Once the introductions were over, Matt explained the idea behind the talk - which pieces of animation would he want to take to a desert island, and why? He wasn't too sure that animation would be his top priority if he were shipwrecked, particularly after more than ten years working on the Simpsons. He quite fancied the idea of a giant cinema screen on a beach, though.

Nonetheless, the show kicked off with a montage of classic clips from the Simpsons. We saw Ned Flanders skiing in a very tight suit, Lisa and the crazy cat lady, Homer jumping the ravine on Bart's skateboard, and then something entirely unexpected - a French advert for 'Vizir Futur' washing powder, featuring Bart butt naked!

The strange thing about the clips was that really unpleasant, painful things happened to the characters in all of them. If the Simpsons had been real people, the audience would have been wincing with pain rather than laughing their socks off, which goes to show just how much you can get away with in a cartoon. It must be something to do with Matt's own sense of humour, because many of the films he showed were equally black, and equally funny.