Talking Simpsons - King of the Hill With Andrew Jupin
Added 2019-06-19 05:23:23 +0000 UTCGrab a Powersauce and get climbing, as this week's podcast welcomes Andrew Jupin from the podcast We Hate Movies! Together, we explore Homer's disappointment at his health, the importance of six kinds of apples, the brilliance of Brad & Neil, Abe Simpson eating a man, and so much more as we climb the Murderhorn! Listen now for the podcast with applesaucity!!
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-There are so many candy bars disguised as health products. Whenever I can't find my protein bar of choice (Simply Protein) I spend 5 minutes going through everything else on the shelf to choose the lesser of the evils, often with not great results. A lot of protein bars have more carbs and sugar than actual protein! Checking the nutritional info on those things can be horrifying. Anyway, since I consume a lot of nutrients in bar form, I think of this episode quite frequently (especially the scene where Homer makes his own spaghetti bar). -One of my first IRL conversations with Bob was about how I owned the Steven Weber version of The Shining on DVD and that, though flawed, isn't as bad as it looks. I knew he was a good guy when he didn't judge me for it at all. (Also, I like Andrew Jupin a lot for being a Steven Weber Shining apologist himself, haha. Now get Chris Cabin on the show please!) -The "gime" thing is actually a rare Simpsons-reference-I'm-tired-of, because I've heard/seen it referenced one too many times when I mention going to the gym. I know it's simply making a reference, but I get the same vibe as "sportsball" from it. I will give a polite chuckle in response though. I'm hardly in a position to tell someone not to make a Simpsons reference! -Who parodied terrible health products with X-treme buzzwords better: Simpsons or Clone High?
nina matsumoto
2019-07-01 05:54:38 +0000 UTC"Oh... A GIME" is also part of my everyday vernacular, proving once again the powerful impact Season 9 had on my 8/9 year-old brain.
Thad Komorowski
2019-06-25 22:01:34 +0000 UTCAnd, as someone who works the occasional weekend at a coffee shop, I realize that Starbucks has completely messed up what people believe to be a macchiato. An actual macchiato is just a double shot of espresso with milk foam on top as opposed to those giant monstrosities made by Starbucks.
Aaron Alcott
2019-06-21 15:38:36 +0000 UTChttps://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Flapjacks_in_Oil I'm trying to imagine a Butter Baby Canned Flap-Jacks magazine ad with a Cursed 19th century mascot
John Simon
2019-06-21 14:51:05 +0000 UTCReading about deaths on Everest like Green Boots and George Mallory is like one of those "Wake up at 3 AM, pull out your phone and browse until the rest of the day is wrecked" kind of things. The whole thing is absolutely wretched.
John Simon
2019-06-21 14:35:27 +0000 UTCI like Craig Kilborn. I even liked him on Sportcenter.
Aaron Alcott
2019-06-21 13:11:26 +0000 UTCRisk of heart attack is actually a big danger to extreme mountain climbers. Lots of Everest climbers die of cardiac arrest on the way down after reaching the summit, happened just this may to an american climber. So yeah Homer would 100% have a cardiac episode on that mountain
Nico
2019-06-21 00:17:23 +0000 UTCWhat's up, fellow VTer? And yeah, I don't recall any sort of prize, it's not meant as some sort of "one man food challenge," it's definitely a "get a bunch of your buddies together and try to eat it all, but give up halfway through" kind of a thing.
Andrew Bouvier
2019-06-20 22:52:32 +0000 UTCJust a note: when talking about Everest, Henry said "just go do something else, go on a sex tour." I get what you meant by that like... go somewhere and party and have fun, but the term "sex tour" actually means something pretty different. You may know it refers to the practice of (usually) Western men going to places especially in South-East Asia and spending all their time sleeping with sex workers. This industry depends a lot on sex trafficking and (trans)women being held against their will/forced/coerced into having sex with these "sex tourists." So I'm thinking there was a slip of the tongue and you weren't actually encouraging people to go do that, Henry!
Chris
2019-06-20 17:03:22 +0000 UTCThe new Ducktales has a reference to this episode. Young Scrooge attempts to scale a mountain but his guide tries to kill him in much the same way Abe describes and disappears. They later find his remains in the present. There were no bitemarks though
Jenny Ibrahim
2019-06-20 09:39:22 +0000 UTCWhile watching the episode I get the vibe of what energy drink companies do these days. Especially Red Bull with their extensive sponsorship of extreme sports and the Felix Baumgartner parachute jump from some years ago. The sports commentator setup during Homer's clime especially triggered this thought.
Jon Peder Grønsveen Opsahl
2019-06-20 05:55:28 +0000 UTCMan, I never realized it was Steven Webber and Brendan Fraser guesting in this episode despite the voices not sounding like Simpsons regulars and seemingly oddly distinct (but as you guys said, not quite unique enough for them to be readily identified). I guess I just never paid attention to the credits? -- Since Henry brought it up, I'll vouch for Doom Patrol being EXCELLENT. Despite rocky trailers for Titans, the show output of DC Universe so far has been stellar and it makes it super frustrating that the movies can't get their shit together. Doom Patrol is also a way better X-Men adaptation (obviously it's literally a DC thing, but shares a lot of similarities with everyone's favourite mutants) than Fox ever produced.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2019-06-20 02:18:45 +0000 UTCAbe Simpson must be a video game protagonist because he can survive falls of infinite heights. Also, I assume the language that the sherpas are speaking is Nepalese since that's where Everest is.
Bryan Hutchings
2019-06-19 17:43:10 +0000 UTCHello! Native Vermonter and multiple-time-eater of the VERMONSTER ice cream bucket here. We'd usually eat them at our town's Ben & Jerry's scoop shop as a end-of-school or end-of-summer celebration. They cost about $30 in the mid-2000s and promised 30 scoops of ice cream. It was a crisis buying one because we were dirtbag high schoolers in Vermont with no money and bad taste, so we'd mismatch flavors with atrocious toppings. Henry is right, it all melts immediately, and eventually, you're just 10 idiots slurping communal ice cream out of a beach pail while trying to avoid the half-frozen gummi bear toppings one kid insisted on getting. I don't recall a prize for finishing one and nobody ever did because in the end it was just a sugary gazpacho (served ice-cold) that not even a high school hick would touch.
Alex Crumb
2019-06-19 13:05:57 +0000 UTC
