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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Simpsons<\/em> is America’s longest-running sitcom, with 441 episodes shown since 1989. (Their 20th season begins next month.)<\/p>\n But for their upcoming debut on Africa’s digital satellite television service, DStv, an Angolan ad agency decided to give the saffron-colored family a “makeover.”<\/a><\/p>\n As the publication details<\/a>:<\/p>\n To make them appear more like a typical Angolan family, Marge has also been given a black Afro hairstyle instead of normal blue bouffant, while Lisa’s hair is stood up on end in short braids.<\/p>\n The image also shows the family dressed in clothes bearing traditional African designs and they are all wearing flip flops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To be clear, this change was not made to the actual animation, but to print advertising being shown in the broadcast area.<\/p>\n Will Angolans be offended? Actor Kirstie Alley once told me that African-Americans…are \u201c<\/a>more free and fun and light hearted\u201d<\/a> than white people. Did she mean Africans<\/em>, too?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Let’s hope so, and let’s trust they<\/span><\/span> won’t be put off, here, by dumb, cloying marketing at its worst, and, in so doing, avoid what’s still a very funny show.<\/p>\n![\"6a00d8358081ff69e2011570465543970c-800wi\"](\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/6a00d8358081ff69e2011570465543970c-800wi-300x206.jpg\" "\\"6a00d8358081ff69e2011570465543970c-800wi\\"")
Those are the results, above, says the UK’s Telegraph<\/em>: “Brown skin instead of their usual yellow,” right.<\/p>\n