Talking Simpsons - Weekend At Burnsie's With Mike Hanford

I will not tolerate any more Shemp slander! The '40s Shemp shorts are a vast improvement over most of the '40s Curly, where it's so obvious the man is tired and in physical pain from various ailments. (Nothing beats the early '30s Curly of course.) It's similar to the war years of Famous Studios Popeye being superior to the last few years of Fleischer Popeye... Different energy and pretty great, but went downhill fast that everyone forgets...

Thad Komorowski

very pleased about Bob's strident crow defense!! crows are beautiful lovely creatures and if you feed them and are kind to them you'll get little bird friends that follow you around the neighborhood

crystalhearts

Living in the UK, I remember the first time I saw this episode was on Channel 4 at around 10.30 at night. Before it started, I was puzzled because the usual broadcast time is at 6pm but when the story got going, I figured it was moved because of the subject matter. Channel 4 usually censor The Simpsons pretty heavily, so it's a small wonder we got it at all. Nowadays? It's sitting right there on Disney Plus. What a crazy world. 😁 Thanks again for all the great podcasts.

To Boldy Joe... Moore

This is the first time I've watched this episode since I've actually BEEN HIGH (yay for Canada having legal weed for 4 years now), and despite the fact that it does fall into that trope of weed discussion/use being used as an excuse to talk about any kind of drug use and its visual representation looking like Homer was on LSD, I still think it's a really good episode! The plot is very all over the place, but some of the lines are just so good I don't even care, and as Bob was quick to say, the third act makes it worthwhile. -- Also, I cannot think of anywhere else, media or otherwise, where I've encountered Phish. I'm sure it's possible, but this episode is really the only that comes to mind on the rare occasion they come up - though usually, I only ever think about them when I watch this episode or it's referenced somewhere.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Magic mushrooms are actually still illegal here, but for some reason there are people openly selling them. That Shroom House in Portland that got raided recently (mentioned earlier in the comments here) has another location here in Vancouver that's still operating. The police have admitted they're aware of this and that they're more concerned about cracking down on opioids, so these shroom vendors are going untouched.

nina matsumoto

I'm not a Phish-head by any means but I remember seeing them on the cover of Entertainment Weekly in 2000. Seems like that's when they peaked, but I never followed the band, just knew some stoners who were fans

PurpleComet

In my limited, high school, experience, there wasn't much a Phish fan would have had in common with a Juggalo. I was not apart of either fandom, but I was friends with some self-professed Juggaloes and all of them were straight edge. They turned their noses up at weed and booze and just wanted to be left to their Faygo and clown rhymes. I will add that every one of them would abandon that lifestyle post high school and would take up both drinking and weed and possibly other vices not associated with the straight edge lifestyle. I have no idea if this approach was common among the fandom or not at the time time (early 2000s), but that was my limited experience. The few Phish fans I knew though definitely fit the stereotype along with the Dead Heads. Weed consumption in the northeast US is a bit weird. I live in the very liberal, but somewhat buttoned-down, Massachusetts and our republican governor had to be dragged kicking and screaming to finally allow legal weed after votes approved it. Just north of us in "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire, weed still isn't legal. For decades, Mass shoppers have been going to NH to make purchases not subject to sales tax and now the NH folks are coming to MA to buy legal weed. The border of both states is just dotted with malls, strips, and now dispensaries. It's the same deal with legalized gambling too as that's been available in NH for awhile, but MA is taking its sweet ass time to implement it here. The states are like two vampires sucking the blood out of each other.

Joe Hodgson

The story about the vape shop selling weed reminds me of how this month here in Portland someone decided to open up a store called the Shroom House and start selling psychedelic mushrooms. A couple of years ago Oregon voters approved a ballot measure allowing for the use of psilocybin in a therapeutic but not retail setting and so the store did end up getting raided by the police.

littleterr0r

I have been waiting for this one forever! Such a later (well not anymore) season classic. The line "They call them fingers, but I've never seen them fing... oh! There they go." has been in my regular rotation for 15 years haha. I might jump back in with a comment or two after I listen. Thanks guys.

The red stuff joke was funnier coming from a doctor imo

Dylan

the title of this episode always get me confused with The Mansion Family

mavrick

My experiences with cannabis are similar to Henry's, I basically turn into an immobile anxiety-wracked lump. Essentially, I Have Dry Mouth and I Must Scream. Which is a shame since everyone else seems to be having a grand ol' time!