Talking Simpsons - Homer Defined With Nick Wiger

I always took Milhouse and his, uh, family resemblance were a reference to Paul and his similar-looking family from The Wonder Years.

Marty

The runner of characters blaming inanimate objects is always funny, but the best is definitely Homer trying to blame the drinking bird in “King Size Homer” for that episode’s near-meltdown. The fact that it goes a step further by including a brief physical struggle, as Homer tries to strangle the bird (complete with dramatic music), always makes me laugh. And even though Homer actually admits it’s his fault, the bird gets the last laugh as it seemingly nods in agreement.

My dad was an assistant manager for a Midwestern pharmacy chain called Perry Drugs that was later bought by Rite Aid and the year before I was born I guess they gave everybody frozen turkeys for Thanksgiving, so he he invited my mom over and cooked it for her in the microwave. He would always tell the story and be like “and your mother loved it!” Sure she did, dad.

Kat Heagberg

I love the way they showcase the mindset of corporate America. Bonus? Raise? No, ham is what the people want! The coupon book really sealed it. I managed a location for a small gas station chain. For Christmas they gave all the employees giant frozen turkeys. It was just me and my (now ex) wife, with no freezer big enough for the turkey, which I couldn't eat anyway because I'm allergic. Sigh...

Andrew O.

I always assumed that Burns’ disgusted reaction to the photo Smithers shows was not to Hercules but to the fact that Smithers is standing in front of a giant portrait of Burns, which presumably is hanging in his own house. That would make it the third joke in the episode where Burns is discomfited to learn about Smithers’ apparent attraction to him, so it certainly fits the theme.

Robert Flaxman

Agreed. When Thomas Haden Church was on it was a damn good show.

Steve D

Plus, it has Tim Daly. Good ole Superman himself.

Dan Vincent

Henry's Barney impression makes me laugh every time!

T

Also I always thought the second power plant “meltdown” was a fake one to give Homer a chance to show how good he was in a crisis within a fake scenario otherwise EVERYONE would have gotten the fuck out there, instead of standing around him watching! Even if the fucker who made the machine was there to be safe I’d already be flooring it away lol

Tyler the Destroyer

One thing that made me laugh is that Shelbyville has its own Nuclear power plant while Springfield has one Basically one power plant can power around 750,000 homes so either Springfield’s is really that bad or burns is secretly powering many evil enterprises

Tyler the Destroyer

Nick Wiger is always a treasure.

littleterr0r

For what it’s worth in my market (and every other market I’ve ever seen it in,which is quite a few) jeopardy is first and wheel of fortune is second. We always figured it was that way to make people feel good after jeopardy.

Andrew Giachetti

WINGS rocks. I've been watching it every day during my lunch and it holds up pretty well. I think it's a lot more clever than people realize, then again i'm an aviation nerd so I have a slight bias. All the characters are unique and fun, and the aesthetic smacks of 90s warmth that I find a bit comforting.

mavrick

Well Nick's just got himself cancelled saying that the Simpsons Hit and Run hasn't aged well, with how the internet loves that game and never shuts up about it with their endless requests for a remaster. Real talk though, it would be great to see you on Get Played talking about Simpsons games; Arcade and Hit and run are the best, but I also like Road Rage (though I'm not sure there's that much to say about that game with it just being Crazy Taxi with the Simpsons. The GBA version is good though, better than the GBA version of Crazy Taxi which pushed the hardware too much and suffered for it), and the 2007 game is ok too.

bakarina

If memory serves - and it’s been literal years, holy shit - the first time around you guys mentioned how hard this episode was seemingly trying to force “Pull a Homer” into the lexicon, and ever since then that aspect is in such glaring focus for me that it kind of drags the whole episode down. It’s such a clunker of a phrase that I have no idea why they thought they were on to something.

SomeBloke