The simpsons predicts the future like economy analysts do: they have each one present you one completely random idea, and eventually, one of them happens.
This is honestly a brilliant commentary on the state of the series. Just now I realize the chronology of this gag. First Homer travels way into the future, when the show has been deprived of all meaning and is merely an advertisement tool. As the Sun rises, Homer remembers all the previous scenarios in which they tried to combat this corporate changes the only way they knew how, loving each other as a family. Presumably just before the last change, the one when They made them incapable of loving anymore, Marge says this last words to Homer: "I will never forget you", knowing that she most certainly will. Homer remembers, but is unable to do anything, he has been reduced to a mere catchphrase.
I think the reason "I still love you" and "I will never forget you" hits so hard is because the show at that point has morphed into an strange unrecognizable mess yet the genuine love between Homer and Marge still persists, after all those years.
@@Silenced23 Last season has the best episode about the marriage (including classic era, in which Homer was honestly not a great husband). The last and current season had a change in creative staff including some old writers and while I won't say it's as good as it used to be, it understands the characters and show that they legitimately love each other at the end of the day. Guess their love somehow has transcended all the corporate bs
I love how homer is the one most unaffected. As the protagonist he must keep some semblance of his original character. Where as marge has been affected so bad that she is a literal mouthpiece
I think it’s an observation on how the simplest of people change the least. Everybody else is nuts and everybody else is a very complex character. Homer is simple. Even Maggie does the same suckle after they’ve all gone insane
Stretch but I think this is a nod to how the voice actor for Marge has irreversible voice damage after doing the voice for so long and now in episodes it sounds strained.
People judge homer in criticising and changing his orginal meaning how he feels. All he has is love, pure an simple in all mess that interpretated it as questionable or ideology that twists something fragile becouse it can. All and all, he loves and the ones that wanted changed for "better outcome" had corrupted themselves.
just to rub salt in the wound: Today's Marge Simpson, of course, doesn't remember prom night in 1974, nor does she remember her time at university in the 1990s. What we know for sure about Marge today is that there will be an episode where with Homer will have to go to marriage counseling, they will work it out, and then there will be another episode exactly the same.
I think Maggie's line is significant in its insignificance. Her speaking has always been a special moment, so by using her to promote the merchandise, whoever still runs the show believes that people would be more inticed to buy their merchandise because Maggie said so.
Probably just a renamed Mr Burns. The nuclear plant in 2018 has two cooling towers, why not? The Twin Moons overlay could be a logo for some merchandise, like how we have DUFF beer IRL.
Uh, no she isn't "always the one to preach." Talk about reaching, bro. And you're missing the actual point. She's praising "the dark Lord of the twin moons" because 1. It's funny. 2. It shows that she no longer has any resemblance to Marge and has forgotten Homer.
This gives me a profound feeling of nostalgia. While homer is trying to make sense of such a surreal and alien scenario, the fact that love is one of the few things that endure through the futurístic nonsense, is really moving. Add chopin's nocturne to top it off. Man, makes me think about life.
People will come and go until names lose all meaning, until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, The Simpsons will live on.
This has gotta be one of my favourite couch gags in the entire show. It's bizarre, yet at the same time, oddly "familiar". It's beautifully disturbing, dreamy and nightmarish, past, present and future all mashed into one little clip. The sort of feel that brings back memories of a time you're not sure even happened. Like driving on an empty highway.
I think this couch gag is a metaphor of what the Simpson's have become, doodles with catchphrases who promote merchandise. The Window reminded Homer of an era when the Simpson's had some character.
A pretty obvious criticism to what the Simpsons have become, having every time more and more simple and boring episodes in an effort of keeping the series alive Quite bold of them to add this on the show.
Amrita Soada that's not exactly what that was about. The idea is that the The Simpsons could go on for so long that it would still broadcast in an age beyond humanity, with humor, advertising, and ideas that are clearly very vague to us, 30,000-odd years in the past.
@@kovacthesaggy4014 I think that the intro is very vague, so there is no wrong interpretation. I believe that the couch gag displays how the simpsons lost its heart and it goes on as a hollow version of itself, while every character has been reduced to one liners
D'oh D'oh D'oh Family, meet me at The kitchen cube D'oh....D'oh.... I am simpson! I am Simpson! I am Simpson! Don't have cow man! Don't have cow man! Make purchase of the merchandise. All Hail the Dark Lord of the twin moons! I am simpson! Don't have cow man! Don't have cow man! I am Simpson! I am simpson I am ya ya I have memories...Memor..Memor 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵Still love you Homar *squeak* We are happy family *squeak* *squeak*🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎹🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎 *speaking in unknown language* I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU *NOISY CLAMORING* All animals can scream. D'oh.
Dear god this is in the exact opposite thematically speaking from "Everywhere at The End of Time" but it still carries foward the same existential horror and dread . . . Jesus existential horror is awful
Oh, that's what I thought as well, they all repeat the same words except Homer because he's the first thing you think of when you hear 'The Simpsons' everyone else are just...props, easily forgotten so Homer still maintains memories (albeit very distorted ones, especially the 'I will never forget you' memory) they're all...jumbled, delirious, unrecognisable.
I love the commentary on how shows that last long change overtime until they are almost completely unrecognizable from how they were in their beginnings. All the characters have been reduced to catchphrases and corporate mouthpieces. Things have changed so much in order for them to be more relatable to contemporary audiences. Jokes, attitudes, even characters themselves can be completely reworked and altered to be more palatable to newer audiences. Things are added and removed so much, the newest episodes look almost nothing like the first episodes. There's even a term for some of these changes that was named after a character from The Simpsons. The term "Flanderization," named after Ned Flanders, describes when a character from a long running show exhibits more pronounced and over-the-top traits that weren't as prevalent when they were first introduced. It makes writing characters simpler, but they end up forgetting why the character was good in the first place.
that final, "I will never forget you", is quite possibly the most depressingly damning way those words have ever been said, to then immediately be thrust back into a world in which they were proven meaningless, and homer has to simply carry on with the memories of once being loved, once being happy, once having purpose, and now simply just watching the world decay around him and having to simply 'be'. alone.
What if, to the dominant culture of the year 10,535 this is a passable, average-to-good comedy show, and the incomprehensible mess of distorted catchphrases, advertising and [idk, maybe military propaganda about the moon god] is a 100% normal conversation between sitcom characters. Is the dominant culture of this world one that understands what love, family or memories even are? Probably, because Homer in HOMAR's place called his family to the Kitchen Cube and they came. But they use very different words for it, if they even use words or know what words are.
I think it is a parody of the dumbing down of pop culture paired with advertising infiltrating everything, even TV comedy shows. In this future advertisers have dropped all subtlety; right in the middle of an episode Maggie demands that viewers "Make purchase of merchandise" and the scrolling text suggests items the viewer should buy. Is this where our society is headed? That people are born to be nothing more than mindless consumers to feed the corporate machine, buying whatever they are told to buy? I am afraid we are already progressing down that path.
I like the idea that this is some kind of long term project, maybe an artificial intelligence that was designed to keep making Simpsons episodes long after humanity stopped caring about the Simpsons. Imagine Earth being abandoned, most humans now living near Alpha Centauri. In the abandoned remained of Hollywood, a computer core which never shut down, which keeps trying to assemble fresh, "interesting" new episodes, but without any available input from new human culture or human history, is forced to search the same database over and over again until finally resorting to rudimentary shapes, colors, and sounds. This is the best it can do.
@@OriginMSD It doesn't even have to be AI, it could just be the descendants of humanity. Think of how different zoomer memes and ideas are to "conventional" boomer/gen x sitcoms. In a couple generations there could be cyborg-humans, then post-cyborg-humans, then transhumans, then post transhumans, and so on. And all of that could fit in less than 200 years. This couch gag says it's 10,535 a.d. (plus or minus something as the calandar changed to accomodate septembar and smarch). That's 925 and a half generations of humans distant from 2020. Everything Homer (stuck in HOMAR's body) sees of the year 10,535 could actually be a normal sitcom episode made by normal 10,535-era human writers and animators.
Because the Simpsons predicts the future with the area s-4 looking glass devi... Ah I mean because they tend to get things right by chance, yes it just chance. *cough*
It's supposedly a commentary on the decline of the Simpsons franchise over time. The reversal back to the beginning followed by the jolt forward was the first clue. I wouldn't take it too seriously. Ironically, I only watched the first half of the subsequent episode before getting bored and closing the tab.
Allow me to explain. This has many meanings but this one is most accepted. This couch gag creator is saying the more me push our cartoon life spans, the less quality we get in future episodes. Simpsons won't last for ever, we all know that. This is an accurate representation if it did. Homer actually broke the fourth wall when he looked at the window. He flashed back when his episodes were had more quality (sort of) and character. Now, they just repeat their catchphrases and promote merchandise. Before the gag ends Homer says the most heartbreaking D'oh ever. He was D'oh-ing himself asking himself mentally, "How did it come to this?"
I sort of agree, but you're assuming what "quality" is from your current perspective, not the perspective on someone in Septembar 36.4, 10,535. This could be completely normal viewing to them.
Interesting POV. I feel like this is a glimpse into one possible sad future with one truth: advertising is the root of all evil. Since we're talking 'neural network' and they're so advanced (timewise) and evolved, TV isn't even in play; it's all in their minds so imagine a life of just existing and being bombarded with marketing in your mind. Wish they showed these flippers they keep speaking of :) Definitely one of the all time top gags and creepy as f***
I'm sure this has been mentioned more than once in the comments already, but this was done by a very well known award winning animator who people from a certain age group would know. He's the guy who created the short "Rejected" and has made a lot of very good thought provoking shorts and feature length stuff. If this interests you in any way, please please PLEASE give Don Hertzfeld's other material a watch.
The fact that the Simpsons have predicted/foretold MANY events makes this particularly unsettling. Especially when ‘Bart’ keeps repeating “don’t have cow man” Message from the future? Idk, but I also don’t think imma take the chance on it....
It has a more interesting story than the actual episode, not to mention it shows what current simpsons is, animations of yellow people who promote products
1:28 i love how marge slaps homer in the face multiple times kinda reminds me of when someone losses there glasses and they cant see so there just like waving there hand around trying to find it
i love it because its scary. thinking about it makes me depressed, almost crying. but still just one plain emotion, while everything else is inside my head. W H O A!
I'm telling you people one day, they're going to hire OneyNG or someone else from CZcams to animate a couch gag this one is almost like the Simpsons parodies here on CZcams
The second part of this is weirdly sad, seeing The Simpsons weirdly devolve into a mediocre at best show with ideas fleeting, and seeing the characters become mindless and lose all their personality minus a few phrases...
This brings out feelings I never knew I had. Especially the "all animals can scream" and "I will never forget you" coupled with the visuals is just mindblowing
i remember when homer rented out the kitchen cube to some student triangles looking for a place to rent after homer gave the student triangles a generous tip [one quadrilllionth of a dime] the student triangles gave homer some donut pentagons from the coffee shop tetrahedron they work at, were they only make one septillionth of a dime per 400 years homer keeps it a secret from the family marge was annoyed when she found out that the student triangles were living in the kitchen cube, but bart liked them because they had tattoo holograms (he happily exclaimed "dont have cow man!", lisa sympathized with them because they were cubeless (she said "i am simpson" in a sad way) then a celebrity dodecahedron showed up for two seconds and said who they were and everyone was then happy because they saw a celebrity dodecahedron classic EPASODE NUMBAR 161,348.8
That last “D’oh” is especially sad because, that isn’t him simply repeating his robotic catchphrase anymore. It’s his genuine reaction to what he and his family became (or what they could become under the influence of extreme corporatism in their franchise). It’s his most simple and raw emotion, expressed simply about the future of his family and of his whole world. That is what it was meant to be. Not just a marketable catchphrase. It was meant to be An expression of mistake, or regret, or anguish. An emotion. A feeling. Without that, the phrase loses its meaning. Without feeling, without emotion, Life itself loses meaning too.
There's a sad beauty in the noodle-like creatures standing on an abandoned looking planet, one slapping the other and saying "still love you, homer." Or in these jagged yellow shapes vaguely resembling the original Simpsons as they swim towards eachother, almost like they are in water, speaking in uniform; "we are happy family." distorted blobs on a blurred screen with scratches and sketch in the background, completing an incomprehensible scene, yet through all the confusion and distortion, 5 words are spoken; "I will never forget you." All finished by one, sad and thoughtful, _Doh._
This is actually pretty sad. The more the future they go, she starts to forget about him but Homer is still kinda there and knows his family is just catch phrases now.
Read somewhere that Lisa keeos repeating I AM SIMPSON because at the very end she's still holding on to the very last thing and more important thing to her: "You are Lisa Simpson."
This has always been my 2nt favorite couch gag. for one its made by the same guy who made REJECTED. and two I really like how meta it is, saying that the show will eventually just devolve into unfunny one-liners and incoherent political ramblings.
People tend to interpret this as a not-so-subtle metaphor for the state of the show, but I think it applies in more general terms to families who due to varied circumstances have deteriorated past the point of no return. Maybe for economic reasons, or bad decisions, or toxic interactions, or illness, or endoctrination into cults, or maybe just aging. Maybe all of these combined and more, and finding oneself feeling impotent. At least I still have memories. D'oh...
@@hplive7399 This couch gag was a collaboration with Don Hertzfeldt, who has dealt with similar topics in his short films both prior and after this couch gag, most notably the ''It's Such a Beautiful Day" trilogy. The video essay "The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love" by Jacob Geller goes more into detail. I was actually inspired to write that comment after watching "Everything Is Going To Be Okay" (the first part of the aforementioned trilogy) in Don Hertzfeldt's channel: czcams.com/video/1IUX0Qy-IDM/video.html
When a series known for predicting the future shows you this
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The simpsons predicts the future like economy analysts do: they have each one present you one completely random idea, and eventually, one of them happens.
@@Scorponox93 r/woooosh
Please stop dear god please stop ✋
It feels really sad when Marge says: "I will never forget you". For some reason.
Because it's the end of Homer and Marge's love story.
It's sad and it hurts. Homer still remembers the family he loves but they all been- I don't even know what to call it about them.
sTiLl LoVe YoU hOmEr
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@@skullyinc. irrevocably corrupted beyond any semblance of the characters they once were?
This is honestly a brilliant commentary on the state of the series. Just now I realize the chronology of this gag. First Homer travels way into the future, when the show has been deprived of all meaning and is merely an advertisement tool. As the Sun rises, Homer remembers all the previous scenarios in which they tried to combat this corporate changes the only way they knew how, loving each other as a family. Presumably just before the last change, the one when They made them incapable of loving anymore, Marge says this last words to Homer: "I will never forget you", knowing that she most certainly will. Homer remembers, but is unable to do anything, he has been reduced to a mere catchphrase.
Do'h
deep
Emily prime would be pleased.
"They"? Who's They?
D'oh
I think the reason "I still love you" and "I will never forget you" hits so hard is because the show at that point has morphed into an strange unrecognizable mess yet the genuine love between Homer and Marge still persists, after all those years.
But she doesn't anymore. They are now just shells of their former selfs and have become catch phrases.
@@Silenced23 It lasted for so long, but even that was striped away from the show
@@Silenced23 no >:(
@@Silenced23 Last season has the best episode about the marriage (including classic era, in which Homer was honestly not a great husband). The last and current season had a change in creative staff including some old writers and while I won't say it's as good as it used to be, it understands the characters and show that they legitimately love each other at the end of the day. Guess their love somehow has transcended all the corporate bs
@@Silenced23 its a pitifull existance can't believe anyone would desire to live like that.
I love how homer is the one most unaffected. As the protagonist he must keep some semblance of his original character.
Where as marge has been affected so bad that she is a literal mouthpiece
I think it’s an observation on how the simplest of people change the least. Everybody else is nuts and everybody else is a very complex character. Homer is simple. Even Maggie does the same suckle after they’ve all gone insane
Stretch but I think this is a nod to how the voice actor for Marge has irreversible voice damage after doing the voice for so long and now in episodes it sounds strained.
lisa is the funniest one
@@hartennyIs it because she keep saying I am Simpson everytime?
People judge homer in criticising and changing his orginal meaning how he feels. All he has is love, pure an simple in all mess that interpretated it as questionable or ideology that twists something fragile becouse it can. All and all, he loves and the ones that wanted changed for "better outcome" had corrupted themselves.
It feels like the last crumbling goodbye at the end of everything that exists and has ever existed.
Not exactly how I would interpret it.
14 and this is deep
@@Josh-hh2cu "14" what?
Everything at the end of time
@@HowDoYouTurnThisOn_ years old
“I will never forget you” REALLY hits me
It hits hard because she did....
just to rub salt in the wound:
Today's Marge Simpson, of course, doesn't remember prom night in 1974, nor does she remember her time at university in the 1990s. What we know for sure about Marge today is that there will be an episode where with Homer will have to go to marriage counseling, they will work it out, and then there will be another episode exactly the same.
@@IJ_NavarroH they had episodes criticizing this exact thing
"still love you. homar" after all of that. after being a head.
😅@@IJ_NavarroH
I think Maggie's line is significant in its insignificance. Her speaking has always been a special moment, so by using her to promote the merchandise, whoever still runs the show believes that people would be more inticed to buy their merchandise because Maggie said so.
True…
all hail the dark lord of the twin moons
all animal can scream.
Probably just a renamed Mr Burns. The nuclear plant in 2018 has two cooling towers, why not? The Twin Moons overlay could be a logo for some merchandise, like how we have DUFF beer IRL.
IT’S SURROUNDINGS ARE FOLLOWING US
Lord Griffin that is. Max and Monica, you can stop him!
Haha, yes, funny gag huh?
...
czcams.com/video/2BD-ba-aXQo/video.html
“I have no mouth yet I must scream” vibes.
Thought the same thing
all animals can scream
“I have no mouth, and I must Doh”
Just realized: Marge is talking about praising a lord because she’s always the one to preach the episode’s message
I thought it was a reference to her voice actor being a member of Scientology.
@@MrLCGO what the hell
@@MrLCGO no that's bart's isn't it
Twin moon possibly refers to mickey mouse's ears
Uh, no she isn't "always the one to preach." Talk about reaching, bro. And you're missing the actual point.
She's praising "the dark Lord of the twin moons" because
1. It's funny.
2. It shows that she no longer has any resemblance to Marge and has forgotten Homer.
This gives me a profound feeling of nostalgia. While homer is trying to make sense of such a surreal and alien scenario, the fact that love is one of the few things that endure through the futurístic nonsense, is really moving. Add chopin's nocturne to top it off. Man, makes me think about life.
Please shut up. IT IS NOT SAD
IT IS A FAKE TV SHOW COUCH GAG
@@cringehorse don't have cow,
@@cringehorse man.
@@cringehorse Living up to your name, I see.
@@cringehorse your name is quite fitting
This couch gag creeps me out yet i love it
Edit:also did anyone else feel sudden sadness when watching this?
No
Yes, for some reason this one made me uneasy and kind of sad too.
Its the best and most depressing couch gag
It’s very demonic
I was unnerved at first, but when I heard the words "Still love you Homar." I felt bad.
The creepiest part is Homer's face being covered up by the sticky notes in all the pictures.
Yeah I wonder what that means.
When does that happen?
@@battlez9577 0:19
It is just a reference to Marge and Homer divorce
If you’ve seen recent Simpson episodes, Homer is becoming less and less of a prominent figure. Reduced from a fatherly figure to a clumsy nobody.
That "Still love you Homar" always gets me
and then the "i will never forget you" part comes in to kick you while you're already down
I will not cry at a couch gag
_I will not cry at a couch gag_
_I will not--_
People will come and go
until names lose all meaning,
until people lose all meaning
and vanish entirely
from the world.
And still, The Simpsons will live on.
Nice
Is this from a video, isn't ?
@@leandromadeireira8840 It’s from the movie “It’s such a beautiful day” by Don Hertzfeldt (the same guy who made the couch gag)
@@Lombo123 thank you.
And McDonalds.
"All hail the dark lord of the twin moons" Mickey Mouse's ears perhaps?
Ye gods
Who knows? The point is, he will censor the show and force those lines on the show characters
That is a great observation!
Disney didn't own Fox then.
This is awesome yet disturbing
ladies and gentlemen, your nightmares for the next few weeks
I won't watch the Simpsons again
Fucking computer animation evolution show!!!!!!!
Still love you, Homar 😭
Well our current climate of general people in society (if they know it or not.) have become just like this. Manifest into this.
This has gotta be one of my favourite couch gags in the entire show. It's bizarre, yet at the same time, oddly "familiar". It's beautifully disturbing, dreamy and nightmarish, past, present and future all mashed into one little clip. The sort of feel that brings back memories of a time you're not sure even happened. Like driving on an empty highway.
It's absolutely absurd but with JUST enough connection to reality to keep me from dismissing it entirely
Look up "rejected" it's familiar for a reason.
My couch is so big
I think this couch gag is a metaphor of what the Simpson's have become, doodles with catchphrases who promote merchandise. The Window reminded Homer of an era when the Simpson's had some character.
Well, it takes place in the future, so I think it's a warning of what will happen if the show keeps going.
They still have character. They are characters
Everyone: this is so deep
Me: did they just roast the Simpson’s in a 2 minute couch gag?
It's both and more. That's Don Hertzfeldt.
The Simpsons have always been self-aware
"I will never forget you"..and humanity fades away
can we just have an entire episode like this
Either we just did witht this gag or .....
Please no xdd
Or maybe an April fools episode
Nope
Futurama did already
Even after all these years, all this change, Lisa has never forgotten she is Lisa Simpson. I doubt she knows how, or why, but it brings her comfort.
Hey at least she knows she is Sampsan
The animator is Don Hertzfeild
what do you mean by "Ha I get it'?
Andrew Church yeah! He still has 2 cartoons up.
Oh, I love his weird humor...
His humor is sickening but when you finally get it. You'll laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
I hear he has rectal issues
A pretty obvious criticism to what the Simpsons have become, having every time more and more simple and boring episodes in an effort of keeping the series alive
Quite bold of them to add this on the show.
Amrita Soda ok?
Amrita Soada that's not exactly what that was about. The idea is that the The Simpsons could go on for so long that it would still broadcast in an age beyond humanity, with humor, advertising, and ideas that are clearly very vague to us, 30,000-odd years in the past.
@@kovacthesaggy4014 That makes more sense actually, thanks!
@@kovacthesaggy4014 I think that the intro is very vague, so there is no wrong interpretation. I believe that the couch gag displays how the simpsons lost its heart and it goes on as a hollow version of itself, while every character has been reduced to one liners
Ikr, it's like literally the show criticizing it's own decadence and eventual death.
D'oh
D'oh
D'oh
Family, meet me at
The kitchen cube
D'oh....D'oh.... I am simpson! I am Simpson! I am Simpson! Don't have cow man! Don't have cow man! Make purchase of the merchandise. All Hail the Dark Lord of the twin moons! I am simpson! Don't have cow man! Don't have cow man! I am Simpson! I am simpson I am ya ya I have memories...Memor..Memor 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵Still love you Homar *squeak* We are happy family *squeak* *squeak*🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎹🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎 *speaking in unknown language* I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU *NOISY CLAMORING* All animals can scream. D'oh.
Still love you Homar
I have memories.. Memor...Memor....Memor.. 🇮🇹🇺🇸🇬🇧🐆🐴🐎🐅 📱🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵Still love you Homer
Geez Louise WE ARE HAPPY FAMILY!!
HøMAR MEET MEE AT THE SSTTAAGGEE
i need the song
This is funny but also touching in a really weird way. Those "I still love you" and "I will never forget you" have no business hitting that hard
This one couch gag has more meaning than the entire show has had in a decade.
"Still love you homar" and "I will never forget you" okay so I'm crying now
this was the creepiest thing i have seen in the simpsons,it legitimately creeped me out and i'm not easily creeped out
BEAUTIFULLY DARK!
The 'I still love you' and the piano concerto echoing at the end is wonderful. This maybe the best Simpsons moment ever.
"I am Simpson, I am Simpson" constantly, can't stop laughing.
Dear god this is in the exact opposite thematically speaking from "Everywhere at The End of Time" but it still carries foward the same existential horror and dread . . .
Jesus existential horror is awful
Hey, it's going to be okay. :)
Oh, that's what I thought as well, they all repeat the same words except Homer because he's the first thing you think of when you hear 'The Simpsons' everyone else are just...props, easily forgotten so Homer still maintains memories (albeit very distorted ones, especially the 'I will never forget you' memory) they're all...jumbled, delirious, unrecognisable.
I can't explain why, but this is my favorite gag. Had me in tears with my sides aching.
Its somehow both extremely melancholic and upsetting, and also completely hysterical with how on-the-nose it is
I love the commentary on how shows that last long change overtime until they are almost completely unrecognizable from how they were in their beginnings. All the characters have been reduced to catchphrases and corporate mouthpieces. Things have changed so much in order for them to be more relatable to contemporary audiences. Jokes, attitudes, even characters themselves can be completely reworked and altered to be more palatable to newer audiences. Things are added and removed so much, the newest episodes look almost nothing like the first episodes. There's even a term for some of these changes that was named after a character from The Simpsons. The term "Flanderization," named after Ned Flanders, describes when a character from a long running show exhibits more pronounced and over-the-top traits that weren't as prevalent when they were first introduced. It makes writing characters simpler, but they end up forgetting why the character was good in the first place.
Ah yes, the All Tomorrows special
All Tomorrows Is Much Much Worse than This. This is Cute And Nice Compared to It. Thats How Unhuman and How Much the Qu Really did to the Star People.
"In the future, entertainment will be randomly generated"
This gag is talking literally about the end of the entropy and the end of the universe idk if that's a thing a machine could do
@@plusxz821 I hope not
that final, "I will never forget you", is quite possibly the most depressingly damning way those words have ever been said, to then immediately be thrust back into a world in which they were proven meaningless, and homer has to simply carry on with the memories of once being loved, once being happy, once having purpose, and now simply just watching the world decay around him and having to simply 'be'. alone.
Which is literally exactly why I consider this the most depressing moment we've gotten or probably ever will get in this entire show.
1:17. Would kill for some Simpson’s ape spray tho.
You got it wrong, it's actually SAMPSANS APE SPRAY.
What if, to the dominant culture of the year 10,535 this is a passable, average-to-good comedy show, and the incomprehensible mess of distorted catchphrases, advertising and [idk, maybe military propaganda about the moon god] is a 100% normal conversation between sitcom characters.
Is the dominant culture of this world one that understands what love, family or memories even are? Probably, because Homer in HOMAR's place called his family to the Kitchen Cube and they came. But they use very different words for it, if they even use words or know what words are.
I think it is a parody of the dumbing down of pop culture paired with advertising infiltrating everything, even TV comedy shows. In this future advertisers have dropped all subtlety; right in the middle of an episode Maggie demands that viewers "Make purchase of merchandise" and the scrolling text suggests items the viewer should buy. Is this where our society is headed? That people are born to be nothing more than mindless consumers to feed the corporate machine, buying whatever they are told to buy? I am afraid we are already progressing down that path.
I like the idea that this is some kind of long term project, maybe an artificial intelligence that was designed to keep making Simpsons episodes long after humanity stopped caring about the Simpsons.
Imagine Earth being abandoned, most humans now living near Alpha Centauri. In the abandoned remained of Hollywood, a computer core which never shut down, which keeps trying to assemble fresh, "interesting" new episodes, but without any available input from new human culture or human history, is forced to search the same database over and over again until finally resorting to rudimentary shapes, colors, and sounds.
This is the best it can do.
@@OriginMSD It doesn't even have to be AI, it could just be the descendants of humanity. Think of how different zoomer memes and ideas are to "conventional" boomer/gen x sitcoms. In a couple generations there could be cyborg-humans, then post-cyborg-humans, then transhumans, then post transhumans, and so on. And all of that could fit in less than 200 years.
This couch gag says it's 10,535 a.d. (plus or minus something as the calandar changed to accomodate septembar and smarch). That's 925 and a half generations of humans distant from 2020.
Everything Homer (stuck in HOMAR's body) sees of the year 10,535 could actually be a normal sitcom episode made by normal 10,535-era human writers and animators.
that absolutely is the implication, yes
that's transhumanism's end state
It’s basically an extreme representation of media at the moment particularly in America.
This disgusts me, but it somehow makes me watch it over and over again.
Samesies!
The fact that Marge disappears before Homer in this part is scary 1:39
1:18 "sampsans mating gel" oh god
Crazy that they managed to condense every episode of The Simpsons from the 2000's onwards into a single couch gag
Lisa constantly screaming “I am Simpson” instead of “I am *Lisa* Simpson” feels pretty sad considering the substitute teacher episode.
Why do I feel extremely disturbed by this and scared of this, also scared that it might come to life
Because the Simpsons predicts the future with the area s-4 looking glass devi... Ah I mean because they tend to get things right by chance, yes it just chance. *cough*
It is concerning, I'll give you that. Life will inevitably change someday, but into this? I hope not.
because it will
that is the direction we chose for ourselves
It's supposedly a commentary on the decline of the Simpsons franchise over time. The reversal back to the beginning followed by the jolt forward was the first clue. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
Ironically, I only watched the first half of the subsequent episode before getting bored and closing the tab.
1:29 "still love you homar" best line ever
Allow me to explain. This has many meanings but this one is most accepted. This couch gag creator is saying the more me push our cartoon life spans, the less quality we get in future episodes. Simpsons won't last for ever, we all know that. This is an accurate representation if it did. Homer actually broke the fourth wall when he looked at the window. He flashed back when his episodes were had more quality (sort of) and character. Now, they just repeat their catchphrases and promote merchandise. Before the gag ends Homer says the most heartbreaking D'oh ever. He was D'oh-ing himself asking himself mentally, "How did it come to this?"
I sort of agree, but you're assuming what "quality" is from your current perspective, not the perspective on someone in Septembar 36.4, 10,535. This could be completely normal viewing to them.
Alec Ryan Kevin Bryan Rj Delilah Kamahri Josh Bray Scare Factor: sounds like, but it's actually sorrowing
i thought the animators were just screwing around but ok
Interesting POV. I feel like this is a glimpse into one possible sad future with one truth: advertising is the root of all evil. Since we're talking 'neural network' and they're so advanced (timewise) and evolved, TV isn't even in play; it's all in their minds so imagine a life of just existing and being bombarded with marketing in your mind. Wish they showed these flippers they keep speaking of :) Definitely one of the all time top gags and creepy as f***
are you sure you want lay the foundation for your analysis on majority consensus in the age of idiocracy?
ahtdloftm
Welp, this just gave me an existential crisis
1:26 That "Still love you Homer" Is really cute and emotional
I'm sure this has been mentioned more than once in the comments already, but this was done by a very well known award winning animator who people from a certain age group would know. He's the guy who created the short "Rejected" and has made a lot of very good thought provoking shorts and feature length stuff. If this interests you in any way, please please PLEASE give Don Hertzfeld's other material a watch.
MY SPOON IS TOO BIG
I had to scroll far too far to find someone who recognized this animation. Absolutely a Don Hertzfeld work!
@@Rbibaseball57 For the love of God and all that is holy MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!
@@Viper505repiV1 yaaayy yaaaaaaayyy yaaay
MY ANUS IS BLEEDING%,,,,,
The fact that the Simpsons have predicted/foretold MANY events makes this particularly unsettling. Especially when ‘Bart’ keeps repeating “don’t have cow man”
Message from the future? Idk, but I also don’t think imma take the chance on it....
It's a reflection of humanity's devolution. We're regressing,not improving.
1:26 best part
underswap papyrus mos def
underswap papyrus reminds me of KID A
Why do I love this? and what does that say about me?
It has a more interesting story than the actual episode, not to mention it shows what current simpsons is, animations of yellow people who promote products
I know the feeling
Cymrogogogoch that you dont do things in order and accordingly, that is why you can relate, you are becoming wicked.
Something about the lines of depression.
It says your forward thinking, you embrace even the most alien concepts.
1:28 i love how marge slaps homer in the face multiple times kinda reminds me of when someone losses there glasses and they cant see so there just like waving there hand around trying to find it
Simpsons predicted scripts generated by AI
i love it because its scary. thinking about it makes me depressed, almost crying. but still just one plain emotion, while everything else is inside my head. W H O A!
This would have become a lot more powerful if it were the very last episode.
That would be pretty dark...
You think the executives would even think about let the Simpsons end?
This is so awesome. The couch gags have become better and better. I only watch the couch gags and not the Simpsons anymore.
Don Hertzfeld had the time of his life. Amazing!
I'm telling you people
one day, they're going to hire OneyNG or someone else from CZcams to animate a couch gag
this one is almost like the Simpsons parodies here on CZcams
How can something simultaneously disturbing, tender, visceral, touching, sarcastic, genuine, optimistic, horrifying, abstract, and relatable?
This is not a couch gag. It's a full-on commentary of what the Simpsons have become.
Nah this is funnier than what the show is rn
The second part of this is weirdly sad, seeing The Simpsons weirdly devolve into a mediocre at best show with ideas fleeting, and seeing the characters become mindless and lose all their personality minus a few phrases...
cringe pfp
this is the weird side of the simpsons lmao
This brings out feelings I never knew I had. Especially the "all animals can scream" and "I will never forget you" coupled with the visuals is just mindblowing
It’s like watching your sophisticated AI buddy get reduced down to code numbers
Mom: go play with the neighborhood kids
The neighborhood kids: 0:41
“Make purchase of the merchandise”
@@MrAzul184 1:44 make purchase of the merchandise! “Leaves”
truly a D'oh moment.
i remember when homer rented out the kitchen cube to some student triangles looking for a place to rent
after homer gave the student triangles a generous tip [one quadrilllionth of a dime]
the student triangles gave homer some donut pentagons from the coffee shop tetrahedron they work at, were they only make one septillionth of a dime per 400 years
homer keeps it a secret from the family
marge was annoyed when she found out that the student triangles were living in the kitchen cube, but bart liked them because they had tattoo holograms (he happily exclaimed "dont have cow man!", lisa sympathized with them because they were cubeless (she said "i am simpson" in a sad way)
then a celebrity dodecahedron showed up for two seconds and said who they were
and everyone was then happy because they saw a celebrity dodecahedron
classic
EPASODE NUMBAR 161,348.8
"I will never forget you," and "still love you homar" "we are happy family" just to pan out on chaos and see homer sad..
That last “D’oh” is especially sad because, that isn’t him simply repeating his robotic catchphrase anymore. It’s his genuine reaction to what he and his family became (or what they could become under the influence of extreme corporatism in their franchise). It’s his most simple and raw emotion, expressed simply about the future of his family and of his whole world.
That is what it was meant to be. Not just a marketable catchphrase. It was meant to be An expression of mistake, or regret, or anguish. An emotion. A feeling. Without that, the phrase loses its meaning.
Without feeling, without emotion, Life itself loses meaning too.
Sampsans mating gel? I'll take your entire stock!
For those who wanna know who made this beautiful couch gag (for some reason), it was made by Rejected's creator, Don Hertzfeldt
There's a sad beauty in the noodle-like creatures standing on an abandoned looking planet, one slapping the other and saying "still love you, homer."
Or in these jagged yellow shapes vaguely resembling the original Simpsons as they swim towards eachother, almost like they are in water, speaking in uniform; "we are happy family."
distorted blobs on a blurred screen with scratches and sketch in the background, completing an incomprehensible scene, yet through all the confusion and distortion, 5 words are spoken; "I will never forget you." All finished by one, sad and thoughtful,
_Doh._
This is actually pretty sad. The more the future they go, she starts to forget about him but Homer is still kinda there and knows his family is just catch phrases now.
I mean their family are just catchphrases back then too
Except Lisa she has no catchphrase
@@BlizzyP039if anyone wants me i'll be in my room...
This is what nightmares are made of
Homer: My spoon is too big.
My spoon... is too big.
My spoon is too big.
Ralph: /laughs I'm a banana!
Read somewhere that Lisa keeos repeating I AM SIMPSON because at the very end she's still holding on to the very last thing and more important thing to her: "You are Lisa Simpson."
The most psychedelic Simpson part I've ever seen. I agree with those who say it's sad and creepy too.
"ALL HAIL THE DARK LORD OF THE TWIN MOONS"...
This has always been my 2nt favorite couch gag. for one its made by the same guy who made REJECTED. and two I really like how meta it is, saying that the show will eventually just devolve into unfunny one-liners and incoherent political ramblings.
"eventually"
which is your #1 couch gag?
I don't know why homer turning into his Tracey Ullman show version frantically slapping the device and did hideously mutating was so funny.
Wow the Simpsons team even predicted the Disney shorts
it’s such a beautiful day
People tend to interpret this as a not-so-subtle metaphor for the state of the show, but I think it applies in more general terms to families who due to varied circumstances have deteriorated past the point of no return. Maybe for economic reasons, or bad decisions, or toxic interactions, or illness, or endoctrination into cults, or maybe just aging. Maybe all of these combined and more, and finding oneself feeling impotent.
At least I still have memories.
D'oh...
It's a good theory, but i don't think a simple couch gag from the simpsons would go so deep.
@@hplive7399 This couch gag was a collaboration with Don Hertzfeldt, who has dealt with similar topics in his short films both prior and after this couch gag, most notably the ''It's Such a Beautiful Day" trilogy. The video essay "The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love" by Jacob Geller goes more into detail.
I was actually inspired to write that comment after watching "Everything Is Going To Be Okay" (the first part of the aforementioned trilogy) in Don Hertzfeldt's channel: czcams.com/video/1IUX0Qy-IDM/video.html
It feels like even memories are rotting away that anything resembling a coherent memory burns away
I'm crying like a baby over a couch gag
I will always love the macabre vide to this intro and it is very unforgettable. This intro will always have a place in my heart.
"Still love you Homar"
"I will never forget you"
Even if you could live forever. Would you want to?
When the Second Moon arrives and Lord demands mandatory exotubing, people better remember that Simpsons predicted this.
If anything comforts you let it be that you’ve been blessed to be finite
This is a piece of art
The Sampsans is a great shaw.
Even in the year 10535 Maggie’s pacifier still sounds the same.
This is an alternate timeline in which The Simpsons continues over 8.5 thousand years from now
No, *sun date* is 32,8 September 10535, not earth
What do you mean "alternate"
@@agentjohn4313 hes living in the timeline 3223@#@!#@34
this is going to give me nightmares for a while
I'm 100% sure someone in the Simpsons writers team has access to time travel or knows someone who has the ability.
Don't you see this is another prediction of the future
This is unironically better than what the Simpsons have been for the past few years.
When marge said “all hail the dark lord of the twin moons” I lowkey felt that