Talking Simpsons - El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer With Zachary Ryan
Added 2018-09-05 04:48:53 +0000 UTCIGN's Zachary Ryan joins us as we trip out on the series' most psychedelic episode. After maintaining his status as Pope of Chili Town, Homer goes on a bad trip through his subconscious featuring some of the most lovely art in Simpsons history. A space coyote has us all questioning who is our soulmate, but in the end we all know it's either Marge or short-shorts. Now listen to this podcast, which was carved down from a bigger spoon!
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this one is still my favorite simpsons episode and "in your face space coyote!" is still my most said simpson phrase. the chili jokes in this episode are still among the best of any simpsons comedy runs. I think this was one of the first episodes I got to see from golden years, so I was very touched by Marge being Homers true soulmate. I'm a little younger than bob and henry (not by much) but I was forbidden from watching the simpsons, so I had to expereince everything very backwards.
kid presentable
2018-09-12 19:24:17 +0000 UTCWhen I first watched this episode, I was wracking my brain to find who Homer's soulmate was. So the coyote really got to me. For a period of time, I thought Mindy was Homer's soulmate, because in that episode, you see how both Homer and Marge were thriving with their respective new spouses.
Jessica Lovejoy
2018-09-12 10:34:15 +0000 UTC(just finished this ep; thanks for the plugs)
nina matsumoto
2018-09-10 21:47:35 +0000 UTCAbout 15 years ago, I was months into animation school and hadn't made a single friend. One day, a girl behind my desk was getting impatient about someone blocking her way and went "I'm missing the cook-oooff! It's going on right now and I'm gonna miss iiiit!" and I turned around and went "ah, Simpsons." We're still friends to this day.
nina matsumoto
2018-09-09 20:33:41 +0000 UTCHey guys-- going to put on my Genius At Work t-shirt because I do have a correction and I guess a criticism? "Short Shorts" was not actually written by an old man, but by Bob Gaudio of the Four Seasons when he was only about sixteen years old. I also found it strange that you guys were dunking on the message of that Twilight Zone episode. It's an episode about humanity destroying themselves because they ignored warnings rooted from a more well informed person to indulge in short term pleasures. It seems pretty prescient as we live in a world that might be dead in the next two hundred years because people ignore warnings of their own impending doom and just want to be able to do what they want.
Jo Quigley
2018-09-07 02:29:13 +0000 UTCI'm forever grateful for this episode introducing me to the Doodletown Pipers. Their cover of A Hard Day's Night might be one of the best things I've heard all year. If you happen to appreciate this sort of thing, you should look up The New Christy Minstrels as they are another big influence for the New Main Street Singers from A Mighty Wind.
Beefington von Barnstorm
2018-09-06 23:28:04 +0000 UTCRegarding the, "So I says to Mabel, I says..." line, it's always been my head cannon that Mabel is the girl in Bart's class who often sits sort of behind him (kitty-corner, one could say, though I guess one shouldn't say according to Bob) with the wavy hair who never speaks. This girl right here: <a href="https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E21/975790.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E21/975790.jpg</a>Apparently, she's just referred to as "Smug Girl": <a href="http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Smug_Girl" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Smug_Girl</a>
Andrew Bouvier
2018-09-06 16:01:17 +0000 UTCAdventure Time uses the This is only a memory joke format to great effect in "Dads dungeon ".
Jenny Ibrahim
2018-09-06 07:19:16 +0000 UTCDylan was already a household name by the time he played Cash's show in 69. He had already been the biggest folk singer in the world by 63 and then threw it all away to go electric in 65. I do think that with his influence on psychedelic music, he'd probably had been a better choice than Cash for the subject but Cash had a much better voice for it
Neil L
2018-09-06 01:03:12 +0000 UTCOh, and another thing... we used this episode as the basis for our LEGO Dimensions Simpsons level pack, if you wanted to check that out. I can't take any real credit for that though... except for the hidden, unsold "Lisa Lionheart" dolls you can find in the level. ^_^
To Boldy Joe... Moore
2018-09-06 01:02:50 +0000 UTCGreat episode as usual, guys! ^_^ As much as I like the "bigger spoon" line, I think the "memory" one should have been line of the show (especially since you played it again at the end). :P I love that line SO MUCH! Also, I believe the "woo" noises Marge makes about Smithers' jacket are re-used from "Wacking Day" when Homer is showing off his skills. Keep up the great work!
To Boldy Joe... Moore
2018-09-06 00:55:32 +0000 UTCIt's because all of Oakley and Weinstein's guests were men who were in their 70s in the '90s.
Bob Mackey
2018-09-05 23:48:40 +0000 UTCThis has been a death jingle kinda season and I think we still have a few more to go.
Matt Rowell
2018-09-05 20:10:21 +0000 UTCThe Mabel line is an old timey joke from the 1930s. The joke is "So I says to Mable I says, get off the table, the money's for the beer!" My Grandfather used to tell that joke when I was a kid and I my mind was blown when I finally understood it as a prostitution joke at such a young age.
shea dewar
2018-09-05 18:28:09 +0000 UTCThis episode always felt like an expanded version of Homer Cubed from Treehouse of Horror. Only with this one, it's less about just looking at Homer in a weird, trippy, world and more of an introspective piece. It's also one of the few episodes where I really enjoy it from an animation junkie perspective, but less as an actual episode of The Simpsons since the episode's conflict is wrapped-up so haphazardly. I do give this episode some personal bonus points for the Johnny Cash cameo. He'll always be near and dear to me as an artist because he's pretty much the only musician that both my grandfather and I enjoyed. I used to host a college radio show for heavy metal and my grandparents would often ask about hearing it so I recorded an episode for them to listen to. I was so proud of myself because I found a live version of Johnny Cash performing the song "Thirteen" with a somewhat long introduction about the song's genesis. It was from his comeback album in the 90s produced by Rick Rubin and "Thirteen" was a song written by Misfits/Danzig frontman and labelmate Glenn Danzig, who was always my favorite performer. It was just fun for me to be able to tie the two together for him. And now that my grandparents are both long gone, I have that cassette recording I made for them and still listen to it from time to time.
Joe Hodgson
2018-09-05 17:40:04 +0000 UTC
