The Longest Daycare
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The Longest Daycare
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Special Information
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Maggie Simpson in: The Longest Daycare is an animated 3D short film starring Maggie Simpson. The short aired on July 13, 2012 onwards in the USA (though it was seen in some countries since June 25) before Ice Age: Continental Drift in theaters in USA. A 2D animatic version was screened at San Diego Comic-Con International on July 14, 2012.[1][2]
Summary
Maggie returns to the Ayn Rand School for Tots, where she endures tests and ends up in a "Nothing Special" room. Maggie's arch-nemesis, Gerald Samson is there, who tries to smash a cocoon that Maggie is trying to save.
Plot
Marge, unaware of Maggie's doings at the last visit to Ayn Rand School for Tots, brings her there. Marge places her at the entrance to a security room, and Maggie watches her mother walk off. Maggie then begins the tests. She gives up her pacifier, bottle and keys before going through a security gate, and a lice detector, which Maggie passes, but Baby Gerald, who is also there, doesn't. Ms. Sinclair, after the tests, places Maggie in room with "Nothing Special" children, despite Maggie liking the look of the "Gifted Children" room. Looking for something to do, Maggie goes to a table with paint pots, but before she can pick up paint pots she wants to paint with, all of the paint pots are taken by the kids, but leaves two paint pots which Maggie picks up - Grey and Blackened Black. Maggie goes over to a baby which is eating paste, and offers Maggie some. Maggie sits down near Gerald, when a butterfly passes. Maggie is happy, but then Gerald smashes it against the wall with a mallet and draws a square around it. He does this again with another butterfly. Maggie then finds a caterpillar on the floor, and Gerald peers over, thinking he has something else to smash. Maggie turns around, and when she does, the caterpillar is her eyebrow. Gerald then walks off. Maggie then sneaks into another room, which has books in a pile on the floor. On top of the pile is a book entitled Goodnight, Cocoons. Maggie opens it, and it is a 3D-picture book about cocoons. Maggie discovers from this that cocoons turn into butterflies, and finds a plant pot with a cocoon on a leaf. Unbeknownst to Maggie, Gerald is also looking at the picture book, and when Maggie realizes this, she gets some dirt from the plant pot and throws it in Gerald's face. Maggie then runs off with the plant pot while Gerald is close behind with his mallet. She gets through some babies who are in little cars, who block Gerald from entering the room. Just as Maggie is about to exit the room, she trips up one of the cars and the plant pot smashes when it hits the floor. The cocoon opens at that moment and the butterfly flies out. Maggie then encourages it out to fly out of an open window, but as soon as it reaches the window, the blinds are shut by Gerald, squashing the butterfly. Maggie becomes upset, while Gerald looks on happy. Marge then picks Maggie up and put her in her car. In the center, Gerald draws up the blinds and finds that the butterfly is in fact Maggie's bow. Gerald is shocked at this, and in the car, Maggie is still upset, but when her bow starts moving and it flies out of the car window, she realizes that her bow is the butterfly and Maggie becomes happy again.
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
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Gallery
Maggie endures of the tests.
The room which Maggie snuck into.
Maggie in the "Nothing Special" room.
Marge straightens up Maggie's hair.
Maggie after the butterfly is squashed.
External links
The Longest Daycare at the Internet Movie Database
[[wikipedia:{{{1}}} ({{{2}}})|{{{1}}}]] at Wikipedia
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Inside TV Entertainment Weekly
- ↑ THE SIMPSONS at Comic-Con
- ↑ Review: Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare
- ↑ WANT TO SEE ‘THE SIMPSONS: THE LONGEST DAYCARE’? YOU’LL HAVE TO PAY FOR ‘ICE AGE 4
- ↑ Movie review: Ice Age 4
- ↑ Review: Ice Age 4: Continental Drift
- ↑ Förfilmen bättre än filmen
- ↑ Active3D
