Anna Daniels
Despite taking on as their profession the task of designing beautiful, functional buildings that most everyone in the world uses, not too many architects are household names. There’s Frank Lloyd Wright and maybe Frank Gehry, but that’s pushing it. So, if an architect absolutely had to show up on The Simpsons, it would have to be Gehry (as Wright died in 1959).
The Toronto-born, Pritzker Prize-winning contemporary architect has built many unique and dazzling buildings, but when the 2005 episode “The Seven-Beer Snitch” first aired, he was best known for devising the Walt Disney Concert Hall (WDCH) in Los Angeles. Marge, on behalf of Springfield, asks Gehry to design it a similar building, and he rejects the offer, balling up the request letter and tossing it on the ground. Gehry then spots the visually pleasing wad of trash, which he turns into a design for the (WDCH-esque) Springfield Concert Hall. The bullies wind up using it as a skate park, so Gehry threatens to call their mothers. And that prompts Jimbo to taunt back with, “Yo, Frank Gehry, like curvilinear forms much?”
Written by: Looper
