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Gulliver63 β Hippie Marge
Published: 2014-05-28 17:59:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 4289; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 46
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This idea hit me at about 2:30 in the morning when I got up last night. I'm sure it's been done at some point on the show, but I can't recall if it had. I was actually thinking about the Hippie Universe on Futurama's Parabox episode. I still think she looks amazing in Birkenstocks. I hadn't planned on doing a project today, but here it is. And I was enjoying Parliament's "Aqua Boogie" while doing it www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBVNOr⦠You go girl!Related content
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this out fit sure looks awesome on marge, &Β Birkenstocks suit her. well done.
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I think she looks great in them.
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yeah, superb.
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I love this look on marge. There are some characters/people wo look awesome in birkenstocks and she looks cool in them.
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I've got a flash drive full of pics I've made with her wearing different shoes; I agree - she'd look great in themΒ gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/β¦
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Yeah I like the way some women look in different shoes. Birkenstocks are my favorite.
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My personal favs are the old Dr. Scholls from the 70's.Β gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/β¦
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I once imagined a 60's Simpsons Fanfic, but never finished it (like everything I ever did). Marge would have been a feminist, Homer would have been like in the show but working for an Oil company, Bart would have been the cool but also rebel kid like a 60ish Fonzie, Lisa a hippie and Maggie a baby. Too bad I wasn't born in the 60's, despite all its flaws, this period seem cooler than the 2010's.
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OMG, a period Simpsons fanfic would be wonderful! I've written several of them, but not a period one. I wrote a THOH one last fall, and published one in the spring where Marge got pulled into Futurama's "Universe 1" for a while.
I can appreciate that it is hard writing a Simpsons fanfic, as so much has been done on the show over the years.
::chuckles:: I was born in 1963, and it was a different world. There was a gigantic amount of change in society that occurred between about 1967 and 1971. If you ever need help writing a fanfic like this and have questions about that time period, I can give you my e-mail and you can ask away. I would definitely say give it a try.
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Sorry, but I just can't write anything satisfying enough when it comes to comedy. You can have the idea if you want, maybe it would be better. As for the period, I usually ask my grandfather about it, he was 20 in 1963 so he know that period quite well.
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Oh, comedy is a cinch. You just have to focus on what makes you laugh and go from there. I think you should try it just for fun. As far as the period goes, I find that Marge is very much like a housewife in the 1970's to begin with. I could imagine her driving a Buick Skylark station wagon for some reasonΒ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:197β¦ . Lisa could be excited about buying a Mood Ring at a department store, and Bart could have his heart set on getting a videogame called Pong (around 1976). In May of 1977 the kids could have their heart set on seeing some big movie in the theaters called "Star Wars." Around this time people were so sick of hearing about Watergate and Vietnam that they really craved escapist entertainment. And the economy by the mid to late 70's was rotten - Homer could be laid off and re-hired several times during this period.
What's also interesting, and I invite you to try this, is I did a treatment of sort of a Jetsons-style futuristic Simpsons. That was quite fun - they lived in a flying city, and Marge had a Japanese robot that cleaned the house and helped to take care of the kids.
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Not a bad rendering of Marge in a hippie mode.Β Although I doubt that most of today's DeviantART membership would remember the hippie movement or even know what it was.Β Still, great work all around.Β
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I was telling one young person about seeing my first hippies in Beechmont Mall in Cincinnati around 1969, and they really stuck out in my mind. Now we live in this age where people get stuff pinned in their lips and all over, and nothing would surprise us ::chuckles:: BTW, we sorta saw the Futurama gang like that in "Bendin' in the Wind."
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About that Futurama episode, I know that one well since I have the entire Futurama series DVD box set.Β And I notice that Marge's hippie getup is similar to that of a blonde hippie girl in "Bendin' in the Wind," as she is about to buy some multicolor pearls that were horked up by Dr. Zoidberg.Β As for today's kids piercing every part of their faces and other body parts, I try not to pay too much attention.Β Hopefully, they'll get tired of looking like human fishing lures, n'yuk, n'yuk, n'yuk!Β
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Yeah, good god...they've got so many piercings that they whistle "Dixie" when they walk down the street.
You've probably already seen it, but that episode is where I got the tie-dye designs for this project gulliver63.deviantart.com/art/β¦
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Ah, yes.Β The same episode where their clothes were tie-dyed by washing them with Zoidberg's shell.Β Pretty funny.Β
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And you've got the lot of the episodes...your stock just rose in my eyes, my friend. Have you ever read any of my fanfic? I just posted a piece about hyper-intelligent ants that take over Planet ExpressΒ www.futurama-madhouse.net/fanfβ¦
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No, I haven't.Β But I will ASAP.Β And thank you for your praise good buddy.Β
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Wow she looks high as Sh!t I think she inhaled a little Waylon before you drew this.Β
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Well, we saw her really drunk in "Co-dependent's Day," I bet she'd be funny on pot.
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Remember back in the first season where she got drunk off the punch and embarrassed Homer?Β
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I'd almost have to dig through my old dvd for that one...
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By the way did you see Guillermo Del toro's intro for Treehouse of Horror last year? That was pure awesomeness!Β
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I did, and any time you can squeeze in a reference to Hellboy, I'm all over it.
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So what have you got planned for release soon?
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Great question. I've got a sketch laid out for the second Jurassic Marge, where she's getting ready to eat the lawyer (Lionel Hutz, from the show). Got a busy weekend planned - PopCon here in Indy has a bunch of guests, including John DiMaggio from Futurama.
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OH MY GOD THAT'S HILARIOUS I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THAT!Β
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I start on it today...it's still in pencil form.
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Man, Marge looks tweaked, look at her eyes, was that intentional?
Faved.
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That is actually the normal way the character looks...most Simpsorama characters are wall-eyed, except when they're angry and determined.
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I got the big giant cheat book...the one with all those great sketches from the original artists. Nearly every view of Marge in the thing shows her as being wall-eyed. Futurama characters are included in this. When they get a determined look on their face, the eyeballs focus properly. 
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Thanks! It was just one of those ideas that just stuck with me all day.
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I love anything to do with hippies
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I can actually remember the original hippies that used to hang out at our local shopping mall in Cincinnati - as a kid they used to scare the hell out of me. To us "straights," they stuck out like space aliens. As a teenager I grew to love their music, even thought it was ten years old by that time.
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Same here!Β Β I can imagine that they might look scary to a "straight kid" but I love them.Β I hung about with a group of hippy types at school cos they were so much more accepting than the "normal" kids
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::chuckles:: that was back in the day when there was much more of a divide between the two groups. Nowadays we've seen about everything. My parents were definitely from that different generation who were raised as school kids in the 1930's and 40's. I tell the younger kids that there was just so much change in between 1967 and 1970. I'm with you - I don't fit in too well with those that are really conservative.
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The best people are those that don't fit in.Β BTW nice to meet somebody around my age on here
My parents same generation as yours
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Hey, you are my age! I was born in Cincinnati in 1963, and spent part of my growing up in Phoenix, Arizona. I graduated in 1981 in Indianapolis, where they just held the car race.
Are you a Dr. Who fan at all? My kid has been hanging around with Sylvester McCoy at a local convention today, and this is their TARDIS that her Dr. Who club madeΒ www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbiβ¦
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I am very much a Dr Who fan.Β Great photo! Great TARDIS.Β I was at the 50th anniversary at the Excel Centre in London and Sylvester McCoy was there along with Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, Matt Smith and Jena Louise Coleman!Β Amazing!
I was born in Essex, England in 1969 on John Lennon's 29th birthday
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Oh, sorry, high school in 1981. I was also in the US army in Missouri. John Lennon's birthday - that is so cool. I took two years of college art, but my certificate is in Human Resources. Lord I wish I could get to England; London, Ohio is probably the closest I'll ever come.Β
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Wow!Β Sounds like you've done a lot!
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My father was born and raised in NYC. His father was a fireman up there.
We're not nearly as crowded here in Indianapolis; we're a lot smaller city.
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