Rumors suggest that was a proposed segment for the 2024 "The Simpsons Funday Football" alternative broadcast on Disney+ and ESPN+. While that official event featured the short "O C’mon All Ye Faithful" (a play on words regarding the character Ned Flanders), the "fylm" version is something else entirely.
”A Christmas Crisis of Faith, Hypnosis, and Hilarity” fylm The Simpsons- O C-mon All Ye Faithful 2024...
The setup is classic late-era Simpsons: The citizens of Springfield, in a rare moment of collective self-awareness, realize they are, as a town, “a little much.” Enter Dr. Collier (voiced with perfect soothing condescension by a guest star), a high-end celebrity hypnotherapist hired to help the town relax. His method? Convince everyone that Ned Flanders is Santa Claus. Rumors suggest that was a proposed segment for
The keyword serves as a Rorschach test. To some, it is a fascinating tech demo showing how AI might upscale old cartoons. To others, it is a dystopian nightmare—a vision of a future where even the comfort of a Simpsons Christmas is fed into a neural network and spat out as a hallucination. Collier (voiced with perfect soothing condescension by a
One Reddit user who claims to have downloaded the 14GB file described it as follows:
: It is later revealed that Brown and Frink staged the entire submarine incident. However, Brown admits he did not plan the appearance of the ox yoke, suggesting a touch of real "magic" occurred.
"It’s Christmas Eve in Springfield. Snow is falling in perfect, geometric unity—each flake identical. The AI doesn't understand randomness. Reverend Lovejoy is preaching, but his mouth movements are three seconds behind his audio. When the congregation sings 'O C-mon All Ye Faithful,' the music glitches into a sine wave. Homer eats a donut, but the AI generates 600 frames of the donut entering his mouth. It never finishes. It just... vibrates."