Talking Simpsons - D'oh-in' in the Wind With Alex Navarro
Added 2019-08-14 04:00:00 +0000 UTCWe've gone granola this week as we welcome back Giant Bomb's Alex Navarro to discuss Homer's hippie conversion! We talk about The Summer of Love, bare feet, NARCs, Beatles covers, Billy Joel, and so much more as Homer becomes the hippie his mother wanted him to be. Try not to freak out as you listen along to this week's far out podcast!
Comments
It's funny how Alex jokes about Mona dying because they didn't want to pay Glenn Close anymore. Strangely enough, Glenn Close has voiced Mona SIX TIMES post-death. Twice the amount of episodes where Mona was alive. Fucking weird. Also, my first exposure to George Carlin was him narrating the American dub of Thomas the Tank Engine and him being on Shining Time Station. Here's a pretty funny video of his stand-up spliced with his Thomas narration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iwvu-j7BuY
Daran
2019-08-21 19:46:19 +0000 UTCThe fact that the Jerry Garcia skeleton was missing a finger was the only fact I remembered from that Pop-Up Video!
Talbert J.
2019-08-20 04:17:48 +0000 UTCI don’t remember if this was mentioned at all during the “Mother Simpson” episodes (man that was a long time ago), but I don’t know why people got so up-in-arms about the Principal and the Pauper and what it did for show continuity, yet no one seems to care that, for the sake of jokes and plot, Homer, despite graduating high school in 1974, is suddenly a toddler in 1969. He and Marge can be married with a child on the way in 1980, but only 11 years earlier he was like three? He stayed up listening to Queen when he was seventeen...six (?) years after being a toddler. To me, the show has always balanced absurdity and some sort of world build continuity. The show had done outrageous things, especially in the Mirkin years that completely destroy continuity, and they do it in the way that the Principal and the Pauper does, as a reference, parody, or joke. It just annoys me that no one ever points to how the timeline in “Mother Simpson,” or this episode, makes no sense, and the Principal and the Pauper is always pointed to as some heinous act.
Jarrod Hornbeck
2019-08-19 03:36:05 +0000 UTCAppreciated the reference to the Touch of Grey video. Love all that skeleton clowning
crystalhearts
2019-08-18 20:56:05 +0000 UTCI thought hey mentioned Fonda in this ep...daaamn. TS strikes again
Frank Grimes
2019-08-17 14:28:38 +0000 UTCI just got to that part a moment ago. Uncanny.
Bennett Billard
2019-08-17 05:33:54 +0000 UTCLooks like the Talking Simpsons curse struck again, just read that Peter Fonda died
PurpleComet
2019-08-16 23:10:24 +0000 UTCWay to not anti death jingle Peter Fonda guys.
Boomer Spacely
2019-08-16 23:10:10 +0000 UTCAs a freshman in high school we had to take Health and Guidance. The Health teacher was the archetypal Coach who also taught some other class. When the time came to discuss drug use his story to scare everyone away from drugs was about how his brother fell in with a bad crowd... and that crowd was Strawberry Alarm Clock . To punctuate the point he played Incense & Peppermints for the class, making his anecdotal that much cooler.
Mat Segal
2019-08-16 21:09:48 +0000 UTCThe Bond movie in which Jill St. John appeared was "Diamonds are Forever," the last Connery Bond (excluding the unofficial "Never Say Never Again" a decade later). St. John played Tiffany Case, a diamond smuggler. It's a particularly egregious example of a female character in a Bond movie who is actually fairly tough and resourceful when we first meet her, but who gradually becomes dumber and more useless after sleeping with Bond. In the end she spends the last 30 minutes of the movie in a bikini doing only stupid things that extend the plot. She is very good-looking, however.
Robert Flaxman
2019-08-15 20:45:47 +0000 UTCRegarding the Dec 31st 1969 line, does anyone else feels like it could've been a Futurama type joke?
Kiefer Fulsom
2019-08-15 18:59:27 +0000 UTCI still what you know last summer's twist was so stupid.
Frank Grimes
2019-08-15 14:12:17 +0000 UTCHaving been born and raised in New Hampshire I would definitely agree that you should visit Vermont
NervousWrex
2019-08-14 21:36:48 +0000 UTC
