The animation color quickly becomes drab and gray, and the music becomes dramatic and similar to that of Schindler's List. A large group of tired and sickly artists draw animation cels for The Simpsons amongst piles of human bones and toxic waste, and a female artist hands a barefoot child employee an animation cel, which he washes in a vat of biohazardous fluid. The camera tracks down to a lower floor on the building, where small kittens are thrown into a woodchipper-type machine to provide the filling for Bart Simpson plush dolls.
The toys are then placed in to a cart pulled by a panda which is driven by a man with a whip. A man shipping boxes with The Simpsons logo on the side uses the tongue from a decapitated dolphin head to fasten shut the packages.
Another employee uses the horn of a sickly unicorn to smash the holes in the center of The Simpsons DVDs. The shot zooms out to reveal that sweatshop is contained within a grim version of the 20th Century Fox logo, surrounded by barbed wire, searchlights, and a watchtower. The entire scene is running on the Simpsons' TV set. Banksy is credited with creating the opening titles and couch gag for this episode, in what amounted to the first time that an artist has been invited to storyboard the show.
According to Jean, "The concept in my mind was, 'What if this graffiti artist came in and tagged our main titles? Jean said Banksy "sent back boards for pretty much what you saw.
Fox's standards and practices department demanded a handful of changes, but, according to Jean, "95 percent of it is just the way he wanted. According to the street artist, his storyboard led to delays, disputes over broadcast standards and a threatened walk out by the animation department. The Simpsons: 10 classic episodes. Ricky Gervais to revisit Simpsons. But 95 percent of it is just the way he wanted.
But I would have to say almost all of it stayed in. We were thrilled. I knew just how he felt. But it was great to have a secret. One of the things Banksy is known for is disguising his identity. It only gets darker as a child is taking a finished sheet and, without any protective gear, dunks it into hazardous chemicals while rats gnaw on human bones. The chemicals also leak, slowly creating a hole in the ground.
The camera follows the leak into the depths, where viewers see what appears to be kittens being thrown into a wood chipper. The remains are then used to stuff Bart Simpson plush toys. To end the scene, a unicorn collapses while its horn is used to punch the holes into the DVDs.
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