Talk to the Audience?!? - April 2024
Added 2024-04-24 04:00:03 +0000 UTCWe've reached the end of the month, which means it's once again time for another installment of our community podcast! Join us as we discuss the deaths of Simpsons digital comics, Larry the barfly, and O.J., retrospectives on Matt Groening's indie zine roots and Mission Mill, and the possibility of a Pluto-style streaming Simpsons channel. And, as always, we read and respond to your questions and comments from the most recent round of episodes. It's all happening on Talk to the Audience?!?, where this is always death.
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1. They're looking at extraditing him to Cal for another case where he faces 16 years. 2. The DA in Manhattan DA wants to retry the case. Just a little disappointing miscarriage of justice but the monster will probably still die in prison, it's still good, it's still good!
Adam Azzalino
2024-04-27 19:28:51 +0000 UTCBob talking about watching Martin in Milwaukee is so funny. I take the train to Chicago a few times a week for work and when I get back, the security guards are always watching Martin on those little tvs in the ceiling of the train station. the "I guess Martin is fine" fandom in Milwaukee going strong.
Blake R.
2024-04-26 14:16:43 +0000 UTCMy fiance and I couldn’t finish the final Curb season. We actually shut it off twice, the final time being for good when Larry was going down on the black girl young enough to be his granddaughter. Vince Vaughn is a pile of human shit, too. It’s really nice that all of the creeps in Woody Allen’s orbit got to live out their depraved fantasies in one final fling. And how appropriate I write this the day Weinstein’s sentence gets overturned!
Thad Komorowski
2024-04-25 21:56:53 +0000 UTCRe:Curb, I think Larry’s wealth and relative immunity from most problems makes it funnier because it both makes Larry more of an asshole and lowers the stakes for him as a character which allows him to act like an even bigger asshole
Bryce Hope
2024-04-25 20:54:10 +0000 UTCOn our local Fox affiliate, the voiceover guy that talks over the credits of shows would say "Are you tired of the name 'Simpson'? Stay tuned for the funniest Simpsons around". It was as clunky and awkward as it sounds. Beast with a Billion Backs is neck and neck with Bender's Game for weakest of the Futurama movies IMO. I'm not itching to hear you guys talk about these movies but maybe instead of skipping them altogether you could do live commentaries like you did with Cars and A Bug's Life?
PurpleComet
2024-04-25 19:19:25 +0000 UTCIt's so funny to hear Bob and Henry was nostalgic about watching broadcast TV. As an adult, I prefer being able to watch on demand but last night I was thinking about how, when I was younger, I rather enjoyed knowing I had to be around to watch certain things as they aired. I was thinking specifically about how if I wanted to watch anime, I'd have to stay up until midnight on Saturdays to watch the Sci-Fi channel, stuff like that. And of course I found so many great sows accidentally, like Dr. Katz and Home Movies purely by happenstance when channel surfing. Given how much there is to watch and how you have to actively choose to watch stuff, I can see why the Pluto TV model has a lot of appeal to take away a little bit of agency when we just want to relax and enjoy something.
Jonathon
2024-04-25 15:43:39 +0000 UTCI can confirm that you don’t
Bob Mackey
2024-04-24 21:39:16 +0000 UTCWoah, I also went to a St. Luke's Elementary.
littleterr0r
2024-04-24 21:23:13 +0000 UTCI'm the right age of millennial to have witnessed the OJ verdict in middle school and 9/11 my senior year of high school. Aside from those two events, I can't recall watching the news unfold on television in school. X-Men '97 is definitely a show that expects everyone to have watched the original series and recently. There was definitely some clunky exposition to remind viewers in the first few episodes, but there's been less of that as it moves along. Definitely fast moving and I'm hoping the last three episodes are able to take their time wrapping up this first season, but it's definitely been a fun, unexpected, ride. I quite enjoyed the Simpsons episodes from this month. The current season got off to a middling start, but it has definitely become much better of late. I do wish we could have found out if Larry is the guy who called Homer Bill. A missed opportunity. The Disney Fab Five includes Pluto. Daisy is the sixth wheel, if you will. EDIT: Also wanted to add, I am in full support of your approach to the Futurama movies. Like Bob, I figured now was as good a time as any to revisit them and I should have done so while working out too because I kept falling asleep. They're just too long and it's a shame because the first half of Beasts With a Billion Backs is so good and so funny, but gets run into the ground to reach an arbitrary length. I thought maybe it would be better watching them broken up as episodes on Hulu, but it's not better. It might even be worse. It left me not looking forward to Talking Futurama if it was going to follow those movies as episodes and the thought of four consecutive months of the movie podcast recapping them wasn't any more appetizing.
Joe Hodgson
2024-04-24 16:38:25 +0000 UTCThe jaunty tune under the manifesto made my afternoon lmao
Nate from Kalamazoo
2024-04-24 15:56:41 +0000 UTCHomer's "Ray J funny or OJ funny?" is the only other OJ reference I can think of.
Dan Karlin
2024-04-24 14:55:45 +0000 UTCOur principal put the PA mic by the TV so our entire school also heard the verdict live. I was not old enough to have watched him play football so I remember wondering what the big deal was. As I got older I eventually understood the connection to America's history of racism, but at the time, all I knew him from was Nordberg from the Naked Gun movies.
Jason Lew
2024-04-24 13:45:37 +0000 UTCStep Brothers is so great and probably the least under-edited of the movies of that era
Ryan O'Reilly
2024-04-24 04:55:11 +0000 UTCI liked Season 4 of Fargo more than most people, but season 2 is probably the strongest. 5 is also fantastic
LoganTheWise
2024-04-24 04:53:04 +0000 UTC"You don't want that." Oh, but I'm pretty sure we do.
Adam Azzalino
2024-04-24 04:47:51 +0000 UTC
