AL SHAMSHOON THE RARE SIMPENS VAULT
EPS
SAVED!
2005
MBC
عمر شمشون
OMAR
بدر شمشون
BADR
مونا شمشون
MONA
بيسة شمشون
BEESA
مهروي بيه
MAHROOEY BEY
معرمش
MAARMISH
رالف
RALPH
عمر يختفي
VANISH
| Original | Arabic Name | العربية | Voice / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homer | Omar Shamshoon | عمر شمشون | Mohamed Heneidy |
| Marge | Mona Shamshoon | مونا شمشون | Rojeena |
| Bart | Badr Shamshoon | بدر شمشون | Hanan Turk |
| Lisa | Beesa Shamshoon | بيسة شمشون | Hanan Turk |
| Mr. Burns | Mahrooey Bey | مهروي بيه | Ottoman honorific |
| Smithers | Salmawy | سلموي | |
| Krusty | Maarmish | معرمش | "Crunchy" |
| Springfield | Rabeea | ربيعة | "Spring" |
| Moe | Cut — all tavern scenes removed | ||
| Rev. Lovejoy | Cut — church re-written as mosque | ||
Episodes 30–34 aired on MBC but left no digital trace. Another 18 dubbed episodes never aired at all — they may only exist on master tapes in MBC's Beirut or Dubai facilities.
GOT TAPES? VHS • DVR • SATELLITE RIPS • RAW DUBS
Arabic adaptation of The Simpsons, produced by MBC in 2005. Dubbed in Egyptian Arabic (Cairo & Beirut). Premiered October 4, 2005 — the first night of Ramadan — 7 PM, right after iftar.
Homer became Omar (voiced by movie star Mohamed Heneidy). Bart became Badr. Springfield became Rabeea. Beer became soda. Donuts became kahk (كعك). Moe's Tavern was cut entirely. Church became a mosque. Badr says "rewesh!" (رويش) instead of "cowabunga." Homer still says "D'oh!"
Cancelled after 34 of 52 dubbed episodes aired — audiences who already watched the original on Showtime Arabia rejected the sanitised version. As Al Jean put it:
If Homer doesn't drink and eat bacon and generally act like a pig — which I guess is also against Islam — then it's not Homer. — Al Jean, showrunner
> For nearly two decades these episodes existed only as fading memories and grainy YouTube clips. No DVD. No digital release. Nothing.
> In the mid-2010s, a Spanish cartoon streaming site ingested a large volume of dubbed content from Middle Eastern and Latin American distributors. Sitting on their unprotected CDN, never linked from any public page: 29 complete episodes of Al Shamshoon, catalogued under a garbled transliteration.
> Identified through systematic endpoint enumeration. Extraction took several weeks — abandoned auth layers, undocumented API paths — before the domain lapsed and the servers were deprovisioned.
> A few months later, these files would have been gone forever.
> The remaining 5 aired episodes weren't on that server. The 18 unaired episodes have never surfaced. The search continues.
