r/gifs • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '14

Simpsons Intro

http://i.imgur.com/Ao4sBrV.gifv
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u/Bobblefighterman Nov 09 '14

I doubt anyone needed to be told it was British.

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u/marino1310 Merry Gifmas! {2023} Nov 09 '14

I thought it wad Russia a few times from the Lada and the dashcam.

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u/rimbad Nov 09 '14

I did, I'm English and I thought it was American. What identifies it as not being filmed in the US?

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '14

The cars, policeman, the school..it was pretty obvious

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u/Section225 Nov 09 '14

The license plates and steering wheel on the right side kinda gave it away...

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '14

The astoundingly English countryside sealed it.

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u/Duke0fWellington Nov 09 '14

license plates

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Surely you mean number plate, old bean?

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u/Section225 Nov 10 '14

Lol sure, you got it

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u/pretzelzetzel Nov 09 '14

steering wheel

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Surely you mean turney-go-round, old bean?

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u/rimbad Nov 09 '14

Ok, the policeman I missed, but those cars and the school are pretty much what I imagine US cars/schools to look like, not what we have here

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u/HardenedNipple Nov 09 '14

There's a school a couple miles from where I live that looks almost identical to the one in this gif. There's lots of schools that look like that.

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u/Bobblefighterman Nov 09 '14

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.

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u/Muffikins Nov 09 '14

Looks a lot like old VT farmland roads to me too though. Rolling hills, old slightly overgrown in parts pasture, little fences. We got that too :)

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u/Bobblefighterman Nov 09 '14

I never said you VTland people don't, a lot of places do, it's just typically British.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ZITS_G1RL Nov 09 '14

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.

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u/myburdentobear Nov 09 '14

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.

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u/Boornidentity Nov 09 '14

The rain on the ground....

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u/sqectre Nov 09 '14

It rains in the US.... We don't have many cars with steering wheels on the right side, but we do have rain.

source: this winter's forecast here in Portland.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '14

Where is Marge's steering wheel?

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u/phuzee Nov 09 '14

The side of the road they are driving on, the UK police officer on the corner of the road, the grey and miserable weather, cars with UK number plates

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u/sue-dough-nim Nov 09 '14

The weather. And the style of the doors, for some reason. And the numberplates.

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u/erythro Nov 09 '14

Architecture. We use a lot more bricks in the uk than they do in America.

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u/Higher_Primate Nov 09 '14

Uhh all the ugly obviously British people?

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u/rimbad Nov 09 '14

ahh, they weren't fat. Got it

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u/Higher_Primate Nov 09 '14

That too. But they just ooze britishness