Big thank you to @phantomstrider and @JJMcCullough for joining me to chat about how The Simpsons represented their home countries. 🌎
In this video I break down every country The Simpsons have visited – what countries banned their episode, who loved theirs and how they represented the countries’ people and culture. This was a super fun video to make, so if you’d like to see me break down every state Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson have visited in the USA, let me know in the comments!
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:31 England
02:18 Scotland
03:32 Ireland
05:04 Australia
09:10 France
11:36 Mexico
12:30 India
14:37 Cuba
16:01 Japan
17:08 China
18:07 Tanzania
18:59 Canada
23:44 Brazil
25:55 Italy
25:52 Israel
28:05 Iceland
29:02 Denmark
29:51 Antarctica
30:13 Other Countries
Script: Murray Ferguson
Script Editor: Lydia
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46 Comments
Thanks for inviting me on the show, Lydia! It was such a memory trip looking back at all the countries Simpsons have visited over the years.
As an Irish man I will always laugh rewarding the episode the real Irish drink joke well always get me no mater how many times I see it.
21:25 I had YouTube playing in the background and I wasn't paying attention to which video it went to. I heard "ar-ooo-nd" and thought "is that JJ McCullough" because I live in Canada and he's the only person I've ever heard pronounce "around" like that. Sure enough, it was.
Timeline of Titania
Deploy The De Lachinator!!! 😂😂😂
I'm surprised your Aussie friend didn't mention what is clearly Fosters. In my experience they do light-heartedly take offence to the implication that they would drink that swill
Kudos for saying Tanzania, and not generalising Africa like it's a county 👍
"you dont brush your teeth eh? lemme show you something.
pulls out bookTHE BIG BOOK OF BRITISH SMILES" one of my favorite scenes of all simpsons lolShame on any Australian who was offended by that episode!
14:30 They should bring back Apu.
900 Dolarydoos
I'm from Brazil and I always thought the reaction to the episode was really weird the way we got offended since most of things are actually pretty real. I mean we are obsessed with soccer, Carnival is easely the most important hollyday in here, at least four of my family members have been kidnaped before, our swimsuits would make David Hasselhoff proud, our open TV really had nearly pornographic content even on kids shows at the time and Rio actually has a problem with monkeys, so yeah, it was pretty much ''never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with''
so many people think us Australians have an accent.
I thought you were American
Fellow Brit here, you pronounce Scones wrong. Especially considering you're from the south of England just like me 😂
The thing to remember is, while the Simpsons do make fun of other countries, it often makes fun of it’s home country (and mine) 🇺🇸😂
Heck, it made fun of Fox on multiple occasions.
Is that a Civ 6 track for Scotland, Lydia??
I remember how they mentioned Lithuania 😀 it was so funny 😀 well l liked it (cose its true 😂😂😂)
You couldn't handle a hockey Puck to the face
I did have sex with a girl from Vancouver on college though…hahahaha. hilarious. You're freezing
I would've liked to visit my country (Russia) and roast it worse than my dad roasting the chicken, cause God damn the place sucks
Yes
Germany came to them in the classic episode "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" (S3E11) and in the form of Uter.
Hey! I have just seen the opening credits to S34 E22 lol, I feel like we need a count of characters and who they are, if you don’t mind 🙂
As Brazilian, i'm still furious with the episode. One thing is palying with stereotypes, other is making a full racist episode with baraly no notion of the country you are tying to portray.
I live in Canada, in Québec to be exact.
I think the closest they ever came to visit Sweden was in of the non-canonical Treehouse of Horror Segments, when professor Frink went to Stockholm to accept the Nobel Prize. In something. I don't think they ever clarified what field his invention was supposedly prize worthy for. Having been to Stockholm a few times, I've yet to see a nudist cop direct traffic. And I could barely, after repeated viewings, comprehend Lisa's attempt to say "tack för att ni förärat vår stad". I would actually like to see a full episode on Sweden. Maybe including some jokes about Nordic Noir, our neutrality, our politics, our food culture (mainly our unconventional combinations and pizza toppings), and of course, more casual nudity. (It seems to be the favorite joke amongst both Americans and Brits.) Guest stars could include Greta Thunberg, ABBA members, preferably followed by some other musicians to remind viewers that Sweden as one of the world's leading exporters of music, does produce more than just ABBA. (Sabaton would be great, just for the massive contrast.) It would also be interesting to see Homer bungle the Allemansrätt, or freedom to roam. If the show would want to get more daring, some jokes about our hypocracy in bragging about our neutrality while exporting weapons indiscriminately would be interesting.
Not that I've given this a lot of thought. 😇
What about Russia?
Honestly it sounds like the writers need to go and visit the countries so they can make fun of them in an accurate way.
As a Hispanic, I’m upset The Simpsons didn’t do more with Mexico. I feel like it’d me funny.
I'm trying to think of The Simpsons have ever visited my country of Texas… I know they have I just can't think of the episode
The Simpsons doesn't have an episode for every country or US state, but I feel like my state won because they had a movie about the time they went here.
You should make a part two Which include your other countries category
24:59 I don't think Blame it on Lisa was banned for this much time in Brazil, apparently it aired in cable tv in December 8, 2002 (I don't know if it was the normal delay at the time) and in Globo, the biggest network tv in Brazil, in July 5, 2003. Also, the line about Brazil in "The Wife Aquatic" was changed in the Brazilian dub.
16:19 The sad part about that was that I'm pretty sure that Porygon and its evolutions never appeared in another episode again after it. The seizures were from Pikachu, not Porygon. R.I.P Porygon even years from then.
She British and talks Simpsons. So, you doing anything later? I have fanfiction you'll love.
Hey Lydia ! Great video idea, you should do. A video of how many times homer and others have died during the series.! Especially with all the bodies homer has had over time I would love too see how many times he has been killed on screen!
There were actually also scenes from the simpsons in germany (in the war flashbacks, since in some abe is portraid in a theatre with a certain dictator), in argentina (in the Australia episode bart also called argentina ig, since there were some old facists shown in the portraid Country and many of them escaped to argentina, so I just assume, that was the portraid Country. Also, in the brazilian world cup episode, Brazil played against Luxembourg, which was then also shown (snake robbed it)…
…I know that all of those apearences were pretty short and therefore maybe Not considered worthy of a mention, but still I wanted to mention them
Hi hello there.! I always enjoy your videos, they are so much fun.. 🙂 I just have a teeny tiny comment on this one; At the beginning of each section of this video, you played the anthem of the country to be discussed, nice touch.. BUT unfortunately you made a mistake with Tanzanere, the little piece of anthem you played was that of “Nkosi Sikelela iAfrika” (Meaning God Bless Africa), witch is the national anthem of South Africa, NOT Tanzanere.. – Still a good video though… 👍🏻🙂
Wow this is an amazing video Lydia… I managed to cook breakfast wash my dishes clean my room wake and bake and now off to walk my dog and I'm barely on the halfway mark. Kinda nostalgic watching these classic clips so many memories that fade around the Simpsons.. I still to this day catch myself quoting certain classic dank episodes.. keep doing your thing my love 💋
JJMcCullough puts on fake maritime accent even though claims to be from BC
By the way the Brazilian population loves all the Simpsons episodes 😂 the government are the ones that don’t like being told they’re shit at their job
unpopular opinion. family guy did a far better Irish episode than the Simpsons. I am Irish.
They did make a mention about New Zealand, most likely the rugby. Auckland > Wellington lol
Well I can say the simpson have as they live in my country of the USA as for visiting my state I can confirm they have but it's an episode where they show a map of where they aren't welcome to visit anymore and my state is one of them
4 countries in and i have relatives in all those places haha
29:51 Wait, the Antarctica has its own anthem?!