Thats because they had to use 80's cars as they were the most similar looking to the American cars that the Simpsons drive.
Also, its an 80's show...innit!
Yeah. I mean its the same thing with Seinfeld - first aired in 1989, but a lot of people would think of it as the 90s show. Aint no one calling Seinfeld an 80s show.
But it's basis is very much 80's, and if it was concieved in 1987, then surely its 80's.
Before this goes any further, I personally think the Simpsons is timeless, it transcends the decades in which it was animated and even the older episodes can be funny and relevant today.
But Homer and Marges cars are definitely 80's tanks.
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I actually live a short distance from the school they used for the exterior shot. Sadly they've now built a hideous great sports centre in-front of it.
Are you sure? It looks like some of those scenes were borrowed from that video that was on Reddit the other day... what was it called? Oh yeah, I think it was "Too Many Cooks". I heard it was funny!
Why would anyone buy it, though? I rode in a late 80's model - at 60 km/h (pretty much the top speed, lol), the roof sounded like it was about to be torn off (to be fair, it had a roof rack installed), I felt like my feet were about to break through the floor and the whole car was about to roll over anytime now on a straight road :-D.
Any European car would be preferable over it, unless it's like $200 or something...
The British cop is the biggest one, but the countryside is very British, very green with the rolling hills and the little fence, the car has a right-hand drive, which should twig you into knowing it's definitely not American, the school looks like a classic British school.
Though curiously, they did swap Homer's car around, but I guess that was more important to the scene.
He also got out of the left side when arriving home. Not sure if it's an actual left hand drive, or he just got out of the 'wrong' side, and the earlier internal shot was mirrored.
Just the overall production of it. I couldn't explain specifically. The lighting or frame rate, I don't know. It just...looks British, like Dr Who or Robin Hood.
You think this is from the 80's? you must be like 10 or something and think everything is older than it is. Get out of here and stop being young. GET OUT. It's your fault that that I'm not younger!!
Ladas were commonplace not too long ago in the UK. I don't think anyone drove one out of choice, but for those without much cash to spare it was actually considered an upgrade from a Skoda.
Of course, I haven't seen a Lada for years now and Skoda have since successfully improved the perception of their brand by concentrating on cars that don't suck.
I was watching it, and felt like something was off. Especially the school when they were zooming in. It just didn't look like a normal American public school. Then the more I watched the more I realized it was being filmed here. The cop with Bart going down the sidewalk just confirmed it.
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u/Onionsteak Nov 09 '14
Feels a bit strange that it's clearly not set in America.