"Springfield Up" is the thirteenth episode of the eighteenth season of The Simpsons, which originally aired on February 18, 2007. It is based on the Up Series, a British documentary series that has followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were eight years old, and returns every eight years to document their lives since.
Eccentric documentary filmmaker Declan Desmond offers an inside look at his work chronicling some o...
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"Springfield Up" is the thirteenth episode of the eighteenth season of The Simpsons, which originally aired on February 18, 2007. It is based on the Up Series, a British documentary series that has followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were eight years old, and returns every eight years to document their lives since.
Eccentric documentary filmmaker Declan Desmond offers an inside look at his work chronicling some of Springfield's finest for his documentary. Titled Growing Up Springfield, his film follows the lives of several Springfield residents, returning to them after eight-year intervals to examine how their lives have changed. Clips from the film show a young Homer dreaming of growing up to live in a mansion, have a pinball machine with "infinity quarters," and eight pairs of peanut-butter-and-jelly pajamas. Sixteen years later, Homer is working as a manure salesman, infomercial question-asker, and open-casket caricaturist, but dreaming of being a...
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