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Epic Oscars Selfie Gets Matt Groening's Simpsons Treatment
.@TheEllenShow Oscar® Selfie: A wider view. #thesimpsons pic.twitter.com/4rOSejhycW
— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) March 5, 2014
Everyone has been saying for days now that Ellen DeGeneres' Oscars selfie featuring every major Oscars contender this year "broke the Internet." It didn't actually break it, but it sure broke a record.
As of today, Ellen's star-studded tweet has been retweeted over 3.2 million times. (That puts President Barack Obama's election night Twitter photo of himself with his wifey Michelle back into second place with over 778,000 retweets, according to TIME.)
The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening decided to give Ellen's selfie the Simpsons treatment in this Twitter photo he posted today. He wrote that this one gives a "wider view," this time with an entire Jared Leto (whose luscious, long locks were cut out of the original) and Bradley Cooper pushing out Homer Simpson's head out of the snapshot with his foot. In addition, we get to see the signature look of his characters made into Ellen, Jennifer Lawrence, Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong’o, Nyong'o's brother Junior, Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep.
Will this Simpsons selfie get as many tweets as Ellen's?
Here's the original:
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014
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