Talking Simpsons - Treehouse of Horror XIII With Nina Matsumoto

I played this episode for my brother, and he mentioned that they used the ‘me file grievance’ joke in a later episode. In the one where Homer gets hooped up on sleeping pills at one point he says ‘zombie file grievance’.

Hoonser

I watched that Island of Lost Souls documentary when it came out... nearly a decade ago (wow), and it was super interesting to see how that movie fell apart due mainly to the huge egos of Brando and Kilmer, and for the (original) director to be so candid on the record. He then did an adaptation of Colour out of Space with Nic Cage that was really good IMO, and also gave one of the prominent roles to Eliot Knight, who is Black, which would make Lovecraft roll over in his grave and I thought that was a nice touch. But then, of course, during the pandemic Richard Stanley had abuse allegations levelled against him which really makes you feel less bad about Dr. Moreau and have some uncomfortable feelings about having just praised his newer work, but such is liking anything made by Hollywood these days.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

ACTUALLY, Discover are well known for… [something pedantic].

CMatt

Speaking of streaming and music rights, I've been happily surprised that Malcolm in the Middle on Disney Plus (in Canada at least) seems to have all of the original music intact, which is wild to me, given that the music clearance rights were what scuttled the DVD releases in North America post Season One.

As a young man, I was also terrified of the flesh dissolving monsters from Beastmaster. Nightmares for days after I saw the movie. Riveting the movie as an adult, I find them much less terrifying as vinyl tablecloths painted with veins really don’t inspire a lot of fear. Watch out for that eyeball ring though. That thing will ruin your day!

Norman Benford

If Homer and Marge can fall in love in the 90’s. It’s my opinion that Maude can just also not be dead

YancySr

Currently there's a H G Wells collection for "free" on Audible, read by various British actors. I had never read the Isle of Dr Moreau, and I assumed that the musty Victorian writing of Wells would translate somewhat poorly to narration, having read some of his works. I was VERY wrong, The Invisible Man and Dr M had me on the edge of my seat while listening, with the twists and turns and suspenses. A really incredible experience, and David Tenant does War of the World's too. I recommend to anyone who has a subscription. [Tangentially, whilst listening to one story I also had a Monty Python album paused in another app. At some point I pressed play on a Bluetooth device and a Monty python radio skit parodying Victorian literature started playing instead of resuming Audible. It slotted in perfectly with the current book narrative, I got a huge laugh out of it when I worked out why the narrative had suddenly changed. An extremely specific, technologically enabled joke]

Wood Duck

this has nothing to do with the episode, but Mike Reiss submitted the latest puzzle for NPR Weekend Edition. I'll let anyone who reads this to look it up. Lord knows I couldn't figure it out.

Riley Hall

The documentary about the making of Island of Dr Moreau is great. It also really set up the original director Richard Stanley for a comeback (his first two movies Hardware and Dust Devil are really interesting if not messy horror/horror adjacent films). His comeback movie with Nic Cage “Color Out of Space” is pretty cool too. BUT not too long after that dropped he was outed as a domestic abuser. So, fuck that guy.

Tyler M.

according to the horrible ghouls themselves: "RECORD OF THE YEAR deals with a specific recording of a song and recognizes the artists, producers and engineers who contribute to that recording, while SONG OF THE YEAR deals with the composition of a song and recognizes the songwriters who wrote the song." nothing confusing about that!

Eric Schuman

There’s two types of Vietnam helicopter music references and they are diametrically opposed. “Ride of the Valkyries” or “Fortunate Son” depending on whether the scene is supposed to be ominous or fun.

Lockerus

In regard to Edna being a ‘leopard’, I always read it that she was actually a hyena, hence the smaller, boxier stature, the stubby tail, and the canine-esque scratching of her ear with her back leg. Hyenas are also known for their laugh-like call, not too dissimilar to Edna’s famous “HA!” Just a theory that I though was very important to share.

Harry Boucher

Well that's just rude

nina matsumoto

His name is Richard Chase.

T

In reference to the locked door convo. There was an American spree killer who thought he was a vampire and veiwed unlocked doors as an invitation to come in and murder for blood.

T

I just had to chime in regarding locking your front doors because as a kid growing up in the middle of California in the 90s, we did not lock the front door during the day ever. I suspect my parents were outliers because they lived on a road that got little traffic but it did seem strange to me when I went to other people's homes and they did lock it. I lock my door most of the time now, but that mostly comes from apartment living, I think. I have to assume this is something that just shifted over time as people became more fearful and/or is dictated by the circumstances of where you live, specifically.

Jonathon