THE SIMPSONS NEWS – Full Frontal Naked Bart in a French Commercial

The Simpsons Quote:

[Comic Book Guy sits at his computer.]

“Hey, what the? Huh, the Internet King. I wonder if he can provide faster nudity.”  – Comic Book Guy.

Sometimes, when you work in animation, you end up working a some very strange projects.

Sometimes you end up working on foreign commercials with full frontal cartoon nudity in them.

This happened to me, and I’m going be talking about in this weeks post.

You can watch the video or simply read what I have to say below.

There’s is a link to the commercial I talk about further down the page:

The First Full Frontal Bart

Years ago I worked on a French detergent commercial that used The Simpsons characters.

It’s one of those surprising and strange projects that you’re asked to do. I believe I did character layout on it.

In case you don’t know what Character Layout is, CLICK HERE, I wrote a whole post explaining it. In nutshell, it’s the process where we set up the shots and draw in the acting and the key animation poses of a scene.

Alright, so here’s the interesting thing about this French commercial: It ends with the family naked at the end.  At least some of the family.  They kinda run off screen before you get to see any of their nakedness.  Except for Bart.

It’s the first time that Bart was ever show naked, full frontal. They did it again The Simpsons movie and made a big joke out of it.  But that French commercial was the first time they did that naked joke.

The Note From Matt Groening

Now, this was the thing I found interesting.  The storyboard artist had drawn Bart, anatomically correct. But you see…man I wish I had some of the artwork so I can show you but I don’t. I did find the video and you can see it below but the thing is, there was this note. I remember the note because, I think I was doing the layout scene or…I don’t remember what it was but, the note was from Matt Groening.

Well Matt Groening didn’t want Bart to be drawn anatomically correct in the way it was drawn in the board.  He wanted the drawing to be a little bit more abstract. You’ll see what he looks like in the actual Youtube video. That’s exactly the look that Matt Groening gave us to have Bart look like.

I thought that was very interesting and very funny.

So if you want to see the first full frontal naked appearance of Bart, here you go:

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What did you think? Had you ever seen that before?

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