Officials say he was first approached by a security guard on his tenth trip that day to the top of the tallest New York building. Each time carrying a metal triangle that he would later attempt to piece together as the giant sun blocker.
Spurlock was driven to insanity only five days into his newest 30 day documentary challenge: watching the Simpsons non-stop.
Spurlock has achieved a great deal of fame over the past six years after producing, directing, and starring in the documentary ‘Supersize Me’. Here he ate McDonald’s non stop for 30 days and tortured his body in ways anyone under 400 pounds couldn’t possibly understand.
He was inspired after producing ‘The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice!’, which aired last Sunday.
His newest challenge pitted him against his television set. He was too watch as much Simpsons as possible for the next 30 days. His plan was to watch 12 hours a day at least. His physician Dr. Daryl M. Isaacs urged him to lay up on the Simpsons viewing.
“I told him that watching the Simpson for more that seven hours a day would drive any man insane,” he said. ”But Morgan wouldn’t listen. After four days he watched 90 hours of the program, stopping only to use the washroom and to fill up on donuts and McDonald’s.”
With 450 episodes of the Simpsons aired to date, a person can watch the show non stop for over seven straight days. That’s not including the Simpsons movie.
Despite doctors orders, Spurlock, as he is known to do, took his idea to the ultimate extreme.
By day three he lost all sense of reality, according to his wife Alexandra Jamieson.
“He started calling me Marge, and was furious that my hair was flat and straight and not towering like the wife and mother on the Fox show,” she said. ”He would just sit there watching the show and eating donuts. His fast food obsession drove him nuts. He couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get him a genuine Krusty Burger.”
He settled for endless Big Macs to feed his Homer Simpson-esque gluttonous appetite.
This insanity drove him to try to block out the sun. An act that occurred in the Simpsons 6th season finale entailed ‘Who shot Mr. Burns?’.
When the Empire State Building security and the NYPD finally caught on to what he was doing, Spurlock was on top of the building’s antenna.
One security guard likened the image of Spurlock dangling on the antenna with police below to the famous scene at the end of the 1933 film ‘King Kong’.
Spurlock was shouting at the authorities, screaming “Back off Wiggum!”
Police Chief Clancy Wiggum is a character on the television show.
The NYPD were able to get him down by shooting him with a tranquilizer gun prior to the completion of his two-bit contraption which in no way would have successfully blocked out the sun for New York.
“At best it would have provided some shade for those at the observation deck,” said Posniak.
Spurlock is now residing in prison in the insanity ward. His road to recovery is long.
He does no longer believe he is the Springfield billionaire Mr. Burns; however, he has taken on a new Simpsons persona–Michael Jackson.
This is reminiscent of an episode in the Simpsons second season, where Homer is locked up with an insane man who believes he is the late pop singer.
Despite all this, Jamieson is still confident the videos of him going insane will hit theatres soon enough.
The new documentary ‘Simpsinsane Me’ is scheduled to be released later this year.
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