From Michael Swaim's latest Simpsons Essay. #shorts #simpsons #thesimpsons #cartoon #jordanpeele #movies #funny #youtubeshorts
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00:00Anyway, here's the montage, with the joke in it, that I actually want to talk about today.
00:04We had a lot of great memories.
00:06Except for huge gaps in the western states, Hands Across America was a complete success.
00:12Hands Across America!
00:18Well, Fred, you're going back where you came from.
00:21The curb in front of Flanders House.
00:23That's right, you guessed it.
00:24I want to find out why the hell Helen Lovejoy has neon pink hair in this scene.
00:29My theory is, that's actually Helen Lovejoy's tethered doppelganger from the end of the
00:35Jordan Peele movie, Us.
00:37That creepy scene is also an explicit reference to Hands Across America, the 1986 charity
00:42event aimed at fighting hunger and homelessness in the US.
00:45Wait, but I thought Hoover and the Boys fixed that.
00:48Wasn't that the chicken promise?
00:50I get to park my car in the yard and stuff a chicken in the pot?
00:54Ma!
00:55Where's my working man's lunch pail?
00:57I gotta check something!
00:59The movie, Us, uses Hands Across America imagery to deftly evoke both the concept of tethering
01:05and the hollow hypocrisy of our long history of having big charity events, but then, like,
01:10there still seem to be a lot of unhoused and suffering people around?
01:14What's up with that?
01:15Here's a catchphrase you better learn for your adult years, hey buddy, got a quarter?
01:22I am shocked and appalled.