The Simpsons Recreate Historical Photographs

The TV series The Simpsons is now in its 34th season, with 745 episodes and counting. In that time, it has become a vast archive of cultural references. The one we hear about most often is how the show predicts the future, although that is just the writers staying on top of trends -and how our world is becoming more cartoonish. Another you may or may not have noticed is how the characters sometimes strike a pose in homage of a particularly historical photograph. Sometimes it's just a screenshot of a split second, and you have to be very familiar with the photograph to catch it. But if you are, they are unmistakeable. Simpsons creator Matt Groening obviously doesn't expect everyone to get it, but enough audience members do to make it worth the trouble.

A Simpsons fan on Twitter who goes by Criminalsimpsons compiled a collection of these instances in which The Simpsons recreated some iconic photographs. They are a treat for those who recognized them.

See plenty more of these in the thread at Twitter, or at Thread Reader if you prefer. Criminalsimpsons has also done threads on movie references in The Simpsons, and also art references. -via Everlasting Blort


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Great post! I remember the accident on the set of The Twilight Zone movie when it hit the news and only watched it because of that. The movie was pretty horrible all around, but I was morbidly fascinated by that particular segment.
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Yeah Staxeon, I was going to say the same thing: no mention of one of the most famous deaths on a movie set in recent history, Brandon Lee, (though I suspect it's mentioned in the complete article). What a tragedy.

I wish someone would start again withe River Phoenix movie "Dark Blood," because that plot sounds pretty cool.
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I don't know about you guys, but I liked Wagon's East.

On a side note, I had no idea Heath Ledger had a 3 year old daughter. What the hell was he doing popping pills?
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Justin,

I don't know the real facts, but according to "sources" he died from a reaction to combination of over the counter pharmaceuticals. As for people deliberately knocking themselves off even though they are a caregiver, isn't a new idea. You just hear about it less because those people aren’t in the eye of the media.
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Is that a screenshot of Morgan as the wizard or as the gatekeeper? It appears that he's at the gate of the Emerald City, so I would imagine that there he's the latter (as opposed to what the caption says).
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I was disapointed too that The Crow wasn't mentioned, but I would have to say that I was horrified at the 2 movies that were spawned afterwords (the 3rd movie direct to video apparently) and the god awfull TV show that were released years after The Crow was released.
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They actually came out with a fourth crow movie, and it was also straight to video. They really tried to recreate the magic of the first, with typically awful results.

At least the second (City of Angels) had a father's love for a his kid be the reason for coming back, not the typical boy meets girl.
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Jon Erik Hexum also died on the set of his new TV Series "Cover Up". He was the star of the TV Series "Voyagers" which was a highly rated and watched show on NBC at the time.
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Sadly there's also no mention of great character actor Roy Kinnear, who died from injuries suffered from falling from a horse while shooting 1989's Return of the Musketeers.
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"Gladiator" was dedicated "to our friend, Oliver Reed." His death during filming was made even more poignant by the fact that his character, Proximo, dies during the course of the film. The CGI work is truly well-done; unless you know where to look, you wouldn't know it's CGI, and I'm not sure even then. Sad, because "Gladiator" might have launched a return to acting for him.
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I was disapointed too cuz The Crow wasn't mentioned, it's one of my favorites. If it's going to have a remake, I'd be quite happy to see it, but I hope they don't ruin it...
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@arrghiamapirate
Bruce Lee did not die while dubbing Enter the Dragon.
He actually died in Betty Ting's Apartment from a reaction to a painkiller given to him by Ting. Its rumored that they were having an affair.
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