Talking Simpsons - Lisa Gets An "A" With Imran Khan

Yeah, making risotto is not that hard. You just need your ingredients prepped and ready to go before you start and then you need to be present in front of the stove and stirring for about half an hour. It's great podcast cooking! And it's a rice dish, not a pasta dish.

Abrahm Simons

Just a fun aside: my dad and grandfather both beat Legend Of Zelda before I did.

Aaron Alcott

I'm sure that where you stand in the Super Mario vs. Crash Bandicoot debate is almost entirely dominated by which console you played growing up. I was a PlayStation kid, and Crash Bandicoot is one of my favourite video game series of all time; to this day I enjoy replaying those original PS1 titles (though 2 and 3 more than 1, where the difficulty was better balanced and the weird save system was replaced with a more standard one). On the other hand, I didn't play Super Mario 64 until I was an adult, and it was a decent time for sure, but I was shocked at how none of the reviews I'd read for it before then even mentioned the whole "it automatically kicks you completely out of the level every time you die" thing. Plus the fact having a limited number of lives was totally pointless because there were no checkpoints, so getting a Game Over just meant you had to walk ALL the way from the front of the castle to the level entrance for no reason. It's so stupid. So to me Mario just felt janky and filled with so much empty space compared to Crash, but I do understand that's still got to be like 90% due to personal bias.

Jack Christmas

This episode epitomizes why the writers using Lisa as a scapegoat *shrug* response to the whole Apu situation is so damn stupid and out of character. She's such a stickler for doing the right thing and pushing morality, even when it's not realistic and going against that would only benefit people who need the help in a corrupt and shitty system. Just shrugging off racism with a "well, things change lol" attitude is so far from the Lisa of this episode (and many others) that it stings a bit watching older episodes. -- In any case, great podcast episode!

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

It's a big shiny toy. Admins love 'em! There was /is an arms race among schools on who has the biggest scoreboard.

John Harrison

In a strange piece of coincidence my girlfriend just gave me a Super Nintendo Chalmers shirt for my birthday

Darren Hinchy

Hey fellas. Loving the podcasts. I wanted to start by saying I was Billy Baldwin's Stunt Double on the Netflix show Northern Rescue and couldn't help but think to myself "Wow, Billy Baldwin!" every time we were together. So a weird tale of Lobster pricing since you were doing the math. I grew up in Cape Breton; Lobster is very common in Nova Scotia, and there was a time where Lobster by the pound was cheaper than Bologna. It was the poor man's food since all you had to do was dip a dry mop into the strait and you could pull up lobster who's decided to snap a claw around the strands. True Story. And I can also relate to Henry when he says it's so annoying to hear "Sherbet" pronounced "Sherbert". It can be very irritating. However for a perscriptavist (sp?) such as that it amazes me that Henry continues to say "Me and Bob" rather than "Bob and I". Can't wait to hear more from these later seasons. All the best!

DL MacDonald

Gordon Ramsay makes it seem way harder than it is. You just gotta have everything prepped and ready to use.

SilkiePJ

Andy Gavin wrote up a long, multi-part retrospective on Crash Bandicoot. It gets very technical at points but gives a good window into the process of developing the game. Incredibly, Andy believes that Crash was a better game than Mario 64 and if anyone other than Miyamoto had made it it would've flopped, although he does say it's "brilliantly innovative". It's a long read but worth your time: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/

PurpleComet

You are brought it up in this about the Scully years love of zig-zag. And while I enjoy it too the only problem is the idea playfully put up I think could have been good, like lobster school (while odd) could have gotten nice jokes and given extended scenes to Sea captain.

ChemyChems

Risotto is actually incredibly easy to make, it is just not for those without patience and/or don't like cooking as it requires a ton of TLC.

I.C. Weiner

I like how the first thing Skinner buys with his BASIC grant money is an extravagant scoreboard.

littleterr0r

Here’s some added context for the Crash Bandicoot reference! The Dash Dingo logo is actually a riff on the logo for the first Crash game, however the floating head is from the second game, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. In that game the main villain, Dr. Cortex, as well as Crash’s sister Coco and Cortex’s old assistant N. Brio, speak to him via holograms projected as their floating heads. The plot of Crash 2 also differs from Dash Dingo, in that Cortex tricks Crash into helping him under the guise that he is trying to stop the destruction of the world. Cortex tasks Crash with collecting twenty five crystals (not crystal babies), which are actually being used to power his superweapon, the “Cortex Vortex”. “Didgeridoo” isn’t a concept in the Crash games, so the initial relationship between them at the start of Crash 2 isn’t necessarily antagonistic like it is in Dash Dingo. And for a fun bit of trivia: while the villain in Dash is voiced by Dan, Cortex in the Naughty Dog trilogy is voiced by Clancy Brown! His final appearance as Cortex was in 2003’s Crash Nitro Kart, and eventually he would be replaced by Lex Lang starting with Crash Bandicoot: Twinsanity in 2004. Lang continues to voice Cortex and even took over the role for the remakes of the Naughty Dog games. Also, as a huge Crash fan I just want to say you guys were pretty fair! I’ve found people who didn’t grow up with Crash can be unnecessarily dismissive of the Naughty Dog trilogy (of course those commercials certainly didn’t help fan the flames), but the second especially is an amazing platformer. Was its approach to 3D movement and level design as impactful as Mario 64? No, of course not, but it’s still a 3D platformer holds up quite well to this day (especially for a game from that generation). If anyone’s curious about the series I’d definitely recommend Crash 2 as your starting point. The PS1 original is the best version in my opinion, but the N. Sane version is a pretty good entry point as well.

Risotto is made of rice, not pasta, for the record.

Jesse Onland

I remember that Edy's Gourmet Ice Cream was very popular around that time. I know we used to get it all the time as a kid. I had always thought the ET's joke was a reference to that.

Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo