The Simpsons pitch everything from candy bars to computers in these ads

For a show that has so thoroughly mocked corporate culture and Madison Avenue hucksterism for nearly three decades, The Simpsons has proved itself remarkably amenable to commercial endorsements. A fan-curated wiki traces the legacy of Simpsons commercials back to 1988, when the cartoon was merely a segment of The Tracey Ullman Show. The animated yellow family got its own half-hour weekly showcase in 1989, and the ads have been coming at a steady clip ever since. YouTuber Antonio Volante (aka Fry J. Apocaloso) has collected over 40 minutes of these ads in a thorough compilation entitled “The Simpsons: The Big Fat Commercial Collection.” It contains roughly two whole episodes’ worth of animation, gags, and voice acting from most of the cast. The product most closely associated with The Simpsons is Butterfinger, and the first 11 minutes of the video are devoted to the “crispity, crunchity, peanut buttery” candy bars. But the compilation goes way, way beyond that. At the 28-minute mark, for instance, there’s an assortment of rarely seen foreign Simpsons ads in French, Spanish, and Japanese.