Sometimes, the voices of the characters are a lot different, eg, Homer's is lower and their mouths move weirdly. The colours are also no not so bright. It's hard to explain unless you've seen them but they just aren't right. Are these maybe just old episodes? I don't remember Simpsons ever being that amateur looking and the episodes seem to be scattered about and mixed in with the 'normal ones'. If anyone can shed any light, thank you.
2007-02-01 20:58:02 · 15 answers · asked by Michelle H 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
No they are not fakes, the episode on channel 4 last night was a very old one, if you want to check out the really crudely drawn an animated stuff track down the Tracy Ulman shows from the 80's that is where Groening got his break, I wonder where Tracy is these days. Below is the synopsis for tonights C4 episode, Series 1 Episode 3.
2007-02-01 21:11:29 · answer #1 · answered by ♣ My Brainhurts ♣ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are just watching earlier episodes, most likely from the first season. They were still getting used to how the animation works, but they pretty much cleaned it up by the second season. The odd moputh movemants(I'm assuming your mainly talking about Bart) were actually done on purpose and called "twister mouth"s where the mouth moves seperately from the rest of the face.
The colors that were screwed up happen on the newer show too, just not seen as often. They didn't have a big budget then, so it was realy hard for them to get color retakes. And it's even less expensive now, because they went to difital in the 14 season. It's all on computers now; no more cels (which by the way are worth a pretty penny because of this).
As for the voices, When Dan Castellenetta first began to record the show on the Tracey Ullman Shorts, He decided to do a Walter Mathow impression, but as he began to realize that it was to hard to get all of Homer' expressions with a deep voice, so it evolved into what it is now.
2007-02-02 22:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by EL BARTO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Simpsons has been on for what 18, 19 years now? And I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes is shocking how crude the drawings are, and even the pace of the shows seem slower.
Throughout that time the shows art work has been refined and cleaned up over the years with the advent of digital technology and of course the many different artist coming and going.
The voice actors have aged that much too, along with simply honing a voice, there will be noticable differences between the newer ones and one thats is 15 years old.
Also those syndicated copies get pretty beat up and recopied over and over so they will look pretty washed out sometimes.
It's still the best show on TV.
2007-02-02 05:09:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
These are the old episodes of he Simpsons. The characters were not fully developed except Patty and Thelma i seem to remember.
Isn't it wierd how Mr. Burns and Homer just aren't funny in the early episodes, even though the voice over people are the same?
2007-02-02 05:08:02 · answer #4 · answered by Ether Man 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, these are just old episodes. I wondered myself, until I saw a program on tv about the life of the Simpsons, and saw some of the old episodes. People have obviously gotten better at drawing cartoons over the years.
2007-02-02 05:06:34 · answer #5 · answered by the_happy_green_fish 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those are the old episodes - they are really strange to watch. Especially with Homer's voice different, and the mouth thing.
2007-02-02 09:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ones being shown on C4 aren't fake. They're the Series One ones which haven't been seen for a while.
And yes, everyone's voice has changed since then! The only voice I notice who hasn't changed is Marge's. Like everything else, the drawings have changed too - they went digital around season 4.
2007-02-02 05:11:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you're watching are the very old episodes of the Simpsons. Remember, they have been around since the eighties I think.
2007-02-02 05:00:52 · answer #8 · answered by Princesspoison 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They are just early episodes, where the graphics and the sound quality wasn't as good. Like the episodes on Sky one last night.
2007-02-02 05:01:03 · answer #9 · answered by Ritch 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those are the very first episodes of The Simpsons that used to be aired on the Tracey Ullman show. It wasnt supposed to be a long running thing then, it was supposed to be 5 episodes of a dysfunctional family. A modern take on the Flintstones!!
2007-02-02 05:00:43 · answer #10 · answered by natasha * 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋