The Simpsons In Real Life

You have to admit, as far as fan art goes, this is pretty great fan art. That’s what they would look like! (One could get into the sort of mind-melty problematics of how even the “real” Simpsons are still just a drawing, which makes them very much not “real” at all but just different “fake” Simpsons, but let’s not. We all get what’s happening here.) I go through a pretty similar thought process sometimes when I’m watching a movie about, like, Jennifer Aniston as a waitress in a strip mall, or something. I try and figure out what that person would actually look and act like. SPOILER ALERT: it’s not Jennifer Aniston that is for sure! Her hair is overdyed and her fingernails are slightly yellow from her lifelong cigarette addiction and her sweatshirt doesn’t fit her very well because it’s not secretly from an expensive store and hasn’t been painstakingly tailored by a professional costume designer. Also: she hates her job and her life in a way that reads throughout her entire body with such intensity that it literally cannot be faked no matter how much your dad is also involved in showbusiness. Anyway, I’m not really sure how you’re even supposed to caption this. I just wanted to share it. But how you caption it isn’t and has never been my problem. So, good luck.

The winner will receive special placement in this week’s Monsters’ Ball. Best. Monsters’ Ball. Ugher. (Via TheHighDefinite.)

Comments (130)
  1. The Simpsons HD

  2. america the beautiful

  3. Art my shorts.

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  5. “This picture used to a lot better.”

  6. Actual human families are all alike; every cartoony family is cartoony in its own way.

  7. Not a caption entry but how come the dad’s legs are cut off?

  8. The sad story behind this is that the family on the left started to fall apart after their eigth year together, but nobody liked to admit it or do anything about it, so they just kept going on, year after year, always aware that they would never get back to those beautiful, prefect, first few years.

  9. Art imitates art.

  10. “Yellow-Painted Jokes”

  11. ~15 years ago it occurred to me that they are eventually going to make a live action simpsons movie. wow, 15 years. that’s a pretty good run we’ve had of NOT having to put up with that shit.

  12. “When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

  13. Sooo… they are the cast of “King of the Hill”?

  14. Double Simpsons all the way!!!!!

    (That’s all I got, you guys.)

  15. “Ah! Fuck the rest of Homer and Bart! The world NEEDS yet another ‘realistic Simpsons’ drawing and damn it if I’m not going to deliver!” -The Artist

  16. *Theme from 2001*

  17. Shouldn’t they all be making out with their counterparts or whatever? You said it was fan art.

  18. “I think we looked better pre-Botox”

  19. Real life already did it!

  20. Real Life Is Hell.

  21. Twenty years, one incredible head-shrinking surgery, the loss of a best friend, one wife and a few kids later, Butthead has finally moved off the couch, and now stands in front of the TV, with his beloved family.

  22. Oh, those outrageous Danish cartoonists, what WILL they do next? Are there no sacred cows? Oh, oh, wait a minute…I think…yes…Don’t have a sacred cow, man! Yay! Do I win?

  23. …Based on the novel Push by Sapphire.

  24. Homer realized what so many Take On Me video reenactors before him had already learned: you can’t be a bizarro cartoon of an adorable Swedish teenager unless you actually are an adorable Swedish teenager.

  25. WORST. FUNHOUSE MIRROR. EVER.

    • That was supposed to be said like the Comic Book Guy. Did anyone get that? I should have included a picture. In other news, I just watched the Kevin Pollak Chat Show episode with Hank Azaria and he explained the origins of the man CBG was based on. Pretty funny stuff.

  26. What a bunch of stupid assholes.

  27. An average and unattractive family looks at a painting. Meanwhile, an online video blog is convinced it is a mirror.

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  29. “American Family Through A Yellow Mirror”
    Anonymous
    Pencil and Ink

  30. It’s like looking into a living shit mirror.

  31. I can literally hear Matt Groening.

  32. Video “Melancholy and Vaguely Existential When You’re Not Really Expecting or Needing That Sort of Emotional Spiral” Gum.

    [not a caption]

  33. We are all real life Hans Molemans (Molemen?)

  34. Seems like the Lisas are creepily staring at each other through the wall.

  35. “Hi.” Hahahaha. Nailed it.

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  37. You know that things are bad when a yellow, bug-eyed version of someone is less terrifying than the original.

  38. Where’s Santa’s Little Helper?


     

  39. Real life Lisa: This is such an intriguing experiment in metapsychology!
    Real life Marge: Hrmmmm… I don’t know, they’re so yellow…
    Real life Homer: I call the big one Bitey.

  40. Did they try to Mad Men themselves?

  41. “Wow, look at those poor bastards. Used and abused by an oligarchic society that sees them only as exploitable property. Just smile politely, everyone.”

  42. its not what you say about art. its what art says about you

  43. Screencap
    The Simpsons Episode 464-3 “Law and Odor: SVPU”
    After an unfortunate incident with a comical duck that makes you think the episode is going in one, kind of promising direction, Homer stumbles upon an FBI crime scene and proceeds to mess things up royally. In order to pay back his debt to the police department, Homer and the rest of the Simpsons are put in charge of the Interrogation Room. But after Bart breaks the one way mirror to provide protection for witnesses and forgets to tell anybody, hi-jinks ensue. Features guest stars Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay and Ice-T.

  44. When you stare into the abyss, sometimes the abyss stares back at you, slightly modified to look more realistic.

  45. Why the hell isn’t real-life cartoon Marge’s necklace red? While we’re at it, Lisa’s dress should be red and Bart’s hair should be blonde! What senseless alterations! #UghHateIt

  46. Bart: Lisa, she said we were leaving.
    Homer: Not leaving. Moving on.
    Bart: Where are we going?
    Homer:(smiling) Let’s go find out.

  47. You can see the trailer for this sitting on cinder blocks.

  48. It’s like staring into the the idiot box & seeing one’s self for the first time.

  49. I thought things were supposed to turn out like the Jetson’s… If this is the future, we’re Big Boned!

  50. Homer: Like looking into a mirror…a big wonderful scary cream-filled mirror…*drool*

  51. reminds me of the South Park kids

  52. We have to go deeper.

  53. “Me fail art? That’s umpossible.”

  54. Why is that mirror sneezing?

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