFL games that week and waking up when this came on and legitimately thought I had gone insane.
I would have thought I was having a fevered dream, to be honest
Good times.
Adult Swim: "They took our job!"
FUCKING MADLAD
I can see how you would think that.
I kind of teared up when future Marge told Homer that she still loved him.
That was probably the only "real" Hertzfeldt moment on this... Because the rest was so scripted to; "Look, you have to reference all your animations on this gag, so people can recognize your work"
I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU ;_;
Yeah... Donnie has that skill, in spades. I highly suggest watching all his creations.
@@S4BRETOOTH You're cynicism is embarrassing. I've been there. Have fun.
@@wrarmatei What are you talking about? I am having fun. xD
Don't project your problems on random people on the internet.
I STOPPED BEEMING THE SAMPSANS INTO MY CRANIAL NETWORK AFTOR SEASAN 20,003 I REALLY DIDNT FLAP MY FLIPPERS AFTER THAT. PRAISE BE THE GODS OF THE TWO MOONS
Mason R PRAISE BE THE GODS OF THE TWO MOONS
Mason R ALL ANIMALS CAN SCREAM
DO'H DO'H DO'H DO'H DO'H DO'H DO'H FAMILY MEET ME IN KITCHEN DO'H DO'H DO'H DO'H DO'H DO'H
Nathan Blair DONT HAVE COW MAN!
I FLAP MY FLIPPERS BUT ONLY WHEN NO OTHER NEURAL NETWARK IS OBSERVING.
Perhaps the dark lord of the twin moons is Mickey Mouse - a reference to his iconic ears
Fitting considering
What about, “All animals can scream?”
@@Jammer439y8 it rappresent theirs never ending agony as animals can actually scream for exprime themself but they cant because they are just an draw on an paper despite everything that is happening to then
Unlikely as you need three circles to make a Mikey mouse silhouette. Plus its dark lord of the two moons. Not lord of the two dark moons which would support your theory
_rappresent_
She never forgot.
“You are Lisa Simpson”
But sadly it became hollow over the years, apparently.
At that point, there would probably be an episode where Mr. Bergstrom comes back because reasons.
Forgot it a long time ago. She's repeating it cuz it was important for the former version of her to remember this simple truth. And she kept repeating it, but eventually forgot the meaning of it. Now, the sentence's substance is forever lost, as she's now a mindless and empty creature
Why she says that she Simpson if the program name is the sampsans
Bart is stuck in his catchphrase, Don’t have a cow, man!
Flanderization to the extreme. Perfect parody of what the Simpsons has become
Diddly doodly
Stupid flanderization
Who could have imagined, that the show where the term "Flanderization" comes from, would do that to its characters?
Everyone's seen that one CZcams video and now throw that word around constantly
@@PowerTrain611 you can travel into the future and no one can tell the diddly-ifference!
The "I still love you, Homer," and the "I will never forget you," those two lines are the most powerful phrases I've ever heard in The Simpsons, especially in a couch gag alone.
It was said as 'Homar' wasn't it? as in the evolution of language type letter replacement.
You might like ARG's
plenty of very chilling, haunting, but ultimately sweet stories
Actually, I think the most powerful line here was one that you would have missed the significance of, unless you were on the lookout for it. "All animals can scream". It seems to be a statement that every living thing experiences suffering. Even though living things SHOULD just be shaped by evolution to be machines for reproducing themselves the most efficiently possible, for some reason, the same forces have shaped them into having this other thing in common with each other even though they came about that same result independently through adaptations to many different conditions, that existence is pain for everything that lives by its very nature.
"still love you homar" echoes in my mind every so often
I honestly found the “I still love you homar” and “I will never forget you” oddly wholesome
The funny thing is that she ends forgetting him.
Yeah that was felt. I felt that.
The I will never forget you gave me a feel of dread for some reason...it stopped luckily
*homar
“I’ll never forget you Fry”
“MEMORY DELETED.”
I love how this is Don’s way of showing that overtime, the Simpsons have become so flanderised and product-driven, to the point that 100,000 episodes in the future, they are all spouting a single catchphrase or telling you to purchase merchandise (even Marge says “dark lord of the twin moons”, which someone in the comments theorised was a reference to Mickey Mouse and his ears). Then it cuts to flashbacks of other episodes where they love each other and have at least some sort of sentience, right before cutting back to them all spouting either their one catchphrase or random words.
i cant believe they missed on calling those extra months on the future calendar, "Smarch"
Probably they forgot it. That's the theme of the intro after all.
You expect modern simpsons writer's to capture what made the show great to begin with? Cute.
@@poiz921 this ain't a modern simpson's writer making this tbf
Would have been a nice Easter egg to call back to classic simpsons
Clearly Smarch is after Septembar
i remember watching this as a kid and i've just been introduced to don hertzfeldt as an animation student. his work always blows me away.
Tuesdays coming did you remember your jacket?
I remember watching “its a beautiful world” at a similar time and that blew me away as well, never knew this couch gag was made by the same guy until recently
So have you found work yet?
@@YOMAMAXXL my spoons too big
hes a hack
Imagine watching the rest of the episode with the mood you got from the couch gag.
Can we just talk about that this gag is literally mocking show itself for having a flanderized characters and no progression at all?
Everyone here is talking about that
@@thewiseoldfox
Do it some more
Depth like that is just too much for the writers of Simpsons to catch I mean cmon they put this gag on the worst episode possible
"Can we talk about the thing that everyone's already talking about?!" Ffs, read the comments first.
The Simpsons has a long history of this. One of the longest jokes in the show is how they always make fun of their network.
@@johnmartinez7440 fucking THANK YOU
Homer finally remembers
amongst what his family has become, Homer is still alive inside but can't do anything about the flanderization. He remembers when they could do something about it the only way they knew how to: love. As Marge says she will never forget him the episode ends and presumably switches to a new season, the one this short takes place in.
But Marge couldn't keep her promise
AMONG
this is so deep z🤪🤪😜😜🤪😜😜🤪
The perfect person to troll everyone watching thinking nothing surprising would be in the show anymore.
This technically isn't IN the show, it's the opening to the show. ;)
justaguy12345 last time I checked, the opening to a show is, uh, part of the show
@@Flackon Yo men epasode numbar 164.775.7¿
a commentary about the extended runtime of the show inevitably leading to its own trajectory into meaningless garbage is somehow an own on the people making that exact criticism?
@@Captain.Mystic the creators and staff of the Simpsons didn't make the intro. Don Herzfeld did.
Having watched Don Hertzfeldt stuff, this makes so much more sense.
I remember seeing this as like a 13 year old kid, pretty big "what the fuck" moment
Yea I love his stuff man
The mention of the "Outernet" in the text is a reference to his works too. Specifically, his great "World of Tomorrow" animated short.
yeah i could see how this could be baffling to someone not familiar with his work, but i was just thinking the whole time "this is the most don hertzfeldt shit I've ever seen" lol. this guy's got a very distinct style.
“I will never forget you.”
"DdOoOnT"
"DOOnT hAve cOw, MAn"
"MAKE PURCHASE PF THE MERCHANDISE"
I AM SIMPSON I AM SIMPSON
DON'T HAVE COW MAN
ALL HAIL THE LORD OF THE TWIN MOONS
MAKE PURCHASE OF THE MERCHANDISE
This one hit hardest
D'oh.
ONLY EGGS CAN SUSTAIN ME.
Hey wait a minute, that’s a funee reference.
I AM YOUR CHARACTER ARC.
𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚?
@@Marigoldpyre if you ever talk to us like that again you're going to have a big problem
*I GO BUY EGGS FOR BART*
Thank you Jacob Geller for bringing this wonderful opening to my attention.
Seems that even in its perpetual death spiral, The Simpsons couch gags can still surprise us.
Lol they’re like the only good thing about the show now
There's so many great animators working who just don't get the exposure. Adult Swim's "Off The Air" and FX's "Cake" are two great venues for them.
There have been 153 episodes since this episode
@@snappee Nah, the couch gags are mostly shit too. This was definitely a fluke.
@@zoewells3160 You've watched them all?
Thank you, Jacob Geller. May you enlighten many more.
My friend showed me Rejected a while ago and I've known about It's Such A Beautiful Day for a long time, but I didn't know they were by the same guy. Now that Jacob Geller made that video, it renewed my interest in Don Hertzfeldt's work and I was able to order It's Such A Beautiful Day on Blu-Ray, so I'll finally be able to watch it. I love Jacob's content so, so much.
I've always loved Don Hertzfeld his blend of surrealism, existentialism, and dark humor I amazing from his little online animation redacted to his amazing film it's such a beautiful day he will always impress me with his talent
God, “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” is a life-changing film. It broke something inside me that I don’t think can ever be repaired.
hertzfeldt is a hack
My anus is bleeding
@@PonderousEclectica4383 How?
@@xenodude4718 the quote is from one of dons films. I forgot which one its from though.
The strange misspellings of most words remind me of even right now, languages of the world are constantly changing. The English we spoke 500, 200, even 100 years ago is not the English we're speaking now (for example, "nice" once meant "foolish" by the 1500s). Who knows what it would look like hundreds of years into the future?
shut up means quarantine
@@fatblackcap4532 oh god no means covid 19
btw that wasnt an insult
it actually means quarantine Im not telling u to shut up
@@fatblackcap4532 i wasnt getting mad at ur comment
This is why things shouldn’t and don’t last. Because if they did, everything would just become deformed to the point that you can’t recognize it anymore. That’s why I don’t want me or anyone to be immortal. edit : heyo! this is indeed my opinion, and is not actually a fact! i was pretty disturbed and upset by the video at the time of writing this comment! please understand that!
Whereas should we advocate the process of coming into existence like a storm, or at the very least aspire to be impactful. Which it in itself stirs the ocean, changes something, express and/or address a message/point... Pretty much “does its thing”. Then, it quietly exits the stage after it has brought forth its case to the table of discussion. Leaving the world to ponder about it in the serene wake after the storm.
Fuck that, I wanna live almost forever. The only point in which I might not want to be alive anymore is when the entire universe is pitch black.
Quite the statement knowing it doesn't stand on anything don't you think? The only thing we know of immortality are our own depictions of it. Depictions that come from a specie doomed to die and therefore forced itself into believing that their fate is just and that the alternative was a curse. It's easy and even logical to have this mindset when you have no choice in the matter anyways, but when the day come where we will be given the choice this mindset will only be detrimental.
Fucking stop me.
I don't like humans, they make my brain hurt.
I've just realized that the homer of the future at one point remember the love that there was in his family in the past episodes (you can see the number of the different episodes in the upper center) and then he feel sad because he realizes what is family is become
When marge says she still loves homer is so beautiful and how he’ll never forget her (,: oh don, making me tear up to weird stuff.
This couch gag really is brilliant. Almost single-handedly justifies the existence of modern Simpsons, because then we wouldn’t have this perfect satire of it.
It's truly amazing how many different emotions this couch gag portrays. It's so random it's hilarious, it's sad knowing that overtime the structure of the show began to crumble until it was nonsense, and Homer realises this, it's confusing due to it's strangeness, but it's also beautiful because of it's story.
Well said
Not just the series will crumble into nonsense. Over a long enough timeline, physics dictates that EVERYTHING will eventually "crumble" into "disorder". Or entropy, as it is called in thermodynamics. Every system, including the universe itself, has increasingly more disorder over time, and everything trends towards this disorder. For example, it's easier to scramble an egg than to unscramble one. Our bodies decay and break down rather than remaining well. Individual cells die and break apart into their constituent chemicals to be smeared across the cosmos. Even the fact that it's so much easier to destroy a life (be it murder or socially) than to create one. The latter takes years of hard work. But only a brief moment to destroy. The list goes on.
They should change the name of the show to "The Couch Gags" since they're really the only thing worth watching at this point.
In the words of a great man,
“So you’ve achieved immortality. Now what?”
Homer's final "d'oh" is actually equal parts funny and touching. In other words, a moment one would find in great classic Simpsons.
1:34
this specific part of the "gag" is what gets me, there are so many different emotions that it provokes (comfort, horror, nostalgia, despair, love, just to name some)
the date of the episode is unreadable which just leads to the conclusion of how far this specific episode is into the history of the show which i find terrifying
the music choice fits really well too (Chopin, Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2), it gives a sense of security and that life goes on but with a sense of melancholy in some way
No. 2 ?
I though this gag was from the new season... then I look the description... 6 years has passed. He knew it. He knew what was going to happen in a few years later.
4 years? Your calendar must be wrong.
@@hypnotised-clover 6 years... thanks
He knew!
It was already terrible in 2014
What was already happening**
How cool would it be if they let him do an entire episode?
He has made his own full (non simpson) version of this. The title includes "tomorrow", but I can't remember it wholly. Jacob Geller
mentions them in his video. Those episodes take much more time to explore the idea, if that's fascinating you (like it does me).
@@kiram.3619 "World Of Tommorow"
The addition of Krusty at the end is so perfect 😂
For some reason this allows me to genuinely feel what it would feel like to lose someone I love, and cry as if they are dead, and so hold them that little bit tighter while they still live.
It does. Because all we have left... are memories.
STILL LOVE YOU HOMAR
"I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU."
ALL ANIMALS CAN SCREAM
doh...
@@EthanTheGamer77 DONT HAVE COW MAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
MAKE PURCHASE OF THE MERCHANDISE
I always cry on this clip. The idea that there is a kind of inconditional love, that can defeat time, physicality and even human purpose it’s so beautiful. That makes life worth living. The idea that we can feel love.
Honestly, I'd believe it if The Simpsons would still be going even in an All Tomorrows kind of future.
Someone finally said it
That last doh is the most powerful doh I’ve ever heard
It wasn't a Doh of anger.
It was a Doh of regret.
Something like this would work well as the final scene of the series
Like that's ever gonna happen
"I will never forget you" This has such darker implications like everything was rest and the simpsons were brought back using random assortments of whatever was available which is why they are now nothing more than an assortment of catchphrases and merchandise.
You get it.
*inaffectually slaps face* "Still love you, Homar"
Been breaking down crying to this for the last 20mins,
Their love is eternal and they will love each other through everything,
The toughest situations, they'll always end up together.
Moral of the story, if the Simpsons keep going on like this, things will get a scwed up. Also, ALL HAIL THE DARK LORD OF THE TWIN MOONS!
Mr. X Krusty: WTH WAS THAT!?!?
ALL ANIMALS CAN SCREAM!
hate to break it to you.....
Why, thank you :}
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I honestly think this is like the only Simpson clip I've seen in at least the last ten years that managed to feel meaningful. Such an powerful critique of the "Zombie Simpsons" era of the show, where all characters have devolved into empty shells of who they initially were in service of pop culture gags and endless nonsensical pop-culture infested plots , pusing this critique even futher showing how the show will basically never end and keep devolving into a formless mess where even the characters will have trouble remembering the good times as they were like 1000 years ago and all the recent shows will keep getting worse and less coherent over time. I'm amazed that the Show greenlit this hard-hitting critique as their official couch gag.... They really captured the essence of the fall of the simpsons and the minuscule pockets of humanity and emotion that remains in a sea of neverending mediocrity.
Some poor grandmother had a panic attack watching this when it aired
The whole tone of this couch gag dragged "It's such a beautiful day" out of my repressed memories and I'm now clinically depressed again.
1:20 to 1:30 is beautiful
ALL ANIMALS CAN SCREEEAAAM
It's good to know that in the future the writing will be better.
"They'll never stop the simpsons" was a sad song after all
That's a profound study of human evolution right there.
"All animals can scream" aw man..
Has to be one of the most profound gags ever done.
This is INSANE! I loved watching world of tomorrow by don hertzfeldt, And this looks exactly like it! I LOVE IT!!!
Thanks Jacob Geller for guiding me to ~~~this~~~
This feels like a visual representation of everywhere at the end of time and I love it
Oh god oh fuck
That pretty much describes the feeling I got from this
Unsetteling yet really interesting, you can't stop watching this
no it doesn't
it really doesn't
The "i will never forget you" part gives me those vibes for sure
Great now I'm sad cuz dementia exists
Why does this create such an emotional response from me it's a fucking Simpsons couch gag
Don Hertzfelt's work is very tonally similar to Matt Groening's early work. Those melancholic bunnies would love this.
“I will never forget you” makes me sob even to this day
The thought that in the far future, when human evolution has reached a point where people shapes and behaviours are completely alien to us "present people", advertising is still a dominant force that override brain processes, is oddly terrifying.
Loved the “krusty watching the ussr cartoon” reference
Even formless, there was still a connection. The connection was maybe even governed by feelings or experience. After evolution stopped making sense. Something was familiar. Amazing.
Don has a sort of unifying theme amongst his works. The issues with immortality and the importance of living in the moment. Our mortality gives definition to our lives (what is happiness without sadness? what is good without bad? and what is life without death?) but what happens if we don't die? According to this couch gag, we live to the point where we no longer recognize ourselves and become satirized versions of our past. If we live an infinite amount of moments forever, what importance does it give to the one we feel right now? What if the future gets worse and worse and worse?
That ending was amazing
D'ohpe.
I fucking _love_ this intro.
It was scary when I first saw it but now it's just interesting.
*THE SAMPSANS EPASODE NUMBAR 164.775.7*
I died laughing
Even the creations that aren't tangible or material rot and fall apart just like a painting fades away to only leave an empty canvas over centuries
Let in sink in that this couch gag came out 9 years ago - Don Hertzfeldt was on point
Simpsons started as shorts maybe it should go back to that format. These are wildly creative and even profound in their brevity.
I don't watch the show anymore I stopped in the early 2000s so I hadn't seen this. But seeing this Hertzfeldt was amazing. I love the tone of it and how it captures the idea of immortality. The I still love you bit crushed me.
Thank you for sharing.
when around age 5, most people struggle to hold memories of when they were a baby. around age 14, you struggle to hold memories of when you were a baby or when you were 5. It gets worse and worse as time passes, losing memory of more and more of your life. Our lives aren't long enough for this to get much worse without other mental conditions like dementia. However, if something keeps going and lives forever, what memory would be left?
I feel like this is less a comment on the future of the Simpsons than an analogy for it's present....
scifi.txt, really.
better than every episode currently being produced
even Barthood?
I thought this show was canned like 5 years ago. I stopped watching somewhere around the lady gaga episode.
The Simpsons has run for so long now that it's just tortured, twisted shell of itself. Spouting meaningless one liners, perverted from what the characters used to say when the show was decent and relevant. Maggie just informs us to buy their merch, in a blatant admission of how commercial the show has gotten. The sad D'oh in the end underlines that Homer realises that they have become what they used to satirize: pop culture.
When They Were Satiring Pop Culture Every Once In An While Maggie Would Pop Up On Screen Telling Us To Buy The Merchandise
This never gets old. Hertzfeldt is some kind of genius to have the courage to even try this.
Who else had this recomended after watching the Jacob Geller episode?
same here
I'll never get "still love you Homar" out of my head.
this short basically predicts the simpsons cultural significance in the 21st Millennium
itll never go away
this was what introduced me to Don Hertzfelt
I half expected one of them to say “I have no mouth but I must scream.”
This was the first thing that introduced me to this artist
The mood of the part where there's only Homer and Meg giving me flashback of "everywhere at the end of time"
This feels like a creepypasta.
I remember this came out on my birthday when I was young, and when I came home to watch this episode on the Sunday night, it scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t not think of it for a while. Guess I couldn’t appreciate existentialism at the time.
Don hertzfeldt so cute disturbing and goofy .the irony here is Homer is the least devolved and is looking at his family doh.
Krusty at the end really sold it XD
So they really just drop this in the intro and expect me to watch the rest of the episode with my newfound existential crisis?
You know when you hear those stories about humans who shifted their consciousness into computers or robots to become immortal, then somewhere along the way realise they should've just allowed themselves to die, remembering all it was to be human before they morphed into a machine? This is kind of what I think that feels like, just sadness for what you turned yourself into.
All Lisa can remember is what Mr. Bertram told her
AM I the only one that liked this couch gag.
Vianey Vasquez who does not love it?
Vianey Vasquez first time I saw it I was creeped out but then I understood it
I honestly like it a lot.
I'm... pretty sure at least the guy who made it likes it. And the guys who allowed it to air.
No.
“Still love you Homar, we are a happy family, I will never forget you”
BART looks like he’s in so much pain
And remember kids, acknowledging your enormous flaws means you never have to actually fix any of them! EVER!
Krusty's reaction: What the hell was that!?
Pretty much sums up what I was thinking.
That's Undertaker's Reaction Undertaker: Bruh What The Fuck Did She Do To You On This Card Jonathan: Motherfucker! *Facepalmed* Pujols Don't Fucking Roast Me
That pretty much sums up the last 15 years of The Simpsons 😒
Currently 2020, your comment is listed as 3 years old, wow, you put the shark jumping off the cliff point at 2002 as well huh. It must be objective fact then. It transcends opinion.
4 years old now
more like 25 years
T H E Y W I L L N E V E R U N D E R S T A N D
hertzfeldt is a genius. this is a very subversive critique, i’m surprised they let him go through with it
At some point this intro gave me some "the caretaker's everywhere at the end of time" vibes, especially the part where marge says, "i'll never forget you"
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1:16 "sampsans mating gel"