A Parody of The Simpsons?
You’d think that a show like the Simpsons were never be parodied simply because it is the show that does a parody of everything else. But Broadcaster.com has a video on their website that has a Simpsonized O.J. Simpson starring in an episode titled, “If I Did It…”
If you’ve been alive at all in the last year or so, you’ll remember when O.J. Simpson’s book “If I Did It..” came out where he speculates, in a huge amount of graphic detail, how he would have killed his wife. FOX is now demanding that the video be taken off the web.
AllHeadlineNews.com reports that…
Fox has ordered video sharing website broadcaster.com to remove the three “The O.J. Simpsons” clips, claiming they infringe on the studio’s copyright.
The shorts use a similar style to the long-running cartoon and feature O.J. looking a lot like Homer Simpson. O.J.’s two kids, Sydney and Justin, are made to resemble Homer’s children Bart and Lisa.
The clips open with a sequence similar to “The Simpsons” opening credits. The only notable difference is the family’s car is replaced by a white Bronco being chased by police cars.
Of the three clips, the first clip refers to O.J.’s book “If I Did It,” which News Corporation recently prevented from being published, while the third sees O.J. take a fictional family vacation to Iraq entitled “Warzone.”
For now the videos are still available at such places like Broadcaster.com and Youtube.com. The makers of the clips contest that making a parody out of copyrighted material is not against the law. The makers do make sure that the videos end with a note that nothing presented has anything to do with Matt Groening or anyone at The Simpsons. I don’t think that will appease anyone though.
No word yet on what the real O.J Simpson thinks about the videos.
Here is a clip of one of the parodies.
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-Anna
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