| The Longest Daycare
|
| Special Information
|
Maggie Simpson in: The Longest Daycare is an animated 3D short film starring Maggie Simpson. The short will air on July 13, 2012 onwards in the USA (though could be seen in some countries since June 25) before Ice Age: Continental Drift in theaters in USA. A 2D animatic version will be screened at San Diego Comic-Con International on July 14, 2012.[1][2]
Summary
Maggie returns to the Ayn Rand School for Tots where her only friend there is a butterfly. Each baby is put through a security gate and when Maggie goes through, it says "Nothing Special". Maggie is then put in an area of the daycare that isn't great. Baby Gerald, Maggie's arch-nemesis, will make an appearance.[1]
Plot
When Marge brings Maggie to Ayn Rand School for Tots to get babysat, Maggie starts to miss her mother. When she is there she is put through a security gate and is placed in the category "Nothing Special" instead of "Gifted Children". Maggie, Baby Gerald, and an unnamed child are the only children in the category. Gerald, bored, starts to smash two butterflies which upsets Maggie. Maggie finds a larvae and uses that as her eyebrow so Gerald would not kill that too. Maggie then read a book about butterflies and found out that they form from a pupa. Maggie started to protect a pupa which lead to Gerald hunting Maggie around the daycare center. The pupa hatches and Maggie tried to throw it out of the window but Gerald managed to kill it by drawing down the blinds when it is at the window. Maggie is sad, meanwhile Marge comes to pick up Maggie. Gerald is still at the center and draws up the blinds and discover that the butterfly he killed with the blind was Maggie's rosette. Maggie is in Marge's car and her rosette starts to fly away out of the car window and it turns out that it was the butterfly and Maggie is happy.
Production
The producers decided to focus the short on Maggie as it is hard to make a 20 minute Maggie episode, but easy to make a 4-5 minute short. James Brooks came up with the idea of doing a short, similar to the Pixar shorts. The short is dialogue-free.[1]
On May 24, 2012, David Silverman's Twitter account posted a drawing from the short featuring Maggie.[3]
Reception
Thereelbits considered the animation beautiful and that the fluid movements were noticeably more nuanced and richer than their television counterparts, "making us wish for a second theatrical outing for our favourite yellow people".[4] Filmdrunk said that they think a lot of Simpsons loyalists didn't want to see Ice Age 4, and are going to watching the short on the Internet.[5]
The Herald Sun said that "The Longest Daycare, starring baby Maggie from The Simpsons, displays all the wit and creativity missing from Continental Drift".[6] inthekan.net argued that the best part of Ice Age 4 is the Simpsons themed short as the entertaining little sequence plays out like a silent film and squeezes out more laughs than the main feature.[7] Sydsvenskan said that the film is better than the Ice Age film,[8] and Active 3D said in a review of Ice Age that the short is worth the price of admission alone.[9]
Titles
| Title card
|
Title
|
Country
|
Release date
|
|
Maggie Simpson in: The Longest Daycare
|
Australia
|
June 25, 2012
|
|
|
Maggie Simpson in: The Longest Daycare
|
Sweden
|
June 27, 2012
|
|
|
|
Finland
|
June 29, 2012
|
|
|
Maggie Simpson in: The Longest Daycare
|
UK
|
July 13, 2012
|
|
|
Maggie Simpson in: The Longest Daycare
|
USA
|
|
Maggie Simpson en: Largo Día en la Guardería
|
Spain
|
|
Gallery
External links
References
The Longest Daycare at the Internet Movie Database
[[wikipedia:{{{1}}} ({{{2}}})|{{{1}}}]] at Wikipedia
