Did anyone catch the jarringly dark opening sequence for The Simpsons this week? The opening sequence for the “MoneyBART” episode was directed by British graffiti artist Bansky, whose name was scrawled in black spray paint across the town of Springfield amidst a few ominous crows.
At the end of the usual opening, the scene of the Simpsons taking a seat on their couch pans out to reveal itself as a screening in a gloomy sweatshop of the fictional 20th Century Fox animation studio.
Rows of Asian workers are shown laboring over individual cells on transparencies for an episode of the show. A transparency is passed on to a little boy who dips it in a vat of radioactive goop while a rat drags a bone from a pile of dead workers.
Below the surface lies a factory in the dank caverns where the merchandise is made. A worker shoves kittens from a stuffed cage into what looks like a wood chipper to create the stuffing for a batch of Bart dolls. A panda harnessed to the bin carries the toys to a shipper, who then stuffs them in boxes using a severed dolphin head to seal them shut. The horn of an emaciated unicorn chained to the wall is show being used as a hole punch for the center of DVDs before it collapses to the floor.
The focus zooms out of the factory to reveal a color-drained 20th Century Fox sign flashing in the middle of a barbed-wired complex.
The sequence ends by returning to the TV set to flash the remaining credits to the end of the theme music, as usual. Very chilling and dark, and honestly quite self-defaming.
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