Talking Simpsons - Kamp Krusty With Mike Mitchell
Added 2023-06-21 04:00:04 +0000 UTCWe begin the iconic fourth season in earnest with an amazing returning guest, Mike Mitchell from the fantastic podcast Doughboys, not to mention big films and TV shows like the upcoming Twisted Metal! We all reflect on our childhood memories of seeing this one live as Bart and Lisa head to a really crappy camp, plus we have some incredible new details as we have an original table-read draft of Kamp Krusty with some surprising changes. All that, plus many summer memories as we begin what many consider Simpsons' best season on the podcast!
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re: superfluous nipples - Not a story that comes up in conversation often but this would be appropriate. I dated a girl with several bodily oddities including 2 nipples within the same areola, webbed fingers on her left hand, & four toes on one foot. And she was quite attractive! Some might think one would be quite self-conscious of these attributes but she pointed these out to me as one would normal topics of conversation. "You think that's weird, check this out," she said to me one evening. A very interesting girl.
James Babbo
2023-06-29 01:38:36 +0000 UTCYou can hear about it on our 2025 miniseries, Bitchin' Bout Blossom
Bob Mackey
2023-06-28 22:31:27 +0000 UTCUh this is America, you can be a terrible human being, but if u kinda support one charity or kinda act nice sometimes, your good.
Michael Branson
2023-06-28 16:34:20 +0000 UTCDidn’t know about her being transphobic. All I knew she’s an ardent supporter of Zionism and an anti Vaxxer.
Blarghjon
2023-06-28 03:03:41 +0000 UTCbelieve so, and also a transphobe IIRC
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2023-06-25 21:19:16 +0000 UTCHey whoa!Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney may be victims of the wealth class; but that doesn’t mean they’re not also class traitors! They can be both!
Ben
2023-06-25 16:40:09 +0000 UTCIsn’t Miyim Bialik a supporter of a country that is doing awful things towards the Palestinians
Blarghjon
2023-06-25 12:02:07 +0000 UTCDid anyone see the interviews with Mike Reiss about the doomed sub? Apparently he went down on it last year, scary.
Michael Branson
2023-06-24 14:50:35 +0000 UTCHmm, but the real Krunchy also knows who Bart is... even if he never seems to remember. Yeah, well... what have ya done for me lately?
Stephen Cass
2023-06-24 12:37:43 +0000 UTCI remember that. UMDs went for crazy money on eBay for a short time.
Alex Forsyth
2023-06-24 02:52:02 +0000 UTCI worked on Gripshift very briefly, and you are correct they did pay the licensing fee. Unfortunately though the PSP version of the game shipped with some exploitable debug exposed (I've forgotten the exact details by now) which some clever end-users managed to turn into a region unlock exploit for PSP consoles... *collar tug*
Rob MacBride
2023-06-24 02:47:38 +0000 UTCYup. One of the best ever, and an excellent podcast/discussion on it. "Yeah, Bart. I am SO Krunchy the Klown!" is my second-favorite line in the series for how layered it is. As you said, he blows the obvious facade by revealing he already knows who Bart is. (You'll have to wait til season 5 to know my favorite line ever, but I've said what it is elsewhere.)
Thad Komorowski
2023-06-23 15:00:47 +0000 UTCIt's way more complicated than that; too complicated to go into on a Simpsons podcast: http://patentarcade.com/2010/07/case-analysis-sega-v-fox.html
Bob Mackey
2023-06-23 04:25:23 +0000 UTCI think the Crazy Taxi lawsuit was actually just for the arrow pointing you where to go. Sega had a patient on it somehow. Gripshift on PS3 has the same arrow but they paid a license for it.
Alex Forsyth
2023-06-23 01:37:42 +0000 UTCGlad to see you guys share a lot of the same opinions that I do about this episode. It has some great jokes and bits, but isn't held together very well. And it's like last week's episode in that it definitely would have been better placed as a season finale rather than premiere. Despite that, I am interested in the alternate universe where this episode did blossom into the first Simpsons movie. I see a lot of areas where the episode's plot could expand: more time with Mr. Black, more with Marge and Homer, more time for the actual revolt to be planned, and just more of, well, everything! Instead, the episode really only devotes a lot of time to torturing its child characters and then the resolution just sort of happens. It's funny enough, but it's never been one of my favorites.
Joe Hodgson
2023-06-22 18:08:27 +0000 UTCIt's hard to say what is a canonical relative to Burns. Rosebud implies he's adopted and therefore the Burns name is one he was adopted into, but he's also the biological brother of George Burns per that one joke. I guess in this universe, George took his biological brother's last name as a stage name? We also see Monty and his grandfather in a flashback, who looks just like him. Same for his old, decrepit, mother. Seems like the adopted thing has basically been ignored ever since it showed up given that all of the other Burns relatives look just like him. I'm guessing more have shown up in other episodes that I have never watched since, like many, I stopped being a regular viewer eventually.
Joe Hodgson
2023-06-22 18:03:26 +0000 UTCthe one instance where the statement "Waluigi did it too" is justified
Blake R.
2023-06-22 15:05:10 +0000 UTCHAIL TO THEE KAMP KRUSTY[©™KrustyCo®] VERY interesting the scrapped Burns relation to Mr Black! Everything below his nose is a similar design to Burns. As you know, in addition to Camp Deadly, Bart Vs the World also featured a rogues gallery of Burns relatives.. have there been any canonical Burns relatives in the show? I'm drawing a blank, I can remember Burns parents and son featuring at least once each, and the mysterious Kaiser at his wedding to Mz Bouvier Snr. The non-canon videogame relatives are almost Kang-variant like. I think that boat in Rumble was some sort of hover craft? Great show as usual y'all.
Rob MacBride
2023-06-22 03:24:41 +0000 UTCI cannot dispute any point you guys raise about the plot or the pacing. But I get to “I am so Crunchy the Clown” and any shortcomings immediate disappear. WE WANT CRUNCHY! WE WANT CRUNCHY! WE WANT CRUNCHY!
John Halski
2023-06-22 03:15:00 +0000 UTCI was debating whether to post this story when you guys re-did Kamp Krusty, or a while from now in season 15's "The Fat and the Furriest" (when Homer is attacked by a bear) but I might as well do it now...AND then. But back in the summer of 2000, on a Boy Scout "Venture-style" (i.e. more extreme than usual) camping/hiking trip in New Mexico...I was eaten by a bear! Well...actually, the bear just bit my ankle. Was it a nice ankle? Oh yeah. But yes. While my friend and I were sleeping in our tent, maybe halfway into the ten-day hiking trip in the New Mexico Rockies on the peak of a mountain, I was woken up to a very sharp pain in my ankle. I couldn't see much in the small, dark tent, but I could tell that the corner where my foot was had collapsed. At first, I just thought a tree branch might have fallen onto that corner, but then I heard rustling and grunting outside the tent. I woke up my friend and let him know I thought a bear was outside. We did what we were taught to do in that scenario, which is just yell and make a lot of noise to scare the bear away. It did not work. The bear took SEVERAL swipes at us in tent. He managed to get a couple claws across my friend's face (it was a very small tent, barely big enough for two, so it wasn't even possible to try and cower in fear away from the sides.) Eventually, after more screaming and yelling, it did wander away, and one of the Scoutmasters on the trip with us ran over to see how we were doing. My friend had two large gashes on his face, my ankle was also bleeding, the tent was ruined, and we had to huddle in fear around a camp fire until morning because neither of our injuries were life threatening and it was too dangerous to try and descend the mountain trail at night, and being over twenty years ago, no had had cell phones, and even if they did, there wouldn't have been any service at the top of that peak. In the morning, we packed up camp and hiked down the trail until we finally got to a base camp and a staffed lodge where we could get some medical attention. I was relatively ok, just needed the wound cleaned, a large band aid, and an ACE bandage around my ankle. My friend had to go back on a Jeep to the main camp where the medical building was to get some stiches, but he did re-join us on the trip a day later, overall no worse for wear, other than a small scar on his eyebrow he still has to this day. Hard to find news articles still online after 23 years, but there does seem to be a couple that have some details wrong, but have the overall story right: https://www.newson6.com/story/5e3685022f69d76f6209a4f2/drought-blamed-for-bear-attacks-at-scout-ranch
Andrew Bouvier
2023-06-22 02:08:17 +0000 UTCThe iFoodReal "Healthy Mac and Cheese" recipe is great.
Bradford A Barker
2023-06-21 21:53:17 +0000 UTCOn that mac note, I haven't eaten blue box macncheese for years bc honestly it takes the same amount of time to make it from scratch if you grate the cheese while the pasta boils
Theo Flood
2023-06-21 21:00:11 +0000 UTCThe maccy cheese discourse got me going, anything framed as "STICKS of butter" always gives people pause. The blue box calls for a quarter cup of butter (or margarine, blech), which is HALF a stick of butter. A "serving" of butter is about one tablespoon, and there are 8 servings of butter in a stick. So one box of kraftmac calls for 4 servings of butter, and I believe technically one box is 4 servings. While the processed chemicals and sodium are definitely not like, great, i think that delicious trash food might actually be less fatty and indulgent than an equivalent volume of from- scratch mac. I have zero stake in this just as a pastry chef that uses a lot of (traditionally dictated) butter, my ears prick up when people sigh and say "STICKS of butter"
Theo Flood
2023-06-21 20:58:22 +0000 UTCTRU was killed by capitalism
Ric Mahurin
2023-06-21 19:54:35 +0000 UTCLove the guest, love Twisted Metal, love Columbo
Ric Mahurin
2023-06-21 19:54:09 +0000 UTCMost of us in U.K. also don’t give a fuck about Charlie and his cronies
Alistair Shand
2023-06-21 18:39:33 +0000 UTCAlso, being pedantic here, but the famous match between Becker and Lendl at Wimbledon ‘89 was in the semifinals, not the final. It was a 5 set epic that saw Becker advance and beat Stefan Edberg, another big star of the era, to win his third and final title. Lendl and Becker had previously played each other in a Wimbledon final in 1986 but this is much less remembered due to being a one-sided, straight sets victory for Becker
Miles Galaska
2023-06-21 13:16:33 +0000 UTCSalute your shorts is on Paramount Plus...but only like 6 eps from each season.
Frank Grimes
2023-06-21 13:02:58 +0000 UTCThe section of the episode where Krusty is with the Queen at Wimbledon isn’t quite as strange as it first appears. At Wimbledon’s Centre Court, the best seats in the house are the Royal Box, which as the name implies is reserved for the Royal family and their guests. You frequently see celebrities there during the tournament, alongside Establishment Grandees and members of the Royal family. The episode takes a bit of a liberty having the actual Queen there, as Lizzy 2 didn’t care for tennis and rarely took advantage of the Royal Box herself. In fact, she only went 4 times, in 1957, 1962, 1977, and 2010. Her appearances were so infrequent that not only did she not watch Lendl play Becker there, the gap between her last two appearances included the entirety of both of their careers
Miles Galaska
2023-06-21 13:01:45 +0000 UTCIn regards too your discussion of Toys R Us the company went under because while it was making nearly half a billion dollars in profit every year in 2005 it took a $6.6 billion dollar leveraged buyout by Bain Capital, KKR and Vornado. This put them $5 billion in debt with $400 million in annual interest payments. I say all this because I worked at Toys R Us as a seasonal hire during the 2013 Christmas season and the fact that 97% of their revenue had been going to pay venture capitalists was obvious. There was no place on shelf system. We weren't provided proper cleaning supplies for the bathrooms. Everything bit of carpeting was covered in some decades old stain. They did however have a brand new price checking kiosk that could scan employee badges so that not a second of company time could be wasted. We were made to turn out our bags and pockets before leaving overnight shifts, some people were frisked. One employee was made to work split shifts so often he just started sleeping in the break room instead of going home. I eventually quit when my boss gave us the ultimatum of working until 4 AM or going home and never coming back. I told him to go fuck himself in a big pile of shit and called him a coke'd up ogre. Later when I went back in to grab my last paycheck and it was attached to a letter from corporate which had obviously been printed up weeks ago informing me that unfortunately they were not considering keeping any seasonal hires. In closing capitalism is a land of contrasts.
Matt Quintanilla
2023-06-21 11:22:17 +0000 UTC
