Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the blockchain made a particular look on The Simpsons, Sunday night time U.S. time.
Throughout Treehouse of Horror 34, the Halloween particular episode of the enduring animated sequence, the present made quite a few references to the overvaluation of on-chain NFTs within the first chapter of the episode titled “Wild Barts Can’t Be Token.”
NFTs are a particular kind of crypto asset that enables holders to show their possession of actual or digital gadgets.
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Within the episode, Marge battles by means of the blockchain to rescue Bart, now a dwelling NFT, whereas the town’s mayor declares that Springfield’s artwork gallery might be digitized. There are additionally loads of appearances by blue chip NFTs, just like the Beeple, the Bored Ape Yacht Membership, and second-tier PFPs being proven as almost nugatory.
On X, Noah Bolanowski, an NFT collector and adviser to Crypt Gallery, an IRL NFT gallery, analyzed how the present portrayed NFTs.
“I liked how the episode had an unimaginable artwork emphasis – the PFPs have been painted largely as the underside of the barrel, whereas artwork was positioned at a degree of status. They even had BAYC holders cleansing their ft,” he posted on the social networking platform.
The episode, which has loads of references to the NFT crash of final 12 months, isn’t the primary time that crypto – or NFTs – has appeared on the present.
In 2020, the episode “Frinkcoin” options Jim Parsons educating viewers on cryptocurrency, full with a singing ledger ebook and teases to the id of Satoshi.
“For cryptocurrencies to work, we want a report of each transaction that happens. These are recorded in what’s referred to as a distributed ledger,” Parsons explains in the course of the episode, which aired simply earlier than the Covid crypto crash of March 2020. “Once you use the forex, the transaction is recorded within the ledger, and when one ledger ebook will get crammed up, we add to a series of earlier books – that’s the blockchain.”
Final 12 months’s “The King of Good” had a gag the place Krusty the clown is compelled onto the celebrity-for-hire app Cameo as a result of he blew all his cash on NFTs. “Non-funny TV exhibits” is how the clown describes it.
This isn’t the primary time Simpsons creator Matt Groening’ has snubbed crypto and blockchain. Earlier this 12 months, Futurama, one other common animated sequence by Groening, mocked crypto miners in an episode titled “How the West Was 101001.”
The most recent episode appeared to have a minor influence on the ground costs of the Bored Ape Yacht Membership, up 0.3% within the final 24 hours, based on CoinGecko knowledge, and the Mutant Ape Yacht Membership, with its ground costs up 2.9%. As compared, the price of ether is down 0.14%.
