{"id":670,"date":"2005-04-08T05:47:50","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2005\/04\/the_simpsons_spoof_cultural_fa\/"},"modified":"2005-04-08T05:47:50","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T12:47:50","slug":"the_simpsons_spoof_cultural_fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_simpsons_spoof_cultural_fa.php","title":{"rendered":"The Simpsons spoof cultural facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who watched &#8221;The Simpsons&#8221; last week got a hilarious view of the cultural facility development process, featuring the voice of architect Frank Gehry. Summarized on <a title=\"The Simpsons Archive: Episode Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snpp.com\/episodeguide\/season16.html\">this Simpsons web site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nWhile in Shelbyville, the Simpsons watch a musical about the town, which includes a character from Springfield who isn&#8217;t particularly bright. Marge suggests to the Springfield Cultural Activities Board to have a concert hall, built by Frank Gehry (voicing himself); however, when it becomes clear that nobody in Springfield likes classical music, the building is sold to Mr. Burns, who turns it into a prison.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the town meeting to unveil the design (a riff on Walt Disney Hall in LA) the town leader calls for the vote this way: &#8221;All in favor of a $30-million &#8216;screw you&#8217; to Shelbyville?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Matt Groening and his team have a particular perspective about why communities build cultural icons, and how engaged those buildings are with the world. Painful, but very, very funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who watched &#8221;The Simpsons&#8221; last week got a hilarious view of the cultural facility development process, featuring the voice of architect Frank Gehry. Summarized on this Simpsons web site: While in Shelbyville, the Simpsons watch a musical about the town, which includes a character from Springfield who isn&#8217;t particularly bright. Marge suggests to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}