It…Doesn’t…Stop: “The Simpsons'” Steamed Hams Bit Goes VR

Rick and Morty isn’t the only animated franchise that can be turned into a VR-bit.

“Steamed Hams” comes from a scene in the Simpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield, which first aired over twenty years ago.  In the anthology episode that features 22 short scenes about Springfield’s citizens, Principal Skinner has Superintendent Chalmers over for lunch ala “dinner with the boss”. The luncheon does not go according to plan, as Skinner burns the ham he was preparing, leading him to kind of bullshit the occasion. After Skinner burns the ham, he tells Chalmers that he’s making “steamed clams” for lunch as smoke fills the house. Skinner attempts to convince Chalmers that what he had prepared “steamed hams” for lunch,  his Albany-slang nickname for hamburgers.

The producers of the episode actually posted the script that you can see here., but it didn’t take long for this bit to go viral and even become a source for further parodying like this one that sees the popular scene converted to the world of VR.