Talk to the Audience?!? - December 2022

The Roblox episode had a segment where two you tubers were reacting to the drama. It was such a spot on parody of the channels my eight year old likes to watch. (Reaction videos are a genre I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully appreciate, lol, but more power to those makin’ that money off them.) I played that clip for my daughter, thinking she’d find it funny too. She thought it was fun, but didn’t understand why it would be funNY. I forgot that ironic humor develops later in adolescence, never mind that one has to see something worth skewering to appreciate the skewer. My 12 year old, however, thought it was hilarious. That might have been due to his belief that anything his sister likes is cringe and therefore must be mocked. Lol. It’s also possible that it simply wasn’t that funny, except to the narrow window of parents with kids who are immersed in this daily. Ha!

Jessica S

Additional context for a joke in "Weekend at Burnsies"- When the GMO vegetables are described as coming from Union Carbide, the obvious joke is about a heavy industrial corporation making vegetables, but the history of industrial accidents caused by Union Carbide makes it a much stronger joke. Union Carbide has a history of cutting corners in safety leading to disability and death of its workers, but their most obvious villainy was in Bhopal, India where faulty and un-repaired safety features at a Union Carbide plant lead to the release of a toxic gas cloud in a city with over one million residents. Over 500,000 people were exposed to toxic methyl isocyanate with nearly 20,000 people dying from the exposure, and an additional 40,000 suffering injuries related to exposure. The disaster happened in 1984, and the site remains a toxic hell. Union Carbide is now part of Dow Chemical.

Bradley Barger

I love your interview episodes! Of course, I'm a Gilbert Gottfried podcast fan and have an inherent love of the long form interview.

Aaron Alcott

"Rugrats is dead." - oh you sweet, childless, man. Rugrats has made a return and occupies the primetime slots on Nickelodeon most nights. My daughter loves it. It's a new CGI show and let me tell you, 3D does not do anything nice for those character models. The show returns the old cast for the babies (Nancy Cartwright is Chuckie and has now voiced the character more than Christine Cavanaugh) but all of the adults were recast, some out of necessity since people die. It's all right, but one thing that drives me nuts is they spend a lot of time in the house and they basically constructed the virtual set like an actual house with actual lighting, not as it would be in basically any other show, so it looks real drab and claustrophobic. Getting random parts in the mail for broken action figures is unfortunately too common for toy boys like me. I did get to have some fun with broken Sam (https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/eUyLfGo-HBBYQ_ltu9Ya4C6iiaWGFUBQHe0x7G6rGfrXGv-v3zbEi_ryTEMR7sS9V3E1hw7oavQ-O4N8MG03tnPKjPLbseezw-gOOQ0AFfsv5HEpIxOP7Cehq0FDDH7JlbAAGm3GZg=w2400) while I waited. He's all good now, been standing right on my desk ever since I got him and Max. I'm guessing Henry got the updates on Krusty and other toys from Super7 after this podcast went up. Unfortunately, it looks like changing that stupid head really fucked shit up because he's not expected to ship until October! The good news though is that first wave with Poochie in it (remember that from way back in the fall of 2021?) has left the factory in China and should start shipping at the end of the month or in February. I am both excited and nervous to see how they turned out considering I'm on the hook for a bunch more.

Joe Hodgson

Bit late but I hope one day they do ed edd eddy big picture show as a movie pick

They is a the color of magic movie with David Jason ,Sean Astin , Tim Curry and Christopher Lee. It not that good but the cast makes up for it

Cossover

I knew about that and I consider it under the same QAnon-baiting edgelord umbrella.

Bob Mackey

And the high-brow segment music

Bradford A Barker

DUDE love the book corner!

One thing about the Balenciaga stuff you didn't mention was the Child porn court case. It was a separate ad (the court paper is visible) but that was also part of the controversy, combined with the themes of the other one with actual kids. So you can see why people are up in arms, beyond thinking it's just "edgelord" stuff.

Frank Grimes

So I’m aware of the Supreme Court case over Biden’s loan forgiveness program, but what were you guys talking about?

John Halski

It was all downhill after Dumbo. (It is the best of the Disney movies, bar none, mostly shaped by all the people that fell out of favor with Walt or he didn't really like to begin with.) The other half and I actually had to shut off that new episode with the computer game scam after the first act. As she rightfully said, it's as if they script every other line to be buzz-word SEO worthy. The one with Moe mentoring Nelson, however, was decent and kind of epitomizes that the best one can hope for from a Simpsons episode made in this century is a good "comic book story" — what character combos haven't we seen before, and how far away can we keep the family?

Thad Komorowski

It’s a very difficult game to play these days (I had to download the ISO and an essential patch within an emulated Windows 98), but Discword Noir is a fun late 90s adventure game. It does many of the problems you associate with the games of that era, but I found it pretty charming and unique.

Scott Scallion

I am so excited for dumbo. A lot of people Overlook it and don't want to talk about it, but it was me and my sister's favorite movie as kids , and I've always really wanted to see a Critic I liked really get in there and dissect it , because it's very strange cx I've seen people interpret the movie as Pro animal cruelty which I always found weird, because personally I thought it demonstrated the opposite. as a kid it felt like it was showing to me very clearly why the circus is unethical. the same way the chicken run did for the meat industry

Covey M.