Destaquei no texto do Washington Post a parte sobre o Rio de Janeiro. A íntegra da reportagem está no link ao final do texto. Morgan Spurlock, diretor do filme “Sper Size Me”, produziu o documentário “The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special — In 3-D! On Ice!” no qual volta ao Rio de Janeiro para relembrar a polêmica visita dos Simpsons à cidade em 2002.

Spurlock heads to Portland, Ore., to visit the principal of the school that inspired Springfield Elementary. Later, he travels to North Carolina to visit uber-collector Noel Bankhead — “If it says ‘The Simpsons’ on it, I have to have it,” Bankhead explains. “I don’t care what it is. It could be a sock.”

Then Spurlock pops over to the U.K. to chat with the even more extreme Glynn Williams, whose house overflows with the 30,000 pieces of Simpsons memorabilia he has amassed. And, in the most unfortunate moment of the show, Spurlock even squeezes into a Speedo while visiting Rio de Janeiro, a city still smarting from an unflattering “Simpsons” episode that aired in 2002. (Spurlock in the Speedo probably isn’t going to help matters.)

The tribute skims over details regarding the show’s creative machinery — Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, among others, briefly recount how “The Simpsons” leapt from “Tracey Ullman Show” segment to stand-alone series — and it glosses over the question of how the writers attempt to keep the show fresh amid criticism from longtime fans. (“I think the Internet message boards used to be a lot funnier 10 years ago,” “Simpsons” writer Matt Warburton says in a wry attempt to address some of the more negative comments that have surfaced online. “I sort of stopped reading their new posts.”)

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