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What do you get when you cross British graffiti artist Banksy with The Simpsons? A morbid dystopian satire of Matt Groening‘s cartoon that has people all over the web talking about The Simpsons again.
This is apparently the first time that the famous Simpsons intro has been outsourced to another artist, and the BBC is reporting that the sequence cause friction behind the scenes and almost caused a walkout from animators.
Banksy took plenty of license with the intro, a supposed critique of the show’s decision to outsource the bulk of its animation to a company in South Korea. Bansky created an elaborate animated sweatshop full of dying unicorns and sickly ragamuffins who idly put together your weekly dose of Simpsons kitsch every week. But what do you expect when you ask a controversy-baiting graffiti artist to do your animation? Take a look for yourself:
