Ron English was the only one whose name was not mentioned in the episode. Maybe he didn't want it?

Someone said he lived/worked in the JC Heights?


Well I wonder if Jersey City got a nod in the Simpsons episode tonight.

One scene had Bart way up on a billboard spray painting his Bart art on a sign. Someone yelled out hey what are you doing up there. It was Mike Tyson up on a roof top with his pigeon coops. He told Bart to stop it because he was scaring his birds and making them go to the bathroom. Mike was changing the ?paper? in his coops with Kindles..saying something about no more newspapers or this is getting expensive.


Hey Ron if you are out there ..was it a JC nod?

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Another funny line was when two guys were standing next to a spay painted wall of Bart art. One says I remember when this stuff made a neighborhood scary, now it makes it sophisticated.

Ron English has a house and a studio in JC, but he also has a place in Beacon, NY and is from Dallas, TX. I guess he is a JC artist.

If you don't know this guy check out this website....

www.graffiti.org/ron_english

and the JC Billboards

Jersey City artist to be featured in upcoming episode of "The Simpsons"

March 02, 2012, 7:49 PM
By Stephanie Musat - For The Jersey Journal

Jersey City artist Ron English is getting the yellow treatment as he is transformed into a Simpsons character for an upcoming episode of The Simpsons, airing Sunday on FOX.

English is joining Robbie Conal, Shepard Fairey and Kenny Scharf as the four artists get characterized for the episode titled "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" - a parody of 2010's documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop."

The documentary follows a French immigrant and his obsession with street art.

English, who uses his art as a cultural commentary, has been recognized as one of the top modern artists today. He has taken heat and found himself in dicey circumstances for transforming commercial billboards into socio-political messages. McDonald's, for one, has been in the line of fire of English's wrath. English's Ronald "McSupersize" paintings got prominent play in the popular documentary "Super Size Me."

"I want to make art that has a political signifcance but isn't a political cartoon," he told The Jersey Journal in a previous interview. "My intent is for it to be more universal and less dogmatic."

English found his way to Jersey City after rents for studio and living space in New York City rose through the roof.

"It went from $4,000 to $12,000 a month," he said. "Since my wife and I had many good friends here and wanted to raise our kids in a nicer environment with parks, we decided to move here."

No matter where he's doing his art, English says it reaches many more eyes than ever before, including his first appearance on the show.
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