marge was mr burns grovelling assistant in the simpsons.
marge was mr burns grovelling assistant in the simpsons.
who is mr burns grovelling assistant in the simpsons?
marge
smithers made his first appearance in "homer's odyssey", which was the third episode of the first season, although he can be heard over a speaker in "the simpsons" series premiere "simpsons roasting on an open fire". in his first visual appearance in "homer's odyssey", smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong color and was made darker than most characters by gyorgi peluci, the color stylist. david silverman has claimed that smithers was always intended to be "mr burns' white sycophant", and the staff thought it "would be a bad idea to have a black subservient character" and so switched him to his intended color for his next episode. silverman retconned this error by saying that smithers had a tan from a recent holiday in the caribbean. the first appearance of a yellow smithers was "there's no disgrace like home", the fourth episode of the first season.
waylon smithers
on the dvd audio commentary for the episode, kramer stated that there was an issue over which color to paint the fortunes with. kramer wanted the fortunes to be white while one of his co-workers suggested they should be pink. kramer stated that the co-worker had been to a chinese restaurant close to the studio that had pink fortunes, and that "that's why she [colored the fortunes pink]." the animators also found it difficult to draw mr burns happy. kramer stated that burns was "designed to look like a vulture" and look "evil all the time", so in order to make burns look happy and more sympathetic, the animators had to change some things in burns' regular model. for example, burns' eyebrows are not visible through the majority of the episode. the scene with mr burns and gloria on the ferris wheel was difficult to animate as well, since the animators had to "keep everything moving to sell it." in the scene in which snake's house is burning down, the animators chose to color the sky red, in order to reflect the fire as well as make the scene "a little more exciting."
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