Talking Simpsons - 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky
Added 2024-03-20 04:00:04 +0000 UTCIt's time for another Lisa-centric episode that speaks to all of the gifted kids who grew into confused adults. A documentarian played by Eric Idle shatters Lisa and Bart's sense of self, leading Lisa to battle light pollution (something your hosts never heard of before this 2003 ep). Listen for a podcast dissertation on that plus the Up series, Python troupe rivalries, songs about Vincent Van Gogh, and much more!
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Vice is trash. At one time they were actually a well put together news journalism source, pointing to their coverage of the Fall of the Islamic State & the Ferguson BLM riots. But on both side of this they were and are click-baiting fake-news hucksters who literally publish articles about how to make your farts smell better and the best DMT laden countries for arrogant westerners to invade. Kotaku are following close behind as the next news source to cancel.
Rob MacBride
2024-03-27 02:35:08 +0000 UTCYou aren’t past all of The Natural references yet. The season 18 episode The Boys of Bummer does it too. Honestly, there’s probably more past that too.
Brian Hortin
2024-03-26 17:16:13 +0000 UTCOff-topic, but I’ve been listening to a lot of the back catalog lately: How’s Matthew Jay doing these days? Have y’all heard from him lately?
Milton Allemand
2024-03-25 01:23:33 +0000 UTCI think the real tragedy of the Seattle Mariners is that they actually had quite a few Hall of Fame level players but still never could get to the World Series. In addition to Griffey, they had Randy Johnson, Alex Rodriguez, Edgar Martinez and Ichiro. But maybe they could have done better if they had WaLuigi, Diddy Kong, and Toad.
Jason Lew
2024-03-24 18:28:29 +0000 UTCRegarding Bob's comments on the eclipse from 2017, I think the phrase he was searching for was Path of Totality. There's another eclipse in under a month (April 8, and extremely rare to have two less then a decade apart on the same region) where the path of totality will run from Texas, up through parts of the Midwest, and then into the northeast in western PA, Northern NY, VT, NH, and Maine. I live right in the path of totality, and am very excited, and have fingers crossed it's not cloudy. Lucky residents in parts of Southern Illinoisand Missouri and Western KY manage to be in the paths of both the 2017 and 2024 eclipses.
Andrew Bouvier
2024-03-22 19:00:16 +0000 UTC"Woah, I don't need drugs to enjoy this. Just to enhance it!" One of my fave Simpsons lines. I've quoted it a lot over the years, and always in Otto's voice. =P
N Rose
2024-03-22 18:46:58 +0000 UTCThe piranha brothers sketch is my all time fave
That1WelderGuy
2024-03-22 00:43:27 +0000 UTCOne of the few places I still see personal checks in use is the grocery store. It's usually someone quite a bit older than me, but old habits die hard, I guess. Otherwise, people might send them in to school for book fairs or sports, but that's about it. My checkbook never gets used anymore and hasn't seen regular use in almost ten years.
Joe Hodgson
2024-03-21 20:48:54 +0000 UTCBob, Henry and Nina, you all should check out Harlan County USA. Just incredible footage from a bitter and brutal strike in rural West Virginia.
Tyler M.
2024-03-21 18:35:25 +0000 UTCNintendo still has I think a 10% stake in the Mariners so you can still call them the Nintendo team (I do) and there are often Nintendo ads at T-mobile park
marathedemon
2024-03-21 16:13:54 +0000 UTCJust wanted to comment that I think the reason AI gets pushed so hard for creative endeavors is because the people who are in charge desperately want to be creative, but they know they never will be. And because they only know how to exploit, it's am obvious choice to adopt a tool that both gives them the illusion of being creative while also allowing for an unprecedented level of exploitation.
Jonathon
2024-03-20 19:56:34 +0000 UTCPalin isn’t a reactionary like Cleese or Gilliam these days (to my knowledge), I was more trying to highlight how there seems to be some public friction between Idle and Palin over some Python business lately. - Henry
Talking Simpsons
2024-03-20 18:32:32 +0000 UTCI haven't seen WordGirl, but I do know it's a Soup2Nuts show, the studio that made Home Movies and Dr. Katz. There's a ton of cast and crew overlap.
Daran
2024-03-20 18:11:51 +0000 UTCAre you telling me the the animated classic "Alpha and Omega" was based on a miss observation?!
frysjackett
2024-03-20 15:20:51 +0000 UTCGo Aberdeen 😎
Alistair Shand
2024-03-20 13:54:16 +0000 UTCMy favourite jokes of this episode happen back to back: Nelson needing to use the pitch pipe to do the proper "haw haw" and then Lisa and Declan questioning each other's personalities and then Declan just going "fair enough" and signing her petition
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2024-03-20 13:26:43 +0000 UTCTwo observations: 1) this continues the running theme of Lisa episodes being the best ones of season 14 And 2) this has my favorite line in the history of the show: “I wish God was alive to see this.”
Alex Irish
2024-03-20 11:50:45 +0000 UTCMichael Palin is a jerk now?
Ian Joicey
2024-03-20 11:37:20 +0000 UTC
