Meet the Simpsons of Angola
America's most dysfunctional cartoon family (OK, second most) is coming to TV screens in Angola, via the South African satellite giant DSTV. How to introduce the Simpsons to a new market? An Angolan ad agency came up with this advertisement:
(Hat tip to my McClatchy colleague, Dion Nissenbaum in Jerusalem.)
I love Homer's funky shirt and the cool braids on the girls. Homie's also drinking some unnamed African version of Duff. Looking at the original image, it seems most of the furniture has been replaced with two giant stereo speakers. I've never been to Angola, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of that one, but otherwise I think it's pretty funny.
No idea whether the ad agency, Executive Center, or the Angolan channel Bue got approval from the show's creators. But there's no way an American agency could have got away with the blackface.
I love Africa!
Posted by: Texas ExPat | August 19, 2009 at 07:24 PM
The unnamed drink is the Angola national beer - called Cuca BGI. It's a can of cuca
Posted by: Mini | August 20, 2009 at 06:40 AM
Well, the Simpson's are not White... they are Yellow.
Why didn't they make them Purple or Green for Angola?
Posted by: vise357 | August 22, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Fantastic Simpson pic
Posted by: pesa | August 25, 2009 at 06:32 AM
That is a crazy advertisement. It would never fly in the US. People would be outraged and it would be all over the media.
Posted by: Jenn | August 25, 2009 at 09:45 PM
Nzuri sana!
Everyone will enjoy much.
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