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Take a look at ‘The Simpsons’ Oscar selfie parody

By Sam Rigby

The Simpsons

creator Matt Groening has parodied the now infamous Oscars selfie from Ellen DeGeneres.

The picture features Homer and Bart Simpson, as well as cartoon versions of stars like Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Jared Leto.

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Groening posted: “The ugly true story of that Oscar® selfie can finally be told! Let’s break Twitter again. Look for Bart.”

The social networking site did experience intermittent outages in the 20 minutes after Groening posted the parody.

The original selfie has become the most retweeted post in Twitter history, with over 3 million retweets and 1.7 million favourites.

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