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Ex Situ: The Interactive Map of Springfield

August 25, 2008

Found by snooping around Cartoon Brew recently, Adrien Noterdaem’s Interactive Map of Springfield doesn’t require much in the way of introduction. It doesn’t even require a The Simpsons reference, like “Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!” or possibly “Trab pu kcip.” What it does require is an appreciation for a lot of effort. Here’s a section to give you the flavor of the thing:

The above is just an inanimate simulacrum. The actual one is indeed interactive, as promised.

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Ex Situ: Why The Simpsons Have Lost Their Way

June 20, 2008

I, like so many other souls, used to be a huge Simpsons fan. Not only did I hate every chimp I saw, but I also intimately knew and treasured what the extra “B” stood for. In the past several years, though, there’s been a lot of wailing of teeth and apologia and controversy about when and even if The Simpsons got bad. Personally, I don’t need to get into all of the details about why I don’t watch The Simpsons any more. Because Cap’n at Blasphemes has done all the work for me.

The good Cap’n has done a good job codifying the primary reasons why the quality of The Simpsons ain’t what it used to be. (Except: I don’t want to get all post hoc ergo propter hoc up in your face, but the The Simpsons didn’t get bad until after Brad Bird left the show. Just sayin’.) Note that the essay was written before the movie came out.

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Mini-Analyzations

January 27, 2008

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There’s a new feature here at J. Cart. Overanal., and it’s called Mini-Analyzations! We’ll throw these up a few at a time. These are all from the old archives.

Again, don’t hesitate to send in your own.

  • I guess it’s worth mentioning that of the 101 dalmatians, the minority of them had blue collars. This has implications ranging from gender discrimination (the color of the collar is associated to the character’s gender) to socio-economic generalizations toward blue collar workers.
    - Contributed by Fawzi
  • In Robotech, haven’t you noticed that the RDF is considered a defense force? Only Japan has a national defense force, and since the show was animated in Japan, it would be obvious that they would be a defense force. If the show was animated in the United States, they would be the Robotech Army.
    - Contributed by Seprihoth5
  • If you will note at the beginning of The Simpsons, the “Simps” part is visible before the “ons” part. This is undoubtedly a reference to the word(s) “simpleton” or “simple-minded,” etc.
    - Contributed by Peter I.
  • In Transformers, all the bad guys were some kind of flying object and the good guys were some type of vehicle.
    - Contributed by LUVMYHALEYBUG
  • The native country of Boris Badunov and Natasha Fatale, Pottsylvania, is basically a combination of the extreme American stereotypes of World War II Germany and Cold War Russia.
    - Contributed by The Editor

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