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# The Simpsons Spoofs Metropolitan Museum as “Museum of Generational Wealth”
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-simpsons-spoofs-metropolitan-museum-as-museum-of-generational-wealth/
- Published: 2021-04-01T20:02:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:50:06.000Z
- Description: The latest episode of the Simpsons pokes fun at the parodical Museum of Generational Wealth.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Art, The Simpsons, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-small, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

*The Simpsons* has long been in touch with the zeitgeist, but recently the show has been dipping its toes into the art world with more regularity. In this week’s episode, [“Uncut Femmes” (Season 32, Episode 17)](https://play.google.com/store/tv/show?id=z5j9r4sIMds&cdid=tvseason-5uJVyt8ecEY.P&gdid=tvepisode-OsKs-Yw3JgA.P&ref=hyperallergic.com), Marge is hosting a “Gen Gala” watch party, which apparently includes some A-level gays.

Little does Marge know, there’s another plan in the works, as she ends up as part of an *Ocean’s 8*\-inspired female crime gang trying to swipe a jewel from the gala at the Museum of Generational Wealth — oh yes, they did. And that’s the biggest gag. The museum is clearly fashioned on the Metropolitan Museum and its popular Met Gala, a celebration of wealth, celebrity, and brand tie-in more than anything else. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2021/03/gen-gala-02.jpg)

Various scenes from the Gen Gala, including ones (on the right) that suggest the parallels with the Metropolitan Museum is not a coincidence (screenshots by the author)

Like most cartoon gags, the jokes aren’t deep, but “generational wealth”? Accurate. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2021/03/2203182914_1ac0a70e8d_o.jpg)

The Museum of Really Modern Art in *Futurama* (screenshot by the author)

Past museums featured in *The* *Simpsons* include the [Springfield Museum of Natural History](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Springfield%5FMuseum%5Fof%5FNatural%5FHistory?ref=hyperallergic.com), which advertised “Now With Multi-Ethnic Cavemen,” and the [Springfield Museum](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Springfield%5FMuseum?ref=hyperallergic.com), with the slogan “Truth, Knowledge, Giftshop.” The show has also nodded to the [Springfield Folk Art Museum](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Springfield%5FFolk%5FArt%5FMuseum?ref=hyperallergic.com), [Springfield Palace of Fine Arts](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Springfield%5FPalace%5Fof%5FFine%5FArts?ref=hyperallergic.com), and even well-known IRL museums like the [Peabody Museum of Natural History](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Peabody%5FMuseum%5Fof%5FNatural%5FHistory?ref=hyperallergic.com) and the [Best of the Smithsonian](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Best%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSmithsonian?ref=hyperallergic.com).

This Met Museum spoof is even funnier than the time *Futurama* imagined the Museum of Modern Art in the future as the Museum of Really Modern Art and returned it to its [original building](https://www.moma.org/interactives/moma%5Fthrough%5Ftime/1930/a-modern-building-for-a-modern-museum/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in 1939.