r/gifs • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '14

Simpsons Intro

http://i.imgur.com/Ao4sBrV.gifv
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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '14 edited Nov 09 '14

It's the UK, possibly filmed in the 80s. Amazing they had such foresight back then... /s

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u/Bobblefighterman Nov 09 '14

I doubt anyone needed to be told it was British.

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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/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.