Until yesterday, I thought you could only get The Simpsons on cable, which we don't have, or through pirated but crystal-clear DVDs, whose mecca in Quiapo Manila Mayor Lim recently had closed--for how long, we're not sure.
Anyway, that was a pretty stupid assumption, give up just because RPN 9 stopped airing the episodes. Hello, we have Internet for the past three years, and practically everything is on offer there: baby chairs, comic books, mineral make-up, keychains, cookies, even ancient episodes of The Twilight Zone. So how much more our beloved Simpsons? So I go typing watch Simpsons online, and what do you know, not one, not two, but a dozen sites stream Simpsons episodes, some of them even up-to-date, although come to think of it: The Ned-liest Catch (the finale of Season 22, where Edna Krabapple and Ned Flanders hook up) was aired last May. Still, better late than never.
After gorging on Simpsons reruns yesterday, I stumble on this: a very dark, gritty, opening sequence that unapologetically self-references the production process of the animation series. Suddenly, the sequence panning the not-so-bucolic, anything-goes town of Springfield veers into a scene from inside the Simpsons TV set, revealing a sweatshop somewhere in Asia where animation stills are painstakingly drawn under dire conditions, and where other outrageous procedures for manufacturing various Simpsons merchandise: Bart dolls, DVD sets, etc.
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