After an uneventful trip to the box factory, Bart becomes a huge fad in one of the most meta (and best) episodes ever. Listen to this week’s podcast where repetitiveness is our job, our job, repetitiveness is our job…
DOWNLOAD
This show is brought to you buy Audible. To get your FREE Audio Book & 30-day trial CLICK HERE
SPECIAL ALERT! Talking Simpsons is now on Google Play!
And on Stitcher too!
Talking Simpsons is brought to you by PATREON. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us, and Patreon is also where you’ll find a very special, Season 4 Wrap-up Episode is now live! EXCLUSIVELY on Patreon for people who pledge $5 or more a month. Click here to check out the special…
That’s also well you’ll find the first season of Talking Simpsons, so head over there.
Also, don’t forget to watch our awesome video of Chris and Dave playing a “classic” Simpsons game!
“Join your friends at the Laser Time Podcast Network for a chronological and cromulent exploration of the greatest show ever made! Each podcast tackles a different episode of The Simpsons, breaking down every 22 minutes of animated entertainment into an embiggening discussion about Our Favorite Family.”
Simpsons DVD Sale!
Hey Talking Simpsons listeners! If you still don’t own the seasons on DVD, correct that with this Amazon sale, including some as low as $9.96!
“Only I may dance” is another one of those quotes that have become a part of my everyday vocabulary.
Bart saying “I wish I was dead” seems more relatable now, both to me personally as an over-stressed university student, and in 2017 as it seems to be a pretty common phrase muttered under breath.
Also 2034 is surprisingly close now.
Wow! Hank Azaria!
What’s so gross about Kent Brockman?
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S12E02/805972.jpg?b64lines=V0UnUkUgQUxMCiBUQUtJTkcgR09MREVOIFNIT1dFUlM=
I was Bart’s age when the Dreamcast came out, so I missed out on a LOT of Bartmania that I read about in outdated kids’ magazines from 1992. T-shirts, mugs, oversized dolls, and all that. I took solace in the Comic Books because that was all my family could afford, and good thing as they were a bargain!
Shadow of Doubt is great! Very ahead of its time as a subversive suburban thriller.
I love discussions about struggling to come up with catchphrases for Lisa and Marge, especially since the episode settled on Marge’s “hmmmm” as her catchphrase. On a related note, I got a towel as a gift a couple years back and couldn’t quite figure out where they pulled Marge & Lisa’s quotes from. Frinkiac has since solved that problem. https://twitter.com/Jgangsta187/status/700538171684216832
I always assumed that the schmoe working at the box factory was Les Lye from You Can’t Do That on Television slumming it. https://youtu.be/43CDeAFzGww
Loved Hank Azaria, love the tangents, loved the extended Tighten Up break
I still have my “I’m Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?” t-shirt.
Had no idea that Tighten Up was a real song!
“Don’t blame me. I didn’t do it” was also a sort-of catchphrase that Krusty used in Season 1 (Krusty Gets Busted). I don’t think they intended it as a callback or else Krusty would have mentioned to Bart that he stole his line or something.
Woooow!! A Hank Azaria appears!!
How could they not play the “Yoink?” sample? That’s probably my favorite single word Simpsons quote.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned the YMO cover of Tighten Up, I’d never heard the original before.
I’ve heard other people on podcasts (usually in the SF area) say”of” instead of “that” or “where,” such as “it was a thing of such and such,” but Henry says it way more often than anyone else I’ve heard. I can’t remember all the instances, but in this Henry-heavy week of podcasts I’ve heard it slipped into a lot of unusual phrases. I wonder where it comes from?
An example I just heard, talking about Farrah Fawcett, Henry says, “they made a special for her of like…”
Holy crap theres a YMO version? THIS i gotta hear!
wow… The Facts of Life. wait… none of those girls are dead. who’re you thinking of Henry?
Did you guys blow it on the opening Hogans Heroes reference or just not mention it? Im pretty sure Barts “Jawohl mi momandant” is a direct reference to Sgt Shutlz’s “Jawohl mi commandant” You even mention the Hogans Heroes tirade again later in the episode!
“This Is What We Do” by MC Hammer is from 1990, as it appeared on the TMNT soundtrack in that same year.
did you guys seriously praise Obama and his peace prize after he bombed 7 countries and ran out of bombs? and then somehow tried to spin Trump as the war guy?
the san fran echo chamber/delusion is real
If that’s how I came off, I didn’t mean it that way. I felt they gave him a Peace Prize early in his presidency as an FU to Bush. Obama def blew up his share of countries, which I certainly don’t like. But hey, if you think I’m a hypocrite that’s cool.
Yeah, the joke I was going for was Obama got a Peace Price just for not being Bush, and he went ahead and did the same war criminal stuff all Presidents do.
good! glad to hear the crew is woke af