I wish i had watched it back in october 2017, but i never did, until august 2019. Marge and lisa visit the nail salon where they engage in a spirited debate as to whether a woman can be smart, powerful and beautiful all at the same time and spin four tales of famous women featuring famous springfield faces. Bardfilm is normally written as one word, though it can also be found under a search for bard film blog. Cbbc newsround your comments the jksimpsons episode.
Watch the simpsons season 20 episode 20 online via tv fanatic with over 6 options to watch the the simpsons s20e20 full episode. In one of these stories, homer has a lowly role in a tree in a local production of macbeth. The regina monologues is the fourth episode of season 15 originally going to be the last episode of the fourteenth season in production order. A quadrilogy episode featuring simpsonized versions of history and popular cinema and literature. Rick miller on stage performing machomer with homer looking on. Its about marge and homer have a date night, and they hire a baby sitter who turns out to be a wanted criminal. A compendium of literary references on the simpsons. Watch the simpsons season 20, episode 20 four great women and a manicure. It should also be noted that this is the only episode where bart is not seen, nor mentioned. Selma as queen elizabeth i, lisa as snow white, marge as lady macbeth and maggie as howard roark, the idealistic architect protagonist from ayn rands the fountainhead. There was a macbeth play with simpsons characters that toured for a while, but i dont remember a cartoon episode. Bardfilm is a shakespeare blog admittedly, one of many shakespeare blogs, and it is dedicated to commentary on films shakespeare movies, the shakespeare movie, shakespeare on television, shakespeare at the cinema, plays, and other matter related to shakespeare allusions to. That, was a huge mistake and i wish i never made it.
This channel holds clips from episodes of the longest running animated tv show, the simpsons. Affiliates with free and paid streaming include amazon, itunes. The simpsons the regina monologues tv episode 2003 ian. Machomer is a frenetic, multimedia deformation and adaptation fischlin, nation andas adaptation 316 of iambic pentameter, sound bites, slapstick, puppet shows, video clips, voiceovers, and non sequiturs, as millers homer takes the lead role and steers it like a drunk driver to its fate at dunsinane. The simpsons take grandpa to ireland so he can go back to visit a pub he went to during the war, but grandpa and homer get suckered into buying the bar. Valentina garza wrote the episode, while raymond s.
Watch the simpsons episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. My teacher was trying to find something funny to go along with her lecture, and surprisingly, the simpsons didnt have anything. A later episode of this series was titled dagger of the mind, another mackers reference. I try to post authentic clips that everybody will enjoy. At the end of the episode, though, bart does send us to our local library for books about war, many of which have cool gory pictures. I thought it was really good, i was laughing all the way through it and at edwinas daughter at the end. Macbeth writes a letter to lady macbeth, telling her what the witches say 6.
In this lesson, students analyze an episode of the simpsons that is a takeoff on a literary classic by comparing it to the original work. They tell macbeth he will be thane of cawdor, then king. Marge was fed up that she had to do all of the actors laundry because homer played a tree. The kids and i, the dad, found ourselves quoting lines from the. To date, this is jon vittis last episode as writer and lauren macmullans last episode as director. Ok, so we studied macbeth in senior literature in high school. The simpsons 20x20 watch the simpsons season 20 episode. As fans of the simpsons know, the producers have been releasing excellent dvd sets of the shows initial seasons, with the first 12 seasons now available. Pretty much every scene is a celebrity cameo, and with the exception of ian mckellens macbeth bit, none of them.
It originally aired on the fox network in the united states on november 21, 2004. The simpsons four great women and a manicure tv episode. But again, there have been lots of episodes over the years and maybe i missed it. Secondly, millers elaborate parody represents crucial aspects of the cultural politics of canada fischlin 316. Its most well known characters are the members of the simpsons family, parents homer and marge, and their three children, bart, lisa, and infant maggie. Shakespeare macbeth plot using the simpsons images. The notion of dysfunctional family is a theme that runs through both macbeth and the simpsons. They then pitch a new simpsons episode based on a text they are currently studying in class. The simpsons, created by matt groening, is the longest running animated television series in the united states. After goading him into committing regicide, she becomes queen of scotland, and later suffers pangs of guilt for her part in the crime. She asked homer to kill the lead actor, sideshow mel so he could play macbeth. Um i dont think was an episode with machomer machomer is the title of a one man show that basically adapts shakespeares macbeth, casting homer in the lead.
With dan castellaneta, julie kavner, nancy cartwright, yeardley smith. Selma as queen elizabeth i, lisa as snow white, marge as lady macbeth and maggie as howard roark from ayn rands the fountainhead. Not a good way to end swartzwelders run on the simpsons, but then again, he changed a lot after season 9, so its pretty much the seasons 10. The show was created by matt groening who also made life in hell, and later futurama and disenchantment, and is considered one of the most. The simpsons do macbeth first aired in 2009, four great women and a manicure is an episode of the simpsons that, as the title suggests, depicts four stories connected by the theme of famous strong women. The simpson family is standing outside a theater and it says macbeth in big lights. A quadrilogy episode featuring simpsonized versions of. Meanwhile, lisa gets teased about her big butt, and becomes obsessed with her weight. Marcia wallace had been the voice of edna krabappel on the simpsons for more than two decades, but shed made her mark on. The episode tells four tales of famous women featuring simpsons characters in various roles. The simpsons 2020 will also feature other springfield women as famouse historical female figures like lisa becomes snow white, selma as queen elizabeth i and marge as lady macbeth. Four great women and a manicure simpsons wiki fandom.
Homer follows her command and then assumes the role of macbeth. Rick millers version of shakespeares macbeth is performed by doing the voices of more than 50 characters from the simpsons caption. The simpsons full episode english animation movies top for kids the satiric adventures of a workingclass family in the misfit city of springfield. German, finnish, danish, italian, spanish, french, portuguese. Marge stars in lady macbeth in a macbeth parody, and maggie stars as the. This is a powerpoint listing the major events in shakespeares macbeth, each slide describes the event and has a corresponding image using simpsons characters. The simpsons four great women and a manicure animation. It was the first episode in which the entire family went to england, and the first time a sitting head of a government provided hisher own voice as a guest star. Some jokesstereotypes, most of act 3 eh, this was a mediocre roadtrip episode. The simpsons is an emmy award, annie award and peabody awardwinning animated comedy. However, homers performance did not go well as he kept messing up his lines. In the episode, marge simpson finds nelson and acts as a mother figure towards him due to her childrens loss of interest in her.
Ian mckellen as macbeth tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow duration. The title is a reference to the 1994 film four weddings and a funeral. Famously bizarre and dysfunctional, the family lives in an average, fictional city. Selma stars as queen elizabeth i, lisa stars as snow white in a parody of snow white and the seven dwarfs, marge stars in lady macbeth in a macbeth parody, and maggie stars as the howard roark character in a spoof of the fountainhead. Akira kurosawas great 1957 film throne of blood is a retelling of macbeth set in feudal japan. Sleeping with the enemy is the third episode from the sixteenth season of the simpsons. The following is a list of the episode titles and summaries of foxs longestrunning animated sitcom the simpsons, centered on a dysfunctional yellowskinned family living in the unreachable city of springfield and trying to deal with modern life. My favourite segment was definitely the snow white one, i loved the several digs it made at disney and the casting for the dwarfs was hilarious, the lady macbeth. Four great women and a manicure is the twentieth episode of season 20, which aired on may 10, 2009.
Four great women and a manicure is the twentieth episode of. Four great women and a manicure is the twentieth episode of the twentieth season of the simpsons. The simpsons episode starring jk rowling and tony blair was finally shown in the uk on friday evening. You can watch simpsons season 20 episode 20 tonight on fox at 8. Simpsons world is the latest endeavor from cable network fxx, and will soon offer every single episode of the simpsons to date available for online streaming. I suppose it is possible that i somehow missed it, but i really do not think that the simpsons ever did a macbeth episode. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show, they jumped ahead in the sequence and released this 20th season set. The first and in my opinion, best season of the simpsons. This episode dealtnot so coincidentally with the problems of a show getting stale in its long run and trying to keep it fresh by introducing a new character. Episodes are grouped by season and sorted in broadcast order. Recap of the simpsons season 20 episode 20 recap guide. Episode four great women and a manicure third story. A hyper fastforward meld of shakespeare and the simpsons the san francisco chronicle, the comedy play machomer is a comic tourde force toronto star featuring comic impressions of 50 simpsons voices that ring through the theatre with the bards.
Lady macbeth is shown in one of peter griffins cutaways. She is the wife to the plays antagonist, macbeth, a scottish nobleman. Queen elizabeth, snow white, lady macbeth, and ayn rand. Out, damned spot the best pop culture references that. Watch the simpsons season 20 episode 20 online tv fanatic.
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