I took this pic of a TV screen in Paris, France recently. As you may have noted in my last blog entry, while in Paris I turned on the TV in my hotel room to get a dose of French entertainment (or just tickle myself by listening to a bunch of French words), and was pleasantly surprised to find the station running a Valentine's Day marathon of... The Simpsons. I'm not sure what The Simpsons has to do with Valentine's Day, but who cares? All that mattered at the time was that in the ad breaks the TV station had produced interstitial programming of a live-action Homer and Marge doing skits on a recreation of the Simpson living room (see above).
I suppose English subtitles would have come in handy, but really it didn't matter. The whole thing was rather surreal. I was confused as to why live-action Homer took off his head. Perhaps he was jealous that live-action Marge didn't have to wear a giant fake head too, so he rebelled once the cameras were rolling. I guess we'll never know...
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