Did The Simpsons Just Mock Eternals’ Environmental Message?
One episode of The Simpsons season 33 included a pointed jab at the expense of director Chloé Zhao, and the joke appeared to parody the environmental message featured in Zhao’s MCU entry Eternals. The Simpsons have not been shy about spoofing famous shows and movies in season 33. The season has seen the series parody obscure horror movies, cancel culture, Netflix, and even The Simpsons itself (by running The Simpsons’ credits backward as part of a plot about pranking).
In “Meat Is Murder,” (season 33, episode 21), The Simpsons continued this trend with an episode-long spoof of Succession. The outing saw Grampa and Lisa pair up as Grampa joined the board of directors for a huge corporation owned by his old associate, billionaire Gus Redfield. Once on the board, however, Grampa and Lisa discovered that Gus’s family was plotting to oust him.
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This led Gus’s daughter Sheila to make a makes a movie in a bid to impress Lisa, as the character hoped she could convince Lisa to make Grampa join Shelia in a vote of no confidence against Gus. Like the classic Simpsons outing starring Blinky the mutated fish, Sheila’s unnamed movie has a blatant message about the perils of ignoring pollution’s impact on the environment. What viewers see of the opus consists of singing trees lecturing the audience about lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Lisa praises it as “moving and didactic,” at which point Sheila admits that she didn’t direct it, Chloé Zhao did. Since Eternals featured a plot point centered on global warming, the joke felt like a pointed mockery of the MCU movie’s environmentalist message.
Ironically, Eternals was criticized for absolving humanity of any responsibility for
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