Talking Simpsons - Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge With Chris Cabin
Added 2023-05-10 04:00:02 +0000 UTCWe've got returning favorite Chris Cabin from the podcast We Hate Movies for the finale of broadcast season 13! And it's a weird episode full of lengthy references to High Noon and The Sopranos, as Homer becomes a security guard as part of his very long list of new jobs. All that, plus we try to navigate the episode's complicated politics about police and property in this strange ep, so call your local pizza man and listen now!
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So glad you guys called out Dana Gould about his political bashing of liberals. I've been going through his podcasts in order & got up to 2017 where, of course, he's losing his mind over the election. But I also give him a pass because it's crystal clear he needs to blame someone for Trump's election & he chose the "liberal media" for failing him. He seemed particularly targeted on Rachel Maddow & Chris Hayes of MSNBC & how he's steering clear of them & the others that let him down while not challenging his republican friend & frequent guest, Mike Murphy, ON ANY POLICIES. Yet only a few episodes later on in 2017, he's quoting MSNBC again. So he needed to vent.....but everything he said is still out there in cyberspace! You're lucky you're a funny guy, Dana! :)
James Babbo
2023-05-23 01:42:42 +0000 UTCIt somewhat irrationally annoys me that that the show sums up "Who shot Mr Burns" with "the baby did it". The gun fell into Maggie's hands and went off. Her fingers weren't on the trigger or anything! The same thing could've happened if the gun had landed on the seat or in a cup holder
PurpleComet
2023-05-22 20:06:09 +0000 UTCI don’t work in the industry but as a teen at the time, I think you’re correct about Ultron being the first. I remember that trailer being really big in my friend group because the use of No Strings On Me and how fresh that felt. A lot of my frustration with the film was that the trailer suggested a more intense and thematically dark movie than what we got. So if it wasn’t the first, I definitely think that’s where it became popularized.
Sarah Cleary
2023-05-18 19:48:23 +0000 UTC> LTL = FTC < Hey gang! I work in the film industry and I'm 80% certain the Ultron example Bob gave in the discussion about slow ballad covers in trailers, is the first real example of this trend (at the very least, the first example to be recognised by a wider audience) which set the precedent for this trend. Thankfully a trend now on its way out. As you may know, the modern structure is to announce a release date for 'trailer #1', then release a teaser the day before this date (a trailer for the trailer) which is often a cut down version of trailer #1 which additionally, often plays in front of trailer #1. If you cast your minds back to the futuristic year 2000, a primeval example of this was released for the Xmen film months ahead of any substantial promo, which in many ways was responsible for the neg hype around this film, as people felt ripped off by the 'trailer' which was in essence just a title card and release date. Two years later a similar 'trailer' was released to promote the Raimi Spiderman film (prior to the infamous Twin Towers trailer). Re: spoilery trailers, if you're promoting a big budget film these days, the third labelled 'Final Trailer' is in my experience most important to avoid at all costs; studios have a vested interest in promoting some of the most complex and expensive vfx sequences they've paid for, which usually aren't complete enough to showcase until close to post-prod wrap, and are often the conclusive sequence of the film... this has gotten so out of hand in recent times you can just about create your own complete cut of a film if you gather all the trailers and tvspots together. Remember when every adventure film trailer had Joel Goldsmith's Stargate score in it? Good times *wistfeels*
Rob MacBride
2023-05-18 00:17:21 +0000 UTCAs a BC resident, trust me that Bob knows about this
nina matsumoto
2023-05-15 14:58:29 +0000 UTCWatched this with Japanese subtitles and they slightly modified the Ricky Martin joke - I wouldn't have expected his name to carry much weight in Japan - but they left him in and removed any mention of "girlfriend," simply suggesting the AC is working harder than Ricky himself.
Diamond Feit
2023-05-15 04:30:02 +0000 UTCWe were trying to summon him like Beetlejuice. - Bob
Talking Simpsons
2023-05-13 16:54:45 +0000 UTCYou guys said Dana Gould's name about every 20 seconds on this one.
Guy Incognito
2023-05-13 16:47:25 +0000 UTCSo this era of Simpsons is when I started watching in Sunday night (I could’ve sworn this aired or maybe rerun on a Sunday) and as someone who didn’t get to watch Syndicated Simpsons as much I could’ve, this episode spoiled the end of “Who Shot Mr Burns” for me (not that the show cared). As far as the syndicated episodes go, those came on in my neck of the woods at 5pm which is when my mom would get off work, and being the child of a single mother, I’d go to my grandparents house after school and would eventually be picked up by my mom, usually what would happen is, I’d watch the Simpsons in my grandpas bedroom, catch the 1st act, my mom would arrive and talk to my grandparents (much to my impatience), and by the time we’d get home, If I was lucky I’d catch the final moments of the episode, but most often than not Id turn on the tv right as the credits rolled 😭😭😭 I did end up watching a good amount of KOTH though (it was syndicated at 5:30).
Kiefer Fulsom
2023-05-13 15:32:54 +0000 UTCnow im imagining rosie odonnell going "thats a nice outfit McD...it makes you look like a homosexual" but instead of booing, the audience cheers
Sean Riley
2023-05-12 20:25:11 +0000 UTCIn regards to kids being cynical about cops. My 10 and 8 year old daughters are already there. They hate cops. I wonder where they get it from. 🤔
Darbley
2023-05-12 19:08:44 +0000 UTCI still haven’t watched the Sopranos, so I had no idea what this was parodying at that point until I start listening to y’all. I had started going to church again around 1999/2000 and I must have been subsumed with been “in the world but not of it” b/c I didn’t get ANY Simpson’s pop culture references beyond that point, lol. (I’m back to being “of the world”, I guess, b/c I dropped the church thing sometime ago, but I met my husband there so at least something good came if it). Re: final scene - setting aside the tiredness of the song, I love me a innocent morphing into mischievous Maggie look. It’s just so cute the way they draw it. The Clockwork Orange parody comes to mind as well, and I’m pretty sure there’s a dozen others I’m missing off the top of my head.
Jessica S
2023-05-11 19:31:08 +0000 UTCRight?? I thought that exact thing when I got to that point of the episode. I’d say shocking but, to paraphrase Fry “well, not that shocking.”
Jessica S
2023-05-11 15:54:14 +0000 UTCstrong arms of the ma has some real gems, i think you guys are throwing out the baby with the bath water. Large marge.....ehhh....it has um...uhhhh..MAGUMBOS!
Nathanial Miller
2023-05-11 12:14:25 +0000 UTCHe said her Max Weinberg equivalent
Micah
2023-05-10 23:13:48 +0000 UTCWhat a depressing state of affairs that this episode presaged a number of mass/school shootings that would happen between the time it was recorded and when it dropped, and a local Bay Area incident where a Walgreens security guard shot and killed a black person they suspected of shoplifting. Oof.
Krystal
2023-05-10 19:25:40 +0000 UTCI do the same thing as bob when on the phone in my headphones. I am far to self conscious.
Aidan fleming
2023-05-10 17:38:23 +0000 UTCI loved the extended "Homer lists his jobs" bit when this aired. My favorite was "Smithers" as a job. My friends and I also liked the Sopranos opening parody. I think the show was just coming out on DVD at the time, and that's why it wasn't stale for non-HBO-havers?
Bradford A Barker
2023-05-10 16:49:02 +0000 UTCSpeaking of heat waves and moving up to the PNW, if you really want to bum yourself out definitely look up the stats for the heat dome of 2021. A town in BC, Lytton (which almost completely burned down that year), was the hottest place on earth at the time at 121.3 F.
Lockerus
2023-05-10 15:08:27 +0000 UTCFor whatever reason I thought this premiered in June as the bonus episode. But I always wondered why they touted it as a bonus and not the finale
Frank Grimes
2023-05-10 14:35:35 +0000 UTCI watched The Sopranos for the first time when the 'lockdown era' of the pandemic began and now associate it with Animal Crossing as media consumed during the stressful but blissful era of Covid 2020 when no one knew what was going on but at least the government was giving us money because they didn't know either. I gave it a re-watch only a few months ago in conjunction with following the Talking Sopranos podcast hosted by Schirripa and Imperioli as they go through every Sopranos episode. (though I may be biased in thinking you guys still do it better) I'm only about a season in and while there's no mention yet of Simpsons, I do enjoy the more bizarre facts about Imperioli such as American Dad being one of his favorite shows and him hating his time working on Shark Tale. He has more in common with Scott Aukerman than he may know!
Blake R.
2023-05-10 13:55:44 +0000 UTCI don’t think Max Weinberg is gay?
Michael Branson
2023-05-10 13:21:33 +0000 UTCI’m glad you talked about the monster commercial. If you hadn’t, I would have unsubscribed from this podcast.
Hoonser
2023-05-10 11:20:12 +0000 UTCI don’t mind the voiceless character cameos of the Sopranos cast—comic books draw in recognizable faces from other works all the time. But you’re right that the show’s theme song is the laziest, emptiest aspect of the Sopranos to reference. Henry's "Wow the magical world of New Jersey," makes me miss my home state! I remember my parents watching the Pine Barrens episode of the Sopranos. I walked in the room, looked at the deciduous trees onscreen, and shouted, “that looks nothing like the Pine Barrens!” and stormed out. I’m told there are plenty of authentic New Jersey locations on the show if I would give it a chance but apparently my grudges last decades.
Mike Mariano
2023-05-10 04:58:12 +0000 UTC
