The orange eating sequence absolutely slayed me. I don't know what's better - Willie's line about an orange eating class, or the fact that such a class actually turned out to exist, or Hans Moleman making an opposite and equally ridiculous comparison to Homer's, or Grandpa Simpson impatiently thumping the table in the reverse of Willie. That might be one of my favourite Simpsons clips of all time.
Rear projection, more like. That's a big part of why Kubrick's movies are so incredible, he didn't have any computers to blue screen with. You watch 2001 like "Okay meh what's the big deal?" But there's no computer generated effects in that entire movie. Even the fictional computers running the spaceship in the movie wouldn't have been theoretically powerful enough to make the movie's effects.
Not blue screen simulation effect, the term you're looking for that they did with Homer in a riff on Major Kong riding the bomb is the "dolly zoom" or "Vertigo effect".
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat They actually did tend to use blue screening over rear projection. There was an involved process of analog masking and compositing which could achieve chroma keying on film.
I like how homer didn't even bother to imagine some kind of device had been attached to the vending machines in the mean time to dispense candy and sodas. They merely just spray out in an entirely unexplainable manner.
These cutaways work better than the ones shown on Family Guy because they're either real flashbacks or daydream sequences that actually have something to do with the plot of the episode or act as a punchline to a previously built up joke. Family Guy cutaways, on the other hand, not only have very little to do with the plot of the episode, but also, try to be their own separate joke with almost no build up or punchline whatsoever.
@@NmaeUnavailablesigh Okay? but like. this is a simpsons video. not a video made for crying about another show. you and your basic bitch opinion isnt anything except annoying to normal people that arent neckbeards.
Imagine how hard the animaters had it creating the Land of Chocolate with everything near the same shade and trying to figure out the bunnies appearing from the background shade.
What makes it even more impressive is that that whole scene is just from one single animator!. David Silverman animated the whole sequence (except for the chocolate rain part I thiiink. I need clearance on that) he also animated the entire Chili hallucination fiasco. I'd reccomend looking into him and watching a few animation reels.
That Barney cutaway hits kind of hard... There really are people like that out there. Success is right around the corner, but they just can't help themselves and fall into the trap. And it can all start with one friend innocently offering them something, often not even with any bad intentions.
Seriously. A friend of mine in college was an alcoholic and used it as a crutch for stress. Showed up for one of our finals smashed. Luckily, his liver was about to shut down and that was the wake up call he needed. Got sober and finished getting his aerospace engineering degree.
Yep, there are some that use this to defend Family Guy, missing that these are either relevant to the plot of the episode or have some sort of pay-off leading back out of it, while for Family Guy they feel like they are more used because the writers don't know how to end a scene
Holy fuqnuggetts now I know why she stays with him...you know what they say about fat girls well I guess its the same with fat guys. (I used to be fat and I love hotdogs so take that as you will)
The Simpsons' cutaways and flashbacks were neat segments that showed up every couple of episodes to give a bit more insight of a certain character's past or a fun dream/future reality while still sticking to the plot and providing humour for it's brief appearance. Family guy uses these transitions as a gimmick that takes up half an episodes worth of screen time with little to no correlation to the story all for the sake of a running gag or lousy one-liner. God bless the golden age Simpsons cast for setting a bar on scenes like these.
Unlike Family Guy, The Simpsons actually used these gags in conjunction with the storyline and did it very smartly, usually with a hilarious one liner added afterwards, whilst Family Guy just use them to fill the episode running time and half the time they are just pointless jabs at celebrities which usually just end up being long winded and boring. All the more reasons why the Simpsons won Emmys and Family Guy hasn't.
The truest thing ever said by a human being. Though the cutaway jokes in the early family guy seasons (seasons 1-4) were actually pretty funny, later on they became over reliant with the cutaway gags which were rarely funny and were just stale. You are very correct about how the cutaway gags in the Simpsons were smartly written and were part of the storyline. Family guy literally had an episode where Peters friends came over and had some fun while Peter was supposed to watch Stewie. Lois gets home and of course she’s angry and In order for her to forget what happened, Peter takes us to a Conway Twitty cutaway/segment that lasts over 2 minutes. I’m dead serious. So yeah no wonder The Simpsons won Emmys and Family guy didn’t.
Emphasis on _used_. They're veering more and more to being Family Guy Light with nonsensical one-shot references. It's not just boring anymore. It's depressing and sad. I used to think Simpsons was just irrelevant and worn out its welcome years ago. Now I think it's a walking corpse begging to be ended.
@@Aivottaja In my opinion, The Simpsons stoped being funny around either season 9 or season 10. We do see some gems in modern Simpsons but it’s really rare. The Simpsons seem to just rely more on celebrity appearances and current events at this point. Episodes like Lisa goes gaga or Bart vs Itchy and Scratchy make me turn away from the series. Modern Family guy is still worse than modern Simpsons but I think it’s time for The Simpsons to just end. I also do feel like that they are begging to end like Family Guy is trying to do.
One thing I can say about these: they tie in to the plot, they are relevant to what's said, don't overstay their welcome and holy fuck they're not all kickstarted with a metaphor or simile like "this is like X when Y did Z". Not gunna bash every family guy cutaways cause some of them are genuinely funny and I understand that not everything said or shown has to be directly relevant to the story, letting the animators, writers and voice actors to do some dumb shit without much consequence or need to drag the story far out the way but they can stand to 1. Not let them take so long (like IIRC there was one where stewie was insulting a celebrity in a bar for a minute+ straight what had no punchline and no humour) and 2. Have it be organic and not a character saying something ridiculous
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c it's not philosophy, it's a popular subjective idea. Dozens of people find family guy cutaway gags, even the long, drawn out ones, funny. Same way dozens find them painfully unfunny and slow. But hey, keep the clown college idea for yourself. As joked about as they are, clowns are a pretty noble profession. Make good money, entertain people and require immense discipline, physical ability, stamina, technique, state of mind, training, gimmicks and understanding of spoken and physical comedy. Not everyone's cut out to be a clown. Hell, being able to cartwheel in shoes 3 foot sizes too large is a feat and a half.
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c he was supposed to be Krusty, so yeah, it's sorta the thing they joked with. Also, it's a cartoon. Not exactly the same as real clowning.
7 and 8 had some very good moments from the radioactive man movie, the episode that featured the iconic steamed hams segment and especially the episode with hank scorpio.
@@Izanagi-Arsene Most of season 7 and 8 are better than 3 and 5 imo. Season 2 is almost as good as 3 imo except Homer at the Bat and the one where Bart joins the Mafia.
This is why I didn’t understand Family Guy’s cutaways at first. The Simpsons made it perfectly clear that these were flashbacks and used the fade and harp technique.
@@SkulShurtugalTCG After all, he got the job at the power plant back to get enough money to care for three children; Maggie in particular. And Maggie does look up to her father, even saying "Daddy" as her first word, despite him hoping she'd never say a word on grounds of the other two children talking back.
I like that in his fantasy he has apparently melded his consciousness with that of the vending machines (inasmuch as vending machines have consciousness), being able to control them at will.
Perhaps they sewed up the tuxedo onto him. How else could a man put on a suit when trapped between vending machines? Then again, he was just holding onto the can...😄
I like that he imagines himself adjusting to life with the vending machines. He’s smiling and happy and able to provide for everyone. I feel that attitude is key to Homer’s appeal.
You cut off the best part of the under the sea joke, where it cuts back and marge is like "we'll move under the sea, thats your solution for everything! "
How does this show manage to manage to make funny cutaway gags that don't affect the pacing of an episode yet when Family Guy does it, it's usually done in an unfunny manner and drags the pacing of an episode to a screeching hoult.
Family Guy does some things different, and the cutaway gags used to be one of the main draws of the show. Everyone was quoting family guy cutaways when I went to school. Also like the guy above me said, in the Simpsons they feel more like flashbacks than cutaways. Family Guy just wants to tell a joke, the Simpsons want to enrich the plot while also telling jokes. Usually FG plots aren't too deep (or atleast not as deep as a good Simpsons episode), they're just foundations used to tell jokes. That's great if it's your thing, some people just want to laugh. People like different styles of humor, quit being a snob about it. Both shows have had their highs and lows, but I love them both
@@elliebean1118 Family guy barely uses cutaways anymore, there's like 5 or less per episode now. Most fans and non-fans like the change and imo the show has slowly been getting better as of late, but I love cutaways. I'm a simple man. In the end tho, just hope family guy keeps improving.
Seth McFarlane, circa 1996: "Man, these cutaway gags the Simpsons do sure are really funny. Kinda wish they'd do 'em more often. Hrm. I wonder what a whole show revolving around cutaways would be like..."
These cutaways generally have to do with the plot, don't take too long, and they usually have a character acting like himself during the cutaway. Family Guy's cutaways, while sometimes funny, generally have nothing to do with the plot.
@@philbecker4676 Family Guy humor is for 12 year olds. Honestly, I'm sick of this "______ is subjective" crap. That mindset is holding us back as a culture. We need to have standards for things if we want them to improve.
Whenever I hear Lunchlady Doris say "There's very little meat in these gym mats," I think that meat she's talking about is almost certainly human flesh that children lost on the mats over the years.
Simpsons cutaways actually had something to do with the story, and didn’t drag too long unless necessary. Family Guy cutaways are very pointless and only exist just to poke fun of pop-culture. They are also filler and sometimes unnecessarily drag way too long, especially the Conway Twitty cutaway and the karaoke cutaway in the episode “Quagmire’s Mom” where Peter waits *1 minute* to just sing a song.
@@letsdraw8062 Actually, I only hate seasons 12-now of Family Guy. Seasons 1-3 were great, seasons 4-6 were good or alright, seasons 7-11 were average (I know a lot of people hated seasons 10-11, but they at least stayed true to the show’s roots, with episodes like "yuG ylimaF", and there were also some great episodes in those seasons), and seasons 12 to now, oh boy, they aren’t good, with seasons 12, 13, and 17 being the worst seasons of the show.
I think what people don't realise is that the ways the Simpsons & Family Guy do cutaways are different, yet suitable for their shows. The Simpsons is more grounded in reality and structure, whereas Family Guy is wackier and more free-flowing. It's why these cutaways, as well as the best FG ones, work so well- The Simpsons uses it to add to the humour, whilst Family Guy uses it to diversify their humour's subject matter.
The whimpering of the dog after homer takes a bite out it, and the shrimp trying to escape after homer eats all it's friends adds such an edge to these idyllic fantasies... Homer's selfishness shining through in his own personal paradise. Now THAT's a 3D character
These sequences work a little better and feel less random and forced because more often than not it’s a flashback or someone imagining things. In family guy the cutaway doesn’t even have to have anything to do with the context of the episode. Peter could be sad he lost a game of ping pong and he’ll say “aw man this is worse than when a frog has an abortion”
I love how Homer's smallest misdemeanor can have grave consequences (giving college Barney an insatiable taste for beer and ruining his life, cancelling the construction of an entire children's hospital just because he needed cinder blocks to build a makeshift book shelf for his radio, etc.)
I like how the land of chocolate joke is far more developed than anything on family guy ever, and its not even that great of a joke. And they based a whole level on that one sequence in The Simpsons Game like nearly 20 years later. For what is basically a throwaway joke
Great work on this compilation! I love that the last of the cutaways is literally the best cutaway of any animated show of all time. That episode is classic.
The difference between these and Family Guy’s is the fact that The Simpsons doesn’t think wasting the audience’s time is funny. Unlike Family Guy were that’s the entire point and it sucks.
I don't believe they were tryng to copy Simpsons formula, they never intended to do so, I don't know why people compare them, they are 2 ways completly different of approaching a scene. A cutaway gag without any backstory can be fun too. If you like one better than other that's ok, but that's your opinion. PS: I hate family guy and it's bad written cutaways.
@@canobenitez of course they were copying the Simpsons form-u-ler.. they copied the Simpsons and the Flintstones and then the honeymooners. All of it goes back in reference to something prior.
These aren't cutaway gags. These are either flashbacks, daydreaming or events elsewhere. The Family Guy style cutaway gag is random with no relevance to the plot or characters.
2:30 this is probably the most "family guy" cutaway I've seen on the simpsons (at least before they started those awful thought bubbles) and its better than any cutaway joke family guy has ever done
4:26 If this was Family Guy, Peter would try to clap, only to for a gorey bloodiest of a squish to happen of his corpse with the entire audience screaming and running away and then explain the joke with him looking at the viewer emotionless saying: “I tried to clap with my hands stuck to the vending machines and then I squashed myself and know I am a bloody skeleton with eyeballs. Now laugh.”
Really? This isn't even funny at all. I never found The Simpsons funny, not even in the early seasons. Not to mention that the show is a complete shell of what it used to be. At least Family Guy isn't completely dead like The Simpsons
I distinctly remember one about a washing machine race, don't recall the episode though but I think the commentary track for it talks about how Family Guy took over the cutaways mantle.
Oh I think that one was when Homer's half-brother showed up for the second time. Marge wanted a new washing machine and her old one was sold to Moe's and it was used for bets in racing.
Absolutely Mad that in the first clip it flashes back to 1977 & Homer is an adult. Scary. Probably In a few years modern Homer won’t have even been born yet
Pick any clip from any older pop culture and the comments are filled with boring people whining about how the newer thing isn't as good as the older thing. I saw a clip of Spiderman 2, and it was full of people whining about how "the MCU Spiderman sucks". Like that's a fucking debate we need to have.
@@jmckendry84 There totally needs to be a time when humans really need to make a "True" animated movies that touched the soul and heart of the viewers of all ages. Somebody hand-drawn and computer animation, it's not just the movies, TV shows as well for all ages on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and the Walt Disney company needs to take there place in the circle of animations shows and movies for everyone.
@@jmckendry84 Walt Disney said "If you can dream it, you can do it, and don't let anybody say you can't". This is my biggest dream goal of bringing the 2-D animated style from Disney once again and I'll be a movie director as well.
