The Simpsons Just Remade An Obscure Indie Horror Movie
AlthoughThe Simpsons has pulled inspiration from many unexpected sources over the years, few viewers expected one season 33 episode to remake Get Duked!, an obscure horror-comedy movie from 2019. The Simpsons has based many episodes of the long-running series on all manner of surprising source material over its 33 seasons. Over the decades, the show has retold Shakespeare, parodied classic horror movies, and reimagined Bible stories as part of the cast’s adventures.
The series has been on the air so long that one Simpsons season 33 episodes copied the show itself (although the outing changed enough details to still feel fresh). As such, it should come as no surprise to discover that The Simpsons season 33 episode 12 is another extended homage to an earlier piece of media. However, the sheer obscurity of the movie that the episode references is pretty notable.
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2019’s Scottish indie horror-comedy Get Duked! tells the story of three juvenile delinquents (and a requisite nerdy kid hoping to improve their academic CV) who get chased along a wilderness trail by cult-ish killers after being sent on a personal improvement, team-building hike. This specific premise is recreated to a tee inThe Simpsons season 33, episode 12, “Boyz N the Highlands." Now, as fans of The Simpsons’ annual «Treehouse of Horror» Halloween specials can attest, the show spoofing a famous horror movie is not a new phenomenon. The difference is thatGet Duked! is already a comedy as well as a horror, and this Simpsons season 33 outing doesn’t spoof the existing movie per se.
Instead, the plot of “Boyz N the Highlands” tells essentially the same story as the obscure (but critically
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