TAKEPLACE: ANGRY DAD VULTURE BEAT

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

ANGRY DAD VULTURE BEAT

Last night The Simpsons dedicated an entire, bravura episode to lampooning awards season. Bart's animated short film, Angry Dad, gets nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar, so the entire family heads out to Hollywood. The episode was an occasion for any number of great riffs — Ricky Gervais, who got a very handsome Simpsonized avatar, appears as himself; Halle Berry appears as herself, a too-talkative Oscar presenter; and a Randy Newman doppelgänger sings "You've Got an Enemy in Me" — but the best part was the other animated shorts nominated alongside "Angry Dad," shorts that gave The Simpsons' own animators a chance to spoof the competition. VULTURE

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