Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons)

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The Babysitter 's going on (English Original Title: Some Enchanted Evening ) is the thirteenth episode of the first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. Although their production began as the first of the season, she has been renewed for bad animation and aired as the last.

Action

As Homer his wife behaves like a macho over, she calls Dr. Marvin Monroe's radio program in order to get help there. At the same time, Homer and his colleagues listen to this program while working. Initially, Homer makes about the caller funny, but when he and his colleagues realize that it is Marge, Homer is ridiculed.

Because they said on the radio that she would her husband say their opinion, he buys her flowers and invites her to a romantic evening in a restaurant followed by a night in a hotel. Margin warps him and then they hire a babysitter for the children. Once this is received, Homer and Marge go away. In the following years, Miss Botz turns out to be a " babysitter course provider " who rob the homes of their clients and leaving the children tied up. When they searched the home of the Simpsons for valuables, the children now overwhelm them and tie them up.

To be able to call the police, they run a few blocks to a pay phone. At the same time, her parents worry because at home no one picks up the phone and go back home. Because they think this would have been a trick of the children, let Miss Botz free. Shortly afterwards, the police and the kids come to the house, the babysitter has already disappeared.

Cultural references

While the original title of this episode is an allusion to the album Some Enchanted Evening, is the German title of the animated film The dogs are going ajar. Ms. Botz ' pursuit of Bart in the basement of the family home is reminiscent of Robert Mitchum pursuit of a little boy in the movie The Night of the Hunter.

Production

Although this episode was aired as the last of the first season, started their production as the first of the season, and they should also be aired first. Creator Matt Groening and writer / producer Sam Simon wrote the script for the episode.

Director of the episode was first Kent Butterworth. Klasky Csupo, the animation studio that had produced the earlier short films from The Simpsons, with one exception for the animation was responsible. During the years of the production of short films all created in their own house. Due to the increasing workload through the 30 - minute episodes, the production was also awarded to the South Korean animation studio AKOM. While character and background design created by the home studio, tweening, coloring, and inclusion in the overseas studios have been done. Thus, it was a debacle, as this first returning from Korea was subsequently presented to the production staff in the bungalow of Gracie Films. The executive producer and showrunner James L. Brooks said first reaction to the animation: "This is shit. " ( In German: "This is shit. " ) After these words the room should have been almost empty. A heated argument ensued between Brooks and Gabor Csupo, director of Klasky Csupo, who denied that anything had gone wrong with the animation, and claimed that the real problem is the quality of the script of the episode was.

The problem with the animation from the view of the producers was that they did not have the " for the show provided distinctive style " includes. Usually cartoons were drawn in the style of Disney, Warner Bros. and Hanna -Barbera. Cartoons from Disney and Warner Bros. had a curvy universe in which the characters seemed to be made of rubber. However, the producers wanted a realistic environment in which the figures and objects can not do anything in the real world is not possible. The style of Hanna -Barbera was the use of conventional comic sounds, the producers also did not want.

The producers thought about breaking off the series after, if the next episode Bart the Genius (English title: Bart is a genius ) would have proven to be bad; but these suffered at easily repairable problems. Then they asked Fox to postpone the premiere of the series by several months. After the premiere changed to the consequence Simpsons Roasting on Open Fire on (German title: Christmas is difficult), which was broadcast in December as a " Christmas Special ". This ensured that more time could be spent on the repair of the animation problems. The job as a director was awarded for the admissions of Kent Butterworth to David Silverman, who has already had experience from the short films. Silverman estimates that about 70 % of the episode had to be replaced. Most of these admissions were made of changes in the background. The result of this is a sequence in which the animation is uneven and changes between previous animation and renewed.

The result shows several previous character designs. Moe Szyslak has in her black hair, which was later changed to gray. Barney Gumble has yellow hair, which were later changed to brown, to distinguish his hair out of his skin can. Due to the delayed broadcast it also shows several continuity errors. Dog Knecht Ruprecht, for example, can not be seen in this episode, because it will be hard not introduced until Christmas is. Original spokesman Hank Azaria was credited at the time for his voice as Moe Szyslak as a guest star. In this episode Moe was originally voiced by Christopher Collins, as Azaria but showed his version, the participants decided for him. Azaria was then a frequent speaker on the second season.

Reception

The first broadcast of Some Enchanted Evening ended the Nielsen ratings for the week of 17 to 23 May 1990 a rating of 15.4 on the 12th place and was seen there by about 14.2 million TV households.

Since they air the episode received mixed reviews from critics. The authors of the book I Can not Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote: "It is quite a shock to discover that these self- secure, fully rounded result was the first that was made. . The perfect template " Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide said in a review that he thought that she was a " reasonably good " result, and added: " Nevertheless, it is an awkward fragment and not one that I enjoyed very much. Although was, Evening ' usually entertaining, but it 's nothing special. " In another review gave David B. Grelck Consequently, a rating of 1.5 out of 5. Another of the website The Digital Bits called the back story to this episode more interesting than the actual result.

According to Al Jean, the audience should have thought this episode was the best of the first season. In 2006, however, IGN Entertainment declared the result of barter and spies as the best of the season. Penny Marshall, who dubbed Ms. Botz in the original version, is on the list of the 25 best guest stars of the series of AOL.

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