You may have noticed the homage to a famous YouTube video during last night's episode of The Simpsons. The scene where we see the rapid flashbacks of Homer's life to the beautiful piano music was based on (as some readers pointed out) a video by Noah Kalina, where he took a picture of himself every single day for 6 years, from 2000 to 2006. The music he used was by Carly Comando.

At first I thought this was a takeoff on several videos of this type (I've seen a couple of others that are similar to this, and the effect has been used in commercials) until I read this. Seems the producers of The Simpsons contacted Carly about using the song in a video that would parody Kalina's video. They were talking about money until the negotiations stopped. They didn't agree to anything or sign a contract, and now both Kalina and Comando are surprised to hear they parodied the video and used the music without compensating her.

Both videos are included after the jump if you'd like to compare.