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" A single episode of an animated show takes anywhere between six and nine months to produce. This is why South Park pops; creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker turn around episodes in only a week&amp;#039;s time, giving them the opportunity for timely jokes (watch the unexpectedly suspenseful South Park documentary 6 Days to Air for more on that). Whereas, if a show like The Simpsons drops a cultural reference, it needs to have a half-year shelf life it still intends to land\u2014an increasingly difficult task in the age of Internet-enabled comedy. So color us shocked that, less than a month after Donald Trump announced his presidential run, The Simpsons batted the candidate with a scathing, hallucinatory right hook. Trumptastic Voyage, a short released straight to YouTube, imagines Homer at Trump&amp;#039;s announcement event, riding behind the billionaire on his now-infamous escalator ride (padded with &amp;quot;supporters&amp;quot;). The Simpsons patriarch is transfixed on Donald&amp;#039;s hair. Could it cure his baldness? No, but it could suck him into its demented wonderland (because it&amp;#039;s sentient and vast, obviously). Bigfoot, Amelia Earhart, and the monkeys from 2001: A Space Odyssey all live in the dusty &amp;#039;do. There is a Macy&amp;#039;s reference, culled from week-old news. Trumptastic Voyage is on top of it:        &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s so wispy,&amp;quot; Homer says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a gravity defying combover... I can&amp;#039;t believe this was once on his ass...&amp;quot; Trumptastic Voyage is a rare moment of Simpsons on the attack. Every frame is filled with jokes. It&amp;#039;s a good look for a show that&amp;#039;s constantly reinventing itself. With the announcement that Comedy Central will continue with South Park through 2019, catapulting it into the 300-episode club alongside Fox&amp;#039;s animation staple, one wonders if The Simpsons finally has the technology to rival Stone and Parker&amp;#039;s commentary. There was a time when The Simpsons had real bite. Trumptastic resumes that position. And yes, that&amp;#039;s Trump&amp;#039;s actual voice you hear in the short film, confirmed by showrunner Al Jean. &amp;quot;You can do that when they&amp;#039;re running for president,&amp;quot; he said. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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