Over time, I’ve seen many takes on the ol’ “steamed hams” gag however this one actually stood out to me. It reimagines the Simpsons‘ bit as an animated Russian cartoon (“Steamlyannaya Hamonika”), transcending the meme to one thing a lot loftier however but nonetheless hilarious. It is the work of Canadian filmmaker Tyrone Deise who, final 12 months, made an equally transcendent German Expressionist model of the gag. Each are beneath, together with the unique.

Even the outline is brilliantly on-brand.

Steamlyannaya Hamonika (1968) depicts the isolation and brutalization of people in trendy bourgeois society. Though being broadly in keeping with different art-as-propaganda of the period, censors felt it may simply be learn as a criticism of the social gathering, leaving this subversive quick as the one animated movie to be banned within the Soviet Union.

The German Expressionist movie model:

A person’s try to impress his employer with a home-cooked meal goes awry. Impressed by The Cupboard of Dr. Caligari (1920)

This is the unique Simpsons‘ clip for reference: