Talking Simpsons - Summer of 4'2" With Nina Matsumoto
Added 2018-07-04 05:00:00 +0000 UTCJust in time for summer (assuming you're listening the week it came out), Simpsons artist extraordinaire Nina Matsumoto is here to have ever so much fun! Not only do we discuss summer, beaches, growing up, fireworks, crabs, and sprinklers, but we also dig into Nina's own history as a professional artist whose career was influenced by The Simpsons! Learn all about it on our season seven finale, just be careful not to get The Dud, poindexters!
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I don't get to comment much, but I hope Nina gets to come back and do more with you guys, she's a perfect fit.
RoryDropkick
2018-07-20 04:34:07 +0000 UTCThe brief talk about Shin Chan reminded me that there were actually two attempts to bring it here in English (sanitized of course and with some names changed) before the Funimation dub (which I think is still pretty funny at times). One of the dubs even had a few well known western VAs like Kath Soucie and Grey DeLisle on board. You can find info and links to some of the episodes they did on the Lost Media Wiki which I think Henry's brought up once or twice
Zeether
2018-07-19 14:03:45 +0000 UTCBob's comment about getting his yearbook during the next school year surprised me. I thought my high school was the only one to do that. The way we got around yearbook signing was that we had booklets of about 5 blank pages to pass around and sign. Then we kept them until the next year when our books came. When we got our books, we would peel off the sticky back of the pages and put them in the end paper of the yearbook. My favorite thing was when people would write the entire "This is a way to take up space" joke. P.S. I was on yearbook committee in Senior year and it was great! I used the opportunity to put as many of my friends and I in the book as I could. π
Paul L
2018-07-18 05:46:59 +0000 UTCYour anecdote about driving without a seatbelt in the trunk reminded me of a story. One time my parents were driving my siblings, one of our friends, and I to a baseball game when I was around 10 years old. They usually didn't let us sit in the back area of the van without seat belts, but this one time they did because we were having fun. Every time the van stopped at a light, we would slide forward. Eventually, we all started to pile on top of each other to increase our momentum. That was a mistake. I was on the bottom and slid face-first into the metal part on the bottom of the back seat. My gums were all cut up and I was bleeding. Luckily we had not traveled far and were able to quickly turn around to go to my dentist. Luckily, none of my teeth were broken or out of whack. I definitely learned my lesson the hard way.
Paul L
2018-07-18 05:39:27 +0000 UTCShoutouts to a fellow "Western Mass-er!" π
Ryan Clark
2018-07-18 03:32:07 +0000 UTCI know I'm late to the party on this one, but I was on vacation. I just had to chime in on this episode because I was raised, and still live, in Western Massachusetts so this episode speaks to me more than almost any other one. I've experienced almost everything from this episode over many summers from my child/early teenhood. My family would go "camping" up in New Hampshire every year and that was always within 20 minutes of Hampton Beach. I remember being able to go either around the campground or down the beach and meeting new kids that didn't know how "upper lower middle class" I was socially back at my school, so for about 1 week during some of my summers I could be one of the "cool kids" because I had a fresh start every time. I could go on about other similarities like the illegality of fireworks we smuggled back into MA like drugs, or what it was like bringing one of my friends with us on vacation, but I don't want the next bonus show to be too long. π
Ryan Clark
2018-07-17 18:40:24 +0000 UTCAccording to WikiHow's "How to Sign a Yearbook" article: "Donβt use acronyms. Though you may be tempted to write H.A.G.S. (have a great summer) or S.Y.N.Y. (see you next year), you should avoid using acronyms. In 20 years when people are looking back through their yearbooks, they may have no idea what these acronyms mean. Take the time to spell out your well-wishes rather than abbreviating them."
nina matsumoto
2018-07-15 05:51:08 +0000 UTCWe were a little more Risque with our Yearbook signings. We would write H.A.G.S and drew that "S" that everyone would draw. We would also write K.A.T.S Which stood for Kick Ass This Summer. The teachers were to discipline children who wrote that but it was the last day of school so who cared. There was this one kid who said he would be the van driver for the band I was in. So he decided to write V.D. in all of our Yearbooks. I will always remember that kid.
Niko Wells
2018-07-14 22:06:53 +0000 UTCI still read it that way most of the time, even though i know it's supposed to be "four-foot-two," so you're not alone.
Joe Hodgson
2018-07-09 15:43:55 +0000 UTCAs a kid I thought the title, which I first saw written as "Summer of 4 ft. 2," meant "Summer of 4 FEATURING 2", like how pop song credentials sometimes abbreviate "featuring" as "ft." My brain filled that out so much that I thought of the 4 being the new kids and the 2 being Bart and Lisa. I guess Millhouse didn't count. "Nobody likes Millhouse."
lightningkraken
2018-07-09 12:46:59 +0000 UTCI think my favourite line in this episode is Bart's "That's my expression!" -- so writerly, I love it. One time my best friend and I stayed overnight in her then-boyfriend's apartment while he was away, and before we left we definitely covered everything in explanatory Post-Its, including "Fill me / with water!" in every ice cube cavity. It was fun, but I don't think he was amused (mostly because we wasted all his Post-Its).
Nina C.
2018-07-08 17:30:17 +0000 UTCI wish we lived in a world where the kind of people who use their religion to justify homophobia would be swayed by a more nuanced, and more accurate interpretation of the scripture, but we all know these people don't give a shit.
Kayoticks
2018-07-07 16:59:19 +0000 UTCIn regards to your brief discussion on the bible verse in Ned's beach house, I took an old testament studies class taught by a Christian professor. He told us how important it is to look at the context surrounding the rules given in the bible. For instance there is an anti tattoo verse which modern Christians do not follow today. When it was written, tattoos were used as brands for slaves and prostitutes two groups which were often abused. The rule was meant to help protect these marginalized people groups. Tattoos don't represent that anymore which is why no one observes that rule anymore. Pork is a dirtier meat than beef or chicken so people were told not to eat it to protect themselves from getting sick. Modern practices make pork clean and safe to eat so it does not matter. Next time someone tries to say being gay is bad because bible you can bring these up (I'm sure there's many more) and claim the bible is less anti-gay and more anti-anal and the rule was made to protect people from playing with dirty butt holes. Now we know how to properly clean ourselves so butt stuff is safe and we don't need to follow that rule anymore.
Soda
2018-07-07 16:29:03 +0000 UTCSo many times I've felt I could relate to Lisa, such as when she thinks "Scanning for sarcasm. It's clean! GO!" Or on "Trash of the Titans" when Homer said something stupid and she thought "I know, I heard it too. Here's some music." But the moment I keep coming back to is in "Bart to the Future" when Bart says "What happened? You used to be cool" and Lisa looks annoyed and replies "No I didn't!" That level of awareness and self-deprecation has stayed with me
PurpleComet
2018-07-06 17:20:57 +0000 UTCFlorida has the same provisions about signing paper work to say you're going to use they fireworks to scare birds on your farm. They have booths set up at firework stores to help you fill out the paper work. Also, I remember using M-80s a lot as a kid.
Sadie Carter
2018-07-06 03:51:05 +0000 UTCGrowing up in Massachusetts I LOVED this episode, because Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport feels just like the sort of New England tradition of bastardizing Algonquian language words and names into English for our place names. Even Massachusetts itself is from the Masachusett people we stole our land from. Towns and areas with names that might have inspired it include Popponessett Island, Sippewissett, Cummaquid, the Annisquam River, the Quinebaug River, just to name a few. Of course I grew up in Western MA and was also too much of a working class kid to be able to travel to the beach much even in my own state. What I CAN tell you about is a place Nina mentioned: Satan's Kingdom. "Unincorporated community" is a generous way of describing a stretch of state protected wilderness possibly sparsely populated by a few stubborn people, and likely named by paranoid colonial settlers who were afraid of the thick woods. Within Satan's Kingdom is a swamp colorfully referred to as Hell's Kitchen. There's lots of hiking trails there, and in the winter, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling. I would go snowmobiling there with my dad and if you stop there at night and turn your machine off the woods are so thick and so isolated you are plunged into perfect darkness and silence. It's great!
Jack Beckwith
2018-07-06 00:45:42 +0000 UTC
