Talking Simpsons - Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade
Added 2023-07-12 04:00:04 +0000 UTCThis week we're reaching the end of production season 13/starting broadcast season 14 with a tale spurred on by hate of reality TV (not to be confused with the three other eps just like it). This time Bart loses his mind from TV overload and gets sent to third grade to join the advancing Lisa. Turns out they adjust to it differently in a plot that brings us back to Capital City with some returning season 2 stars. All that, plus robot history, googling Japanese pronunciation, and a couple of fart jokes in a weird episode!
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I noticed that a lot with Drag Race, where they will fully remove all context to make somebody look like they were having a mental break when really it was the end of a big performance or something. It makes me immediately google it/ask my friend so I can get the context of whatever the hell actually happened, and it always makes Ru Paul look more scummy.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2023-07-24 21:20:14 +0000 UTCUnfortunately with reality shows many fans miss the memo that it's somewhat scripted and the 'person we're all supposed to hate' gets harassed in real life and on social media. Ru Paul's Drag Race fans can be particularly awful, sending racist DMs and death threats to contestants. The production and editors are partially at fault, they pull all kinds of editing tricks to make a person sound meaner than they are.
PurpleComet
2023-07-22 17:45:34 +0000 UTCI failed a grade and had to repeat it but at first I was told I'd have to go to summer school. It wasn't until I showed up in mid-June that I was told summer school is only for 8th graders (?) and I had to repeat the 5th grade. I remember comng home, sitting in the living room watching my brother play Snowboard Kids 2 on N64, wondering how to break the news to my mom who already thought I was "stupid".
Thoren Murphy
2023-07-19 00:43:03 +0000 UTCI was dreading a rewatch of this episode in anticipation of this podcast, but it's actually not bad? Nothing embarrassing, one character isn't counted on to shoulder the load, and the plot was at least a little different, though very similar at the same time. It's definitely the first time I've had the "Yup, Al Jean is back," feeling watching these episodes and I'm assuming that's just going to continue for a little while. I'm not sure why my memory of this one was so poisoned initially, maybe I was subconsciously lumping it in with "My Sister, My Sitter" given it's a Bart vs Lisa episode? I don't have fond memories of this season, but maybe it will surprise me as we go back through it. Also, when I was very little, my family and I lived out in the middle of nowhere and if you wanted to watch TV you had to have a satellite dish. This was back in probably 1986, and we had what I remember to be a very large one. Bare in mind, I was basically a toddler so everything would have looked big to me, but it was bolted to a concrete slab in the front yard of our double-wide trailer in the middle of the wooded area of New Ipswich, NH and I remember it being taller than my dad. My parents still remember that thing fondly for its lack of commercials and getting to see news anchors basically just make small talk with each other during what should have been the commercial breaks. That satellite dish was basically the main selling feature of that trailer which allowed my family to buy a house in a more suburban setting where my parents still live today. Ahh the good old days when one could actually afford a somewhat meager starter home and turn it into something long-term before they were 30.
Joe Hodgson
2023-07-18 14:55:56 +0000 UTCI don't want to criticize any of the guests in particular but they are not all on equal levels. The B&H together is still so damn good after years working together and a lot of my favorite content on the TS network is just the two of them together. I understand guests can raise the profile of the show so I don't want to just dump on the concept. P.S. Nina is great and is always a good guest.
Burt Stanton
2023-07-15 04:09:50 +0000 UTCLost in all the talk about cowabunga was Homer telling Skinner that they're from the learn to fart state, implying that he was somehow aware of the changes Bart made to Lisa's flag.
zzz711
2023-07-14 19:28:48 +0000 UTCI have some insider info on reality shows as 10 years ago I myself was on a mildly popular show in the UK. I can only speak for the season I was on, but there was no script. There was rumours of producers meddling with certain things, & if we said something that the cameras missed, we’d have to repeat it. But the real fakery was lies of omission. We filmed average 13 hours a day for 28 days, which was turned into 5 hours of tv (less with ads). So the editors could make stories appear from what felt like nothing at the time. P.s Craig Charles is appearing at a festival I’m going to next month. His DJ sets are amazing as I’ve seen him a couple of times & they were top 10 best nights of my life! Definitely recommend if he ever goes to USA.
YancySr
2023-07-14 09:55:52 +0000 UTCLearning about the origins of cowabunga was a real Quizybk
SilkiePJ
2023-07-14 04:43:39 +0000 UTCNo worries about not having a guest; I actually prefer just the two of you.
littleterr0r
2023-07-14 00:28:41 +0000 UTCWell I hope you guys are happy, your frequent mentioning of Dana Gould somehow managed to resurrect the Gex series.
Dayken
2023-07-13 22:23:37 +0000 UTCWith all the Dana Gould talk I hope you all are excited about Gex Trilogy, a re-release of old Gex games announced yesterday. Dana Gould recorded new Gex material! (it might just have been two new lines for the trailer, including a stale Metal Gear reference…)
Mike Mariano
2023-07-13 15:26:59 +0000 UTCThose tests where you have to read everything first are literally the err example of public schools outright explicit hatred for people with ADHD. I really hope they’re gone. Those tests don’t teach you to read instructions. They teach you that people in positions of power are going to arbitrarily fuck with you for your entire life so maybe it is a good lesson for children, at least for ADHDers. And people wonder why people don’t universally love teachers. For some of us our experience is the adult who is supposed to be trusted, is going out of their way to Shame us in front of all of our peers in every opportunity..
Andrew Giachetti
2023-07-13 11:59:25 +0000 UTCHey are guys gonna do a toonsylvania episode? I feel like it’s the only Spielberg cartoon you guys havnt done yet.
Michael Branson
2023-07-13 05:33:27 +0000 UTCSadly I managed to experience punch buggy, hertz donuts, corks n deadlegs, jingle bells batman smells, and of course as Skinner so aptly demonstrates in a great litigation-avoiding example, the 'says what's, way before the Simpsons cemented them into the officially-kool for kids lexicon. There was a rugged poetry to the school yard back then, dirty limericks and modified rhymes were a kind of oral inheritance, a rights-of-passage for wayward criminals of the future (aka children). I LOVED the dedication Nelson showed in going on a national 'HAW-HAW' biking tour. I imagine him doing impromptu truck-stop 'HAW-HAW' appearances and menacing world-weary parents he encounters on the road, like he did in Bart on the Road.
Rob MacBride
2023-07-13 03:29:37 +0000 UTCI'm certain that neither of us watched this episode after its first airing, but every now and then my brother and I will quote Nelson's super-terse "biked" to each other.
Erin Hardy
2023-07-13 01:53:34 +0000 UTCThe current Battlebots of today is at least visually more exciting than the Comedy Central era since having had the experience of watching their competition devolve into a wedge-based arms race, the creators of BB have mandated a rule that robots must have "active" weapons (in most cases in the current show these are spinning blades), and they use a selection process to determine the field unlike the Comedy Central seasons where they filmed at open tournaments, so you get very well constructed robots delivering some huge damage to each other, but ironically wedges are still very key in today's competition as a way of teeing up robots for weapon hits. Although it has its share of growing pains amd there are concerns about the future of the competition, the nice takeaway is that even in its current incarnation BB remains an unscripted program driven by a community of participants who are, with very few exceptions, unfailingly supportive of each other in the style of British Bake Off.
F Shackleford
2023-07-12 23:15:34 +0000 UTCTwo items from my local and state government that coincide with this week's episode. A few years ago, my town finally redesigned it's old flag. The new flag is fine, but the old one (who's design was partially inspired by a child's design) was a penis flag: https://i.imgur.com/rdsFW6H.jpg Not as big as Bart's and no pee hole, but it's got some shaft to make up for it. And secondly, regarding your discussion on what state capitol building would possibly just be right next to a big forest...well, the answer is ours (Vermont's): https://i.imgur.com/ih1B8Oo.jpg Although it's at the bottom of a hill, not the top.
Andrew Bouvier
2023-07-12 22:50:20 +0000 UTCB: it looks like a urethra. H: hey fellas, "urethra"? Ooh lah lah Mr. French Man! B: What do you call it? H: a pee hole!
Chris Dobson
2023-07-12 20:18:01 +0000 UTCLoved UK "Robot Wars" being mentioned! All hail Sir Kill-a-lot! 😁
To Boldy Joe... Moore
2023-07-12 16:17:48 +0000 UTCOh man, I definitely remember going back to some websites that I won’t name to scrub my post/blog history that I wrote when I was in my late teens. I’m surprised I managed to withstand the pure concentrated cringe.
Lockerus
2023-07-12 14:47:56 +0000 UTCI really hope Trixie Mattel becomes a patron. She’s getting a lot of plugs because Henry refuses to watch another reality show.
Peter Hanneman
2023-07-12 13:39:35 +0000 UTC"Rar, rar, rar. No one understands you, She-Bear!" Is one of my regularly used quotes
Langdon Alger
2023-07-12 10:52:16 +0000 UTCI’m breaking my rule of waiting to finish the episode before commenting but I am really enjoying this guestless episode. I love the pure TS energy.
John Harrison
2023-07-12 08:33:09 +0000 UTC
