Following two months of postal strike, it’s nice to finally be getting mail. Today this Restaurant Drawing from Jonathan Monk arrived. Earlier in the year he posted an image of a Baldessari-as-Simpsons-Character receipt drawing being made into a t-shirt. I sent him screengrabs of Jasper Johns and Yoko Ono from other episodes, in case he might want to draw them also. I was not expecting to be gifted one in the mail.
Baldessari and Johns both lent their voices to the show (Jasper John’s best line being “Yoink” as he steals food from a gallery opening) but Ono is voiced by an actress on staff, in the Beatles parody episode Homer's Barbershop Quartet (S05E01). As Barney’s avant-garde girlfriend she is more parody of an Ono-type artist, ordering a conceptual cocktail and recording a "Revolution 9”-like bit of musique concrete where she recites “Number eight, number eight...” over Barney’s belches.
According to SimsponsWiki, she is also mentioned in "Last Tap Dance in Springfield” and "Covercraft", and appears as a hallucination in "The Bart of War”, and as a waxwork figure in "Crook and Ladder”.
The cocktail she orders: "a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat”, became the basis for an artwork by Ragnar Kjartansson, as part of the 2016 exhibit One More Story at the Reykjavík Art Museum, which was curated by Ono. She Hyperallergic story, here, for more information.
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