Simpsons Did It…Created the Syrian Opposition?
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We don’t usually delve too far into the political here at TR, but when it verges into sheer pop-culture inspired wackiness and goes crazy, sometimes it can be hard to resist. In this instance, reader GallenDugall passed along a hysterical clip from Egyptian TV in which the anchorwoman notes that the flag of the Syrian opposition – which did not yet exist – appears in that 2001 episode of The Simpsons featuring *NSYNC and the “Yvan eht NioJ” music video (I’d totally forgotten it was a pre-9/11 episode).
What seems obvious to me is that it’s the flag of our then #1 Mid-East foe Iraq, with a slight color change for deniability. What seems obvious in Egypt, apparently, is that the U.S. created the Syrian opposition and their plans prematurely and subliminally leaked out in a cartoon show…that itself was making fun of subliminal messaging!
God damn, their version of our government sounds clever.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist