{"id":499334,"date":"2026-06-18T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499334\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:20:09","slug":"the-simpsons-laufey-parodies-hollywoods-slow-haunting-trailerized-pop-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499334\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Simpsons’: Laufey Parodies Hollywood\u2019s Slow, Haunting Trailerized Pop Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the years since the Walt Disney Company acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019, The Simpsons has been streaming on Disney+, including some new episodes exclusive to the platform. The latest of those, a two-parter called “Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition,” premiered Wednesday. It involved celebrities, including some of the musical persuasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the episode, per the Simpsons Wiki<\/a>, “Homer and Marge’s fun couples’ date night goes off the rails when Marge learns Homer left the kids unsupervised with only the doorbell camera as a babysitter. Frustrated with her imperfect husband, a tipsy Marge stirs up a trilogy of fantasies of a different Homer.” One of those fantasies is a parody of Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux, the jukebox-musical Joker sequel with Lady Gaga. They used that setup to mock the slow, haunting “trailerized<\/a>” versions<\/a> of classic<\/a> songs<\/a> that so often end up in trailers and movies.<\/p>\n

In the Joker parody, Marge’s Harley Quinn character helps Homer’s chaos-sparking supervillain, the D’ohker, break out of prison. As she’s releasing him, Homer remarks, “This may be the 39 flights of stairs I fell down talking, but I hear a slow, haunting version of a song that’s usually fast and funny.” Their violent getaway is then soundtracked by a new Laufey song in which the Gen Z jazz-pop sensation croons the following lyrics against an ominous backing track: “Happy song done ironic\/ Sung like a catatonic\/ Painfully clear\/ That the mood is so drear\/ And to really put it on the nose\/ Make sure you close\/ In an off-putting minor key.” Check it out:<\/p>\n

@stereogum<\/a> <\/p>\n

@laufey parodies sad movie versions of pop songs in a new bonus episode of \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 streaming exclusively on Disney+ \u76bf \u201cHomer and Marge’s fun couples’ date night goes off the rails when Marge learns Homer left the kids unsupervised with only the doorbell camera as a babysitter. Frustrated with her imperfect husband, a tipsy Marge stirs up a trilogy of fantasies of a different Homer.\u201d #Laufey<\/a> #theSimpsons<\/a> #Joker<\/a><\/p>\n

\u266c original sound – stereogum<\/a> <\/p>\n

Tegan And Sara contributed a song and some dialogue to another one of Marge’s imagined scenarios. Here’s a behind-the-scenes clip:<\/p>\n

Betty Gilpin of Glow fame also had a cameo:<\/p>\n

The couch gag was interesting:<\/p>\n