How Homer became Omar
October 17, 2005They’re a famously dysfunctional family from small-town America but suddenly they have all learned Arabic and started talking like Egyptians.
The Simpsons have changed their name to Shamsoon. Bart, the skateboarding, gum-chewing delinquent has become Badr. Homer, his slobbish dad, has become Omar and has given up Duff beer and pork sausages, at least for the duration of Ramadan.
Unlike most cartoons on Arab TV, MBC is not aiming the satirical Simpsons at children. If the experiment proves successful, the series “will form the backbone of the network’s attempt to create a new category of adult cartoons”, it said in a press statement.
So far though, some viewers are sceptical about the series. “I watched a promo segment and it was just painful,” a blogger known as The Angry Arab wrote. “They were so unfunny and so annoying, those Arab actors … the guy who played Homer was one of the most unfunny people I ever watched. Just drop the project.”
Tags: Simpsons, entertainment
have you heard the song for it, instead of the old song we had gotten used to now its, aaal shaaaamshoooom
Comment by Sabri — October 17, 2005 @ 10:00 AM
lol man i have GOT to see this
Comment by Nas — October 17, 2005 @ 11:51 AM
lol yea I’ve heared them singing…truely pathetic
Comment by SugarCubes — October 17, 2005 @ 12:38 PM
well, the translation team do have some fine work, I don’t know about you guys but I really liked what they did with Walt Disney’s “Timon and Bomba”, that thing was hilarious, though I guess that they didn’t just get it with “The Simpsons”, most probably because the show has a solid background that every one knows, they tried to change that background… which made the show kind of… boring!
Comment by Noor — October 17, 2005 @ 6:15 PM