Talking Simpsons - Lost Our Lisa With Maddie Copp
Added 2019-06-26 04:00:00 +0000 UTCWe welcome on our artist friend and Simpsons fan Maddie Copp to discuss one of Homer's best moments as a father. As Lisa takes the bus and journeys into the scariest parts of Springfield, Homer searches for his little girl after telling her she can't take a limo. Will they somehow save each other and discover an ancient Egyptian secret? Listen now and whistle along to the Old Spide song!
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I love this episode and finding just how so many episode 9 ones were my touchstone era. I'm a few years younger than you boys and I relied on watching my areas awesome 3 a day episodes of the Simpsons. But the Bus sign bit altered into my brother and my inside joke. As the 5 o'clock airtime of Simpsons was coming while I was playing whatever latest Square RPG I had my brother would lean to the clock and say "Dont make me tap the time." That's my endearing memory from this touching episode
Mark Lee Marcheschi
2019-06-30 21:54:36 +0000 UTCYou say this is the last appearance of Lionel Hutz, but there is one other non-speaking cameo coming up. In season 12’s premier with the two area codes and the Who, he’s one of the denizens climbing the wall away from Homer’s side of town.
Alex Irish
2019-06-30 13:52:26 +0000 UTCHaniwa (called gyroids in the game)!
littleterr0r
2019-06-28 21:32:51 +0000 UTCThe ushabti remind me of the little burial figurines from Animal Crossing. Also, I never knew what a stanchion was either until a couple years ago when my work started selling them and I had to Google a bunch of information about them.
littleterr0r
2019-06-28 21:16:54 +0000 UTCthe line read on "you said to crush him, right?" and the following noooooo was so perfect I died a little bit
mavrick
2019-06-27 14:42:43 +0000 UTCAs a frequent Public Transportation rider I can relate to this episode. The thing I should mention is my personal reason I put my bag on the seat. I get sensory overload at times due to my autism. If people are going to sit next to me, they touch me unknowingly and I freak out over it. I do avoid this by getting on public transit during off peak hours. Also a funny story about a bus driver going back to the depot, the bus in front of my house goes from the airport to the main campus of the community college which is about an hour and 45 minute - 2 hour drive. I went to the college one time (the final stop) and the bus driver was going back to the depot. How did I know this? Before closing the door, he said "I'm getting the f*** out of here!" And drives off. I appreciated the bus driver from that point on and made sure to say 'hi' to him when I see him.
Angel
2019-06-27 14:06:55 +0000 UTCMy grandfather was a super grammar nerd, and for a couple of years he would correct me in saying "I'm good, you?" To say "I'm doing well, how are you?". This NEVER stuck in my vocabulary, all it did was teach me that my grandpa was a word weirdo and that I had to greet him that way or he would be annoying.
DrKarate
2019-06-26 23:39:45 +0000 UTCI've never particularly cared for this episode during rewatches and I think it has a lot to do with the anxieties of public transportation. Especially Lisa's confusion over which bus she's on. My local depot is arranged like most, one side is inbound (to Boston) and one side is outbound. However, during peek hours in the morning a few inbound trains actually board on the outbound side and it leads to so much confusion for first-time riders. And in boarding trains to go home, often times they're running behind schedule but the equipment is in the building. I get used to who the conductors are for my train and I'll sometimes just pre-board with an assumption I'm on the correct train. I've never been wrong, but I'm always super nervous that I am when I do which makes me very paranoid until I finally receive confirmation I'm on the right track (pun intended). And as someone who works from home 2-3 times per week on average, I have come to discover there is never a perfect time to go to the grocery store. After 5 is awful because people are out of work and hitting it in droves. During the day is understaffed so there are few registers open and maddeningly slow elderly individuals populate the aisles slowing everything down. Really, the perfect time is actually Saturday afternoon and evening. Few people are there and the produce sections are often well-stocked (unlike week nights when they're bare bones), but I usually only did that in my bachelor days and, well, few things felt sadder at the time than spending my Saturday nights grocery shopping.
Joe Hodgson
2019-06-26 17:59:15 +0000 UTCI am loving Henry's 'San Francisco is basically the only American city with public transportation' line, Bless you.
John Harrison
2019-06-26 09:46:28 +0000 UTCAnd now that I've heard it all. A+ to Henry for dropping an "Anthony's Song ,(Movin' Out)" ref
Zachary Adams
2019-06-26 06:40:16 +0000 UTCI was shocked when I saw this episode because the negative perception a lot of Murcins have of mass transit was totally alien for me. As a disabled non-driver who grew up in a town of 75,000, the bus was FREEDOM when I moved to Houston for college. I hadn't realized (this ep aired when I'd been at school a little less than a year) just how much people who can't or won't drive get looked down on until this point. Rewatching this gave me flashbacks to my first time riding, learning the route to the Galleria to buy an embarrassing-in-retrospect CD and how empowering it felt. That, more than the excellent Homer and Lisa story, is what I always take from this episode.
Zachary Adams
2019-06-26 05:50:03 +0000 UTCAs someone who takes the bus a lot, I agree you with you that bus drivers are definitely very helpful; however, there was one case where I had a driver that was definitely more surly than even most passengers. One day when I was standing waiting for a bus, I decided the stand a little bit further away from the stop because all the trees around it were making it shady and a bit colder and I wanted to stand in the sun. It wasn't too far because there was plenty enough time for me to just walk closer to the stop as the bus passed the intersection. As it open, the driver started lecturing me very harshly saying that I should've stood closer to the stop the whole time,, and even after I said sorry she still responded with an angry tone of "do better next time." I should also point out that I was holding my white cane because I'm legally blind, so her more upset tone seemed very unwarranted compared to a more understanding tone you would think someone would have at that situation.
ShyRanger
2019-06-26 05:19:22 +0000 UTC
