Question about Homer Simpson's aging montage last night (1 Viewer)

[Ennsio]

For anybody who caught last night's Simpsons episode...

There was a really cool montage of Homer Simpson growing up over the years that just had his head in the middle of the screen while the action in the background changed to reflect what he went through as he got older. It was pretty cool.

My question - my wife and I thought that we had seen a similar thing (with the same music) done in a movie. Does anybody know if the montage was copying a particular movie, and if so, which one?

 

[WillG]

I believe it was meant to parody a popular YouTube video. Hence the YouTube graphics showing up at the end of the Montage.

What caught me though was where it was written on the back of the boat "The End ?" Was that their last fully completed episode due to the writer's strike?

 

[Ennsio]

Yeah, I noticed the Youtube ending to the montage too. Did some searching on YouTube and found the video (picture a day for 39 years) and got the answer to my question. It's a parody of "Noah's picture a day for 6 years", with the same music - Everyday by Carly Comando.

The ending with the writing on the back of the boat caught me too. I thought I read that the whole season was already written by the time of the strike so it would not be affected, but your interpretation of the writing implying it might be the last fully completed episode would make sense. I hope it's wrong though. That was a great episode.

 

[TravisR]

I wondered how Homer had memories of things that other characters did and he didn't see.

What caught me though was where it was written on the back of the boat "The End ?" Was that their last fully completed episode due to the writer's strike?

No, that was only the second episode of the production season (the other 6 or 7 that aired this year were holdover episodes that were produced as episodes of S18) so they have more than enough episodes to have a complete season this year. The longer the strike goes, there may be problems with new episodes in fall 2008.

 

[Matthew_V]

Yeah, I noticed the Youtube ending to the montage too. Did some searching on YouTube and found the video (picture a day for 39 years) and got the answer to my question. It's a parody of "Noah's picture a day for 6 years", with the same music - Everyday by Carly Comando.

Here's Noah Kalina's youtube video and homepage
Here's Carly Comando's homepage

 

[Quiksilver1o9]

The Truman show?